The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/25 Hour 3 - Demeco Ryans Taking Too Many Risk With Players Health
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Troy wants to get in here and talk some Astro baseball, play a little Ryan Stresley. Oh, OK, Troy, here's your show. I'll get out of the way. What's going on, guys? Hey, I didn't get to listen to the beginning show, so I apologize if you guys talked about this. But last night when they pulled Presley off the mound, you think he was P.O. because he got pulled or because of the situation that he put him in, because he was one pitch away from blowing that thing. Yeah. And it was going to be over with. And they were not drinking champagne and drinking cold beer last night. I'll hang up and listen, guys. Thank you. Thanks for your calls, Troy. Yeah, we did talk about it earlier. I think the one scenario that you missed in all of that was option three would have been maybe he was pissed at himself for the fact that he created that situation. I personally felt like he wanted to finish it. Once he got two outs, he felt like an all-good reliever should feel like this, that he could get his way out of it. But I personally agree with Joe Aspada that I'm not taking any chances there. And as Jeremy mentioned, treat it like a playoff game and go get your butt out of that situation. Yeah, we differed in our opinion, Troy. I think Blankers thought he was a little bit more upset. He was being taken out of the game with Joe a little bit. I thought he was more because he didn't think he pitched all that well. So I guess it's up for debate. I think it's up for interpretation. Hot take, champagne is overrated. I do not like, I'm not a huge champagne guy. I'm not either. And I guess maybe it's something that runs in my family too, but champagne gives me a worse hangover than just about any other alcohol. It's almost like an immediate headache sometimes. I'm not a huge champagne guy. It's wine to a lesser degree, but champagne first and foremost. Man, you're right. You can start feeling it before the night's even over. And then the next day is horrendous in the way it makes you feel. I'm not sure I've ever finished a glass of champagne. Oh, I've had that. Yeah. For real. So I've never even had to worry about that. I love wine. Like there's a lot of wines I really enjoy. I can drink a lot of wine. The champagne? It's never done anything. It's not even a wedding. You didn't down the whole glass for your wedding? Had to sip. OK. We didn't have champagne at our wedding. Really? But at other weddings or celebratory moments, I'll take a sip at the cheers, and I'm done with it. I'm done with it. We have margaritas at our wedding. We used the champagne for the toast. Yeah. You got to do that. Well, it's not most weddings. But yeah, we don't like the champagne. Yeah, it's my whole family's that way, though. The reaction to champagne is not good. Really? Yeah. Runs in the family? Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. All right, who do you want to play in the first round? The wild card round. I don't like when we talk about rounds and playoffs. First round, it's not first round, second round, third round of plows. It's wild card round, divisional round, league championship series, World Series. So who do you want to play in the wild card round? To me, in the wild card round, I stand by what I said that I agree with you. Everybody should. You should be nervous about everybody you face. But I believe that my biggest concern is just as long as this team is right, I'm not going to worry about the opponent. I know that Kansas City is far worse on the road than they are at home. Video coordinator, if you want to say that. I know Minnesota's got injuries. I know Detroit, I think, is in a situation where this is a massive accomplish for them just to get there. And you look at the guys they got rid of. And if you had flarity and scuba at the start of your top of your rotation, going into this series, yikes. But to me, if Detroit's the team right now, I'll take Detroit and I'll feel good about beating Detroit and feel good about my odds against Detroit. But there's something to be said, both pros and cons. But especially from a Minnesota perspective, you've beaten them multiple times now in your playoff run. But you've got the career effect, just like you got A.J. with Detroit. I'll take the Tigers right now. I just feel like young team, still kind of similar to the Astros in '15, but maybe even a half step below before that, they've already had a successful season because they've gotten to this point when no one gave them a chance. I'll take the Tigers at home with my pitching staff. See, I think the Royals are more like the Astros than the Tigers are. The current version of the Royals than the Tigers. Because the Tigers offense are really in there, right? They don't have a, well, I guess they have a good amount. That's kind of what's that half step even prior to that. And you're right, maybe more accurate of the three that's closer to the 15 Astros would be the Royals. The, I don't really have a preference of which, I want to avoid all of them, just give me a buy. I know you can't do that. The Tigers scare me in the fact that they have the Cy Young winner, like the whole A.J. Hinch storyline makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Kansas City has a deep starting rotation and then they have Bobby Witt, who's probably the best player, best offensive player of the group of teams you could play. The Astros have kind of owned the AL Central over the years. So maybe that's like the recipe. Minnesota's in there. Minnesota, you know, Correa Factor, Royce Lewis, kind of gets hot. He's been struggling lately, but can get hot. And then Seattle's pitching staff is really good. I, I'm not personally not rooting for a specific team. What I'm rooting for is that it stays tight and it stays congested. And all of these teams are especially the third team, the third wildcard team, the team that you're going to be facing, they have to go to the bitter end and just use all of their pitching possible. So it's not so much that I'm rooting for a specific team. It's more than I'm rooting for the third wildcard who you will be playing to be completely burned up for their, you know, through their pitching by the time you have to play them on Tuesday. 'Cause if they're looking at a weekend rotation, like a weekend series, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, where they have to win like every single game, they're using their leverage guys every single game or two of the three or Saturday or Sunday. I want them to be worn out whenever they have to travel to Houston on Tuesday. So that's personally what I'm rooting for, that whoever it is, and I think that there's dangers with all of them, and I don't think that there's one team that's better than any of the other three, give me a worn out team when they come to Minute Made Park on Tuesday. - I love that, I'm with you on that. Yeah, I'm totally with you on that. I think from the perspective of the one team that I don't want to face is the team you just faced. The fact that their pitching staff is more frightening than Bobby Whit Jr. It's more frightening than anybody, even if Royce Lewis was in his absolute prime of everything going on like we've seen him in the past. And Scoobles, one guy that is definitely a dominant guy, but you've got multiple dominant guys that have pitched really well against you in the Seattle Mariners, and they know you very well that I don't want to see that team in the playoffs. I hope that they stay a couple of games back and it becomes a three team race, and that like you said, all three teams exhaust all their resources just to solidify their spots. But the one team, if I was going to say of any of the teams that have a chance, Seattle is the scariest team 'cause that pitching rotation is really, really good. - Yeah, you've kind of beaten up on Seattle over the years, though, it's just been difficult. Like, it's been a chore. Like, even the year that you swept them, it's like, everything was tight. You needed dramatics from your on in game one. You needed the 18 inning game with Jeremy Peña. You needed dramatics again from your on. So it's just like, everything's difficult with them. And I cannot stand Julio Rodriguez. Like, I don't want to see Julio Rodriguez because he's awful against every other team, and then he faces you, and all of a sudden, he's like, Willie Mase. I just don't like him. He smiles too much for me. I think he's too goofy. I think he's silly. I think the deer in the headlight thing with the bat the other day. Like, he just bothers me. Like, he's too good to have a sub 800 OPS all year. What does that tell me? It tells me he's disinterested all the time, and he dogs it a little bit. But he can be like the best player in baseball when they're facing the Astros. I just don't like Julio Rodriguez. I don't want to see him smile anymore. Ocho, I want to play Detroit because one, I don't like AJ Hinch. Why don't you like AJ Hinch? It would trigger Ben Moller who hates all thing 2000 Astros. Who's been Moller? Ben Mailers, the guy that wrote the book on the Astros. Right? He was the sports illustrator. No, he's an overnight radio host that's based out of LA, had did some sports talk for sports radio, and he routinely takes shots at the Astros. That's right. - It was Fox Sports. - Yeah, it was Fox Sports, but he's moved around. I'm not sure where he's at currently. You know that. Is there another one then? 'Cause what didn't one of them author either the Sports Illustrated article with Springer on the cover? That was even Drelick. No, no, no, that was Drelick wrote the book. Yeah, he wrote the book, winning fixes everything, and then did the whole scandal with Ken Rosenthal. I'm blanking on that guy's name. Yeah. We've had him on the air. We have a Ben Moller as a radio host, and he's a Dodgers fan based in LA. He can take shots at the Astros all the time. It was Ben Ryder. Ben Ryder, okay, let's cluck it. Which is an appropriate name for a-- Ryder? Ryder. You can call me Jeremy Radio Guy. 5798, give me the twins or the Tigers in the first round. I know the Tigers are hot, but I'd rather face them than the Broils or the Mariners in a three game series. No Detroit, don't want Scooble. 9695, champagne in a mimosa. Donna says, give me all the champagne. All right Donna, you can have my champagne anytime you see me with champagne. 2568, give me Detroit, who you're afraid of on that team. One starting pitcher. One starting pitcher is critical in a three game series. Yeah. Pretty critical in a three game series. That's half the battle. And they have a couple of offensive guys that, you know, like Riley Green and Parker Meadows who, you know, maybe haven't had, I mean, Riley Green's had an OPS over 800. Meadows hasn't had a great year, but they also play in a pitcher's park. Like you get them out of a pitcher's park. I think that offense is a little bit better than what we might think. But I can understand saying Detroit, Dave and Clear Lake, Seattle scares me. I didn't want to play them if they get there. Yeah, I kind of want Seattle to not be in there. 8143, bailout answers. Step up and name a team, you wuss. Okay, I'll name a team. The team that is the most winded by the time that they come around on Tuesday. Ocho, none of what you're hoping for will matter because the Astros offense will make an overworked pitching staff look like a bunch of aces, you know that. They make a bunch of no neighbors look like aces. How many guys are you going to know the full name of Oach? Because your guy that you like to give his entire name, including middle name is, I'm sure you're playing disappointed. Isn't one of the three guys they're probably going to go to as a starter? Yeah, I want, I wonder when Scoob will schedule the pitch. See, I don't even want to dive into any of the teams yet. I'm of course, I want them to get, I want them to get a six or seven innings this weekend. Yeah, I wonder the thing is like, I don't want to take D dives into these teams yet because I don't want to waste my time. So I'm sure I'll do this by Monday. Scoob will last pitch on the 24th. So that was yesterday, that was Tuesday, which I think that would put him in line for this weekend. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, he'd be in line to pitch Sunday. That'd be great. And if so, okay, that game needs to be a must win for them. Yeah, it's a must when he's pitching and that he's not available to. But if it's not a must win and they're locked into the third wild card spot already, they're going to hold them back in game one. So I need Scooble and the Tigers to be in a must win game on Sunday. If he pitches on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the only way he's pitching if it's short rest on Thursday, that's three days rest. Yeah, I need Scooble to be pitching on Sunday. That game needs to have- Yeah, they might have win them altogether. Yeah, that would be bad. That would be, that would be the best case scenario. They got to him early in the season. I don't know what. Escher's do have his tendency to pitch him. They got to pitch him too. And that's, I think that same part of the season was weird. That's what Ocho's saying, I guess. Give me a picture that you know that has name recognition. Get the Astros' attention. Let's give away some tickets. 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[MUSIC PLAYING] You listening to The Killer Beans with Joel Blanket, Jeremy Branham. On ESPN 97-5 and 92-5. Broadcasting live from the Veritex Community Bank Studios. 5, 7, 9, 8 bad news. The Tigers closed the year against the white socks. They'll probably be able to rest school until the wildcard round. Come on, Corey Jogs, help us out. Do something. Seriously. Do something. We have an audience. I'm nervous. I can be able to perform. I can be able to do radio. Ocho says that he doesn't like hinge because he was too analytically driven. He likes Papa's gut, right, I guess. Do you feel like a spot is analytically driven? Do you feel like a spot is closer to Dusty or Hinch? I always thought that he was the perfect balance between the two. I think that because he worked with a guy like Dusty, he probably understands as it opened to a little bit more, kind of like that Papa's gut feeling. But I do believe that being groomed in a lot of experience under AJ-- Don't say groom these days. I think he's the best of both worlds. Yeah, be careful saying that. Like Bieber and Usher, they were groomed. Easy. Easy, Diddy. We got no baby oil in this process. Some of these stories are wild. Texan's injury report is out. Tengdell did not practice today. I hope playing Tengdell down by 27 points were just minutes remaining. It was worth it. God, I hope that's not the reason why. And I hope that he's fine. It is. I'm just saying. But on Wednesdays, I think a lot of times, they just try and do their best to-- if anybody has anything close or even, especially from a veteran perspective, guys get Wednesdays off. And then they come back and they're fine. We saw it last week with a couple of guys that ended up playing and being fine. I hope that's not the case because, yeah, that was a stupid move. Yeah. And no one else is talking about it, so I'm going to be overly obnoxious to make up for no one else talking about it. I'm going to point it out every single chance I get. Because they're letting Dameko Ryan's off the hook here. Like, they're letting Dameko-- like, that was a stupid decision every single one of your starters except for C.J. Stroud was. And I understand you can't replace them all. The roster's not big enough to replace them all. You replace the maximum amount that you potentially can. And if you had to leave Tengdell in the field because you needed to give Nico a break or Steph Diggs off the field and you need to protect them, and you know, Hutch was available and Woods was, and you still want to run 11 personnel three receiver sets. OK. Like, I understand that you only have X amount of reserves and you can't take out every single starter. But most of the starters should be out of the game. And the fact that no one else is making noise about this is inspiring me to be very loud. Well, you should, because this has come up in sports forever and a day when you see guys that just don't get it in the big picture of things, when maybe you are trying to prove a point, or maybe you are just trying to get reps for guys. But your most important guys are not the guys that are supposed to be in there, especially at a time when, for a lot of athletes, when they're scrutinized and criticized. The one thing they say is, whenever I'm supposed to try to not get hurt or just it's not going at complete 100% full speed type of competition, that's when a lot of bad things can happen. But when you are either up big or down big, the last thing you want to do is be under undermanned in the next game, or god forbid longer than that, because you lost guys in a meaningless part of a meaningless situation. That's not what you want, and you should hammer it. - D'Amico has asked about Tengdell's injury, he said it's day to day. Hopefully it's not enough to miss a game. He said nobody can predict when injuries can happen. I think there's a way better chance of not being injured if you're on the sideline in a 27 point game with an injury. - We can predict that, and we can also, like I just said, there's been a ton of athletes that talk about the fact that when you're supposed to, whenever in a situation where you're trying not to get hurt, or you know that you don't have to like go completely intently focused, out, out, because of the fact that the game's out of reach, that you're more likely than not going to get hurt in those situations. There's no way he should have been in the game. - It really makes me mad. - It should make me mad. - And I feel like I'm taking crazy pills 'cause I'm the only one saying it. This is way different than the Joe Nixon situation where in the Joe Nixon situation, the game wasn't over. And so from my perspective, I understood him going back in the game and wanting to go back in the game. - I think it's a fair argument to have on either side. That to me, like if you want to say that wasn't reckless, I get that. - But this is careless of nothing else. - Yeah, this is- - With minutes to play, he's playing to the bell down by 20. All the starters are, if it was only tank on the field because you needed a third receiver with Hutchinson and Robert Woods, now you do have Steven Sims. But if you, like, okay, like at least you're resting Niko. At least you're taking out Stefan Diggs. At least you're taking out Laramie Tunsel. They were all in the game. All in the game down by 27 points with minutes. What are you doing? How is he getting a pass? - Here's what I don't like. Either Jeremy is because a lot of coaches would say this is my way of teaching them a lesson and trying to get them to realize that, you know, they need to soak this thing up and we can't let this happen again. And in college, a lot of coaches will do that as kind of a punishment when you're getting your ass handed to you, but you don't do that in the NFL when every single week, week to week is in a very important situation. - I can get it if you have a young team that doesn't have playoff aspirations. Like, okay, whatever, like you're embracing the suck. You don't think you're a playoff team. You want your young players to get as many snaps as possible to help their player development. I get that. I totally understand that. When you're a team, that's your favorite to win the division. When you think you have Super Bowl aspirations, how in the world are you playing most? All of your starters with the exception of CJ Stroud down by 27 with minutes left to play in the game. It is stupid. - Especially since we've seen it in the city before. I mean, I don't have to go back very far in the Houston Texans history to point to that Miami Dolphins game the Texans had in 2014, where they were down by like 35, 40 and a half. It was a 20, 21 point game late in the fourth quarter. For some reason, Bill O'Brien was still running area in foster out there. He tore the keelings and he was never the same. Like, he came back briefly and ironically played for the Dolphins, but his career was over at that point. Went all because he had to be taking carries in a 21 point game in the fourth quarter. And Bill O'Brien said that day, and I've heard this same excuse from coaches time after time, and I hate it. Not that D'Amico said it, but they always talk about, "Well, we want to build momentum for next week." It's seven days later. No, you're not going to take, what momentum are you going to take from playing garbage snaps in a blowout game, and then turn around six day later. Oh, you're still hot from the momentum you built. Seven days before it's garbage. With a completely different team, with a completely different personnel, with a completely different game plan. Even if I entertain the idea that that was real, but that's tangible, which I agree with you, it's not, is that greater than making sure you get out of the game healthy? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Never. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Tengdell did not practice chest injury they're calling it. He also has a hand wrist according to Aaron Wilson. Foley, Mrs. Foley's baby boy. What if, out of Cusse, did not practice with a shoulder. Keenan Green was sick. He was limited and probably has the crud that's been going around. Joe Mixon, ankle, did not practice. Mm, Jared Patterson, calf, limited Damien Pierce, hamstring, did not play. Aaron Wilson reported today, though, that he's trending to be back, which would be helpful, especially if Mixon doesn't play, 'cause you can add him to the acres, maybe a little bit of thunder and lightning. Dalton Schultz, ankle, limited. Maybe that's why he's dogging it, and then Jimmy Ward has a groin, we all do, but it's limited. It's limited him from practice. He's got a limited groin. You think Dalton Schultz's ankle led to his shorter than normal arm span when being thrown to? It's not a terrible rationale. It's really not. I don't like it. Like, he couldn't quite get there. Maybe it's why he's dogging it a little bit up the sideline. I could, it's a better excuse than just dogging it because you don't have an injury at all. Sure, but it's not, it's also like not, but we, it's not unheard of across the league when you look at what happened in Dallas and guys getting called out that there are gonna be guys, especially if the game isn't exactly going the way they want it to, or they're getting the ball the way they want it to, that they can kind of start shutting it down a little bit. And I saw a whole lot of, I don't want to in what I saw Dalton Schultz. Yeah, yeah. Regardless of his ankle, I saw a whole lot of attitude that might need an adjustment or some ice. Yeah, I'm with you, but the ankle is at least an excuse as opposed to, I'm just gonna dog it 'cause I'm making $12 million now. And I have a 36 million dollar deal. Get off your ankle and extend yourself and land on the ground with the ball in your hands. Fair enough, fair enough. All right, let's get to the will of bitch. You never know what it's gonna be. It's just gonna be really good. It's the bees on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 92.5. 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There is the thought that they released him with six games left in the season. Because Teles gets $200,000 if he reaches 425 played appearances, he's currently at 421. So many people think Pirates releasing him so he doesn't reach the 425 appearances, which would trigger a $200,000 performance bonus. Is this Bush League by the Pittsburgh Pirates? There's no question. This is all on the Pittsburgh Pirates. This is their reputation. Much like the Cincinnati Bengals and other franchises, they are known as being extremely cheap. This is something that they are known for doing. I know that there are Pirates fans out there that are embarrassed by the fact that they did this. Are there Pirate fans out there? Oh yeah, I mean, well, honestly-- No, it's real. The dozens of Pirates fans are-- I saw it on social media, but then I believe a majority of the Pat McAfee show guys are all from Pittsburgh. And they were telling Paul Skeens to get out and get to try and get to another team or let your contract run out and go somewhere else because this has been happening way too often that their owners are joking, things like that. But this is, I mean, good, better and different. They've got some promise now, which they haven't had previously. This dude's played with you all season long. You're gonna do this now. I think it's a push lead. If you had a deal with the guy who does your yard, say you give him $200,000 for him to cut your yard 30 times a year. He was moving next year. You're never gonna see him again in your life. He's gonna be out of your life forever. He's done 28 cuts so far this year. Would you say, "No, I'm good. I got it the rest of the year." Nope, I wouldn't. You would let him finish the mow and give him $200,000? Not me. Uh-uh, I'm too cheap. I'm too frugal for that. This is just business. This isn't bush league. It's business. Routing to Les isn't part of their future. He's been awful this year too, by the way. Not very good at all. $200,000 probably gonna pay one of their coaches' salaries all of next year. This is business. This is another example of a guy that's making too much money than what he's worth. I see no problem with the Pittsburgh Pirates did here to say, "That's $200,000!" You said, "You said, "You said a lot of money." You said, "A lot of money." You gave my answer in a word you use in your response that it was cheap. I mean, whether it's bush league or not, it's cheap. $200,000? It's $200,000? It's $200,000. If you could have $200,000 in your account and all it took was cutting Routing to Les, would you do it? Well, of course. There you go. But it's still the major league baseball team. And also, the long-term ramifications. Guys, they're gonna see this, and they're not gonna want to be involved with an organization like that. They don't sign free agents? But their agents know this? They're gonna know-- They don't sign free agents. Who cares if their agents or players know this? They don't sign free agents. Okay, it is. You know the free agents they sign? The Routing to Les is of the world who aren't very good and sign these contracts anyways. If Routing to Les didn't like this, he shouldn't have had it in his contract. It makes a difference. And it's gonna-- To what? If you're not in the free agency game, what are you losing out on? I'm saying, for other guys, from other teams, when they're considering which teams to go to-- They don't do that. There's lesser recent players. They don't sign players. Right. Well, with Paul Skeens and some of the young players they have, they should start thinking about this. That's also a point of contention with a lot of pirates fans that are saying, hey, is this a message, too, that we're still gonna be cheap no matter what now that we've got a nucleus to build around? Because it's disturbing. And now they're really pushing. They want the owner to sell, and they hate this. But I think that it does have ramifications for other players when considering Pittsburgh. I agree with you that it has ramifications of players considering Pittsburgh. I don't think the pirates care. I don't think the pirates are interested in signing free agents. They're interested in signing these bargain Routing to Les's of the world. And what world do we think Paul Skeens is gonna sign an extension with the pirates anyways? I mean... They trade everybody. Well, you talk about all the time that money matters. And if it's gonna be more money or more money coming from Pittsburgh than anywhere else, he probably will stay with Pittsburgh. Maybe that's why they want an extra 200,000. They're gonna put in an add on extension for Paul Skeens. They're gonna come players over the next six years and add it on to them. Yeah. They're gonna save $200,000 a year with these players signing these incentive base deals. And they're gonna be like, here you go, Paul Skeens. See, we were doing it all the time. And I have no... If I could be $200,000 richer because I'm cutting Routing to Les, four-plate appearances shy of a contract, he and his agent signed, I'm doing it! I'm doing it! I'm sorry. Is that cold-hearted? Yeah, it is. But I'm gonna have $200,000 and you ain't. It's just cheap in minor league. And look, I mean, regardless if it's Bush league or not, if they do have any hope of being able to rebuild the team to a point where they're actually not a laughing stock like they are now, then they're gonna have to stop making these moves. And it points to a more, if you're a pirates fan for all five of them, it points to a problematic, you know, thing where this team is still in the minor league mindset that they're just gonna let guys walk out the door where they actually hit on their draft picks and they're not really serious about spending the money to contend. It does make it harder to defend that they are in laughing stock of an organization. I do agree to that. But all of you people that are so up in arms about Routing to Les, well, you go raise some money and give this guy $200,000 all of this fake tufts, all they shouldn't have done this. Well, how much money you giving Routing to Les, huh? Maybe the pirates started to go fund me. They should. It's okay, Routing to Les. If you're upset with Routing to Les being cut by the cheap Pittsburgh pirates, donate some money to the funds of Routing to Les. You're not doing it. You're not gonna do it. So stop blaming the pirates for saving some money to Matthew Sluka, UNLV quarterback, potential UNLV team that could be the group of five representative in the college football playoff out of nowhere, sends out a tweet yesterday. I have decided to utilize my red shirt year will not be playing in additional games this season. I committed to UNLV based on certain representations that were made to me, which were not upheld after I enrolled. Despite discussions, it became clear that these commitments would not be fulfilled in the future, which look to my teammates, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's a little he said she said going on right now, the Sluko side saying that he was promised payments that have not been paid. The UNLV side saying that we would never agree to paying players because it violates pay for play. Is this Bush league or not that Matthew Sluka is red shirting this season? This is the state of college football in NIL and transfer portal. This is what it's come to. This is probably not the last time we're going to have this kind of stuff happen, whether it's an NIL deal where they had money they thought they were going to have for the kid or not as part of this. This is the state of college football right now, and it's sad. But if that is indeed the case, it's between $100,000 and $300,000 that I believe is the dollar figure of what he was supposedly promised. It's a sad state of affairs that you leave your team high and dry that they actually are having a decent season. They have a chance to do some things and that you are just pulling the plug and walking away at a time where I guess you think you have leverage, but it's terrible. But I understand it because that's what we've walked into. U of H was doing this before it was cool to do this. Stear a king red shirt a years ago. Look at U of H being trendsetters and influencers like me. It's where I learned to be an influencer. This one's tough for me. I really would hope to know every detail for this because if Sluik was promised all this money, or Sluik was promised all this money, I can understand being super frustrated with that and be like, OK, I'm out. Where I think this is Bush league, though, is that he has a bunch of teammates. He's got a bunch of players that are trying to get into a college football playoff. First time that the college football playoff exist, a group of five would be in it. Yes, Cincinnati made it to the past or they wouldn't be the first time, but it'd be unbelievable, unbelievable. And he's quitting on all those guys. So even if they're lying to him about the money or he thought he was getting this money, it would be very difficult for me to quit on the teammates that share the same goal of trying to chase down a spot in the college football playoff. So I would like to know all the information, but I got to say he's being Bush league. I don't find it to be Bush league because I believe the side of the promises made, promises not kept. But I do wish he'd stayed and played this season. I would do wish he'd handle it a little bit differently, as you guys have mentioned, they actually have a chance starting off three and O to make it to the college football playoff. So I mean, it would have been nice to see him sticking out for his teammates and not even sticking out for his teammates, sticking out for himself. He's got a chance to make a name for himself, get into the college football, get exposure, play it out. And then when the season is over, transfer. If you know V doesn't make good on their promise before the season is over. Do we know his eligibility? I think he's only got one year left. No matter what. If he was a senior, that would be a level of grad, like this might be his final year of eligibility. I thought it was his final year and maybe some guys that I would take that back. This is his fifth year. Okay. This is his final year. All right. Well, then I do get at that point. If the money's not there that they promise you if they broke those promises and you're out of time and you obviously not really want to make that money, but play for maybe even elevate to a program a little bit higher than you know, V the year after, although that would be a hard conversation after you walked away from your team and haven't answered those questions from other coaches around college football, then I get it from his viewpoint and I would say not personally good college quarterbacks. I'll first and be does pretty good transfer from Holy Cross. Probably not a pro. So like this is really, this is a really good chance that this will be his final opportunity to make good money playing football. Yeah. I don't know. I think he's good for you. No V. I don't think he's good beyond that level. I think he's shown a number. He'll get a, he'll get a, he'll get a power five off or no doubt. You'll get a power five off. But he's, I mean, he's completing a real low percentage of his past. But we've seen as much with guys later in their career leaving certain programs and getting a power five to pick them up on a one year flyer and finding the financial means as Jeremy said, if he's not going to have an NFL career, he's got a chance to make cash that you may never get a chance like that again. Yeah. More of a run first quarterback to you. It's a hundred rushing yards the last two years. We know Joe's Notre Dame squad doesn't like to have quarterbacks who can throw. So maybe you can end up there next year. But you look at like Bandaiq that left Miami to go to Wisconsin of all places, but he got paid pretty well to get out of a bad situation for him at Miami and get a situation to play yet again. And there's been multiple others. It was one of the Kansas state quarterback or someone that just transferred. Yeah. Well, Howard went to Ohio State. Yeah, there you go. What did you say? Did you ever run to? Was better state. I'm sure paid him. Well, yeah. No doubt. One two two nine. If he was promised the money, he'd have an NIL contract with the collective. I don't really know how that works. I usually stay out of that. I don't know if they can sign a contract. I don't. Yeah. I doubt it was in writing. Otherwise, there would be a lawsuit. I think this is probably some sort of booster that because we've seen this happen at Miami. Obviously you mentioned U of H. There could be this could be a situation where a booster was going to give the money and all of a sudden, maybe things turn south versus business and he no longer has the money to give. So there could be, you know, insinuating circumstances here, but either way, I don't blame the kid for backing out if the university's not keeping their promise. I don't know the NIL law if you can actually sign a contract. I can get completely wrong about that, but I ignore it. I don't pay attention to it whatsoever. Yeah. I don't know the letter of the law with it, but I would think that the university, whether it's frowned upon or not allowed, I don't think they can put in writing the payments that a player are going to get. Because I think that goes against the principles of the governance. Yeah. It goes against the principles. Right. Apparently it's a state law in Nevada too. So I don't, I don't know the logistics, the legalities behind it, six nine, six, seven, his teammate, the running back followed suit, registered for the same reason. I just saw that running back also today. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. 0 5 1 1. My goodness, Branham, totally bush league. Don't compare Branham money to pirates money lame. Okay. 0 5 1 1 since you're such a tough guy and you think that Rowdy Tiles has been wrong. So wrongly, you send $200 to Rowdy Tiles. Since you think that Rowdy Tiles has been so wrong by the Pittsburgh pirates, you go ahead and send 200 bucks to Rowdy Tiles. My guy. 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I wouldn't have anything I wouldn't have an argument against would I be mad? Yes. Would I be blaming Pittsburgh? Not really. I signed the deal. Right. I signed it. If you put pit played all the way up until for it bats, everything that you had, I'd be ticked off. Yeah, I would be ticked too, but it's in the contract anything that's in the contract is plausible. And if you're not worth the money that you're making, you're going to get fired. I'm surprised. I'm still employed here. Quite frankly, I'll nominate the rest of the American League West. What a bunch of what a bunch of bums the American League West is. They can't beat the Astros over 162 games since 2017 and don't give me the 2020 nonsense. That was a COVID year. No one even cares. There weren't even fans in the stands. 60 games. 60 games. 60 games. Seven straight full season AL West champions. The rest of the American League West are a bunch of bums. I'm going to sit at eight straight considering they got further than any other AL West team once it got to the postseason. I'm going to call it eight straight, but by correct, because they were the wild card. But yeah, they got the problem with that is it really hurts the argument last year. Yeah. Okay. I think that's a little fallacy in your argument here. Backfires a little bit there. Quickly, my car record that ain't nominated will be to my singing, which might have been heard briefly earlier in the show. I didn't hear you saying. Yeah, I don't know. It could have been on the show. You guys both rap it. I had no idea that was coming. You were rapping? Well, I mean, kind of. Billy Joel's a rapper? I mean, kind of, when you're just throwing out a whole bunch of names as quick as you can. If Billy Joel's a rapper in Wisconsin, what is, what is little Wayne? Why's it got to be Wisconsin? Yeah. Because you're from Wisconsin. Right. But it doesn't mean that Wisconsin feels that way. It's just me. Couple of nominees on the text line, seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, that's enough Wisconsin. Wow. Brandon runs away with car record the day on his rowdy to les take you, sir, or bushy. Okay. 9229. Put your money where your mouth is. Start to go fund me and start with a base $200. If you think the pirates are so cheap, I bet you're cheaper. I bet you won't even throw $20 in for rowdy to les. Blankers, you want to start to go fund me? You want to put $20 in for rowdy to les? I put my money into it. No. Fake hustle with the argument that the pirates are doing rowdy to les run 8998. This is my kind of guy right here or lady, car record the day rowdy to les for having a stupid name like rowdy. Well, that would be Mr. and Mrs. to les, but second for crying over $200,000. I don't even know if he was crying over it. There are other people that were crying for him that they were his proxy cryers. He signed the deal. The fire is aged if he doesn't like it. Jasper, my car record of the day is myself, gave myself a concussion on a 2x4 in an attic at work. Now I can't have alcohol, caffeine, or work out for 24 hours. Nice flex at the end. And I can't even file workman's comp because I own the dang company. That's another-- That's a double out. Yeah. That's a flex. He gave himself the work out. All that work out. See, you turn quickly and catch like a barrier. I mean, one of the brackets in the attic. Like an AC guy. He just stand up and lose place of where he is and bang his head into. Jasper, how did you get your concussions? One. Two, should you be looking at a bright screen to fire off that text? Oh, good point. We'll call there. I mean, it's a double car record of the day. Yeah. I can tell you the one that I didn't like was I did something similar in the attic, but when I picked my head up, the nail gun had the nail sticking out from the shingles, caught one of the nails in the top of the dome. That didn't feel great. Stitches? No. It wasn't a big enough oat gash to stitch up, but it was bleeding. That's not good. No. Have you ever had stitches? Oh, yeah. Have you seen my leg? I've only-- how many stitches did you have? 64 stitches and eight staples. At one time? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You were playing basketball? A bit by a pit bull. That's rough. That's real rough. How old were you? About five years ago. That was five years ago? I don't know why me looking at it would be able to tell I was five years ago. You can see that I'm missing a third of my calf. That's nuts. Was it your own pit bull? I'm not going to answer that. All right. I used it wrong. Yeah. Well, because we fostered the dog. I've only had stitches. I'm a dog. That'll work. But I broke in some bones. All right. What's winning? Carrick of the day. The Pittsburgh fire. Choles leg. Routing to Les. I think Jasper. Yeah. Yeah. He's had a tough day. He probably needs a win. He needs a W. He's staring at bright screens while he has a concussion. 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