The Morning Shift on 92.9 The Game
Full Show - July 9, 2024
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And Atlanta sports radio guru Bo Morgan. You know I am, I'm sweating. You come, I'm coming! It helps coming with me, you hear! It's a new experience. And a new take on a sports morning show. The Morning Shift is on. Sports Radio 929 the game. Now, here's Tiffany, Mike, and Bo. Good morning, it is Tuesday, and this is the Morning Shift from Sports Radio 929. The game, we are live here in the key studios. Robertine, Bo, and myself, Tiffany, here hanging out with you this morning. Gentlemen. What's going on, Tiff? I don't know, I don't know, you tell me. You're weird this morning. I'm good, I caught up. Are you getting a weird vibe from him? Yeah, this is weird. Day to day, I'll tell you, I'm a little bit sad this morning because one of my favorite characters on the house, I don't want to give too much away. But House of Dragon might not be joining us for the rest of the season. So I immediately start texting Day Day because he's the person at work that we talk about, House of Dragon, and we go back and forth. So I'm texting Day Day, and he goes, that person was my favorite. And I go, my two! So that bummed me a little bit, so then I tried to get my mood back. That made me show that's not real life. You remember the guy. I'm sorry if you've never been connected to a TV show, Tiffany, are you that person? Yeah, I mean, it's not going to be said. She didn't grow up watching soap properly. I did not, I did not. Did you? Did you, grandma, I used to make you a sponsor? You too, I was going to get involved, huh? I know who some of those key players are on some of those shows, but yeah, no, I wasn't, you know, invested. It was pretty hilarious. Exactly. In college, you know, we'd go to lunch, come back, watch Days of Our Lives, me and a bunch of dudes. Then we'd go to baseball practice, and we would discuss what's going on on Days of Our Lives. That was the one with the time, the, the, yeah, the, the, the, the, by the time through the outlast, these are the days of our lives. My mom also would watch the Young and the Restless with the guy with the mustache. Victor, Victor Newman. Victor Newman. Day Day! I knew it! But we're like, our TV viewing is very simpatico, me and Day Days. Yeah, so Victor Newman, yeah, that was, I used to watch that crowd when I was cute. Jack Abbott, that evil Jack Abbott. Oh, I do remember Jack. Yeah. He was like Victor's rival. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I know, you know, I'm not going to say I haven't watched episodes, but I, you know, yeah. Tiffany is the only one that's going to come out of here. Like, like, we're going to lose man cards. We're talking about that and they're going to be like, man, so glad Tiffany was there to say the show you're talking about soap operas. I mean, you know, I was, you know, busy playing sports. I was like, I don't beat kids up on the playground. I was not. Getting red cards. Yeah, right, right, right. Anything. Actually, I'll talk about myself first, because I never did. Guys, I got a way to playing kid again. And it changed my life last night. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What time did you go to bed last night? Or, you know what, better question. Better bet, I thought I should not explore this that year, but I would know. Did you fall asleep immediately is what I would say. Probably, well, because I was so exhausted, it might have been a contributing factor. So we'll get the real assessment on the way to blanket, because I'm not exhausted today. We'll get the assessment on it tonight. But I was asleep within probably the first, like, 10 minutes of getting into bed last night. Finally. I know. Because you're capable of homicide. Well, you still are, but not quite as much. I still am, but not as much, not as much. Yeah, fair or less for my life. I should feel a little safer when she sleeps. You know? You should. You should. Everything. Treble's the one that came in here looking like he didn't have any sleep. I did, because I was watching the Braves game, and then Diamondbacks go up, what, three to one? I just, I went to bed because I had no faith that they would come back. And what do they do? They came back. Well, they, before we, you know, I know we're getting into it. But, you know, Shark Week is this week, too. I know, and I have not been, I know, we have to watch the replays. Just get out of the Gulf. Well, just go. It's been a shark summer. Yeah, no kidding. And that's, you know, that's actually been some of the theme is, but not in, not in the summer, but there, there was one last night. Shark attacks being up in certain areas. And then they had one about the Mako. And apparently there's like a, like, there. The Mako's the fastest shark, I think. Well, it's also the most evil looking shark, because it's got those big old eyes. And it's really like, like, like serrated blades. Yeah, they're, they're, they're like ratchet looking teeth. And, um, and a ratchet, he was what I would say. And, but they have, uh, they had one. They called it the beast, like about 15 years ago. And it's gone. And it was one of the biggest Makos that they were seeing. They think that one of it's, uh, and sess, you know, like Ken folk is out there now. And it's just thing is gigantic, like 15 foot. I'm obsessed with sharks. I love Shark Week. I do love Shark Week. I do too. And I'm, I'm going to have to sit down, shut it down at an earlier time this evening, so that I could catch up on what I missed. But also we should stop calling it shark attacks. What do you expect to happen when you go in? Go into their house. See it. Exactly. It's a, you're, you're home invading. Maybe a shark encounter. Is that probably? Yeah. A shark encounter that led to all of the bull sharks. The bull sharks are truly evil because they're like in fresh water now, reproducing in fresh water. They are particularly ill-tempered. Gotta find a way to adapt. Yeah, they, um, them and the, them and the, those, those tiger sharks are pretty, pretty mean to tiger sharks or mean to tiger sharks and bull, you know, honestly, great whites and makos that for the most part, I mean, you have to go, most of the time you have to really go out in their area. A lot of times their bites are mistakes. They mistake you for something else. The bull sharks are just mean. What do they call an investigative bite? Something like that. It's just whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's just kind of. Sessing it out. Hey, what is this? What is this? This chicken? Hopefully you don't give it by a shark. But you mentioned, I was watching, I was watching one just to put the phone on it. Sorry, but I was watching one shark documentary, whatever you may call it. So it says, a lot of times they mistake like surfers for walruses because of the long. You mean a seal. Seal, yeah, seal. The silhouette looks like a seal. Right. Exactly. You done? I'm done. Thanks, Tiff, for letting me intrude. This hour brought to you by Morgan and Morgan injured. Higher Morgan and Morgan America's largest injury law firm. Robbie T did not get to see the rest of the race. I gave up on him. I got to get some. What is like 1130? It was close. It was five to four. That's the only thing in this team though. Last year it was routine after the seventh inning and come back. I know they come back. They win five to four 11 innings. They broke a 28 game losing streak where their opponent scored four runs or more, which is an amazing stat that the team we watched last year would ever go through a stretch like that because how many games they win where it was eight, six, seven, five, five, four, eight, seven, but you know, Tiffany, you make fun of Rob and I. What? Because every time we see a guy that this team has never faced, we get panicked. And last night it was fun. Gilbert Diaz goes out there and looked like, I mean, Roger Clemens do throw six innings. He's hitting 98 miles an hour. Rob, you were impressed with his curve and gives up one run. And they look at him as a reliever long term too, which is interesting. But I say what if he's a reliever, then he's going to, he would be a hell of a closer. What do you mean? He might be. I mean, holy snikies, but, but look, the Braves were able to inch back elder. So they switched it up. We talked yesterday about Chris Selby and the guy. The Braves who, and I even said yesterday, I said, Robert feels like they're going away from the six man rotation. He's back. Boom. It's back. They have elder out there. He goes, elder actually pitched pretty well. He was cruising till six inning. What do you think? What do you think it may be? Could be fatigue or maybe third time through the line, but he didn't get tattooed. Just gave up a run. And I think he walks somebody, then he left the game and then you bring in homes. Yeah, homes wasn't his best, but he did get out of it. The elder was tagged with the three iron runs. Homes get sad of it with only allowing two more to cross the plate. And then Sean Murphy, Eddie Rosario, who gets caught up as well, gets on bases. His only hit of the game came timely off seawalled, who's blown what four straight. Thanks a lot, seawalled. He's on my fantasy roster and gives up a two run shot to Murphy. And the Braves were able to win it in the extras of Marcelo Zun, who comes up with a big sack fly. Speaking of Ozuna, let's find out who's participating in certain events. In the All-Star game, we'll discuss when we hit the front page next on the morning shift on Sports Radio Night and on the game. Good morning back to more of the morning shift with Tiffany, Mike, and Bo on Sports Radio 929 the game. One, two, three. It's time to take a look at today's top headlines. This is the front page on the morning shift. Time to go in the front page and Marcelo Zuna will compete in this year's home run Derby, the designated hitter for the Braves, is in the midst of a resurgent season, he entered yesterday with 23 homers and an NL leading 72 RBIs. So other entries in the slugging exhibition are the Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt, Jr. And then for the Phillies, it is Alex Boehm, Alec Boehm, excuse me. And then Gunnar Henderson for the Baltimore Orioles and then Peter Lonzo of the Mets. So more participants will be announced in the coming days. So nothing lasts too long to home run Derby. Remember it used to last seemed like five hours. It was never ending. Yeah, did you like it better the way it used to be like back in the late 90s or the kind of elimination, the guy, you know, player versus player that they have? I like it back then because it was kind of new. Now it's just kind of it's like the slam dunk contest. It's a big yawn for me. Well, I will say that at least we're getting at least guys want to do this. Peter Lonzo apparently is addicted to it. It's like his Superboy every year. This is his fifth straight. I'm excited to see Gunnar Henderson in it because he's been a guy. I'm really excited to see Marcel. I will say that I was had the article that came out Saturday, not come out or Sunday, whatever it was, whatever I sent it to you that Dave O'Brien did about Marcel. I would have been a lot more worried about Marcel doing this. But I do believe now that he actually has a better understanding of his swing than he's had in a long time and understands what to do to make that adjustment, if that makes sense. Like, I don't believe that this will necessarily ruin his swing. I don't think there's a whole lot of information out there to confirm or deny that home run derby can affect a guy's swing. I just, I haven't seen enough evidence. That seems to be just kind of a talking point. Is it kind of like an urban myth? Kind of like the, you think it's like a mad cover? I don't know if it's necessarily that. Well, the mad cover, I don't think that was clearly. You're on the cover, you're going to tear your ACL. Yeah, but it's kind of going away itself for the most part. But I don't know, I think it's, I think guys kind of getting bad hat, they can get in bad habits, maybe. And sometimes I think the discipline of the plate or that maybe if you're putting in the work to get out of those bad habits that you do, but do the home run derby, then you get back into cage or take some BP, hit off a tee and do all the basic things you do to keep your swing maintained or put it back together after a home run derby. Well, and that's the one thing that that that don't worry about with Marcel is he changes swing like three weeks ago, just to hit home runs. And he was like, this sucks. I'm not doing very well. I got to go back. I'm just overall happy for him because he got clown. He deserved. He had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. And we all do. We're all messy in our own ways. And now this redemption is kind of a wonderful thing to see because he was in the pit of hell. Yeah. And now that he's basically, this is a second straight, you know, he's on pace for another 40 home run season, be a second straight, another 100 RBI season, be his second straight. That option of 16 million dollars next year is probably going to be the easiest decision Alex and topless might have to make this all season. Who would have thought we were convinced last year that he'd be out of here by June. Yeah, doesn't need for assignment or something, you know, shows how much we all know. No, nothing. Nothing. Atlanta United defender Caleb Wiley has been named to the United States men's Olympic team for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. It was announced. And so the US will play in group A, they'll be facing Olympic Coast France on July 24th and New Zealand on July 27th. And they'll also be playing on July 30th. You pay attention to that to get ready for your assignment over there. Yes. Yes. That was what we were all waiting. You can prepare, but you can only prepare so much until you actually know the set roster. Right. And luckily that came out yesterday morning or was that the yeah, it was yesterday. So yeah, now I'll be basically diving in. Now let's go time. Now let's go time. Apparently Caleb Wiley is going to be the Chelsea's next player because it sounds like there's reports that came out late yesterday that he is about to transfer to Chelsea. The athletic had it. One of their guys had it looks like it's going to be around a 10.9 million dollar transfer fee, which is only like eight and a half euros, I guess. I don't know. I don't really know how the Euro to American dollar thing works, but that is the other news at Caleb. So a big day for Caleb Wiley, essentially, where he's going to get to go to the the EPL and play for the United States Men's National team. So it's been good for him. I'm like another player. This, whatever you want to say about the business model, they might not be winning titles right now or trophies or however, Darren Hills used to say it, but they are still developing players and making money off the transfer fees for somebody else. Yeah, but that's the model of the MLS. I mean, that's the model. You either used to be the reverse. We'd get guys towards the tail end of their glamorous names who have lost a step, but I think it's like a farewell tour for them when they came to the MLS. Rob, I think it's, I think it's both though. I think it is a league where you bring in young players and develop them and send them. Well, it's like when they brought in Rooney, a couple of years ago. Or you bring in guys like Beckham, Rooney, Messi now, you know, and they have kind of a couple of year farewell tour and try to help, you know, build the league. I mean, Messi's getting a lot out of his time in the MLS. Also, just a quick note. Atlanta United, they take on India 11 tonight in the quarterfinals of the US Open Cup. That's at seven o'clock at a fifth, third bank stadium. The game is going to be broadcast right here, 19 on the game with pregame coverage starting at six with a Gordon and Garrett Chapman. So stay tuned for that. Boy, I'll be in in a room with those two. It's just shoot me now. It's kind of, but it is kind of like the polar opposite. Garrett is very proper, very, not a one. It's like a prep school kid. Yes. And then you've got ABL. Yeah, you've got ABLs at you there. It's like, why are you yelling at me? It's a walking heart attack. This story from Jeff Borzello, VSPN. Yukon coach Dan Hurley, who led the Huskies to back to back national championships. You also remember, he turned down the Lakers job. Last month, he has now signed a contract to stay in Connecticut through the 2029, 2020 2030. I can't even freeze it, even be saying that season. So Hurley's new deal is worth 50 million over six years before performance base incentives. He said it was an honor to coach basketball at Yukon and to represent this world-class institution and the great state of Connecticut. You know, I wonder what his ultimate goals are. I still feel maybe he wants to end up in the NBA. He just didn't want to go out there and be under LeBron's toxic cloud. He didn't want to develop, Bronny. My golf players were better than he's gone. Yeah, you know, I think you're, I think you got a lot of truth to what you're saying. I also though, don't think he's an NBA coach. I don't think his, you think his demeanor, you think he's too hardcore and I would, yeah, but people can soften their message and kind of read the room. I don't know if he can though. He's, he's pretty intense. Yeah, I think, I think you are a hundred percent right on everything you just said, but I, and I think the latter, the very last part is I don't think he's a guy that's going too soft in his stance. I don't think he's, I think he, I think he's a very good coach, Rob, but I think he has got an ego that might not fit in this room. And that's just the, that's just the feeling you get from the way he, the way he taught, like how many coaches are going to talk to their fan bases, the way, no, I thoroughly enjoyed it. But I mean, coaches are going to, going to talk to his fan base the way he did. I, I don't think he, well, what did he say? Well, he basically called him bad fans for how they were acting at one point in the regular season or maybe in the tournament. I, I don't think he's a guy that is going well with a guy making $55 million a year. Who are you talking to me like that? Yeah, man, I make more money than you do. And I do, I do think you're right about the look. I don't think he was going to go there and and listen to LeBron, because I think LeBron is the de facto head coach. And you know what? That's okay. LeBron's earned it. Look, it's earned it. If you want to give your front, what does he earn to do that, though? It'd be a toxic presence. I mean, every other year they, they, they get rid of role players. Who's a common denominator? You and A.B, I guess. Well, yeah, well, I'm like, you know, A.D. can't say healthy. That's part of the problem. But, but look, if LeBron James is the all-time leading scorer, if you want to give, if you want to bring a guy like that in, you know that you're going to pay him the very maximum you can pay him, and you're going to have to concede control. So yeah, if, if someone, he's earned the right, that if someone thinks that they're going to do that and give that up, that's your bad decision, not, that's the his fault. I mean, that's, that's, that's, that's no different than we saw other guys. It's not LeBron's fault. Like, no, for wear, this is funny how nobody wants to go out there and play with them. Well, nobody wants to come here and play either, apparently, because I don't, I don't. Different reasons. I know, but this one in the same where no one's knocking on the door to come play here either. That's the one thing I'll give Hawks management. All the things you want to say about how they've mishandled it, which they have, why is no one knocking on the door to come here? Well, you know, we're, when players want to play with guys that they think they can win titles with, why is no one knocking? We always say the Hawks won't go get any one. The NBA is a, a superstar control league. Why is no one knocking on the door to come play in Atlanta? Well, I think we have a superstar that has looked at a certain way in the league amongst his peers, clearly. Yeah, I don't disagree. I'm just, you know, it's a fair question. I think sure. A fair question. Okay. Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, it's Rob Rob's 100% right. Why is no one going to play in LA? Why is no one to come play? Go look at where guys are going. They're going to play with you. You think, you think anyone wants to play in any day? Edwards? I bet a lot of people do who also is, you know, probably going to be the star of the US Olympic team in a minute. We'll get to that in a minute. Yeah. Um, that will be coming up on the other side as well as a TV's timeout. But yes, he had a lot to say. Um, makes me like him even more. How can you not? And also, I still can't shake the MJ, like they, they do look alike. It's kind of wild. So anyway, that's all coming up. On the other side, when we come back here on the morning shift, on sports radio, 929 the game. Morning's on the game means more of the morning shift. Nice. On sports radio, 929 the game. Back here on the morning shift, this hour brought to you by Morgan and Morgan injured, higher Morgan and Morgan America's largest injury, law firm, right? The USA men's basketball, group stage opponents are scheduled for the 2024 Paris Olympics. It is set after Puerto Rico qualified for the Olympics on Sunday. Team USA's schedule at the games is now confirmed. So the United States will open up against Serbia on July 28th at 11 15 a.m. Eastern time. And then they will face off against South Sudan on July 31st at 3 p.m. So this is all according to sports tracks, Keith Smith. That part is so all right. So it's set, but this looks like a, it's a pretty fun roster. I think all the storylines that are coming out of this. As we call him here on the show, Jolene bid. Now, Joel, indeed, you, I don't know if you heard that. Who called on that? What happened? I was just like reading. I know I was just reading. What'd you call him? I called him Joel. No, he is, but I was just reading. And sometimes my brain does whatever at once. Who's your favorite old golfer? Chai Chai Rockford was, you know, Jolene bid, you know, never know what my brain's going to do on a different day. So it was one of those moments around because it was early in the show's existence. And you know, I kind of trust Tiffany's uh, Annunciation of names and enter in her reading capabilities. And I just kind of looked at her and I kind of cut my eyes back in my, and I look back at her and I was like, wait, I was like, what? What are you guys looking at? What do you want from me? What do you want? Indeed. I was like, if I'm pronouncing this name wrong this whole time, I don't even know what my, I don't even know why I did it anyway. But yes, there's been some fun storylines, coming out of all the media availability that they've been having at Team USA's practice, Dylan, you ready for that? Anthony Edwards sound? So yeah. So Anthony Edwards is, you know, confident going into this. I'm still the number one option. Yeah. I mean, y'all might look at it differently. I don't look at it no differently. Yeah. I just go out there and be myself, shoot my shots, play defense and you know, they got to fit in and play around me. That's how I feel. I'm the number one option. I love it. I mean, do you ever love that? That's what they didn't want. I'm the number one option. I love it. He's so likable. He is former dog. Yeah. Atlanta, Atlanta kid grew up here. He, he is, boy, he's what you want in alpha on a team. If you want to got to lead your team, that's the kind of guy you want. A true alpha guy that his teammates, he's got an infectious attitude to say the least and he's an easy guy to follow. He, um, and a true competitor. The funny thing though is, you know, after yesterday's scrimmage, the select team's Cooper flag. I saw him going off a little bit. Dude, he, he, he looked like a, is he 17 hasn't even played a college game yet for Duke and he looked like a man out there balling. He looked like his wife and kids were there watching us, how old he seems about 17. But he's the first, um, so there have been other college players to go, um, oh my gosh, four revolts Boston Celtic, Marcus Smart, um, but the difference between him and Marcus and then, who was a more recent draft pick? I just dug, um, I'll think of it. Anyway, there's only been two college players to be invited, uh, to go practice with team USA. And then this kid's the other one. But the difference is he's never played, uh, he's never played a college game before. So. Yeah, Doug McDermott. So you're talking about, um, but yeah, and it's, it's, um, it's really, it's, I've always really liked when they get these guys of practice. I think he kind of shows who they are. Remember back in the day, back in the 92 dream team, the big deal, Leitner was Leitner that made it, but he was such an afterthought. Yeah. Well, I think that then you had to have one, one college player in the year. And he was great. But even then they kind of, they kind of, they, they, they, that, that was a team full of, of alpha bullies at times. Like they weren't afraid to kind of embarrass you in front of other people. But the fact that Cooper Flagg's already doing this, he's already predicted to be the number one pick in 2025, which sucks because can we get next year to you think maybe we can get Risha Shea Cooper flag? Can we just, can we, maybe the Hawks win a lottery two years in a row? And then we don't have to worry about superstars coming up. Well, they're certainly seemingly trying to position themselves in such a way. Is there any doubt in your mind that the USA will win the gold medal? Oh, there's always doubt. Yeah. I mean, who are your most dominant players in the NBA now for the most part, foreign players? They've caught up. The world has caught up. Now was David Stern's vision, though. Yeah, but we've got to spread the basketball gospel. Yeah. We've got the Jason Tatum's of the world. We got the Anthony Edwards. I mean, look, I think it's not going to be as easy. I mean, they're not going to go out and beat Angola by 70 again, I don't think. You know, they should. Well, you know what I'm saying? They're not going to steamroll through. No, I know. They start off having to play Yokech. I was going to say in Serbia. Yeah. Yeah. So it's honestly not going to be easy to stop. No, it's not. But, but, but the reality situation is is we should still, we should be there at the end of the day, holding up the gold medal easily. I mean, to me personally, I think that's just like I always expect our, I don't know, this hits home a little bit with you, but I always think our women's soccer team should be the team standing there at the end of the day, because we have dominated that for so long. I mean, for the most part, we have been the world superpower in women's soccer. I don't know if I necessarily want us to win the gold. I'm kind of a big ivory coast guy. You're rooting. You're rooting against. I'm rooting for the ivory coast. Against the country. What? Have you defected? Did I know about it? I know. Are you a factor? I might be. Do you have another give like dual citizenship somewhere else? I should look into it. You might have to now. You might have to now. I don't think you would pass the test. And I think they would see you as a security threat somewhere else and some sort of interloper. Very national threat. You follow me everywhere I go. Oh, he naps a lot. So he's not going to do much. Well, hey, get ready for another powerball jackpot tomorrow. Powerball players can win millions playing in store or online at Georgia Lottery dot com or GA Lottery dot com. So that five oh five o'clock commute to your dream estate might just make up for the time spent in traffic only from the Georgia Lottery. So have you guys played? Well, every morning when I drive in, I see the sign and I see if someone won the last time there was a drawing and I watch it and there's a certain monetary amount that I go. All right, I'm in. I'm gonna start by but it was funny because I was driving in this morning and I saw that the powerball was 41 million and I started trying to do the math in my head like if I take it all right now, they're gonna this much is going out in taxes. What would I get and I was about a million dollars off. I thought it was going to be like 20 somewhere around this over 20. It'd actually be 19.4 million. You would take home if you did it right now. If you go to the website, they always break it down for you. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm I'm in. The other the other one is like at 140 something. So they're both pretty good. All right, this gives me an idea. Let's hit a TV's timeout. Now let's take a look at what's going on in Tiffany's world. The same front with TV's timeout on the morning shift brought to you by maximum cash homebuyers.com their cash offers for as is homes. Don't waste your time with repair. Call 678-902-2000. So the lottery has got me thinking. Oh is Georgia? I can't remember. They one of the states where because there's certain states where you can choose to remain anonymous but you test have to pay. Yes, it is. Okay, so we okay. So well, you have to pay to remain anonymous. Yeah. Did you see the guy when he won the lottery or you wore like a Jason mask? I think it was. I did not see clearly paid to say anonymous. Yeah. Well, he didn't he's not going to pay to say no. Well, I'm going to wear this mask. So my question is, are you paying to say anonymous? Absolutely. Yeah. I'm with I'm with Rob. Yeah. There are states that that's not even an option. The only states you can have the legal right to remain anonymous are Arizona, Delaware and Georgia. That's it. I would absolutely remain anonymous because here's a deal. You want people knocking on your door? Well, you have people kidnapping you pulling up in a white van and throwing the back over your head. Well, driving you off. I would have a driver in a security team because I'm I'm I'm very important right today. But I would I wouldn't I wouldn't quit my job either. I love this is fun for me. I love what I do. I would pay off bills and then I was still coming here and do. I would tell you how to go to hell. So quickly. All you call you out of the car waiting. Honestly, I would retire probably in about 10 years. You know, if I'm lucky enough to retire them on like like, you know, walk away when I want to. But I know I would I would this is fun. I I would let Amy quit working because we shouldn't need to work anymore. But I'd still come in three hours a day. A lot of people want to work as we you kind of want to work sometimes, you know, but on your own terms. Yes. Exactly. I would probably step down as the APD. I probably I don't know. I probably would not still enjoy that. I'd go into my life as a professional trainer. I would finally get my certification. You guys are never here for me. But you're still working. Yeah, I know but that's but I'm saying it's on my own time and it's like, you know, on my own time. No one's tweeting at you, you know, I get one of those sleep chambers. Sleep chamber, you know, I don't think this is is true now. But a lot of times, say maybe 20 years ago, if you saw an older person wearing that orange vested Home Depot, there's a chance they're a millionaire. Yeah, because they've been at Home Depot since day one. They just want to work. Yeah, there's a lot of orange vested millionaire, orange apron millionaire is walking around. Well, I don't think that's the case anymore. But I imagine there's even the even guys who would made me acting and decided that, you know what, they had expertise in it. They still like doing that kind of stuff, but they don't want to do it. Yeah. I mean, dude, we got to find something. Yeah, you got to sign something to buy your time. Well, yeah, I mean, you do have me busy so you can live long enough to enjoy your money. But yeah, can only play golf. I guess you can play golf eight hours a day if you want. You're walking. You'd find the certainty to want to work and do something at least a few hours a day, I would think. So I would come in here, talk trash all day. Three hours. This hour has been brought to you by overtime boxing and it presents Oh, nine summer bash Friday, July 12 at OTE arena in Atlanta. 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It is brought to you by zero as smart lasting clean. So this comes from Jeremy Fowler. He is the senior NFL national reporter for ESPN and the worldwide leader surveyed league executives coaches and scouts to help them rank the top 10 players at 11 different positions from quarterback to cornerback and all the positions in between. So this is the fifth edition of those rankings and it's list season. It's list season one. This is for running backs. They have Christian McCaffrey. We all know 49ers and then Breeze Hall for the Jets. Nick Chubb for the Browns. Saquon Barkley. The Eagles. Jonathan Taylor for the Colts. At six you have Bijon Robinson for your Falcons. Seven Josh Jacobs with the Packers. Jamir Gibbs with the Lions. Derek Henry with the Ravens and Travis Etienne of the Jacksonville Jaguars. So Bijon's coming in at six here. There are some honorable mentions as well, but we don't do that on this show. I'm just kidding. Only Mike does that. Yeah. I'm not a big honorable Michigan. I just, you know, those receiving votes like for college football rankings. So if you want to know the honorable mentions, Aaron Jones, Kenneth Walker III, Isaiah Pacheco, James Cook, Alvin Camara, Joe Nixon and DeAndre Swift. Yeah. All good running backs. What do you think at first off, let's start. Let's not start with Bijon first. Christian McCaffrey, I think is clearly the number one right now. Clearly clearly. Even his peers would probably agree. Yes. The Breeze Hall and Nick Chubb thing. I think Breeze Hall is a very, very good running back injury derailed his first season, but he was going off. Last year, he did come back and had a pretty decent season. Saquon Barkley at four and Nick Chubb's three, I know, and I'm saying you're just riding on Saquon and what he did in the past. I mean, I think Saquon is a very talented player, but I think he's still living on what he did at his state. I'd put Jamir Gibbs at him. I like Jamir Gibbs. I don't just, you know, why don't Jamir Gibbs could be up there? Yeah. I don't disagree. So it's almost like this list is a combination of who has that proven track record. Like recently with the Christian McCaffrey. And then also it's factored him with the belief of what someone can do. And I look at that with Saquon Barkley now with him behind the Eagles offensive line. That's maybe what the line of thinking is. Yeah. Let's just Derek Henry have left in the tank. A lot. You know, I don't know because I think Derek Henry doesn't feel like those, the running, you know, he's obviously not falling off the cliff. Yeah, but he doesn't feel like one of those guys. He feels, he feels more like an Adrian Peterson type player that he can go longer than most running backs. And you know what, in Baltimore, I think it's going to, it should work. You would assume it would work. He's not going to have to be. He's not going to have to carry the ball 40 times a game up there like he did in Tennessee. Yeah, I did. That'll probably prolong his career, I would imagine. Now let me ask, well, yeah, and Josh Jacobs going to Green Bay, I think could be good. Travis ETN, he might be a little high, honestly, for, I'm a big ETN fan, but for what he's done so far. Yeah. I think he might be a little high, actually him being over Aaron Jones, I would kind of question. Now, Bajan, you go back and you look, he finished 15th last year in Russian with 976 yards as a rookie. But then you go look at his receiving numbers and he had 487 yards on 58 catches. That was fourth among running backs, fourth in receiving yards among running backs that he had eight touchdowns on the year total, four receiving, four running rushing. So that's clearly why he is at the sixth place. Well, and I'll tell you too, this is what Fowler had to say, the reasoning why. And it said, Robinson didn't quite validate the hype as a rookie. His 976 rushing yards in 2023, which tied for 15th in the league fell shorter projections for the number eighth overall pick in a run heavy offense. So Fowler goes on to say, to be sure, Robinson's usage, despite his obvious ability to shake defenders was curious at times. He said Robinson got more than 15 carries in four of 17 games. So he said the production is not all on him. He's the top five talent at the position right now. That's what won that last part, I just said, is what one animal person was going to put that qualifier in there because I like to wait, what odd usage? Yeah, that's how that's what Fowler put it. Yeah. That's what we're dealing with the Falcons last year. It was odd. Well, it was odd usage. He didn't even play in that one game because of the headache. But I do. Yeah, that was a weird thing. The headache. I don't know. But knows whatever. This from from an NFL offensive coach. So all these people waiting in are obviously staying anonymous. But it says, if he gets to the second or third level, he's incredibly hard to tackle deceptive speed. Once he gets loose, he reminds me of LaShawn McCoy, very elusive, really hard to touch him again. That is what one NFL offensive coach said. Well, look, none of that's done. That's wrong. I just believe that he was. Arthur was saving him for what he was saving him for. I don't know if it was this year. It clearly wasn't last year in the playoffs or anything because that wasn't happening. But I feel like Arthur tried to save him at times. I think Bijon is going to be, you know, I was there was reading about the Christian McCaffrey thing and the Christian McCaffrey thing, and the end of the day is going to go down. Are you talking about the comparison between the two of us? Yeah. Well, I'm just talking about his trade to San Francisco and what he's done since he went. Remember, he wasn't healthy in Carolina for a couple of years. He gets traded in the middle of 2022. But we had the workload of Derrick Henry. Yeah. He was the option. Well, he was also catching balls that were so high that he was getting tattooed in the midsection constantly, but that's another story. But he wasn't in the urine hits. He was. He was his usage, but he's mixing at offense and it's a perfect fit. That's not that different of an offense if at all than what Bijon is going to be involved in with Zach Robin. Remember, some reporter asked him, you know, you might be deployed the way Christian McCaffrey is a similar thing. And his eyes certainly lit up because, oh, yeah, I'd love that. Yeah. Well, to that point, Raim Moore talked about it too. They all were kind of talking about, you know, what they envisioned him being like a Christian McCaffrey. I will point out too that last year, Robinson led the league with 5.2 yards per carry against boxes of seven or more defenders and his 35 explosive plays ranked third for running backs. Yeah. I think he has hard nose running is a little bit underrated. I think the fact that he's actually a better runner inside the tackles. And I think it's not that people don't give him credit for, but it's just not what people, you know, ooze over when they talk about Bijon Robinson. When you think of him being maybe catching passes out of the backfield or being shifty and then, you know, being explosive, not necessarily plowing people over like a Derrick Henry, but he does clearly. But he can lower shoulder, but not not to that extent. Nobody's nobody has a stiff arm of Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry. Do you have a problem with Nick Chubby in three coming off the injury? Yes. And I love Nick Chup, but yeah, coming off certainly. Yeah. I think three and I think I just think Saquon Barkley as good as he is. Hasn't really been the player that that we expected him to be, you know, for all the height that he had coming out. I mean, he, yeah, he's at the beginning, but then the injury is kind of, yeah, he's, he's played one full season in his entire career. And that was in, that a crazy stat and 18. Yeah, I mean, now look, you sometimes you can give guys off. Now, he's had a couple of thousand RC. I mean, his 2022 was great. But you saw where the giants valued their money, whether it was right or wrong, they valued it in the quarterback position, which is honestly that hard knocks the off season. Rob, I watched that off season version of hard knocks, which started last week with the giants. I think there's another episode tonight, I believe. But I watched it and I was just blown away with how good it was. But at the end of the episode, that the whole episode, a lot of it was about Saquon Barkley's future. And they've got a cup, they've got like all his, the GM's got all his scouts in there. And he goes, Hey, you know, what do you guys think? And one guy goes, well, I mean, what's our offensive identity without Saquon Barkley? And his, the GM goes, well, I've got a $40 million quarterback. You know, if I'm paying you $40 million, you should be more than handing it off to a $12 million running back. And he's absolutely right. And that's it. But that's where the value is. I just don't know what the off, you know, they are losing Jason Kelsey this year, the Eagles. Is that effect that offensive line? Because that's one of the most vital pieces. That's of course. And he was special the way he could run too. But you still have Lane Johnson there. But you have your, your center's gone. And that's the kind of a linchpin. Yeah, that veteran leadership, right? That guy that the center is kind of, Mike always says the closer you get to the ball, the smarter you are, every place. So the center in your quarterback or your smartest guys, right? On the all in your offense, that's kind of the guys you, you think are that know everything the most. I just can't say that Saquon Barkley is the fourth best running back in the NFL, because I need to see consistency. And I don't feel like he's been consistently great. Now you could say that Bajan Robinson's overrated. I do think a lot of this is on talent and, and well, you can say about guys like Jamir Gibbs had one good year, but he's a rookie. Yeah, it just depends on how you want to stack your list. And again, this is a combination of the cap for the recent, what have you recently, like the whole, what have you done for me lately? Well, he's done a whole heck of a lot. And then you wonder about Saquon, but he is getting his fresh start now in Philadelphia. You talk about guys that might not hold up. Isaiah Pachecchio, who is an honor. Yeah, he's an honorable mention. He's the third honorable mention, whatever. I guess it makes him 13th on the list. You want a guy that runs hard, is shifty, has a little bit of an acceleration, but I don't know how I mean, he's not a big dude, Rob. He might be my side, you know, height. And he's obviously also patients too. Yeah, remember that was the, remember Mike went on and on about Bajan last year, the kind of the patience, just kind of way to beat her too. And then something's going to open up rather than just plow forward. Yeah. And I think that comes with experience. Oh, it does, of course. Yeah. But maybe Derek Henry's too low on the list. I'm not having him at night. I just based on experience, you just never kind of just never go against Derek. You never go against Derek Henry or doubt him because you just don't. We'd say something you could say, Hey, you could, you could, you could look like any running back in the NFL. Who would you look like? I'd be like Derek Henry. It was funny. I think I've told this before, but Deon Lewis and Derek Henry were both of them tightens at the same time and just standing next to both of them and then even watching both of them stand next to each other. I practice you're a running back. What? Yeah, it's, it's crazy like linebacker size. So anyway, but yeah, I mean, you'd be surprised if it doesn't pan out in, in Baltimore, like that's, that's where I would come from on it. Like I would be shocked if he's not putting up numbers in Baltimore. Granted, he doesn't have to do everything. Right. But that's an offense that he should definitely fit into the Derek Henry's arrival. I'm just going to, I don't necessarily believe the question. I got to ask, but I just want to get other input. Did that put Baltimore as the team to beat in the AFC? It didn't hurt. Yeah, it did not hurt. But I mean, was that this is on Lamar and his decision making to playoffs and also their offensive coordinator who seemed to abandon what was working for them in that playoff game too. Yeah, I, I wholeheartedly believe that that was a, that was a loss that was solely only our offense. But it wasn't all on Lamar. I mean, you had other guys that didn't, but, but Todd Munken's usage of his best players didn't seem to fit the bill. It seems like he abandoned what made him successful. Yeah. Because coaches just, they overthink things. They want to be so clever. And then Arthur Smith suffered from that. Yeah, that's true. He was an overthinker. I hope he overthink that week one. Right. All right. We come back. We're going in the huddle in which player is in favor of an 18 game schedule. Stay with us here on the morning shift on Sports Radio 99 the game. Can you do started? Go ahead with the morning shifts. Time for the show on Sports Radio 929 the game. In a year. Lights in a field. That thing's going to go. And we are tied. Sean Murphy with a match to even things in three with two outs in the top of the night. Sean Murphy coming up big for the Braves. And of course, that was Brandon Godin on the call, courtesy of Bally Sports. That was the sound of a clutch hit Rob clutch hit as the Braves rally to come back and beat the Diamondbacks five to four and 11 innings. Marcello Zuna drove in the decisive run with a sack fly in the 11th. I think Matt Olson might have saved that game last night with that catch back to the infield chasing a foul ball had the presence of mind to spin around him from his knee. Get the ball to play to keep the runner from tagging. His glove lately has been phenomenal. He had a play in the first inning, the Corbin Carroll hit, where an elder just beat him to the to the bag because Corbin Carroll's got a speedster. Alton's glove has been like after. I don't know what the hell happened to them Friday night where they all they the they just collapsed defensively like that. What was it like the six in every year? I think I was texting you. We were. This is a clown show. Yeah. Back to Matt Olson, though, and you're talking about the play that he had. Rob will Sean Murphy pretty much call the play of the game. I mean, it was spectacular. No, I was thinking like, oh, man, I kind of want to let that one drop, but he had to wear with all the slide and make that throw. I mean, got enough on it, too. You know, we held the runner. That was that was the playing game. I mean, that's that saved a run right there. And that that is a thing. You know, sometimes am I better off just letting this thing drop? Yeah, because it's but it's like, no, let's get the out and I'm going to spin around and get it to the plate and keep the guy from tagging. Just phenomenal. Look, the timely clutch hitting is been is is something that we just haven't seen enough of this year. They had it last night when it counted the most with Sean Murphy who look, he's got five home runs since he came back. You want to you want to talk about guys playing like the, you know, who's carrying the team lately from the plate? Austin Riley, what was it? Like June 13th or something of this year had three home runs. Now he's got 12. He's hit nine in a month. He's been pretty, pretty freaking hot from there. His glove has been pretty good for them. Again, other than whatever that debacle was Friday night with Murphy and Olson and Riley and they just couldn't get it together. But but they have been, he's, Austin Riley has been playing at a very high level, but they broke a 28 game streak, losing streak of when the other, the opponent has scored four more runs. They've lost and that was just not the team we got used to the last couple of years. And how did Riley, I mean, that was a pitch up and in that he hit over the wall and center field and what is it? Four 13 to center in Arizona. So that's an absolute bomb. I don't know how he was able to hit that out of center field because his up and is actually not a bad pitch. When you're locked in, Rob. When you're locked in, you're locked in, brother. That's right. Let's go in the huddle. It's time to huddle up. Bring it in cold. Bring it in cold. The latest NFL news, rumors, reports and happening. We've been in the huddle brought to you by the good feet store premium arts supports. Learn more at good feet.com on the morning shift. What do you guys think of an 18 game schedule? I think greedy. Yeah, a little greedy as a fan, sure. Sounds like you're trying to make up lost revenue, maybe from a lawsuit. Let's get some fan perspective. We will get the player perspective because Joe Burrow, the Bengals quarterback, he joined party might take. It would be cool to do a normal bi-week schedule that it is now, like have it spread out. But then like week 13, do like the Pro Bowl break where you're doing like the seven on seven and all the skills challenges like the NBA does because I think that would get more ratings for the Pro Bowl. Yes. And then it would also give everybody that bi-week going into like the last six games. These guys that are injured that would be able to potentially come back and you want your best players out there as a league, you want them in the last six weeks of the season, you want your best players on the field. So I think that would be a smart idea. You disagree, Joe Burrow, you're sinking your head vehemently over. This is how he would form at an 18 game. It's a stupid idea. The bi-week, everyone wants it one week. That's fine. You know what? Do it a week where college football has their playoff games and they can do Saturday and Sunday. That part's fine. But this idea of an all the Pro Bowl middle of the season, first off, nobody's sending their guys to potentially get hurt in a seven on seven. No player is going to want to go because they're all injured by week 13 and they want to rest. That's the whole point of a freaking bi-week. If you're doing that, you don't get it. That idea is brutally bad. If you want to take a bi-week in week 13, if you have an 18 game schedule, I am all bored. I got no problem with that. Do it. Let college football have that weekend. It could be games on Saturday, Sunday. You don't have to do a Friday night game. That's a phenomenal idea. That's just forgetting anything Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl crap thrown in there is garbage because no activity. These guys are banged up. They don't want to do that. It's different than other than other sports. Stupid. Yeah. I mean, well, I'm not going to say stupid. I'm saying that. But I am going to say, yeah, a lot of guys are banged up and probably, I don't know, would not be in favor of this. But he's approaching it like what the MLB all are all-star break. The NBA all-star break. WNBA all-star. You know, that's the kind of philosophy I see that what he's trying to do. I don't know if he could apply that to the game. Just have the Biowake get rid of anything Pro Bowls. They might even pay any attention to that anymore. Who cares? I don't think so. And look, I understand like he was asked the question to be completely upfront. He was asked the question. Probably didn't know he was going to ask the question. And it was probably like, yeah, this would be cool. And you know, you're breaking fire. No, he's answered that question before like a month or two ago. That same exact way? Pretty much. Yeah. I don't know. Never mind. I can't remember if he did the Pro Bowl thing, but he did talk about a universal Biowake for everybody. Well, then if he had the problem, then never mind. That's just a bad day because how many guys opt out now? Imagine when their season is still going and they know that there are bonuses on the line if they can stay healthy the rest of you. All these things. He didn't think that completely through. But it's thoughts in the right place with the universal Biowake on week 13. No issue with that whatsoever. Joe is doing cool stunts. It's so cool. It's it's Joe Burrow. I like it. Modeling in the Vogue World Fashion Show. That's it was out if you saw this. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of you know, I understand you're supposed to be a little avant garde with fashion, but there's nothing functional about that. It's it's it's just a moving art exhibit, but it's nothing practical. I enjoyed most about him as he's brought back and he's been rocking this haircut for a while, but it's very much the 90s. Boy Meets World haircut. Yeah. I'm a comic talking in the. A comic. A comic. Not unlike what you see here, although I didn't do my hair today. You know, yeah, I get to a little S curl go. Sometimes he has a little curl going on his forehead. He was also asking a podcast if he could win a Super Bowl next year, but he had to retire or have five straight MVPs and not win that Super Bowl. What would he do? And he got every, he got every clarification he could on the question and says, do I get to keep playing after the fifth MVP year? And the guy goes, yeah, he goes, well, then I'm going to bet on myself to win the Super Bowl in the sixth year because I don't want to retire yet. See? Oh, we have breaking news from Mike Bell Burrow is reacting Caddell in league stance. Reportedly, but Joe Burrow did express that thought himself independently, I believe, but he didn't say anything about the Pro Bowl. He said about the universal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Preach. Hey, Mikey. How you doing? I have no issue with the universal buy, but there's no one's going to the Pro Bowl in the middle of the season. Half of them don't go when when it's at the end of the season. It's just, it would just be more of a joke. I don't think it makes any sense. Plus you did it. Let it be college football's weekend. You are all about, you're all about protecting college football territory. I'm not saying anything's wrong with it. I just know that you are, you're very adamant about that. I'm a huge coach. I care more about it than do the NFL outside the Falcons. All right. Well, uh, this story, Jerry Hughes, the defensive end for the Texans is returning for a 15th season. So this will be his third with the Texans. He appeared in all 17 games the past two seasons with 18 starts yet 16 starts in 2022, but he will turn 36 next month. He has 70 total sacks over the course of his career so far. I mean, longevity feels like he can play. It's like, it's like Kaleas and guys, these guys, they, um, I talked to a, uh, a team guy like a doctor. I think it was like middle of the season last year. And now it's talking about Kaleas. They said, do you know all the things this guy has to do before and after games to play? And that's probably exactly the same for a guy like Jerry Hughes who played all 18 games last year. Hyperbaric chamber. I mean, the dark room, the treatments they go through. Um, and I'm sure that Demica runs being the guy, the coach he is and very understanding of what players go through. He'll have, uh, let him have like a veteran day off in the week. Let me play us last year. When we come back, there's a, uh, a little twist today, uh, which by the way, this hour brought to you by zero as smart, lasting, clean, uh, Dylan, you have a top five Tuesday for us. I do. To the rundown. It is. You are correct about that, Tiffany. Make sure you keep on time with this tease. Hurry up. I will. It is inspired by a national day and I'm going to switch it up a little bit for top five Tuesday. One thing that's near and dear to my hardest food. And this will be a food inspired top five Tuesday. All right. Better be good. Stay with us here on the morning shift on sports radio nights and the game. It's more than just sports, Doc. This is the morning shift. I mean, me too. On sports, radio, 92, nine, the game. It's time to rant. It's huge. It's time to rage. It's time for Mike up on the morning shift. Sports radio, 92, nine, the game. It is the morning shift. And usually this is the time when you hear the soft voice of Mike Johnson or maybe even we're dialed up with dial on. Yep. You know what? Let's tell people how things work. You know, this is something I was supposed to do. Can you do this? I was tired. I got another gig I have to do. I was tired. I like it. You just do this. I got you. I was thrown off a certain segment because I kept looking at Tiffany and bring us back and then you start talking and I'm like, whoa, why would I talk? Go on Dylan. Carry on. Anywho, I am going to come in and I'm going to bring you all a top five Tuesday. Mike Johnson usually does a great job with these lists. But today I'm going to go a little bit off the beaten path when it comes to a top five list. Mike usually goes somewhere in the sports room. He has done, I believe, one maybe two food top fives before if I'm not mistaken. But I wanted to go with the food top five today. I tried that time at night. Oh, and then you started with number one. Do you have honorable mentions? Where is the food? What kind of food? What is? So I'm glad you asked that question, Bob. In honor of national sugar cookie day today, I'm going to go with a local national holiday. Yeah, the national holidays. We always have days for something. We're already riffing your top five. No, you don't know sugar cookies are in the top five or not. That's for me to know. It's your favorite cookie. It's my favorite cookie. So sugar cookie is? No, I don't know what you got to find out. I'm sorry. We all keep going. Keep going. We're pushing it. You all can tweet at me at underscore Dylan Matthews, tweet at the show account on X as well, or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. I have posted on there. Make sure you post on it. I will post it there, the top five list. I'll put the honorable mentions on there as well. And I will start, as a matter of fact, with the honorable mentions that I have. So I'll just roll these off real quick. You guys keep your thoughts on the honorable mentions afterwards. And honorable mentions, I have oatmeal raisin. Not because I don't really like raisins, but oatmeal raisin cookie is okay. You know what? I like oatmeal raisin. And I know they're popular, so I put it in an honorable mention. My grandmother used to make homemade oatmeal cookies, but she always had a chocolate chip in the middle. Yeah, it was oatmeal raisins, but they had one chocolate chip in the middle. It's perfect. Yep. That's interesting. One giant chocolate chip. Yeah, pretty good size. Okay. I would actually, I would actually be down to try that. So, oatmeal raisin is an honorable mention. Snickerdoodles. Those are honorable mentions as well. This snickerdoodle is pretty good, in my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of like, ginger stuff. So like ginger snaps are okay to me if it's not too, too ginger-y, but I'll put a ginger snap on there. I'm desperate. Shortbread cookies, and then lemon cookies. I have a quick story about lemon cookies, by the way. When I was in Michigan, what a week or so ago, one of my, actually my uncle's fiance brought over some lemon cookies that she had made. I don't usually like lemon desserts, but when I tell you that was the absolute best lemon cookie I've ever had in my entire life, it wasn't too lemony. It was a perfect amount of lemon, perfect amount of like sugar cookie as well. It was the perfect great show. It was such a good lemon cookie, but those are the honorable mentions. Oatmeal raisins, snickerdoodles, ginger snaps, shortbread cookies, and lemon cookies. So without further ado, here we go with the top five. Unlike Tiffany, we'll start in number five. Number five. Sugar cookie did in fact make the list, but it's at number five though. It's at number five. If you have a good one, a store bought ones of course, not very good, but if you hand make a sugar cookie, I feel like there's potential there for a sugar cookie. It's the most basic of cookies. It's a waste of calories and sugar intake. I think the batter's better than the cookie problem. Yes, I'll give you that. That's fair, actually. That's fair. So that is number five. Sugar cookie didn't make the list. You know, I had to make the list in honor of National Sugar Cookie Day. So that is coming at number five. Here we go with number four. Number four. And number four. This one actually, until I remembered what my number two was going to be, this one was going to be number two. But number two, a good old fashioned peanut butter cookie. Why are you laughing, Bo? Can I ask a question real quick? Of course. You're kind of bland. Yeah, these are like the back two are pretty bland. Well, then how many cookies variation are there? I love your proper peanut butter cookie. But these all sound very generic. And I'm asking you, are you putting like chocolate chip cookies with M&M's on it, or are you going to use chocolate chips and M&M's? See, I'm actually glad that's actually a really good question. I'm glad you asked that because I thought about getting real fancy, but at but at that point, if you're getting, I wanted to keep a generic types of cookies. Yeah, okay. We'll never get to number one. I was just asking the, I think the clarification. No, it's a good clarification. I'll say this is a good clarification because you can get very creative with cookies and you can almost make your own favorite type of cookie. You can make M&M or your chocolate chip cookie more. But now you're hosting a segment. So I'm going to keep us on track. Let's keep it moving. All right, three. So I have peanut butter cookies at number four. Here's number three. Number three. Number three. Another variation of a peanut butter cookie, but different peanut blossoms. If you are unaware of what a peanut blossom is, it is the, and they have different names for them too. So you guys might, you guys probably call them by a different name. It's the peanut butter, peanut butter cookie with a Hershey kiss in the middle. It's that one. Yeah, I didn't know they were called blossoms. Yeah. I don't know what they're called. I don't know if that's the official name for us. I don't know. What else do you got for us? I mean, you know, I like the destination cookie. I know how your way to that chocolate in the middle. There you go. I feel like Mike Johnson. Now you guys list is being hated already. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Mike Johnson, you could have your job back when you come back, bro. All right, here's number two. Number two. We broke his spirit. It is. It's gone now. Number two. This one, I was trying to remember, and I couldn't remember for the life of me, the name of this cookie. So I had to like look it up as best I could, but I finally found the name of it, and I know how I forgot it, but I really couldn't remember the name of the nut, but white chocolate macadamia. Yeah, that's it. Okay, this, we're getting respectable now. Okay, so that's at my number two. You couldn't make an argument for number one, but I have it at a respectable number two, because I mean, if you have, if this cookie is made right, it's just, oh, it is. It is, but you need to add, like I've had it with peanut butter, like chocolate, peanut butter, like chips, and peanut butter, gloves, whatever you want to call them, and chocolate chips. That is a delicious cookie. I would, I would, I would definitely try that. But if you get this, if you make it right, it is the perfect ratio of sweet and savory. So it hits every time, especially warm coming out of the oven, nothing too much better than a good white chocolate macadamia nut, other than this, and that gets us to number one. And I already know for this one, you guys are going to hate me for it. I'm going to get ripped over the cold. I'm going to get ripped over this one already. No, here's number one. Number one, a good old-fashioned chocolate chip cookie. Nothing beats a classic. I got no problem with that. Oh, okay. Who has a problem with that? Oh, okay. Especially soft right out of the oven. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I saw it. I always saw it on my torso. How good it is. I always see memes on Twitter, where it's like nothing beats a, what's a chocolate chip cookie, a medium rare chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie or something like that. It was pretty funny. Or no, no, I say boneless. They say boneless. They say boneless. It's something that kids are probably talking about these days, but I can interpret it, you know, because I'm kind of, you know, I'm still a universe. I mess it up. They say boneless. Nothing better than a boneless chocolate chip cookie. Yeah, also known as soft and chewy. I mean, what the hell are we doing? Boneless? It's the kid. It's all kids. It's what they use, call it. Well, you know, I'm going to keep you hip on the show. But I'm never going to shot the a good chocolate chip cookie. It's not, you know, a rock hard is the ultimate cookie. I mean, there's no beating. I like a little, like, I'm okay with the brown edges and then the ooey gooey center. That's fine. Yeah, a little, a little bit of crisp on the outside and then likes it warm on the inside. When we were in high school, we had a vending machine. It wasn't like back in the day. Now they have all kinds of vending machines. We had like a vending machine that grandma's chocolate chip cookies. Those things have gotten smaller and smaller too. They used to be so big. Oh, yeah, they're awesome. They used to be huge in a two pack and I would get those every day with like a Mountain Dew. Um, holy schnikies. They were so good. So good. You just eat boringly healthy though, between. Wait, him? Yeah, the grandma's cooking Mountain Dew. Yeah, that's quite a combination right there. Sounds like one of my meals, occasionally. So that's our top five. That's our top five. I will recap number five sugar cookies. It is no national, it is national sugar cookie day. So number five sugar cookies, number four peanut butter cookies, just straight up peanut butter cookies, number three peanut butter blossoms, the peanut butter cookie with the Hershey Kiss in the middle at number two white chocolate macadamia nut and at number one, a good old-fashioned classic chocolate chip cookie. I mean, look, I'm not gonna, this is the top five Tuesday. I have to criticize it. This was this is pretty weak. I'll never make I'll never make a list that will be open for critique, but I will say you played it safe. Like you went with cookies, you could have picked pizza toppings, you could have talked about Hawaiian pizza, like pineapple, but you could have ventured into those waters, but you played it safe with cookies. But it's not how you cook the pineapple though. It's not is it national pineapple on pizza day? I don't care what day it is. These these food holidays are ridiculous, except for national donut day. I feel like pizza day is like three times a year. That's acceptable. And yeah, sugar cookies are garbage days. Haggis day coming up in August. You want to weigh in on Dylan's cookie list. Should have been Oreos on there. Nutter butters. Oh yeah, but these were those were these are all like homemade. Yeah, these like homemade items. All right, we'll call us 404-760-0929 or perhaps you have thoughts about Bijon being ranked at number six going through the season when it comes to running backs. That was for the ESPN survey that we discussed earlier. Give us a shot on anything you like. Wake up calls next on the morning shift on sports radio 99 the game. You brought to you by Mark Spain will say go to marksbane.com to get a guaranteed offer in your home today and start packing it as time for the wake up call. You can call us at 404-726-0929 sound off on a whatever you like. Triple sound off on who you think the greatest drummer in rock and roll history is that where does no part rank? Pierped. I call part. Well, he calls himself peer. Did he pass away? Yeah, that's like what four years ago. Where did he rank for you? He's probably up there at number one. Tools drummer is very, very good. The guy from tool is really good right now. John Bonham. Yep. Do it sounds like he hit the drums with a sledgehammer. What about the guy from Def? Was it Def Leppard had the one arm at the end? Rick Allen. Yeah. It's amazing what he did. Dude, completely figured out. He had to design a drum kit so we could play with one arm. So it's kind of heavy and some technology involved. Yeah. I mean, so you're a drummer and you're at the top of the world and you're in a car wreck and you lose your arm and you're a drummer. I mean, that's just like the worst possible thing. This Lars Ulrich rank up there? He's so self-righteous. You're by clowns on him as a bad drummer. No, he's not impressive. Well, the problem with him is very self-righteous. That's part of his problem. Anyways, I just went over to my hair rush, I think about the drummer conversation pops up in my head. All right. Let's go to the lines. We've got Phil waiting on us. He's on the way to work. Good morning, Phil. Hey, good morning ladies and gentlemen. How are you guys having a good day? Good. I hope you are too. I am. I just want, I want you to call and call out the, I'm sorry. Awesome. Peanut butter, blossom. That's just a variation of a peanut butter cookie. That shouldn't be a list, but that's like saying the oatmeal raisin and throwing in the chocolate chip is also should be a little bit. No, it's got to be better than that, but that's not why I call them. I am conflicted. I am a season ticket holder for Atlanta United, founding member. And about the day after they sold Almona, I get a package in the mail from Atlanta United. I'm making, this is it. This is my rebate check for my season ticket because, you know, if they're going to sell some of 20 million dollars, I shouldn't get something back. What I got was a cheap car license tag playing as a thank you. And I hear this morning that we're going to sell Caleb Wiley. Now you add it all up. It's 40 million dollars. I'm tired of selling people. I want to build a dynasty. I want to win. Well, the reality of the situation is, is that they're not sitting. That's not like pure money. They just sit on. Yeah, they reinvest it. That's how they're able to go get guys like Almona from, from, from, you know, South America, where he came and basically pay that transfer fee and then they invest it in there. That's the business model of the MLS. It's just how it has to be done. It's not like in Atlanta United probably. And I understand, Phil, I first off, you're dead on about your, well, he's frustrated because it's been diminishing returns since the title. And that's, and he's frustrated. That's an entire fan base. Very understandable. That I'm not going to say until you can't be frustrated. I would just say that that is the business model of the MLS. You know, you either do it that way or you bring in an older star kind of like messy, but when you do that, you have to give up a lot of things like, you know, ownership stuff and obviously messy is involved in the, the Apple TV right deal. So I like, I get it, but they do reinvest the money in the squad. It's not like, to your point, Rob's not like Arthur Blank gets a check. And she was like, Oh, look, straight up $40 million. I get to cash that. No, he's going to be writing one for that just along with every other NFL team. Yes, this is the wake up calling calls at 447260929. Maybe you have some thoughts on Marcelo Zuna participating in the home run Derby at all star week next week. No, you're excited about it. Well, look, I like to watch one of my guys go out there. Hopefully you can win. I hope, man, how cool would it be if it's Peter Lanzo and Marcelo Zuna in the final and Marcel just just puts a, just an absolute hammering on him. I mean, yeah, it just, you want to, you want to beat the Mets at everything. But Peter Lanzo, he just rubs you the wrong. He's the key. He's very much like a Bryce Harper personality, where if he's on your team, he's your guy. But if he's not, you despise him. I think Chris cell was that way a lot. It took people. Absolutely. But I just like Bryce Harper. I do like Bryce. I do like Bryce Harper too. But he's not very liked here. Throw it again. They must Peter Lanzo. Throw it again. Yeah. Please throw it again. How'd that work out for him? Yeah. Who did he do that to? Well, who was that? He did that? He was getting some braves. I know. But I can't remember the picture. I can't remember the picture. He hit a three run homer, I think, although. Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't strider, but it was one of our young pitchers. But yeah, that's, it might have been Elder last year, honestly. It might have been Bryce Elder, but but that's the thing. There's so many guys like that in this league and all leagues that you hate if they're on, on the other team, but you love them if they're your guy, but they're jerks. We got Chris on the line in Atlanta. What's going on, Chris? What up? I'm late for work. Hey, join the club, serve my life. Okay. Hey, got a couple of things. Uh, yeah, did y'all, y'all watch OTE, right? Did we? Did you OTE? Yeah, watch OTE at all. Yeah, those youngsters playing basketball. They had one guy, six, nine. Oh, Zach Eddy. Job, things last night, Thomas, he's going to Georgia playing football instead. Oh, you don't know. Overtimely, yeah. Sorry. Help me one of the tallest right football players. Is that the guy or the six 11? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a successful out there. And then, uh, secondly is they go to the Friday. Are y'all going to go out there and go watch some OTX boxing man? I would love to. I'll be on the road. I, I got WNBA game this weekend. So I'll be out to mix, unfortunately. Where's, where's boxing this weekend? I cut out. I don't know, but OTX. But where's it at? Uh, it's somewhere here in, uh, oh, it's at the, uh, the OTX boxing is actually at the OT arena here in Atlanta. Oh, guys, I don't know if I'll make it out. This is the end of the summer for me. It's right there, uh, by Atlanta station, like right, basically right at the interest of Atlanta station. I'm intrigued. It's tough for me. I got a lot of events there. Love boxing. This is a time of the year for me where I don't even want to leave my house because, because you're, you're not, you will be constantly away from your house when football season. Yeah, I don't know. I, I, I, I feel for, for you. Cause tiffy, you're next starting, like, well, starting with what it started in June, you started, yeah. I'm not with y'all next Friday. I don't think so. Yeah, you're not. But you started WNBA, like what? A couple of weeks ago. And so it's been all your week. So it started up. Oh, yeah. But I mean, at least basketball's so different. Um, so easy. There's so many, it's a bit of a different, yeah, it's quite the opposite load from football. Like whereas NFL, I'm leaving on sometime on Thursday, you do meetings with the home team Friday, meetings with the away team on Saturday game on Sunday. It's like a four day event. Whereas basketball, there's just, there's so many games and so much availability. Um, like even just this past weekend, like I'm walking on the court to go talk to, uh, Brianna Stewart. So it's, and you're doing that right before the game. So I'm driving down my notes that I might use in the game. So it's a lot, it's a lot different, um, than, than doing football. Football is so time consuming when you cover it, because there's so much it goes into the, to the, to the, to the studying and stuff of it. But, um, yeah, I wouldn't mind getting, I love, I'm a big fight guys, you know, I watch the UOC and boxing as I can, but it's just hard to get to events that sometimes when you, when you've got so much to do and a short time to get there as far as when the season comes, because I mean, we are what, uh, 15 days from our first training camp. I mean, day, I mean, it's a 24. And it is, it is coming fast. That's crazy. This, uh, year has fallen by. That's because you've been having fun sitting here next to me for three hours a day. Yeah. Um, dang it. I thought it was time to go to break so I could get out of an awkward situation, you know, taking three years off my life. I feel like, uh, what was it, Rose and Titanic and the old lady, where they finally talked her at the end. Rose slide over, let Leo on the raft. There was. All you had to do. Did you think it was selfish or hard to throw that, that, uh, that thing? Yeah. It's like, wow. Well, she wouldn't, well, she wouldn't move over, let Leo get up on the raft with her. Then she throws away the, uh, priceless, uh, piece of jewelry. And then she marries rema, she, she goes to get some Mary's office. She's supposed to do it. He's toxic. Well, let me tell you that she went on the boat with one guy. Then she, she, she cheated on him and left him on the boat. And then left Leo to die. And then left him to die. She's awful. Then she goes and marries and she kept that billion dollar piece of jewelry for 84 years or however long it was. And why don't you give it to your, uh, grandkids or something. They could have used that to maybe pay for college. She's awful. You believe she meant to throw it though, because way she threw it, she's like, uh, you know, like, I like, she dropped it, but she kind of had like arms. She met to throw it. Cause she's toxic. Tiffany, what would you have done in that situation? If I was on the lot, like a, what were they floating on? It's like a door or something? I can't remember. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I mean, there's, there appeared to be enough room, but then you have to factor in weight. And then I'm trying to think like hindsight's 2020, right? Like knowing the knowledge I know now, single, single women, you live longer. Um, yeah, single women live longer, married men live longer. Exactly. And married women don't live long. Cause that tells you all you need to know. I, I know, I might have let, uh, Oh, Leo just drift away. I'm not going to suck the life out of me. Yeah. And why get married? Why go get married? Well, then then you can, uh, you can live a long life alone with your cats. I don't know. I better be careful. They'll eat you. Okay. Cats will eat you first. I think all animals will probably eventually get around now. Cats are purely, cats are purely carnivores. A dog would sit right beside you and not, and would not, would not eat you. It's still an animal at the end of the day. If you're hungry enough, I mean, crash a plane in the Andes. You're going to, people have this topic. You're going to eat the other, uh, humans when there's nothing left. There was a topic out there. You're going to be drinking urine and eating human flesh. About dogs, possibly like, well, like with the cat eat you first as a dog. And people were saying, you know, I love my dog so much. I hope my dog would feed off of me. I didn't make that comment. That almost sounds ironic. Who are these people? I don't know. Just in a comment section. Some days I like to go down a rabbit hole. I'll look at, I never make comments, but I'll go look at them because sometimes you're like, how is our people this stupid? Um, but you know, I don't, I don't write on Twitter every day. I know. I'm, I'm very up. Don't have that. But people eat each other and dogs eat each other. It was a thing. Kids were doing it. What's happening next? What's this? We're going to talk about what happened out west. 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Marcelo Zuna drove in the decisive run with a sack fly in the 11th. Hey, Matt Olson might have saved that game last night with that, uh, that catch back to the infield chasing a foul ball had the presence of mind to spin around him from his knee. Get the ball to play to keep the runner from tagging. His glove lately has been phenomenal. He had a play in the first inning, the Corbin Carroll hit, where an elder just beat him to the, uh, to the bag because Corbin Carroll's got a speedster. Alton's glove has been like after, I don't know what the hell happened to them Friday night, where, uh, they all they, the, the, they just collapsed defensively. Like that. What was it? Like the six in every year. I think I was texting you and we were in my fago. This is a clown show. Yeah. Uh, back to Matt Olson though. And, uh, you're talking about the play that he had, Rob will show Murphy, uh, pretty much called the play of the game. I mean, it was spectacular. Um, no, I was thinking like, oh man, I kind of want to let that one drop, but he had to wear with all the slide and make that throw. I mean, got enough on it too. You know, we held the runner that was, that was the play game. I mean, that's, that saved a run right there. And that, that is a thing. You know, sometimes am I better off just letting this thing drop? Yeah, because it's, but it's like, no, let's get the out and I'm going to spin around and get it to the plate and keep the guy from tagging. Just phenomenal. Look, the, um, timely clutch hitting is, is, is something that we just haven't seen enough of this year. They, they had it last night when it counted the most with Sean Murphy, who, look, he's got five home runs since he came back. You want to, you want to talk about guys playing like the, the, you know, who's carrying the team lately from the plate. Austin Riley, uh, what was it? Like June 13th or something, uh, this year had three home runs. Now he's got 12. Right. He's hit nine in a month. He's been pretty, pretty freaking hot from there. His glove has been pretty good for them. Again, other than whatever that debacle was Friday night with Murphy and Olsen and Riley and they, and they just couldn't get it together. Nope. But, but they have been, he's, Austin Riley has been playing at a very high level, but they broke a 28 game streak, losing streak of when the other, the opponent has scored four more runs. They've lost. And that was just not the team we got used to the last couple of years. And how did Riley, I mean, that was a pitch up and in that he hit over the wall and center field. And what is it? 413 to center in Arizona. So that's an absolute bomb. I don't know how he was able to hit that out of center field because his up and ends are actually not a bad pitch. When you're locked in, Rob, when you're locked in, you're locked in brother. That's right. Let's go in the huddle. It's time to huddle up. Bring it in cold. Bring it in cold. The latest NFL news rumors reports and happening. We've been in the huddle brought to you by the good feed store premium arts support. Learn more at goodfeed.com on the morning shift. What do you guys think of an 18 game schedule? I think greedy. Yeah, well, greedy as a fan, sure. Sounds like you're trying to make up lost revenue, maybe from a lawsuit. Let's get the fan perspective. We will get the player perspective because Joe Burrow, the Bengals quarterback, he joined party might take. It would be cool to do a normal bi-week schedule that it is now, like have it spread out, but then like week 13 do like the Pro Bowl break where you're doing like the seven on seven and all the skills challenges like the NBA does because I think that would get more ratings for the Pro Bowl. Yes. And then it would also give everybody that bi-week going into like the last six games. Guys that are injured that would be able to potentially come back and you want your best players out there as a league. You want them in the last six weeks of the season. You want your best players on the field. So I think that would be a smart idea. You disagree Joe Burrow. You're shaking your head vehemently. This is how he would form at an 18 game. It's a stupid idea. The bi-week, everyone wants it one week. That's fine. You know what? Do it a week where college football has their playoff games and they can do Saturday and Sunday. That part's fine. But this idea of an all the Pro Bowl medal, the season, first off, nobody's sending their guys to potentially get hurt in a seven on seven. No player that's going to want to go because they're all injured by a week 13 and they want to rest. That's the whole point of a freaking bi-week. If you're doing that, you don't get it. That idea is brutally bad. If you want to take a bi-week in week 13, if you have an 18 game schedule, I am all bored. I got no problem with that. Do it. Let college football have that weekend. It could be games on Saturday Sunday. You don't do a Friday night game. That's a phenomenal idea. Just forget anything, Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl crap thrown in there is garbage because no, Tiffany, you've taught these guys are banged up. They don't want to do that. It's different than other sports. Yeah. It's stupid. Yeah. I mean, well, I'm not guessing. You're not saying stupid. I'm saying that. But I am going to say, yeah, a lot of guys are banged up and probably, I don't know, would not be in favor of this. But he's approaching it like what the MLB are all-star break. The NBA all-star break. The NBA all-star break. You know, that's the kind of philosophy I see that what he's trying to do. I don't know if he could apply that to the game. Just have the bi-week and get rid of anything Pro Bowls. He might even pay any attention to that anymore. He cares. I don't think so. And look, I understand, like, he was asked the question to be completely upfront. He was asked the question, probably didn't know he was going to ask the question. And it was probably like, yeah, well, this would be cool. And you know, your brain starts firing. No, he's answered that question before like a month or two ago. That same exact way? Pretty much, yeah. I don't know. Never mind. I can't remember if he did the Pro Bowl thing, but he did talk about a universal bi-week for everybody. Well, then if he had the problem, then never mind. That's just a bad day because how many guys opt out now? Imagine when their season is still going and they know that there are bonuses on the line if they can stay healthy the rest of you, all these things. He didn't think that completely through. But his thoughts in the right place with the universal bi-week on week 13. No issue with that whatsoever. Joe is doing cool stunts. It's so cool. It's it's Joe Burrow. I like it. He's modeling in the Vogue World Fashion Show. That suit was out of use all the suit, the best. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of you know, I understand you're supposed to be a little avant-garde with fashion, but there's nothing functional about that. It's it's it's system. It's a moving art exhibit, but it's nothing practical. What I enjoyed most about him is he's brought back and he's been rocking this haircut for a while, but it's very much the 90s Boy Meets World haircut. Yeah, I'm a comic talk in the haircut. I don't like what you see here, although I didn't do my hair today. You know, yeah, I get a little S curl go. Sometimes he has a little curl going on his forehead. He was also asking a podcast if he could win a Super Bowl next year, but he had to retire, or have five straight MVPs and not win that Super Bowl. What would he do? And he got every he got every clarification he could on the question and says, do I get to keep playing after the fifth MVP year? And the guy goes, yeah, he goes, well, then I'm going to bet on myself to win the Super Bowl in the sixth year because I don't want to retire yet. Hey, we have breaking news from Mike Bell. Burrow was reacting, Caddell and league stance reportedly. But Joe Burrow did express that thought himself independently, I believe, but he didn't say anything about the Pro Bowl. He said about the universal. Yeah, for listing. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate Mikey. How you doing? I have no issue with the universal buy, but there's no one's going to the Pro Bowl in the middle of the season. Half of them don't go when when it's at the end of the season. It's just it would just be more of a joke. I don't think it makes any sense. Plus you did let it be college footballs weekend. You are all about you're all about protecting college football territory. I'm not saying anything's wrong with it. I just know that you are your very adamant about that. I'm a huge coach. I care more about it than do the NFL outside the Falcons. All right. Well, this story Jerry Hughes, the defensive end for the Texans is returning for a 15th season. So this will be his third with the Texans. He appeared in all 17 games the past two seasons with 18 starts yet 16 starts in 2022. But he will turn 36 next month. He has 70 total sacks over the course of his career so far. I mean longevity. Still feels like he can play. It's like it's like Kaleis guys that these guys they I talked to a team guy like a doctor. I think it was like middle of the season last year. And now it's talking about Kaleis they said if you know all the things this guy has to do before and after games to play. And that's probably exactly the same for a guy like Jerry Hughes who played all 18 games last year hyperbaric chamber. I mean the dark room the treatments they go through. And I'm sure that Demica runs being the guy the coach he is and very understanding of what players go through. He'll have let him have like a veteran day off in the week. Let me play us last year. When we come back, there's a little twist today, which by the way, this hour brought to you by zero as smart last and clean. Dylan, you have a top five Tuesday for us. I do to the rundown. That is you are correct about that, Tiffany. Make sure you keep on time with this tease. Hurry up. I will. It is inspired by a national day and I'm going to switch it up a little bit for top five Tuesday. One thing that's near and dear to my hardest food. And this will be a food inspired top five Tuesday. All right, better be good. Stay with us here on the morning shift on sports radio night and the game. It's more than just sports dog. This is the morning shift. I mean me too. On sports radio 929 the game. It's time to rant. It's time to rage. It's time for mite up on the morning shift. Sports radio 929 the game. It is the morning shift and usually this is the time when you hear the soft voice of Mike Johnson or maybe even we're dialed up with dial on. Yep. You know what? Let's tell people how things work. You know, this is something I was supposed to do. Can you do this? I was tired. I got another gig I have to do. I was tired. Dialing. You just do this. I got you. I was throwing off a start segment because I kept looking at Tiffany to bring us back and then you start talking and I'm like what's going on here? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Go on Dylan. Carry on. Anywho, I am going to come in and I'm going to bring you all a top five Tuesday. Mike Johnson usually does a great job with these lists. But today I'm going to go a little bit off the beaten path when it comes to a top five list. Mike usually goes somewhere in the sports room. He has done I believe one maybe two food top fives before if I'm not mistaken. But I want to go with the food top five today. I tried that time of night. Oh, then you started with number one. Do you have honorable mentions? Where is the food? What kind of food? What is? So I'm glad you asked that question, Bob. In honor of National Sugar Cookie Day today, I'm going to go with a cookie. What an awful national holiday. Top five. Yeah, the national holidays. We always have days for something. We're already riffing your top five. Well, you don't know sugar cookies are in the top five or not. That's for me to know. You're a favorite cookie. It's my favorite cookie. So sugar cookies? No, I don't want you to find out. You got to find out. I'm sorry. You're welcome. Keep going. Keep going. You're pushing it. You all can tweet at me at underscore dealing Matthew's tweet at the show account on X as well or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. I posted on there. Make you post it on there. I will post it there at the top five list. I'll put the honorable mentions on there as well. And I will start as a matter of fact with the honorable mentions that I have. So, I'll just roll these off real quick. You guys keep your thoughts on the honorable mentions afterwards. And honorable mentions, I have oatmeal raisin. Not because I don't really like raisins, but oatmeal raisin cookie is okay. You know what? I like oatmeal raisin. And I know they're popular. So I put it in an honorable mention. My grandmother used to make homemade oatmeal cookies, but she always had a chocolate chip in the middle. That was a chocolate chip oatmeal. Yeah, it was oatmeal raisins, but they had one chocolate chip in the middle. It's perfect. Yeah, one giant chocolate chip. Yeah, pretty good size. Okay. I would actually I would actually be down to try that. So, oatmeal raisin is an honorable mention. Snickerdoodles. Those are honorable mentions as well. This snickerdoodle is pretty good in my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of like ginger stuff. So like ginger snaps are okay to me if it's not too too ginger-y, but I'll put a ginger snap on there. I'm desperate. Shortbread cookies and then lemon cookies. I have a quick story about lemon cookies by the way. When I was in Michigan, what a week or so ago, one of my actually my uncle's fiance brought over some lemon cookies that she handmade. I don't usually like lemon desserts, but when I tell you that was the absolute best lemon cookie I've ever had in my entire life, it wasn't too lemony. It was a perfect amount of lemon, perfect amount of like sugar cookie as well. It was the perfect ratio. It was such a good lemon cookie. But those are the honorable mentions. Oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodles, ginger snaps, shortbread cookies and lemon cookies. So without further ado, here we go with the top five. Unlike Tiffany, we'll start at number five. Number five. Number five. Sugar cookie did in fact make the list, but it's at number five though. It's at number five. If you have a good one, a store bought one's of course, not very good. But if you hand make a sugar cookie, I feel like there's potential there for a sugar cookie. This is basic. It's the most basic of cookies. It's a waste of calories and sugar intake. I think the batter's better than the cookie problem. Yes. I'll give you that. That's fair actually. That's fair. So that is number five. Sugar cookie didn't make the list. You know, I had to make the list in honor of a national sugar cookie day. So that is coming at number five. Here we go with number four. Number four. And number four. This one actually, until I remembered what my number two was going to be, this one was going to be number two. But number two. A good old fashioned peanut butter cookie. Why are you laughing, Bo? Peanut butter cookie. Can I ask a question real quick? Of course. You're kind of bland. Yeah. These are like the back two are pretty bland. How many cookies variation are there? I love a proper peanut butter cookie. But these all sound very generic. And I'm asking you, are you putting like a chocolate chip cookie with M&M's on it? Or are you using chocolate chips and M&M's? See, I'm actually glad that's actually a really good question. I'm glad you asked that because I thought about getting real fancy. But at but at that point, if you're getting, I wanted to keep a generic, generic types of cookies. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good off the rails. We'll never get to number one. I was just asking the, I think the clarification. No, it's a good clarification. I'll say this is a good clarification because you can, you can get creative, very creative with cookies and you can almost make your own favorite type of cookie. You can make a M&M Oreo chocolate chip cookie. But now you're hosting a segment. So I'm going to keep us on track. Let's keep it moving. All right. Three. So I have peanut butter cookies at number four. Here's number three. Number three. Number three. Another variation of a peanut butter cookie, but different peanut blossoms. If you are unaware of what a peanut blossom is, it is the, and they have different names for them too. So you guys might, you guys probably call them by a different name. It's the peanut butter, peanut butter cookie with a Hershey kiss in the middle. It's that one. Yeah. I didn't know they were called blossoms. Yeah. I don't know what they're called. I don't know if that's the official name for it. This is like a little, I don't know. What else you got for us? I mean, you know, I like the destination cookie. I know your way to that chocolate in the middle. There you go. I feel like Mike Johnson now you guys list is being hated already. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Mike Johnson, you can have your job back when you come back, bro. All right. Here's number two. Number two. We broke his spirit. It is. It's gone now. Number two. This one, I was trying to remember, and I couldn't remember for the life of me, the name of this cookie. So I had to like, look it up as best I could, but I finally found the name of it. And I know how I forgot it, but I really couldn't remember the name of the nut, but white chocolate macadamia. Yeah. That's, okay. This, we're getting respectable now. Okay. So that's at my number two. You couldn't make an argument for number one, but I have it at a respectable number two because, I mean, if you have, if this cookie is made right, it's just, oh, it is, but you need to add, like I've had it with peanut butter, like chocolate peanut butter, like chips and whatever you're going to call them, and chocolate chips. How is they delicious? That's interesting. I would, I would, I would definitely try that. But if you get this, if you make it right, it is the perfect ratio of sweet and savory. So it hits every time, especially warm coming out of the oven, nothing too much better than a good white chocolate macadamia. Other than this, and that gets us to number one, and I already know for this one, you guys are going to hate me for it. You're going to get wrecked over the coals. I'm going to get ripped over this one already. No, here's number one. Number one, a good old fashioned chocolate chip cookie. Nothing beats a classic. I think no problem with that. Oh, okay. Who is a problem with that? Oh, okay. Especially soft right out of the oven. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I saw it. I always love it on my torso. I'm good at this. I always see memes on Twitter, where it's like nothing beats a, what's it, a chocolate chip cook, a medium rare chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie or something like that. It was pretty funny. Or no, no, I say boneless. They say boneless. They say boneless. It's something that kids are probably talking about these days, but I can interpret it, you know, because I'm kind of, you know, I'm still a you know, I mess it up. They say boneless. Nothing better than a boneless chocolate chip cookie. Yeah, also known as soft and chewy. I mean, what the hell are we doing? Boneless. It's the kid. It's all the kids. It's what they use call it. Well, you know, I'm going to keep you hip on the show. But I'm never going to shot the a good chocolate chip cookie. That's not, you know, a rock hard is the ultimate cookie. I mean, there's no beating. I like a little, like, I'm okay with the brown edges and then the ooey gooey center. That's fine. Yeah. A little, a little, a little bit of crisp on the outside and then likes it warm on the inside. When we were in high school, we had a vending machine and it wasn't like back in the day. Now they have all kinds of vending machines. We had like a vending machine at grandma's chocolate chip cookies. Those things have gotten smaller and smaller, too. They used to be so big. Yeah. Oh, yeah, they're awesome. They used to be huge in a two pack and I would get those every day with like a Mountain Dew. Um, holy schnikies. They were so good. So good. You just eat boringly healthy, though, between. Wait, him? Yeah, the grandma's cooking mountain. Yeah. Oh, that's quite a combination right there. Sounds like one of my meals. Seasonally. So that's our top five. That's our top five. I will recap. Number five sugar cookies. It is no national. It is national sugar cookie day. So number five sugar cookies. Number four, peanut butter cookies are straight up peanut butter cookies. Number three peanut butter blossoms, the peanut butter cookie with the Hershey kiss in the middle at number two white chocolate macadamia nut and at number one, a good old fashioned classic chocolate chip cookie. I mean, look, I'm not going to. This is the top of Tuesday. I have to criticize it. This was this is pretty weak. I'll never make a list that will be open for critique, but I will say you played it safe. Like, you went with cookies. You could have picked pizza toppings. You could have talked about Hawaiian pizza, like pineapple. But you could have ventured into those waters, but you played it safe with cookies. But it's not how you cook the pineapple though. It's not. Is it national pineapple on pizza day? I don't care what day it is. These food holidays are ridiculous, except for national doughnut day. I feel like pizza day is like three times a year. That's acceptable. And yeah, sugar cookies are garbage days. Haggis day coming up in August. You want to weigh in on Dylan's cookie list. Should have been Oreos on there. Nutter butters. Oh yeah. But these were, those were, these are all like homemade. Yeah, these like homemade. All right. Well, call us 404-7260-929. 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What about the guy from Def, was it Defleppard had the one arm at the end? Rick Allen. Yeah. It's amazing what he did. Dude, completely figured out. He had to design a drum kit so we could play with one arm. So it's kind of heavy and some technology involved. Yeah, I mean, so you're a drummer and you're at the top of the world and you're in a car wreck and you lose your arm and you're a drummer. I mean, that's just like the worst possible thing. This Lars Ulrich rank up there? He's so self-righteous. You're by clowns on him. It's a bad drummer. He's not impressive. Well, the problem with him is he's very self-righteous. You know, that's part of his problem. Anyways, I just went over to my here rush, I think about the drummer conversation pops up in my head. All right, let's go to the lines. We've got Phil waiting on us. He's on the way to work. Good morning, Phil. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. How are you guys having a good day? Good. I hope you are too. I am. I just want, I want you to call and call out the, I'm sorry, the blossom peanut butter blossom. That's just a variation of peanut butter cookie. That shouldn't be a little bit. That's like saying the oatmeal raisin and throw it in the chocolate chip. It also should be a little bit. It's got to get you better than that. But that's not why I call I am conflicted. I am a season ticket holder for Atlanta United, a founding member. And about the day after they sold Almonda, I get a package in the mail from Atlanta United and I'm making this is it. This is my rebate check for my season ticket because, you know, if they're gonna sell them at $20 million, I shouldn't get something back. What I got was a cheap car license tag playing as a thank you. And I hear this morning that we're gonna sell Caleb Wiley and now you added all up, it's $40 million. I'm tired of selling people. I want to build a dynasty. I want to win. Well, the reality of the situation is that that's not like pure money they just sit on. Yeah, they reinvested. That's how they're able to go get guys like Almonda from South America, where he can basically pay that transfer fee and then they invest it in there. That's the business model of the MLS. That's just how it's done. It's not like in Atlanta United probably. And I understand, Phil, I first off, you're dead on about your well, he's frustrated because it's been diminishing return since the title. And that's and he's frustrated like the entire fan base is very understandable. That I'm not going to say until you can't be frustrated. I would just say that that is the business model of the MLS. You know, you either do it that way or you bring in an older star kind of like messy. But when you do that, you have to give up a lot of things like, you know, ownership stuff and obviously messy is involved in the the Apple TV right deal. So I like, I get it, but they do reinvest the money in the squad. It's not like to your point, Rob. It's not like Arthur Blank gets a check and she was like, Oh, look, straight up $40 million. I get to cash that. No, he's going to be writing one for that just along with every other NFL team. Yes. Is the wake up calling calls at 447260929? Maybe you have some thoughts on Marcel Ozuna participating in the home run Derby at all Star Week next week. No, you're excited about it. Well, look, I like to watch one of my guys go out there. Hopefully you can win. I hope, man, how cool would it be if it's Peter Lanzo and Marcel Ozuna in the final and Marcel just just puts a just a absolute hammering on him? I mean, yeah, it just you want to you want to beat the Mets and everything. But Peter Lanzo, he just rubs you the wrong. He's the key. He's very much like a Bryce Harper personality, where if he's on your team, he's your guy. But if he's not, you despise him. I think Chris cell was that way a lot. Yeah, people. Absolutely. But I just like Bryce Harper. I do like Bryce Harper too, but but he's not very liked here. Throw it again. Miss Peter Lanzo. Throw it again. Yeah, please throw it again. How'd that work out for him? Yeah. Who did he do that to? Well, what was that? He did that. He was getting some braves. I know. But I can't remember the picture. I can't remember the picture. You hit a three run home or I think of them. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't strider, but it was one of our young pitchers. But yeah, that's it might have been Elder last year. Honestly, it might have been Bryce Elder, but but that's the thing. There's so many guys like that in this league and all leagues that you hate if their own. Yeah, on the other team, but you love them if they're your guy, but they're jerks. We got Chris on the line in Atlanta. What's going on, Chris? What up? I'm late for work. Hey, join the club for my life. Okay. Hey, got a couple things. Yeah, did y'all y'all watch OTE, right? Did we? Did you? OTE, y'all watch OTE at all. Yeah, those youngsters playing basketball. They had one guy, six, nine. Oh, Zach Eddy. Job things last night, Tom, so he's going to Georgia football instead. Over time. Yeah, I'll be one of the tallest right football players. Is that the guy or the six 11? Yeah. Yeah. He's a successful out there. And then, uh, secondly is they. Oh, yeah, it's Friday. Are y'all going to go out there and go watch some OTX boxing? Man, I would love to. I'll be on the road. I got WNBA game this weekend. So I'll be out to mix. Unfortunately, where's boxing this weekend? I cut out. I don't know, but OTX, but where's it at? Oh, it's somewhere here in Italy. Oh, it's at the OTX boxing is actually at the OT arena here in Atlanta. I don't know if I'll make it out. This is the. It's right there by Atlanta station. Like, right, basically right at the interest of Atlanta station. I'm intrigued. It's tough for me. A lot of events there. Love boxing. This is a time of the year for me where I don't even want to leave my house because because you're you're not you will be constantly away from your house when football season. Yeah, I don't know. I I I feel for for you because Tifa, you're next starting like well starting with what it started in June. I'm not with y'all next Friday. I don't think so. Yeah, you're not. But you started WNBA like what? Couple weeks ago. And so it's been all your week. So it started up. I mean, at least basketball's so different. So easy. There's so many. It's a bit of a different. Yeah, it's quite the opposite load from football. Like whereas NFL, I'm leaving on sometime on Thursday. You do meetings with the home team Friday meetings with the away team on Saturday game on Sunday. It's like a four day event. Whereas basketball, there's just there's so many games and so much availability. Like even just this past weekend, like I'm walking on the court to go talk to Brianna Stewart. So it's and you're doing that right before the game. So I'm jotting down my notes that I might use in the game. So it's a lot. It's a lot different than than doing football. Football is so time consuming when you cover it because there's so much that goes into the to the study and the stuff of it. But yeah, I wouldn't mind getting I love I'm a big fight guys, you know, watch the UFC and boxing as I can. But it's just hard to get to events that sometimes when you when you've got so much to do in a short time to get there as far as when the season comes, because I mean, we are what 15 days from our first training camp, I mean, day, I mean, it's a 24 and it is it is coming fast. That's crazy. This year has fallen by. That's because you've been having fun sitting here next to me for three hours a day. Yeah, um, dang it. I thought it was time to go to break so I could get out of an awkward age. You like a present situation, you know, taking three years off my life. I feel like, uh, what was it rose on Titanic and the old lady where they finally talked her at the end rose slide over. Let Leo on the raft. There was all you had to do. Did you think it was selfish to her to throw that that, uh, yeah, she's like, wow, well, she wouldn't, well, she wouldn't move over. Let Leo get up on the raft with her. Then she throws away the priceless piece of jewelry. And then she marries. She, she, she goes against Mary's office. She's supposed to do a toxic. Well, let me tell you that she went on the boat with one guy. Then she, she, she cheated on him and left him on the boat. And then left Leo to die. And then left him to die. She's awful. Then she goes and marries and she kept that billion dollar piece of jewelry for 84 years or however long it was. And why don't you give it to your, uh, grandkids or something? They could have used that to maybe pay for college. She's awful. Do you believe she meant to throw it though? Because way she threw it, she's like, yeah, you know, like, I like she dropped it, but she kind of had like, it belongs to the ocean. She meant to throw it because she's toxic. Tiffany, what would you have done in that situation? If I was on the lot, like the, what were they floating on? It's like a door or something? I can't remember. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I mean, there's, there appeared to be enough room, but then you have to factor in weight. And then I'm trying to think, like hindsight's 2020, right? Like knowing the knowledge I know now, single single women, you live longer. Um, yeah, single women live longer, married men live longer. Exactly. And married women don't live long. Cause that tells you all you need to know. I, I know, I might have let, uh, Oh, Leo just drift away. I'm not going to suck the life out of me. Yeah. Then why get married? Why go get married? Well, then then you can, uh, you can live a long life alone with your cats. I don't, I don't know how to eat you. Yeah. Cats will eat you first. I think all animals will probably eventually get around now. Cats are purely, cats are purely carnivores. A dog would sit right beside you and not, and would not, would not eat you. It's still an animal at the end of the day. If you're hungry enough, I mean, crash a plane in the Andes, you're going to people have this topic. You're going to eat the other, uh, humans when there's nothing left. There was a topic out there. You're going to be drinking, you're going to be eating human flesh about dogs, possibly like, well, like with the cat eat you first as a dog. And people were saying, you know what? I love my dog so much. I hope my dog would feed off of me. I didn't make that. That almost sounds ironic. Who are, who are these people? I don't know. Just in a comment section when I, some days I like to go down a rabbit hole. I'll look at, I never make comments, but I'll go look at them. Cause sometimes you're like, how is how are people this stupid? Um, you know, I don't write on Twitter every day. I know. I'm very up. Don't have that. But people eating each other and dogs eating each other. It was a thing. Kids were doing it. What's happening next? We're going to talk about what happened out west. Also, and we'll also touch base on, um, it's me, John Robinson, a top five running back in NFL, according to scouts and peers and analysts. Well, not Ryan and a leak quarterback. Remember that one tormented these airwaves for years. We'll be right back here on sports radio night, another game. What are the haps? Let's go today, the right way with the morning shift with Tiffany, Mike and Bo on sports radio, 92, nine, the game. This hour brought to you by Mark Spain. We'll stay. Go to marksbane.com to get a guaranteed offering your home today and start packing. All right. So clutch hitting that helped the Braves rally past the Diamondbacks last night to get a five to four win in 11 innings. And you had what Austin Riley given the Braves the ones and nothing lead followed by Sean Murphy, then hitting a game tying to run a homer. And then that happened in the ninth. And then Marcelo Zuna drove in the decisive run with the sack fly in the 11th. That's now their third straight victory. Yeah. And it's the breaks of 28 game losing streak when their opponent has scored four more runs, which is an amazing stat. Never thought I'd be talking about that stat with this Braves team Rob. But it was it's timely kind of clutch hitting, which is something this team hasn't been doing much of. But that timely hitting at all seemingly. Yeah. Yeah, that's actually a better way to put it. But down three one, Paul C. Well comes into close the game two out. Rosario gets a single and Sean Murphy goes the one of the deepest parts of the park. I mean, that's what you need from that guy. That's a guy that has he missed so much time. And then he's he's kind of slowly acclimated back at the plate and maybe he's starting to pick it up. But just it's kind of it Zach. When you move Chris cell, you now know, oh boy, and I feel like you kind of stole one last night. You saw one because Bryce Elder was just cruising, ran into trouble in 16. He gives up a run, walked a guy and then well, they scored three runs at ending and well, Matt Olson saved the game was defensive play last night catching that pop fly foul ball with his back to the infield runner on third. You would think you might want to let that drop. No, he went ahead and made the catch and strolled around on his knee and made a pretty good throw to the plate. So and it. Look, I'm not saying this is the case. We've seen this team roll all four or five or four in a row, whatever before. And then they go right back in this doldrum of not willing to hit. But it feels like, you know, that's the kind of win that just feels different after you beat two, you take two of three from Philly, you kind of just fell apart Friday night, then you come back, you finish that series strong. And then you start this series with your back against the wall and get a win. According to Sean Murphy, it could give them some momentum. Yeah, I would say it does. Hopefully at least some more momentum going forward and we all feel pretty good about it. All right. Thanks, Sean. Man of many words. You want to elaborate on that? It's almost like a picture. I'm kind of running walking briskly away from the poor. Yeah. Maybe some of them. Thanks. It was the it was the bite that was chosen. So look, Eddie Rosario gets caught up as well. First off, this wasn't like they randomly made this decision yesterday at five o'clock. I mean, they didn't they didn't call they're in Arizona. They didn't call Bryce Elder at five o'clock. I'm like, Hey, you know what? We're scratching cell. We need you to come out here. No, no, I mean, that was already figured out. And the same with Rosario. That was the move all on. It minor league deal was just a way to, you know, circumvent. I'm sure some kind of financial obligation that they didn't want to pay, but you know what? It worked. And he got a hit, played the whole game, got a hit, gets on and then boom. And Eli White comes in defensively at the end. He makes the catch at the wall. Him and Es gets to that was a gurielle, man. I thought he looked like he might have got all of that. And because it got to the track out there, he was right at the wall. But Matt Olsen's glove has been phenomenal last couple of games. We talked to earlier about Austin rallies bat since what the middle of June, nine home runs. You just hope you can, you know, I don't expect you to to win set. This is a seven game west coast trip. I don't expect you to go seven and oh, five and two would be pretty freaking good. Four and three is a satisfying road trip. If you have an over 500 long road trip out west, that's kind of satisfying. Well, imagine you're, yeah, five and two is, five and two is what you should. This is what we should expect from them. They would have had a five and two, six and one road trip last year. Yeah. And these are two teams that you're battling in the wildcard currently. You're now only seven and a half back. So you do have a little bit of a fuzzy fill in this morning when you wake up and if you woke up and you didn't know that you have the game ended and you read the box going, Oh man, wow, we came back. Oh, I went to bed with them down three and one to go. Well, okay. Because I see nothing of this team this year that leads me believe they're going to come back, but they did good for them. And that's a game last year you would have stayed up for. Honestly, that's two years ago. You expected it last year. This year's more like a pleasant surprise. So now you got Chris sell tonight against Zach Galen and Galen is a very good pitcher. He was very good. That's a nice. I like, I love a good pitching matchup. And that's what we have tonight. Well, and he's a guy that has what we've talked about. Swell on ball. I haven't said Zeke Galen's got to think five or six pitches of his own. I mean, he does throw that four seam over 50% of the time, but he mixes it in with, you know, with with some breaking stuff and then, you know, a change up. So but could you get time early give Chris, so a lead and sell could just rear back and throw for about seven innings, bring him mentor and then Iglesias and you know, then you got a that's how you get a 40. That's how you do it. Very optimistic, huh? You are optimistic. Very easy. It's very easy. It's not hard at all, Rob. Are you optimistic? Four three in the first and cruise from there with a Chris sale. That's right. Are you optimistic when it comes to running that Beajan Robinson and what he could possibly do this year? And we were looking at a survey done by ESPN and reporter Jeremy Fowler, who's a senior national NFL reporter, and he talked to league executives coaches and scouts throughout the league to help them rank the top 10 players at 11 different positions from quarterback and everything in between. And he started with running backs and it's the fifth edition of these rankings. And they have Beajan Robinson at six. So I'll run through the top, the list for you, the top half of it. Christian McCaffrey is at one for the 49ers, Breeze Hall, the Jets, Nick Chub, the Browns, Sequin Barkley, the Eagles, Jonathan Taylor, the Colts. Again, Beajan at six with the Falcons. Josh Jacobs with the Packers. Jameer Gibbs with the Lions, Derek Henry with the Ravens and Travis Etienne with the Jags. You agree with the list? Pretty good list, but Sequin's kind of a lifetime achievement award, I think, right? I think it's a lifetime potential. A lifetime potential. Yeah. I mean, I know he could stay healthy. That's his big thing. Yeah. I know he's had a couple of thousand-hour seasons when he's healthy and he is, you know, he's got, basically, it's just when he's healthy. It's not even when he's got a great team around. It's really, when he's healthy, he's absolutely, I just don't feel like he's that guy all the time. And I feel that that's why it made the Giants' decision a lot easier than to say, you know what? We can, we can find, there's guys out there that we can find two guys that do what one guy does, and it's going to cost us less. But what he could be with Philadelphia, I think this is a look ahead. I think Travis ETN being on the list at 10. I'm not sure if I'd have him there. Derek Henry to me is too low. I think he's still one of the best running backs. I think he's still a top five running back in a league, especially going to Baltimore. And I think you're right. I think you can not say, Quon Barkley, maybe down to 10, not ETN off the list. Move up Derek Henry and you can move up Bajan, maybe a spot and Jamir Gibbs up a spot. I really like Jamir Gibbs, not just because he's from Dalton, but I like Jamir Gibbs. Do you feel like him and Bajan are so similar? They really are, I think. But I just, all I know, this Falcons offense overall, there's no excuse why this team should not average 30 points a game this year with an intact offensive line, thereby returning veteran quarterback, all the weapons around this team should average 30 points a game. Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it and is you could make the argument, Tiffany, that Bajan was somewhat underused last year. He still managed to almost hit a thousand yards. He finished 15th and rushing overall. And then in the passing game, where even at times, he was out of sync with Desmond and not having a true, you know, a really, really good quarterback, or even just a good quarterback, throwing the ball to him, he was the fourth leading receiver in the running back department. So among running backs, he was the fourth best receiving back. Obviously, Christian McCaffrey is head and shoulders above of any one right now, but I think Jamir Gibbs and Bajan are very much in his ball. So let me ask you guys this. I did just get a text about where you had, where Nick Chub is on this list and you guys agree with it, I know we have to go. But coming off of injury, you still are okay with him being above Saquon Barkley. Above Saquon? Yeah. Oh, maybe, maybe as high as he is, you could definitely have that debate because it is a question mark. But to me, when Nick Chub has been a better running back than Saquon Barkley and NFL and the benefit of the doubt. Well, I know that Nick, Nick Chub is, there are a few guys that are just absolute physical specimen freaks and they outwork everyone as well. Chub is absolutely a guy who's not only is he a physical freak, he's a specimen, but he outworks everyone pretty much in the running back game. That was a Denzel front of the show texting me, questioning, questioning that. So hey, we got a life as good coming up. Well, what you got real quick? It's always nice when a guy that likes hot dogs and wine together wants a question on sports. But, um, make it fast. What you got? One of the goats in tennis calls out so called the classiest fans in tennis. Hmm. Talk about it next. And the life of squid on the morning shift on sports radio 929 the game and the Odyssey app. Yes, it is a lovely morning, isn't it? No, more of the morning shift on sports radio 929 the game. We are back here and since I guess I mentioned my friend Denzel and his preferred tactics for dating. Sorry, ladies, if you know Denzel. He wanted to go. We've talked about this on the show before and then brought up another subject, but he wanted to go take the girl to Atlanta United game. And he wanted to, as he told me, sit in the section that served free hot dogs and wine. And I thought, why would you want to eat hot dogs and wine? One I would say sounds, sounds gross to me. I feel like someone would want to do like, I immediately picture someone drinking mosquito and eating a hot dog and it sounds gross to me. I was thinking you could do red wine. That's what I was thinking. I was like, maybe get a, you know, a house Marlowe with it. I like hot dogs. I don't know. Hot dogs, you want to Australian reasling or a Sauvignon bla. Well, you know what? You could do a glass of milk. In high school, one of my best friends, we would, you know, obviously you go, you know, when you're in high school or in your middle school, you go to your buddy's house every night, you say the weekend or whatever, right? And we were up like two or three in the morning one night and his stepdad was awake for some reason. And he came, came walking into the kitchen and he was, he was a funny dude in a lot of ways. And his name, he called himself hip and he was like, Oh, well, what do you guys want to hot dog? And we're like, it's two in the morning. He's like, yeah, I got to get a snack. He fixes like two or three hot dogs, catch up mustard, onions, sauerkraut. I mean, what everything you can think, maybe even relish. I don't even know, but everything you can put on a hot dog without chili. And he sits down and he goes, he decides, Oh, I forgot my drink and he stood up. I'm thinking he's going to get a beer or like a Coke or something. This dude sits down with a freaking tall glass of milk. I just hurts and proceeds to eat his hot dogs. And that wasn't, that was whole. It was not 2%. It was, I was straight from the other. I literally threw up in my mouth. To this day, horrified. Yeah, it's, it's one of the most grotesque, disgusting combination. So you know what, Denzel? Denzel, I apologize. You get it passed because you go have your house red and your, your, your, your beef frank needs to be from Omaha steak. So maybe I'm just hungry, but that actually, I'm with Rob. It doesn't sound that bad. It doesn't sound. I just, I just, especially because the bench has good hot dogs too. So well, it sounds like two worlds. All the time. You do. But is yeah, red meat, normally, or fish, little chicken, maybe some pasta. I mean, you compare a wine with, with any meat. You have a sour crowd in wine. Don't really, I think you could get out of it. It sounds so, as long as I'm not, I just picture someone, the way that he said it, you know, you want to take a girl to get some hot dogs and wine doesn't sound doesn't make it sound too up. Oh, he's also asking to take a girl on a free date, but that's either here or there. 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He'll do it right now because it's the official truck and trailer repair, Rob of squid nation. That's right, Dylan. All right. I hear that makes me think about hot dogs and milk. The hot dogs and milk of colts. So maybe it makes you hungry. If I said the name Novak Djokovic, what would you think? What would come to mind? Goat, even though I hate that word. Yeah, but he's probably the greatest tennis player of all time. 24 majors, including seven Wimbledon's that are going on right now. I think he I think his most or I think he has like 10 Australian opens or something. Well, he's playing yesterday. He's coming off this knee surgery. I he's playing at Wilmington yesterday in a chance to go the quarters. And he was hearing the crowd cheer for the guy he played was room. I was trying to get his holder room and the crowd, I guess, was saying room. But maybe they were drawing it out a little too far. And in his post after Novak wins, he has some comments for the crowd. To all those people that have chosen to disrespect the player, in this case, me, have a good night. Good night. Good night. I'm hoping that they were just commenting on Roona and that they weren't disrespecting you. They were they were they were. I don't accept it. No, no, no. Here's where he's wrong. I know they were cheering for Roona, but that's an excuse to also boo. I've been on the tour for more than 20 years. So trust me, I know all the tricks. I know how it works. It's fine. It's fine. It's okay. I focus on the respectful people that pay the ticket to come and watch tonight and love Dennis. Then appreciate the players and the effort that the players put in here. I played in much more hostile environment. Trust me, you guys can't touch me. They don't boo over there. They whistle. And if he was the guy's name, but he thinks they were transitioning from well, he thinks they were used. He thinks some of the people when they were saying Roon, where they were taking it, they were some of them were booing because look here, they whistle. They don't boo. They whistle, but there's not just there's also other, is this not just, you know, English people in the crowd. There's Americans, there's Germans, there's everybody. I mean, it's a worldwide sport. It's one of the, you know, the biggest worldwide sports there is. So it's a little bit petty. Oh, but I love it, though. But you know what? I love, I love a guy. Do you think they're trying to boo underneath the room? That's what, hey, I trust Jokovic. He's playing a lot more tennis matches across the world than I have. That said, don't, don't lose the aspect that some people need a motivation. And I think he needed to play. Sometimes you make it up. Well, you make up something. You make up a slight. To help you. Michael Jordan was infamous for this, famous for this. What do you want to say? He, but he's coming off as the injury. Maybe that helped him because he, he dominated this match. I think he wanted straight sets, but not mistaken. You can't touch me. But the little drop at the end. I love that. Look, that's the, if you are the best of the best, that's the mentality that you have to have. You guys can't touch me. I imagine dropping that after calling out an arena full of people. I mean, well, they're going to come with even more fervor is next match in the semis. Well, how are they going to mask? I don't know who's playing, but they're going to have to get very creative. Are you going to get kicked out of there? I think, I think you can. They have, they have different roles there at Wimbledon. Yeah. It's, they wear, have to wear white there or whatever. I don't know what's egregious at that moment to warrant. Well, there was the American that won. Was it Fritz? I think his name he won. And then he got a tongue lashing from the guy he beat about his, some of the people in his box. And they, you know, they, they said it was very cordial, but then the guy was asked in the interview that the German that he beat. And he goes, look, his, his, his coaches are great. His trainers are great. They're very respectful people. He goes, but some of the people in his box, let's just say they're not tennis people. And they're not of the tennis world. Oh, and the jokers. No, this was the other, the other match with the American one yesterday. A lot of the rumors say that it, he was talking about, I think it's Fritz, his guys names, his girlfriend, because she then deleted posts that she had made from Wimbledon. So a little, some players were in their feelings yesterday at the, what do they call it? The all white club or whatever? Interesting. All right, when we come back, we'll find out what's cooking up on this day. 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Well, he calls himself Pert. Did he pass away? Yeah, that's why he went four years ago. Where did he rank for you? He's probably up there at number one. Tools drummer is very, very good. The gaffron tool is really good. John Bonham. It sounds like he hit the drums with a sledgehammer. What about the gaffron Def, was it Def leopard had the one arm at the end? Rick Allen. Yeah. It's amazing what he did. Dude, completely figured out. He had to design a drum kit so we could play with one arm. So it's kind of heavy and some technology involved. Yeah, I mean, so you're a drummer and you're at the top of the world and you're in a car wreck and you lose your arm and you're a drummer. I mean, that's just like the worst possible thing. Is Lars Ulrich rank up there? He's so self-righteous. You're by clowns on him. It's a bad drum reason. He's not impressive. Well, the problem with him is he's very self-righteous. You know, that's part of his problem. Anyways, I just went over to my here rush, I think about the drummer conversation pops up in my head. All right, let's go to the lines. We've got Phil waiting on us. He's on the way to work. Good morning, Phil. Hey, good morning ladies and gentlemen. How everybody's having a good day? Yeah, I hope you are too. I am. I just want, I want you to call and call out the, I'm sorry, um, the blossom, peanut butter blossom. That's just a variation of a peanut butter cookie. That shouldn't be a little bit. That's like saying the oatmeal raisin and throwing in the chocolate chip is awful. Should be a little bit. No, gotta get you better than that. That's not why I call them. I am conflicted. I am a season ticket holder for Atlanta United, founding member. And about the day after they sold Almona, I get a package in the mail from Atlanta United and I'm making this is it. This is my rebate check for my season ticket because, you know, if they're gonna sell them at $20 million, I shouldn't get something back. What I got was a cheap car license tag playing as a thank you. And I hear this morning that we're gonna sell Caleb Wiley and now you added all up. It's $40 million. I'm tired of selling people. I want to build a diet. I want to win. Well, the reality of the situation is is that that's not like pure money they just sit on. Yeah, they reinvested. That's how they're able to go get guys like Almona from from from, you know, South America, where he came and basically paid that transfer fee and then they invested in there. That's the business model of the MLS. It's just how it's to be done. It's not like an Atlanta United product. And I understand Phil, I first off, you're dead on about your well, he's frustrated because it's been diminishing return since the title. And that's and he's frustrated. That's the entire fan base is very understandable. That I'm not gonna say until you can't be frustrated. I would just say that that is the business model of the MLS, you know, at you either do it that way or you bring in an older star kind of like messy. But when you do that, you have to give up a lot of things like, you know, ownership stuff. And obviously, messy is involved in the the Apple TV right deal. So I like, I get it, but they do reinvest the money in the squad. It's not like to your point, Rob, it's not like Arthur Blank gets a check and he was like, Oh, look, straight up $40 million. I get to cash that. No, he's gonna be writing one for that just along with every other NFL team. Yes, is the wake up calling calls of 447260929. Maybe you have some thoughts on Marcelo Zuna participating in the home run Derby at all star week next week. No, you're excited about it. Well, look, I like to watch one of my guys go out there. Hopefully you can win. I hope, man, how cool would it be if it's Peter Lanzo and Marcelo Zuna in the final and Marcel just just puts a just an absolute hammering on him. I mean, yeah, it just, you want to, you want to beat the Mets at everything. But Peter Lanzo, he just rubs you the wrong. He's the key. He's very much like a Bryce Harper personality, where if he's on your team, he's your guy. But if he's not, you despise him. I think Chris cell was that way a lot. It took people. Absolutely. But I just like Bryce Harper. I do like Bryce. I do like Bryce Harper too. But he's not very liked here. Throw it again. I must Peter Lanzo. Throw it again. Yeah. How do you throw it again? How'd that work out for him? Yeah. Who did he do that to? Well, it was that he did it was against the Braves. I know it was us, but I can't remember the picture. I can't remember the picture. He had a three run homer, I think. Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't strider, but it was one of our young pitchers. But yeah, that's, it might have been elder last year. Honestly, it might have been Bryce Elder, but but that's the thing. There's so many guys like that in this league and all leagues that you hate if they're on, yeah, on the other team, but you love them if they're your guy, but they're jerks. We got Chris on the line in Atlanta. What's going on, Chris? What up? I'm late for work. Hey, join the club. Serve my life. Okay. Hey, got a couple of things. Yeah. Did y'all y'all watch OTE, right? Did we? Did you OTE? Y'all watch OTE at all? Yeah. Those youngsters playing basketball, they had one guy, six, nine. Oh, Zach Eddy? Good job. Things last night's time. So he's going to Georgia football. Instead, I don't know. Overtimely. Yeah. I'll be one of the tallest right football players. Is that the guy or six 11? Yeah. Yeah. He's a successful out there. And then, uh, secondly is they. Oh, yeah. It's Friday. Are y'all going to go out there and go watch some OTX boxing? Man, I would love to. I'll be on the road. I got WNBA game this weekend. So I'll be out to mix, unfortunately. Where's boxing this weekend? I cut out. I don't know, but OTX. But where's it at? Oh, it's somewhere here in Edel. Oh, it's at the, the OTX boxing is actually at the OT arena here in Atlanta. Oh, I don't know if I'll make it out. This is the OT arena for me. It's right there by Atlanta station, like right, basically right at the interest of Atlanta station. I'm intrigued. It's tough for me. Love boxing. This is a time of the year for me, where I don't even want to leave my house because you're, you're not, you will be constantly away from your house when football season. Yeah, I don't know. I, I, I, I feel for, for you, cause Tiffy, you're next starting like, well, starting with what it started in June. Next week, I'm not with y'all next Friday. I don't think so. Yeah, you're not. But you started WNBA, like what? A couple of weeks ago. And so it's been all your week. So it started up. Oh, yeah. But I mean, at least basketball's so different. Um, so easy. There's so many. It's a bit of a different. Yeah, it's quite the opposite load from football. Like whereas NFL, I'm leaving on sometime on Thursday, you do meetings with the home team Friday meetings with the away team on Saturday game on Sunday. It's like a four day event. Whereas basketball, there's just, there's so many games and so much availability. Um, like even just this past weekend, like I'm walking on the court to go talk to, uh, Brianna Stewart. So it's, and you're doing that right before the game. So I'm driving down my notes that I might use in the game. So it's a lot, it's a lot different, um, than, than doing football. Football is so time consuming when you cover it because there's so much that goes into the, to the, to the, to the studying and stuff of it. But, um, yeah, I wouldn't mind getting, I love, I'm a big fight guys, you know, I watch the UFC and boxing as I can, but it's just hard to get to events that sometimes when you, when you've got so much to do in a short time to get there as far as when the season comes. Cause I mean, we are what, uh, 15 days from our first training camp. I mean, day, I mean, it's the 24th and it is, it is coming fast. That's crazy. This, uh, year has fallen by. That's because you've been having fun sitting here next to me for three hours a day. Yeah. Um, uh, dang it. I thought it was time to go to break so I could get out of an awkward age. You like a present situation, you know, taking three years off my life. I feel like, uh, what was it? Rose was a Titanic and the old lady where they finally talked her at the end. Rose slide over. Let Leo on the raft. That was all you had to do. Did you think it was selfish or hard to throw that, that, uh, yeah, that's like, wow, well, she wouldn't, well, she wouldn't move over. Let Leo get up on the raft with her. Then she throws away the, uh, priceless, uh, piece of jewelry. And then she marries rema, she, she goes and gets married. She's awful. She's supposed to do it. She's toxic. Well, let me tell you, so she went on the boat with one guy. Then she, she, she cheated on him and left him on the boat and then left Leo to die. And then left him to die. She's awful. Then she goes and marries and she kept that billion dollar piece of jewelry for 84 years or however long it was. And why don't you give it to your, uh, grandkids or something. They could have used that to maybe pay for college. She's awful. Do you believe she meant to throw it though, because way she threw it, she's like, yeah, you know, like, I like, she dropped it, but she kind of had like a long spasm. She meant to throw it because she's toxic. Tiffany, what would you have done in that situation? If I was on the, like, the, what were they floating on? It's like a door or something? I can't remember. Yeah, some like that. Yeah. I mean, there's, there appeared to be enough room, but then you have to factor in weight. And then I'm trying to think, like hindsight's 2020, right? Like knowing the knowledge I know now, single, single women, you live longer. Um, yeah, single women live longer, married men, married men live longer. Exactly. And married women don't live long. Because that tells you all you need to know. I know. I might have let, uh, O'leal just drift away. I'm not going to suck the life out of me. Then why get married? Why go get married? Well, then then you can, uh, you can live a long life alone with your cats. I don't know. I'll be careful. I'll eat you. Yeah. Cats will eat you first. I think all animals will probably eventually get around now. Dogs are real cats are purely carnivores. A dog would sit right beside you and not and would not, would not eat you. It's still an animal at the end of the day. If you're hungry enough, I mean, crash a plane in the Andes. You're going to people have this topic. You're going to eat the other humans when there's nothing left. There was a topic out there. You're going to be drinking urine and eating human flesh. About dogs, possibly like, whoa, like with the cat eating you first as a dog. And people were saying, you know what? I love my dog so much. I hope my dog would feed off of me. I didn't make that call. That's what people said. Who are these people? I don't know. Just in a comment section when I, some days I like to go down a rabbit hole. I'll look at, I never make comments, but I'll go look at them. Because sometimes you're like, how is how are people this stupid? Um, but you know, I don't, I don't write on Twitter every day. I know. I'm very up. Don't have that. But people eating each other and dogs eating each other. It was a thing. It was a thing. I don't know. Kids were doing it. What's happening next? What's this? We're going to talk about what happened out west also. And we'll also touch base on, um, it's me, John Robinson, a top five running back in NFL, according to scouts and peers and analysts. Well, that Ryan and a leak quarterback. Remember that one tormented these airwaves for years. We'll be right back here on sports radio night tonight, the game. What are the haps? Start today, the right way with the morning shift with Tiffany, Mike and bow. All right. On sports radio, 92 nine, the game. This hour brought to you by Mark Spain. We'll stay. Go to mark Spain dot com to get a guaranteed offering your home today and start packing. All right. So clutch hitting that helped the Braves rally past the Diamondbacks last night to get a five to four win in 11 innings. And you had what Austin Riley given the Braves the ones and nothing lead followed by Sean Murphy then hitting a game tying to run Homer and then that happened in the ninth and then Marcelo Zuna drove in the decisive run with the sack fly in the 11th. So that's now their third straight victory. Yeah. And it's the breaks of 28 game losing streak when their opponent has scored four more runs, which is an amazing stat. Never thought I'd be done like that stat with this Braves team Rob. But it was it's timely kind of clutch hitting, which is something this team hasn't been doing much of. But that timely hitting at all seemingly. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually a better way to put it. But down three one, Paul Seewall comes into close the game to out. Rosario gets a single and Sean Murphy goes the one of the deepest parts of the park. I mean, that's what you need from that guy. That's a guy that has he missed so much time and then he's he's kind of slowly acclimated back at the plate and maybe he's starting to pick it up. But just it's kind of exact when you move Chris cell, you now know, oh boy, and I feel like you kind of stole one last night. So on because Bryce Elder was just cruising ran into trouble in 16. He gives up a run, a walk to guide then. Well, these core three runs that ending and well, Matt Olson saved the game with his defensive play last night catching that pop fly foul ball was back to the infield runner on third. You would think you might want to let that drop. No, he went ahead and made the catch and strolled around on his knee and made a pretty good throw to the plate. So and it. Look, I'm not saying this is the case. We've seen this team roll all four or five or four in a row, whatever before, and then they go right back in this doldrum of not being able to hit. But it feels like, you know, that's the kind of win that just feels different after you beat you take two of three from Philly, you kind of just fell apart Friday night, then you come back, you finish that series strong, and then you start this series with your back against the wall. Yeah. And according to Sean Murphy, it could give them some momentum. Yeah, I would say it does. Hopefully at least more momentum going forward and I think we all feel pretty good about. All right. Thanks, Sean. Man of many words. You want to elaborate on that? It's almost like a picture. I'm kind of running walking briskly away from the poor. Yeah, maybe some of them. Thanks. It was the, it was the bite that was chosen. Look, Eddie Rosario gets caught up as well. First off, this wasn't like they randomly made this decision yesterday at five o'clock. I mean, they didn't, they didn't call, they're in Arizona. They didn't call Bryce Elder at five o'clock and they're like, Hey, you know what? We're scratching cell. We need you to come out here. No, no, I mean, I was already figured out. This in the same with Rosario, that was the move all on. That minor league deal was just a way to, you know, get circumvent. I'm sure some kind of financial obligation that they didn't want to pay. But you know what? It worked. And he got a hit, played the whole game, got a hit, gets on and then boom. And Eli White comes in defensively at the end. He makes the catch at the wall. Him and Es gets to, that was a griel. Man, I thought he, it looked like he might have got all of that. And it, because it got to the track out there, he was right at the wall. But Matt Olsen's glove has been phenomenal last couple of games. We talked earlier about Austin rallies bat since what the middle of June, nine home runs. You just hope you can, you're not, I don't expect you to, to, to win set. This is a seven game West Coast trip. I don't expect you to go seven and oh, five and two would be pretty freaking good. Four and three is a satisfying road trip. If you have an over 500 long road trip out West, that's kind of satisfying. Well, imagine you're, yeah. But five and two is, five and two is what you should. This is what we should expect from them. They would have had a five and two, six and one road trip last year. Yeah. And these are two teams that you're battling in the wildcard currently. You're now only seven and a half back. So, you do have a little bit of a fuzzy feeling this morning when you wake up and if you woke up and you didn't know that you have the game ended and you read the box going, oh man, wow, we came back. Oh, I went to bed with them down three, one ago. Well, okay, because I see nothing of this team this year that leads me, believe they're going to come back, but they did good for them. And that's a game last year you would have stayed up for. Honestly, that's two years ago. You expected it last year. Yeah. This year is more like a pleasant surprise. So now you got Chris Salina against Zach Galin and Galin is a very good pitcher. He was very good. That's a nice. I like, I love a good pitching matchup and that's what we have tonight. Well, and he's a guy that has, well, we've talked about Schwellenball. I haven't said Zach Galin's got to think five or six pitches of his own. I mean, he does throw that four seam over 50% of the time, but he mixes it in with, you know, with some breaking stuff and then, you know, a change up. But could you get time early, give Chris Sal a lead and Cell could just rear back and throw for about seven innings, bring him mentor and then Iglesias and, you know, then you got a, that's how you get a 40. That's how you do it. Very optimistic, huh? You are optimistic. Very easy. It's very easy. It's not hard at all, Rob. Are you optimistic? Four three in the first and cruise from there with a Chris Seale. That's right. Are you optimistic when it comes to running back Bijan Robinson and what he could possibly do this year. And we were looking at a survey done by ESPN and reporter Jeremy Fowler, who's their senior national NFL reporter. And he talked to league executives, coaches and scouts throughout the league to help them rank the top 10 players at 11 different positions from quarterback and everything in between. And he started with running backs and it's the fifth edition of these rankings. And they have Bijan Robinson at six. So I'll run through the top, the list for you, the top half of it. Christian McCaffrey is at one for the 49ers, Breece Hall, the Jets, Nick Chub, the Brown, Sequan Barkley, the Eagles, Jonathan Taylor, the Colts. Again, Bijan at six with the Falcons. Josh Jacobs with the Packers, Jamir Gibbs with the Lions, Derek Henry with the Ravens and Travis Etienne with the Jags. You agree with the list? Pretty good list, but Sequan's kind of a lifetime achievement award, I think, right? I think it's a lifetime potential or a lifetime potential. Yeah, I mean, I know he's stay healthy. That's that's his big thing. Yeah, I know he's had a couple of thousand hour seasons when he's healthy and he is, you know, he's got, basically, it's just when he's healthy. It's not even when he's got a great team around. It's really when he's healthy, he's absolutely. I just don't feel like he's that guy all the time. And I feel that that's why it made the Giants decision a lot easier than to say, you know what, we can, we can find there's guys out there that we can find two guys that do what one guy does. And it's going to cost us less. But what he could be with Philadelphia, I think this is a look ahead. I think Travis Etienne being on the list at 10. I'm not sure if I'd have him there. Derek Henry to me is too low. I think he's still one of the best running backs and I think he's still a top five running back in a league, especially going to Baltimore. And I think you're right. I mean, you can not say well, in Barkley, maybe down to 10, not Etienne off the list, move up Derek Henry and you could move up Bajan, maybe a spot and Jamir Gibbs up a spot. So I really like Jamir Gibbs, not just because he's from Dalton, but I like Jamir Gibbs. Do you feel like him and Bajan are so similar? They really are, I think. But I just, um, all I know, this Falcons offense overall, there's no excuse why this team should not average 30 points a game this year with an intact offensive line, thereby returning veteran quarterback, all the weapons around this team should average 30 points a game. Yeah. No, there's no doubt about it and is you could make the argument, Tiffany, that Bajan was somewhat underused last year. He still managed to almost hit a thousand yards. He finished 15th and rushing overall. And then in the passing game, where even at times, he was out of sync with Desmond and not having a true, you know, a really, really good quarterback, or even just a good quarterback throwing the ball to him, he was the fourth leading receiver in the running back department. So among running backs, he was the fourth best receiving back. Obviously Christian McCaffrey is heading shoulders above of any one right now, but I think Jamir Gibbs and Bajan are very much in his ball and his ball. Let me ask you guys this. I did just get a text about where you had, where Nick Chub is on this list and you guys agree with it. I know we have to go, but coming off of injury, you still are okay with him being above Saquon Barkley. Above Saquon? Yeah. Oh, maybe, maybe as high as he is, you could definitely have that debate because it is a question mark. But to me, when Nick Chub has been a better running back than Saquon Barkley in NFL and the benefit of the doubt. Well, I know that Nick, Nick Chub is, there are a few guys that are just absolute physical specimen freaks and they outwork everyone as well. Chub is absolutely a guy who's not only is he a physical freak, he's a specimen, but he outworks everyone pretty much in the running back game. That was Denzel front of the show texting me, questioning, questioning that. So, hey, we got a life is good coming up. What you got real quick? It's always nice when the guy that likes hot dogs and wine together wants to question my sports takes, but um, make it fast. What you got? One of the goats in tennis calls out so-called the classiest fans in tennis. Hmm, talk about it next and the life of squid on the morning shift on sports radio 929 the game and the Odyssey app. Yes, it is a lovely morning, isn't it? Now, more of the morning shift on sports radio 929 the game. We are back here and since I guess I mentioned my friend Denzel and his preferred tactics for dating. Sorry ladies if you know Denzel. He wanted to go, we've talked about this on the show before and then brought up another subject, but he wanted to go take the girl to an Atlanta United game and he wanted to, as he told me, sit in the section that served free hot dogs and wine. And I thought, why would you want to eat hot dogs and wine? One I would say. Sounds gross to me. I feel like someone would want to do like, I immediately picture someone drinking Mascado and eating a hot dog and it sounds gross to me. I was thinking, because you do red wine. That's what I was thinking. I was like, maybe get a, you know, a house Merlot with it. I like hot dogs. I don't eat. Well, hot dogs you want to Australian reasling or a Sauvignon Blanc. Well, you know what? You could do a glass of milk. Oh, and high school, one of my best friends, we would, you know, obviously you go, you know, when you're in high school or in your middle school, you go to your buddy's house every night, you say the weekend or whatever, right? And we were up like two or three in the morning one night and his stepdad was awake for some reason. And he came walking into the kitchen and he was a funny dude in a lot of ways. And he called himself hip and he was like, oh, who do you guys want a hot dog? And we're like, it's two in the morning. He's like, yeah, I got to get a snack. He fixes like two or three hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, onions, sauerkraut. I mean, everything you can think maybe even relish. I don't even know, but everything you can put on a hot dog without chilly. And he sits down and he goes, he decides, oh, I forgot my drink and he stood up. I'm thinking he's going to get a beer or like a Coke or something. This dude sits down with a freaking tall glass of milk. I just hurts. And proceeds to eat his hot dogs. We dip it in the milk. And it, and that wasn't, that was whole. It was not 2%. It was, I was straight from the other and literally threw up in my mouth. To this day, horrified. Yeah, it's, it's one of the most grotesque, disgusting combination. So you know what, Denzel? Denzel, I apologize. You get it passed because you go have your house read and your, your, your, your beef frank needs to be from Omaha steak. So maybe I'm just hungry, but that actually, I'm with Rob. It doesn't sound that bad. It doesn't sound, I just, I just, I just, especially because like the Benz has good hot dogs too. So well, it sounds like two worlds. All the time. You do, but it's red meat, normally, or fish, little chicken, maybe some pasta. I mean, you can pair a wine with, with any meat. You have a sour crowd in wine. Don't really, I think you could get down that, it sounds so, as long as I'm not, I just picture someone, the way that he said it, you know, you want to take a girl to get some hot dogs and wine doesn't sound, doesn't make it sound too up. Oh, he's also asking to take a girl on a free date, but that's the either here or there. It's time for a look back into the mind of squid billing. Hey, he might even talk sports. This is the life of squid on the morning shift brought to you by the W sauce and status truck and trailer repair driven by excellence building successful partnerships. Tell you what, you can, uh, you can put your W sauce on a, on a hot dog and maybe, uh, maybe make a Bloody Mary with their Bloody Mary mix, and have that with your hot dog. How about that? I better mill the hot dogs. You, you cost darn right. It does trouble. Uh, and, uh, the good W sauce.com final retail on your, or you can just order your bottle of, uh, the Bloody Mary mix done. Key West style. Don't forget my friends, it's status truck and trailer repair Tiffany. Anthony at status truck and trailer repair. If you call him now and you have a big truck, a little truck, a medium sized truck, maybe you got a truck that you want to put a fifth, fifth wheel on. You can do it right now. He can do it. Go call him today. He'll do it right now because it's the official truck and trailer repair rob of squid nation. That's right. Dylan. All right. I hear that makes me think about hot dogs and milk. The hot dogs and milk of colts. So maybe it makes you hungry. If I said the name, uh, Novak Djokovic, what would you think? What would come to mind? Goat. Even though I hate that word. Yeah. Yeah. But he's probably the greatest tennis player of all time. 24 majors, including seven Wimbledon's that are going on right now. I think he, I think his most or I think he has like 10 Australian opens or something. Um, well, he's playing yesterday. He's coming off this knee surgery. I he's playing at Wimbledon yesterday and a chance to go the quarters. And he was hearing the crowd cheer for, uh, the guy he played was, um, room, room. I was trying to get his whole room. And the crowd, I guess, was saying room, but maybe they were drawing it out a little too far. And in his post after, uh, Novak wins, he has some comments for the crowd. To all those people that, uh, have chosen to disrespect the player, in this case, me, have a good night. Good night, good night. I'm hoping that they were just commenting on Runa and that they weren't disrespecting you. They were, they were, they were. I don't accept it. No, no, no. Here's where he's wrong. I know they were cheering for Runa, but that's an excuse to also boom. I've been on the tour for more than 20 years. So trust me, I know all the tricks. I know how it works. It's fine. It's fine. It's okay. I focus on the respectful people that pay the ticket to come and watch tonight. And love tennis. Then appreciate the players and the effort that the players put in here. I played in much more hostile environment. Trust me. You guys can't touch me. They don't boo over there. They whistle. And if he was whistling his booing, the guy's name, he thinks they were transitioning from, well, he thinks they were used. He thinks some of the people when they were saying Runa, where they were taking it, they were some of them were booing because look, to your, they whistle, they don't boo. They whistle, but they're not just, there's also other, uh, is this not just, you know, English people in the crowd. There's Americans. There's, there's Germans. There's everybody. I mean, it's a worldwide sport. It's one of the, you know, the biggest, uh, worldwide sports there is. So it's a little bit petty. Oh, but I love it though. But you know what I love? I love a guy. Do you think they're trying to boo underneath the room? That's what, hey, I trust Jokovic. He's playing a lot more tennis matches across the world than I have. That said, don't, don't lose the aspect that some people need a motive, a motivation. And I think he needed to play, and sometimes you make it up. Well, you make up something, you make up a slight to help you. Michael Jordan was infamous for this famous for this. What everyone to say? He, but he's coming off as the injury. Maybe that helped him because he, he dominated this match. I think he wanted a straight sets but not mistaken. You can't touch me. Um, but the, the little drop at the end, I love that. Look, that's the, if you are the best of the best, that's the mentality that you guys can't touch me. I imagine dropping that after calling out an arena full of people. I mean, well, they're going to come with even more fervor is next match in the semis. Well, how are they going to mask it? I don't know who's playing, but they're going to have to get very creative. Who are you going to get kicked out of there? I think, I think you, and they have, they have different rules there at Wimbledon. It's, they wear, have to wear white there or whatever, all the players. I don't know what's egregious at that moment. Do I warrant kicked up? The American that won was at Fritz, I think, is his name he won. And then he got a tongue lashing from the guy he beat about his, some of the people in his box. And they, you know, they said it was very cordial, but then the guy was asked in the interview that the German that he beat. And he goes, look, his, his coaches are great. His trainers are great. They're very respectful people. He goes, but some of the people in his box, let's just say they're not tennis people. And they're not of the tennis world. Oh, and the jokers. No, this was the other, the other match with the American one yesterday. A lot of the rumors say that it, he was talking about, I think it's Fritz, his guys names, his girlfriend, because she then deleted posts that she had made from Wimbledon. So a little, some players were in their fillings yesterday at the, what do they call the all white club or whatever? Interesting. 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He wanted to go, we've talked about this on the show before and it brought up another subject, but he wanted to go take the girl to Atlanta United game and he wanted to, as he told me, sit in the section that served free hot dogs and wine. And I thought, why would you want to eat hot dogs and wine? What I would say sounds, sounds gross to me. I feel like someone would want to do like, I immediately picture someone drinking mosquito and eating a hot dog and it sounds gross to me. I was thinking you could do red wine. That's what I was thinking. I was like, maybe get a, you know, a house more low with it. I like hot dogs. I don't like hot dogs. You want to Australian Riesling or a Sauvignon Blanc? Well, you know what, you could do a glass of milk. And in high school, one of my best friends, we would, you know, obviously you go, you know, when you're in high school or in your middle school, you go to your buddy's house every night, you say the weekend or whatever, right? And we were up like two or three in the morning one night and his stepdad was awake for some reason and he came, came walking into the kitchen and he was, he was a funny dude in a lot of ways. And his name, he called himself hip and he was like, Oh, well, who do you guys want a hot dog? And we're like, it's two in the morning. He's like, yeah, I got to get a snack. He fixes like two or three hot dogs, catch up mustard, onions, sauerkraut. I mean, what everything you can think, maybe even relish. I don't even know, but everything you can put on a hot dog without chili. And he sits down and he goes, he decides, Oh, I forgot my drink and he stood up. I'm thinking he's going to get a beer or like a coke or something. This dude sits down with a freaking tall glass of milk. I just hurts and proceeds to eat his hot dogs. We jump in the milk and it, and that wasn't, that was whole. It was not two percent. It was, I was straight from the other. I literally threw up in my mouth. To this day, horrified. Yeah, it's, it's one of the most grotesque, disgusting combination. So you know what, Denzel? Denzel, I apologize. You get it passed because you go have your house read and your, your, your, your beef, Frank needs to be from Omaha steak. So maybe I'm just hungry, but that actually, I'm with Rob. It doesn't sound that bad. It doesn't sound, I just, I just, especially because the Benz has good hot dogs too. So well, it sounds like too well, wide all the time. You do, but is yeah, red meat, normally, or fish, little chicken, maybe some pasta. I mean, you can pair a wine with, with any meat. You have a sour crowd and wine. Don't really, I think you could get a sound. So as long as I'm not, I just picture someone, the way that he said it, you know, you want to take a girl to get some hot dogs and wine doesn't sound, doesn't make you sound too happy. Oh, he's also asking to take a girl on a free date, but that's either here or there. It's time for a look back. Into the mind of squid billing. Hey, he might even talk sports. This is the life of squid on the morning shift. Brought to you by the W sauce and status truck and trailer repair, driven by excellence building successful partnerships. Tell you what, you can, uh, you can put your W sauce on a, on a hot dog and maybe, uh, maybe make a Bloody Mary with their Bloody Mary mix and have that with your hot dog. How about that? That's better than milk with hot dogs. Yeah, you got darn right. It does triple. Uh, and, uh, the govw sauce.com final retail near you or you can just order your bottle of the Bloody Mary mix done. Key West style. Don't forget my friends. It's status truck and trailer repair, Tiffany Anthony at status truck and trailer repair. If you call him now and you have a big truck, a little truck, a medium size truck, maybe you got a truck that you want to put a fifth wheel on. You can do it right now. He can do it. Go call him today. He'll do it right now because it's the official truck and trailer repair. Rob of squid nation. That's right. Dylan. All right. When I hear that makes me think about hot dogs and milk. The hot dogs and milk of cults. So maybe it makes you hungry. If I said the name, uh, Novak Djokovic, what would you think? What would come to mind? Goat. Even though I hate that word. Yeah. I hate that word. Yeah. But he's probably the greatest tennis player of all time. 24 majors, including seven Wimbledon's that are going on right now. I think he, I think his most or I think he has like 10 Australian opens or something. Um, well, he's playing yesterday. He's coming off this knee surgery, right? He's playing at Wimbledon yesterday and a chance to go to the quarters and he was hearing the crowd cheer for, uh, the guy he played was, um, room, room. I was trying to get his whole room and the crowd, I guess, was saying room, but maybe they were drawing it out a little too far and in his post after, uh, Novak wins. He has, uh, some comments for the crowd to all those people that, uh, have chosen to disrespect the player. In this case, me have a good night. Good night. Good night. I'm hoping that they were just commenting on runa and that they weren't disrespecting you. They were, they were, they were. I don't accept it. No, no, no. Here's where he's wrong. I know they were cheering for runa, but that's an excuse to also boo. I've been on the tour for more than 20 years. So trust me, I know all the tricks. I know how it works. It's fine. It's fine. It's okay. I focus on the respectful people that pay the ticket to come and watch tonight and love Dennis. Then appreciate the players and the effort that the players put in here. I played in much more hostile environment. Trust me, you guys can't touch me. They don't boo over there. They whistle. Whistling is booing the guy's name that he thinks they were transitioning from. Well, he thinks they were used. He thinks some of the people when they were saying, "Roon," where they were taking it, they were some of them were booing because look, do you're? They whistle. They don't boo. They whistle. But they're not just, there's also other, uh, is this not just, you know, English people in the crowd. There's Americans, there's, there's Germans, there's everybody. I mean, it's a worldwide sport. It's one of the, you know, the biggest, uh, worldwide sports there is. So it's a little bit petty. Oh, but I love it, though. But you know what? I love, I love a guy. Do you think they're trying to boo underneath the room? That's what, hey, I trust Jokovic. He's playing a lot more tennis matches across the world than I have. That said, don't, don't lose the aspect that some people need a motor, a motivation. And I think he needed to play. And sometimes you make it up. Well, you make up something. You make up a slight. To help you. Michael Jordan was infamous for this, famous for this, whatever you want to say. He, but he's coming off as the injury. Maybe that helped him dig because he, he dominated this match. I think he wanted a straight sets but not mistaken. You can't touch me. But the little drop at the end, I love that. Look, that's the, if you are the best of the best, that's the mentality that you guys can't touch me. Imagine dropping that after calling out an arena full of people. I mean, well, they're going to come with even more fervor is next match in the semis. Well, how are they going to mask it? I don't know who's playing, but they're going to have to get very creative. Who are you going to get kicked out of there? I think, I think you can. They have, they have different roles there at Wimbledon. It's, they wear, have to wear white there or whatever. Don't know what's egregious at that moment to a warrant. Well, there was the American that one was at Fritz, I think, is his name he went. And then he got a tongue lashing from the guy he beat about his, some of the people in his box. And they, you know, they, they said it was very cordial, but then the guy was asked in the interview that the German that he beat. And he goes, look, his, his, his coaches are great. His trainers are great. They're very respectful people. It goes, but some of the people in his box, let's just say they're not tennis people. They're not of the tennis world. Oh, and the jokers. No, this was the other, the other match with the American one yesterday. A lot of the rumors say that it, he was talking about, I think it's Fritz, this guy's name, his girlfriend, because she then deleted posts that she had made from Wimbledon. So a little, some players were in their fillings yesterday at the, what do they call it, the all white club or whatever. Interesting. 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