Gwynn & Chris On Demand
Aug. 1st Hour 2: Merrill vs. Skenes ROY debate
taken off our number two of Gwen and Chris Chris solo Tony Gwen Junior together in our Odyssey Palace Studios Matt Scrabias idol today but Adam Clue is filling in. We've got an hour into the books and three to go here coming up in this three o'clock hour we'll get you a daily gambit catch up on the goings on out at the Olympics today. Team USA women now have a 57 game winning streak in basketball. Although it was a little tougher than I think they planned today against Belgium we'll talk a little bit about that also in this hour Adam Clue steps in to take on Tony Gwen Junior in a matchup of Chris's Fantabula Sports game show. Oftentimes on this show as good as the show that you hear on the radio is as good as the show you watch on YouTube is and you know let's be honest it's good. But if I do say so myself. Thank you Mike she'll but oftentimes some of the best stuff goes on during the commercial breaks and in this case. Adam Clue Tony Gwen Junior spent the entire break arguing over whether or not Michael Harris should have won the rookie of the year two years ago or Spencer Strider should have won the rookie of the year two years ago. I was actually just and I thought it was a really good argument that everybody else should get to hear I was the only one who got to hear it. Well he was in Adam's defense he was trying to give Padres fans throw him a bone basically like this. Here is what you can believe in or here's what has happened in the past study that can give you some hope. And I was just making the case that it was just different circumstances and Strider although he was dominant and he was striking out people out of the same rate and he had over 200 punches and he didn't even start a game until May. Or June right. He didn't start a game until June. One started May. One start in May. So he obviously was having a good year but it's just a lot of times Paul Skeens was a rock star. I was just going to say that's the thing. I was also I felt like Tony kind of pooed Strider's production on the field as a rookie and I was just saying I just said it wasn't as impactful but I said the narrative surrounding him doesn't match. That's fine. I thought that it wasn't as impactful as I lost his name by the schemes and again it goes right back to the other part. Strider got to hop in a rotation with was the lefty. Good lefty free to free Max free. I mean it'll let a load of guys who pit not to mention that the literally the best offense in all of baseball. You know he he also isn't carrying the load in the same way that Jackson has not to carry a load right. He also had Michael Harris who ended up being the rookie of the year on his team as well. So a lot of help there just like there's a lot of help for Merrill. I don't think anybody can honestly tell me you know more than two guys out of that Pittsburgh Pirates lineup right. Not too many people can. O'Neill's one of them. O'Neill's one of them. O'Neill's one of them. Brian Reynolds. Brian Reynolds. Can you get another one? They got... They rowdy Tiles playing first. Now you're going to give us the whole roster. Keep going. Rally Tiles with us. Nick Gonzalez I believe playing second place. Sherry Jones in the rotation. And this is why I think this fan table is a sports show champion. It's going to be good. David Bennar. I said starting lineup is what I said. You gave me five and some buckles which gave us a few. Which is pretty good. You didn't give us Andrew McCutchen who was... Coach. Brought back to Pittsburgh this year. I will say this for those who want and believe Jackson Merrill should get it. Over Paul Skins. Jackson is having an amazing year. 768 OPS. But that is a hundred points lower than Michael Harris's OPS two years ago when he won the Rookie of the Year over Spencer Strider. I think Jackson you know along with what Alden said. Skins going to have to fall. Jackson Merrill going to have to have some impact you know moments the last two months of the season. He very well could. And Paul's Tuesday he's going to get his first shot at Paul Skins because the Padres are going to face Paul Skins in Pittsburgh this coming Tuesday. No I don't think so. No they changed. Skins is pitching Sunday so we won't see. Wait a second now when I okay. Now I'm going to scramble for my source. Why you scramble Tony do you do you buy into war. This is yes somewhat. Paul Skins so far has 3.5 Ward. Jackson Merrill is 2.2. All right and you're right Tony. There's a significant gap. Yeah. They did move Skins up to face Arizona on Sunday. So the Padres are not going to face. They're keeping him on regular day at rest. They have an off day Monday. They could have maybe elected to wait till Tuesday but they're not going to. Yeah. So the Padres won't see. Trust me me and just talking about it for a little bit. Yeah. I was kind of looking forward to that. I wanted to see that matchup but the Padres will. But that's the thing. They miss them this time. Adam can you count the games? One. When they face the pirates here will line up. Doesn't look like no doesn't look like they'll face them the next time either. Skins according to this. We'll pitch Sunday against Arizona. His next start will be a week from Saturday in LA against the Dodgers. Oh good. And then they'll face them. They'll face them and then they'll come to San Diego for three right after that and he won't pitch here. So let me ask you the question. Would you rather see Skins in person or prefer to miss them because it's better for the Padres. Right. Well it doesn't matter what we want. We're going to miss them both times. Selfishly I'd like to see them. But I would too. But you know I'm certainly not upset that he's going to have to face the Dodgers. Doesn't look like. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't look like Skins will face the Padres. I hope the other series. I hope Maximus Freddie Freeman's son gets healthy. But I you know I hope he's not. I hope he takes a day off that day too. So if they could make it even better for Skins. Yeah but you know I don't hold you know I don't. Bemoan the beating of the Dodgers without mookie bets or without Freddie. No. The Padres don't have totees or no. Or should we. No should we. So there's that. Alright Skins back to you buddy. Alright. Thank you guys. This is welcome to Gwen and Klug here filling in today. Skrabies out. And Adam by the way when he comes and fills in for Skrabies. One of the first things he always tells me is you know I don't really just keep me out of it. I like to. Yeah sure Adam. Pretty much taking the whole show so far. Dragging right on in here. Come on in here. Dragging him on in here. Alright let's get to some stuff in the Daily Gambit. Get some winners and losers for you. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh. Dark winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington! Woohoo! If you answer yes this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's okay. Take it. Gwen and Chris go through the top bets of the day in the Daily Gambit on 97.3 The Fan. Yes it's called the Daily Gambit but we asked that all of you gamble responsibly out there. Just don't gamble at all. Make your picks. Have some fun but save your money. It's not easy to win at that game. We had seven picks for you last night on the program. Start with the Padres and Dodgers. Padres are favored by a run and a half. I had Faith in the Friars. Scrabby picked the Dodgers. Padres of course 1-8-1. Over under was seven runs last night. I thought with Cease pitching it would be under. But Kershaw did not hold up his end of the bargain. It went over. The final score was eight to one. I thought this was a really interesting line last night. Dylan Cease's over under last night for hits allowed was only three and a half. That's like Nolan Ryan territory right there. Okay well you've only given up two hits in your last three starts. No kidding. It might provoke that. And he ended up going under because he only gave up three hits. He did not go over. They only got three hits off him last night. Kershaw's over under for strikeouts was three and a half. Didn't get there. We already discussed that earlier. He finished with zero the first time in his career that that has happened to Kershaw. A span of over 420 starts. The United States women's basketball team was favored by 23 today over Belgium in the Olympic Games. The Americans won 87-74. Much closer game than the 23 point spread would indicate. Belgium was within six there in the fourth quarter. So the U.S. had to work for their 57th consecutive Olympic victory. They haven't lost a women's basketball game since 1992. I did notice that today Tony because I watched some of the game. The U.S. women struggled from the three point arc today. Maybe they could have used somebody like say Caitlin Clark. I was happy to see Don Staley by the way come out the other day and say you know we probably should have selected her if we had to do it all over again. Yeah so 165 was the over under for that game in points. I went under at 161 and Germany minus one over Japan. Scrabby took Germany. I took the land of the rising sun. Germany won it though. I didn't get the final. I think it was 76-64. So Scrabby won that one. I come into today at six and seven. I told you it's tough to pick these games. Tony Gwen Jr. is O&O as we get into our first football game of the year. The National Football League is not officially but it's back tonight at long last. The Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. The Houston Texans taking on the Chicago Bears or at least facsimiles of the two teams. Houston is favored by two and a half. Tony, start us off today. I love this. Did you analyze this game? I did. I did. Analyze this one. Give me the Texans. Give me the Texans. Give me the Texans. Yes. I'm going to take the red-hot Matt Everfless from the Chicago Bears. Over under for this game is 32 and a half points. I bring this up because I think that's a gimme. You're going to go under, right? These teams can't. No way they can move the football in the Hall of Fame game. That with any, that with no starters play. No. No. This is going to be a sloppy game as it typically is. It should be under. Okay. Into the Major League Baseball tonight, the L.A. Angels host the Colorado Rockies. Rockies with the win tonight could win their second road series of the year. Not going to mention what their first road series win was. The Angels though are favored by a run and a half to keep the Rockies from doing that. I don't have the pitching match up. It's two guys. It's in Colorado. No, it's here. The Rockies are just up the road tonight in Anaheim. Then they'll be busting down your eyes now. Rockies is playing decent right now. Give me the Rockies. Rockies are playing decent. Okay. You got them. I'll take the Angels because the Rockies haven't won a road series except for a never mind. Cubs and Cardinals tonight. Utah, Eminaga and Sunny Gray. Couple of all star starters going head to head. Both have lines of over under for five and a half strikeouts. So I asked tonight which starter will have more? Eminaga or Gray? I'll go with Eminaga. Although some of the shyness seemed to have gone off him just a little. He started to get ahead a little bit. A little bit. Sunny Gray. Give me Gray. He's had a nice season for the Cardinals. I'd like to see the Cubs win that game though. Germany and France tomorrow. This is men's basketball in the Olympic Games. Germany's favored by three and a half. Tony, again, another game that you've scouted closely, I'm sure. Give it to me again. Germany, three and a half over France. That means Wembayama is the underdog in this game. Oh, Germany's got a good squad. Yeah, give me Germany. You're going to take Germany. All right. I'll take France. I'll take Wembayama. And the French side. Oh, that's it. Just got five today. Fair enough. All right. There's your daily gambit. We will step aside. And we'll get you ready for some traffic here. And then some more chat on the Olympic Games. And some of the other goings on in sports have just tuned in. It is out for the season now, another meniscus tear for the bad luck. Great center fielder for the LA Angels of Anaheim. More Gwen and Chris coming up. 320 on the clock. Tony's in junior Chris Elo. Adam Cluke. Matt Scravey out. Where's he at? Iowa. We shipped him off. Got him up out of here. That's Iowa. Right? That's where it is. Yeah, the Scravey family reunion is in Iowa. Yeah. I mean, if I was having a family reunion, that's where I'd pick. Is Iowa? Dubuque. To be more specific. To be more specific. Yeah. Hey, I got an idea, everybody. Let's meet in Dubuque. So there they go. Well, the Scravey's are all getting together in Dubuque while we're here in the Odyssey Towers, talking some Olympics. I don't know how much of you guys have been able to kind of watch. Trying to get into it. I am too. Today, to this morning and last night, got into it a little bit, started to kind of have it playing on all the TVs. My kids are starting to get into it. So that makes it easier because they tend to control the TVs most of the time. So got a chance to see what's happening. Ledecky continues to her reign in the pool. Katie Ledecky is a machine. She's got like 15 of like the top times. I think she has every top time. Like in the history of that event. Top 15, she has them. Right. The 1500, which is a distant swim. I mean, it takes a while. And she's like blowing the field away. Not really close. You don't even see anybody in the screen when they have it on her. Yeah. She just see the USA flag going along. Nothing else in the water. They put up a thing last night or a lap by lap or whatever it was or every 100 meters. And every 100 meters or whatever it was, every lap was like the exact same time. 31.22 seconds followed by 31.22 seconds followed. I mean, it's just clockwork. She said when she was swimming there near the end, she started thinking about all the people that have helped her win all these gold medals. I'm like, really? Your mind was just wandering away. She's got that kind of time. Nobody else is in the picture. It's close to you. So she's just wandering away. And I also, I saw a video, Katie Ledecky. I don't know if this is interesting or not. I found it such. They put, she took a glass. I don't know why this had to be chocolate milk. Maybe it was for an ad. She took a glass of chocolate milk, balanced it on the top of her head, and then swam a lap. Say again, I'm sorry. I was reading when Adam just sent me. I'm sorry. She took a glass of chocolate milk. She balanced it on the top of her head, and then she went into the pool and swam a lap. Who did? Katie Ledecky. With the chocolate milk not moving. You saw this? I did. I don't know if that was impressive or not, but I thought it was worth a mention. Oh, my God. I'm like a drowning child in the pool. Yes, you are. You don't even go, you don't even stick a toe in the pool. No, I get in the pool. I said I don't get in the ocean. On the beach. Yeah, yeah. That's a mismatch. I'm not interested in. Right. That was just part of what the USA is doing. They continue to dominate on the gymnastics side too, Simone Biles back at the top once again, the all around title, gold medalist. Yeah, I think you could make a case, you know, for who's the better, greater, you know, Olympian. Is it Katie Ledecky or Simone Biles? Simone wins her second gold medal in three Olympics. So that means the last time she won was eight years ago. Yeah. So, I mean in eight years, you know, the in your age and the size of your body changing and everything, then your life changing for her to come back and win another one. She's the first ever to do that. But evidently this was really, really close to me. I don't know about. She's like Ledecky. And she normally wins easy. Let's look close. She can think about all the people that are helped her along the way. But evidently this was really, really close. So I don't know how the gymnastics scoring works, but it was very, very tight. Her teammate, SUNY Lee, who won the gold medal in 2020 finished with the bronze this time. I didn't realize this as reading the story. SUNY Lee was ecstatic to even win the bronze, she has been suffering from kidney disorders. And not just one, but like multiple kidney issues, kidney diseases, career jeopardizing stuff. So she was happy to come in third, but Biles is at the top again. I did see one moment of her floor routine the other night. I want to point this out. She jumped in the air. I saw this. She spun so many times. I don't even know what she did, but they stopped the picture when she was at the top of her jump and they can, you know, do this now, obviously. She was 11 feet, eight inches off the floor. That's one foot eight inches above the rim. Like she basically from the floor exercise could have just dunked herself. Now, if I'm not mistaken, the floor, it's got some fun. Okay. It does. But I'm just saying, if you put a rim up there and she was on the floor exercise, she could probably jump through the hoop. I can tell you right now, if I was in a facility like that, or if I owned a facility, there would be a hoop at the edge of every corner. Yes. So you could do some dunks. Yeah. You brought up the point about Simone Biles winning her second gold medal in eight years. Remember her last Olympics, which was I believe in Tokyo, she had with the twisties and had to pull herself out of those competitions. Oh, that's right. For those who don't. In 2020, she didn't compete. Yes. For those who don't. And no one gave her a lot of fly. Yes, they did. They basically said she took a spot in and quit. Now what happened was that, hey, she we found out later she was suffering from some mental health issues. But B, she got the twisties in the twisties is something that only happens in gymnastics, I assume. Virtually, when you go to do your flips and turns, you lose feel of where you are. So that could be dangerous. There's actually clips of her warming up at Tokyo last or four years ago. And you know, they have the little sponge area you can jump into, right? She couldn't. She couldn't find that. She could. I mean, she was landing it and landing on her back, landing on her head. So she had to pull herself out. She didn't think she would be able to compete ever again. And here she is. It's a great comeback story. And another gold medal. So kudos. Chris has already kind of gone over the fact that the women's basketball team able to get a victory. Today, USA doing well. I think they lead in gold medals. They lead in total medals right now. I don't know if that's was a China was ahead at one point, but I thought China's got the gold medal lead at the moment with 11 USA nine. Okay. We have the overall medal lead Tony 37 France, the home country with 27 France has that amazing swimmer who's breaking all of Phelps's records. They showed a shot of Phelps in the studio with my friend Mike Tareko and they were watching your guy. Yeah, they were watching this, uh, French swimmer, Marshawn does his name. He's already broken a bunch of records in these Olympics. And Phelps was watching the sky swim, breaking his records and Phelps was going crazy, pumping his fist, jumping up and he couldn't contain his excitement as this guy was breaking his records. I thought that said a lot about Michael Phelps, because I don't know if I'd felt the same way. You want to hold on to the records for a little guy, like, can I, can I have it for another little date? That's just how swimming goes. Yeah. They break records every time they're in the pool, these guys and gals getting faster and faster. Yeah, no doubt. I'm looking forward to, you know, I don't know, just go over to men's side of things. Um, it's one of the conversations that started to kind of get under my skin a little, but I got, I have to say every game someone doesn't start and it's like, how, how could you, how could Steve Kerr not put him out there? Right. Do we really? I mean, there's like all NBA dudes up and down this roster. Kevin is not going to play some days. They're not playing. I mean, if your name is, if your name is not Steph Curry, LeBron James, they might be the only two that are pretty much guaranteed to play. Yeah. Tatum didn't even play in one of these and I, and I was listening to some of the pundits like, how can a guy who just won a world title, he got a however many money, dollar contract, not play? Well, I can tell you how he can't play. Steve Kerr doesn't think he guards anybody or to match up. I mean, it's Steve Kerr is one of the smartest coaches in the NBA. He's certainly picking these lineups versus because of matchup, which is why it's changing all the time. I mean, and be it'll start one day. Then he doesn't play at all. It's just, can we, can we let the people who are in the, the no do their thing? And then, and by the way, they're winning all these games. So it's not like they're losing the South Sudan game that was so close. They rolled them off the court to follow in game. So let's Steve Kerr do his thing, please, ladies and gentlemen, Steve Kerr has the benefit of having played for both Greg Popovich and Phil Jackson. Yeah. If that doesn't make you smart, I don't know what does in the game of basketball. Yeah, I trust him. He's got, he's, he almost can't make the wrong decision. That's what I'm saying, you know, so he's just letting everybody have a piece of it. But you know, I still think they're going to get challenged a little bit. His tournament still got some good teams in there. For sure. So, you know, we'll watch. I saw, I saw a little posting about how many NBA guys were in the Olympics for the first dream team. I think it was like zero. Now there's like, on the other teams, on the other teams, right? And there's like, I think it was 66 or something like that in the Olympics outside of the 66 now. Yeah. So the dream team opened it all up for the whole world. They did. Didn't they? We, we watched the documentary. You saw the other players like coming over like getting autographs when to take pictures. They weren't interested in necessarily competing with them. They were so excited. But do you think, Tony, going back 30 years now, do you think the dream team at its height could wipe the floor with this team or would it be the other way? Are these guys so much better athletically and now that even Jordan and, and Bird and Magic couldn't keep up with them? I don't necessarily believe that they're more, I don't believe that they're more athletic than those guys. I do think skill wise, they're, they're a little more advanced. There's another level. Isn't there? There's a little shooting. That being said, I still think it would be a close game. I don't think either team would blow each other out. I think the shooting would put the 92 team in a bind. It's just hard for me to believe that a team with Jordan and Magic or Bird could lose. I know these guys are a lot better. That's true. I'm comparing them to this current team, LeBron James and Steph Curry are not at the height of their powers. That's true too. Pretty much everyone on the 92 team was like, how about the, how about the redeem team? Cause that had LeBron and all those guys and their prime step wasn't on that team, but Cole was there. I don't see anyone. You think the 92 teams were all of them in the, I'm not going to argue against it. I, I, those dudes were legit, I will say this, I will say this. You go back to that. Those clips. You hear a lot of the stories from, I think it was the young guys, it was like Chris Webber and Anthony Hardaway, they, before that famous game that they had against one of those where Jordan officially took the baton away from Magic, they got their buds kicked by the young group that was down there. And I think it was like Shaq, Chris Webber, Anthony Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, not Bobby. Even on the practice, I think, I think, man, Bobby Hurley might have been on that squad. I think you're right. And that's what, that's what the story goes. They got to contend within this fantabulous game show coming up here. I said it was going to be a good matchup. So we'll have to, we're going to find out here shortly. All right. Let's get to break. Is it a fantabulous next? Next. Get your popcorn ready, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to Chris on the way. All right. Here we go at 338, Chris Sello, Tony Gwen Jr. Hold on. Let me turn my mic on. Yeah, because, and then make sure you turn it off because Adam Clue's not going to do it for you. Apparently so. Apparently not. We are, if the, if you build it, they will come. Apparently that's what Scrabie fell for and going to Iowa. That's great. He's in Iowa. We're getting along without him today. We got a fantabulous sports game show coming up, but I may have to rename the game today, guys. As for the first time ever, Tony Gwen Jr. takes on Adam Clue. Let's check traffic and then get to it. There is an open for the fantabulous sports game show, but we'll go without it today. Hey, all you beautiful people out there. It's time to play one of our favorite games of the week. All right. We like to call it. Ooh. I'mma go. Chris is fantabulous sports game show, and it starts right now on 97, three of the fan. All right. I'm not going to go without the open because there it was. I'll call for it. No, he usually plays it right out of the traffic, but no worries. No worries. We got along just fine. Today's fantabulous sports game show should be renamed. I'm just going to call up that fantabulous game show today. There's your hint. Adam Clue and Tony Gwen Jr. have been at each other since maybe a half an hour before the show even started today, discussing who was going to come out looking smarter in the world of sports as a result of today's fantabulous sports game show. Unfortunately for both of them, they're not going to find out because today's fantabulous game show does not have a sports category. Oh, guys, sit back, close your eyes and imagine a map of the United States of America because today's category is to name the 24 states that are situated west of the Mississippi River. All right. That is today's category. There are 24 correct answers. States that are west of the Mississippi River now. That's to the right. Right? Try to throw him on there. Try to throw him on. He's trying to slough right now. Because this is a category where conceivably you guys could run the table. If it finishes 12, 12, we do have a tiebreaker category for you. But we'll start off with this, name the 24 states that are west of the Mississippi. You can play along out there. Okay. This may be a little harder Mike Schilt than you think. We will see. Should we just let Adam go first and seize the guest today, Tony or do you think that's fair? I don't want your charity. I will. Well, you're getting. Well, you're getting gets to go all the time first. Scravey always goes first. It doesn't seem to help him any. All right, Adam, Klug, you're a smart guy. Give me a state west of the Mississippi. This could be easy at the beginning, of course, a great state of California. California. All right. Very good. Tony, you're up. How about Idaho? Of all the states you started with, that wasn't the one I was expecting, but Idaho is correct. All right, Adam, one, a piece sticking the Pacific Northwest and goes Washington, Washington. All right. Very good. Adam has two. Tony has one. Tony, how about Oregon? Oregon. I turned down the chat, too. So I'm not looking at any. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. Because the people in the chat will, we'll try to help you out. Oregon is correct. We'll go with Nevada. Tutu, Nevada, you guys are. I see what you're trying to do. This is not going to go. This is going to go pretty quickly, right? It's going to go quickly until we start getting close to that Mississippi. All right, three to two for Adam, Tony. How about we go Southwest? How about Arizona? Arizona. Very good. Do we need to flex a little bit and go to Texas? You can. Did you just set your answer? A little bit more Eastern. Is that your answer? I'll go with Tejas. Texas. All right. So Adam's got four. Tony's got three. The game is moving along. I'll play this game with you. How about Oklahoma? Oklahoma is west of the Mississippi. That is correct. These guys are trying to name all 24 states that are west of the Mississippi. They have named eight. There are 16 correct answers remaining. No strikes for four. Adam, the state where the newest NHL team resides and they totally messed up the name of their team, Utah, the Utah Hockey Club, should have been the Yetis, the Utah Hockey Club. At least for now. Yes. They might eventually change it to the Yetis. Utah is correct. Uh, five, four, Tony, you're up. Not Mexico, but new Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico. Old Mexico. Yeah, not to be confused with that. New Mexico is correct. Five, five, 10 down, 14 to go. Guys are doing well. About Colorado. Okay. Very good. Okay. Very good. Guys are doing really good. You're going much faster than I expected. Anticipate it. I'm disappointed with the questions. Can I say that? No. He wanted it to be sports. I did. But it can't always be sports. What can I tell you? You'll never know if I would have dominated you or not. How about uh... It's always tomorrow. Wyoming. Wyoming. That is west of the Mississippi. You guys are doing a good job picture in the nation's uh... the state's layout here so far. It is six, six. Adam, we're halfway through. Let's go with Kansas. Kansas? Okay. They're very nice. Adam, you're having no problem with this. You're just toying with this category. There's a chance in geography better than sports. There is. There's a great chance. We may find that out. Uh... How about where my man Scrave is right now? Little Iowa. Scrave is in Iowa. That is correct. You guys are just racing through. Can we just take a break a little time out? How many correct answers are left? Yeah, I can tell you. It's right now. It's seven to seven, which is fourteen, so there's ten left. North Dakota. North Dakota, there's nine left. That's right. South Dakota. South Dakota. South Dakota. Winter. There are eight left. This is nice. You guys are going to ever slow down here? I'm considering taking a little risk here. Uh oh. Go ahead then. How about the great state of Louisiana? Louisiana. That's close to the Mississippi, but it is west of the Mississippi. Wow! That is correct. Very good. You touched the Mississippi with that answer. What do you go for? I think I might go a little touch here. How about Missouri? Missouri? That also touches the Mississippi. That is correct. So it is three, six, eight, eight. No, is that right? Two, four, six, nine, nine. Eighteen down, six to go! States that are west of the Mississippi. Adam Klueb. No strikes yet. You guys are... I'm guessing your geography test. I'm about to open a can and break the, you know, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, what are you about to break down? Are we going continental U.S.? Are you opening a can of whip? No, no, a can of wha. I know it's... The answer, the category is the 24 states west of the Mississippi. Alaska qualifies. That is correct. Tony, your turn. How about Hawaii? I thought you might do that. See? There we go. 10, 10, only four remaining. Does it get dicey here? Whoo! You guys got it. There's only four left and the, you know, to me, the hard part of this is, you know, knowing which four you have and they don't even know. I don't even know. Let's go with... Four left. Adam Klueb. Let's go Illinois. Illinois. That is a strike. Ooh, my friend. Strike one. Oh, you're not going to bail for that. You get a buzzer for that. Illinois is east of the Mississippi. So we have our first hiccup of the game. It is 9-9. Now Tony Gwen Jr. has a chance to take his first lead. 24 states west of the Mississippi, but there are only four remaining in this category. And guys are raced through the first 20, but now maybe it finally gets a little interesting here. How about Minnesota? Ooh. Tony Gwen Jr. Correct. So it does touch the Mississippi, but that is on the western side of things. So Tony takes his first lead, 10-9. I'll stay up there in that same region and I'll go with Michigan. You go with Michigan. Tony's waving it off to the right. Carlton fisking it. Strike two. Ooh. I've got to tell you, Adam Klueb, Michigan isn't even within touching distance to the Mississippi. It's way over there. It's closer to Massachusetts. Yeah. No good. That's two strikes for you, Adam Klueb. Big trouble here. I got a big trouble here. You're in big trouble now. Tony Gwen Jr. looking to kind of seize the savage ground here. How about Ohio? Ohio. Wow. I got to buzz that one as well. Ohio is Eastern Michigan, so that's even further away. I got another one. Tony, there are, let me see, still four questions. No, still three left, three left. Three correct answers left. Adam has two strikes. Oh, I missed this one. I'm out. Yes. Yes. That's the rule at the game. Tony won't have to get one. You need to get one of the three remaining west of the Mississippi, Adam, to stay alive. To stay alive. Yes. Arkansas. That is so far in the southeast, but it is west of the Mississippi. Arkansas is correct. Very good. I thought, I thought when I looked at this, that Arkansas would be the hardest, single hardest one to get, but you got it. You stayed alive and Tony has only one wrong, so he can miss this and still put the pressure on me. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to try not to miss this one. All right, Tony, if you, you got two left, only two states left. Tony and Adam are tied at 11, 11, but Adam has two strikes. Tony has one. I just can't think if we were driving east or west. Oh, well, take your time. We got a little time left here. Arkansas is a little intimidating. That's why I intimidated me and I was a strong one right there. That was a strong one. All right, Tony. Let's go. Let's go. Here we go. How about the great state, the great state of Indiana, that was going to be your next one. Well, it's a good thing Tony took it. Indiana is east of the Mississippi. All right. Now, what I'm going to do, because I really like the tiebreaker category, we got to get a break right here. Right? No, we don't. I'm going to go to the break. You guys are dead even again, 11/11, with two correct answers left. You both have to guess. If you both miss, then we go to the tiebreaker. I think that's fair. And if you both get one, then we go to the tiebreaker. That's the way we're going to work it. It's 11/11. The only way somebody is going to win without the tiebreaker is if one of you get it right and one get it wrong. There are two states left that are west of the Mississippi that you haven't thought of yet. Four to really put the pressure on. Can you get it? Can't remember if this one's been guessed or not, but I'm going to go with it. Okay. Wyoming. Wyoming is most certainly west of the Mississippi, but it has already been guessed. That is not going to end. Can I give another one? No. No, you cannot give another one. Tony wins the game here. If he comes up with one of the remaining two, if not, we go to the tiebreaker tiebreaker. Tony for the win. There are two correct answers left. You guys raced through the first 20, but you hit the stop sign here. Two states left, west of the Mississippi. Tony thinks... Tony, give me a really look. Tony's excited. He might have it. Go for it. I don't think it's been guessed yet. I don't want to find out. Illinois. Illinois. Has it absolutely been guessed? It has absolutely been guessed. And it's wrong. So you doubled up there. Can I, before we go to the tiebreaker, can I say what I was going to say? What you wanted to say? Wisconsin. And that's it. Also east of the Mississippi. Oh, it's east. Yeah. The two that you did not name are clearly in the west. You just didn't think of them. Montana and Nebraska. No. Those are the two that you did not think of. I was thinking up there, I thought Montana was said. No, I said Idaho. Yeah. I said Wyoming. And I went to Wyoming. I didn't say... I was going up there when I... Montana. Montana and Nebraska were the two you did not name. So you tie 11-11, three strikes a piece. We're going to go to a tiebreaker. But I think that might take just a tad longer than the one minute we have left. Not much longer. But we'll give you guys a chance to... Two and a half minutes. Yeah. I'm going to stretch it out. I want the drama to build a little bit. We are tied in the fantabulous game show. Now, do you still want to complain about the category, sir? Yeah. Because it's kind of turned into a fun showdown. I wanted to match sports with. Well, he thought you might be dominated, so he gave you a shot. There's a slight chance somebody can't do it for me. I had a lot to learn about baseball before the show. Yeah, you did. Well, you were saying... I have a feeling... What are you saying? Clayton Kershaw's record was just... Heh. That's right. I didn't say his record was meh. Heh. Adam, you will get another chance, I'm sure, someday. And if you... The next time you sit in, I will make sure it's a sports category, all right? So you have that. I will tell you guys this, you don't know what you're thinking of, but it is going to stay geographic in the final tiebreaker to decide today's fantabulous game show. It'll be a geography category, so we'll see how you do. Coming up at the top of the hour is a battle of Chris versus the fans. Guys can start dialing in at 833-288-0973. These guys will finish the fantabulous game show. And then we will get to some Chris versus the fans, so that is coming up in the four o'clock hour, along with the big five. And stretchy. He's wishing he went with the tiebreaker right about now. No, because two and a half minutes would not have been enough. Yeah, we would have been him in the high and... Two and a half minutes would not have been enough. Two and a half minutes would not have been enough. So I need to get... I need to give you a little extra time for the tiebreaker. What time do we normally go to break? There it is. Now we go. Thank goodness. I was like... Dragon. All right, four o'clock hour should be fun. It'll start with a tiebreaker to decide the fantabulous game show and Chris versus the fans. Next on Gwen and Chris. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again? With nor sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. 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