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This is the down labor part show with this got Sparkasse. So Rob Perez on Twitter is wondering he's asking the question of everybody here, what are the longest five minutes? He's got five rankings here. The last the longest five minutes. They are there are are they microwave minutes or are they almost Friday at five o'clock minutes? Are they test result minutes? Are they playing delayed minutes or are they day before game seven or day of game seven minutes? If you have any other nominees, feel free to send them to us.

Longest five minutes.

There are commercial breaks. I'm sorry, Christine Lacy, you were saying.

And finally yesterday, Kanye West tweeted out video of himself being on one of his Grammys speaking of urine soaked glorified paperweights.

Here's Dan Levitan on a paperweight that only paperweights in my size.

Let's do the BCS rankings. This is Billie, Chris and Stewart. What do you need from me? Is there fanfare or is there something to that? Can we do this segment?

I don't even know if we have imaging for this segment, but we do. All we need from you is to scream at the numbers.

OK, but it's not in reverse order is the way you guys do it. How many numbers of my screaming out? 11 we've expanded. We have exciting news this year with the BCS. We've expanded from six playoff teams to seven playoff teams. So we are at seven right now. How about that, Dana?

OK, so number one, we start with number one.

The number one ranked team in the BCS rankings is then the number one team in this season's first week of the BCS rankings. The front line workers, doctors, nurses, waiters, Uber drivers, caddies and teachers have fled the country in G.T., J.D., W, W-W and I t and getting the job done when we needed it the most. Thank you. Yes, thank you. You.

We start out with just some straight pandering. Very good. Easy. Raise your hand to your ear that that will be undefeated and will end the season ranked number one one would imagine.

Right now they're in the driver's seat, Dan, to make the 17 playoff. Yep.

Thank you, Billy, for that elaboration. That was even more fundamentally useless than everything you said before that number two, the number two ranked team in the BCS rankings are the Memphis Tigers.

Damn want to know, big win against Arkansas state. They lead the country and we are very metric oriented here at the BCS. Billy Crystal to God, we love our metrics and stats. Memphis leads the country a d. S o t t don't sleep on the Tigers. Wow.

OK, so Clemson doesn't lead the OK. No, no, No. Three. Chris, what is the third ranked team in the BCS rankings that are being unveiled right now? Oh, darn.

Number three, the Louisiana raging Cajuns went on the road beat Iowa State.

They are very strong in b w o t s s f, which of course, means best win of the season so far.

Also, watch out for their h a e gmat r a b r o.

Has anyone else gone on the road and beaten a ranked opponent?

OK, and it's just a question ones. You can look it up and but it's just a question you just asking. That's right.

Number four, the fourth ranked team in the unveiled first ever this season, BCS rankings.

Number four, Billy Dan. It's the Ohio State Buckeyes. They have a very strong W Creag. We know they are good. Plus Y c ltg y dap. You can't lose the games.

You don't play Dan like Alabama's in the same position. I will say I'm not as strong as Ohio State. Yeah, evidently, yeah.

Number five, the fifth ranked sixteen, the clubs and tigers. Damn. Want to know perhaps a little bit low. We are at number five. They lead the country in a bad metric. B.S. on W.K. TD beat someone other than Wake Forest.

The Deakes number six, the sixth ranked BCS team is I BYU want to know, Dan, a strong performance week one there.

No one in the country in Beatty h h o n which of course is they beat the holy hell out of Navy.

So how does this work? Do you guys just feel the need to go out as soon as we start?

I think before you deliver the ranking, you have to say, ah, you know, yeah, it's so it's like a doctor, you know, asking you to open your mouth so he can check your tonsils.

He's asking you to be on hands is everything. This is the seven. This is important. And this is the seven seven eleven. Yes. Number seven new gods or who is doing numbers.

He's got no idea what's number seven. I'm going to handle seven, dad. And this is a very important team because of season ended today. This would be the last team in the expanded playoffs. The number seven Notre Dame right now down there want to know and they have a very strong WB and I Weibe Déby. We'd be more impressed if you beat Duke in basketball, but also Alewives, LBJ, W.T., STF Beat CTBTO. At least you beat someone we've heard of.

But just wait. There's still time for Brian Kelley to blow this.

Roy put in the chat that the last five minutes of any basketball game probably deserves to be in conversation. So does this. Just five.

I like the microwave. Anytime you're staring at the clock, that usually takes the longest.

Number eight. What is the Azel?

We have arrived here, Dad, at the only if you remember from last year, the outside looking at excuse me for a second, I get I get choked up every time we debut. The only the first outside looking in. Yeah. So at number eight again these are teams on the outside looking in. We have Army the cadets then two and a oh gee WTW only team with two wins and they lead the country it CYF. Why yes. Thank you for your service.

Why did you make army the cadets that you just don't know what up in the air and just not know there were the knights.

I guess you can refer to them as cadets. Yeah, I have no idea. Why did I think at one time they were the cadets. I could be wrong. I'm going to go ahead and guess that that was just a pivot and that you once thought that Alejandro Villanueva was once Alejandro Pinhas.

Well, yeah, I set up Guy for the Braves. You're right. We are at number nine here.

Dan Oola, number nine outside looking in.

What do we have a side note? If you're microwaving something for more than five minutes, you don't want to be in that anyways.

Number nine in Oklahoma, want to know. Great start out of the big twelve. You'd think they might be higher, but they lead the country in W.K. eighty l i. T.F. which of course means we know a terrible losses in their future and we'll put it on the pole, please.

Should you be microwaving anything for more than five minutes and then eating it? Number ten, what do we have here at number ten, Dan?

Right now, number ten is the first team in the Oslo new this season. It's the outside looking out number ten right now. Durango is Miami there. Want to know? They play Louisville this Saturday. They lead the country in l o w o BP t t q i r GBI and s why that? OK, we one people think QB is really good, but I'm not sure yet. Saturday is the WWE game day and that's when we find out who's who.

OK, there's a who's who gave me the canes could shoot up the rankings. Congratulations Mike. You seem very excited to be in this top ten. We've lost this game every year for the last six years. The Hoosiers game. Yeah, I'm super excited. I want to climb in the BCS number eleven, the final of the we would a weird ranking.

Eleven teams. OK, number eleven.

This is the final team. Then the Florida Gators out of the SCC, they lead the country in T.J. as I l a t and S.W. I y a and A and w there's just something I like about that. Not sure what it is yet. Ask me again next week. How about that.

There's just something. OK, and it turns out after our crack research staff looked it up, the Army Black Knights football team previously known as the Army cadets, they still got you all right.

Still got tools, right? Congratulations to all the teams in the weird top 11 to start the season that promises to change. I hope that that segment gets shorter as it evolves a longer.

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So what we're doing with the digital only stuff, the local our the post game show Big Stewy, they're all shadowy underworld's. They all are places where you will find something different than what you find here for two hours a day nationally on terrestrial radio today. On the big suite is something that you want to check out, I don't want to tell you too much, I am simply promising you that it is interesting because I did not think you got that there was a new way to do sports radio.

I didn't think that there was a way for someone, anyone to break the form that to be know. There are so many people right now. Dining at the trough, many of you are probably tired of opinions, sports opinions, I'm not sure where many of you go to get what you believe to be the best and most informed sports opinions. But there are so many people doing this right now that it's crazy, so many people just giving you their opinion, taking hot takes.

And on Big Suey today, we have basically formed changing personality, a form you don't get them very often to Gotz where people come in and they change what's happened before them and they change it in a way that makes it so that everyone is following them.

After that, I didn't know I was on. That's interesting. It's only the format is what it's someone like, you know, it's someone like you. It it actually is. So give me here before we get to the origins of Browbeaten, can you just give me the short one, please? The very short one, because we don't have a lot of show here left.

Stat of the day, stat of the day, stat of the day in this year. Stat of the day, stat of the day, start of the day. And this year. Stat of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. And this year. Start of the day. Start of the day and start of the day. It is the start of the day. You may have noticed that Stewart is even more distracted than usual, he's not he's checked out here.

He's watching golf.

Tiger three straight birdies, U.S. Open minus one.

Yeah, it's rare. It is rare for Stewart to we can't get his attention when golf is going on during the show. But the FedEx Cup recently, that was supposed to be a gimmicky thing, correct.

Once upon a time, the FedEx Cup. Dustin Johnson, is he the one who who won the FedEx Cup here recently?

Yeah, he well, it's a budgetary demands point system. The winner at the end gets, I think, ten million dollars.

No, it's fifteen million. And it's our state of the day that represents more than all of Greg Norman's career earnings, a total gimmick sort of event where if you win it, you get more money in one sitting. Fifteen million dollars then Greg Norman made in his entire life playing golf. Why are you making a funny face, Chris Coady? What's the matter?

I mean, it's not a gimmick. It's their championship like system. It's like how they act other than their four major championship tournaments. It's their collective cumulative championship for the season.

I am saying that it was viewed once upon a time as a gimmicky type of thing, and it just paid out more than Greg Norman made in his career.

It's there because, Dan, would you say that's too gimmicky, right?

Not at all, Billy. Of course not. That is scientific. Can you guys tell me what you guys were talking about regarding Vin Scully? He has made his way to Twitter and he's also selling a bunch of his stuff. He's having a bit of an estate sale. Billy, did you see anything on there that you found interesting as a as a real SIM head?

Wow. I've never thought of myself as a seam had, Dan, but I think you hit it right on the on the seam head. Yeah. No, I haven't seen anything in particular on his list of things that are being auctioned. I just like the idea of Vin Scully auctioning off sixty one sixty two, whatever it is, years of baseball memories and collections. And it just has me thinking like what would I want if I could get anything out there, what would I want as a piece of memorabilia?

Not necessarily like Vin Scully related. Right. And it'd be great if I had an answer for you, but I still haven't come to the answer of what it is that I would want out there. Do you guys have anything? I don't love memorabilia.

I'm not much of a hoarder or a collector on that front. And so I actually have stuff that probably has a good deal of value. I was I was cleaning my house out the other day and I found a basketball signed by all the members of the 2006 Heat and a big giant poster of all the people in the 500 Club signed by the people in the 500 home run club.

That is funny because I was cleaning my house out the other day and I found a basketball signed by the 2012 Miami Heat. You're jealous, aren't you? Which one?

Which one is more valuable? One of my. But but LeBron ones got LeBron James. Antoine Walker one has won. Has Shaq and his older though and his older. I don't know what those things were brought in. His prime man Chris was Chris was talking about Vin Scully as well. What happened with what happened with him in Kornheiser, Chris?

Oh, I was listening to ESPN Daily a couple of weeks ago, and Pablo had Kornheiser leave a voicemail for his what his reaction was to the great Vin Scully joining Twitter.

Hey. So I saw where Vin Scully at 92 was going to go on Twitter. I guess that reduces the amount of people who are not on Twitter now to just be you know, I'm not on Twitter, as you know, I'm not on the Facebook because, you know, I don't subscribe to the Hulu. I'm not, as Bill Belichick would say on insta face. Yeah, I don't do that. I don't see any need to do that.

I read newspapers. I watch television. I don't really need to have everybody screaming on Twitter. I'm old enough so that I listen to Vin Scully when he was in New York, OK, before he went to L.A. and he went to L.A., I assume in 1957 in nineteen fifty eight. It's possible I would go on Twitter if I reach his age. Maybe I go on Twitter then and then I would be boisterous guy, I would be boisterous on Twitter because these kids who if he's going to go off you may as well go on.

Right.

That is straight talk. It is brought to you by straight talk wireless. No contract, no compromise.

That went exactly as I expected it to go. Mike Ryan just did a pantomime on how Kornheiser made that call. And it was using both hands, speaking into something being held by one hand and holding another thing to his ear so that he could hear the phone call, not merely a landline. He mentioned something pre Brookley. Dodgers. Our apologies, Christine Lacy, we interrupted you. And finally, lions can't roar until they're two years old. How about that?

I was not aware of that. Thank you, Christine. Put it on the program Today show. Did you know that Lions could not roar until they were two years old? Yesterday, we learned that cats do not speak to each other in meows.

They are trying to communicate with humans, always learning something about the animals around here from either the animal doctor or Christine Lacy wanted to actually struggle to get into something super sports with you, because it's one of the things that I always find interesting. Where beginnings are for developing talent and where endings are for talents that you think are the same but aren't, and what I wanted to talk to you about was a, did you notice or did it feel like Kyla Murray and Lamar Jackson have made something of an accuracy leap where they're going to grow as players?

So what you've seen from them so far, and I know Arizona played San Francisco well both times last year as well. So you don't want to jump to any conclusions off of one game, but the position has changed enough. That I think it's an internal stain on the resume of Hall of Famer and six times executive editor Bill Polian, that he could be that wrong about Lamar Jackson in a way that makes me question the science of all of it. When a guy who's that credential doesn't think a quarterback can be a quarterback and he then becomes that quarterback where it's not it's not just the MVP, though, but he's getting better, is my point.

It's not just that he's MVP. I believe that his accuracy now is something that I was not expecting because you could have actually questioned his accuracy, some at Louisville, but with sculpting and with practice, these guys do get better in a way that you see it all the time. You see growth from players of that age. Lamar Jackson is not yet in his prime.

He was fifty eight percent completion percentage his first season. It jumped up to sixty six a year ago. He won the MVP this year. Again, it's only a game. Eighty percent. Well, it looked to me OK over the last couple of years that he is growing in his ability to throw the football and bill pulling didn't think he would be able to be a professional quarterback throwing the football.

I mean, whether it's fair or not, it's absolutely a stain on his career because several years after the fact and an MVP after the fact, we're still bringing it up.

And this is a multiple time executive of the year family. Justifiably so, I think. But yes, it's absolutely. And the reason for that, because it's not the first time an executive has been wrong people in this room. I was wrong about Lamar Jackson because I was concerned about the accuracy problems, but it was the code in nature in which he said it at that time that really made that ring eternal.

But the thing that's most egregious about it isn't to me the coated nature. It's just how wrong it was. It's you're an expert in this field and you got this so spectacularly wrong. You thought a guy who's best in the league at value at that position couldn't play the position because your six executive of the year trophies come from a quarterback who looks very different than that one. So that skews sort of your bias on how it is you look at these things, because Peyton Manning was the guy who got you those six executive of the year things.

I mean, thirty one teams also passed on Lamar Jackson and many of those teams did take a quarterback. So many GMs kind of whiffed on the more Jassi the best player in that draft. And I mean people you know, the Jets took Sam Darnel, Josh Allen went.

Every one of those teams could have had Lamar Jackson and he made his Hall of Fame resume excuse me, during a time that Russell Wilson didn't really break the mold. Lamar Jackson is a trendsetter in this. So you can like Bill Polian was from a time where Antwaan Randle El would be this amazing college athlete, a new segment wide receiver, because that's what you do with all the inaccurate athletes at that position. They also so happen to be black. But I mean, it's really the coated nature of the time.

And you can't really expect what is a 70 year, 70 year old man to have the foresight that, oh, this is a transcendent talent that's going to change that position. He actually thought he had a chance of changing the wide receiver position.

You mentioned, again, the coated nature. And what I'm saying to you is everyone knows I'm old Guitard. I'm saying that the coated nature of what he did is less egregious than missing like that, missing like that.

It's not missing. It's not I mean, a different quarterback in a different position. It's a draft. And later is that dude can not play that position in that league.

You're right. But what Mike is saying, obviously, I know, you know, this is it's not just saying he won't be a good quarterback. It's saying he'd be a better wide receiver. If you want to just say, hey, I don't think he's going to be a good quarterback, that's fine.

I mean, you could say that regardless, however, that ends up playing out for me, it continues to distort that. That isn't a science, because when a six time executive of the year can miss like that, for me, it stains everybody on. How much expertise do you actually have about this guesswork that we're doing? But what I wanted to talk to you on the back end was something Bomani brought up after the Clippers loss that I had not considered.

Which is that we've seen the best of Kawhi Leonard because of what's happening with his legs, because he's a lesser version of himself at twenty nine. It makes you marvel at LeBron James all the more that what I'm about to say isn't a total overreaction to an early exit. But we can make the argument that Kawhi Leonard Prime is done. That Kawhi Leonard body is not what it was, and it needs a lot of rest, and what you may have seen in the fourth quarter is that body at the not necessarily the tail end of its career, but no longer in its prime.

It made me really respect what he did last year because I just assumed he was hurt. And you heard that he wasn't 100 percent healthy last year. I mean, this guy used to be really athletic and now you can barely slide a telephone book, which is a thing that actually exists. Look that up. Look it up. You can't cite a phone book underneath his shirt. And a year later, after a pandemic forced rest, he's still moving around the same way.

So athletically, he's not as gifted as I had not considered the idea that Kawhi Leonard is still in his 20s and we've seen the best of him.

Twenty nine, especially when we were talking about a year ago, where we're talking about like everybody was ready if he wins another finals MVP with this team in the Clippers, everybody was ready to put him in the conversation with with, with histories, you know, very best players. And here we are wondering and I don't think it's an overreaction. Like I normally I would say, come on, that's hyperventilating. You're going to the extreme. You're being a prisoner of the moment.

But I don't think it could be argued that Kawhi Leonard from the last two seasons, even while winning a championship, is what you remember in terms of physical gifts before the last two seasons.

I mean, career high and scoring this year. I understand exactly what it is you're saying. It just seems crazy to me because there is a good argument on the side of we'll never see Kawhi Leonard this year. I'm not saying he's still not great. I'm just saying I'm asking you to consider something that I had not considered because, look, it seems clear a historic exit with San Antonio Popovich had none of those on his resume. Popovich gets hit with not being able to handle the health of that player.

Then that player goes to unprecedented means to protect that body with load management because he is telling you, hey, my body cannot handle all of the rigors of this. And then you arrive at a fourth quarter to decide their season and he gives you exactly zero points. The weekend starts today. It starts with Bengal's at Brads tonight. Oh, my must win. So find out who's who. Both teams split their divisional matchups last year with neither team making the playoffs.

The Bengals got Joe Barrow is the number one overall who's who game against those who game tonight. You've got to be kidding me. Thursday Night Football. Whose whole game? Bengals. Browns who's who.

And the Browns side, Kareem Hunt to an extension. Unlike last year, few people see the Browns making the playoffs and per usual, lost their first game of the season. And a 38 six blowout by the Ravens. Cincinnati made their one loss more respectable, losing six to 13 to the Chargers. Weekend starts today is brought to you by Draft Kings, America's top rated daily fantasy app.

We're going to update the polls here, but put it on the poll gizmo at Libertador Show is Bengals Browns tonight who's who gave Batard show on Twitter?

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Is Jae Crowder more of a man than you are? Oh wow.

We're doing all week. Is Jae Crowder more of a man than you?

I'm not doing the entire week. I went back to yesterday. It will take us through today. We have about ten polls to get through. I think he's hitting sixty percent on wide open threes.

But it's not because of that. It's just look at him. His his dad is also more of a man than. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Seventy eight percent of the audience said yes. Twenty two percent tough guys out there. Yeah. All of you. Yeah. You're much, much more of a man than Jae Crowder. All of you.

Will Bam's Block live forever? A good question. Seventy percent of the audience said yes. Thirty percent. What do you think it will people forget Bam's block if the Heat lose game two by seventeen points.

Let's see, there's teams that these are not scientific polls, but this one might conflict with the other one. Sixty four percent of the audience said yes. All right. So now where are we? It seems like everyone's cancel each other out.

I think the nation has heat in game two.

Do you know the Larry Bird towel snapping visual we're talking about? So sensual.

Yes, this is perfect. Sixty nine percent of the audience said yes.

Guy, does Steve Ballmer love an amusement park? Of course he does. No one loves it more. Eighty eight percent of the audience said yep. Scrolling up here, Pablo Greaney, Suey Awards, big, fat, white face and other big fat white faces, some of those like Dad's TV show. OK, here we go. Back to the polls that Leppard's our show on Twitter. Should the show be called Fitz in Spain? Fifty five percent of the audience said yes, she has dared to suggest the question of whether or not the bubble champion should have an asterisk.

Oh, she took a no. She took it out. Should the show be called Fitz and Cain? Sixty eight percent of the audience said yes, that's the first Sarah ever taken around here is Sarah, Spain, trying to be Sarah Kane. Eighty four percent of the audience said yep. Did you know that lions can't roar until they are two years old, they also can't make the playoffs? Eighty eight percent of the audience said no, they didn't know that.

Should your microwave anything for five minutes? Why? Seventy one percent of the audience said, no, it doesn't matter if I have the Chinese food in there for five minutes, there's always going to be a piece of it that's still cool.

You're right about that. Put that on the pole. So if you keep the Chinese food just in it, in the microwave for five minutes, is one of the big pieces of pork still going to be cutting the fork? I mix it up knowing that the race is usually cold and still for the life of me. Can't get it. Good job. By barely getting it up there. The pole that is getting the pole up there that quickly at Leadbitter show on Twitter.

Dan asked the question. We'll answer it. Is Bengal's versus Brownes a who's huguet? It's early, Dan, but fifty eight percent of the audience said, yes, it is. I'm telling you, a minute and a half, take it out, stir it another minute and a half, those three minutes are better than five full minutes without a stir.

Wow. Those are the polls. That is amazing. There's still going to be a cold chunk, something we didn't get to in the show. And there's not really time. Maybe we'll attack it in the post game show. But Pablo Torres, ESPN Daily, really overproduced, like super, super overproduced, like stop producing it so much.