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Rich Eisen here, running a small business means every higher matters. A bad hire costs time and money, but the right one helps your business grow. The challenge? Finding that person without sorting through resumes. That's where LinkedIn Hiring Pro comes in. It screens candidates so you can focus on conversations with qualified talent. With Hiring Pro, you can hire with confidence and build the team you need. Join the 2.7 million small businesses using LinkedIn to hire. Get started by posting your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash Eisen. Terms and conditions apply. And here we go. All the lines lit. Let's start out with Anthony in Los Angeles. Anthony, you're on the radio. What are you doing, man? Hey, I'm doing pretty good. I just called that. Why is John moving the Rams and the Dodgers? The Dodgers did a, you know, they made the platter out. If we were talking about the Lakers now, it would be totally the opposite. Oh, no, wait. No, the Rams, hey, they had a bad game.

Okay. Hey, Anthony, when's the last time the Lakers celebrated in any way when they want a division? Okay, but let me tell you, okay, maybe not that. Well, that's what that's literally exactly what you just said. Show me the baseball team that didn't celebrate with champagne. The Dodgers last night. Correct. And the Dodgers will douse themselves. I was complimenting the Dodgers. Go ahead, man. Go ahead, Anthony. Do you have another thing? Every team and every year is different. Regardless if it's the Rams for the Dodgers, or the Lakers, every season is different. Every coach will tell you that. So why not celebrate? Why not celebrate? Because in the immortal words of Kobe Bryant, the job's not finished. That's why I wouldn't celebrate. But that's okay if you want to. Yeah, Mason wants to celebrate all the time too. I do too. Major League Baseball. That's what we do. Let's go to Nick and Dallas. Hey, Nick, you're on the radio. What's up, man? Hey, how you guys doing? Thanks for my call. Sure. Yeah, I like how the Dodgers, you know,

celebrated, you know, nothing really too big. They know what they're doing. And quick question for us. Take it off the air. What's the status on Freemont's contract situation? Because I believe he's a free agent after next season. I'm hoping that they keep him and do think that he will tire as a Dodger person. I think he will. But, you know, I just want to know. What's the latest on this on the Dodgers? Are we starting after next season? So he's 36. Next season, it'll be 37. May, so would you offer him another, like, three year deal when he's 37? That's a tough call. I mean, this is a heartless business, man. Yeah. You pay for future performance and not pass performance. I would like to add one thing from Deandre Hawkins just texted me. He said that the Lakers did celebrate when they won the NBA Cup. Did they? Oh, yeah, there was sort of the next. They all do when they, because they get money. So they celebrate it. Yeah. Well, the thing the problem I have with the Lakers. Good job, youngy. No, we do. No, but Deandre, the problem I have with the Lakers is they hung that stupid in season tournament. Banner. I don't think they had a choice, right? Correct.

But now they do. Well, yeah, the next. Yeah, didn't do it. Oh, take that. Take that piece of crap down. Yeah, take it down, sell it on eBay. Let's go to Albert and Rancho Kukamanga. Albert, what's up, man? What's up, guys? Speaking of celebrating, I'm a lifelong Raiders fan. And Sadano is the biggest hater of the station. And he, of course, minimized the Raiders win that week. I want to know from your guys in the opinion, so we can have it on tape if the Raiders beat the Chargers. Is that a credible win? Of course. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, but as a matter of fact, it's a really credible win. If you're Steve Mason, he has a bet with Brian Cohen that the Chargers are going to finish with a worse record than the Raiders. Yeah, I mean, they're my surprise pick of the year. Hey, man, I'm telling you. If the Roman, if the, are I, who are we talking to right now? Do we hang up on him? Yeah, he left. See those are on then. Okay, his name is. If the Raiders win, I'll say eight games. It's a huge win.

Yeah. I mean, last year they won three games. Yeah. With Pete Carroll is the coach. Yeah. So if, if, uh, Kubiak comes in and win seven eight games, huge success for season. Am I ranged from the Raiders six to nine? Some are the right. As a former Raider fan, I would take that and I'll heart that. It's a lot of growth, man. And I think Kubiak, they seem well coached. Let's go to Eric and Kovina. Hi, Eric. What's up, man? Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I just want to talk about the status of NFL right now. You know, and this week one was really, really exciting. I thought all the games are exciting. I think two things can be true at the same time. The, you know, these teams like the Arizona, the Raiders, the Giants, the Jags, they look pretty good. Yeah. And, yeah, and some of them have new coaches. I think three out of the four, if not all.

And then which is going to create a balanced, you know, NFL year, which is going to be good for the league. The Rams and Denver and whoever they're going to be fine. They're going to be fine. All those teams will be fine. I think it's going to be an exciting year because other teams are stepping up. The coaches are stepping up and it should be a fantastic year. Awesome, man. Thank you very much for the phone call. Let's go to Jimmy and El Segundo. Jimmy, you're on the radio. What are you doing, man? Yeah, first things first. John, I totally agree with you. The celebration thing by the time I had my third kid, there really wasn't much of a baby shower. You got to know when you, when you're on top. But let me go back to what I was going to say originally, which was, you know, the Rams, the thing that really concerns me is, you know, AD didn't go to Australia. He didn't do training camp. He kind of parachutes in. And now the Miles Garrett is injured. Does he kind of take over the team? And does it cause an issue? And, you know, the analogy that I was thinking about was if your wife

gets sick right before you go on vacation and you invite your ex-wife to go with you instead, what does that do for the dynamic, you know? Well, but you're saying that Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett would be, would have competing interests there. They both play for the Rams and they both want to win. So it's not like one would be jealous of the other. Do you think they would be, Jimmy? I think that, you know, these two are alpha males. They're considered the best of their respective generations. And they didn't really overlap in terms of their overall greatness. And I think being on the same team, I think there is, I mean, you know, Miles Garrett was a captain. AD wasn't right. And I think that that means something. But keep in mind, Aaron came back because of Miles Garrett. He wanted to play alongside Miles Garrett. So I don't, I don't know the jealousy thing. If that's, I don't think that's real. I think they both want to win. And Aaron Donald wanted to play with Miles Garrett. And Aaron double again, finally outside doesn't see him. And I think that kind of a guy. I mean, alpha male in terms of like the way he plays in the field.

But he's not the most vocal guy. He's not like the biggest raw, raw guy on your team. He leads by example of how seriously you take himself, how seriously he takes his body. I seriously takes his job. Yeah, but I wouldn't say he would be somebody that would be tripping over somebody wanting to take the leadership away from being a vocal leader. Yeah, yeah. Let's go to Todd and Ventura. Oh, that's not Todd. This is Todd. I don't know. So you were the first. Second. Hello. Hey, Todd. Hello, Todd. Hey, how you guys doing? Listen, this is a sports related. And it's a couple of weeks late. But John, this is for you. You were talking about songs that you liked that are covers and that type of thing. Dolly Parton covered a song from collective soul called Shine. And it is a great cover. I recommend it. I loved Dolly Parton's cover. It's a fair way to have it. And when I said that on the air, somebody yesterday sent me. Chris, have you seen this? It was at some Kennedy Center honor show. Robert Plant was in the audience and heart and in Nancy Wilson covered

stairway to have. Oh, I never saw that. I'm going to send it to you. It's unbelievable. Wow. It's as good of a cover as as I've ever heard. It's like it's awesome. I totally forgot about my favorite cover, which is a band called Cake. And the song is I Will Survive. They do a great version. Yeah, they do a great version. Kind of rock, alt rock version of I Will Survive. Well, you're not and you have that. Oh, yeah, I love that song. Yeah, that's a great song. Let's go to we have another Roman. This one's in East LA. Hey, Roman. What are you doing, man? What's up, Mason, John? I just wanted to talk about the baseball tournament that happened last weekend. Wreinger, feel like now Connor Ben. That was great. But I think the best part was the beef between Galaoya and Dana. You guys know anything about that. And I was also wondering if you guys need somebody to cover the U.S. here that's happening. So fine. Yeah, Roman, we need a correspondent to cover that.

This is not my area of expertise, John. This is yours. Go ahead and explain. I have never been to a UFC fight in person. I don't think Michael has and he loves fights. He does. I'm trying to think if do we, Chris, do we have any UFC? Is he his copy of UFC guy? No, not really. Actually, he's better. It was more of a boxing. Donald, I don't think is UFC guy either. I want to say the more. The more. The more. The more. The more. The more. The more. The more. Yeah, the more. Yeah, the more. He's the most knowledgeable. But I have friends that work in UFC. Maybe I can get them to. By the way, if you if you get a chance to see UFC, I have a friend that went to see it at Cosm and he said, you're basically at the cage. You are like right there, ringside. Let's go to Brian in Portland all the way from Portland. What are you doing, Brian? Hey, good afternoon. I was wondering if you guys have any concern with the Rams since they did that joint practice with the Cowboys and the Cowboys.

Kind of look pretty good against them. Well, I mean, I'm not worried about joint practices. I'll be honest. They're more important than preseason games. Right. They actually do have starters playing. Right. But I don't think there's a hangover from the joint practice between the Cowboys and the Rams to you. What more sure that could be worrying. I didn't see the joint practice. I am only relying on what people reported about the joint practice. But what is actually working with them about the giants is the way that their quarterback plays. Quarterback is the recipe to beat the Rams. Like he creates his own space. He has guys that can catch you have like, you have Kim Scott, a Boo, you have Ken Nincidig. They have guys that can be catch passer. Just like how the four Uniteders beat up on the Rams. And by the way, look out Malik neighbors is really, really good and he's back now. He had a great game the other night. All right. Let's see Chris Canty has got thoughts on the Rams and Miles Garrett. We'll get to that coming up next Mason and Ireland ESPN LA.

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Org's last SoCal Hard. Yeah. So Wendy's has brought back John, you sent this story. It's banned. It was banned, apparently, according to the law. Their T-Rex burger. It is nine patties. And they are challenging customers to devour nine patties in just nine minutes for 29, 99 with fries and a drink. Do you get something if you it doesn't say it gets it doesn't say you get something. I could not do it. And the only person I know who could do it is the great Francisco Pinto, the Spanish language and answer for the chargers who used to who traveled with me. Yeah. And Michael and all of us him and Adrian Garcia Marquez. Yeah. Traveled with us. Remember when Spectrum for a for a few years had a Spanish language. Yeah. The station. They were the announcers. The guys were both great guys. And Francisco, you guys have seen me. Francisco just dwarfs me like I can't keep up with them. I went to we went to get this fried chicken.

Yeah. I had 16 legs. He had 20. Wow. Yeah. I mean, he's I so he might be able to do it. But I don't know anybody else who this T-Rex burger is a full burger. Look. Yeah. It's got. So it's it a burger. It's nine patties in the middle and nine slices of cheese. Yeah. So it's not just nine patties of meat. Oh, you're right. There's nine slices of cheese. Nine slices of cheese and a bun and tomato. But you couldn't get your mouth around it. No, you could not with a knife and 40 to lay it out. That's a nice fork. That's just eat it right in the middle. Yeah. You just eat it in the middle. Am I make a mess? But that's okay. Here's the thing. I think I could do it. But I won't you couldn't do that. You're getting you're getting you're getting you're getting you're getting you're getting I want that. That is disgusting. I will not do it. I will not do it. I don't get like the stunt eating thing too. Where people are like professional eaters. Yes. Well, those guys make a lot of money. Like Joey Chess and it makes a lot of money. Right. But I just don't get how it works in their body. Because like all those guys are like skinny people. Like they're all fit people. Like but they eat these massive amounts of foods. Koba Ashie the the Japanese Joey Chess night is is is real thing.

Guys like how does it go? He's like 150 pounds. Yeah, I stopped at a place. I got it was in Tulsa when I was driving across the country one time and they had a free stake if you could finish it. I did and I was miserable. I was just wrecked. Yeah, wrecked the day. Wrecked the dry. All right, Chris Canty from unsportsman like with Evan Canty and Michelle was talking this morning about the Rams and he's got the most negative take on the Rams after their loss in Melbourne to San Francisco. Aaron Donald came back to play with Miles Garrett with the point of contending for a championship. Yes. If he doesn't come back sooner rather than later their season is going to be over where the both of them are healthy and a lot of are not. Because the reality of the situation is that defense can't stop the run. Nope. They allow the San Francisco 49ers to run the ball 30 times at six yards a pile. All right, so that was that. The money that you spent on Jalen Watson and free agency to rebuild your secondary don't

look like money well spent. You was getting lost by Mike Evans all game low. So yeah, Mike Evans. My guess. That's right. But not making with Jalen Watson supposed to be making it. They build it as rebuilding that secondary and that not being a problem this season as a bolster what it was last year. Guess what? It's still a problem. They got a fix it. And I don't know that they have a whole lot of answers other than Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett both being in a lot of. Duh. I mean, seriously, of course that's your answer is having those two guys in the lineup. They're both good run stoppers. I think he is his worrying is excessive, but one point I will agree with. That was a terrible debut for Jalen Watson. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he got they ate him well. I mean, as soon as Mike Evans is Brock pretty looked over there and Mike Evans was one on one with Jalen Watson, everybody in the stadium knew where the ball was going. Yeah, by the way, also we're picking at Quentin Lake a lot during that game. We're talking about though he was, you know, I think Quentin Lake is good at his position.

I just think he had a bad game as well. He did have a turnover that happened. Yeah, but he is somebody who, you know, they paid last year. They want him to be. He is the leader of this defense when everyone says it's Miles Garrett. It's actually Quentin Lake. He's this verbal leader. He's the green dot back there. By the way, Aaron Donald Miles Garrett there in the lineup. Brock pretty has less time to throw and may not find may not find Mike Evans in that. But if Aaron don't, I don't play this week. I am a bit worried about this defense just because I know you have Britain, Fisk, you got Kobe Turner, you got Byron Young, those are all guys that are really talented, but they all are going to know. No one's going to be doubled. And so everybody on the Giants offensive line will be able to cover them. Well, but now you mentioned Malik neighbors is really good. He's really good. So I don't know if that's a Trent McDuffie or if that's a Jalen, I think you have to put McDuffie on him. Yeah. Wherever he lines up, just tell him McDuffie knows better corner, better corner. Well, here's what I think they need to do again. If they do, if the Giants do the same thing with the four United States, which is the Dink and Dunk short passes, getting the ball in half a second, I think they need to

make sure that these corners are pressing from the beginning, pressing it on the front, which is opposed to being back, waiting to not be burned by the deep ball. Right. Because they got burned either way. Yeah, yeah. If they lose to the Giants, it could start a free fall because the three games after that are at Denver at Philly, home to the bills. Well, I don't know. Denver looks pretty beatable to me. Yeah, who's never played this week? I think they play, they play either the Sunday night of the Monday night. Can we look it up? Yeah, because they saw I'm going to the Denver game. Sunday night. They play the Jaguars and it's at 105. Give me the Jaguars. Yeah, I think the Jaguars are terrific. But it's in Denver. It's excellent. I think. Is it in Denver? That offense was playing. No, it's a, yeah, it's at in Denver. That offense was playing the Browns. But at the same time, if you look at just last year and look at surely numbers, that was one of the most productive offenses in the league. Except against the Rams and London. Except against the Rams. Exactly right.

All right, coming up next for you, it is Dr. Clapper. How are you? Yeah, Mason Ireland ESPN LA. Chris Candy here, football season is back. And Leeds has recovered. What the latest headwear to rep your team at the tailgate, at the barbecue, or at the game, shopped the 47 brand NFL collection exclusively in store at your local lids. Leeds has every fan covered with all 32 teams featuring the big time hits and alternate team logos. You'll find the perfect fit for every Sunday. Selection may vary by store. Get 20% off at your local Lids, text usl to 29017. Exclusions may apply. Messages and data rates apply. Buster only here for Lakinta by Wyndham. When work takes you on the road during football season, it's nice to have a place where you can unwind after the day is done at Lakinta by Wyndham. Spacious weeks give you room to spread out. Catch the game, kick back and relax before another day on the job. Because after a long day, comfort makes all the difference. Plus earn Wyndham rewards points with every qualified stay.

Tonight, Lakinta, tomorrow you shine. Book your next trip at Lakinta.com, terms and conditions apply. 131 out of live, Ivety Tuesday, Mason and Ireland with the biggest show on the radio. It is that time each Tuesday. You hear the weekend warrior show Saturday morning at 7 a.m., presented by Cedar Side I.n. now. Dr. Clapper has a brand new sparkly comics unit in that beautiful office of his. Wow. Fantastic. I installed yesterday. What an office. But that was my first time at Dr. Clapper's office. Yeah. What an amazing place. All the carvings and the photos of him with great athletes over the years. Doc, you do have a sweet officer. Oh, thank you. I feel so professional right now with this helmet. Listen to that crystal clear audio. It's Dr. Clapper. Dr. Clapper. Fantastic. So Miles Garrett is the most talked about guy in Los Angeles. He's got a knee thing. He's had surgery for it. It's an arthoscopic. Yeah. Whatever that means. What can you tell us about Miles Garrett and his recovery timeline?

So Arthros AR THRO in Latin means joint. Scope means to look inside. So instead of opening, or throttomy, Arthros again, joint, Armin means to cut. That's how we used to get into the joint. We would open with a big scalpel. So now it's an arthroscope, tiny little puncture sites. So the recovery is much easier. Here's what I don't like about this story. We weren't really told that it was persistent swelling through all of training camp in his knee. So it's not like an acute injury where you fell, got hit, and now you tore something. This is brewing with swelling in his knee for the whole training camp. And now when you hear he's going to be out for four games at least, that's different than Brock Bowers having a meniscus being trimmed and we'll see in a game or two.

So there's got to be a level deeper in terms of pathology is what makes sense to me. So here's a clapper vision. Brock Bowers, the linoleum in his kitchen is scratched, meaning the surface in the knee with the meniscuses and you can clean it up trim it because the floorboards underneath the linoleum, the wood underneath the linoleum, is fine. There's no termites. But if you have any kind of damage deeper than the surface, then it's going to swell and be a problem for a longer period of time. If you're at the beach and the wind comes up and the sand goes in your eye, you have to rub your eyes that get red swollen, they're irritated. Well, if you put drops in, you're going to feel better because the redness is gone. But if the sand scratched your cornea, then you could put all the eye drops you want. Actually, you have damaged deeper. And that's what I worry about with my old garage.

So doc, if let's say they go in, they clean up as me with the arthroscopic surgery, what is a typical Rick? They're we're hearing minimum of four weeks. What is in your experience, the amount of time it would take a professional athlete to get back to normal after getting the scope? I don't think it's unrealistic to say you're going to be back in four weeks. But John Ireland, he is the problem. Until it now swell again, we can do all kinds of things to manage the symptoms. But if you still have divots, you're a golfer. If you tore up the grass enough with your chipping, then it's going to come back again. You'll have swelling again. You won't feel 100% right. And that is what I worry about. It's the season. It's not how quickly he can come back. We need to make sure this doesn't come back. You know what it's like when you have chronic or degenerative changes in a knee. You've been involved with many a basketball player who just persists in having knee pain

and swelling, and they're not 100%. By the way, you know, the only thing I heard of all that was that it's totally possible that he will be back after four weeks of all that stuff, Doc. I'm just clinging to the positive. So we're getting ready for the baseball playoffs. And Freddie Freeman, who's critical to the Dodger's success, is dealing with Patela 10-denitis. He has not been in the lineup the last couple of days. They're getting him off his feet. Tell me about Patela 10-denitis and does rest. Help it. Yes. So go ahead. You're sitting down. Go ahead and feel your kneecap. It's like a clock, 12 o'clock, six o'clock, three o'clock, nine o'clock. That's the round structure of your kneecap. Now feel the bump on your tibia, your shin bone, called the tibial tubercle. That's where the tendon attaches. Now go ahead and try to straighten your knee. Extend it. It's because between your kneecap and that bump on your bone, the tibia, the tibial tubercle

lives the tendon called the Patela tendon. It's a rubbery canvas bungee cord-like material. Well, what does Patela 10-denitis mean? Do you have a brand new pair? Is a clapper vision. A brand new pair of blue jeans. Remember those? They were stiff. They would, who wants to wear a brand new pair of blue jeans? So you put them in the washing machine and wash it five times, ten times because you want to pound the hell out of it. And hopefully one day, not only does the blue denim get soft, but if you really go further, you now start to fray the jeans, right? Where the white starts to show through. It's not just the blue surface. The Patela tendon, when it's fresh and you're 18 years old, looks like that brand new pair of blue jeans. When you talk about Patela tendonitis, palgasol had to deal with this in the past. It's that the blue-ging now has been pounding enough that you now see the white stuff coming. It's frayed, frayed blue jeans.

So that's what Freddie Freeman is dealing with. This is not an acute injury. This is not going to go away. The treatment is rest. It's inflamed. It's painful. It's not, you're not going to give him a new Patela tendon, but you need to rest him. He'll feel fine. Minimize his outings. It's kind of like little league pictures. Count the number of pitches. Count the number of hits and minutes that Freddie Freeman needs to be out there. All right. And the other guy we're all keeping an eye on is Shohei, who was placed on the 15-day disabled or they called the injury list now. The soon as he can come back, Doc is in eight days on September 23rd, which will give him around a week, maybe eight days to get better before the playoffs start. He has several different injuries. The most persistent one has been the knee. In your opinion, he's got a knee. He's got a bicep. Is eight days enough to get him ready for the playoffs in your opinion?

Yes. He's got to rest him. The key is why won't it come back? And there's every reason for it to come back. So you also, just like the Freddie Freeman story, this is a chronic, not an acute problem that we're dealing with. So if you minimize the amount of throws he does, the amount of hits that he does, then you get to get Shohei for the whole postseason and win the World Series again. But you almost can't have him trust himself. Just once that adrenaline, which is the most powerful drug we deal with in patients, where you just motivated to go through all the pain that the feedback you're getting to your brain, he can ignore it all. He can be his own worst enemy. So the answer is yes, eight days is enough, but you need to monitor him. Otherwise, we will lose him for the World Series. All right. Is it clear now? Because it is to me that the Rams made a huge mistake by flying in late and doing all the, you know, be there for 30 hours, all that stuff.

And do you think teams will start getting to their destination and settle in before they actually play? Yes. And I think this should be mandated. Because they're going to do a lot of games in Europe and God knows where he is the deal NFL. Both teams have to be equal. They have to do the same. So this is when you have to mandate when they get there so that you're not only in even field, but in even feeling. And yes, the person they should have talked to Steve is John McEnroe. Did you see his interview? He said, I've been to Melbourne, Australia over 40 times in my career. You cannot just show up. It's not possible. They should have talked to a tennis player rather than these two schmendrix that they sent over a two year period of time who said, hey, I'm just fine, ladies and gentlemen. No, you're not playing football. What a crazy idea in retrospect. Yeah. All right. And Doc, you are on every Saturday morning 7 a.m. We love the weekend warrior show.

Mason is very excited, Doc, because they put his Mason plus podcasts on after your show. So we're calling Mason's podcast the Dr. Clapper Post can post. Post can't show. Exactly. What an honor. I love it. I said, Conrad can doc, huh? You like it? I love it. You know, what a wonderful family to be a part of. And that's why so many people listen to the Mason and Ireland show. It's an honor to be with you. Awesome. Thank you so much, Doc. We appreciate it. We'll listen on Saturday morning and thanks a lot for coming on in crystal clear audio. Hey, Doc, I want to steal that word you use as a Schmendrick. Schmendrick. Schmendrick. You know, you know who Schmendrick is? The guy who shows up who just wants to have the free food for lunch and then they leave and they don't do anything. What a Schmendrick. Pretty much anybody in our sales department. Thank you, all of our MCs. Absolutely. Thanks, Doc. All right. There's Dr. Robert Clapper, Cedar Senate. Boy, I'm telling you, that makes all the difference. Crystal clear digital audio.

We should work there. We should have to do some shows here. We should have host a show like fill in for high. No, fill in for Ireland. Could you do three hours at Dr. Clapper? Hell yes. You think so? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You know, we'll try that. Yeah, I would do that for sure. All right. Thanks for you. There is an interesting proposal for MLB players in the 2028 Olympics. We'll get to that. Plus a real difficult choice I want to present to you guys. That's coming up next, Mason Ireland ESPNO life. Evan Cohen here. Gain Day brings the excitement. Your stay should feel just as memorable. With Mary at Bonvoy, official hotel partner of the NCAA and US soccer, you're connected to a portfolio of brands designed for how you travel. Some offer complimentary breakfast. Others give you room to spread out, space to stay productive or extended stay comforts. So whether you're a traveling fan or part of the team, Mary at Bonvoy celebrates the moments that live on before and after the game.

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Over. Totally dig that. I like their song going the distance. Yeah, going the distance is excellent. When I was swam when I grew up, if you made it to the finals of an event, if you were this top seed, you got to choose the walk out music for your event. So if it's the 53 style and you were the top seed for the finals, you get to choose the song. My friend Tori always did going the distance and it hit hard every time I was like, yes, let's go Tori. Yeah, cake is a great band. All right. So John, I've got to actually in Chris too. I've got a dilemma. So there is a couple who ordered dinner from DoorDash and do you look at your ring cam when somebody's going to deliver something and see? No, because I get a text from DoorDash saying that they're approaching the door. Okay. So I always look and says, oh, the guys dropping off the guys not dropping off on that kind of stuff. So couple in Missouri. They looked at the ring cam when they ordered DoorDash and the guy that was delivering

was naked. Oh, really? Yeah. He was naked on their ring cam. Chris, I thought you were past those guys. Yeah, really. Well, I thought people still want to desert. Not that. So here's my question. Yeah. Would you eat the food? Nope. You would not. I was thinking right when you were saying, would you eat the food, Chris? If you saw the naked door that, the naked delivery guy, I would probably say no, don't trust it. But I also think like if I did see it on the ring cam, right ahead of time, I'd open door and be like, hey, so what's your day? What's going on? What is happening? Did one notice? Was there anyone else in the car? Oh, this was a one. This was another story. Yeah, total story from a couple in Missouri. It was random. It was a stranger. Would you eat the food? And the naked guy dropped it off at your house and you saw it in your ring cam. Was it still sealed? Still sealed. Yeah. Because they seal it nowadays. They do seal it. Yeah. You can poke that with a little needle and you poke it with it. Well, that's why it was naked. And do what, John?

Yeah. And poison the food. Oh, yes. Poison the food. Now, did they ever find out why he was naked? Nope. Never found out. Just driving around naked. Maybe he was driving. Maybe he's one of those sickos that gets cheap thrills off walking around naked. He could be. He could be a nudist. Was it impressive? Was on the ring camera now? They do not describe that aspect of the vision on the. Because you know what I've taken up? I've watched the first season of Game of Thrones. Oh, yeah. I've never seen Game of Thrones. Yeah. I've finally started to watch it. What do you think? The end of the first episode hook, yeah. When they ship it out the window. Yeah. So I was very into it. And then the episode, episode nine, when they killed that star, they set us up. That really bothered me now. Yeah. But here's the thing about Game of Thrones. Anybody can get it at any moment. Yeah. There are no matter fact, most of the characters you are getting to know in season one are going to get wiped out. Yep. I don't know. I don't know if I can do it. Almost everybody's gone. Now, somebody got to do it.

Somebody got to do it. Stephanie has watched it several times. I've never seen any of it. So. And what character do you most identify with? So Sedano and Cap, before I ever watched the show, said I was little finger. You're the ultimate little finger. Or what about the spider? Yeah, you are. You kind of are like little finger. Well, no, there's another one. This spider, the guy who's bald, who is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, but he's kind of in collutes with little finger all the time. Yeah. I'm right. Like, that gets sort of down at some point. Oh, okay. John, what character do you identify with? Jamie Lannister. No, I am Jamie Lannister. You're not Jamie Lannister. Why are you Jamie? No, I call him John Snow. No, I'm tough. I'm tall. I'm ready to roll. I'm taller than you. Oh, yeah, that's true. Okay. Wait, John Snow. Totally. Who's small? John Snow. The actor is not a tall guy. So yeah, I can play that role. If you want to go small, you can really go small and go dinkly. Yeah, no, you're a dinkly. You're a dinkly. Not that small. All right. So real quick, I want to get to this. The Olympics and Major League Baseball.

There has been no accord yet reached. And it, I've read an article yesterday that said, it appears neither side is really anxious to make a deal. I think it might die. Well, especially with the lockout here, I would imagine it will be part of a collective bargaining, bargaining agreement if we ever get through that. Well, this is the proposal from the commissioner's office. Is what you're going to read? Yes. If you are picked and you don't play, okay? So if we say you for the team USA and you say no, you have to sit out two weeks when the season resumes after the games. In other words, they're putting pressure on guys if they are selected to play. And if they are selected and they don't play, they don't get to play the next two weeks of the season. Stupid. Do you think so? Over legislation. Yeah. But what if you do the Olympics and none of your good guys show up? I mean, to me, I think this is such a great opportunity for baseball.

I agree that it's a great opportunity. I think these guys are going to want to do what I would do is pay them and give them incentive to show up and play. You know, pay them a lot of money. The Olympics print money hand over fist as you know. Right. So pay these guys. And if they all got, if everybody that makes the team gets five million, they do it. Yeah, but who's going to give that? Where's that five million coming from? I was going to say from the Jersey sales for people buying the team USA jerseys for the Olympics. You think do you think you could afford to pay five million dollars per player? I'm saying that is part of it. You can do some of the ticket sales back to the players who plays. You can help revenue share with the players to ensure they want to do it. But I'm not against this ideal for the commission commissioner's office because you know who would love this deal? Anthony Rendon. We picked and then says, Oh, no, I don't have to play for two weeks. Oh no. It's true. No, I never understand. I wouldn't wish this on anybody. When we talk about things like this, I never, I tend to always stay away from any vehicle

that takes players off the field. Right. So this anything that that has a punishment where you don't play for two weeks, it's an entertainment product. Except this is a vehicle to put players in the game, which is an entertainment product. I agree. But pay them. That's what it'll get. Well, here's the thing. You, you tie it to winning a gold medal. You get paid if you win the gold medal, paid more, paid more, pay them for making the team and then pay more. But this is not, but the people in the MLB are not all going to compete for team USA. And so if you're going to give team USA more money than you're going to give the players are playing for the Dominican Republic, that comes an issue if you're buying at the MLG. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, because the DR won't necessarily be able to pay Japan. Japan could pay. They'll have a really good team. Some of the South American countries will have good teams. I'm sure the federations will be paying a lot of money for the teams that really want to go with all the other. You do get paid for a gold medal. Right. But do you know how much I am going to win?

Well, we did this back when that one girl was competing for China, right? When she was American, but she got paid more to compete for China. Therefore, she chose to compete for them. Yeah. And if there's more than the US does an athlete, this is us gold medal, $37,500. Oh, please. Baseball players that are going to compete for team USA, wipe their noses with that. Absolutely. They do. Now, what I'm hoping, first of all, I'm hoping they reach some accord and we do get actually baseball players at the Olympics. But the other thing is I'm hoping it doesn't require a bunch of incentive. I'm hoping that guys will say, I, this is my opportunity to play in the Olympics at Dodger Stadium. Uh, it on a world stage, I'm going to seize that. I would think I mean, I would do it. But a lot of these guys don't don't want to play more. But if you pay them, they'll show up. You know what? This is a, my Michael's idea to save the NBA Al start game.

Pay them. You know, yeah, get a pot of $12 million. And the winner takes off. I don't think you need an NBA Al star game anymore. I don't either. I think you just, you made the Al star team. So here's some money. We're not going to play the game exactly what they do with the pro bowl and the NFL. Yeah. You just show up. You get all, you get all pro or you get in this case NBA Al star. They give you a check and you move along. You know what I wish they did for the pro bowl because it's going way this year. They're going to do a pro bowl. They should have the last two teams with the least amount of wins compete for the number one overall pick. I would watch that. That would be two worst teams in the lead playing from the number one pick with the, with the players try knowing that they could draft a replacement in an extra game check. Oh, I see another one. If you're the cool, like when Emily said, yeah, that game check. All right. Coming up next, we're going to do some fast track Mason Ireland ESPN.

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