Banana Ball Is Ruining Baseball + MLB Opening Day | Inside The Bus

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Speaker 1: Derk Novitski wore forty one for the Dallas Mavericks. This is episode forty one. Welcome in everybody, and now I will let Mitch take it away. That's all I got for the intro.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a we don't have I guess, but Ryan, is this your first time on since calling Jared a bitch?

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Speaker 3: We have the b Team episode? Yes, and then yeah, this is the first time after that. So yeah, we were just marvel he's called up yeah, right, opening day, opening nights, and opening night.

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Speaker 2: Right before we started, I was marveling at Ryan's thighs so bad. Pause, kid got torched? Stand up?

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Speaker 4: Let's yeah, so hell hell, yeah, shit, I see, I've seen worse, but like, yeah, you got read.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I went to Knoxville this past weekend Tennessee. Spent the weekend there Saturday one on a hike. Did not get any of this on the hike. Great hike, four miles. We went to uh out to the Smoky Mountains. Yeah, cove, coves something.

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Speaker 4: I don't know once you get out, like pigeon forge and stuff. I think, yeah, I'm not too far with all of the hikes, but it.

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Speaker 3: Was like I think it was called Chimney Rock Trip.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Chimney Rock awesome. I loved it. It was a great one heard.

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Speaker 3: About like that whole story with how it burned down and everything was crazy. And then Sunday we went to a baseball game, sat right down the first baseline.

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Speaker 1: How's that you went to the Smokies?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how's that?

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Speaker 4: Because that new stadium just got built last year and it used to be out by Pigeon Ford.

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Speaker 3: So no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee gotcha even better though, And the new chef.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to chef, He's like, dude, you gotta take pictures, show me all about the new like second level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't been there there, it's great.

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Speaker 3: I'll show you the pictures after. It looks great there. But uh yeah, right down the first baseline and sudden was peaking right over my right shoulder.

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Speaker 1: My ass got torched a little bass layer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was march.

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Speaker 3: Your boy does not tan at all, Yeah, just just burns clearly. But uh yes, Sunday night was really rough driving back here because I was driving back like as the sun was coming down, so sun's still beaming in. I'm burnt.

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Speaker 4: I'm like once you once you dig that first sleep too, when you're burnt and just like it's like a fire going on underneath your sheets.

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Speaker 1: So hot. I'm like, I'm caking up in sunscreen so hard all summer. I don't care. Last year I got the worst burn in my life and no summer of the screen. Nope, nope, I'm not getting sun I tried getting sun ask asked Matt Malone.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: I was tanning at my apartment last year, no sunscreen, perfect time Prime UV.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, if you're the UV's I didn't.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, Prime, it was Prime. It was Prime's Prime V to you. No, this is it was like seven or eight, not not the middle of the day. I'm tanning at the pool, I get no color. I go to I go to the lake. I put on some sunscreen. I get just completely wrecked. You know, I know what the hell's happening to my skin.

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Speaker 2: It ain't get tanned, so but you know, to reapply and everything.

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Speaker 4: I look, man, well does that burn not turn into like the bass slayer, which it.

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Speaker 1: Does, but it's not worth it. I'm pale, like I see.

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Speaker 4: You gotta get through one bad burn of the year and then it's greatness and beyond D.

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Speaker 1: I was like yeah, and then it just started like peeling a little bit, literally tweaking.

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Speaker 4: IYOCD loves the peel though, because I'm just kind of I mean, as nasty as it is, I love just peeling a little Yeah, you kind of rub it and you're just like.

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Speaker 2: Just get in the shower and just kind of like this.

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Speaker 1: And then oh I can feel that motion.

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Speaker 2: But also like I don't know if I did this when I was a kid, if I burned like on my legs, I'll get like tape just kind of put it on there on like the peeling skin, and just like pull it off and it looks like the glue, like when you're peeling glue off or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've done that one before.

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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: I don't think i've done that one before.

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Speaker 2: You brought up the Smokies, like the code Ex Smokies. Yeah, I almost had an intern and ship with them.

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Speaker 1: Wait, the Kodak Smokies.

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Speaker 2: Is that that's why are they located in Kodak or another Knoxville Smokies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's the Knox It's like a double A team. It's the Knoxville Smokies. I don't think it's a code.

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Speaker 2: It could be, I don't know, but it isn't located in Kodak, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: So the original stadium when I was in college was off the exit the Pigeon Forges, which is where Ryan went where you go up to like the actual mountains and where like Dolly Wood and stuff is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but now they that's like a forty minute drive.

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Speaker 4: And we would always go on Thursdays because dollar beer night and you just have some brave soldier who's.

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Speaker 1: Just willing to drive you back because a forty minute drive. Sorry, they are in Kodak, Tennessee. They are the Knoxville Smokies, but they play at the Tennessee Smoky Stadium.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So Kodak would be like the Pigeon Forge area, yes, correct, And it was awesome. It was an awesome double a park because the backdrop was literally just like rolling forest, which is always a good vibe.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's on camera, but.

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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, how are we doing? How about that ride in Huh? That's why they call it sin City. Uh, Derek, when you have a minute, I love to chop it up with you downstairs. Okay, all right, all good things, all good things, all good things.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to go down there now? It seems pressing and he does. He's kind of he kind of has the higher up on us.

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Speaker 2: I'll I'll come, I'll come.

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Speaker 4: Switch all right, we're gonna do a little bit of a switch up because our humble boss came and needs help.

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Speaker 1: He needs help.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so I'm going back to I originally had a They offered me the internship at this baseball the minor league baseball thing, but I was like twelve hundred bucks a month, and like, I wasn't about to move all the way down to Tennessee and not be able to pay rent or just anything like that, and it kind of seemed like it would have sucked. So yeah, it's just my story about about the Smokies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Now the stadium, luckily is relocated at downtown Knoxville, so kids don't have to drive drunk.

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Speaker 1: All the time. So this is this is whose team, the Knoxville Smokies. It's a double Oh. I think it's the Cubs because I remember. I'm pretty sure it's the Cubs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I remember like their logo or whatever, having like something with a C or something Cubs related. Yeah, And like the project I had to do for him, I would have been one of those, like one of the guys that are like hyping up the fans and just being like the video guy for that. So I had like a marketing in game entertainment. Yeah, like I would have literally, so I have a shirt folder at home and I just had to make like a commercial infomercial about that. Like that was my project for him, Like this, Thank god I didn't do that. That would have sucked.

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Speaker 1: Minor league baseball What a grind there. There's a when I was in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City is obviously pretty close to still Water. The minor league team there's the Oklahoma City Dodgers, which is the Dodgers affiliate, and like those games are actually pretty high been if you're ever injured on the Dodgers, good Oakland City for a little rehab. You get to see some good players because the Dodgers have good players.

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Speaker 2: We have are there because you got trenton right.

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Speaker 3: So Trent Thunder, I forget. They've kind of flopped around with like Triple A, Double A, you know witch levels, which there's like the the Staten Island Yankees, the Rockland Boulders, the New Jersey Jackals, Somerset Patriots. Though right down the road from Rutgers and going there. I didn't go to too many games when I was a student, but when I worked full time with the football team, there was I think it was like the first week or two that I was full time. Garrett Cole he was rehabbing a little bit, so he came into the season like a month late so or two months late, so it was like June and he was making a rehab start in Double A. It was like five dollars tickets. Me and my buddies went. They were like, you were saying, like two dollars beers, two dollars hot dogs.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Literally through three innings.

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Speaker 3: After the third inning, everybody left.

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Speaker 2: Were so funny. We have the Reading Phillies and like the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. But I played in in high school like our counties, like our baseball tournament counties was on the Reading Philly Stadium or in the Reading Philly Stadium. It's like the coolest thing of all time, Like we were like under the stadium taking VP and stuff. It was sick like this, like I made it. I made the coolest play of my life too.

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Speaker 1: The Rangers double a in Frisco, which is very close to Arlington, the Frisco Rough Riders. I have not been there since I was little, but I think nowadays their ballpark has a lazy river in the outfield. Did you know there's some Major League parks like the Diamondbacks of a pool. I think the Brewers might have one, yeah slide at least, so like everyone's got these gimmicks. The Frisco Rough Riders have a lazy river, which is insane right and probably needed in the summer in Texas for sure.

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Speaker 4: I feel like they'd be such a big appeal for minor league teams. Yeah, where it's just really low stakes fan like viewing.

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Speaker 3: It's like a family event.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you're not, like majority of people who are there are not upset really if your team's losing.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are.

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Speaker 4: I don't want a dog any like huge sounds fans you know from our local market, but I do know that I would be very inclined to go to a game if there's a lazy river waiting for me. But I do love the Sounds game everything. It's every I don't know if it's once a month on a Thursday, but they do four dollars tall boys and like two dollars hot dogs, and if you give me a deal on beers and brats, it's it's.

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Speaker 1: Over for me.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Triple A is kind of different too, because like those guys are actually the.

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Speaker 1: Double A is pure love for the.

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Speaker 4: Game, pure love for the game, cheap beer, just you know, a good ride.

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Speaker 2: Brooks like best best friend from college. Her husband is now on the Reading Phillies and we drove out there last year when he was uh, I think he was a part of the Mariner still and he played in Little Rock, Arkansas. We drove all the way out there and got to see him pitch, like it was cool and everything. But I'm like, there is nothing out here. Living out here must suck and like both like the wife and the husband, they're both from like Santa Monica, California, where one of the most beautiful places in the country, and now they're in a little Rock just chasing and.

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Speaker 1: Guess what when you're not playing at home, you're on the road in another ship waits in the middle of nowhere. There's a there's a minor league ball bark in Biloxi.

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Speaker 4: Ye.

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Speaker 2: Then he played for he played for them to Yeah, like.

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Speaker 1: The baseball is it's it's such an insane system we have there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're if it's independent ball, but like if you're in the Lancaster Barnstormers. Yeah, a kid that I went to high school with and I was actually really close with, but kind of he got drafted. He made actually start for the Rangers five like starts. His name is a j Alexi for real. Yeah. Yeah, I went to high school with him and like we were like best friends in high school and then he got drafted by the Dodge Dodgers and then was a part of the U Darvish trade from the Dodgers to the Rangers. You Darvist, And he eventually made a start and like I that he like got too big time and like, but he's now plays for Lancaster barn Stormers just like a just an independent indie ball where it's like not affiliated with any team, but talk about love for the game, like that's literally all it is. Yeah, there's nothing. It's like it's lower than banana ball.

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Speaker 1: Now there's at least yeah popularity.

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Speaker 2: There's a kid that I actually played against in high school. You don't like banana ball a baseball purist, but I mean knocked the hustle, like they sell out everywhere they go.

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Speaker 1: It's just not for me. But I actually don't mind.

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Speaker 2: I actually really would you go if like they were they were they.

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Speaker 1: Were Nissan Stadium around this time last year.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking. I played like t ball and like up till middle school. But if I played competitive baseball, I absolutely would be on the side of coop. As a baseball purist, there's some like I like that they're getting a younger generation in there and selling tickets and like having fun with it. But if that was my sport then I grew up loving, I would consider it.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's yeah, it's been butchered, dancing on the mound. Yeah, there's just it's just not for me. It's just not for me. There's a there's a crowd for it there the crowd, maybe one percent of them like real baseball. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I definitely see you. I see where you're coming. From in the sense of like hating it and like the TikTok stuff, the TikTok dances and ship like that does get annoying. It's like, but like the trick plays and the ship that they're able to do like they.

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Speaker 4: Are trick plays, I'm in for it, especially if like a foul ball goes out and an audience member catches it, it's like an.

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Speaker 1: Out as well.

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Speaker 2: I kind of I like that concept, like I.

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Speaker 4: Can get behind that, but it is it's the dancing, but I mean even it's very athletic in my opinion, all like the backflip catches and like the umps are thrown out round offs, and yeah, I can get behind some of it, but it's not something that I'm going to go spend my weekend doing. But I'm not gonna sit from the sidelines and just be like this is a travesty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I can't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like it's not for me. I'm but I'm not ten anymore. So like who knows, maybe I would have probably not.

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Speaker 2: But a kid I played against in high school is now on like it's in banana bon on. I don't know what it is. He won the College World Series Home on Derby, Like I think, like a year or two after Aaron Judge. His name is Nico hole Seizer. He went to Morehead State. He like just hits nukes.

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Speaker 1: Do you know much money these guys are pulling in?

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Speaker 2: Like do you know?

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Speaker 1: I don't no, no, no, no, banana ball, you know what I want to know? I want to know what the opposing team because they're all just ponds, right.

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's guys. It's kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters in the sense of like they travel with it like that the team is the team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but like they're the ones that everyone like, yeah, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I feel like seventy thousand a year if.

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Speaker 1: Again, I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: If you're getting seventy k to go out and play for sold out stadiums across the nation.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. That's fire. But I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of baseball purity, though, we do have two big baseball heads being Ryan and Kup.

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Speaker 1: I'm loving this baseball time right now, and this was I'm already thinking of thumbnail is baseball?

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Speaker 2: I think I was already thinking of a title we hate banana Ball?

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Speaker 4: Well, we got we have Opening Day that just happened technically yesterday. It's recording on Wednesday, but this is Friday when it comes out. So Yankees fan and Rangers fan, do we have any kind of update, any kind of optimism scared?

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Speaker 1: What's it look like this season for you guys? Yeah, I'll start because you know everyone knows the Yankees. Let me let you. I'll let you. And almost happening in Texas right before the season starts. I owe that is like when optimism is at the highest, because the last two years the Rangers have not been able to hit the baseball. The year before that they hit the fuck out of the baseball. I'm starting to think maybe these fuckers were cheating, but they cut a lot of the fat that you're gonna have a good lineup this year. I'm I'm just like drinking the kool aid. I think the Rangers are gonna be good this year. Surprise a lot of people because no one's really expecting anything. And I don't even know where I'm going with this, but just look out for the Rangers if you wanna. If you want to pick up a team this year, might be the Rangers, sneaky AO West champion. Actually, but who else is in the ol West, the Aos. So the Mariners will be good. The Astros are the Astros, but you know they're kinda they're kind of falling off. The Angels are gonna be awful. The Athletics are gonna sneak some people because they're they have a bunch of good players all the time for whatever reason. But they're actually just dog shit. There's I mean the West.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're such bullshit nowadays because.

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Speaker 1: Like Banana B doesn't like MLB.

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Speaker 2: No, I just think I hate the fact and I see where the players are coming from. But like the Pirates have Paul Skins and then we know in two or three years, he's gonna be on the Dodgers. Yeah, he's gonna be on the Yankees. He's going to be on one of these. Like I think I just think it's bad for baseball or I just don't think it's really fair that like Shoheo Tani's contract is all deferred basically, yeah, it's deferred, but he's getting paid more than the entire Pittsburgh organization. Yeah, the entire Athletics organizationally, I think that is you know, you're going to see the same eight teams in the Playoffs that you know that eventually it's gonna be the Dodgers and whoever the fuck else in the World Series, And it just makes it uninteresting because I.

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Speaker 1: Will I will say as much as that is like a a real thing and it's not really even recent. I was gonna say it's the Dodgers are more recent development because they're back to back, uh, but like that's kind of always been a thing, and yet there's always so much parody in baseball. Out of nowhere, there'll be a team, like.

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Speaker 3: When the Royals were good and then all of a sudden they just the next year they weren't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I mean the Rangers and they're in twenty twenty three were coming off one hundred lost season two seasons before, which is just not good. And then you know they had the best offense in like statistically in league history through the first three months of season, Like what the hell's happening? Baseball is just like it's like any other sport, like you can get hot, you can you can win. I mean, even the Dodgers, they should have lost Game seven last year. They had a their nine hole hitter hit a two run home run to tie and go to extras like the Blue Jays winning, Like who's you know? I mean they're good, but who's expecting that? But it is like very much the Yankees have always been the Yankees. The Dodgers have money. I'm kind of a little lucky. The Rangers have some money. They're kind of spending it.

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Speaker 2: But it's just frustrating it Like it.

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Speaker 1: Would suck to be like a lower market team, a lower market team.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's inevitable that that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: It's inevitable. I don't think I'm not against it.

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Speaker 3: I think that there's like a good chance that there is no season next.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the lockouts coming, the lockouts coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not going to be good.

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Speaker 1: But as fucked his baseball seems it's it feels like the popularity has been going up the last few years. I think a lot of that is because of Sho so then they'll be could give less of a World Baseball Classic. Last two go rounds have been like huge.

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Speaker 2: They need to get a new commissioner because he yeah, I don't like I remember like watching Pat McAfee like years ago, and like he was talking about how the MLB commissioner literally called the trophy just a piece of metal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob Manfred is universally hated.

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Speaker 2: He I think people like said probably saying I wouldn't diube. He's the worst major sports commissioner.

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Speaker 1: Nothing about like he is.

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Speaker 2: It's just bad he is. But that was also when like baseball kind of seemed like he was in a bad place like four or five, six years ago. So I could be wrong, but I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think. I think that opinion on him is still like that. He's not like, yeah, a lot of commissioners aren't. It's like what happens with that job, but.

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Speaker 1: He's Manfred's getting a little lucky with players like Judge and Otani getting so big, and there's always been good players, but I mean Tani is, like.

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Speaker 4: I mean, for me, is someone who's like a very baseball casual, Like there's no way to not view some of the things that are happening.

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Speaker 1: Because of these specific guys in the sport.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so it's impressive when like, I don't know, I don't necessarily have such a fandom for baseball and I don't like follow it. Come October, like I'm gonna tune into the games, and like, I enjoy the World Series for what it is in the spectacle of sport, But when you've got choey Otani's out there like throwing. I mean I saw a stat said his for this year he should be on pace because of last year to at least do one hundred home runs in fifty k's.

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? I think that's the what over two seasons? It flip fifty on runs one hundred k's. Yeah, I just and again like flip oh yeah, I'm like, damn, let him juice if he's home one hundred home runs. I mean he did fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 3: He was the first person ever to do hit fifty home runs and fifty seals in the same season, right, I think.

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Speaker 1: It was there.

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Speaker 3: I mean he definitely had thirty seventy. Yeah, and this guy's like a say, young caliber pitcher. I mean, it's insane that that happens. It's like what everyone thinks of Babe Ruth, you know, because obviously he's the outfield of that hit nukes, but like he pitched to it first. I mean, it's insane.

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Speaker 1: Has been a breadth of fresh air because a lot of MLB superstars Mike Trout one of the best baseball players ever. Uh, just like very low key, not really. No. Baseball's had a lot of superstars kind of be under the radar, you know, about their business, but having a global icon like show Hay has been massive.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is a hot take, and then we can get into your outlook for the Yankees. Do you think I like, I'm in the stance of like I couldn't easily play baseball back and back way back when when like Babe Ruth was playing.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, like players today would destroy players back then.

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Speaker 2: But I think like the casual person I even think sometimes would like that with football, But then you think of like Chuck bed and Erik and just mean Joe Green and people like that. But like I am in the firm stance of like I could have played major League baseball back then.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I don't disagree with that at all.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 1: Part of me doesn't disagree with it, but other.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know. I wasn't bad.

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Speaker 1: I feel like some of them, I don't know how they really were. I know they weren't throwing that fast.

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Speaker 3: We're going out there every day throwing a hundred pitches and then would go the next.

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Speaker 2: Day like page throw it like through like a thousand pitches in one week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were smoking cigs and chugging beards. It's like you're lucky.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think how long it would take someone to throw a thousand pitches.

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Speaker 2: Now, I think that maybe an exact I mean even if not he like would throw a hundred fifty pitches next day he's out.

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Speaker 3: There were people who threw like fifteen in incomplete games.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, No, I think like athletes today could definitely if you just dropped them in compete and said.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even I'm saying yeah, athletes for sure would tank them. I'm saying regular if.

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Speaker 1: You pick up the average show off the.

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Speaker 2: Street, like the kid you played in high school, like high schoolers now could play back then, and I think would hold their own.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. I don't disagree with that. My boy Brian Reynolds could definitely play. Brian Reynolds can definitely play now, so like yeah, well yeah, I mean I think like baseball might be the biggest example, because you can say that about all sports baseball to me, all the old footage just like it is. So the game was very much it's like very similar but very slow. Like the pitching now is just insane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you got Skins toopping out at one o three and then you got another guy, your closer comes in at one o five and it's like not.

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Speaker 1: Touching it and that's just and that's just the heater, like all the all the movement on the pitches now they.

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Speaker 3: Have Skins can make a one o three fastball, you know, you can pitch that one next pitch you're thinking it's a fastball, and then it's a splitter all of a sudden, and it looks the exact same until you go to swing.

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Speaker 1: And then it just drops. Like that's just not Yeah that I wish when we get to Heaven, can we just say, hey, let's let's run a game where all these old timers on all these new timers just play at their means and let's see how this really have gone.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I gotta see it.

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Speaker 1: Baseball.

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Speaker 2: I feel like baseball, football. I feel like the two sports where there would be a massive like disparity, I think hockey and basketball. I feel like would be closer, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about basketball. That one's interly because this was shooting threes that.

00:23:17
Speaker 4: Always you're like you're there playing against plumbers, and you know, I don't know, I feel like those.

00:23:23
Speaker 3: Kind of Yeah, part of me disagrees with the baseball thing because when you look at like baseball versus basketball, it is so it's so much more athletically demanding playing basketball, and obviously these athletes are so much better now with all the technology and everything. It's like, you know, the MJ and Lebron, but it's like you put you put Wemby in a game in the nineteen sixties. I think people are gonna legitimately I think he's an alien.

00:23:50
Speaker 2: Probably there was like will will who else? Fucking Bill Russell? Who else? Was like Bob Coosey, Yeah all Jason.

00:24:01
Speaker 1: Williams, I mean ship like, damn, we're skipping around now. I really think it would be insane for andy'sport. I see your point on baseball. My whole thing with baseball isn't even like the athletes thing. It's just the pitching now and the it's just like different, it's different for everything. But I definitely think like a good athlete today, high school athlete could hold their own back. You're seeing the same speed pitches in high school, Yeah, with a better movement on it.

00:24:28
Speaker 2: The travel ball and stuff that they're like, the travel ball is probably comparable to what it is called.

00:24:33
Speaker 1: Is America's past like it was a pastime now it is like like people are from the womb.

00:24:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, like prospects, which is I.

00:24:42
Speaker 3: Mean there's minor leaguers that are fourteen or signed to contract something. Yeah, Jason Domingos, current Yankee, was on a Yankees contract at sixteen years old.

00:24:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. Back then that ship was for fun.

00:24:53
Speaker 2: Wonder Franco.

00:24:54
Speaker 1: Wonder Franco. Yeah, well, wonder what he's Wonder what he's doing.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: He's in jail, yea, I wonder what he's doing.

00:25:00
Speaker 1: Like in jail.

00:25:04
Speaker 2: What's your outlook for the Yankees?

00:25:06
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean it's like I'm lucky enough. Yeah, it's like World Series or bust.

00:25:10
Speaker 1: Honestly, I mean.

00:25:13
Speaker 3: Didn't have many changes going into the offseason or in the offseason. Resigned Cody Bellinger, which I'm hype about. Aaron Judge is the best hitter in baseball. I mean, hoping for a fourth MVP from him. He can facilitate enough around him to where it's like, if he's in the lineup he's healthy, Like twenty twenty two, we were gonna be one of the best al teams. He gets hurt, the whole thing falls apart. But it's like you have that one stud in your lineup and people will find whisk contribute. John carlos Sten I don't know if you guys saw this. He's trying to play all whatever, one hundred and sixty two games. He's gonna say that right.

00:25:51
Speaker 1: He can't.

00:25:51
Speaker 3: He has tennis elbow. In both his elbows. He can't open a bag of chips. But he's gonna try to hit fifty home runs this year.

00:25:58
Speaker 2: How did you get it in both elbow?

00:26:01
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:26:02
Speaker 2: I don't know he didn't.

00:26:03
Speaker 3: He's just he's always got injury concerns. But I mean, top to bottom, I I love our squad. Pitching rotation is great, Garrit Cole, I mean Max freed Rodin heel Schlitler, Uh, Coop and I were talking the other day. Cam Schlittler is the Boston guy who's the Yankees pitcher. Pitched Game three of that Wildcard series when the Yankees game was on in the stream we were it was like a football stream. It was like his debut, playoff debut fourteen k sat the Red Sox down. So that fires me up to see what he'll be like this year. But I mean, yeah, World Series or bust. If we don't get a ring.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: The Rangers, Yankees ALCS is gonna go hard.

00:26:43
Speaker 3: So all I know is Won Soto's crying every night wishing that he stayed with the Yankees. But hey man, you want more money, so take it.

00:26:51
Speaker 2: Playoff baseball is it's up there.

00:26:53
Speaker 1: It's my favorite.

00:26:54
Speaker 2: Dude.

00:26:54
Speaker 1: The crowd pops for a home run, the lindor yeah, all of them game tying home out.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: I just I my first year here, like working here. I kind of hated it in Nashville, and that was when the Phillies were making their World Series playoff run and like all my friends back home, we're like going to the Phillies games. I'm like, I kind of want to go back to Philly, yeah, and like move but then that was very short lived. Yeah, but like just the atmosphere around playoff baseball and like it's it's.

00:27:33
Speaker 1: Sick because it's so fun to be at those games too.

00:27:35
Speaker 3: And I mean this is all baseball in general, kind of like what we were saying before with minor league baseball. It's like you go to the game obviously to have fun to watch baseball, but it's like you don't really care about what's happening in the game, and the game is so slow paced anyway, even with the pitch clock, that it's like the four of us could be having this exact conversation right now and not miss a beat about what's happening on the baseball.

00:27:56
Speaker 2: You just hear that was a follotball, get back to the conversation.

00:27:59
Speaker 3: But MLB, I mean, obviously it's like that too, And so that's why I love going to baseball games. It's like you enjoy that atmosphere. Day game, night game, doesn't really matter. You guys can go with the boys, get those two dollars beers, two dollars hot dogs, and just vibe out and.

00:28:13
Speaker 1: Not miss anything to day the ballpark is awesome.

00:28:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, playing it, like, I mean, it goes with anything but playing base Like I can't stand watching baseball now, but I loved playing it oh so much. Like in granted, that's I feel like with any sport. Yeah, but like I loved playing baseball and then now just watching it, like thinking of when I have If I have a son and I have to go to all of his travel games and just sit there.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: You gotta be coaching, sitting in the dugout whe your son's team is in the field because the pitcher can't throw strikes and you're losing by ten. Yeah, and the fielders are out there for twenty minutes.

00:28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:45
Speaker 3: Those are some of my worst sports.

00:28:49
Speaker 1: Watching baseball. Though it ranges by one hundred and sixty two games, I will probably watch one hundred and forty of them.

00:28:54
Speaker 2: That's so crazy.

00:28:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to watch them.

00:28:57
Speaker 2: So Jack, how was Vegas and let's not in a Vegas?

00:29:00
Speaker 1: Uh? Vegas was good?

00:29:02
Speaker 4: Man profitable? I'm always gotta go to Vegas without Taylor and still know you have it. I gotta shout out my boy, Avery Freeze, the guru at the guru on Twitter if you want good plays. He has a model built on gambling and it is very impressive the stats that go in behind it and all the analytics. But I want to say he was up like twenty two and a half units over the weekend alone in March Madness and my buddy Avery went to Texas and it was me and four of my buddies, a group here in Nashville that we went to high school with Avery, and we were going to meet essentially all of the guys that he has essentially replaced us with through college and we as bad friends. Never went to visit Texas and haven't been to Dallas postgrad. So it was a very interesting dynamic going into the weekend because you never know if you're all gonna mesh well, and then if you're gonna kind of be like your own little small group, and like there's like a group of fifteen guys that like all have been like, you know, cutting teeth with each other for the last ten years, and you're kind of the autumn out could not have gone better. All of his boys, awesome guys. Got to hang out with a ton of them. And the wedding is in two weeks. I've realized something. I feel like years ago it was very common to have a bachelor party and then you get married like six months to a year later, And because this bachelor party just happened this past weekend, the wedding is in a week and a half, two weeks, in Dallas. I kind of love it because you still have that momentum going from the bachelor party all the new guys you just met. It's not like a, oh, hey, what's up, Like fuck, what is that guy's name? I feel like everyone's not gonna skip a beat when we get there. So very excited for that wedding. But dude, going to Vegas during March madness, as stressful as it may sound, is so much fun. You just can't go wrong everywhere that you go. Obviously, there's games on everywhere, and you can gamble if you want on the games. You can go to the tables, you can go to the pools. We had a really good weather weekend Sonny.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: Hot as hell. I think it was like got up.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: To ninety eight ninety nine one day, And that was my first time ever going or experiencing a Vegas pool party. And I go to Vegas constantly and been gone for the last three years. So to see the other side of like, how like really traditional Vegas works. Man, it's a blast, especially the pool parties. If like that's the way to go. I am in my old age of thirty one. Now I've lost all desire for clubbing. Like every now and again, I'll go to bars and stuff, like I don't actively seek out to like go to a place with like crazy loud music where you're having to scream at your boys. You know you're paying fifteen hundred dollars whatever, it still would be fun. But if I'm in Vegas, I'm gonna go gamble, and dude, we had so much fun of these pool parties. We just had the best service. It's just a good overall hang and it felt like everyone for the most part. I'm sure there's a couple of stragglers that weren't as loud as us, but we all came back positive, which with a group of seventeen guys, I believe it's tough to come back when majority of people came back winning.

00:31:59
Speaker 1: And it just gave me that itch that.

00:32:02
Speaker 4: When I go to Vegas it's typically for work stuff, and so to get to go there and just like kick back, drink all weekend, gamble, be it degenerate. It was absolutely a pleasure. So shout out Avery and all the fellas from Texas. Can't wait to see you guys. A couple of them are like pretty big busting fans too, which was funny and like, you know, they're like giving me shit and like oh you think you're famous, like you know, like really getting in my grill and I'm like, this is what I want, Like I don't want it to be.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: Some weird like kind of like ah, so like how's this? How's that?

00:32:31
Speaker 4: Like?

00:32:31
Speaker 1: It was like a meaty like one of my boys just grilling me. So we had a blast.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: Man.

00:32:35
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go back already.

00:32:38
Speaker 4: Don't know when that'll be, but yeah, Vegas has my heart always will it was.

00:32:42
Speaker 1: We stayed in airbnb too. It was sweet.

00:32:44
Speaker 4: I don't really do that route either, and I feel like most people when they go there, you stay in like casino hotel. But if you're going out there with a big group of guys, do not discount an airbnb. There are a lot of good options. We had a really fun time, especially.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: With seventeen guys. You can make that airbnb cheap.

00:32:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say this the only mistake I made, and it wasn't even a mistake, but it was truly one of the most difficult travel days of my life. I have the six forty five am flight because I'd rather be back at noon than to get back at five pm, and then you kind of just get back and it's like do I stay up for a couple hours even though I'm dead tired, or do I fall asleep right now risk waking up at two am. I just stayed up all night Saturday, and when I left, guys were still party in our airbnb, like probably well after I'd taken off. Man, I got just incredibly nauseous and dizzy, and I was sweating out of every pore on my body, and I just remember being like half conscious, half unconscious, just like shaking in my yell on the plane back and just like I'm like, oh my god, we four hours left, and thankfully, you know, after whoever, I don't know how long it was that I was hallucinating, but finally just woke up in Nashville and then had a pretty big rest day on Sunday, which was nice.

00:33:55
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: I'm always in for getting back at least at noon, then to get back at night. I mean, Broad's who many of you guys know. He didn't come back till last night, so he was in Vegas. He went and stayed at the Red Rock because he's went and gambled there with me before, so they gave him I think it was three nights to stay in like eight hundred dollars free play to just like do whatever he wanted.

00:34:19
Speaker 1: He said.

00:34:19
Speaker 4: He ended up putting like four hundred fifty bucks in free play, turned it into like twenty five hundred.

00:34:23
Speaker 2: Damn.

00:34:23
Speaker 1: So he did well. Got back last night.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: Ye had a shower of broads and but yeah, overall very successful trip.

00:34:31
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask something, but I'm blanking, so somebody help me here.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: All I'll say is the traveling, obviously.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: I remember no good.

00:34:40
Speaker 1: I'll wick quick. Your circumstances are obviously different for this trip. Every time I travel, I get like sick, or I get like the worst headache, or I just feel like complete shit. When I was flying back last week, when we were figuring out, I was sex and ryan because I was trying to forget what was going on here because I was working on the airplane. Dude, I felt so awful and then like I get home, sit down for thirty minutes, and I'm fine. But while I'm traveling, it's like the war. I hate. I hate it. I hate going to the airport, I hate all of it. I'm out on it.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, do you remember, well, three spring tours ago and we did live shows at every spot. Oh yeah, and then the next morning.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: Early smelling Salts was that I mean were Columbus. Yeah, like late.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: There was a like and we the guys would do the live show and then we would go out afterwards. I mean that was when we were hanging out with Laser.

00:35:35
Speaker 4: We were this is back also with Will and Taylor were drinking yes and so things just we were we were running it hard.

00:35:41
Speaker 2: Bro, that like those are some of my most favorite memories, like working here, but also bro those plane rides back.

00:35:49
Speaker 4: Oh dude, and Will and Taylor in first class. You're in thirty two seed, the biggest humans you've ever met.

00:35:55
Speaker 2: And you're just you're hungover, you're tired, you feel like dog shit, and you have Like there was when at a New Orleans we woke up at like three thirty am because we were in baton rouge.

00:36:08
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep that night.

00:36:09
Speaker 4: I came from the casino in New Orleans and went home packed and then met you guys in the lobby.

00:36:14
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone ever knew that until just now.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I knew that, but we would like we woke up at like three thirty four because we were in band Rouge had to drive all the way to New Orleans to get on the like the flight. G was like, dude, and she had out G for being able to drive. But the amount of like there was a period of time I think for like three or four months, because then I went other trips that I went on, but I did not I was not on a flight back to Nashville where I wasn't hungover. And maybe top five worst things, top ten worst things is being hungover on a flight.

00:36:46
Speaker 1: Oh one hundred percent. Has anyone ever thrown up from being hungover on a plane?

00:36:50
Speaker 4: Because that's one of my big fe I thought, I was, I was about to do that. I was, you know when you start salvating in your mouth. It started happening on the plane and I was in the ara, the window seat, so I was like, I might have to do it in the bag I don't like And it was like in that like weird awkward moment where we're about to take off, so like you can't just jump up and go to the bathroom. The last thing I needed was just to throw up in my aisle and then pass out and probably like laying on the guy like next to me the rest of the f.

00:37:16
Speaker 1: I'm getting notches right now just talking about traveling. I swear me too.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: I never heard, like I've never heard of somebody like just get sick for the day of travel, Like just getting sick travel.

00:37:27
Speaker 1: I honestly think it's my fault because.

00:37:28
Speaker 2: It's get anxious or something about.

00:37:30
Speaker 1: No, I think it's more of like the tunnel vision of like I was supposed to be home at noon last week, so I'm like small breakfast, I'll eat lunch when I get home, like I'm not having enough water all day. All of a sudden, I'm my lunch like I'm not eating because I'm I'm gonna eat when I get home it's lunchtime. And then all of a sudden, I get home at two and I haven't had anything to eat all day, and I'm just I do it to myself.

00:37:51
Speaker 4: No, I, I guess you also don't want to, like I take all my meals very personally, like I want every meal that I eat to be the best.

00:38:00
Speaker 1: Meal I've ever had.

00:38:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, so especially on a travel day coming back from a long weekend, like that Sunday, like I'm gonna pick out, I'm gonna enjoy it.

00:38:07
Speaker 1: We'll get back to work Monday. But man, you don't want to waste one of those meals at for a breakfast airport meal. It sounds it feels like she's gonna add to how much you feel. So I'm with you.

00:38:18
Speaker 4: I always I always get weird and kind of my ankles swell up, my feet hurt like a motherfucker.

00:38:23
Speaker 1: When I travel, it's always my head. My head just gets like just a pounding headache.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: Your ears pop? Can you pop your ears to make that?

00:38:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, But that's like my problem is just I guess the head is like pressure. But like I said, I after I'm home, my body knows i'm home.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: I'm good. What's the longest leave been on?

00:38:40
Speaker 1: Oh, Hawaii, So like an eight eight hour flight, but that was a long time ago.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: How long is Grease Greace?

00:38:47
Speaker 4: We went from where we go, We went after Atlanta to Athens, and I want to say it was like ten hours, so that's not that. But yeah, Hawaii from Nashville. If you connect to Dallas. From Dallas, it's eight hours.

00:38:59
Speaker 1: Dallas is a straight fly, a.

00:39:01
Speaker 2: Long fly that doesn't sound as long as I thought it was gonna be.

00:39:06
Speaker 1: Yeah what eight Yeah, yeah it didn't and yeah it didn't feel we got I have. It was like the best flighting straits of my life. So that one I'm not even gonna count because we had like a I'll have to show you a picture. We had like those really nice like pods and you get like they gave you a TV little game system, like a blanket and a pillow and you're like lay down in your chair and all like little bells and whistles, the food that was there. I just like skipped off and just slept. It was awesome.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: Sick. Yeah, long, I've been on about you.

00:39:36
Speaker 3: I think five hours we flew from Jersey from like Newark to Arizona when we had a bowl game last year. I was lucky, like similar with you. We were like the whole team was on a plane. The team was on one plane, support staff was on another, and so like we had all our meals like just given to us. We had like men us and everything. They're like what do you want? Got like chick fil a right when we were about to take off as a snack, because you know these feel yeah, sure taking twenty thousand calories.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh.

00:40:04
Speaker 3: And then I had like chicken palm on the plane for like my entree. I was like, dude, this is it's Yeah.

00:40:09
Speaker 1: I had a steak.

00:40:12
Speaker 2: It like a legit steak or like a microwave a lot. Uh.

00:40:16
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if his microway it was small.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: It was small, like my The longest spot I've been on was from l A to Fiji. That was eleven hours. Oh my god. And that was like the three three three, and I, if I remember correctly, I was in the middle of the middle three and uh, I only see those planes in the movies.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: Bro that that gets fucked in the same spot that you said in the uh.

00:40:43
Speaker 2: Like there was like a little kid next to me, like fell asleep on me. It was playing video games or like on his little pad or whatever. And it was just loud as fuck sucked. And then the one thing that was cool is they gave you these cool like blankets. It was Fiji airways, so like Fijian like pattern plankets. And I wanted to keep it so bad, but I felt bad foul ended up keeping one.

00:41:03
Speaker 4: But is it Fijian? And I'm not saying you're wrong. It just it sounds hilarious.

00:41:08
Speaker 2: I know, like when I said, I'm like, that kind of sounds weird, but I believe it is.

00:41:12
Speaker 4: I can't know it sounds right. It just I don't mean to cut you off. I think it's the first I've heard that in that context.

00:41:20
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're it's like kind of New Zealand's or New Zealanders or kiwis. Like I don't know if there's another word for Fiji's. No, I'm good with Fiji's Fijian's. But then like that flight was fucking forever. But luckily I like going out there. I had foul with me and then we It was five hours of Fiji and then like an hour and a half two hours from Fiji to Samoa, and then I went to Australia after Samoa. So it was Samoa to Fiji and then five hours from Fiji to Australia and then Australia back to Fiji, Fiji to l A La, New Jersey, all of that, all of that by myself, and that I don't even remember it because I think it just blacked out for the entire.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: Thing, those connecting flights on the way back because it just starts killing you because you got just wait in line.

00:42:03
Speaker 1: A lot of times it did. It'll match up.

00:42:04
Speaker 4: Forty five minutes you get two and a half hours in some bullshit airport.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: Luckily, I think coming back like it was like it was a long enough layover. I think had like two or three hours that because when you're coming back you have to go through customs and everything, so it was it was fine. But I remember going to Australia and like getting there and like they're pretty strict with their customs, like they had dogs and everything walking around everywhere, and it was actually super quick. But like, yeah, the flying that long is insane.

00:42:32
Speaker 1: And back to something you said about the kid playing his games next to you, I might be that adult, because you definitely are. I have a story. It's really probably not in a good story, but it was when I was flying out to my sister's like surprise engagement and uh Southwest, so like you're you're picking your own seat and I got like in the back of the plane. I just wanted a window seat, and I'm like sitting there, me and this guy he's on the aisle, and uh, it's like at the buzzer. This girl, last person on the plane, worst human being ever, is like on the phone like giving her boyfriend trouble and uh like like literally the most brain rot conversation ever too, And like I saw her text and they were just wild and but she sits down just like somebody cheated. I don't even know what paragraph messages. But this girl, like her lips like filled to the brand, like it was just like stereotypical airhead Barbie Doll like, but she sits down and she and like she's given this dude next to me problems. She's like, this is my arm wress, Like, let me have my arm wrest. And then she's like complaining about the flight system. She's like, they have me all the way in the back of the plane. They're playing video games back here. I was on my switch. I was like, she's like on the phone. She's like, yeah, they're what are we playing video games? I'm like, oh, I thought you were reading this off a text message.

00:43:54
Speaker 4: She's saying this audibly, she's yeah, well yeah, the text message ra after I should have clarified.

00:43:58
Speaker 1: That she's on the phone like complaining about her situation.

00:44:01
Speaker 2: She was bitching about you playing video game.

00:44:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sitting there like I'm sitting there like in the corner.

00:44:05
Speaker 2: Just you should have been like, get your fucking ship together before you start coming at me for playing.

00:44:10
Speaker 3: I was.

00:44:11
Speaker 1: I was like, so I took my at I was like, yeah, they yeah, they are Mario Kart. I got a flight to I got timed bird. I got and then and then she gave the dude next to his business on the way out and uh he he called her princess. He's like, he's like, later, princess, She's It was weird. And then me and that guy at the baggage claim were talking a lot of ship about her. It was. It was but yeah, you're that buzzy. I think it's my phone. I left it over there, so your mom, Yeah, you're good, you can. We'll get her on the We'll get her on the next week. But yeah, they was just wild.

00:44:51
Speaker 2: It was.

00:44:52
Speaker 1: It had to be. There was funny.

00:44:53
Speaker 2: It was funny on Southwest. That's interesting because like I would expect that type of behavior on my spirit.

00:44:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just and that was my first time flying Southwest since the Nebraska incident. Because it was I guess it wasn't an incident.

00:45:06
Speaker 2: It was the Nebraska Fun Nebraska movement.

00:45:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was just like, I was like just lucky, you know, I had nowhere to be like super fast. So I'm like, I'll go in the back and get a window seat. Like I don't care. I'm just gonna be tucked away playing my games. Have passed the time?

00:45:22
Speaker 2: Have you going back to like talking about thrown up on a plane? Have you ever been on a plane and like near somebody that threw up?

00:45:28
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but only children.

00:45:30
Speaker 4: I was one seat away from a child throwing up on her mom, and it was it was not like a casual kid throw up.

00:45:36
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a grown ass man's throw up.

00:45:38
Speaker 2: It was so much like next to you.

00:45:41
Speaker 4: So I'm in the window seat and then I believe she was in the center seat and her husband was asle and they had like a baby that was small enough where they could hold it, and they switched at one point and thank god they switched, and the baby threw up on her in the aisle seat, and it was it was a brutal one to where like it felt like they like had extra flight attendants come out of nowhere cleaning this stuff up it and dude, the smell.

00:46:07
Speaker 1: You can imagine, Hey, oh my god, that's made me throw up. Anyways, I do not envy people traveling with kids. No, I know it's hard, but if you're gonna do it, stay awake on the plane when your kids are running a mug. Because one time I was sitting in the back row and this woman and I don't know where her husband, I don't know if I don't know where he was. She had a newborn baby and a two year old, and she gets on the aisle seat and she was holding the baby. Two year old's like sitting in the middle, and she just like passes out with the baby and like the two year old like it's like trying to hold the baby, and she this girl, Like this woman is slumped and this is like a newborn baby that's being held up by a two year old toddler that I just didn't trust to be just to be, just to be frank. And so I spent like this entire flight like basically holding this baby out. Yeah, like it was insane baby away from Yeah, I'm not even kidding. Like this baby was like Mario Kart, no time to play games. I gotta save live. I've had some weird flying experience I was on.

00:47:14
Speaker 2: We used to go to Florida every year because for spring break in high school. And there was this one time and like, I hate throw up. I hate throwing up. I hate looking at it, like everything about it. And like there was like three or four aisles up and there was this guy and I like, I'm not saying this to me, like I think he had down syndrome or something.

00:47:35
Speaker 1: WHOA.

00:47:36
Speaker 2: And I was in the window seat and like I could start here in this commotion and I'm like, what is going on? And I look through like the cracks of the seat and I see this guy in like a like zip lock like gallon bag, just yucking. And it was like it was I still it's burned in my mind like milk white. It was awful, dude, that I can't smell, like like Jack said, smelled up the entire plane. I'm like, get me out if you're the.

00:48:08
Speaker 1: I can't do throw up that that like why I I don't want to call it an ad. I forget who what it was for. But oh, the the merch thing, the design contest, like the little skit we did, dude, my role, and I like, I can't do anything throw up. My role was to pretend like I was throwing up, and I damn near like actually threw up pretending to throw up. That's how bad it is.

00:48:28
Speaker 2: I was like.

00:48:31
Speaker 1: It was bad. I can't even believe I made it through that, Like, so why did I get this role?

00:48:34
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't just like see people throw like, it's no, I can't. The smells I've told like like when I have kids, it's like, hey, wife, you get to throw up. I'll deal with the poop like I'll do.

00:48:46
Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm the same. I can't do throw up.

00:48:49
Speaker 2: It's I'm bad with it. Dang good, not good.

00:48:53
Speaker 1: We can't in on those What are we What are we at?

00:48:57
Speaker 4: We are at forty nine minutes thirty second, so honestly chucking through it.

00:49:02
Speaker 2: What do we have coming up the next couple of weeks? Oh, spring tour that's start, that's next this time next week, right yeah, yeah, yeah, we're nothing. Nothing's been released yet, so we don't want to say anything quite yet. Yeah, really cool spots coming up, so stay tuned for that content. We'll have more, uh, we'll be able to talk about it more and recap some of the trips that we go on some We got three lineup. Yeah, you can speak about it because you do all of the booking.

00:49:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got three locked in next week and then so one's right before Easter. Two are back to back right after Easter. We're trying to lock in two more for that following week, yeah.

00:49:46
Speaker 2: I think.

00:49:46
Speaker 3: And then the draft.

00:49:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, April's fucking hell. Yeah that's kind of crazy. Yeah, so much, but it'll be fun. I know, like we kind of found the formula when we went to Oregon last year. So I'm curious how some of these other schools.

00:50:00
Speaker 1: Bring towards BANG. Last year.

00:50:01
Speaker 3: Of the schools there was, they were good school that was like, oh, we love what you did with like oh really and like that sounds like such a good time, Like we kind of want to get that. But yeah, I think, I mean, how could you not love like that flog?

00:50:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm trying to like, we went to Organ last year.

00:50:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to Oregon, I swear, I don't know why. I can't think. Did we get to Nebraska? Did a live show?

00:50:24
Speaker 2: You did Michigan?

00:50:26
Speaker 1: They did the work out there in Michigan. Nebraska. Organ was the three I think, so I don't think there was a draft blog as well that kind of parlayed into it.

00:50:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know we was Delaney and Will did that live show and Lincoln was that or was that?

00:50:38
Speaker 1: No, no, No, Taylor came for this one. I just looked at the vlogs the other day just to see the thumbnails on him, and I think I think those are the only one.

00:50:45
Speaker 2: The Oregon one. I mean, Oregon is just sick like as a little kid, especially me. Yeah, I think I don't know if Jack you've tweeted out the video or the picture of me. I know I have, just I was a Neon kid growing up, a Vault kid. Yeah, and Oregon with their Neon uniforms and stuff, like I always loved them. And like you obviously know, like the CEO of Nike, the creator of Nike is like out there and it's like that that is the cream of the crop, as like a little kid. So being able to finally go out there, because I know you guys went out there a couple of years ago, like beforehand, and like it was everything and more and Landing is the fucking homie. So I'm excited to see with these other schools.

00:51:23
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hold it down back in NASA.

00:51:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, in charge, go ahead. Ryan signed us out.

00:51:31
Speaker 3: All right, this has been Episode Inside the Bus. Like comment subscribe we will see you next week.

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