 What's going on? That's a pretty fun song slash music video, Jake. You should go check it out. Very 90s. You think I don't know Len still? My sunshine music video, get out of here. Oh, I didn't know the music video. It's very 90s and fun. And like the guy looks so douchey, but I think he didn't at the time, which is always wild. Like he looked cool at the time. Now it's like. Yeah, still does in my eyes. Yeah. Yeah. The theme that Jordan chose this week is Sun Sunshine Songs. Still my sunshine is a great song. It's a great song all the time. Tough for today, I respect the theme, but tough for today, arguably the toughest day of the year that's not a Tuesday. It's a real. We talked about this on talking yanks last night. July 4th on a Thursday, kind of wild. It makes it a four day weekend. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, summer mode going hard. Now, especially you and I, since we're baseball fans, you go back to Monday and you're like back to the grind and there's no baseball tonight. There's the home on Derby, which I don't, whatever. Yeah, tough day. Tough day for people that don't like their jobs. Like I'm very excited to get back into the routine of things. I think, I mean, it's a four day. It's almost a five day. Because I mean, Wednesday before the 4th of July. I mean, you're only gonna get so much done. And yeah, I think the other thing, you're talking salt in the wound. I think today is one of two days a year that there's not one of the four major professional sports playing. So you multiply four and a half day weekend times genuinely no sports. The home from Derby is a lot of fun, but. And I mean, yeah, it's nuclear. I think this is the worst Monday of the year. It's gotta be some others. Like Monday after Labor Day, Monday after New Year's if it ever lands on there. I mean, those are three dayers. And I mean, like if it's New Year, you're like, all right, new year, new me, blah, blah, blah. Labor Day Memorial Day, I mean, they're the same thing. They're just three days. And I mean, you get the Monday off. So those Mondays are actually great. Labor Day or New Year's, no holidays falling off faster. I think it's normal for people, but I used to love New Year's, couldn't care less. No. I didn't do anything last year. Well, how are you? So how are you personally feeling today? Do you have the, are you feeling down? I'm doing all right. I know I'm getting back into it. We've got a lot to chip off today. So kind of focused there. The girlfriend's dad is swinging through town. So I guess maybe I should be more braced for bad things coming. But yeah, I'm doing all right. It was a good weekend. Yesterday was, I mean, yesterday is a, some days are work days for us pretty much. So it was grinding, getting through that was kind of the tough day for me, especially cause I partied my head off Saturday night, the last time I'll ever party like that. Or that's at least what I told everyone at the party, which is one of the weirder, getting older things I've ever done. Cause yeah, that's always the cool guy at the party, the guy going around saying he'll never party again. Do you think you will? Do you think you're a liar? Or do you think you're gonna party? I think what I was referencing, so the Mark and Brittany are a couple of our friends who got engaged and they have an annual like 4th of July party and it turned into that plus like kind of an engagement. And so they're like cool people when they, when they party, they're like, oh yeah, we party till the sun comes up. And I was like, damn, like I never do that. I'm usually like the first one to sneak away and go to bed. So I like, I got amped up. I like took a nap. I had a Red Bull and I gave it a good run. I didn't stay up till the sun came up, but I don't know. I guess I was excited to try to. So I just kept telling everyone and it's a big time loser move. So children get older and I'm getting older too. Fleetwood Mac, but today doing all right. How are you doing, James? Doing good. I woke up at five AM really sick. I threw up in the middle of the night as a bummer. And then I went back to sleep and I wanted to wake up at 730 really bad. So I can get breakdowns done and some stuff done before we did this. And then because I woke up sick at five and then went back to sleep, I did not wake up early. I was super mad at myself. So here I am. Sorry. In the streets of New York City. That's not true. I'm back. Back in the New York groove. It's a song. Yeah. What are you gonna grade? Cause we, what day are we gonna grade? What are you possibly great? I don't know. I was just gonna skip it cause I have no idea how to do it. Yeah. Cause we got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday up for grabs. No, there's, you think I can remember last Wednesday? You're out of your mind. Wednesday? No, we're just gonna, we're gonna pass on grades. I had a pretty mad Wednesday. Okay. Good. Passing on grades. Let's get into the sports. Lot to talk about today. Deport base. Jake with the national. Nothing I say. Oh, shit. I'll do it again. I'll do it again. Nothing I say should be important to anyone. Jim, I think the biggest story from the weekend, the US women's national team wins. The 2019 World Cup. Rapinoe, incredible wins the golden boot and scores in the finale. And I think she's just officially queen of the world now. So that's pretty cool. We've got some baseball, Jim. One of the bigger stories. Matt Lucroy got knocked out at home plate by Jake and Riznick. Fair, foul, dirty. Looks pretty gnarly, carted off the field. Jim, you're like this one, a real life crash, Davis. Retires after hitting a walk off in triple A. 204 minor league home runs. He was the active leader and he just called it. And it's all star freaking. We just mentioned that home run derby tonight. They had the futures game last night. It'll all accumulate in the all star game. Jim, and then some fun stuff. Cocoa golf mania. Climb flying up my favorite athlete list. She stole the world at Wimbledon this weekend. Fought off match point early in the match and came back to win it. Took down Venus earlier. She is awesome. Wolf Eagles to win the last hole of the PGA event. And that's normally cool if you win by a stroke, but he's also 20, Jim. So we got a lot of youth on the sports. Zion, speaking of young, makes his summer league debut. Plays a couple minutes, bump knees. He's done playing in the summer league cause it's bad. And then literally a seismic shock in the NBA while the earthquake happens. Kawhi is going to the Clippers where Paul George will be joining him. Dun dun dun dun. Lot of news. Lot of news. The Women's World Cup. That's cool. Best ever. That beats. Yeah. Pay them more than the men. I'm pretty firm on that, to be honest. Nice, dude. Just because like the men suck. They don't do anything. Yeah. It's not even like a women versus men thing. It's a good versus bad thing. Pay the team what they're good. Yeah. I mean, I think there's a bunch of revenue numbers and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, one team's really good and dominant and the other team's bad. I mean, I didn't even mention the US men. They lost in the gold cup to Mexico last night. One team embarrasses the country nonstop. And one team makes the country proud nonstop. You feel embarrassed by the men's soccer team. 100% yes. Wow. Wow, okay. I think that's normal. They suck. Where's for Jimmy? Yeah, but it's, I mean, Jimmy, you're a smart guy and you've got all the numbers. Like it's soccer is not America's sport. We have football. We have baseball. We have basketball. Basketball is kind of our soccer if we're being honest about it. So I mean, America's fighting from behind. We don't have a real shot in soccer. I don't get disappointed by them. I think they're an embarrassment. Wow. When they lose to Ecuador, and they lose to like Ecuador nonstop. Get out of here. What sport do they play in Ecuador? I don't know. There's like a hundred of them. Soccer. I get that. There's other sports that are top sports elsewhere and we're still good at them. Let's play Ecuador and football. Why? They literally don't even know the rules. That's not a good example. It's perfect. I think the best way someone said it, I think it's one of the US soccer guys. He was saying, you know, when, it might have been Tim Howard. I think it was Tim Howard, my man. In other countries, when you're a little kid and you're a baby, you're in your baby's nest, what do they call those, crates? Bass and that. I don't think they call them that, but no, that's an instrument. But Tim Howard said, when you're a baby, you know, your uncle or your mom or your dad, they come over, they put a baseball in there, but they put a baseball glove. If you got a football junkie in your family, they put a little football in there. Not a lot of soccer balls in this country getting put in the crib with the baby. And it's totally different culturally around the world. Yeah. Be better than third world countries. It's their sport. They're getting paid professionally. Yeah. I bet the US men's team gets better training in all the facilities and all that than some of the teams they lose to. I think to a degree, I'd say also probably not as well. Cause again, that's like, that's all those, a lot of those countries have is soccer. That's it. They have the premier training facilities cause that's all they do. Yeah. I mean, USA has resources, but it doesn't, it's, it doesn't matter over here. It's not important to people. Bottom line, I can name US women's soccer players going back to the last 20 years. And I can name almost zero men's cause I don't care about them cause they're bad, bad. Well, yo, what is this real life crash Davis name? Cause I want to look them up, but you didn't put his name in here. Cody. I actually tried to write it in there. Um, yeah, I'm, I'm blanking on his last name right now, but it was Cody, he had 11 major league at bats and he didn't get a hit. So that kind of hurt my soul a little bit. With the Padres a couple of years back, but yeah, he walked it off for Reno. Cody Decker. Cody Decker, yeah. I thought, I thought Eric Krax was the real life crash Davis. This guy's the real life crash Davis. Pretty much. Yeah. Do you think we have a lot of people that don't know who crash Davis is or too young to know what bull dorm is? It's an old movie. Best minor league player. I think it's pretty well known in like sports pop culture. But he's been, he's been with, he was with the Padres organization for a while. Then moved to Kansas city. Oh, they went to Colorado. They traded them to Kansas city or the opposite. Then Boston, then he was the Mets. Then he was with Arizona this year. 204 minor league home runs. Yo, look at this Jake. In 2010 in A-ball, fuck dude, in 2010 in A-ball, this dude had 35 doubles and 28 home runs. He probably thought there's no way he's gonna be in the bigs in two years when he was 23 in A-ball. I think you need that mentality as an athlete. I think all athletes are kind of thinking that in A-ball, but his was realistic. And I think it's something that makes baseball different. Like some guys, whether it's just roster stuff or how it plays out or bad timing, you can be pretty quality and never get that chance. And I mean, and at the same time, baseball is a crazy sport where we saw, we saw the Yankees call up a couple guys this weekend that they literally brought them up for odd game just to kind of bring them up. And I mean, at least he made it to the show and he got a couple of bats because that would be even more sad, although he didn't get a hit and that does cut my soul a little bit. But yeah, man, it's ruthless. I mean, this guy, there was probably a couple of years where he was an injury or two injuries away from getting some serious major league run and who knows what he does if he gets that opportunity. So that's baseball, Susan. I'm trying to see who was blocking him on the Padres when he was like, you know, just climbed up the ranks, got the triple A. He was a first baseman, third baseman at the time. So he had Yonder Alonso in 2012 and Chase Headley in 2011. He was blocked by Jesus Guzman and Jason Bartlett. Pretty wild. Well, hey, he played baseball for his life. So that's pretty cool. It's still not bad. Chase Headley blocked him and Yonder Alonso. Those were the two guys that really blocked him when like his time was now. So do you think he, so all right, so he hits this walk off for triple A Reno and he decides to call it. Do you think for the past, do you think this season he was just kind of drifting through kind of like, I think it's done, but I still don't know what my next move is. And then he hit this home run and he was like, all right, it's, I got to do something else. I think Reno plays a big part of it. Like I think if he's back in Portland or Las Vegas or one of the other places he's played, he's not retiring, but Reno is, it's like a snake's mouth. Just like, you just walk into a snake pit of like trash and grossness. Get me out of Reno. Tough day for all our US men's fans in Reno that are listening to the show. You've been to Reno. Oh yeah. This is pretty nasty. Yo, you know what? I always look at the Pacific Coast League, minor league teams and where they have to play it just like sucks. Yeah. Salt Lake on there. Is that the bees? I'm looking at, this guy played in Albuquerque, Omaha. I don't think those are that bad. El Paso, I'm going to say this wrong. Culacan, Tucson, Lake Elzenor, Fort Wayne. What was that middle one? The one I couldn't know. It's a Mexican town name. I don't know how to say it. Okay. Culiacan? I like it. It sounds cool the way you're saying it. There's no way I'm saying it, right? I'll type it to you. I mean, totally not, but we all know that. All right, you give me your best rip at this pronouncing this word. Okay. Yeah, Culacan. It's not right. There's no way that's right. Yeah, we'll need some help on that one, people. Someone in the chat says, Culiacan. I mean, that's how it's spelled, yeah. If you pronounce every letter, it would be said, Culiacan. All right, so everyone got what they came for already. The real-life Crash Davis and women's soccer. Culiacan. Luke got knocked out by Marisnik. I'm going to do a breakdown in this play. I already have it done, so I'm going to take a real closer look at everything and just saw it a couple of times in the reactions and I saw the post-game interviews and stuff. I don't think he was trying to do this. What do you mean by do this? I don't think he was trying to collide with him. I think he was trying to avoid a collision. And just terrible, terrible situation. He said, how it looked to me was what he said in this post-game. Before he even said it, that's how it looked to me. He thought that Lucor was going to take it and do a big sweeping tag towards foul ground. So he was going to cut and dive in and go zig when he's ags. Lucor stayed up high and it just fucking collided. How sorry he was right away and like distraught a little bit kind of plays into that. And just the way the play was just looked like shitty. I don't know if you suspend him because there is also like, hey, we know you didn't mean to do this but you put yourself in a position where this happens and we're trying to avoid that. Yeah, I mean, if you accidentally hit someone with your car if it's an accident, sorry, but that doesn't make you innocent and I think you're right. I think the thing that sucks for him is that if this normally happened and it was a collision people would be like, oh, Mariznik, what are you doing? I'm sure even a lot of people would probably have his back and be like, baseball should still be played like that. The problem is he got wide receiver going down to catch a pass where Lucroy, if he's the wide receiver in football here drops down to catch the ball. The safety is already coming in to hit his midsection but because the wide receiver dropped down they went head to head, man and that's why it became even more of a story. And so I don't know, I mean I don't think Mariznik came in and was hoping a headhunter or anything like that. I think at a certain point he knew there was gonna be contact and that's still a big mistake on him. Like you can't do that. They've made it very specific, you can't do that. So I mean, I'm not yelling bad guy from the rooftop but it's really dumb. Yeah, I do think he was trying to avoid him because it's just not part of baseball anymore. And like, there was a part where it was grandfathered in and there were still players who were like, this is how we play, Mariznik's never played like this. He's a younger guy. Like this has never been part of his baseball experience. Like the whole contact and home play which I'm so glad is gone. It's just so not in spirit with the rest of the game. Even though like the big take me out slides that second when like they were like decking people, it's like, what is this? This is a completely different sport than like it's not necessary. Yeah. Which, you know, then you get the crowd like, oh, I never post you all alone. It's like, well, it's true. Like, but just no need for these collisions. So I'm happy they're gone. I don't know. I think he was trying to, I think he was trying to get cute with his slide and then he just got tangled up. I think you have to suspend him for that. A, because this is the first time this has happened in a while. I mean, you and I are, have our pulse or thumb on the pulse of baseball. And I mean, we, you don't see a lot of this anymore or almost any of it, which is a good thing. So I think A, they probably want to make an example out of them a little bit. And again, I, you know, the car hitting someone with your car isn't a perfect example. Cause I mean, even if it's an accident, he still did something wrong and you can't do this on a baseball field anymore. Yeah. I wonder if they suspend him. Did they, do you have an update on Lucroy? He was like responsive and stuff, but just so banged up. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't heard anything. Probably a huge concussion. And then there's another story about Surveille that we're going to do on talking baseball after this about his, we'll move on. We had a 15 year old Coco Goff. Is that how you say her name? Yeah, man. Jula, did you go check out the highlights? I was telling you to. Luc sure would be like one clip when her parents were all excited and stuff. Yeah, that's, that's not the highlight at all. She, she's awesome. She, I mean, 15 at Wimbledon, takes down a ride and then yeah, she has match point against her. I mean, could a point away from being out of the match. She fends it off. She comes back. I think she was down five, two, five, three. She rallies to win that set. She goes on to win the next one and just unbelievable. She's 15 and she was, she was handling everything, everything like a 15 year old professional. Like she was very nice and cool, but at the same time she, it wasn't like one of those like, wow, can you believe she's out of like, you know, she's, she's this composed. Like someone mentioned like, oh, you know the winner of Wimbledon gets like 1.1 mil or something like that. And she was like, damn, that's, that's a lot of money. She just had a big shit eating grin come over her face. So I don't know, she's awesome. And it was, it was almost the overnight celebrity thing and kind of a young phenom in the wings. She's from, where's she from? Delray Beach, Florida. Yeah. And that was another fun part of it that they kept, they had cameras at like bars in Delray Beach and they were just packed with people going nuts for this 15 year old girl that was like representing Delray Beach, Florida at Wimbledon. It was awesome. Cool, good for her. Hopefully she stays good. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I think, I mean, she's already gonna be elevated with new sponsorships and stuff and all that. And I don't know. I mean, it ties into sports and confidence. Maybe, you know, maybe this was a one and done thing for her and she was just hitting the ball right and getting lucky or this is the start of something special and she now has that confidence to take with her. Who? Who? Another young guy wins the PGA at 20, never heard of him. Yeah, almost, it's so funny. Like I almost mad at this kid because he's 20, he's now a millionaire and he's really good at golf. But yeah, man, hitting the eagle to win it. I mean, that's some stones, baby. So good for him, but also very, very jealous of him. Matthew Wolf, eagles 18 to claim it. How far out was he? It was a long roll, man. He, I don't have the distance in front of me, but it was a real one. I tell you how good I fought the other day. You said you fought well the other day. You wanna tell the people about it. It was scary how good I fought. I hit two from not, I hit two basically chip ins, but I putted from the fairway or whatever you wanna call it. One was from the rough one, one was from the like fringe, one was from the fairway. They were probably like 20 feet each. Then I made two more putts that were 10 feet out that we were just trying to see. Like, all right, because we were playing doubles, best ball, so all right, I'll see you with the play. Yeah, and then I made everything within five feet. It was automatic. Yeah, his shot to win it kind of was on that. He was on the fringe there. And it wasn't like a long, I was gonna say long curvy bastard. I don't know if we could say that, but I don't know, it's a real putt to win it. And yeah, good for this guy. Enjoy your money and being really good at golf. And hey, good for you, Jim, for sinking your putts. It's crazy, best I ever putt. When I play next year, I play once a year. We'll see if I can do it again. Were you hitting that seven iron? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I play with a tee shot, whatever I needed, and then I just play with a six end of putter the rest of the way. Well, you dropped down to the six. I just hockey, slap shot everything. Nice. But like, it was weirdly working very well. Just gotta hit it straight, Jim. That's the key. No one teaches this. Hit it the right way. I play once a year, so it's not like I'm gonna be like, I gotta practice. Now, just do what's good for me this one time. Kauai goes to the Clippers. Paul George is joining him. And you give us like a one minute recap on this. You know, if you- Did you hear my seismic reference, Jim? That was good word play. The earthquake. We didn't even talk about the earthquake. Dodgers and Padres played through an earthquake. That was pretty wild. It stopped the summer league game. Some of the more impressive and wild broadcasting you'll ever see, Doris Burke and Mark Jones, who they were in Vegas. So they were four hours away from the earthquake, but still significant. Like the Jumbotron was moving. It was pretty crazy. Mark Jones, it was his first earthquake ever. And he was like talking himself through it. It was pretty nuts. It's like, I never felt anything like that before. And it was really scary seeing the ground below my feet move. And okay. Did you see my breakdown of it? Of the Padres game? Yeah, of the giant earthquake. Yeah. Steve Han- Steve Han-giris. Han-giria. Fuck, Steve, how do you say your last name? Hungirius. He gave us $5 to support us and said, props for lip-reading at Terremoto. Nicely done. My first time reading Spanish lips. Wow. Constant clues were pretty easy. Well, that's not true. What's that? You're arguably the biggest Shakira fan I've ever met. I've never read her lips. I think you've been reading those lips for years. Hips. You're thinking of the hips. Hips. That's what it is. You're thinking of Shakira's hips. Shakira's hips. Okay. I love Shakira. Anyway. So, Bernadette Azizke asked that boy, what's going on? And that boy just called me and goes, earthquake. And he looks around like, oh, he has no idea how to handle it. And the catcher asked him, so I saw him say something to the catcher. And I was like, well, he probably says earthquake to him in Spanish, but what's that? So I went to translate it to Terremoto and then I went back to Kike's lips and he says, Terremoto. I was like, fuck, that's awesome. Damn, international. It's pretty cool. And then I just get so impressed with people that can speak two languages. Yeah, right? Like I can't do that. Obviously. They don't get enough credit, to be honest. Yeah. It's kind of, it's blowing my mind even thinking about speaking about two languages. That's kind of how pathetic I am. But yeah. I was not seeing the foul pole moving out there and he had the jumbo tron movement in Reno. It'll be a 30 for 30 one day. Cocoa Goff, Zion's debut, earthquake. And then the bomb gets dropped that night while people are starting to tuck themselves into bed. I think it was like, I think it was 12, 30 mountain time or something like that. But I don't know. I was, I kind of, I vividly remember looking at my phone and being like, I don't really want to be awake anymore. And then it was like, I'll do one last check and the Kauai news dropped. And it was like, damn. He's going to the Clippers. The Lakers look a little foolish because he was clearly their plan and they just started signing a bunch of the lame guys that played with them last year to come back instead of the money they were going to give to Kauai. So that was kind of a brutal look for the Lakers. It's awesome. This is lining up to be the best season in NBA history. There's no super team but there's probably 10 really good teams with like two stars. So it's awesome. It's good for the Clippers. Good for the NBA. Cause it just, it would have sucked a little bit if the Lakers were Kauai, LeBron and AD. Like, come on. It's better for the NBA with some parity. My brother-in-law, huge Lakers fan, he was refreshing Twitter for like three days straight. Yeah. And then I saw him after the news and he was like, I was like, how are you? He's like, oh, I'm spin zoning so hard. Our depth is so much better now than if we got quiet. So I finally got Danny Green in-house. Yeah, man. He's brother-in-law stuff. So my brother-in-law, Brad, he told me the day before, he's like, yeah, Lakers fan hate Woj. They think he just spreads lies. He's anti-Lakers. He's like, they hate him. And then Woj was right the entire time. Yeah. Cause he's always right, isn't he? And then all the Lakers fans tweets that like where people saying like, you know, Woj is wrong and blah, blah, blah, it's pretty funny. Love a good backfire. Love when people are just straight up adamantly wrong. Woj is like one of the best people at his profession and in any profession. Like that dude is insane. He's like always awake. He's always on his phone. He's always talking to people. And I know a couple of guys I really like in the sports world, like Woj gets some crap because they're like, well, it's not that hard. He just gets the news and then he tweets about it. And they're like, if you think that you are one of the dumbest people on this planet. So yeah, it was cool. Good for the Clippers. And yeah, the thing we talked about it on Talking Nix, which has actually been getting a lot of love. We did it for on the YouTube for the first time was that the Nix turned down the meeting with Kawhi and then it leaks out where after this trade happens, Kawhi basically said, he didn't basically say this, but he wanted to play with Paul George. He said that. And there was different rumors about there's a crazy trade was offered to Toronto with Russell Westbrook and Paul George and they could have went back there. But yes, I don't know. There was a little bit of speculation in the Nix world like, well, I don't know if they emptied and traded everything they possibly had for Paul George when they've gotten Kawhi. And then Nix fans just collectively look at each other and be like, we don't have the heart for this anymore. Let's just move on. Yeah. Intern Luke just gave me this tweet. Lakers, LeBron and AD, Clippers, Kawhi and PG 13, Brooklyn, Katie and Kyrie, Golden State, Curry and Clay, Milwaukee, Jonathan Middleton, Philly, Simmons and Embiid, Portland, Lillard and McCollum, Utah, Gobert and Mitchell, Houston, Hardin and CP3, NBA's balance for the first time in a long time. Dude, and I mean, that's missing some guys. I mean, Porzingis is gonna be back. He's with Luka Donchich and Dallas. Like they'll be fun. I mean, Kemba goes to Boston. It's crazy how many good teams there are in the NBA this year. And it's so exciting to see because this is kind of like, I don't know, this is like a dream in sports. This is like why people do fantasy drafts in video games to have like balanced, fun teams like this. So it'll be interesting to see if the league is on high or if it's kind of the reverse effect that people actually secretly love the Golden States and when LeBron's just dominant and all that. So I'm jazzed up, Jim. Wow. You wanna talk about Derby for a little bit before we go to halftime? Sure. What do you got on the Derby? I, well, who replaced Yelich? Not sure. Yelich replacement. Google. Fuck, I can't think about it. Chapman? Chapman, I think. Matt Chapman, yes. I have Bell and Alonzo doing well. Okay. I think a lefty wins it. I think Vlad, he's gonna gas himself in the first round so bad. Much like Schwerber did when he did it the first year. Yeah, I'm the opposite with you on that. Vlad is my guy. Yeah, yeah. That's the only thing I feel confident in is that he's gonna gas himself out. Oh, I think Vlad, he's gonna roll it. He's so young, man. I think you're skipping over that young energy. He's 20 years old. No, that's the thing. Like I don't think he has the presence to like take some breaths every now and then. Like when Schwerber did it, he was super young. And he just went up there and was like boom, boom, boom. And then by the end, arms were heavy. Who's Schwerber's daddy, though? Well, he's not Vlad's senior. That's just what I think. That's, I see him getting gassed out going. I mean, also I don't think he's got great stamina. I think, I like Jock. Jock has a very minimal swing. Yeah, I don't, I think Jock's too small. I think he, he had a good first round. Akuna, oh, I'm sure this is Akuna. His numbers are pretty impressive. I just feel like Athletic Center fielder with power to all fields doesn't translate as well to all-star game homerun Derby. And yeah, I don't know. I think Bregman, I think- Someone from the right side of the bracket is definitely winning. The right side's Alonzo Santana, Bell Akuna. And the left side is Chapman, Vladdy, Bregman, Jock. Sounds like Vladdy has a nice little path to the finals there, huh? He does besides, but I think, yeah, I thought Yellowitch would beat Vladdy easily. But he does have a pass to the finals and then we gotta see. But I got Alonzo and Bell winning and going up against each other. Okay. Let's see. Vlad all the way. All day. Tonight at 8 Eastern. Six Mountain. Dude, I love those like Bellinger and Jock swings. They're so minimal. Bellinger's swing is so minimal. Ever seen like the side angle from like the third base coach? Yeah. It basically a mannequin until the pitches at his front hip. Keeps it flat through the zone. You got any faith in Bregman? Like I can see his competitive spirit getting him through one round. I just don't... Yeah, like that's exactly what it is. Like Bregman, Bregman will probably see the most pitches and take the most swings in the first round just cause he'll be like, that's how I'll hit the most homers. And then he'll, I don't know. Like Bregman's not a big dude. That's not an insult. But I mean, you know, there's gonna be a picture of Bregman standing next to like Vlad Jr. tonight. And he'll be like, well, that's, those are different animals. More I'm staring at this to more I, I'm looking at Bell as the winner. Wow, feeling Bell. Yeah. Lefty should be good for him. I like it. The only thing Alonso has gone against him is he's a Met. And he's righty. Yeah. But the Met thing looms larger in my brain. That looms larger. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe this is what the Mets need. Maybe this is like the, what they'll get to calm them down. Like, wow, Alonso, Alonso had an incredible first half. Andy won the home run Derby. The Mets get five minutes where they look good. Like maybe this, maybe this is what the Mets get. Yeah. I just don't believe in Santa. I don't believe that will happen either. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. I wish it would. I like Alonso. And everyone will be like, why is Alonso holding Vlad Jr.'s trophy? This is getting weird. Thank you to Vic H. She gave us a couple bucks. I love this channel. Just got my free jersey coat. Oh yeah, Victor won the Patreon, Johnboy Media Patreon. He gets a chance. Nice. Congrats, Victor. Congrats, Vic H. Vitch. Halftime. What you got going on over there? Not too, too much. You said a hot word that reminded me of something you should probably mention at the halftime because it got a good laugh out of you. My mother listened to, I think we did a laugh from the past episode where we talked about backfires. It's kind of this, the new season of laugh from the past, our history podcast we're doing is backfires. And I was like, damn, I wish I had more backfires that jumped into my mind. And luckily, my beautiful mother listened and she texted me and she said, how about the time you gained weight so you could play football? And then I told you, you couldn't play football. And I was like, stuff. It's like, okay, mom, like be cool about it. And then there was another time that I, I walked to a friend's house. There's like a snowstorm and I wanna go hang out at my friend's house. And she's like, Jake, there's a snowstorm, like I'm not driving you. And I was like, all right, can I walk it? And she was like, yeah, sure. So I did it just out of like spite. The moment I got there, she drove, picked me up and brought me home. And didn't let you hang out at your friend's house? Correct. That's me and my Linda. It was cold. It was cold. It was a cold move. That's real. That's super mean. That was tough love, man. That's what it was. So yeah, that was a, so luckily my mom informed us with a couple of good personal backfire stories of my own. And- Getting fat for football when your mom wasn't gonna let you play football is pretty funny. It's good. I mean, it's good. Whatever. Yeah, go check out Last From the Past. We're gonna record another one today. I think it sounds bad to people off the bat because they're like, here's dreams. Like funny stories. Real funny stories. Jake and I talking about how fucking weird they are. Yeah. The last one, this season's gonna be wild because it's historical backfires. The last one, episode one of season five, it's about the French introducing sewer systems to Vietnam when they took over. And basically they just dug up a breeding ground for rats and the rats took over Hanoi. And then they had to incentivize the people to kill the rats, which backfired on them into people breeding rats. So the rats just fucking took over Hanoi. It was wild, wild tale. Go to Last From the Past, check it out. Yeah. All right. Luke is here. He came in, he's working hard. He's already got a breakdown video secured for me. Now he's doing the voicemails. And I think he set up a John Boy and Jake radio YouTube channel because we're gonna do this part-time here and make a full channel for people that like John Boy and Jake radio. Yeah. So good job by Luke. I read the music day and all the boys and though the music was rather sad because it was so hot, time for the news. A semi-trailer carrying hot pockets overturned on I-70 in Missouri. Hot pockets everywhere. Russian, a Russian recorded himself kicking a bear and then getting bit by the bear he kicked. Tough break, backfire. An exotic bird at the Buck's Animal Hospital turned out to just be a gull covered in curry. I don't know how they didn't smell that one out. Texas hikers call cops after mistaking traffic sounds for wild pigs chasing them. Lot of paility, I think. And Mac Tray, everyone's favorite Bay Area rapper would have been 49 years old today. I read the music day and all the boys and the news was light for fourth of July weekend. Everyone was just barbecuing in the pool and no news to be made. Super light. But hot pockets did overturn in Missouri. Rest in peace, Mac Tray, I did it for the yay, okay. Yeah, I'm into this. I mean, do we have people snagging HPs on the side of the road? You would hope. I mean, Black Friday, they go to Walmart and like destroy the place. You'd hope they hear about some hot pockets and go run. Remember when the hot pockets, when people were like, hey, hot pockets puts horse meat in their hot pockets and the hot pockets came out and were like, yeah, we do, we're sorry. We'll stop doing that. It's like, whoa, wait, what? You do? You should have denied that. That's one of the things you should have denied. Not putting bad horse meat in there. The incident happened along the westbound lanes. No one was injured. That's good, we like that. The state highway patrol tweeted the news and said, even if you have the munchies, you can't have the hot pockets. You ever seen- Someone was so happy crafting that tweet. Yeah, you ever seen Ward of Lore with Nick Cage? Yeah, not in a while, but yeah. No, the scene where the plane lands in, I don't know where they are, I think Africa. And they're like, well, what do we do? We can't leave this plane here, they'll scrap it. And then they do a montage of all the people coming and scrapping the plane and just tearing it down to nothing. Should have done that with these hot pockets. Just put some cameras, time lapse mode, see how long it takes for the people of Missouri to come steal all these hot pockets. Is that the best scene from that movie? Yeah. Yeah. Easily. Did that scene make time lapse cool? No, time lapse had been cool since the dawn of time. Well, that's not true, because they didn't have cameras on. Since the first time lapse. Okay, the original, I guess that's what I'm currently looking for. What was the time lapse that broke out that people were like, yo, that was a cool time lapse? I mean, I'm probably guessing the first time lapse of the sun setting or rising was the coolest thing in the world. Yeah, I mean, I'd like to see the pictures or the video that brought it to the forefront. I don't know. I don't know if there's some first ever time lapse. This thing gonna be, they're not gonna be able, I think it's so popular, they're not gonna be able to do this. I think it's as old as cameras. So it looks like a lot of sunsets. Yeah, I think flowers blooming, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, flowers blooming, that's pretty good. Or like butterfly worms becoming caterpillars becoming butterflies, that's probably cool time lapse. Yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff. Time lapses are awesome. They're never not cool. Someone needs more credit for the time lapse, that's all I'm saying. Who invented the time lapse? It's some photographer. Like someone, like, cause I mean a time lapse, you could take a picture of the sun now and the sun 10 minutes from now and that's technically like a time lapse. Okay. Someone touched a time lapse. Okay, the first use of time lapse photography in a feature film was George Meeh motion picture Caterford and then F. Percy Smith pioneered the use of time lapse in nature photography in his 1910 silent film, The Birth of a Flower. Well, we're a lot of the words you said the first time. The feature film. I saw your tongue out of your mouth for way too many words. The director of the film, name is George Meeh. See, there's that tongue again. And the name of the motion picture was Carrefer de l'Effet. Yep, right there at the end. I got a good tongue time lapse here. It's cool. Time lapse, awesome. So yeah, make it time lapse of all the people who eat in these hot pockets. I'd be there for it. Yeah, you can't have them even if you have the munchies, you guys. Shut up, Missouri police. Bad tweet. Russian recorded himself kicking a bear, bear turned around and bit him. Sounds fair. Yeah, I mean, eye for an eye, the whole world is blind. Everything adds up. Is there gonna be video of this? Do I wanna click this? I don't know. So many websites out there. The problem is, Russia, they have like bears as pets. Like they're all docile. Like they're a common pet in Russia or more common than here, I should say. I think there is a video. This video is pretty crazy. This guy just sneaking up on this bear is gonna run up and kick it and then the bear's gonna turn around and bite him. Is that what I'm watching right now? Okay, the bear has his back to the camera and he's walking by the base of a tree and the man is, he's close. He's in kicking range now. He goes around the other side of the tree. The bear has no idea he's there. Terrible instinct. He's right on top of the bear, kicks the bear in the ass. The bear now looks at him like, what the hell dude? Why did you kick me? Who are you? Whoa! And now he comes after him and the guy runs away. The camera goes shaky. Camera's shaking all over the place. Camera is so shaky. The bear's attacking him. Camera's all over. Camera's still now as if the guy died or he dropped the camera. Just Blair Witt style. Looking up at the trees, swaying in the breeze. And I think, okay, the camera's back. The guy found the camera. He came to and the camera's out of focus. Looks like the man is standing up again and he's trying to run away, but he's limping. Looks like the bear got him. Yeah, and that's that. Why would you do what that guy just did? I think that's kind of just what you do when you're bored in Russia. You know, I'm just gonna go walk in the woods if I find a bear that's part of it. Crazy. But speaking of weird shit in woods, this guy kicked a bear. These Texas hikers called the cops. They said there's wild hogs chasing us. The cops came like, that's just the noise of cars driving by. Oh no. I ain't gotta be booze or something involved in this, right? A Canyon Park police officer responded to an urgent call from a woman who had taken refuge in a tree. An animal she believed to be wild pig was nearby and growling. It wasn't a pig. It was just cars driving by. She got behind on something. Yeah, I mean, we have a couple stories that normally link up to drugs. Ooh, we've got a paragraph titled Bizarre Mix-Ups. Bizarre Mix-Ups like this often lead people to call 911 and feel a bit ridiculous after. Earlier this year, deputies in Oregon responded to a report of a possible home invasion after a house sitter said that someone was inside the home's bathroom. The intruder turned out to be a Roomba. It's like, come on, Ryder, don't have to bring the Roomba girls. Not, yeah, they were just looking. They just wanted to get the Roomba story back out there. Yeah, they were like, you know, this needs to be back in the news. That Roomba story is too good. Not for nothing. Your house sitting and you hear something moving in a closed door? That's, I'm on their side. Yo, I got freaked out yesterday because I left the house. I was the last one inside and I came back and I went, I put in our code to open the front door and I turned the handle and it wouldn't open. And it was like the deadlock had been locked from the inside, which is only possible if a human locks it. I was like, whoa, fireworks were going off. I've been crushing stranger things. I'm like, what's going on? It's spooky. I had to break into the window and like climb in. And then I'm like, is there someone in the house? How does this get locked? But it turns out my door handle disconnected from that little nipple bump thing that goes into the wall. So like when I turned the handle, the thing inside the door wasn't coming in. But for a little bit I was freaked out. I was like, is someone inside the house? Stranger things. You been watching? I haven't yet. How is it? I still enjoy it very much. The timepiece. I think it's become more of a fun watch than a good watch. Oh, interesting. Like I thought season one was really, really good. But then you're delving deeper and deeper into, it's always been ridiculous. So that's kind of a hard thing to say. I still think it's really entertaining. Yeah, I guess in season one, you weren't sure exactly what it was leading up to. And now we kind of know that there's like creatures, conspiracies and that kind of stuff going on, which isn't necessarily your cup of tea. Mike, like I hate Mike. Damn. He's so lame. That's about it. Tough break for Mike there. Yeah. I hope these guys are making good coin from YouTube. They deserve it. Well, thank you, Crypt, Aljo. Algo. You guys think the Yankees can beat the Stroze in the playoffs? Yeah, we'll see. No team is complete right now. I saw some people tweeting about the Yankees. Jake, who have like the best record in baseball and are six games up in their division, had a really, really good first half, despite 20 players going on the injured list. Right. And I saw a bunch of Yankees fans because they're upset they lost the last two games saying, tweeting things like, was the first half good? Yes. Are the Yankees in a great place? Yes. Do they make the playoffs? Yes. Do they need to add more pieces to win in the playoffs? Yes. I was like, name me, name me a World Series team, winning team that did not add pieces at the deadline. The Red Sox added Evaldi and Pierce last year. The Astros added Verlander. So to say like the Yankees need pieces, every team that hopes to win the World Series needs pieces at the deadline. That's just Baseball 101. But they're acting like they're like singular for the Yankees. This is their problem. We're talking about. Every team ever needs pieces at the deadline. He's ready for talking baseball, folks. We're doing that next. Let's go to that event. But you know what I mean? I didn't respond on Twitter or say anything. I saw so many people saying that. It's like, I'd love, I actually like being sure to go down the World Series winners and see which one added the least amount of people at the deadline. Yeah, I think, well, I think the Yankees fans are pretty tuned in that they need a big time starting pitcher and I think people would say that's a bigger piece than teams would normally be looking for. Verlander was huge though. Oh yeah. Well, like Evaldi was supposed to just be a fifth man for them. He ended up breaking out and doing some crazy things. But anyway, Pierce. Yeah. Oh yeah. Someone in the chat said that the Kansas City Royals didn't add anyone. Now I'm interested in that. I'm trying to think, did they add Kuwaito or anyone? I don't know. I'm blanking. Yeah. I think this has to be a talk in baseball topic. Yeah, maybe not today's episode, but maybe a couple because we're still doing practice episodes. If you are a Patreon supporter, you get access to these talk in baseball test episodes. I think we have two more test episodes because they're kind of raw, trying to figure things out and on 15th we go live. They will be on this channel. If you wanna watch live, you have to be a Patreon member but then eventually right afterwards, they will be on this channel as like a video, not a live stream. So let's go to bed of the day. Bed of the day, it's the bed of the day. Bed of the day, bed of the day. Bed of the day, bed of the day, it is the bed of the day. Jakey Jakey on Wednesday a while ago, he bet that the Nationals would cover the one and a half spread over the Marlins. I agreed with him. We were both successful in our venture. Did they win by two? I'm blanking. I think they won by three. I think it was five to two. Okay. So good job Jakey, what do you have today? So Jimmy, this is kind of a tight one because again, this is one of the two days a year that none of the four major sports are playing a game. So I'm gonna be D at gym. I'm gonna lay it on the table. Let's go Vlad for big money to win it. Vlad to win it, wow. Yeah, okay, that's easy for me because I disagree. Jake is stupid, but- Jakey Jakey, about to make a big- Oh, my record time. Let the record show, let the record show. How about this? How about this? We change it up for a little bit of the day. We do a mono a mono. We do, I'll go Vlad, you go Josh Bell. Whoever either gets further or hits more home runs. Yeah, it gets furthers tough if they're both don't make, if neither of them win. Then it would be who hits the most home runs. Like if they both lost in the first round, whoever hits the most home runs. Yeah, okay. If they both lose, if they both get past the first round, right, both lose in the second round, is it whoever hits the most collective home runs or ever hits the most home runs in the second round? I would say cumulative. And just to get the furthest, because like if Braggman heads one in the second round, Vlad hits three and it's like, okay, I'm done now. Whatever, we'll just say goes the furthest to make it easier. Sure, well, we'll figure out a tiebreaker if we need it. You're more confident on Vlad than I am on Bell. I'm more confident on not Vlad than anything else. Well, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of other guys, but I think this is supposed to be Vlad Jr.'s introduction to Major League Baseball. I do think that it's smart. They invited him and are putting him on the stage. I'm happy about that. Jake, I just, since we started this conversation here, I wanted to get some updates. The 2015 Royals traded for Johnny Cueto, Ben Zobrist and Johnny Gomes who were all pieces on that World Series team. Cueto and Zobrist were like big pieces, right? Yeah. Was Zobrist an MVP at some point in the playoffs? Did they get him at the deadline? Because he was on the raise, right? Yeah. They got him like late July, which is the deadline. Cool. So, good job by him. In 2015, Zobrist, let's see, what did he do? He hit, he had an 880 OPS with two home runs throughout the playoffs. So, yeah, he was pretty, pretty huge. You know, I can't believe the Mets were in that World Series. Yeah. How far they fell. He had four doubles in the World Series, Zobrist, but zero RBIs, scored five runs. Well, anyway, yeah, part of it. Got to get pieces at the deadline if you want to compete. There's nothing new there. Go to steal my sunshine. And then we are out of here. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. We will be back tomorrow. Another episode of John Mojic Radio. 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