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Hey, here we go into the four o'clock hour on a Monday afternoon. Chris Hello, Tony Gwen Jr. Odyssey Palace Studios here in San Diego. Padres are idle today. Playing Pittsburgh tomorrow. Big Frank filling in for the vacationing Matt Scrabie who is at Wrigley Field tonight taking in a Cubs Twins game. I'm going to text Greg right now. Text him and see how he's getting along there. Games should be getting into wait about an hour or so. Should we just call him like right while he's going through security? Yeah, most in opportunity. Try to time it. If you can do that. I was actually hoping not to talk to him at all for these six days. So if you could not call him, that'd be fine. Just text. He said him a text. Okay. But you know, give me a little scrape here. Let's see if he gets back to me. Isn't it isn't a bad thing. Don't know if you guys saw this quote. It was one of my favorites of the day. And then we're going to get into some Chris versus the fans. The quote is, never lie, never cheat, never steal. I was raised with that lesson. I've raised my family on that lesson. And I have preached that lesson to the teams that I have coached. No one is perfect. If you stumble, you apologize. And you make it right. Today, I do not apologize. I did not participate was not aware, nor complicit in those said allegations. This might be my favorite line coming back coming up here. So it's back to work and attacking with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. Oh, I know who this is. Could only be one person. It's a hard ball. Jim Harbaugh. For sure. Attacking with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. That was the dead giveaway, right? That was the giveaway. Harbaugh's, you know, back under pressure again, because. Yeah, let's see. I don't I guess ESPN or somebody got got a hold of the allegations from the NCAA. Another big five topic. Oh, all right. Well, we'll talk more about it. Sorry, Frank. I don't want to steal the big five. I read through the whole the. Yeah, and I listen to you. And then I went on and did my own thing. All right, we'll talk more about that in this hour when we get to the big five. But right now it's time for Chris versus the fans. Let's go. If you had one shot, one opportunity to take down the human all manack himself. How would he do? Now is your time. Listen to me, this guy stages. Now is your opportunity to win a prize. Well, I hope you know, Jen for Chris versus the fans starts now on 97 three, the fan. So real quick, Scravy text me back. He said, actually, I said, what are you doing? It's actually just got to wriggly. So just just getting there just getting there. All right. We'll wait to see what he has tickets. That would be something to show up and not have tickets, right? Yeah. The one game I went to a wriggly field, I went many years ago, I did not have tickets, was able to purchase some outside. All right. Chris versus the fans, you got a chance to qualify for a two night stand resort world Las Vegas and two tickets to see Carrie Underwood. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, Carrie Underwood returns to Las Vegas with her critically acclaimed production reflection. The Las Vegas residency at resorts world theater tickets for performances from August 14th to October 26th are on sale now at a X S dot com and R W Las Vegas dot com. All right. Frank, you want to read the rules? Sure, I will read. You know, I got them. If you go, I got them. Okay, sure. All right. So, you have to make it through three questions. Each question will get more difficult. If you get the question right, you move on. If you get the question wrong and Chris gets the question right, you are done. If Chris gets it wrong and you get it wrong, you still move on to the next question or you could win. If it's on the finale, finale question. If it is on the finale, I am somebody who played more than 18 holes, apparently. I told you guys, I was, I told you I was a shell of a man when I came in here. You did. I didn't know it was this man. You just bet. If it's a finale of a question. There you go. It was like your brain froze for a second again. Again, real quick, if you're if you're a first time player, let us know and you'll move directly to the second question where you have a very good chance at winning today. If Chris is this out of real quick. Crayby says just about to walk in, but things are popping. Let's lots of stuff happening. Pretty cool. Probably has a lot of things. Things are popping. What is a? Oh, no, it's a Monday. Quickly Monday night. I guess things are popping. Good for sure. It is summertime. All right. Good for him. Who's our first contestant? Let's take our first contestant today will be Richard and Paradise Hills. Let's go to Richard. Richard, welcome back, my man. How are you? Oh, y'all just want to get me out the way. Maybe not though. We'll find out. You could win first. Here we go. First question. What country was Muhammad Ali born in? I would assume the United States of America. It was a trick question. Yes, he was born in the United States of America. Here we go. Question number two. Cassius caught up. I got that one wrong. Yeah, I think you would have had trouble facing the neighbors. Question number two. Aha. Before show hail, Tony signed with the Dodgers, he was rumored to be on a plane to what city? Montreal. Close. It was close. He was going to Toronto. He was going to Toronto. No. I was just going to say, can you turn your radio down? Richard, just missed it. Sorry, Richard. It was a pleasure to have Richard on. I like him. It's a good guy. Who's our next guest? All right. Next contestant, we will go with Lance in Temecula. Lance in Temecula. Lance was going on. How are you? How are we doing? We're doing well. How are you? We are well. Here we go. First question. How many players does a football team have to have on the field at one time? Eleven. Nice work. It sounded like a trick question. I think Lance was worried about it. It's like it's got about eleven. What am I missing here? Question number two. I don't even know how to say this question. That's gravy has in there. Well, we'll go with which Atlanta brave pitcher amassed 176 wins between 1990 and 1999. Seventeen points. Greg Maddox. Winner. I'm going to read you now how Scrabie wrote the question. Yeah, what a Scrabie right. Which primarily Atlanta brave pitcher amassed 176 wins between 1990 and 1999. He tried to get cute there. He's so cute. Let's go to question number three. Lance for the win. Okay. Here we go. And soccer. Oh, I'm done. Oh, it's good for you Lance. I'm the one who could miss it. What's the difference between golden goal and silver goal? What? This is a screen person. I can't say golden goal ends the game. I think that is good to him. That works. What does the silver goal do? The silver goal means they play two halves and the score at the end of the second half is when the game ends. So he wrote it. He did it right. It was a dissertation that he gave for the answer for that question. It's why I heard you read the question. I'm like, there's you're not going to make him give the essay. Oh, he's making a give the essay answer. Give an essay answer. All right. Well, nice work. Hang on the line. Frank could get your information here on the other side. Meanwhile, we did figure out the score that U.S. Brazil volleyball game. U.S. one and four. Nice. So they moved on to the semifinals, I believe. In the volleyball competition, we'll say this. Those dudes can jump. I mean, like they're they're like, I don't even know how there's a dig in in men's volleyball because they're shooting. They're hitting the ball straight down. Well, how about their serves? They jump and then they serve it straight down into the into the floor on the other side of the net. It seems like it's heavy. How they are able to get under there and make a pass, like you said, dig any kind of shot is beyond me. I don't know how volleyball. I don't know how the women do it when I watch them play. And then the men do it at, you know, twice the pace. Yeah. Yeah, volleyball's one of those sports that I had never been able to figure out and how to play or do. And I'm always remarked, amazed by it. I'll tell you another one that's really got me, me and the Ant-Man. They asked the Ant-Man what his favorite favorite of his game. Not ping pong because that's not ping pong. That's table tennis. That's table tennis. The Ant-Man loved it and I do too. Do you watch them? I can't fathom. Do you think you could even return a serve? Absolutely. Like 43 spins on it before it gets to you. It's it's funny. I you know, those guys at Petco play volleyball, play table tennis a lot. Right. You said Iran is a good player. That table is hip to rice plays much like my dad. Very finesse spins and all that. But I think it was watching Korea, Japan, the other day, the championship. Okay. The Korean girl end up winning. Yeah. And just watching like the intensity of the kind of back and forth play. Yeah. First of all, they don't hold the racket like are the big the paddle like any like any of us hold it. They hold it like on the flat side. They don't even use the actual handle. It looked like and the spins they're putting on this wall is ridiculous. Yeah. No, it's not it's not nothing I'm familiar with. I mean, I played ping pong. I've never played table tennis like that. No, that's a it's a whole different there. There's something I recommend actually, if you're bored or not even if you're bored, how about if you're just kind of interested in it, go to YouTube and call up amazing table tennis shots. Have seen some of the ones they've had like that have been tweeted out. Guys running around the entire board shooting it over their top. I mean, some of the shots, they may. They're pretty good. It's a really tiny table. They have they make it seem like it's a much bigger table than it actually is. You know, you know, there's the space behind them. They all have a bunch of space behind them, but it's just this little table that they have to contend with. All right. That does it for Chris versus the fans. Let's get to break on the other side. We're going to Chris. Here's some traffic. Tem check. What kind of summer are we having this year? A family road trip summer, a beach bump summer or a wake me when the sun sets summer with Instacart, choose your own adventure and skip the shopping side quests where available, you can get ice cream delivered to your hotel, sunscreen to the pool or cold brew to your bed. Well, door in as fast as 30 minutes, wherever you find yourself this summer, you can get the goods. Download Instacart for free delivery on your first three orders. 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As a matter of fact, it was such a bad game for Miami fans that I probably canceled it during the game. Yeah, peacock had a way of keeping you keep you locked in. It's kind of a sneaky move. It's like, we're gonna make this difficult for them to figure out how to get out of this almost impossible. Not, not, not easy to make it so that you can't talk to anybody. You're gonna have to just wait on us to get back to you whenever we get ready to. Yeah, and we'll never cancel you. So we get to continue sending you a bill, whether you watch us or not. Yeah, peacock, my favorite streaming service. Now, in college football, today, Frank, if I'm not mistaken, we had the rankings come out today. Coaches poll came out today. Coaches poll not Paul Chris, let's remind I want you to remind everybody how we feel about these particular rating. Well, they ought to call it the sports information director poll first of all, right? Because the coaches hardly vote. Most are not most, but I know many coaches just give the ballot to their media relations director and say, please fill it out for me and turn it in. I don't have time for this. But since we don't have a writer's poll yet, the coaches pull is all we got. Right. And so it's, you know, it's the one time of the year where I care about the coaches pull today. Right. And you know, we often will end, you'll hear us eventually say this poll makes no sense because all it does is confuse everybody when one of these 25 teams in here right now comes shows up on the first day and they look like they don't belong. Right. This is part of the reason why we may not have been 25 to begin with. No, the top 25 to begin with. Not only that, Tony, nine of the teams in the 25 are in the SEC. Well, we know that's that's how is that I mean, but how is it possible that they can all be that, you know, they can all be in the top 25. They're going to play each other and beat each other, but they'll never fall out of the poll. No, because this starting point right here matters. That's right. You know, because a team like, I don't know, say like an organ. They got a little more leeway. Yeah, they do early because of where they're starting. It's a big deal now because, correct me if I'm wrong, and I might be wrong. It was a new year. It would be the first time. But the playoff now, you obviously, if you win your conference, you are in that's four teams. Yes. There's four power conferences. That's four. Then there's going to be hopefully a fifth team from all of the other, you know, loud conferences, whatever they call us, the, you know, the, I don't even know if the other six, the normal conferences, that's the one the Aztecs are in and others. And then, but the other seven spots are all at large selections, but they're going to be based on where teams rank in the polls. Right. So you're right. Oregon starts ahead of, let's just say, ahead of Missouri, Oregon's three Missouri's 11. If they both have the exact same season and finish, what is it, 11 and two and, you know, win the same and lose the same, et cetera, Oregon will finish ahead of Missouri because they started ahead of Missouri and they'll get into the playoff and Missouri won't. And there's really not, not that the world is ever fair, but that's really, really not fair. But that's how it's still going to happen. And I know people think that with 12 teams, we're finally going to settle all of the issues in college football. We're just opening it up for more complaining from the teams that finished 13, 14, 15 and 16. They're all going to want to get in. That is without a doubt. And nobody's looking at that. Nope. Everybody thinks, Oh, finally, finally, we got a playoff. We got 12 teams. There'll be no arguments. No, there'll be more arguments. This is going to be more way more. We'll be talking about 20 something playoff games before you know. Yeah. And pretty soon the, the, with the NCAA basketball. They got 64. And now they have 68. And guess what? The 69 team is mad. So they talk about moving it to 96. It never matters. How many the next team's always going to be mad? Right. Who's ever not? He's ever that team is now, if we're being honest, they're not changing this because teams are mad. They're changing this because there's a ball. They want to win. There's a boy. I can't believe they didn't do this a lot earlier. I mean, honestly, it just took them a lot. College football is so stupid. They couldn't even get out of their way their own way to make more money and use them more dollars. That's how dumb college football is. But they finally, you know, got, got to figure it out enough to have a playoff. So it'll be fun. But yeah, you're right. I mean, there's going to be seven at large teams. And the eighth, ninth, and tenth at large teams are going to be livid. Yeah. Just like last year, Florida state was livid. Let me into the four. They had one loss. Didn't get in. They didn't have any losses. I don't have any. I don't think they had any. Frank, you said something and maybe before we started to show off air that I think makes a lot of sense. As we get ready. What? Yeah, Frank, submit this to me. Good. We're. He's obviously a video game player like myself. Okay. College football came out here like two weeks ago now. Yeah, about two weeks ago, two weeks ago, it's a hit. Okay. And I think as Frank said to me before the show, it's going to bring more tension to college football because he was like, I don't know if it's the video game, but I'm ready. And I'm excited. I haven't felt like that. It'll vary in like at least the last couple of years. So because you're playing with players from these teams that are going to be upcoming. Now the catch. You're looking forward to catch for me is I have a personal rule with video games and sports games that I can't start you until I finish what other season I'm playing in. So right now I'm in the show. Oh, I can't really play the college game. It's not college football season just yet. Maybe it's time you change your rule. I don't know. I can't. I've been. This is long. I gotta finish my season and there's only one person who makes the determination on that rule. There is. That's me. That's right. You are judge and jury judge, jury, executioner, whatever you go. I'm everything. That's it. It's it is. It's got you it's got you ready for the season issue. And I've got a 10 and 2 San Diego state playing. That's what I that's what I like to touch here. I'm 10 and 2. I got a 10 and 2 San Diego state. Are you cheating for us, Frank? Or is it? He was actually telling me that he's disappointing. He hasn't found the slip the slip the money to the guy button on the video game. But he can't figure it out. Yeah, there's there's no blatantly commit and a recruiting violation button. There isn't the hardball button. No, the hardball button exercise. By the way, we didn't even give you the the top 25 for the preseason. Yeah, we might as well after all the talk. Tell you who's in the thing. Georgia is number one, of course. Yeah, the Ohio state Buckeyes at two. Right. Oregon three Texas four Alabama five. By the way, real quick note on Alabama, their lowest ranking to start a season since 2009. The last 15 years they've been at least in the top four. We're about to find out how much of of an issue it's going to be not happening. Mr. Save it. Don't have Nick. Yeah, no Nick. Six through 10 old Miss Notre Dame, Michigan Penn State, Florida state at 10. Okay. 10 through 15 or 11 through 15 Missouri LSU Utah Clemson, Tennessee. That's followed by. You know what makes me mad about Utah? Just a little bit. They're in the mountains. If we had the money that they had, would the Pac 12 have rather taken us all those years ago just because of the recruiting thing? You know what it is? As what I heard was that USC UCLA would never let us never let it happen. Never let it happen. I know. Utah was in the right geographical spot because Utah is not a better necessarily than us. Not even cool. Utah now has the resources to be 13th in the nation because they played in the Pac 12. Now they're in the big 12. Big 12. I can't keep track. They moved into another one. I think they go to the big 10 or big 12. I think they went to big 12. I feel like they did too. It's just crazy that Utah is now a player on the national scene and we got so left behind back then. The whole the whole timing for said instance and in this most recent one has this been bad luck. Bad luck. Bad luck. Where was I at? Tennessee, Utah, Clemson, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas State, Oklahoma State. I'm a man. The you. Oklahoma State is my automatic cheering again. Because the guy let the drunk kid off the hook and said he to understand why he drank. Because I've done it. We've all done it before. We've all done it all the time. That's a leader. The kind of leadership you want there at Oklahoma State. The U.S. 19, A&M at 20, and then 21 through 25 goes Arizona, NC State, USC, Kansas, Iowa. You'll notice that other than Notre Dame, which is a independent, not a single team from a non-power for conference gets the light of day. Not a single one, not a Boise State or an SMU to be found anywhere. You got a Liberty got 15 votes to be in the top 25, but that's as close as you got. Liberty did. Yes. Good. All right. Go ahead. Utah court. Utah is in the big 12, but according to Google, they're still in the pack 12. So Google is a little lag in there. A little lag Google. All right. Let's get to break. When we come back, Frank gets the star in this next big five. We're going to Chris on the other side. Hi, come on Chris. Kind of a kind of lazy Monday afternoon, you know. I've been tired all day long. Padres aren't playing today. Tony's in studio. We're hanging scrapies at Riggly Field. He sent some pictures out already. He sent in pictures of his exciting afternoon at Riggly. Where he's going to see the Cubs play the twins. And I always call them that because that's what Uncle Teddy called them. Let's win because he had twins. Oh, and it stressed him out every time he saw that name twins. Uncle Teddy, did you hear the Uncle Teddy co-hosted with Ben? I did hear that airwaves last week for an hour to one day. I don't know what day it was, but that's awesome. Uncle Ted, I'd love to hear that. Always, always love to hear Uncle Ted's voice. The best. He comes and visits with us every once in a while before the game. We get to. Yeah. We get to, uh, you know, reggae regales you. I was trying to come up with a clean word to you. We get to talk in a lot of trash while we're in the same room. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. But yeah, I did get to see. I didn't get to listen to the show though. I didn't find out till after the fact that he was, uh, co-hosting with Ben. Uncle Theodore. Theodore. Still without a, uh, no hitter to his credit. And man, my man frustrates him, retires and two of them happen. Like, and then Donorsillo tweets out that he's now done five. Yeah. I don't think Donorsillo is popping off about it. He was just making note of it, you know, that this is cool that I've got to do five no hitters. Ted got zero. All right. We missed you, Ted, but I'm glad to hear that he was on the air with Ben last week. That's good. Very cool. All right. We're going to get to the big five top five sports stories of the day, according to Frank Marchese, who's filling in for Scrabie today. But first, there's a check of traffic. It's that time of the show when we check on the latest in sports, only the most important topics and questions are brought to light. Stop what you're doing and listen. These news stories will astound and amaze you. The one, the only. Oh my God. Who the hell cares? The big five starts 97 three, the fan. All righty. So five sports stories today, like two or three of which Chris has already tried to swipe out from under me. But we'll, uh, they tried to vulture your, your stories, man. We will, uh, we'll get to it right now. We'll get it going. Number five. All right. So we spend so much time on these shows discussing historically good. So how about we give equal time to historically bad? The Chicago White Sox are in the midst of a historic run, one that sees them one lost shy of the AL record for most consecutive losses and three shy of the all-time record. After losing 13 to seven to the twins yesterday, the Sox now sit at 20 consecutive losses. They have not won a game since game one of a double header on July 10th. Wow. Also against Minnesota. That puts it into perspective though. July 10th was a ways ago and sit at an overall record of 27 and 87. Yeah. They started three game series in Oakland tonight, who to them may as well be the 2001 Seattle Mariners before a day off and then coming back home for a weekend series against the Cubs. Chris. Yeah. Am I the jerk for wanting this losing streak to continue so they could take the 62 Mets off the 100. Yeah. All right. You're not the jerk at all. I mean, if my team, you know, had the had the had the kind of the note, the record that I'm the worst team of all time, I'd like a little company in that category. Now, the Mets of 62, they never lost 20 in a row. No. The record there is held by the Phillies of 19, I believe 61. Yes. It was the year before the Mets. Phillies were managed by a game named Gene Mock, who'd go on and manage the angels to some success actually in the 70s and 80s. But Gene Mock's Phillies lost 23 in a row. I don't know. No, you can't do it. From the outside looking in though, you feel like you're so close, you might as well lose the next three, get to 23, then come back to Chicago, go to Wrigley Field. No, they're home for the Cubs. Yes. See, I'm sorry. Come back home, have the Cubs come in and then set the record against the Cubs 24. My eyes will make some history. Some you can tell your kids. It's a lot more fun than telling them that you lost 20 in a row and didn't quite get the record. I was on one of the worst teams of all time. I forget it, dad. I want to hear about it if you're on the worst team. Yeah, not one of. You got to be the worst. 20 is not good. Some of their, I feel so bad for some of their pitchers though. I mean, not that they're any good, but you look at some of their records, right? Soroka's 0 and 10. Chris Flexin is 2 and 11. None of those are going to look good. I mean, they can't look good because the team never wins a game. Anyway, Tonya, how excited are you to be going there in September? Last road trip. We don't go there. They come next. Oh, yeah, that's right. We went there last year. That's next year. That's coming in here. Last home stand again. I mean, it's become, it's the last three years. It's been a weird thing now where we end with the White Sox, whether it be at home or on the road. So, and it seems out of place to me a little bit. If this goes back to this whole stupid new schedule that we have now, so we got to play them at some point. I want to play the division more. I don't mind the new schedule. It's how they've implemented it to where like you're done with the Dodgers in June. That's a problem. You got to take games away if you're going to play everybody. No, I know, but then parse them out to where you're playing like only the division in September or something like that. White Sox. I guess they could do that. White Sox called up kid from the minor leagues. McDonald's baby. Kai Bush. He's making his major league debut tonight. And all he's being asked to do is stop a 20 game losing streak. There might be more pressure on this kid than if he were starting game one of the World Series. Like just go out there and have fun. Don't worry about it. Come on. It's only history on the line. Right. Number four. All righty. So, number four not to take away from the sweep of valet last week. Sounds like you're about to take away the sweep. But the Dodgers team we saw to close out last month was not their 18. That's fair. Big players like rookie bets are sidelined with injury, but one of the biggest names was out for a very, very different reason. Freddy Freeman had been placed on the family emergency list on July 25th with no details really known. In a joint social media post yesterday, Freddie and his wife Chelsea stated that their three-year-old son Maximus quote went into full body paralysis and was rushed to the hospital to quote reinforce his lungs. This is linked to a rare neurological disorder called Julianne Barr syndrome. Maximus is recovering and has a quote long road ahead. Freddie could return to the Dodgers this week. Possibly tonight the Dodgers have not put out their lineup just yet. The Phillies have the Dodgers have not. Still? Yes. Well, it's common soon because they just DFA'd Kevin Bezio. So, they're making the roster moves necessary to get everybody there. Tony, as a father, I'm sure you don't want to imagine what that family is going through right now with their three-year-old son. Yeah. No, I don't. I can't imagine playing under those circumstances. It was hard for me to play in 14 when my dad was was a real sick. I can't imagine what it's like to have your baby, your three-year-old son be going through something this traumatic. It kind of feels so awful because a three-year-old and it's like so powerless to do anything about it. You can't give him a pep talk. Really, you know, you just pray. That's all you can do. And I mean, he played I think a few games while they were trying to figure out what was going on. And then he basically got so bad that he had to take a leave. Yeah, no, I can't imagine having to play and focus in the way you have to at the big league level when nothing's going on outside of your life. So in some ways, I can guess this could be kind of a getaway for a little bit for just for a few hours before he has to kind of refocus and, you know, lock in on his son. The part that really got me was having to reinforce his lungs. I mean, they had to remove a ventilator. Yeah. Eventually had to remove a breathing tube. I mean, that's this isn't an adult. Again, this is a three-year-old. So you can only imagine the type of pain that was just to go through that part of what he's dealing with. Absolutely. Number three. All right. Another heartwarming story that happened over the weekend surrounded the NFL's Hall of Fame game that took place between the Houston Texans and a team that is known as the Bears. The Bears. During the Hall of Fame and Shrinement ceremony, Stephen McMichael was shown surrounded by his teammates from the legendary 85 Bears defense as his Hall of Fame bust was unveiled in his home in Homer Glen, Illinois. Mongo has been bedridden from battling ALS over the last three years and has lost the ability to speak. Chris Berman relayed a message from McMichael stating, quote, "I don't want ALS to be my legacy." What I did on the field, that's my legacy. Pushing myself to the limit farther than anyone else could. Chris, what do you remember about seeing McMichael and that Bears defense? Yeah. Well, the Bears defense is the best I've ever seen. And I know that the Ravens of 2000 and Ray Lewis get most of the the love for that because there's, you know, that's a this closer generation. But the 85 Bears were the best I ever saw and they just tore everybody up. I think the, I don't know if it was the Patriots and the Super Bowl had minus 37 yards rushing. You couldn't even, you couldn't even get back to the line of scrimmage against them. And your passing attack would just be obliterated by their rush. Nobody had ever seen that 46 defense at the time. So nobody really knew how to plan against it. Marina was the only one who beat him and he beat him on a bunch of lucky bounces. He was thrown off his back foot. McMahon was injured. That's the only thing that kept the Bears from going undefeated. But McMichael was right in the middle of that. So it doesn't work without the guy right in the middle, you know, of the line. And, you know, this was a great, wonderful touch by the Hall of Fame to bring the bus to him and let him be able to celebrate in that manner. When I saw it, I thought a lot about people like, I guess, maybe Don Coriel came to mind. But others, people that should be in the Hall of Fame, that they wait too long to put in the damn Hall of Fame. And they never get instant. They don't get to see that even. And full happens in football. So let that be a lesson to, you know, all of the Hall of Fame's. You know, he got to see at least himself get inducted. And that was a precious moment. Absolutely. Number two. All right. I don't. Oh, sorry. My bad. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. What was the question? What do I remember? What do I remember about seeing a McMichael? I don't remember much. I was only three. But I know that that was one of the best defenses to ever play football. Yeah. And, and, you know, while I remember it as defense is because even though this defense was an 85, it felt like when they came out with Tecmo Bowl, that they, you could still, the defense remnants of that defense was still there. But yeah, I was a little, probably a little too young to really know this defense like that. All right. I think. Number two. This is really number one, but I think I don't think we're going to have enough time to get through all five. The college football season kicks off with week zero action at nine a.m. on August 25th with Georgia Tech hosting Florida State. But that doesn't mean that we cannot start racking up NCAA violations early. New Michigan football head coach, Sharon Moore, was found to have violated rules along with six other members from the 2023 coaching staff. The allegations include more deleting a 52 text thread with former staff or Connor stallions about stallions attempting to steal play call signals from upcoming opponents. Now, if you think these are Michigan like they had to cheat to beat central Michigan. These are these are allegations. Allegations. Yes. Now, there are shots of this guy standing in a central Michigan hat on the sidelines. I do remember that from last year. For sure. Now, if you're thinking you know more from somewhere, you probably do because this is the same goober that cried during his post game. You must have written this question. Yes, I did. I wrote all these. This is the same goober that cried during his post game interview after beating Penn State when Harbaugh got suspended for. Oh, yeah, that's right. These very same allegations. Yeah, Tony, why should this guy not be fired by Harbaugh personally? Because it's the same allegations. Yeah, but if Harbaugh's taking the rap for this guy, and this is the guy who actually did it, then Harbaugh got suspended for it. The thing is, the NCAA already had all this information last year. We're just now hearing about it. And that was the whole point. Remember when the big 10 went ahead and I don't know if they clear, I think they cleared him at that point, which allowed Harbaugh to come back and coach in the whole time we knew the NCAA was still investigating. So they had all this stuff. And if they really wanted to do something about it, they would have came down with their decision last when the season was still going. So you know, at this point, you let it roll till now. I don't want to hear from you, NCAA. This is part of the issue with the NCAA and them ruling over things is that there's no consistency and they take years before they actually come up with something. By that time, people have changed jobs, things have changed at that point. My point was Harbaugh took the rap for this guy. And if Harbaugh was free and clear of not doing anything, I feel like should be the one to give any penalty to this guy. Frank, I feel like you got some type of grudge against Michigan here. You called him a man of Goober. I'm a Penn State guy. There it is. And Penn State, the cleanest football program in the history of man. That's why I left that part out. Great joke, eternal and others. Does it have a football program? Let's be honest, though, no college football fan anywhere can throw stones because you probably live in a glass house no matter who you are. Which is exactly why this stuff ought to just go away. The NCAA had their chance to get Michigan. They got what they got. It should be over. It should be over by now. Tell me you're a Penn State fan without telling me your Penn State fan. During a post game interview, it was his first win. But he's the one that did all this. Sounds like sour grapes. No, it's not. It's really not. It's how are you crying when you're the one who did it and you're replacing the guy who's taking the powerball line that if he's lying then fine. You still are a part of this. You're crying as though you're innocent. I don't think it mattered. They still tap Penn State on the weight of the championship. It's only like a five point game. It's still a no. I get that. But still, it's it's not. Anyone one that wants to Penn State doesn't matter. That's not the point. 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