This is the down labor part, sure, we've still got Sparkasse. So listen to what Stuart is saying there, because you have to do this, it's a real easy way to have a shot at ten thousand dollars, even if you don't want the other stuff, which is some private moments with us, advance auto parts doing something to support the show here. And one of the ways you could get ten thousand dollars yourself is say it again, the number they need, what they need to do, what they need to tax.

Your last name. Levitus ad lib a r d to seven seven three three three and you'll have a chance at ten thousand dollars and a virtual meet and greet with us. All right. So Tim Kirkenes going to join us in a moment here. But again, we interrupted Christine Lacy. We don't stop doing that. Please continue, Christine.

And finally, a two year old toddler made national headlines by taking his best friend, a full sized skeleton everywhere he goes, speaking of people carrying around dead weight. Dan, back to you.

Oh, wow. All right. She's coming after you got Begonia or. Yeah, we don't know. Certainly not. Kerschner would not be Tim Kurkjian. Tim, I know it's super random. I know it is just overdosing on baseball, but I like what your sport is doing. It's not just that I don't dislike it. I like how I'm consuming the baseball playoffs this year.

Well, how can you not like it then? We had eight playoff games in one day. We had four more yesterday and two more today. This is a great thing for baseball that we're seeing this and we're seeing we're seeing power pitching there like we've never seen before. The strikeout rates are out of control. It's too much. But every time you turn on a game, there is somebody throwing 97 miles an hour. It's ridiculous. I don't know how anybody gets a hit anymore.

And this week has proven again just how overpowering the pitching is in the big leagues. And the games have been unbelievably long, but it's so much fun to watch.

So Fernando Tatis Jr., among young players you've seen play the sport that you've gotten excited about.

Does he rank he he ranks because of his size that he's really big and he can really move. I haven't seen too many shortstops that size who can move like he thinks it's athletically. It's ridiculous. And then yesterday, he had left ten runners on base in the first two games and he comes up in the biggest spot with the second on the line and it's a three run homer and then he hits another homer. So he is he's a difference maker.

He's going to be a star player in the league for a long time. But again, the position he plays and the skill with which he plays it is the separator. You don't see shortstops who can catch and throw and move like that guy can at that size.

At that age, me, I love the postseason to the amount of games. The games have been exciting. And I know you're a traditionalist, but I'm wondering here, do you think that this is something we could see permanently moving? Maybe not sixteen DB ten, but maybe 12 or 14 moving forward here with a Major League Baseball playoffs?

Yeah, I think we're going to see more playoff teams next year. And I'm on record and I will defend it. That sixteen is too many for a 162 games season. It just takes away from the integrity of the regular season. That sub five hundred teams are getting in. I mean, to sub 500 teams are in this playoffs. The Brewers made the playoffs without being over 500 for one day of this season. I mean, the Reds made the playoffs and deserve to.

But, you know, they they hit to twelve as a team and made the playoffs. This is the game we play today. But I'm worried if you let sixteen teams in every year now, that team like the Dodgers that wins 112 twelve games has to play a three game series out of the box. And in baseball, anything can happen. And I think a the first place team deserves to get some sort of reward for playing that well for so long.

Does Gardner Minshew look like the bad guy in a 1980s movie about surfing, or does Gardner Minshew look like a guy who would shotgun a Bud Light after being told by Jerry Springer that he is not the father?

Or does Gordon Hayward look like the piano player of a Wild West saloon who abruptly stops playing as the notorious gunslinging outlaw? Gardner Minshew swings open the saloon doors and silences all the patrons with a menacing glare.

Rob, you are on with Tim Kurkjian. Go ahead, Rob.

Hey, hey. If you could sleep have a sleepover in any MLB stadium ever, what which one would it be and who would you bring? It could be anyone in history. Well, being a really old guy, I would sleep at Fenway Park just because, you know, Ted Williams played right out there and Babe Ruth pitched right on that mound right there, which is still there. And I would invite Babe Ruth to the sleepover because I know that all these years later, I'm fascinated with how how great he was, how athletic he.

Was what a great picture he was and how back in the 20s he had a tape measure, home runs using, you know, equipment that doesn't even rival what we have today. He's the most fascinating player in baseball history. And I would love to just sit down for a sleep over at Fenway Park with Babe Ruth.

A little sleepover with a great bambino about that at the fence.

Does Tim Legler look like a Las Vegas billboard attorney at that bus stop?

Does Ryan Fitzpatrick look like the apostle Paul?

Does Adam Silver Bull look like the long match you use to start your fireplace?

I'd say that, Mark, you're on with Tim Kirks.

And go ahead, Mark Apostle Paul to his TERREMOTO, the most prized free agent this off season. And if you're having a Dodger dog, but it's made out of Turkey, is it really a Dodger dog? I'm not sure I can tell the difference between a Dodger dog and a turkey, does it serve at that length and the way they serve it? Yes. You can't miss a Dodger dog. Yes. Real Minuto will be the premier free agent out there.

There are a couple other good ones, George Springer. But again, the position that he plays is the separator. When you're a catcher and you're relatively young and you're offensive and you're really good behind the plate. That's how you make money. And look how many teams out there could really use a front line catcher moving forward. So it's going to be a weird off season for for paying players, but he's going to get paid because he deserves it.

Does Mike Malone look like he's speed walks through your neighborhood at five? Thirty a.m. precisely every morning.

Does Orel Hershiser look like the guy who still calls his mom mother?

Does Mike Leach look like the guy in a disaster movie sitting at the diner drinking his coffee? And as the floodwaters slowly begin to creep in under the door, nonchalantly asks the waitress, Got any pie?

Oh, yes.

Does Adam Silver look like a small towns watertower or does he look like the thing your toilet paper spends on Zach?

You're on with Tim Kirks. And go ahead, Zach. Hey, to me, one question. The raise. What the hell? The rays are really good fellows, and it sounds corny and clichéd, but they play the game better than everyone else. They keep the double play in order. They don't miss the cutoff man. They don't make ridiculous baserunning mistakes like everyone else does. They throw strikes. They put the ball in play. They are they just play the game better than everyone else.

They don't have the best players. But the way they approach the game is why they're such a difficult out. And I cannot wait to see them play the Yankees. They beat eight out of 10 this year, but the Yankees are rolling. So there's so much to admire about how the Rays play the game.

More teams should pay attention to that because they're doing it right to emulate one pitcher, current pitcher, active pitcher, one pitcher, one game one. When is it Garrett Cole?

Yeah, he had a no walk thirteen strikeout game the other day. So only he and Tom Seaver ever done that in the postseason. Of course, last year, his final twenty two starts, he went sixteen and with a one seven adara and struck out a batter in seventy three consecutive innings. He's a really smart pitcher. He has violent stuff that he throws with amazing precision. So I would take him over everyone. Plus he's got postseason experience, which again we saw the other day.

Does Sam Darnel look like a rock'em sock'em robot? Does it seem a little square?

Does does Marty Smith look like the guy who puts antlers on his truck during the Christmas season?

Does Nick Nurse look like the camp counselor who, while telling the campers there is absolutely no such things as monsters, cannot see the half man, half swamp creature walking out of the lake behind him?

And finally, does Pat Riley look like the boss at your law firm?

He turns out to actually be the fallen angel. Lucifer made flesh trying to seduce you into entering a carnal contract with your half sister in order to sire the Antichrist and usher in 10000 years of darkness. Wait a minute. That's a movie. That's the devil's advocate. Tim, thank you for being on with us.

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Dugan's. We are our second episode this week. It's the Weekend Observations Crew. We are doing that weekly now. So every week I'll get together with Mike Jr., Mike Mike here, Dance Danzig. This week we had Diane Terracini. She was fantastic. We did a full wedding recap with recine laugh out loud. Funny.

Roy, what's on the latest mystery? Great. I don't know if it's dad pod, you did something with him in Alhassan Roy. It is up on there.

Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you. How did you not know? I just kept getting pushed back and pushed back.

I think Roy was just totally jarred that I was coming to him. He was not expecting that. I think that's what happened. And I startled him awake. Archie Manning. Have you have you heard about the son of Cooper Manning, the high school prospect, who is a sophomore?

Yeah, I'm very excited. I told you this before. I don't want to live in a world where there's not a Manning playing quarterback in or seems to be the next one. This is exciting.

Well, he's just a sophomore and he came out of the box here with five touchdowns and one rushing touchdown, five throwing touchdowns.

And he looks the part. He looks like like Eli, like his uncles. And physically, he could have guessed.

He looks like Lamar Jackson. And Arch is such a great name. It is such an upgrade from RG, is it not? I mean, just take off the IHI and you have one of the great quarterback names in the history of football are demanding you.

Mahvish, one of the great one of the great. Well Archie is not very intimidating now, but Arch Arch gives you a little more than that. And so if you are worried that that league at the quarterback position has a marketing problem going forward, given that it's always the white guys that get the national commercials and that is not viewed. If you want to check out an interesting podcast with Bomani Jones, we covered a lot of different ground in the big city a couple of days ago, and we were talking about whether or not the white quarterback is an endangered species right now, given that the the way that you're used to seeing the position played is obviously changing when you look at Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes and Kyla Murray and just and Josh Allen, the athleticism at the position where it's no longer the stiff necked Peyton Manning dropping back to pass, you see that that is obviously changing.

And so one of the things that we were talking about, though, is that somehow football and not somehow football is not considered a black league, the way that basketball is considered a black league. And it's at least in part because you're white quarterbacks are getting all of the commercials. They're getting a lot of the the insurance commercials, the play that makes them extend, you know, beyond the sidelines into being known by people who might not even be interested in football.

But it's a little more difficult to do that with Lamar Jackson, who does not talk in interview bites that are special. He's not giving you charisma of any sort. Patrick Mahomes can give you that. Patrick Mahomes can absolutely grab the mantle on some of this stuff.

You see Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson. Patrick Mahomes is doing the State Farm commercials now that Chris Paul does with the NBA. And Russell Wilson is a guy who does does a ton of commercials, right? Oh, I think yeah. I see Russell in a lot of commercials. I don't I'm asking you when I say does he? It's only because I don't think of Russell Wilson as national commercial headphones commercial and fairly recently.

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Our new celebrity prognosticator, Steven, one, two and three. Last week, Colin Cowherd beat him, but we're still up on the season. We are nine and six and Cowherd is eight and seven. So we bring in this guy. Today is the this is the 30 year anniversary of the first time that he wrestled. And now he is, of course, some. You know, Chris Jericho with us on ESPN Radio, thank you, as always, for making time for us.

What do you remember about your debut in wrestling?

It's actually pretty funny. And thanks for having me back on, Dan, but I've been thinking about it all week. And I even did a podcast with my opponent, a guy called Lance Storm, who rushed to cancel now. And we actually talked for a whole hour about this first match. You remember all these little things like where you got your boots and where you got your tights. And they wanted me to be cowboy Chris Jericho. And I didn't want to be a cowboy.

But they listen from Casper, Wyoming, anyways, just all these little cool things. It's hard to believe it's been 30 years, but I've come a long way all the way from the Moose Hall in Ponoka Alberta to the Dan Levitas show here worldwide.

How many people were there?

How many people were there for your first match? I haven't written, so I'm getting ready to put in a book called The Complete List of Jericho because I kept a list of every match that I ever had, starting with this match. So I'm actually looking at this piece of paper that I wrote on literally 30 years ago, and I wrote down one hundred and thirty people, although there's probably half of that there, because in my mind's eye, there's 130 people is like Madison Square Garden.

At the time, I couldn't believe how many people were there. And a couple of them were actually cheering for me. And I can never forget that feeling. And holy smokes, they're actually cheering for me. They liked me.

You were from Casper, Wyoming, in and your name was like, did you at that point, had you settled in on who you were? Yeah, Chris Jericho right from the start. OK. I remember you had some terrible name before that Jack action, Jack. I didn't know whether that was Jack Action or Chris Jericho and your first match. Yeah, I wanted to be Josh Jackson and then the aforementioned Lance storm. Obviously, that's a terrible thing.

OK, well, how about Chris Jericho? Because I was listening to a German heavy metal band called Halloween, and there's an album called Walls of Jericho.

So I was frantically searching for a name when Jack Action was shut down and went with Chris Jericho and said, I really like Jack action.

I got to be honest. You could catch Chris Jericho on AIW Dynamite each Wednesday at eight o'clock Central, including next week's 30th anniversary. Chris Jericho special. I'm wondering 30 years. The most memorable match for you is what? It's hard to say, man. I mean, there's been literally 2700, 25 of them, but I think probably I'd say probably the A.W. Match where I won the world title, maybe for now, it's hard to say. All I know is that, coincidentally, it's also the first anniversary of A.W. today as well.

And what a great year it's been. So latissimus for Shawn Michaels, the match with John Boxley where I lost the title and A.W.. I mean, there's so many of them, just great memories all around, I think. I think my favorite thing is that I've been able to make a living doing what I always wanted to do when I was a kid for 30 years now.

So each each match is special as the last game I'll put on the pole pleases the gods, the first person ever to give out Central Time when promoting something and the wrong one at that. It's seven o'clock Central, but eight o'clock everywhere.

It's 8:00 Eastern, 7:00 Central. I mean, it's just it's just you got reading the Internet poorly now. I'm trying to promote Jericho here. Yeah, but you did it poorly by giving people the wrong time. They're going to show up at eight o'clock Central.

Sorry, this will be done by 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time.

Like you do. You know football. Before we get to the celebrity pics from you, do you know football? I want I know football, especially the last four years, and every Sunday, my wife has a football pool hall type thing, and just last week I got 11. Right. So I'm on a roll, man. All right, guys. All right. He is a baby.

All right, let's let's do this here. The lines are provided, as always, by Caesars, William Hill.

And now it is time for a celebrity prognosticator. Let's win some money.

It is ten, thirty eight central on your radio dial right now. Jags at Bengals. Bengals minus three. Who's Jeriko got?

I'm going to go with the Jaguars, and the reason why is I work for the crime family. Don't forget that I don't think the Jaguars would get fined.

OK, very good. OK, guys, we got Saints, head lions, lions plus four. Who you got?

I'm taking a saints. Can't go against Drew Brees.

Many not really Seahawks at Dolphins. That's OK, though. No football. Do you mean physically? He's hot. OK, let's not like look like good looking.

OK, very good. Seahawks nicely, nicely pivoted, saving a few Seahawks at Dolphins. Dolphins plus six and a half. Who you got.

I'm taking Seahawks Russell Wilson baby bills at Raiders.

Raiders plus three. Who you got bills. Josh Allen, baby patriots at Chiefs Chiefs minus seven. Who you got hold baby.

Can't go against Mahomes. I'm going with the Chiefs, baby. Aaron is the chief of the Chiefs.

Thank you for being on with us, Jeriko. Hopefully we'll talk to you again next week. Again, you can catch Chris Jericho on A.W. Dynomite each Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, seven Central, 6:00 Mountain Time on its 30th anniversary.

I'll tell you what, I'm going to be back next week. Baby, tell better. Watch it. All right. Go on. Five, four, five.

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We're going to throw every sound that we have from the week into the club. I don't have any idea why these two guys decided to give you Central Time in the promo for where Jericho is. But usually when we promote stuff, we want to get the time right. So you don't miss it in the event that you were, you know, wanting to see that and would get mad like furious at the guys because you'd be like, damn it, I heard that.

That was it. That was it.

8:00 p.m. Central STOO guards told me, I feel like Eastern Time, the Eastern Time Zone gets most of the shine. And so sometimes I like to spread it out. Gave the Central Time Zone a little love, give the Western time zone a little bit of love. That's nice of you. But even then I think you still got it wrong. I did.

We will get into the club in a second. But first, before we do that and so that we can get into the club, please give me the short one. I need the short intro to start of the day. The short one, please.

Start of the day. Start of the day. In this. The start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day in this year. Start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. And this is part of the day. Start of the day and start of the day is the start of the day. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

The only time that the New York Jets appeared in the Super Bowl was four years before the death of.

Picasso, what am I looking at here?

What were you laughing about while I was reading that you called it the Western Time Zone? Yeah, that Roy corrected us to the charts 8:00 Pacific Time.

So we will open up the club in a second.

You were amazing. I mean, a fictional character like this could not be written.

Sometimes we like to amplify it being a character, but damn, that was a rough segment for you. This is me, man.

Well, he's tired is part of the problem. He's been complaining a lot about the amount that he's talking.

Shorten the show by an hour, relax. I know, but I've added other things in my life, like an NBA finals run that in the baseball playoffs.

I mean, he has a hard time saying no to to anybody about anything. Like if you want him to come on your podcast or you want him to do whatever he has a hard time with. No if it means he gets attention.

Well, yeah, that's that's true. I don't say no because it benefits me. I had a really like I had a really satisfying day yesterday. I was part of Hank Azaria's podcast. I was on Bill Simmons's podcast, on our podcast.

Hank Azaria. I don't give away the game. Just stop talking. It's been a really poured last ten minutes for you.

Listen, I'm ready for the let's open up the club. Let's open it open and we're going to give you four minute bursts of club.

He's just out of gas, Mike is tired, Michael. That's it, these two hours of terrestrial radio every day is just totally crushing to him. Getting all the first sound in the club is James.

That, of course, is the creed the Marlins will source got to know this was post breakup. This is Scott Stapp going solo but given Outbreed vibe to the proceedings by going into his loins to go get the emotion three.

Well, Billy, are the Marlins going to soar? Are you soaring? Are you heading the club? Why do you look despondent and scared already? What's happening here? You excited the investigation?

Dan has hit a bit of a snag. No new evidence in the past couple hours, but I'm still on the case. Don't worry. All right.

You are going to try and prove that the Cubs are cheating with their weather to avoid the Marlins rotation.

And I'm going to get to the truth. I'm not trying to lean one way or another. I'm trying to get to the truth of what's going on. All right. Thank you, Bill.

The next sound in the club is the discussion that we have that makes this complicated is that Shaq makes the sidekicks so much better. Shaq makes the sidekick so much better as Dan is choking on a peanut right now. That is my memorable moment ever.

We sound a lot younger. Yeah. Who else is in the club back at.

D.K. Metcalf, Mike hauls it in. Thirty eight, thirty one, the Seahawks take the lead and it's so good just him trying to choke his way.

It's Mike leaves, right, choking his way through a highlight.

I know he really reached back for him, belching out the Metcalf is just a commitment to winning that most anchors do not have him going in, going deep, deep into the reservoir where very few anchors can go high pain threshold.

He just lost in the club.

Well, he's really struggled here in Carolina, there's no question. Sorry. Sorry, Adam.

Take a glass of water. All right. Thank you for saying.

Not everyone can do it, so he can't go get it. He doesn't have an extra gear. Sorry. Sorry, Adam.

This is an apology and no more information. Shifty robot. Sure.

Sorry, I was in the club. You got. Not so fast, my friend. Oh, yes. That seems like it was six months ago. Who else in the club to God, yes. The highlight of Stewart's career could pick to God as game day. What did you end up going on? Game. Did you know what your record was? I have no idea. But he said I welcome any time. I'll see you tomorrow, Resay.

I'm guessing if your record was good, you know it. I'm guessing who else in the club.

My neck, my back. My my condola. Thank you. Always welcome here to take you into the weekend. Who else.

This is literally the worst way to ever do this. This is burning my heart that this is happening. But if you could hear me just understand. I'm sorry.

That is of course action. Bronson talking to Magnus for magnets. You could hear me.

Just understand. I'm sorry.