[MUSIC] >> Fan, morning shows, 4.7, 5.9 in the van at his brain gunning. This is just like a abandoned cup of water in here. Second time this week, I had one in front of my station, so that's unacceptable. Would you drink that for like 20 bucks? No, 100 bucks? There is a point, but it's like, not that I'm like sitting here like, I don't, what do I do with the $100? >> It's probably fine, and it's not, I haven't been there for that long. We were here yesterday, it's not 20 bucks, okay, sure. >> Something like that, I don't know what's your price. >> What's stale water? Like, I mean, no, it's not the stale of it all. >> Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not beyond pouring myself a glass of water and forgetting about it and then like going back to it and whatnot. Like I'm not, I'm not beyond that, but you know who poured that glass of water? Me, not, I don't know, yeah, whoever. >> Yeah, I mean, maybe someone's fingers might have made this like, oh, I gotta keep my fingers moist during this radio show. Somebody is, that, you, you, no, here's what's the most likely thing is that someone was drinking out of it. But yeah, dude, are they sick? Yeah, maybe I'd drink it for 100 bucks. >> Okay, well, I'm not giving it to you. So you can give yourself 100 bucks and you can drink that cup of water. Great, great deal for you. Anyways, Blue Jays trying to build off their first sweep of the season. Take that White Sox. The pirates aren't nearly as bad as the White Sox, but they're best players. Not gonna be seen by the Blue Jays. I have a couple of great starters and Blue Jays somehow managed to avoid both of them in this series starting tonight before a series against the Orioles. So you better continue to win now. >> I am crushed by that. I did want to see schemes in the flesh before he inevitably like Spencer Striders himself and it just explodes and whatever. >> Of course, and is Livy done like in town? It's a good question. >> I almost like Toronto in the summer, nice place, maybe. >> Mm-hm. >> I don't know. >> Look at me distracted. Keep staying on task here. Mentioned Sydney Sweeney on the show yesterday. >> Yeah. >> You go and live, come on, keep it between the lines. >> All right, so I'll open the floor for you to- >> Sydney Sweeney. >> Oh, I thought you were asking me to- >> To give us your Ryan Burr breakdown of exactly who he is, what he's got. >> Okay, here's what I got for you that I was crushed when you did the teas, that you did not set it up as, we'll tell you about Ryan Burr. Is that a new Blue Jays or the person tied for 27th at the RBC Canadian Open? That was where my head immediately went. You alerted me to his baseball reference page like some weird shadowing happening in the picture. >> Yeah. >> It's yeah, this is your classic underwhelming reliever edition. >> I guess the numbers are really shockingly amazing in Triple A. >> I didn't notice that as well. >> So he's 30 years old and he's pitched 16 and 2/3 innings at Lehigh Valley with the Philadelphia Phillies affiliate, and by the way, yeah, people don't know why we're talking about Ryan Burr. >> They're trying for him. >> Yeah, Shydvidee yesterday tweeting out, and we'll talk to Shydvidee later on in the program. Blue Jays acquiring Triple A right hander Ryan Burr from the Phillies per source. The 30-year-old has a 2.16 ERA in 16 and 2/3 innings over 15 games with, here's the capper. So 16 and 2/3 innings, 29 strikeouts. >> What? >> He's a right hander. He's 30 years old. He does have a couple of cups of coffee at the major league level where he's had limited success. Like he has an ERA just over four, which is a bad way to evaluate relievers. >> Yeah, a whip, this is a little lofty. A whip of one, three, nine, the walks have been an issue for him at the major league level, and the strikeout percentage hasn't carried over into the major leagues. He's walking almost five per nine, and he's only striking out 7.9 per nine. >> Yeah. >> So I guess you could squint and say he's helping. >> Sure. >> But that's mostly because the Blue Jays bullpen is dog do. Does this indicate anything to you that the Blue Jays? Hey, man, can't say that they ain't trying. It's me, they just swung a trade. >> Yeah, I'll be honest, at first blush, I thought this, you know, I just, I want to be honest, I'll admit this to all of you. I did not know a ton as in anything about Ryan Burr until the second the Blue Jays traded for him, and I opened up the baseball reference page like anyone else. My immediate first blush reaction was, oh, is this a long man, more of a swing guy? Is this go to the conversation we were having yesterday of if we're getting into more of an opener era, this is a guy that they maybe feel comfortable going three in it. But no, he's your standard reliever. Not say you couldn't potentially give you multiple, but this is not some Mitch White type addition. That was where my head immediately went to because that is if you're just saying the team needs a pitcher, that is the role the pitcher, in my opinion, needs to occupy. Now, look, you should always be turning over, you know, every stone and looking under every leaf for a little addition here, a little upgrade there. So I'm not going to criticize them for it. But this does not move the needle at all for me. This is a cash consideration straight, almost certainly you pay a little money, you get a lot of ticket. It's possible a reliever. He has a strikeout numbers of triple A. It's possible. This is a good addition for them. But I don't know that this signifies anything one way or then another other than that possibly the players are talking to teens about other things and different players come off the other part of it. Yeah, I think that their conversations are being had about additions at this point in the season. And this is not an addition that's like, "Well, they gave up Gabriel. They got Gabriel Moreno back and now they're trading him a get-mole." Like, obviously, the return for Ryan freaking Burr is nothing. Cash is probably not even like a player to be named later. It's literally paying for a 30-year-old minor league reliever. But yeah, I know. It's a little something that they're adding to this team and maybe a little insight into the mindset of this front office operating a team that still remains three games under 500. Anyways, they got the Pirates tonight. Jose burrios against Bailey Falter. Falter is a tough last name when you're a professional athlete. Homer Bailey, always the toughest of the of like the pitcher variety there. But yeah, the falter, that's brutal. Yeah, I'm trying to think there's an Adam Shank on the PGA tour. That is maybe the worst ever. Yeah, that's, yeah, absolutely. Being in that sport and being named Shank is rough. We're still waiting on the roster move for Alec Minoa, who I imagine is going to go on the IEL. We haven't heard about that. I mean, it could be Ryan Burr is activated and he's in the bullpen tonight and the starter that they need and they need to do that today, right? Yeah, the Bowden Francis is coming up at a later date, but it's not today. But we don't have any word on that. I wonder if this team, and it feels like this is the first game since the narrative has started to shift despite the three game series sweep of the White Sox. Or we just talked to Brian Kenny yesterday. Like the national baseball media is talking in earnest about the Blue Jays being sellers. And like you wouldn't, I know no professional athlete ever pays attention to the conversation that's happening about them or their team on whether it be television media, print media, or social media. No one's ever like, come on, don't be silly. They don't hear the outside noise, the outside, but they do. Yeah, I wonder if that at all is motivation for this team going into tonight that it's like, okay, now it's truly that nobody believes in us Blue Jays, right? Like nobody, I'm sorry, the three games sweep of the White Sox. It is truly now nobody believes in you Blue Jays. I mean, and we see that there's reasons why teams go to that well in the post season in all sports. It relieves some of the pressure, it increases perhaps your motivation level. This is a sport unlike hockey though, where it's like, you can't try harder in this one, try easier. But like, is there anything to that? This team is now? I think everybody looking at like, wow, what a disappointment this era has been. I can't believe they're about to sell. There is an element that what I actually thought you were going to say is the front office is going, guys, you think we're selling? Look at what we just brought home from the store. We're not getting a divorce. We're going to stay together forever. That is what I thought you were going at with that. And that'd be God, that'd be a tough sell to try to say that that's what saving the family and keeping everything together there. There's obviously an element to that, but wasn't that a kicked in at some other point in time? I understand the noise is appearing from elsewhere, but there's been a lot of noise about this court. There was noise heading into last season when bow before he had his deal that kind of took care of arbitration. There was noise about how hard or how much of trouble the team had getting deals with them done. There was noise when Vlad and the J's couldn't come to a number at arbitration. There has been a lot of moments. And, you know, I suppose it is human nature to wait until the absolute very end to say, okay, okay, all right, okay, I'll do something here. You're really mad. I understand. But I don't know that it's that's going to be enough. Because to your point, it's just not the nature of the sport. If the only way that would happen is if we then got the major league esque montage of all the guys, it's like, all right, get the iPads out. We haven't been doing anything. Well, all these hitting meetings we say we've been having is a lie. We've done mattingly just been doing craft words all the time, which I don't think's been happening. That's the only way that that could come to fruition is if you're actually going to change anything. I don't think especially in this sport that just going by golly, we're in trouble is going to be enough to change the course of this team's fate. Yeah, I would tend to think that that would have already been happening with Justin Turner. I don't think he's gonna be like, Oh, you think I'm done? I'm not done. And then not be done. I think when you're you're done, you're just factually done. Speaking of whom, let's do a pressure check in. So like, I want to do this. I've actually assigned numbers to all these players. I don't know if you thought about it in this regard like pressure on certain individual Blue Jays players on a scale of one to 10, one being like, there's no pressure at all your show hail, Tony having the season that you're having and like the equity that you've already built in Los Angeles. Like today, I would say show you Tony's at a one or a zero pressure, right? Like or 10, where it's like all the pressure. And I don't want to tip my hand. Sure. There's somebody on this Blue Jays team that is pretty damn close to a 10 where it's like, Oh, your career might be over. Hey, anyways, so let's let's check in on the principles surrounding this Blue Jays. For the record, I did not have a metric rating. I power ranked them. Okay. The way I did it. But so I'll be able to in real time give some no numeric numbers here. Okay. So hold on. So maybe I'll, what would be easier? Why don't you give your ranking? So here are the players I had in no particular order, actually. Here are the players I wanted to get your pressure rankings about George Springer, Justin Turner, Daniel Volgobock, Vladimir Gregor, Jr, Boba Shett, Dalton Varsho, Jordan Romano. Okay. Number one, most pressure start with that. Daniel Volgobock. Yes. That's the 10. It's like, because it's like your career is over. Not that I get all of my baseball from you, but when even you, and I feel like, because you are the guy who will try and squint and understand, well, is there a good baseball player in there? Is there something? And when even you were just ready to get the sky out of here, that's all I need to see as well. Daniel Volgobock, if this is the- I got him at a 9.9, but you get a 10. I'm going the other way. It's like I'm going spinal tap, but this one actually goes all the way to 11. Is it any louder? I just told you. It's 11. Yep. That's one more loud. All right. So who's got the second most pressure on them of that group? Justin Turner, because he is aged and he's not quite in the Daniel Volgobock. This could all be over. And if it's over, it's like, hey, what a run you've had, but it could all be over and what a run you've had. Yeah. And also the money is already guaranteed, right? And he is not going to be jettisoned because of that until July. He did the great thing this off season. I can't remember exactly it was, but it's like by turning down the option, he got three or four million from where he was before. And then you add that to the 12 he got from the J's made out wonderfully, but he is the next guy for me on that list. Yeah, I've got him at eight, which is tied with somebody else for me. All right. So who's next in your list? Jordan Romano. I think we're kind of in the lockdown here. I've got him tied at eight with Justin Turner. I think a big factor for this with me is that there is a not to make everything about the Leafs, but there's a little Mitch Marner pressure here of, hey, I know you want to be a big leaguer and you want to play in the major leagues. And that's your goal. But you really want to be the closer for the Toronto Blue Jays. And hey, you get traded to a deadline team and you're a seventh inning guy somewhere that can go well for you. And that can be great and go win a championship or have a playoff run. That's all wonderful. You know what? It's not though. It's not doing those things as the closer of the Toronto Blue Jays, your boyhood team. And that is on the verge of being taken away from you, be it by Jimmy Garcia or be it by getting jettison somewhere else that the rest of this team can't, can't figure it out. So he's the guy who's next for me there. And I have him at honestly, like an eight. Yeah, that's what I've got. I got him at an eight. And I mean, the other thing that must be mentioned with Jordan Romano is that he's a reliever. And it's great as he's been as this team's closer since he took over the role, what three years ago, and he's among the league leader and saves over that span. And the numbers all correlate like he's been blown fewer saves than all the guys that have more saves above him over this span. He is a reliever and like, yeah, one year after another, for no particular reason, you could just stink. Like look at Eric Swanson, who likes thanks, who made his Buffalo debut yesterday and thinks through a scoreless inning. But yeah, I mean, it could easily just happen, even though the the velocity seems there with Jordan Romano, Nick Ashburne doing a great job of breaking down exactly what's happening with him and the slider not moving as much as you'd like. So yeah, if I were Jordan Romero, I would be slightly concerned. So I'm in lockstep with you to this point. I feel like the next guy has got to be obvious too, right? I had a hard time with these three. I actually did. I have Vlad here. Wow, as having more pressure. Wow. So because he to me, he's got the least pressure of the group that we I've decided that we're ranking here. The money he could potentially get from the Blue Jays. And if it gets to a lingering free agent, like the contract he signs with the Blue Jays, if he continues to have this season is very, very different than the one if he ends up being Cody Bellinger and a guy who is a nice player. And you can look at the metrics, but you also squint and understand what the player is. If he gets to free agency and it is not he's being traded to some team that is we are full bore. We're extending you. We want to give you hundreds of millions of dollars. Then I think the free agency could play out in a way that he's just not been prepared for. So that is why I go with him as a third of having the most pressure here for me. To me, the performance has been so good and the overall numbers are so much better now. And I know the power numbers are not there. And to me, he just, he looks like a guy that's playing free and easy. And just the fan base is not like a couple of bad games in a row from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. It's not going to have this fan base booing him like he's already been booed at times this season. To me, he's a three. He's got the least amount of pressure on him. To me, the next guy with pressure is George Springer. I got him out of six. You know what? I missed him. I just skipped over him. I was sitting here. I'm like, I don't know, like Virsho Vladbo. I don't know. Like I can sit here and quibble about either. Yes. Just to be clear, George Springer, more pressure than Vlad. Yeah. I mean, he's got the money. But like, come on. Yeah. You've already been bumped down to to seventh in the order. I think generally, you're hitting six. Now, I will say the reason this isn't higher is because he's actually seemingly performed better since being bumped down the order. There's like signs of life there with George Springer. Also, again, the money got to take some of the pressure off that you're already a known commodity. You're not a Hall of Famer. You will get Hall of Fame votes. Probably you're probably going to last more than one ballot on the Hall of Fame voting. But yeah, no, George Springer, there's still a significant amount of pressure also because of the money. Well, you'd want to have for him. And I know we don't bring this up that often. It's like, you'd like to have one post Astros playoff moment. Yeah, that'd be cool. I heard there were some things happening when I don't know when he wasn't playing full seasons with the Blue Jays. He looked pretty good when he was getting hurt. To me, the next guy is Bob shed. He's at five out of five. Like, you know, he's performed better, but it's still men and over or an underwhelming start to his season. All the things that you mentioned about Vlad and his free agency do apply to him. I think we all are more of the belief that Bob shed numbers are going to look pretty similar to the ones that they've looked like throughout every season of his major league career. And then middle of Vlad and Bo, I've got Dalton Varsha with a four, which is like, it's because last year was so bad, like that's part of it. The bar is so low for him to get over and he's cleared it. It hasn't been an overwhelming success. It felt like it was the beginning of the season. He's cooled off significantly, but he's hitting a bunch of home runs. He's playing great defense. But yeah, like a week and a half, two weeks stretch where he doesn't look good. The overall numbers are going to look horrible again. Yeah, I had him sandwiched between Vlad and Bo. I just flipped Vlad and Bo there. I think that it is a, I think that he is, you nailed it, that he, he did himself a great service by taking all that vitriol in his first season in Gabriel Moreno and the Dbacks doing that. It really couldn't have set himself up any better to just have any season where he performed at something close to what you would expect from him be viewed as though he's going to Cooperstown. So yeah, it's been, he is a guy who I feel like is almost operating with house money. You throw in the fact that he's a couple of years away from free agency areas to our beers left. And yeah, there is obviously a pressure to get paid and you'd love to have a deal that, you know, like eats up some of those free agency years because they're certainly pricier, but he's also a guy who's kind of performing. And with the R beers, he's going to get taken care of financially. All right, before we take a break, some guy named David Skins leads the RBC Canadian Open. Second round is just underway. David Skins with an eight under 62. Do you know anything about David Skins? It looks like he's from England. That's all I can tell you. Even I got nothing for you. We were saying about tough names for your sport. That's a great one. Like if you're a golfer named Skins, I feel like he's taken a couple in his party. Yeah, that'd be pretty good as well. Alan Eagle. So maybe not him. I don't know. I feel like pride played a lot of golf though. If I'm going to be honest, I would love to sit here and give you a fact. Like I gave you yesterday that Lanto Griffin had hippie parents. But yeah, I got nothing for you on David Skins. I told you, I know a guy who played with him in a pro am apparently 10 years ago. And even the person I saw a market or heard a remark about this was saying, even then, it was like, yeah, you know, he's broke off or pretty good, but unremarkable in that regard. So awesome for him. I think we all know how this story is going to end, but awesome for him. I mean, do we we certainly hope so. So there is like a top 50 player, Sam Burns is lurking, right? He's he too. He's one off the pace. Real guy. Yeah. Rory McElroy had like an underwhelming 400 par like he's made four birdies, birdied a couple of par fives with like a bunch of bars. After celebrating a birthday the night before with an early tea time, so I hadn't seen the course basically moonwalked into a four under 66. He's like, I could literally felt like Bryson DeChambeau in the video. I just watched where he's like, Oh, yeah, I made birdie with junior clubs on a par five. I was just used putting for Eagle like, yeah, no, it just felt like that was no big deal. And maybe like on a full night's sleep and not hung over. Rory's going to go out there and shoot a 57 today. But yeah, if you're golf Canada, you can't have David skins win this thing. No, I don't think you will, honestly, you're going to the thing about this field is we talk a lot about it in terms of the strength of it. But when there are enough elite guys here that you almost always have one of them right firmly in the mix. And yeah, you want your champion there. But really what you need is you need one of those guys in the mix on Sunday. Like you just can't have it feel it's one thing if Rory's romping to a win or somebody of that ilk or a Canadian heaven forbid. But yeah, the unheard of Englishman is not not what you want in that regard, not even close shout out to David Hearn top Canadian in the field, which is like amazing for him. And boy, he had a run in recent vintage at Glen Abbey. Yeah, where it looked like he was going to be the guy that eliminated. Yeah, Pat Fletcher from the conversation didn't quite happen for him. Mike Weir with the throwback 68 for hit had six birdies yesterday. Do you don't want to make doubles? But like, yeah, and he had one, but six birdies with the throwback, which is great. Like on the one hand, it's like awesome. Those two guys are the top Canadians. On the other hand, it's like, Oh, that's because Nick Taylor, you know, didn't exactly overwhelm and the opening right history lesson didn't exactly overwhelm in his opening round last season and then went absolutely ham. So maybe proof of concept there. Yeah, and there's going to be birdies to be had by these guys this weekend. It's like Pinterest at one under he's, you know, right there, Mac Hughes one under as well. You said at the home game for him, Connors right at that spot as well. You just don't want these guys to shoot themselves out of it. And like Taylor did last year, he kind of shot himself out of it. And it still didn't matter. Got to have got to have a big day today from one of the Canadians, though, what it would mean to have one of them just kind of in the top 10 lurking heading into the weekend. Give them a later tea time for Saturday because, man, it is, God, it's one of my favorite events of the year. It just continues to build. And the weekend there is going to be, it's going to be fun. We're going to get good weather. It's going to be hot. It's going to be loud. People are going to be boozed up. Rings can be loud. I can't wait. So I followed mostly the Tommy Fleetwood seat that the gala Corey Connors group yesterday. And what I did notice was that Tommy Fleetwood's getting a lot of love. Oh, very much so. I think that would be if it's not a Canadian and honestly, again, like the pressure is off the Canadians with Nick Taylor's victory yesterday or last year, yesterday year, that he feels almost like the rooting favorite the way he acquitted himself after being so close to his first ever PGA tour victory. People need to be reminded of this. This guy feels like a part of the furniture and the PGA tour because he's been in and around the topples of leaderboards but has never won on the PGA tour to pick up his first a year after the disappointment for him, the greatest jubilation in recent vintage for Canadian golf. Like, yeah, there's the other side of that thing. And it's the Phillies in '93 in Frank Sarah Valley with Joe Carter's walk off. Oh, you're like, oh, yeah, there were Phillies fans who were devastated. Like that was a devastating moment for Tommy Fleetwood. To me, that's the best story we got outside of a Canadian wedding would be Tommy Fleetwood a year after losing in a playoff, picking up his first PGA tour victory at the Canadian Open a year later. Yeah, if I can't have a Canadian, give me Rory. So he has to continue to come back to this thing because the farther we get away from a Rory McElroy win, I feel like the less likely it is he might continue to come up here, the Fleetwood thing to add to it. And this is just to somebody who, you know, I was, I was there green side when the putt was dropping, baby. There was such an odd feel in the air watching that playoff because as good Canadians as we are, we don't want to boo or cheer bad shots, but your VJ was getting booed. Yeah, you're cheering for your man, Nick Taylor. And I just, there was a almost guilty energy surrounding the crowd of, you're going to cheer for your man. You're going to do what you need to do. You're probably going to applaud some not great shots from Fleetwood. And I do think there is a bit of crossover of almost a guilty conscience from Golf Canada. If they're like Canadian golf fans, if there is an element to that, because I just think, I think every, I think a player of note like Fleetwood, like he's a Ryder Cooper. These guys matter. And I think that's what people want is just a, a player of note that you can hold up and he just fits in the lineage of Taylor and Rory and DJ. And you don't want him to fit in the lineage of Jez Reeve. Yeah, that's like, he'll always wear it. Tough. That's rough. He's a small little fellow though. Yeah, I know. All right, when we come back, we'll talk to Sam McKee, Real Kipper and Born. It's the fan morning show, continues, Ben and the spring gutting sports at 5.9 of the fan. [Music] Breaking down the top stories in the NHL every day, The Jazz Mary Show. Subscribe and download the show on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. [Music] [Music] Fan Morning Show Sports at 5.9 of the fan, Ben and the spring gutting. Sam McKee, Real Kipper and Born, joining us on Friday morning. Thanks for doing this, Sammy. How's it going? Good, boys. How's it going to you? I'm good. I saved the Bluejay City Connect jerseys for you because you were at the unveiling yesterday. Wish I'd been there. It was a little too much of a sojourn for me on a weekday having to wake up the next day and, you know, gardeners down to two lanes forever. It's just a nightmare to get into the city from Burlington. Enough of my plight. No, no, no, no, no, no, you're right. No, I was going to say this guy loves talking about the gardener being shut down. It's his favorite thing. It's a disaster. It is a disaster. And I saw a report. I saw a report that like city counselors thinking about maybe speeding it up. Yeah, you think? Maybe. Maybe a good idea. I read a thing where it's like, well, you can't really work all hours of the day and on weekends. I was like, you can't? No, you should. And you need to do that. It feels like that's exactly what you should be doing. Let me tell you, there's a lot of people driving to work past the no work being done when I'm every morning. I also read those like, hey, you may think there's no work being done. But underneath, there's all kind of what's a killer. That's what the killer is that it's underneath. Well, and you just can't see it. Yeah. And it just looks like it's closed down to two lanes for absolutely no reason. On the one and so trigger. Just the timing for us. It works particularly bad. Because like, I'm not blind to the realities of work day. Like, you know, like people have a work day. They're not nose to the grindstone every second of it. Like, you have to like, you know, like go to the bathroom or drink a coffee. But if I see one of these guys walking with like the 37 coffee tray, and look, it's happening. Like, I'm on there at nine in the morning, I just am so wide right. I'm going to John just work. But it's like, of course, they're allowed to have their coffee. But I don't want them. I don't want to see it. Whatever. No, it's honestly, it's not it's not their fault. That's exactly exactly. They have been. They're like, these are the hours we have been told to show up. I'm sure if you paid them lots of taxpayer money to go every night, they would go. I'm sure they would go. It's it's I have changed like, multiple plans because of the gardener. Like, I want to take my kids. I like taking them to the Toronto Island, right? I know you can take the go train and church. But it's hard to go to the island with the go train. No kidding. I'm not I'm not going to spend two hours driving into the city and then two hours driving. I'm just not going to do it. Not going to happen. Anyways, I never want to be told I complain too much again by either of you. No, come on. This is a this is a valid complaint about the refs in there. Honestly, take that away. And it's not even it's like, well, at the end of it, it'll just be back to normal. It's not like in Boston where it's like, man, they had traveling nightmare for 20 years. But you know what happened? They put the highway under the ground. The big dig. Yeah, it's like here is like, well, at the end of it in three years, it'll be back to the way it was. And at least it won't collapse into the into the lake. Great, great stuff. What a cool city. They should just get rid of it. Honestly, just get rid of it. Whatever happens. Yeah. No, I hear I'm turkey. I'm going to go on a limb and say you guys be crying about that too. I'm going to go on a limb and say no, maybe you would just push like whoever's inventing like the personal error travel device. Like maybe we would just push them to like up the time frame on that. Have you interacted with the public at large? Like you driven a car, right? You see what happens out there? Yeah, I don't want people buzzing around in the sky. Listen, obviously, that would be a thing where it's like it's it's operating itself. No one. Oh, like a like, oh, I guess your name name is like, oh, like a self driving car. Yeah, it certainly never has any come up and it's happening. Okay. Now we're here. I know. Whatever. Who cares? This is Friday. Um, yeah. Okay. Those self driving cars, they get in the occasional accident. Guess what? Well, a lot less than normal people operating their own cars that like here's the other ugly reality. It's driving cars getting crashes all the time. No kidding. Way more like all the freaking time I drive on the gardener again every day twice. But what is the reality here is when we eventually get to a place where it's like you're not allowed to drive a car yourself because that's coming. It has to come. If we're going to have self driving cars, we need to get to a place where it's like, yeah, literally, this road is only for cars that drive themselves and it's illegal to operate your own car. Here's what's true about this not to get too dark. Someone's gonna get in a fatal accident. Let me have it. And we're just we're going to have to think that's happened before in a car. Yeah, exactly. It's happened when people drive their own cars, right? What we're going to have to accept is that like that's just the cost to do in business here and that in an overall sense, you are safer. Operate it being in a car that is not driven by yourself. But like it's going to be it's going to be tough for the world at large to accept that like I had no control over this car that killed me. It's the trolley problem come to life. Listen, I think I think this is excellent stuff. You know, I've been over the last 10 years. Yeah, that I'd rather be in a self driving car 100% driving me. So exactly. That's the way it goes. And you know, just to keep on the traffic thing here. Yeah. Big reason I you know, the Canadian Open is daunting for me. Dude. The thought of going to Hamilton is daunting. Like it takes me half an hour to get to Lakeview. Like, how long is it going to take me to get to? It's like, I love the Canadian Open and I'm going this weekend. But the dread of the traffic. Anyways, that's enough of my whining. Yeah, I saw rigs from Barstool. Yeah. He's like, I'm late to where I'm supposed to be because of the it's just it's brutal. It's reprehensible. Fix it or Carter. Yeah, I loved door to door my house to the parking lot I had to park in in Hamilton yesterday. Less than 20 minutes. Beautiful. Glorious. Wonderful for me. Well, that's good for you guys. Wonderful for me as well. And I've been lucky last time. The last two years, I was a 25. I was a 25 minute bus ride straight up Jane Street to Oakdale. It was a 25 minute bike ride to St. George's. So you got to take some owls once in a while. But I'm looking forward to the weekend. But yeah, yeah. St. George's was too perfect in terms of getting there for me as well. I have a segue actually. Okay. So I want to talk about the Jay City Connect jerseys, which you were again, unveiling yesterday. I mean, if you truly do want to why you want to you want to you want to capture the heart of the city. I mean, there's the skyline. How is there not the traffic like should have thrown like some red brake lights on on the bottom of those jerseys? Wouldn't that have made more sense? Yeah, I'm feeling a little bit like what's the Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. God damn whiskey sours. Like I'm feeling it this morning a little bit boys. But it was a great party. It was a great party. I was blown away by how cool it was. There was TikTok stars a plenty. I was rubbing shoulders with legends got a picture with Jose Bautista. I had a really good time. I felt a little bit imposter syndromey, but it was fun. And I, you know what, you know, maybe not a popular opinion, but I like the jersey. No, this is cool. I agree. All these, all these, you know, city connect jerseys that you see, they're all like these weird, you know, I don't know, like they really reinvent the wheel here and they reinvent the wheel. And I thought it's pretty cool. I like the skyline. I like the kind of coloring of it. You know, you I was actually given one of these jerseys. Yeah, you could get it customized. I chose to not get it customized. I left it blank, which I don't know if that was the right choice. Like good choice of like, but no, you can't do like, make me know and like my hockey number. No nightmare. No, you can't do that. I got to go Zach pop or something. Yeah, right. So I stir. Yeah. No, like the only one I even considered was David Schneider. But I just decided not to get it customized. Not people. I got the beautiful jersey got a really nice, really nice dad hat with the logo on it, which is like a super nice logo. So all around incredible evening put on by the Blue Jays. Here's a take. Blue is players. They can talk very tall as a tall man myself. Nate Pearson is a mute. Oh, oh my god. No wonder you're in the majors. Bowdoin Francis tall, very tall man. So those might take away from the party. Davis Schneider tall, or maybe maybe not. So did you see Davis Schneider? Unfortunately, that's the other guy. The only other guy would have considered taking a picture with, but I didn't do it. But I saw Jose about Tista. I stopped him in his tracks and I said, Jose, would you take a picture with me? And he looked me dead in the eye and you said, absolutely, man. And he gave me a big dap and we took a picture and he went on his way. He's he's often quite a man. He eyes one of my heroes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was like, but he was like, Oh, give these guys credit, man. They were, you know, out. It's they were out and about. They were mingling it up. They were talking to people. They were having a great time. I saw I saw the all the guys at the bar, you know, having a great time laughing and enjoying their off day. It was nice to see them out about getting away from the stresses of being a horrible baseball team. So I kind of wanted to talk about that because I was thinking about this and like baseball is its own baseball is its own sport. It's literally every day. It's 162. It's such a grind, you know, all the cliches we say all the time. But can you imagine a world where the Leafs were unveiling their third jersey and they just beat like the blue jackets twice in the disappointing season and then we got images of them all like yucking it up and having the time. I feel like the vitriol would have been off the charts. It's just like I could not think of the dichotomy of we've seen pictures of the Leafs fishing and people freaking out and losing their minds. And it's like, I know it's a team event. They're unveiling the uniform. But I just saw that and I was thinking, it is jarring to me how few people are rushing to the take that I feel like would have been had if this was just about any other team. Yeah, baseball is different. You're right. But you don't want to know it's funny to kind of go to that take that you just had. I DM, I may or may not have DM'd a slide show that Bobby McMahon put out yesterday of him in Maine to a particular host on sports. And if I don't have a fan and said, thanks for the playoff memories, Bob. So I, I, uh, I kind of party. You're right. I just got to say like that is the perfect installation of it right there that the Leafs, it's like, yeah, you're there in their off season. Are you blaming Bobby McMahon for getting hurt? Yeah. No, here's what I'll say. If the Leafs, if the Leafs were as good at hockey as they are on Instagram, there'd be four banners hanging at Scotia Bank. Let's just say it out. And if there was good as the Blue Jays, there'd be a lot more vitriol. It's funny how things work. Uh, okay. So we talked to Jersey. I'd actually like to get this off my chest that I think the, you know, people don't like these jerseys. That's a straw man. I think people were predisposed not to like them. And now that they are official, I don't feel like I've seen anybody disliking them. I feel like it is kind of universal praise. I feel like people were ready to dislike them. But from the moment it was official, people are at the very least lukewarm. I think, yeah, the jerseys I'm down with, I think I like actively like them. And part of it is that they're not like overwhelming to the senses. Like it's what it's like, the theme is something about night, right? Like like dark or dark. Anyway, the fact that it's not a whole brochure upstairs. I'll bring it in for it. I don't know. Whatever the way they've marketed, but like that is part of the like, to me, the appeal is that it's not overwhelming. The color scheme, it makes sense. Even the black, right? Yeah, there's been some, some great Blue Jays individual performances, not necessarily great teams that have worn the blackers. The hat though, wasn't Jose's record setting season. We're in the black jersey. Yeah. Yeah. So that's part of the history. I gotta say, I don't like the hat. The hat looks a little hokey to me. It's like the tea with the maple even. I know you'll disagree. You'll, I guarantee you'll change your mind if you see it in person. I have a dad hat that I was given to last night. Not a big deal. Yeah. And it's beautiful. It's a beautiful hat. And I will wear it. I'm gonna wear it today on real Kip Rimborn. I love the hat. But like, you know, we're all too old to wear a fitted hat anyway. So like you're never gonna like like a on field J's hat anymore. Like you guys wouldn't wear that would you? I'm staring at field fitted down. I'm staring at Ben wearing like a flat brim full from hat. No, I have a bigger head than you guys. No, I, I can, I can wear a fitted hat. No, I got a big old noggin. Maybe not your size, but I do have a big head. 758 for me. Same exact same element size. Yeah. No, I, I like a fitted blue J's flat brim. Don't, don't, I don't bend the brim. But yeah, wear a flat. I was bent. You got to grow up on this. I was gonna say, you have two children. Like, come on, grow up. Yeah. Why? Curve your hat. You need the stickers on there, too, or the tag? No, I don't do that. I just find it fits my head. It looks better on my head with the flat brim. Well, this is the thing. This is the intervention. Like two of your friends are like, I don't think it does. Yeah, but you, oh, really? Just under the bed. No, just a little. Yeah, I'm not asking you to, not asking you to be like, be like your dad in like a champ sports in 82, be like, I really bend this thing in here. Just a little subtle curve, little something. Not happening. So we've talked about the hat in person, talked about hats in the gardener today. This is good. I've loved it. I've loved every, every second of this conversation. Yeah. Do you want to talk about it? I was going to ask you about the Canadian Open and how you feel, you know, a year after the Nick Taylor when I, you know, I thought I would feel, and I guess, to a degree, I do, it just doesn't feel like a Canadian is going to win this thing. No offense to to Mike Weir, who's like the second best Canadian in the field right now after opening round. And Nick Taylor had a horrible opening round last year. So, I mean, there's proof of concept there. But, you know, as Toronto sports fans, there's very few sports situations where we can feel like we go into something with house money. And this is like as close as we can get, right? Like there's no, hey, lightning won a Stanley Cup. And they're running it back the next year and how the, how fun that must have been for that fan base and the whatever the couple hundred hockey fans they have in that city. But this is like the rare occurrence as Canadian sports fans, but more specifically Toronto ones that we, we watch an event where it does, it feels like the pressure is off a little bit. I don't know if you feel the same way. To me, it just like, this is a tough act to follow for Hamilton and the RBC Canadian Open this year. Like, yeah, I don't know if you guys are like big karaoke fans. Like you go to a bar for karaoke and like somebody absolutely crushes Whitney Houston or something. You're just like, Oh, please God, don't let me go next. Like, please God, don't let me go next. And that's kind of what this is, this tournament. Like, it just feels like it's going to take a couple years for the it to live up to what happened last year, right? I just I really do feel like that. And that's a part of that house house money and whatever. But yeah, like, it's kind of hard to kind of a hard act to follow. You know, Canadian guy hitting a 72 foot Eagle putt to win on the fourth playoff hole. Kind of a tough act to follow. So I'm looking forward to going this weekend, but I'm definitely not like as locked in to it as I've been in the years past. A lot of it has to do with scheduling, obviously having it be in Hamilton or whatever. But yeah, a bit of a different year this year, I would say, after what happened last year, like everybody's just kind of, I think, basking in the afterglow of Nikki Taylor's win. Yeah, there's definitely some of that, but it's like even expand it beyond that. Like, you had a run of winners of DJ Rory Rory Canadian. It feels like it's kind of hard to just live up to that. Like the entire run we've seen. We're due for a Johnny Vegas burn here, right? We're due for a Johnny Vegas. Although I did love him going back to back and wearing the Mounties hats both times. That was a great touch. David skin, baby. Who's it? David? Who's leading right now? I didn't I didn't watch a man. David skin. Yeah, nobody. The skin man. Anyways, go to minute 238 of the telecast. You'll see right there. I was looking at the leaderboard. At least Rory had a good day yesterday. Yeah, Sam Burns is there. Yeah, but like outside of that, I mean, David Hearn played well. Yeah, that's Burlington zone. Don't say it like that. Yeah, I mean, I like David Hearn. And to me, if it's Canadian, if it's if it's not a Canadian, like being there yesterday and following that group, it did feel like Tommy Fleetwood had a lot of love for him considering good. The performance deserves it. Yeah, I think you'd be the rooting favorite that this week, if he's in the mix, going into the weekend, considering the way you acquitted himself against Nick Taylor. And then he's looking for a pen for Lashley. That's exactly what I said that the fans have a guilty conscience from last year. And that's why they're cheering on Fleetwood like they are exactly what I said. They're Canadians. They're Canadians and they apologize and they have guilty consciousness. That's what we do. We did we did a golf lap when he hit a poor wedge. Oh, I'll never be able to live this down. Gunner. Gunner, you were you were a green side. People were roaring for his bad shot. They're pretty half off the top. They were also screaming at executives of banks and golf Canada, but away the umbrellas nerves. I heard a lot of that. So yeah, it's pretty rowdy green side on 18. People were wet. You're sleeping. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. Give it to me again, please. All right, good stuff, Sammy. Good job. So you guys go on this weekend? Yeah, that's kind of the like plan etched in pen. Actually, it feels pretty pencil. I was going to say pen like one of those erasable pens. He's written it in a racer is what it sounds like. It's getting less sure by the moment. I'll be there both days, but. All right, great. I would love to see both you guys this weekend. And we got it. We have really bad schedules for golf, but I would love to play golf with you two guys at some point. Yeah, I was going to send the text. So Gunnar and I are playing today, but I don't think 1050 would work for your work schedule there. Anyways, Kipper born jane wrangled himself. Enjoy your day. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful day outside. I love both of you boys very much. I love you too. But there's a Sammicky real Kipper and born. Time now for the Waken Reich presented by Sports Interaction, your home grown sports book 19 plus bet responsibly hockey night in Canada this weekend with the Panthers and Rangers also with the Oilers and of course the Dallas stars. Let's start with Saturday's game as the Panthers and Rangers. Obviously an elimination game, a chance for the Florida Panthers to get into their second consecutive Stanley Cup final and they are the underdogs going into this game as the Rangers are favored at minus 130 Panthers plus 110. Yeah, I think you just got to go with the Rangers on the money line there. I think that's what you have to do. This series has been so tight. I know the Panthers have really pushed it, but when you have the better goalie and you have a team that has the talent level that the Rangers do, I just, I see this thing going seven. I think they're going to find a way just can be Rangers on the money line. And the Oilers trying to take a three, two series lead on the Dallas stars as they are underdogs in this game, I think. Plus 140 are the Oilers is the Rangers or sorry, as the Dallas stars are minus 167. Yeah, give me the stars. I know you got to pay a lot of Jews for it minus 167. I just, I see Dallas getting back in this series, Edmonton played the game of their life. Every button that no block pushed was the right one in the last game. Very, very rarely does it go so perfectly twice in a row at this, at this time of the year. So give me the stars on the money line there. That was the wake and write presented by Sports Interaction, your homegrown sports book 19 plus bet responsibly. When we come back, Chita media's fan morning show continues Ben and his friend Gunning sports at 590 today.
