Angels Baseball, Clippers Statement, Ask The Pro's

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Speaking of big stories, we are joined right now

by a former Major Liger who played a decade in the Bigs

for the Angels, the Diamondbacks, the Mariners,

and the Orioles.

He was a two time All-Star.

He led the Bigs with 47 home runs in 2016,

also a Silver Slugger Award.

He's co-host of the Halo Territory Show.

It's part of the Fowl Territory Network.

I'm talking about Mark Trumbo, Mark.

Really good to have you on this show.

How you doing, Mark?

Jim, I'm great.

Thank you for having me.

Some big news and animes.

Huge news and animes.

In fact, that's why I got you here.

Listen, before we talk about that,

bring me up to date, in addition to doing your show,

what is keeping you busy these days?

The show is probably the main thing.

As an next player, you look for ways to stay plugged in,

stay busy.

I do work with a few Major League hitters,

usually in the winner.

The Hanna Fasked, either through my agency

or otherwise, all kind of whisper in some ears.

That does happen from time to time, even if teams don't always

love it.

But as a next player, myself, sometimes

you need the second set of eyes.

I'm happy to do that if asked.

And then we have a young daughter.

So not at typical for a former athlete.

Got my hands at a few different things.

But right now, with all of the news of the sale of the angels,

we're quite busy.

I see you working.

All right, so you've got that going.

You got to talk about it.

So what was your reaction?

We knew back in 2022 that Arty Moreno had kind of explored

this.

He looked at it.

And then he pulled back.

And then he didn't do so.

And now it's done.

What is your reaction to the sale?

And then what's your reaction to the person they sold

the team to?

Stan Kronke.

My reaction was surprised.

Not surprised in the fact that it went down.

I thought, within the next couple of years,

it'd probably be made.

Since to find an appropriate buyer and a price that Mr. Moreno

felt was warranted, I think, that he

had pulled back a couple of years ago.

He didn't get the amount of money he was looking for then.

But you see a number that starts with a four or the B behind it.

I'm not surprised that this was enough to close the deal.

I think that at least a lot of the comments we got

thought that we were some April fools prank or something.

As fans have been somewhat yanked around for a few years now,

I think that the timing is right.

It might have been right previously.

At some point, unfortunately, already

went from the early years.

People liked to point to the cheaper beer.

And there were a lot of competitive teams.

But it didn't last forever.

During my time there, 2011, 2012 and 2013,

I thought we had nice teams.

But we couldn't hang in the Texas Rangers.

They were deeper.

They had a better offense.

And it was still above 500 baseball, competitive and in it.

And for 11 years now, they've been

fielding a losing team.

And numerous managers, I think five or so general managers,

the last one in particular, quite polarizing.

So I think that with the general manager out and new ownership,

the fans are rejoicing.

We're talking to Mark Trumbo.

It's a good break down right there.

Mark, but essentially, he got off to a pretty good start.

And you're right.

You did and we're a part of some nice teams.

Man, what happened?

From 2010 going forward, it just fell apart.

And now in that, but during that time,

you had a couple of guys for two of the greatest players ever

playing together in their prime, nothing to show for it.

How did this thing go so badly and go south the way it did?

I think some of the guys they invested big dollars in,

namely Josh Hamilton and Anthony Rendon.

They ended up those contracts were duds.

They didn't produce for the ball club.

And Rendon didn't even finish out his 10-year plan,

although they restructured his deal.

So there's still some money left on the books.

They may assign a number of guys, at least in the last

couple of years, who were going into this year

that I'm not going to say dumpster diving,

but trying to find some value on the margins, probably.

But a couple of these guys, they lacked some of the fundamental

hard-nosed baseball that I think translates well to the angels.

Now, why does the blue collar type player

thrive playing for Anaheim?

It's a little bit harder to say.

But it seems to be a thing.

The guys that have the bigger personalities,

flash the chains and all those things,

they may be better suited playing elsewhere.

The players that seem to do the best here

are the kind, you know, Deer Ernest Dad, for example,

run through a wall, gritty.

That kind of identity has been lost really

since Mike Socha was at the helm.

They've tried a few different Ron Washington,

was the veteran manager.

A lot of strong opinions, and he tried to police a very young

team the best he could, but that, you know,

still wasn't able to get results.

And they're off to, well, this season's going to be,

they're going to be one of the worst three teams in baseball.

If not, the worse.

They have some stiff competition with the Rockies

and the athletics currently.

But what's the, what's the upside to that?

They'll get a top draft pick.

I think they have about a 15% chance if they're one of the

bottom three teams to get the first overall selection.

Talk to Mark Trumbo.

You're going to be fine on your show, my man.

Just keep coming like that.

Keep it real.

Yeah, I'm glad you brought Mike Socha because as an

LA native, I grew up a huge Dodger fan,

and I was a big Mike Socha guy from when he caught back in the day.

What was it like for you to play for Mike?

And then he surprised Mark that after he left the Angels in

2018, he didn't manage ever again?

I'm not surprised.

I think he had his own reasons for not stepping back into it.

I think there were opportunities, but they weren't right for him.

He's got interest outside of baseball.

And I think one thing that is absolutely true about pro sports

and managing pro sports is very stressful.

It is a long season.

It is taxing physically and mentally.

And I think so is probably he is somebody that

teams should have been lining up down the street.

If he was available and wanted to manage,

I'm sure that that would have gone down.

As far as the Angels identity under him,

it started with him.

And I think some of the things that probably he learned

through the Dodgers, but it was labeled small ball,

social ball, taking the extra base,

manufacturing runs pitching defense.

And after his 10 year, it really has gotten lopsided,

trying to lean into the, I guess it's kind of the three run

Homer, although there's never two runners on for these guys.

It's usually just the solo Homer.

The pitching has been good this year.

It's actually a bright spot minus the bullpen, which

has been quite, quite lousy.

The defense has not been a strength.

And overall, I think first you're

managed your Kurt Suzuki has had to learn on the job.

And it's been a pretty tough go, although he has remained

incredibly positive.

He does a great job of not throwing his players

under the bus, maybe too much so sometimes with lack of hustle,

which is a big deal for me.

I can't stand seeing guys that can't bust it down the line.

Taken, Mark Trumbull, like what is that?

I mean, effort, you should have to coach effort, right?

Effort is the one thing you should not have to coach.

So when you see that right now, what do you think?

Well, they've gotten a couple of the guys

that the biggest defenders, they're not currently

taking the field, which I think is how do you change?

You get new people or get rid of some people.

But it takes no talent to run hard.

And I think for any of the youth that are watching

or anyone that's a fan of sports, everybody respects hustle.

And when a guy can't give it his all on something,

as fundamental as running 90 feet once or twice a game,

you may not be happy that you grounded out,

but put some pressure on somebody.

Do something, you know, that terrible effort

where you may not even make it all the way to first base.

That doesn't look the part.

That's not professional sports.

Mark, let me ask you something.

Like they're totally different guys, totally different guys.

Show Hey clearly wanted to win.

And he busted out and he's won.

Mike Trout never forced the issue ever,

like he's happy here, he's content here,

he's put up numbers here, he's a hall of famer.

Why do you think that he never tried

to do the same thing as Joey?

I get they're totally different guys.

But why do you think Mike never forced the issue?

I can't really answer that.

We've talked about it, ad nauseam,

trying to make some sense out of it.

I think Mike is a loyal guy.

And Mike is a very simple guy too.

He does not like extra drama.

He doesn't like fielding tons of questions.

I think at the end of the day, he is happy playing.

Here, I think that he wants to honor the commitment

that was made to him as well.

From what I did understand, at least this year,

I think there would have been a pathway

had he forced the conversation to be traded.

I think I've heard enough people say that there's probably

some truth, Dardy Moreno being willing

to facilitate something like that.

But it didn't end up happening.

I think the fans of the Los Angeles Angels,

that might be up for debate too,

what if the name is there to stay or not.

But they'd love to see him succeed

for the team that they root for.

Is it going to be an easy route with his age?

Is not going to be any younger?

And how many years away are they from contention?

Speculated, but that's guess both my self and co-host

could come up with around 20, 29, 20, 30 despite Mr. Cronkey

having very deep pockets, the path to getting back

to contention is not going to be instantaneous.

Teryc Scoobles, the free agent, this off season,

I'm sure that everyone would want him,

but the Dodgers are still going to be the biggest draw

as they're usually the ones left standing,

holding that trophy.

Man, I wonder Mark, if you guys got into this

on your show like it just happened,

but like Cronkey, we don't know what he's going to do.

We know he wins.

We know he wins.

We know he has deep pockets.

We know he's committed.

We know he gives the players what they need.

It's going to be great.

It's going to be absolutely great.

But I wonder what his mindset is.

If you're a mic trout and you're 35

and you're set to make 37 mil per

and you're contracted through 20, 30

and you really don't want to leave,

my trout's probably thinking great, man.

I'm going to get some help here,

but I wonder about Cronkey.

Do you think he's going to want to reboot clean house

or will he see Mike as an asset?

If you had to guess, how do you think Cronkey's going

to view Mike trout?

As an asset currently, these aging curves

that teams are very smart.

I think that's one area.

I would really lean into if I were Stan Cronkey

and company is the Dartin D.

The Angels are notorious for cutting corners

in infrastructure, player development,

Latin American scouting, Asian scouting.

They could do a much, I guess, better job

and hire a much bigger team for the analytics side.

I don't believe they have a proprietary system

like the rest of the top teams,

Cubs, for example, the Blue Jays.

They all have these in-house systems

where they evaluate talent.

Their scouting is in there, their medical is in there.

The Angels, for example, their medical stuff

for years now has just been laughable,

unable to get MRIs in a timely fashion,

unable to give information on guys' injuries,

not sure what somebody's doing

on their rehabilitation programs.

And for us covering the team, it's just hard to fathom

that you don't know where a guy is scheduled

to make an appearance.

And as far as trout, the hope is that this thing

could turn around very quickly.

At age 35, that is getting pretty long in the tooth

for a position player, at least, in Major League Baseball.

You see, some pitchers continue to thrive,

and some headers do too, but it's more rare

on the position player side.

Drumbo, 10 years as Major League,

and before you go, I mentioned the Halo Territory.

You go step program.

It's part of the Halo Territory network.

I had a great catch up with H.A. Prasinski,

one of my favorite dudes,

I hadn't spoken him in a few years.

He came on recently.

He's one of the co-founders of Halo Territory.

How much fun are you having on that show?

And then normally I ask guys like you,

how are you approaching content creation?

It's pretty clear how you're approaching it, man.

You're letting it rip.

You're doing your thing.

You're being straight up, you're being honest.

But how much fun are you having doing that show?

It's been a learning experience, and it has been fun.

I think that going into it,

we weren't really given any strong parameters as far as here.

This is what to say.

This is what to do.

So some of it's been learning on the fly.

Sometimes we've learned the hard way.

But I think that the fans want things that in plain English.

A sugarcoating it or not being direct,

that really hasn't gotten us very far.

Not that either myself or Mike Didjivana is very good at it.

He was and still is as a reporter.

He's going to ask some of those tough questions.

I think you might enjoy those questions too.

Fans don't really, they don't want somebody that's speaking

out of both sides of their mouth or unwilling to comment.

The previous general manager,

Perry Manassian, a little bit hostile with the media at times.

He, I'm not going to comment on that.

It doesn't do many good to comment on that, things like that.

And it leaves you frustrated because you don't know.

It's been a nice, very nice change with interim,

I guess general manager, president of baseball operations,

John Mozelec.

He's been far more transparent.

He seems to have a plan.

I thought he might have been in the loop a little bit more

on this potential sale.

As of yesterday, his comments seem like maybe he had

a little bit of an idea, but it did catch him off guard too.

So credit to those involved in this deal

for keeping things under wraps,

because I didn't hear a peep about any of this.

No, they're really quite about this.

I mean, there might have been conversations earlier,

but I obviously didn't hear anything.

You didn't know too much about it.

He didn't seem like he knew too much about it.

Listen, in terms of what the fans want, I can tell you what they want.

They want exactly what you're doing.

They want, they want people to shoot straight.

They don't want you to cover the team, just to cover the team.

And look, and there's something positive to say about the team.

You'll say it, but if you see something that seems that it's off,

you're going to say that too.

That's exactly what the fans want.

Really clearly, do you guys interview others on the show

or do you go back and forth between the two of you?

We have lots of guests.

Former players have been quite popular.

Current players, they've been a little harder to procure.

I think the team, and this is another area

that I think could be massively improved.

They haven't been terribly willing to facilitate outside media.

They have been willing to, and more recently,

it's been a more pleasurable experience.

But I'm not sure they were the biggest fans of foul tariffs,

where that could have been Mr. Moreno.

And rightfully so, he's taken a ton of criticism for years now.

And he's probably has very little appetite for people

that make the spirit in remarks or criticize the way

he's chosen to run his business.

At the end of the day, he is the owner of the team.

I think one final area that is probably

caused for as much optimism as anything,

it seems like Stan Kronke, Mr. Kronke,

he's hands off beyond purchasing the team,

putting the right people in place,

and then he stays out of it.

I think what happened with the angels for quite a while

is a lot of ownership involvement,

maybe some personal feelings getting in there.

And that's really the fear, I think,

of knowledgeable baseball general managers

is that emotional side.

You see, I have a hot series and you say,

I gotta have them, whatever it takes.

And maybe you go an extra year or an extra two years

in the case of Josh Hamilton.

I think maybe the other offers were three years.

He got five of here.

So that is something that I think will absolutely change

the people who are hired to do their jobs.

Hopefully we'll be given full autonomy to do that.

And the team should be better because of it.

Let the baseball people make the baseball decisions.

Mark Trumbo played 10 years in the major leagues.

He is co-host of the Halo Territory Show.

It's part of the foul territory network.

Really good stuff.

Mark, really appreciate you, man.

That was fun.

That was great.

Really good stuff.

Great to have you on the show.

Thanks for making time.

Great to talk to you.

Jim, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Really appreciate it.

Mark, great job.

Mark Trumbo joining us.

That's good content.

That's somebody who played the game at a very high level

who's not afraid to tell you what's on his mind.

And he's not there to drag guys.

He's not there to be disparaging.

He's just shooting straight.

That's what the fans want.

That was as honest a conversation you could have about that team

from somebody who would know.

And one more thing we didn't get into with him, that's

a local guy.

That was somebody who's from Anaheim,

who was a star at Villa Park High School,

who signed out of high school.

So he's deeply connected.

He played for Baltimore and Seattle, Arizona.

But that's somebody who grew up locally.

So he has a connection to that franchise.

That's a little bit different.

All right.

So angel fans, if you want to react to any of that,

I think that was great insight and content.

Hit me up.

1-800-636-86-86.

On the other side of this break, when we come back,

we have the Clipper response to getting hammered by powder.

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It only takes a second for things to go wrong out there.

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and gives you a false sense of confidence.

That combination on motorcycle, that's dangerous.

This Labor Day, when you hit the open road,

with some well-deserved R&R, enjoy the ride, have fun.

But more importantly, never ride well impaired.

The bottom line, if you hit the bottle,

do not roll the throttle.

Planning ahead is important, because if you want to wait

until you've been drinking, to start making decisions,

you're not going to make good ones.

Ride with a clear head, call a ride, stay over,

or hand the keys to somebody sober, because if you don't,

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Ride smart, ride safe, and remember, ride sober,

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You're listening to the Jim Roam show.

That's one scan, credit to Mark Trumbull,

real talk right there.

That was an aggressive conversation, I thought.

But very fair, and very straightforward.

The clippers are pissed.

The clippers are not accepting this.

Staying from the clippers, we vehemently reject

the NBA's findings.

Stop right there.

Again, one sentence in, let me stop right there.

Well, what does that mean?

We vehemently reject.

What does that mean?

You don't accept the punishment?

You vehemently reject.

Does that mean you're going to show up at the draft

and try to make your first round pick for the next five years?

You don't accept that?

Does that mean you're not going to stroke a $30 million

to our check?

Does that mean that Balmer is going to come to work

every single day, and he's not going to be suspended?

Because you vehemently reject the NBA's findings?

What does that mean?

You reject.

It's one thing to say, we vehemently disagree.

We vehemently, or we are extremely disappointed.

But they're saying we reject.

Like, you don't accept the findings.

Quote, we vehemently reject the NBA's findings, which

are the result of a heavily biased investigation,

seeking to justify a predetermined narrative

rather than facts and evidence.

What the league told us privately,

differs from what it announced today publicly,

and they have not held themselves close

to the standard commissioner's silver set

at the start of this investigation

to ensure its fairness and accuracy.

Well, there it is.

Again, they apparently were negotiating the investigation.

And the clippers feel like they were told a certain thing,

only to find out that now that powder has come down,

that that's not what we talked about.

That's not the negotiation we were having.

Again, if it's an investigation,

how is it a negotiation?

But who's ruling?

Powder, powder, who does powder work for?

The owners?

So who's in charge here?

The clippers effectively want to punish themselves.

They don't agree with the punishment.

They vehemently reject it.

Quote, for the past year, we cooperated fully and in good faith,

and we will now fight just as hard to demonstrate our innocence.

Awesome.

So it took an entire year to investigate this thing.

And now the real fight is only starting.

Who's core?

Who's core?

Where?

What court?

I'm not going to pretend to be a lawyer here.

We're an arbitrator.

In what court are we going to fight this?

Not in powder's court.

Judge powder has already ruled.

For the past year, we cooperated fully and in good faith.

And we will now fight just as hard to demonstrate our innocence.

We intend to vigorously challenge these findings and penalties

through every avenue available to us and look forward to an ethical and impartial arbitration

process.

All right.

So now they're going to take it to an arbitrator.

Awesome.

More courtrooms, more legal proceedings, more rulings, less ball.

Awesome.

Thank you.

You should find a judge somewhere across town who's favorable, who's friendly, who are

ruling your favor, and then your clipper players can go back to the college ranks and they

can play for USC and UCLA.

And make it just like college football.

Damn, clippers.

And it's only now just starting after a whole year of this, all year of this.

I guess that negotiation on the investigation fell apart.

They're like shocked.

Wait, whoa, easy powder.

We do not accept this.

This predetermined narrative, we're not having this.

It's almost like an episode of 48 hours where the cops decided who did it without actually

investigating it and then they came down and then they ruled that way.

That's what the clippers are suggesting.

We were the ones who were gone.

We operated in good faith.

I'm me.

You don't reject.

You don't accept or you reject the findings.

They come.

That's pretty strong language.

What does that mean?

Quiet.

It seems so unhappy about it.

But then again, they didn't do anything to him.

Quiet.

It's balanced.

That guy said, every single story involving Kauai ends with Kauai laughing his ass off and

just leaving and getting paid somewhere else.

He doesn't care.

That was his reaction.

This is comical to me.

We vehemently reject the NBA's findings.

Damn powder.

If that's the case, you have less power than the NCAA.

Whenever the NCAA tries to do something, a player or an agent or a team just laughs.

They don't care.

Hey powder, who's running your league powder?

You or the teams.

We reject.

It's obviously going to go in front of an arbitrator.

Arbitrator's got to decide.

If the clippers get what they want, then powder has even less control of his league than

he already didn't have.

What a belief show.

What a belief show.

Alright, see a reaction of that.

Normally, I would say I'm here for it.

Man, this is the last thing I'm here for.

We want ball.

Can we just talk ball?

Please.

Hey, two hands, twenty dollars on the chat.

I vehemently reject OJ's knife signed Ron Goldman's throat.

That doesn't work.

That doesn't work.

That's not clever.

That's not funny.

Damn rich fries and addict.

Never mind that the dude works on this show.

He's an addict to the chat.

Rich fry producer.

Vimently, vigorously circumvent, restitution.

Clones are rushing to their dictionaries today.

Clones don't own dictionaries.

The urban dictionary.

That's the only dictionary.

Ironworks C2Z.

Do the NBA favor and put an SMU NCAA penalty on them.

Man, it's getting so old.

We waited a year for that.

And then powder comes down like powder is like man, I got swing that hammer.

I'm losing all sorts of credibility and control.

I'm going to bring that hammer down.

I'm getting a lot of public pressure.

I've got to do something.

Bam, have some bomber.

Oh yeah, we reject that.

We don't accept that.

We're not doing that.

I'm just like, I'll see you at work tomorrow.

I'm not doing it.

You're not getting a penny from me powder.

I'm like cold dead hands.

Not a dime.

Not a dime powder.

Not a draft pick.

Not a dime.

Nothing.

I will be at work tomorrow.

Not a dime back.

There will be no suspension.

Not a dime back.

From my cold dead hands.

Bleep show.

Absolute bleep show.

Courtney Miller 2680.

Adam Silver was tired of you guys calling him soft.

And he laid the hammer down in the clippers.

Right.

Absolutely.

Because Adam Silver saying things like, yeah, I hope this is resolved soon.

We need this resolved.

And it wasn't getting resolved.

So Silver decided all right, all resolve it.

All resolve it.

I'm going to bring that hammer down.

I brought that hammer down on sterling and everybody celebrated me for it.

I'm a nail balmers ass.

The clippers like the hell you are, we vehemently reject this.

I didn't know you had any say in this.

I didn't know that you could reject your punishment.

That's pretty awesome.

I'm going to try that the next time.

Somebody comes down on me.

I vehemently reject that.

Oh no, Rome, you're off the air.

Oh no, Rome, you're fired.

Oh, I'm fired.

I vehemently reject that.

You ran in with a narrative, a preexisting narrative.

I reject that.

All right.

When we come back, so the clippers have responded aggressively.

What a belief show.

Mike and Lakinta says in California, you have to have a driver's license to drive a golf

cart on the streets, but not on a golf course since it is not on public transportation

roads.

Interesting, Mike.

Thank you very much.

What about Florida?

I'm not worried about that guy out here.

Hey, bro, fun fact for you in Lakinta.

Do you know where we used to live?

Wait for a mic.

The citrus.

That was our first house down the fake lake.

Our first house in the desert was in Lakinta at the citrus.

I like that neighborhood.

I can remember Jake Rome being like four and running down the fairway and me chasing after

his ass.

Running down the fairway like that robot in the robot games.

All right.

Stay tuned.

One final statement when we come back.

Also what I've got today is a Wednesday.

It's our long day.

I've got a podcast.

It's Ron Armstead joins me.

We'll talk some football with him.

That's coming up after the program and then we'll push that out.

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Hey, Jim.

ATP.

Will you ask the snorting blow ponytail wearing Alex and the artesian pizza loving Tom

partisan.

If they will be attending burning man this weekend and participating in the debauchery

of drugs and orgies, Mike and Temecula.

Honestly, Mike, I really don't think that I need to ask.

I think I already know the answer.

Tom will not and Alex will be in my wrong one.

That's not true.

Artesian.

Is that a word?

Artisan artesian artesian.

Anyway, you're going or not, Tom.

No burning man for Tom.

Alex, you are going, right?

Is that why you asked for the day off?

Alex.

Okay.

Enjoy yourself.

Enjoy the debauchery of drugs and orgies.

Wait, you don't think I'm going to go?

Nobody thought to ask me if I was going DJ and I we're not going.

Let's see, be in the fee ATP.

Will there be a show next Monday, war, labor day being the only day of the year where

bombs go to work, war, bombs using trash can lids as silver platters.

Be where, where is their workplace V?

Where is their workplace V?

Where, where are they showing up to go to work?

No, we will have a best of everybody's off on Monday.

Best of on radio.

I am the twin, Jo Jim, would you ever consider having a biopic about your life and if so,

which actor would you have play you?

No, my life is not that interesting.

Hey, believe me, is that been trying to write this book?

It's hard enough.

No, I would not.

But for some reason, people still stop me and go, Hey, yo, you, you, you, you, whenever

tell you you look like Matthew McConaughey, I'm like, weirdly, yes, weirdly, yes, weirdly,

me, you're not the only one who said that.

I don't know why.

I don't think that he would accept the role of Jim Rome.

But I, but I'd be honored if he would get on balance here, Romeo.

This as the pros is for the XR4 Ti.

When it comes to the half face, who shakes their head and says, God, not her again, this

can also be considered a rhetorical question.

Which one is a gale?

Do you want me to pose the question to the crew or do you just want to be rhetorical?

Half face refers to Bella.

And I don't know that Gale ever takes a run at anybody other than quote, half face.

They're all but holes out there.

They really are.

I don't know, Gale, I, I can't really speak for the XR4 Ti.

I would imagine that none of them when Bella comes in says out loud, quote, God, not

her again.

I would venture a guess.

I would even go as far as Gale was saying.

I don't think any of the crew says God, not half face again.

Bella loves the show.

Bella is a heavy contributor.

Whatever beef the two of you have is between the two of you.

I don't think you gale, gale, you're all class.

I know you're being funny, but why would you drag the XR4 Ti into your personal beef with

half face?

I don't know if that's fair.

Like you're dragging us into this now.

Now you want, you're trying to project this on Tom or Alvin or Alex or Lauren or the

XCR.

Gale, if there's something you want to say about half face, just say it.

That was kind of an indirect slam.

All right, what else do we have here?

ATPs.

That might be all of them.

Just making sure none of us are attending Burning Man.

Alvin, are you?

None of us.

Lauren is.

Lauren, are you attending Burning Man?

Hey, Lauren.

Oh, you're welcome.

Thank you for answering.

Nobody's going to Burning Man.

I'm not Alex.

You going.

Come on, man.

He's not going.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

All right.

So some final reaction, what I did not get to was Happy Valley.

I'm sort of happy that I didn't get to Happy Valley today.

Maybe tomorrow.

Super chat.

Grandpa Keeter, do you think the munchkin makes it through one full season?

That's an ugly situation he signed on the dotted line, which munchkin, my bad.

Do I think he makes it through one season?

Yes, I do.

I do.

You know, bad and NFL coach, you have to be not to make it through one year, like Pervin

Liar Bad.

Except the munchkin.

I didn't get to today that I meant to the munchkin.

Trying to pull me all over the neighborhood.

The munchkin saying I did not watch any tape at all on the creep.

Why is that coach?

Because I want to think of him as elite.

I want to think of all of our players as elite.

No, I don't know if you have that video.

I want to think of all of our players as elite.

And that was a different system and a different time.

And I don't want to have any prejudgments.

What kind of answer is that?

The guy's broken.

He's broken, probably irreparably.

Maybe you watch tape and see where he broke or where he's broken so you can fix what's

broken unless the owner said to you, play that guy.

And you thought yourself, why would I bother watching tape?

I've got no choice.

They told me I have to play him.

So why would I waste any time breaking down tape on this quarterback?

I'll just run him out there.

Better to be caught and better to just lie.

Better to lie.

I don't think that lying is ever right except in that case.

I don't think lying is ever the right answer.

Sorry about that, Lauren.

I don't think lying is ever, ever the right answer except in that case and say yes, I watch

the tape.

Yes, we've had conversations.

Yes, I think he gives us our best chance to win.

But don't do this, the munkin.

I really, to be honest, haven't looked at it.

To be honest, only from a far beyond.

Don't be honest.

We had to lie.

Well, not really.

I looked at it from afar when I was down the road.

Why are you trying to cross over film or something?

Honestly, it's not your best quality thing.

At face value, what I see, right?

What doesn't matter what the player is, I think we owe that to our players.

And face value, guys that are on the roster.

What happens to the film never lies?

I want to go into it thinking every player we have is elite.

And all they have to do is play right.

That's all they have to do.

That's what I'm going to go into it there.

And NFL roster.

What?

I expect them to play well.

Fantasy world, you live in, dude.

And so I really, I really looked at that.

Different staff, different system.

We'll let a play out.

We'll see where it goes.

He is just talking out here as a ass.

Different system.

I want to think of all my players as elite.

I want them to prove me right.

There was a different system.

We're not running that.

I don't need to waste time looking at that.

What do you, what NFL coach ever said?

I don't need to look at the film.

I thought everything gets put on film.

I thought the film never lies.

What kind of an answer is that?

I cannot believe that I ever wanted to have lunch with the monkey.

Did I actually ever say that?

You know, I like this guy.

I think I want to have lunch with the monkey.

Lunch with the monkey.

Lunch canceled.

I never want to have lunch with the monkey.

I do not believe the monkey said that.

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Man, that was quite a show.

Buddha Baker was on earlier, Mark Trumbo, former NBA All-Star,

co-host of a podcast, Halo Territory.

Got a podcast coming up.

It's Ron Armstead.

Look for that.

That's coming up next.