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"Wolves" of streaming September 27th on Apple TV Plus. Where did it are? Ivy Nation Sports Talk Up and Rolling on this Wednesday, it's mailbag day. I see some questions starting to filter in the good old chat right now, so get your viewers in as you're filing in the show, and they are coming in fast now. All of a sudden, I'm trying to star them up and keep them ready to go. Salty saying, "Despite this effort to supply the Ivy happy hour with questions, will more than 50% be read?" Well, I mean, that depends on the validity of the question, I guess. Salty. I'm seeing some pretty good ones coming in right now. And I can only star up so fast. How are you today, Jesse? I cannot put into words how happy I am today. The Cubs played at 12.30 today. They going against Paul Skeens, got out to a 3.0 lead, and then gave up 10 unanswered to go down. 10.3 ended up winning the game 14 to 10 afterwards. They put up a seven spot in the top of the ninth inning, scored five runs with two outs, got the sweep of the Pirates. Yeah, it's huge for, you know, I don't even care about the Cubs making the playoffs. They need to hit my over at 84 wins for the season long bet. And that sweep today really puts some juice back into me. They're two games over 500 now. Again, I don't care about playoffs at this point, just don't lose me my money. That's it. That's all about. We are, I don't even, I don't even know what you just said. No, I'm kidding. You're talking about baseball. I didn't realize baseball was still going on. I don't know how you, I don't know how you're not following the Royals. I think swept the guards today to overtake the division. I don't, I don't know if you know this, Jesse, but I do a show here every day, like every day and this is game week. There was a Marcus Freeman press conference on Monday. We've had all these media availabilities, you know, throughout, you know, throughout the, you know, the training camp and everything as well. I just, I just haven't watched that much baseball. I've still got my whatever MLB pass on DirecTV and all that stuff. I just, and I've been, you know, like I've tried off and on, I'll say I don't like the Royals broadcasters. So even though the Royals are better, it's a hard watch for me. Like there's so many better broadcast teams in Major League Baseball. I don't know if you've ever watched the Royals broadcasts. I'm just, it's, it's hard to stay engaged with that. So it is what it is, you know, but they are, they're in first place now in the central. I do know that, but you had to tell me that the other day for me to realize it was coming. There's only one subject is football, Jesse. I don't know if you knew that or not. Yeah. Yeah. Especially this time of the year, right? Yes. Yes. Maybe, maybe three months ago, this would have been a valid conversation, but not here nor now. Let's get into some questions. Let's start with Mark's question. How did Notre Dame get down to 85 scholarships and I think DK responded, subtraction? From what I understand, and I don't think this is ever going to be made public, you know, there might be some off the record stuff, like they took care of this because they were what it was one or two over, I think basically they replaced a scholarship with NIL money. So like the player is still getting his scholarship paid, but they've used NIL money to do so. So you don't have a total scholarship limit like you're probably going to have next year to worry about. Next year is going to look a lot different. This is the last time they're going to have to worry about 85. Next year, it's going to be 105 because they're not going to be any more walk-ons and, you know, all of that kind of stuff. So it's going to look a lot different next year, but that's my understanding is that they replaced a scholarship with NIL money, so the person affected is still getting his school paid for. So there you go. The more you know. And we're off to a rousing start. DK says, Sean put his Cowboys starter jacket up for auction on the Champions Lounge, someone better out bid me or I'm going to burn it. Thanks for the Superjet DK, but I don't know where this came from. You're going to say you just got that thing. Yeah. You know, I would not put that starter jacket up for sale on the Champions Lounge or any place else. So yeah, I don't know. Free $5. What can we say? Yeah. My, you know, my biggest regret is we're going to see the Cowboys and the Browns in the season opener next week there in Cleveland and it's going to be too warm to wear the jacket. That's what bums me out. I wish it was going to be jacket weather so I could wear that sucker, but I'm not going to be able to. I'm looking at the temperatures right now. I haven't seen, you know, again, how accurate this thing is going to be. Only a high of what looks to be 75 degrees on that day right now. So I hope that stays actually a decent day for football and being low of 60 high of 75. I could live with that. I could live with that. All right. Who is the most overrated college football player going into the season? Oh, wow. Um, I'll start if you want. Yeah. Cool. I think it's Connor Wigman. Like I'm tired of hearing about how great Connor Wigman is supposed to be when the guys played nine games and he hasn't done anything yet. And if you look at his group of five versus power five splits, they're not quite to the extreme of like what Ian book had, but the guy has 16 career touchdown passes. Seven of them have come against group of five opposition. Five of them came in one game against New Mexico, but I'm supposed to believe that because he had a five star next to him when he was being recruited. He might look good Saturday night. He might not. You know, I know he's looked pretty good in the opportunities that he's had. This is a completely different offense that he's going to be playing in. And based on what Carter Carl's told me yesterday, not a whole lot of confidence. It sounds like in the scope position talent around him. So like if I'm looking ahead to head at this quarterback match up at best, it's even, but I'm still I'm still sliding over to Riley Leonard, if it's me in this match up Saturday night. Yeah, I'll echo a lot of what you're saying. I don't believe, you know, Connor Wigman has any proven success. And so, you know, for a first year head coach and really, you know, the any experience that Wigman has, I would definitely agree with you. I did a quick Google search just to see kind of what names are being thrown out there. And it's really funny because there's an article posted today and it has Connor Wigman as the number one guy on that list. There you go. Number two would be Jalen Milro in Alabama and the number three was Cam Ward at Miami. I think Cam Ward is a viable option. I think Jalen Milro, you know what he is, right? Like I don't think he's, you know, this great college quarterback. I think he's going to do enough with a lot of talent around him to to win some games. The Alabama, you know, made the college football semis last season. So he's, he's, he's a good player. I would put Shadoor Sanders on that list though, if I had to pick someone as well. I think he gets a lot of credit because of who his dad is. And I think that, yes, they had offensive line struggles last year, but I still feel like he made a lot of dumb mistakes for a guy that is supposed to be kind of, you know, as highly touted as his dad wants him to be essentially. Are you crying nepotism, Jesse? Is that what you're doing? Are you crying nepotism right now? Is that? I mean, yes. So and to some degree, I am. 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Now they now tested toward would use his full name from time to time, but then they would just go back to DJU, come on, your professional broadcasters, say the guy's name, okay? I don't want to hear DJU, you know, like, what are they going to, like, are they going to be calling Kingston, Villiamo, Asa, are they going to be calling him KVA the whole time? Come on. Give me a break. Joe asks, do you have a first game of the season tradition? Ours is blaring the Notre Dame fight song as we hang the Notre Dame flag for the first time of the season. Do you have a first game tradition? So, this is, it's funny, this is a good question because now that I am with Naomi and, you know, she is my fiance, we do a Labor Day weekend camping trip. Yes. You're just rafting out in the wilderness and not being able to watch on a TV. Yeah. My new first game tradition is huddling around my phone and watching and being the crazy guy, watching the football game on his phone while the entire family is kind of sitting around going, what is this idiot doing because it's either extreme jubilation or just extreme anger when they do something bad and, you know, the first, I think a couple years ago, they lost that Ohio State game at Ohio State, so that one was tough. I'm really mad at Notre Dame for scheduling these hard opponents game one because I'm just trying to enjoy some camping with my. Labor Day weekend. Yeah, with my family and now it turns into these very stressful high leverage games. So that is now my tradition when these opening games are Labor Day weekend. What do you think about like even college football, I mean, it's big, it's the tradition now opening Labor Day weekend, like do you like, I realize probably most people still get Monday off, but guess who's going to be here Monday night doing a show Vince and I'll be here. We're here for you, Irish fans, we're here for you. Yeah. Every Labor Day, every year I get the text from Vince. Is there still show tonight or is there going to be a show next Monday? It's like, dude, the season is here. Holidays don't matter anymore. First of all, grateful. I don't have the Monday slot. Second of all, I don't mind it because I always get Monday off, right? And so I think your argument would be you would like the season to start one week later because it is your last kind of final quote unquote, you know, vacation day off before the grind of the season of women's basketball starts. So I like it because I get the weekend off. I'm actually taking Friday off, so I have a four day weekend and there is a good slate of college football to, you know, start off my weekend. Who's the most underrated Irish player going into the season? Most underrated Irish player. I always got to pull up the depth chart. I should have this thing open all the time. I would have to say, I just feel like this is the hardest question to answer because like Vincent and I were talking about earlier this week, we do this show year round. We're on four to five days a week and like when May, June and July roll around, this is like, we're talking about these guys all the time. I got mine. Okay, go ahead. I think this is the toughest one for me. I have to go, if you go with Jack Kaiser is who I'm going to go with as the most underrated player. A guy that hasn't had a huge starting role, he's a grad guy at this point. I think he's got out of, there's a seven, I believe senior slash graduates on the defense this season. He, I would be willing to say he probably has the least amount of experience out there, you know, in terms of game experience, maybe you could say Jordan Battello as well on that list. But I think Jack Kaiser is going to be underrated this season because he's going to provide a lot of structure for a young linebacker court, making sure they're in the right calls, getting everything set up right. I know he might not make every play, but being the general general out there and getting everyone kind of organized, I think is underrated and undervalued for a guy that has it doesn't have a ton of starting experience. I mean, it's a pretty good one. He's the veteran for the guy who's been around the longest. He's, he's definitely one of the least talked about guys. And I think for that reason, I'll just go to Riley Mills because this is a guy who I'm pretty confident would have been drafted last year. He would have been a mid round guy, you know, maybe budding fourth round, fifth round, something like that. He's drafted, I think, last year, but came back one more year, a guy with all the experience that he has. And we really, we haven't, he's one of the few, maybe, you know, again, because like everyone likes the shiny new toys, you know, all this young talent for good reason, but he's, we just haven't, we haven't talked a whole lot about him. And he's going to be, if like if Notre Dame is going to be great this year, it's going to be in large part because of the play that they get from those two interior guys, both Riley Mills and Howard Cross. Sloppy Joe says Devin Ford, I mean, it's not a bad answer. Devin Ford's going to play on a lot of special teams. I don't know, I don't know to what extent his, you know, his role is going to be beyond that, but you're going to see him on a lot of special teams out there. You might still see him on some kickoff return, because there are obviously two kickoff return men, not just one. I think that's a pretty good one. Some people saying Anthony Knapp, that's like, that's TBD at this point. Like, well, I don't think we can call him underrated yet until we see him play. I mean, if he performs at the level, obviously that the coaching staff thinks he can perform at, then you're going to call him that, but I tell you what, one false start and, you know, a couple of bad reps that, you know, if they end up leading to Riley Leonard, getting sack, no one's going to be calling that guy overrated Saturday night, right? So I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I've just, you know, like, let's, let's see him play a little bit first before we go to Riley Leonard and call him. I think my honorable mention would be Adon Schuller, because I think he's going to be a very solid. That was one of the names that popped into my head as well. I think that, I think he's, I think he's a good fit for this as well. Underrated or sorry, you know, underclassmen, getting his opportunity to be a starter, tons of talent there. I think he's going to compliment Xavier Watts, Benjamin Morrison nicely. And that's the benefit of having, you know, Benjamin Morrison, Xavier Watts in your second areas, he can allow, you know, Adon Schuller to have a little bit more margin of air, you know, and I think that's going to end up being very impactful. So Anthony wants you to clarify your countdown to kickoff plans for Friday since you're going to be floating. I guess everyone will have to tune in and see what is or isn't. You're going to leave it, you're going to leave it mysterious, huh? Yeah. If the people want me, then show up and see if I'm there, tune in. All right. All I got to say is I can't remember the last countdown show I missed. Good call. Good call. DJ asking for, I think I had that start up before I went on my Connor Wigman rant. DJ says he thinks he's, no, I mean, he did pick up a win against LSU a couple of years ago, when LSU went to A&M a couple of years ago, he did beat them and that was with Jim Bo Fisher as the quarterback. I'm just still, you know, again, the splits that he has for his short career against power five versus group of five teams are not quite as dramatic as Ian book, but the completion percentage that he has, which is nice, is much more elevated against those group of five teams that he has played compared to, it's a little bit more average. I think it's, it's like mid sixties, something like that, you know, maybe upper sixties against the power five. So I just, I have questions about his fit in this offense. I'm going to be curious how much Colin Klein is really trying to force his offense on Connor Wigman versus how much, you know, he, he kind of tweaks that offensive set to try to fit Wigman style. And again, you know, just based on what Carter Carls was telling us, I, you know, I really, I think we're going to find out a lot about the, the skill talent at receiver and running back that kind of Wigman has got around him. He's got to have the supporting cast. Everyone talks about all this talent that A&M has, but I'm, I've got to be sold and he's going to face the best defense that he has probably faced in his career so far Saturday night. So, you know, what's interesting about this, what we kind of talked about yesterday with Carter Carls and kind of what we got into is some of, you know, Colin Klein's offensive run scheme in the whiteboard yesterday, Wigman's going to have to run the ball, I think, in some capacity. And he's not overly fast. He runs about a four, eight, four, nine, 40, but he's going to have to do enough, I think, to fit into, you know, that's probably around Brady Quinn's speed. Oh, yeah. But I mean, that's not fast for not slow, but it's not fast. Like you remember, you remember Brady Quinn, what year would that have been, oh, six. He had a breakaway run down there at USC at the end of the season and it was like, it looked like he was going to, you know, just coast into the end zone and then he got caught from behind. They all, all these U.S. Yeah. And I just looked up Brady Quinn's official time was a four point seven two. So if you think Brady Quinn is slow, Connor Wigman's running about a four, eight, four, nine, I think a lot of defensive linemen can catch him. So they're going to have to do things again, like we were talking about yesterday, the eye candy, you know, getting the defense to flow one way so Connor Wigman can get that extra, you know, like head stepper or lead step when he's breaking the other way after a fake handoff. Let's just kind of follow up with with Joe's question, not knowing the Aggies quarterback that well, what are his strengths and I don't know how much you've been able to watch of him so far. I would just say pretty good decision maker doesn't turn the ball over. But that's, that, that to me is, is probably the strength that he has. And I think Carter kind of, kind of reinforced some of that yesterday. Now, he didn't make a direct comparison to Ian book, you know, but he, he was kind of talking about Wigman as a game manager and that would, that would kind of concern me a little bit. Again, considering the kind of offense that he's going to be playing there at Texas A&M. But I would just say, takes care of the ball pretty well, makes pretty solid decisions. Yeah, I think that when I think of Connor Wigman, I would say he's got good arm strength and I think that he can make just about every throw on the field. I think he can do, he can drop the ball into, into, you know, into zone coverage. He can hit, hit wide receivers and man routes. I would definitely say the biggest attribute that he's got is his arm and his ability to kind of, again, I think there's, he can make just about every throw. It's just a matter of how much is he going to chance and kind of fit into some tight windows. I think is what ultimately, is he going to do enough to take some risks against Notre Dame? Or are they going to be, you know, happy with the conservative, you know, let's make this a defensive battle type situation and see which defense can outlast the other. Right. Now, America's truth broker says he can connect with the long ball, throw some beautiful dimes, a few times per game. Now, again, you know, like based on what Carter, Carl's has seen in practice, they've had small windows just like we've had here at Notre Dame, but he hasn't seen a lot of consistency with that. Like the timing is awful, a lot of drop balls by a receiver, but the timing on some of those deep balls and Carter said it in the interview yesterday, timing on those deep balls has been off. And when you throw in, if there's questions about this receiving group, even kind of figuring out like who the number one guy is and that kind of stuff, big advantage Notre Dame secondary, Benjamin Morrison, Christian Gray, Xavier Watts, Adon Schuler, like, okay, he's got the arm strength for the deep ball. I agree with that. But is he going to be able to find anybody deep against Notre Dame's secondary? That would be something that I would be wondering about if I'm a Texas A&M fan. But I think that they're like, they see just these, you know, these raw skills that Weigman has and they don't appear to be worried about that. I think we can venture to say that this is the toughest defense that Weigman will play in his two day in his career. I was listening to, do you know who Kevin Clark is? Heard the name. Used to work. Used to work for the ringer. He works for Omaha Productions now. Yeah, he's a big NBA guy. No, he's an NFL guy. He's an NFL guy. Like Kevin Clark NFL show, he does, he's on around the horn from time to time on ESPN. But he was talking about Drake May and like Drake May during preseason and kind of some ups and downs that he's had. And he said that he was talking to some coaches and the difference between most college quarterbacks, even the elite ones, you know, so put like first round, you know, when I say elite like first round NFL draft pick type guys is what he said was they've never seen a disc, you know, a blitz disguised as well as what they see once they get to the NFL. And so like, if I, if I hear that comment that most college quarterbacks, even the elite ones haven't seen a disguised blitz the way they see it once they get to the NFL. Well, what's Al Golden going to do? What do we talk about all the time with Al Golden is NFL defense? And what do we know that Al Golden likes to do blitz from all different directions? And what do Riley Leonard and Notre Dame quarterbacks talk about all the time like these blitzes are coming from everywhere, you don't know where they're going to come from. And so again, like if, if I'm looking at Riley Leonard, you can say, well, he's been, you know, he's, he's been facing the scout team defense for the last couple of weeks for, for Notre Dame, getting ready for this game. But what did he face for the bulk of training camp? He was facing Al Golden's defense. And that's why he made that comment. The fact that Al Golden disguises those blitzes so well and I mean, I think that's a huge factor when you're looking at this game is, you know, regardless of whatever raw skills and everything else you have, if you're Connor Wigman, you're going to face that al go look at what happened to Caleb Williams last week, worded or last last year and worded Caleb Williams ended up getting drafted. He ended up getting drafted number one overall. What was his worst game of the worst game of his career? Al Golden and Notre Dame's defense last year. Yeah, and I have, I have two things I'd actually like to say on this. This, it definitely translates because I was reading a lot of articles this off season about NFL, you know, teams, coaches talking about Jalen Hurts really struggles against cover zero. And if you put cover zero out there against him, he can't read pre snap what's going on. Where the blitz is coming from? What's going to happen? Games have a lot of a high success rate running that kind of cover zero, you know, disguising where your blitzes are coming from and to kind of take that even further more, you know, that is also, you know, a staple of kind of Mike Elko's defense and what he's going to try to accomplish on, you know, some third down situations against Notre Dame as well. But I like Riley Leonard in that situation because of like you were talking about that is he has been going against that the entire training camp against Algolden's defense. And it's, and again, it's, I think that might be a huge, you know, aspects of this game. Which quarterback can handle more of the pressure and get out of, you know, maybe some, some, some things that they see pre snap and, you know, post snap, how they're able to kind of mitigate that pressure. Yes. And by the way, Jesse's got a little whiteboard. He's going to sneak in on Mike Elko's defense here in a little bit, some bonus whiteboard for you today. So he's psyched about that, baby. Light it. Hey, Irish breakdown listeners, it's Urban Meyer. This fall, the game changes. Join me. Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. We will be joined by the biggest name in sports and talk about everything inside and outside of the lines. 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I don't, if I'll put it like this, if they hit the over noting for sure wins this game, I don't know what he's going to do. I could see a solid, you know, 200 passing game, 70, 70 yards on the ground and that's so I'll still take that, that's still a great game from Riley Leonard, but I'm, that's a, that's a number I'd be cautious around. I'm just going to go with the under 'cause I think Texas A&M's defense is going to be pretty solid. So let's say as obviously if he has 75 rushing yards, he needs 226 passing yards. Yes, to get there. That's pretty close to his game over under for passing yards. I think he's, I think he's right around, I think his, his, uh, his Vegas, his Vegas over under is, is somewhere around maybe 200, something like that. I know I've got it someplace. I've looked at a lot of numbers today, so I apologize if, you know, like I was, I was trying to, to talk about Connor Wiigman's, you know, splits, power five, group of five, all that different stuff up and looking at a lot of different numbers and I guess I didn't absorb them all as, uh, as well as I thought, but I'm going to go over. I, I think 300 total yards, very doable for Riley Leonard because I think he's good for at least one long run and that'll get you close to not quite a third, but I, I think that'll get you close to a third of it. And I think he's going to have a solid, if not spectacular, passing day as well. Okay. Does the selection of Anthony Knapp at left tackle surprise you? Um, when Jaggis saw went out, I think everything was fair game. I, I think at that point, I didn't know what they were going to do in terms of best combination. Um, but I'll always echo this. I'm going to trust that the coaches are making the right decision. They are seeing them day in and day out. This guy was highly, highly touted, recruited out of, you know, um, out of high school. He was a top, I'm pretty sure a top five offensive lineman in his class. Um, the talent is definitely there. So at the end of the day, I'm just going to have to say no because of the, the combination of his talent and the trust that I'm putting in the Notre Dame coaching staff to say, this guy gives us the best shot. I'm looking here. There was a quote last night. Okay. Here's the quote from Mike Denbrock. He was asked about Anthony Knapp because it's the first time that the media got to talk to him since, uh, since the announcement on Monday of the depth chart. So here's what, here's what Mike Denbrock said, quote, napper is a guy who's kind of been incredible since he's walked on campus. He's been such a quick study that I've never viewed him as a freshman, just because of how quick he picks things up, how fundamentally sound he is with what he does and consistency that he plays with. So those, those things have led us to making the decisions that we have in quote again, that's from Mike Denbrock. So like you listen to that, I think it was surprising just because of when we got to talk to Joe Rudolph, and this has been a while, it was, we talked to Joe Rudolph within probably a week of the Jaggis saw injury and he sounded pretty, pretty firm on like Tosh Baker is the guy. And then all of a sudden Tosh Baker wasn't the guy and it just turned into this snowball of nap and obviously Pendleton, excuse me, next to him ended up being the guys. I don't think I'm going to be surprised anymore with anything that happens in camp and, you know, some of these decisions with the offensive line, because this is two years in a row now, like Pat Coogan kind of came out of the blue last year in the middle of training camp and then middle of camp, here comes nap and Sam Pendleton. So it was a little bit shocking that it happened at the time, but you know, again, like when you hear what, what everyone has to say about him. And even before that decision had made, Joe Rudolph had nothing but good things to say about Anthony Knapp. So from that perspective, I guess it's not ultimately too surprising in the long run. Mark says thoughts on Golden Tate becoming the new color commentator for the Detroit Lions. I didn't know that. Might have to see if I can find some Lions broadcast. I haven't seen a whole lot of Golden Tate doing any media before. So yeah, I think it's awesome. I think he'll be great at it and I'm interested, excited to kind of see, you know, listen to do these games. I think he's a, he was a tremendous player. He'll provide a ton of insight. It just sucks that it has to be for the Lions because of DK and I don't like that guy. I don't think he deserves Golden Tate. Oh, and shots fired. Rabbit Nile Chihuahua. Oh, this is going back to some baseball over under Aaron Judge 62 and a half home runs this year. What's his latest tally? I think he's at like 50 something. He just got to 50, I think the other day. Well, then he's, yeah, okay, he's at 51 right now. If my mask serves me right, there's about 28 games left. So he's got about 28 to 29 games to get about, you know, 12 home runs. It's about one home run every, every, every other game. I mean, he's been hot and the Yankees need to continue. I mean, they're kind of battling out the Orioles for the pennant right now. I think it's going to be close, but I think he's going to end up right around 60. So I'm going to take the under. He got 61 a couple of years ago and the question is going to be, does ABC, do you remember when they were breaking into college football games? Yeah, and they had the judge counter tracker. This isn't 1975 when you only had three TV stations, you know, social media. People want to watch. They'd watch. Yes. They're breaking into college football games for New York Yankees, Aaron Judge, home run chase. I'll just throw that out there in advance. I'm going to go under as well. I think he ends up right around 60, 60. I have a fun question for you. Okay. What do you think is more likely judge getting the home runs or Otani getting to the 5050 club for the first time ever by the end of the season? I'll go 50 50 because he's already 40 40. He just, he did that a week or so ago, right? Yeah. And he got to. There's at least some baseball I followed. Well, he did it. I watched that game. It was Friday evening. He got the 40th stolen base in that game and then hit a walk off Grand Slam to get the 40th home run in the same game. I remember Jose Conseco became the first 40 40 guy like that's, that's how old I am. Show. He's at 41 home runs. Let me double check the stolen bases. I would love to see him get this stolen bases where you he's at 40 still. Again, now he needs, I think I'm going to go with Tony as well and I'm really rooting for it to happen. Yeah. You know what's going to be cool though? I get not to get two sidetracks on baseball. He's going to become the first DH ever to win the MVP in the NL. Mm hmm. I didn't think about that. That's right. Not even the NL just all of baseball. No DH has ever won the MVP and he's for sure going to be the NL. It's true because the closest I think was 2005 big poppy. I think it was 2005 like right around there 2005, 2006 poppy for the Red Sox was putting up huge numbers. I think a rod ended up getting it and the whole argument was a, you know, a rod every day player position player and all that. You're correct. He had 11 votes and a rod one MVP was 16 votes that season. There you go, baby. There you go. You're a bull. Sometimes. Now when you're looking at too many props in one day. That's right. I'm going to be the first to win the MVP. I'm going to be the first to win the MVP. [BLANK_AUDIO]
