This is the down labor part, sure, with this got Sparkasse. All right, we'll get to Christine in a second, and we will also get to Tim Kurkjian. But if you're watching us on television, I simply want to point out to the audience and to Tim Legler and to Billy that they have clearly been defeated by one hour in their costumes.

You can see on their faces Legler has taken off his mask. He looks OK, haggard and older than he ever has. And like he's more dehydrated than he played in an NBA game. Like he looks beat up for wearing that costume for an hour.

But how about those white teeth there? Why he's so beautiful? He really is. He's happy and beautiful, but he's drenched. He is totally drenched. And Billy, you look like you're in bad shape. You look like you're hurting. Yeah, that's fair. I don't think Legler is what it this much of an NBA game. Yeah, I got to come back to him. I said that joke already. Anyways, Christine Lacy, you were saying.

And finally, finally, the Eiffel Tower shrinks by six inches during the winter.

George Costanza can sympathize and it's finally by the minute now, she's doing, like, just jokes just now when she's ready. She's evolving right in front of our eyes from just a cruelty specific to us to now she's after, you know, George Costanza. We will get back to Christine Lesedi in 30 minutes. We will also have Chris Jericho in 30 minutes. And Tim Legler is hanging around the proceedings a bit broken. I have to admit. I've been told not to go to him this segment, though, so we will check in with him and see just how much he's hurting in a second.

But Kirkenes on with us. Kartun has beef. Do we have this sound? I've got to start here because this is the first time we love Tim Cook. He's a decent man with a rage problem, but we love it. I got to be honest, the first time I heard it, I smiled. It was cute. I didn't really pay much attention to it. I've heard it three or four times, and each time I hear it, I find myself getting angry.

It's infuriating and the shipping container is hurt. Tim, do you know what we're talking about here? No, I don't. What are you talking about? All right, so look at this, all right. This the accidental Huerter that Tim Kurkjian is and he did this with great cruelty, cruelty on SportsCenter the other night while guffawing with, you know, is not faithful to us, to his giggling, giggling Van Pelt, who by the way, you tell me Tim Kurkjian, if Adam Silver and Scott Van Pelt look like a pair of Apple iPods, let's play this sound for Tim Kurkjian just blasting everybody in the shipping container.

The analytics have robbed some of the art from the game. Now we are a home run walk strikeout game virtually every night. Scott, here's how bad it is now. I got asked on a radio show the other day if Ozzie Smith could play in the major leagues today. Ozzie Smith, he's the greatest defensive shortstop of all time. And given the importance of that position, he might be the greatest defensive player of all time. But since he doesn't hit homers, he hits ground balls, he steals bases and he doesn't strike out.

People are looking at him saying, well, what value would he have today? He could play for anyone today. But for someone to actually ask me if Ozzie Smith could play today, that's a dangerous situation to be in. Well, you can't go on that show again, Tim, with all due respect to whoever asked that question, because that's preposterous.

All due respect to everyone involved, that was made to infuriating, just infuriating. Tim, you laughed anaphase.

You made Van Pelt laugh twice. You guys get together and you giggle all the time and you giggle at our expense and you giggle more than you giggle here. Jealous. You're a real bleep hole. You know that.

And the fact that you would ask me that question speaks to directly where we are in the game today. You have every right to ask that question because there are people who agree with you. I totally disagree that Ozzie Smith couldn't play today, but the game we played today is a different game than we played 25 years ago when Ozzie Smith last played. So I wasn't upset that you asked me a question. I, I didn't even think it was a stupid question.

I just know the answer to it in my mind. But there are people who think you're right about that and I'm just not one of them. And I'm not angry about this. I'm not upset. I'm just worried. I'm worried that the game has changed so much in twenty five years old.

Relax, relax. I mean, it seems like you and Van Pelt, we're having a grand old time at our expense. Yeah, it really is. It's unpleasant. And now he's walking it back a little bit, trying to.

But I'm not the one who said any of this. The shipping containers said it's you. I piled on and then you put it on me a I'm not walking back on anything.

I'm not piling on anyone or anything. I'm just trying to respond to the clip that you played. That's all. I mean, this is classic gaslighting.

Joe Cool. Tim Kurkdjian over here telling everybody they're crazy and he's just playing both sides in the middle. What's happening right now? Classic gaslighting.

That's what's happening. It's infuriating. Does Paul Finebaum look like the banker gives his customer a hearty smile and a firm handshake even after his house just went in for foreclosure?

Could have read that. Better foreclosure. Don't worry. You're OK.

Does Adam Silver look like the conclave just elected a new pope?

Does Randy Johnson look like if Mountain Dew had side effects, the Scott Hansen looked like your mom's new boyfriend, who upon meeting you says, I don't want to be your dad. You already have one of those. I just want to be your friend.

Does Adam Silver look like the guy at the mortuary dubbed The Closer due to his success rate and upselling those dusty baker looked like the old guy in the barber shop who constantly remind you that when we were young we didn't use no space.

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Hey, that's a good one, right? Does Jeff pass? And this is really going to test in here. Does Jeff pass?

It looked like the too good to be true new boyfriend of a recent divorcee who turns out to have a secret room in his house with surgical equipment and a walk in freezer. It totally looks like that. Yeah, I the thing that happened the other night that we were talking about Tim and I was shocked to actually hear this sound from you. And I know it's a little bit long and we have Kartun with us. But if we could just get the sound of what I believe to be Tim Kirshen, like, genuinely disappointed in his game.

Let's play that sound for Tim and see if we've got a great read on it. I'm worried about our game.

We have lost a feel for the game. We have stopped watching the games in this postseason. Relief pitchers through more innings than our starting pitchers threw. We have lost the value of our starting pitchers. There is no way that a guy who faced 18 batters tonight struck out. Nine of them had one hard hit ball should be taken out. Nick Anderson is a great relief pitcher. He allowed one inherited run the whole season, but he allowed three in the postseason and he set a major league record for most postseason appearances in a row, allowing a run seven.

He's not the same guy. We have stopped watching the game. And Kevin Cash is going to get killed for this and rightfully so. But it's the front office of the Rays and the front office everywhere that has lost track of how the game should be played. I'm sorry I give up. This is too much now.

I give up. This is too much now. And if you didn't hear Tim Kurkjian authorized what he believed to be the rightfully so killing the murder of Kevin Cash. He said that on television. He said it was OK to kill Kevin Cash. I think that's a little unreasonable. Unreasonable by you, Tim?

Well, if you listen to what I said and what everyone else said, it's not just Kevin Cash. It's an industry wide issue. Now that the computers and the analytics are running the game instead of the managers, coaches, players starts with the owners who hire these young general managers who are brilliant and they are arrogant and they think they know everything and they think they're smarter than you when they're not. They also think they have created a game that's better than it's ever been.

They know a system how to evaluate players better than ever, and they're wrong about that. The game in the 80s was better than the game today that every player today could play in the 80s. Of course, the players are bigger, stronger, faster and better. There is no doubt about that. A bunch of pictures from the 80s that have no chance in today's game. I get all of that. But the style of play is not very good these days.

Too many homers, too many walks, too many strikeouts. And yes, I'm worried. I'm concerned and I'm discouraged. Blake Snell was just the tipping point because it happened in Game six that a lot of people are now looking at the game saying, what are we doing? I have never seen that kind of reaction after a game in my life about a strategic move made by a manager. And I repeat, it's not Kevin Cash's fault. It's an industry wide problem.

If I'm hiring managers today moving forward, young guys that start with Great Council 2nd, I'm going with Kevin Cash. That's how good he is. But the game doesn't allow you to manage anymore. We've taken the value of the manager, put it someplace else. And I'm just telling you that I'm worried about where we're going because ratings are down, people aren't as interested and the game isn't as good. It's a paradox. The players are bigger, stronger, faster, better than ever.

Therefore, the game should be better than ever. And it's not. That's all I'm trying to say. And I'm saying that because I love the game and it hurts that after a game like that, all we're talking about is a pitching change.

Instead of the Dodgers winning the World Series team of Kevin Cash doesn't win a World Series. Does this stick with him like Grady Little or no? Because again, this is the same move that a bunch of managers would have made, maybe not all of them. And yes, the rays are on the other side of this whole spectrum. But and we all acknowledge the rays have to play this way. They can't go forty and twenty playing us any other way that the way they played all year.

All I'm saying is when you get to Game six of the World Series and the best player on the field that night is the starting pitcher, you have to give him more than 73 pitches. You have to acknowledge once we need a feel for the situation, we need to watch the game. We need to keep this kid in because he's our best chance tonight to beat a team that is better than we are. And they didn't even give him a chance.

And that's where we are in the game today. And that's what concerns me.

We'll talk to you next week, Tim. Thank you.

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So we're kind of rushing Tim Legler back here and we've got a full board of calls that have been waiting entire show to do two US songs. But there's way too much going on. We'll try to stuff as much as we can into the post game show. Tim Legler returns here with us now. This is his holiday. He rules it. He dominates it. And we're happy that he's given us as much time as he has. But what happened to you, Tim?

Like, I don't I don't think you're going to do well tonight, given what that hour in that costume seems to have done to your beautiful, you know, Abercrombie and Fitch face.

One thing I just learned was I definitely don't need to go to the gym now. I was going to go to the gym after this. I don't need to know. Things really heat up, that's for sure.

OK, is this costume hotter or worse than any you've ever worn before? Like, are you now officially worried that you're going to be spending six hours in this thing and are going to lose like twenty pounds?

Yeah, this is definitely the hardest one I've ever put on. I think the plan is going to have to be when I'm in the waiting, laying in wait, I'm going to have to have the mask up a little bit and then cool it down right before I do my thing tomorrow night because it's definitely about 15 degrees hotter inside this master is what I take it off at least.

What is Mrs. Legler dressing up for Halloween? Oh, good question.

Actually, I'm not sure what she's going to be yet. Oh, actually, my body fell over here. I think this is the costume that's going to be hers. We have we have a little closable dummy that we put this guy on.

I think she's going to go with that as the whole thing is grown for you. Legler, has she been at your side for the obsession since minute one in terms of carrying the way you do, or did she have to be, like, brought along and grown?

So I'm I'm at a level ten, and that's not half of what my wife is. She is so on me about every detail with regards to this month. I will be on this segment that we do every year. It was without question, the best fifteen minutes of the year. She she can't wait to get me ready for this and she's confident as soon as we go to break or whatever, I'll get feedback from her. Typically it's pretty harsh criticism.

I didn't say there. I forgot this. I get almost my critique as soon as this X is she there?

Can we get a critique from her at some point before the end of the show? Is she nearby?

She's not. She's obviously upstairs. She came and brought me my buddy. Get us right here. But she's not, I don't think available to comment.

I got to say, Guinness is, you know, costume is a bit lazy for the Flagler's. I thought there'd be more than just a bow tie on the dog.

He's he's skittish, otherwise he'd be full. There's no telling what I put this dog and he doesn't like stuff on his head. So the best we can do is, is the Orange Bowl for my boy, get us. But he will be out there greeting everybody tomorrow night. All right.

We'll stay there, OK? And I'm going to do the radio to stay there because Chris Jericho is going to be with us next. But at some point before the end of the show, I am going to ask Tim Legler like percentage of times at the end of Halloween that he chases his wife into the bedroom wearing these costumes. I'm going to end the night with a very personal question. Really got all sorts of questions about posable, dummy. I got a long commercial.

We've got a lot of follow up questions on this as well. Legler looks super eager to answer these questions as well. I've got a theory, so we'll get back to you in a second. Legler I don't know whether you're asked. Well, ask your wife those questions or not, but this show's about to take a dark turn. I'm Chris Jericho joins us next.

Don Lemon, today I work in sports for a living. Still got you understand the questions to know.

This is 11th hour show on ESPN Radio, five consecutive weeks for Chris Jericho, our celebrity prognosticator, who's going to join us on the show Penso performance on. I'm not certain he has a winning record, but he is back for a fifth consecutive week. Casper, the sleep company with outrageously comfortable products, not so outrageous prices.

He was three and two last week. Colin Cowherd was also three into our celebrities after six weeks are now 20 and 16. Colin Cowherd is four games below 500. So this has been a butt kicking so far this season.

You could catch Chris, Keith Ervine, Jerico, A.W. Dynomite Wednesday night. We are going to get to the Games in just a second with jerko, but we will allow him for a second to boast and preen and walk around the ring, telling everyone how great he is at the PIC's. You're in you're in rarefied air here and returning for five straight weeks. I think Carrot Top is is our record holder with seven weeks. So the good news is you're in rarefied air.

The bad news is Carrot Top is still ahead of you.

Well, listen, I love when the when the word Carrot Top elicits a giggle, but the guy is seven weeks ago. But that's OK. I told you before, five weeks in a row when you first brought me out, he said, what does this guy know about football? He's from Canada. He's got a job. He's a musician. But I proved all of you wrong. And once again, five weeks in a row, think about how I feel.

Laboratoire people come up to me and say, well, five weeks in a row, you're going all the way to seven weeks. You know, I'm a champion already. It's already been determined. I don't even have to do the next two weeks because, you know, I'm going to be back two weeks from now. You can play that sound bite when I am back two weeks from now. I know. I'm a prognosticator. I agree. All right.

Let's do this here with Christina Green. I wish I had a fraction of this man's confidence at anything, at music and walking, anything. I actually think you kind of do. I did. I know it this time for a celebrity prognosticator, let's win some money. Vikings, Packers, Packers, minus six and a half.

Who does Christie the Greek have I got to tell you, man, sooner or later, Cousins is going to pull together. The Packers won last week. I'm going to go with Minnesota this week. They need a big win. And this is the chance.

That's a big surprise right there. You love the chalk. Do usually a big surprise out of the box.

And he loves Aaron Rodgers. I'm surprised what happened. They're cousins. Pittsburgh at Baltimore. I'm sorry if you want to elaborate, go ahead.

I was just going to say, because sooner or later, I think Cousins is not that bad of a quarterback to have a one in five record or whatever the hell it is that they have. So sooner or later, he's going to pull it together. You know, Aaron Rodgers, No. One in my house. But I got to make money here, guys. I got to go with what science and what my hunches dictates. I'm sticking with with the Vikings for that.

As long as you go with your gut, not science, we're good. That's the way you're supposed to do it. Don't apply things to this, Jericho. Just keep doing what you Pittsburgh and Baltimore has got to do my job.

That's a good point. Listen, you're right. You're close, Dan. Correct.

Two times he has started football seasons, 01 14. Don't listen to anything.

He said it was oh sixty four. The college bowl season last year. Pittsburgh and Baltimore, Baltimore minus four. Who do you have? Jerko.

It's the same thing. I mean, Big Ben can't win every single week. And it seems last week they almost lost it. I at least think for a second I you know what? I'm going to take this thing down again.

Oh, wait a minute. How about. Come on, Jericho. Unquestioned, Kristie, the Greek. OK, fair enough. Rams that dolphins. Dolphins plus three and a half at home.

Who you got the dolphins of a bye week last week. And they went they had a bye dolphins going dolphins maybe on rescue getting rest.

New Orleans at Chicago, Chicago plus four and a half.

Who you got taking New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle Seahawks minus three. Who you got?

Russell Wilson, baby Seattle.

Thank you for being on with us. We will talk to you next week. Roy is pointing out that he thinks Nitro, the American gladiator, once went eight straight weeks with us. And so he's saying that it's not Carrot Top. That is the record holder. It is Nitro, the former American gladiator. So we'll have to revise it. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

How about how about I just how about I just eliminate it, whether it's Carrot Top at seven and I at eight, I'm going to die. We go to nine weeks baby. You ain't seen nine weeks. So Jeriko holidays.

All right.

You got those Jeriko do Halloween. Do you dress up or did Jessica do on Halloween.

I have a killer costume ready for Halloween. It's going to be it's a whole Eddie Van Halen ensemble. I got the red, red, black and white overalls made. I got the shaggy wig. I'm ready to rock it tomorrow night or Saturday night. All weekend I'm going to rock in a single night out, Karamat. All right. Single night, Joy. When this damn thing nine weeks from now, I'll see you it. All right. I got the job at it.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. We will. Hey, I introduced you to Aaron. Is what you guys just belch through the phlegm. Those lines were provided by Caesars. William Hill lurking in the background of everything it is that we're doing around here. Tim Legler now leaves our show. We bid him a sad goodbye. This is the beginning of his Halloween experience, but we've been happy to have you before we let you go. Anything you want to add to the way that I ended the last segment?

I do not want to delve too deeply into your personal life unless you're willing to volunteer it on this front. Whatever it is that you can tell us about how much you'd like to do with the costumes on Halloween.

Well, that posable dommy definitely comes in handy in more than just Halloween, guys, if you know what I'm talking about, I know exactly what you look like. And Legler, thank you. Thank you for being on with us. OK, we enjoyed talking to you. If you want to stop by again in the post game show, we'll keep it. We'll keep having you around for as long. If you want to stop back on Monday before you go to the store to buy the cheap discounted Halloween stuff, I actually want to feel really good.

Real quick one thing, guys, I actually had a request tonight. I've been booked tonight to show up like a middle school little gathering of kids to scare the hell out of here.

Do me a favor, Legs. Let's talk to you next week and get a recap from you. I want to get a recap of who got scared and everything else, how careful you had to be and all of the safe things that you did tonight to make sure that you didn't poison anybody. For sure.

For sure. Thanks, gentlemen. Love, love, love, love hanging with you guys. I love you. I love you, Lexie. Oh, good. So good.

The best. It's still got favorite time of the day at time. Before we do that, forgive me, because we've got a lot going on today and somehow is going to be mad at me as if she had been. Yeah, as if she hasn't been cruel and dark enough lately. I'm sorry, Christine Lacy, we interrupted you. And finally, Iceland has no reptiles, no back to a snake.

Oh, I can't believe you said that about Dan. Don Lemon Tart, it's Friday, I'm getting to the weekend, I want to get my drink on to Godse. We've got to open up the club.

Open it, open it, open it now. But is the computer buffering there is this incident, Elizabeth, our show with these two guys on ESPN Radio. ESPN Radio is presented by progressivist Sharon Sounds this week, have it brought to you by my computer career training for a better life. We have more sounds for you in the club.

It's how we closed every week. And we've got always a very strong fireworks show ending to our show with the club. It is one of the most successful things we've done around here for a really long time. Damn near close to 20 years. Also in the post game show today, we've got an announcement that we believe the fans of this show are really going to like. So we're going to have that in the postgame show as well.

I think, Mike, as I guess I'll take these two calls in the post game show, because we've we've got so many of them on the line for two hours. They've been there for two hours. They've been there. And I want to continue this next week, no matter how he plays. I just want to keep doing to us is thrilled about that. Yeah. Mike does not like that so much. Before we open up the club, though, Stargardt's, I sent this to you.

I sent this to Mike Ryan yesterday because I had a legitimately delightful forty five minutes yesterday in the middle of the afternoon.

I was really jealous. It seemed like you had a fantastic afternoon after work. Really. ESPN Classic. I tuned in for forty five minutes, OK. And all I was watching is eighties baseball, not 90s baseball, 80s baseball. So there's the mad Hungarian Al Hrabowski. He's a reliever. He threw gas back then. It was about eighty nine or ninety miles an hour. He threw lefthanded gas and he would come into the game pretending to get furious behind the mound and bang his glove.

OK, so this is what lured me in. But then the magical part was Greg the Bull Luzinski in left field trying to catch a line drive and running so clunky. And basically all the second base for now are built like Greg, the bullies Enschede that they had in the outfield for his bat and he might as well have played the outfield with his back. It was so bad.

There's a reason they moved them to do so bad. The uniforms were so bad, everything was wonderfully, wonderfully bad, and I was so happy to see all of it. Also a reminder, very early in my drinking life, I got very drunk with Danielle Koosman, Jerry Cushman's daughter, one of my first girlfriends, and I did not know how to drink. And I woke up at one o'clock in the afternoon day drinking. I woke up because Jerry Koosman and Greg the Bull Luzinski were trying to putt golf balls in to my drunk and sleeping mountain.

Let's open up the club.

Yeah, a random great story. It's so great. It's great. The bull is in Turkey. I want you to look him up on the Internet, all of you, immediately, because it is one o'clock in the afternoon, Koosman and the Bull could drink.

How old is he now? I got to look up. What is the first sound in the club?

Unless something a mistake after that it come coming at least for the tournament this year.

So that is Richard Lewis talking college football. What happened to our nemesis? I would love to continue talking to him next week. I thought he was going to return today. The bull is sixty nine years old right now is really out.

There you are. Richard Lewis is my nemesis. He gets mad at us all the time. I hope you have Carnegie Hall back there. Point I am just screaming to people.

That's the softest thing you can do in small. My father would have called you chicken something. Oh, a rage filled Greenberg.

Not the mood we want in the club. Greenberg crossing the line, talking about, I think, anonymous sources.

That's the softest thing you can do in sports. My father would have called you chicken something.

You're a chicken anonymous source.

Mike Greenberg puts his name on it. Who else is in the club? Mike Ryan. Let's go. This club doesn't have the right attitude. Yeah, that's a little bit better. That is a good to a song.

We got our also most efficient to a song to.

I love that.

That was good work in a small space. What I want to take these calls, Mike, who else. Who else is in the club.

Oh. Oh an old one. Or Goliath's Campbell. He's still out there doing it. Oh no, that was not all. It was Al Jefferson that left him loose. My monster laugh.

That's Class Campbell, I, I like to know and I never had a chance to be good enough.

That is our leader Sabonis. All of these by the way, are friendly sounding monsters. Can we go back to Al Jefferson though, because he is a perfect Halloween haunted house. Laugh Oh.

Right, I mean, honest to God, if I told you right now you were walking through a haunted house tomorrow night, you didn't know who was in there.

Oh, I mean, if that laugh came out of any prop, you would buy that immediately.

Oh, who else? In the club, he hits a home run and he runs around the bases. Hey, I know that, of course, is Orestis distraught and the Macarena song.

I came up with it. I sent it to you graciously. Thought it'd be funny. What a weird week it is.

Which one isn't around here? That's a this distraught of feuding with Jeff Parson, who as Elmo stole his hey my in song, I'm saying it to your face if you're watching or listen and I'm putting my name on your chicken.

Yes. You're a chicken. Yes, you're a chicken anonymous source. Yes.

If you're a chicken fried chicken and according to it looks like a league burning my heart that this is happening.

But if you could hear me just understand. I'm sorry.

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