This is the down labor part, sure, this still got Sparkasse. We will get to Tim Kurkjian in a moment if you want to talk to him, seven, eight, six four five six four eight three seven is the telephone number. But before we get to correction, I'm sorry, Christine, I interrupted you.

And finally, male spider mites prefer their sexual partners to be dead. So Stu's wife.

Oh, oh, whoa, that is a minus for your mother. God almighty, the bedroom. She's going after you in the bedroom and then running away with that sinister giggle. Speaking of giggling, Tim Kurkjian is the highlight of our work week when we have him around just an exceedingly kind man, always fun to talk to, even though he has occasional lapses of rage that are troubling. Tim, thank you for being on with us. As always.

The Marlins are going to make the playoffs.

Yes. And the Marlins are going to make the playoffs. And I apologize two weeks ago for saying they had no chance. I took a step back last week that said they have a chance today to tell you that they are going to make the playoffs. And it's going to be one of the great stories, not just of this season, but of any season. The only thing I knew about the National League going into 162 this year was that the Pirates and Marlins, we're going to finish last and now the Marlins are going to make the playoffs.

And it is a great story, tribute to all their players, the manager. And this is why baseball is the greatest game in the world, is its unpredictability. And the Marlins, I think, will make the playoffs. And it's not because they're great, but the Phillies and some other teams aren't so good.

Let me ask the shipping container here, Billy, Chris, Roy, the guys who really care about this team, are we accepting Tim Girkins apology? I mean, I just need him to hold me.

I'm scared. I don't think they're going to make it. Is it weird that a couple of segments ago I said I wanted to fast forward through the end of this season, one season that you just called one of the best stories in many seasons in baseball?

Yes, Billy. But again, this is the beauty of baseball. It is so seductive. But once it grabs you, it doesn't let you go. And it's torturous to watch because it is every game they play every day. I had a lady in the grocery store recently in the Frozen Foods, the food department. She doesn't even know me. She came up and like told me, oh, my gosh, I love the Nationals. I'm in it.

I love it. I now I know how you feel every single day. I can't miss a game. I can't miss a pitch. This is a woman in her late 50s who just figured it out and now she's hooked forever. This is what baseball does. And it will torture you, Billie, because every pitch is is going to matter. It's amazing.

What did you tell the lady in the grocery store? Because Dan has a guy at his grocery store also that pops out from around the aisles and is always asking him about the Marlins. But Dan hides from him.

When I told her this is great, I told her that baseball is an acquired taste and it doesn't matter if you find it once you're five like me or whether you're 55 like her, that once you get to you, you are completely hooked. And that's what I told her. And she was just so happy because she said, Now I feel like I know what your life is like every day, because that's the way my life is him and a pandemic.

Are you immediately telling her, make sure you're six feet away if you're going to ask me the sports question?

Now, this question came last year when the National Racing to the World Series, but it's the same idea could have happened this year. It's happening with Billy this year. He loves it so much. He's so captivated by this. He can't even watch the game. He just wants them to be over because watching them is so torturous. That's what makes baseball so good. You don't remember. Hey, LeBron didn't guard, you know, Murray in the third quarter, last four for two minutes.

But in baseball, you remember everything that happens if you're watching closely enough. Why didn't they pitch to that guy? How did he miss that ball to his left? That's the kind of stuff because the game moves so slowly. That is just so fascinating.

Tim, Trevor Bauer's doing his best to make us respect the Cy Young if he does indeed win it. But what's your stance on handing out awards for such a short season?

Well, I'm I'm OK with it, just like I'm OK with seven anying doubleheaders, even though I hate it. I'm OK with a runner on second to chance, even though I hate it, because this year is the season of extraordinary circumstances. So if we're going to crown a champion, I'm OK with crowning an MVP and Cy Young and everything else. And believe me, guys who can win it this weekend, you have a big weekend. You could win the MVP this weekend.

I think Trevor Bauer deserves to be the Cy Young winner at this point, but that could change this weekend. If somebody else dials up a beauty, that's how close it is.

Does Tyler Hero look like. The kid on the fan cam at the basketball game who runs out of dance, moves five seconds in and then just keeps frantically dabbing.

Does he came off the screen at the top of the key the other day and shot it like it a billion times. That was remarkable to watch that kid play.

I know you love your basketball. Does Kelly Olynyk look like a scroll keeper in the catacombs of ancient Rome?

Does Adam Silver ring?

Where does Adam Silver. You were saying something. I'm sorry I interrupted you. It does. In love with Adam. OK. All right.

Does Adam Silver look like the level two inflatable alien guy prize you win at the County Fair Dark game if you want to talk to Tim Kurkjian, the telephone number is seven eight six four five six four eight three seven.

We've got some decent Doug Peterson one here. Does Duqu does Doug Peterson look like he specifically asked for full custody of the basement air hockey table in his divorce?

Tim, the Dodgers, when you look at it, I understand that anybody can lose.

And this is going to be a weird random bubble series. But the best teams in baseball, according to Tim Kurkjian, are.

Well, the Dodgers are the best team in baseball. The Yankees can be the second best team in baseball, but only if they get a little healthier, start to swing it a little bit better. I think they have the second best roster, and I think the Rays are the third best team in baseball and they could be the second best if the Yankees don't pull it together. But the Dodgers have, you know, over 100 homers. They're starting pitching is really good.

Their bullpen is filled, the power arms. I think they're the best team and they have a lot to play for.

When you think of the smartest teams in baseball, is it raisin A's or do you have someone else? I'm not talking about the team on the field. I'm talking about the way the team is built.

Yes, the rings are the smartest team in a lot of ways. I had a major league coach tell me last night, I didn't even ask and he just lit into how poorly we played the game today, cut off and running the bases. And then he paused and he goes, except for the rays, that team plays the game the right way. They're smarter than everyone else. And they put their team together smarter than everyone else. And then they drafted develop smart, smarter than everyone else, and then they teach it better.

Their manager, Kevin Cash, is really good at this. And all those players just show up and wait to find out where they're going to play tonight because they're going to have the same lineup every night or even close. I think they're the smartest team and I think they play the game better than any team.

Tim, if the sale goes through for the New York Mets from the well ponds to Steve Cohen, it looks like they're going to hire Sandy Alderson to be the team president. I'm wondering if that decision was left up to Tim Kartun. Who would you hire to run the Mets?

I would hire Sandy Alderson to run the Mets. I've covered baseball for a long time, and Sandy was so good at putting those A's teams together. And Billy being pretty smart guy, especially the young GM would always ask himself, he told me in a difficult spot, what would Sandy do here? That's how good Sandy Alderson is. And I think what the change in where the Mets appear to be going with an owner who's never owned a team before, he needs a really good, smart, guiding hand team.

He is a brilliant man, but he's also got a really good feel for baseball. And then he could hire, you know, someone to run the baseball operation while he's the president of the team. I would do just what the Mets are doing.

How busy, Mike Clevenger, injury for the Padres really ruined the playoff hopes?

Really. It's not a great injury and it's a forearm and your biceps. You're never quite sure what's going on there. I think he's going to miss the the the first series. Maybe he'll be back for the second. But if he doesn't pitch in October, that really decreases their chances of getting to and winning the World Series. I think they're good enough with him at his best to actually beat the Dodgers. I'm not saying they could. I think the Dodgers are the best team and they're going to win the World Series, I think.

But Clevenger is nasty, really good. And they counted on him in that rotation because he's the real overpowering stuff guy. And if he can't pitch at all, I think it really decreases their chances of getting to and winning the World Series.

Does Adam Silver look like the light bulb that appears over the head of someone who has a good idea?

So we beat Colin Cowherd again, Colin Cowherd was in the news this week because he's again complaining about trusting quarterbacks who wear their cap backwards. It is a delightful take. It makes me happy that this is what Colin Cowherd is doing with the millions of dollars that they're paying him toward the end of a distinguished legendary Hall of Fame broadcast career.

You got to give him credit for dishing out a tape that no one else has ever had in the history of sports radio. And it's in it's in reruns. It's recycled because he's already done this before the Manziel. And he was right about Manziel. But now he's going after when it started with Romo.

That's how long we've been doing this one. Yeah, but Marino Wars hat backwards. We did this. He did things. No, no, no. I don't need to talk about.

I'm just I am happy in a difficult pandemic time where there's a trough that a lot of people are feeding on, but there is less money being made in the media game than there has been before, that he still has a giant studio, that he has a giant desk and that he is able to give that opinion for millions of dollars. This I am not hating, goes Winzer. I am I am not hating. Here I am. I am happy that that's a market that exists for gasbags who age.

And you should be happy about that too.

I am thrilled. I mean he has said the market so and I'm better than ever that. No, no you're not. You're right. No you're not.

I'm better than him. I feel like I'm like a fine wine dad. I'm getting better with age. I mean, that's what I feel. You're not you're getting worse with age. And the show turns it into something because like me, you're getting worse with age. Like, it's a fair point. We're both getting worse before we go any further down the path. It's always weird when a student flexes. You think you're better than everybody at everything I do.

It's weird. I'm a legend in my own mind. My dad likes to say, does your dad say that all the time? Yes. And so you've been that since a kid? I've got to talk to him at some point. You do for the audience in order to tell them who you've always been. My dad will side with you on everything. I mean, is that right?

Oh, absolutely. All right. We got to set that up, Mike. We got to get that. We got to get that happening. Where I just talked to some guy interviews to Ghazi's dad about what he what he was like as a as a kid. Stu Gotz is definitely better at what he like, Colin Cowherd could not do what you gotta say, you guys could fake it and try to do what Colin Cowherd does. You got this one of a kind name, another Stewardson Sports Radio.

OK, but it requires a look at look at the manpower this show has. It requires a army of people. In order to turn that into the funding, it needs to be like it's not funny that Stewart doesn't know what Harry Carey is and thought it was a Cubs broadcaster when I was talking about suicide earlier today. Unless you have everyone around him supporting the joke that none like that doesn't happen, do you realize if that mistake happened and it happens daily around here, too, to people like Colin Cowherd, it would be viral.

It would be one of these. How often do you see another professional sports radio show making the mistakes we do around here daily and you see it go viral like you don't see it very often because they're too professional to make it happen right here.

It's just another day. I understand what you're saying with Harry Carey, though. I mean, I wasn't the only one thrown off. I believe Mike was was in sync with me where we thought that Harry Carey had committed suicide. And that's that's what we thought. That's what you said.

I mean, you should listen to it anyway. The point is, the local our and big story today are very good for two different reasons. Both of them are very strong. We've got Stevo coming up next here to pick games with us because we've beaten Colin Cowherd again. But very quickly here, it's the only way we can do things given how much surrounds us at this point. But Charles Barkley last night, and he said this a month ago on our show, and I was wrong and deserved your criticism for not correcting him quicker on defund the police and his idea.

He's got it wrong when he thinks that defunding the police is just getting rid of the police and then we won't have anyone to call. I should have called him on it. Then he said it again last night. And we all see you people who only wave around Charles Barkley when it's stuff like this because he gives you black permission, like calling him brave. And he's amazing because he's doing this. Charles Barkley, this happened with Elon recently, right?

Where Elon, celebrities come forth and say, Alan's wonderful to me. And of course, celebrities come forth and she's wonderful to them. That doesn't mean that that's how she treats everybody. It doesn't mean that that's how she treats the little people. Charles Barkley has had an extraordinary relationship with police officers for a very long time. Charles Barkley has said by his own mouth, the most difficult decision I have to make every day is whether I'm going to stay in a Four Seasons or a Ritz Carlton.

Charles Barkley does not speak for black people on this one. He speaks for Charles Barkley. And we see you when you wave him around only when he says things that you agree with. Stevo is back and we're excited about it. You can check out his Wild Ride podcast wherever you get your podcast. We'll get to him in a second. But first, Christine. Lisa, you were saying. And finally, 37 percent of Brits believe their jobs are meaningless, do not contribute to the world.

Speaking of Dad and Stu packed.

Yes. Oh, wow, what a day. I thought that was just for me. We both got that one.

So he's seven and three, OK? And Colin Cowherd is four and six. So we are very excited to have him back. But before we pick games, I've just got a couple of questions and thank you for being on with us. I can't believe up is lying just dropped tears to God. So we will get him back in a second. I think I always imagine, OK, when a guest of some celebrity stature is there, when we do the silly stuff, we do the morning hijinx stuff.

The the kazoo. Right. And The RidicuList, Christine Lisi joke. Yeah, I think they maybe they hang up. I think Steve was probably not affected by that. That's probably not though. She said, sorry, dude.

So he is back with us now. Welcome back. I just can't believe we haven't asked you about about hearing the voices of spirits because you told Joe Rogan one time and I don't know the details on this. I just heard that you told Joe Rogan one time that you've heard spirits. Oh, yeah, it's called psychosis, and it wasn't just hearing the voice and spirits. I mean, I was watching people walk around my apartment who were never physically there.

I actually yeah, I watched people walk through walls like one time I had like a formal intervention in my apartment and then came to realize after the fact that not a single person had actually ever been there. It was pretty heavy duty, like, you know, auditory hallucinations, hearing voices, tactile hallucinations when you actually feel stuff. I had that, too, like where I had to have there. There's a lot of heavy stuff. And and frankly, I enjoyed it all so much.

I mean, like, I was so in love with all of the hallucinations. I just kept piling more drugs into my body for the sole purpose of keeping that stuff happening. You know, I really, really loved it. But at a certain point, you know, I hit a wall and I had to get sober.

Well, help me, please, because you just said you stopped yourself and I wish you hadn't. Spirit touched you. You're saying you're saying that that was what happened.

I guess there is one time that was particularly notable. I was sitting at this big desk. This is actually like a dining room table, but I use the desk. So there was plenty of space in front of me. And I had all all sorts of drugs piled up on it like this nitrous oxide, these cartridges. I had just boxes and boxes that I had piles of powdered narcotics pills. Marijuana was absurd. And as I you know, I was doing cocaine.

I was like I lied. I was getting ready to I just looked at all of these drugs in front of me and I thought to myself, you know, I'm dying. Yeah. There's just there's actually just no longevity and what I'm doing right here. And and then I had the distinct thought that I don't care if I die, you know, it's just like I just thought, I don't care if I die. I leaned over to do this line of cocaine.

And as I leaned over this this swiveling spinning off its chair that I was sitting in, like basically spun. I mean, this is my experience. And it was the most intense experience I've ever had where, like, it was it was like a huge, strong guy, like the chair felt like it turned into a mechanical bull. It just spun around like I felt like I almost grew out of it. And that's what I perceived was a very distinct message that some like entity, some spiritual entity had different plans or felt very strongly that I should value my life, that that that I shouldn't like like think again.

You know, it's like you're not allowed to die because that was like, I don't care if I die. And it is what you call a tactile hallucination. And clearly, if I had a surveillance camera in my living room, you know, it wouldn't have shown anything. It just my experience. And when I got to rehab, when I got to rehab and they started talking about the 12 steps and how you need to have a higher power and stuff and figure out what your higher power is and what you pray to.

I had this that this notebook in which I did all of this, you know, this work on my recovery and on the cover of that notebook I wrote that chair spun period. No, no question about it. I had that experience. I still hang on to it. And when it comes to what do I pray to a higher power, I pray to whatever spun that chair because there is a big deal.

So if you want amazing stories from this man, Wild Ride podcast, wherever you get your podcast, we're going to try and Segway from there to picking games. But can you tell me what it feels like to do 600 whippets whippet cartridges and 24 to 36 hours?

I mean, I love that, you know, like my my my goal with inhaling the nitrous oxide was to, you know, essentially suffocate myself. It was, you know, to deprive myself of oxygen and just have enough of this stuff in my life that I was physically about, you know, that I would pass out to be laying there twitching. And it was an awful thing to look at, but I loved it. And I just it was my goal to to physically pass out and from inhaling nitrous as many times in a day as possible, of course, the more you do it, the harder it is to achieve that goal.

And so I went ultimately to spend a lot of time writhing on the floor, punching it with my fists, like trying to hold my breath until I was unconscious and spent a lot of hours doing that. All right.

Let's pick some games, pick some games. Let's pick something this time for celebrity prognostication with some money.

The lines are provided by Caesars, William Hill, Stevens. Seventy three. I mean, you are crushing to this Raiders at Patriots, Patriots minus five and a half. Who you got?

I mean, you know, I never used to like the Raiders, but now that they're in Vegas, I kind of do. I really enjoyed their their first game in the stadium. I know I went to win on that minus five and a half.

The Patriots are favored. Right.

You know, I might lose this one, but I'm going with the Raiders.

All right. Don't fear don't fear you're good at this. Just we got to go through these picks a little quicker, though, because we were getting those drugstore's bills at Rams. I'm sorry, rams it bills, bills or minus two.

Yeah, but that's the Rams all day Titans at Vikings, Vikings plus two and a half at home.

Who you got.

I just when I really don't care about. But let's say the Titans. All right. Jetset Colts, Jetset Colts, Colts minus eleven and a half.

Who you got a judge that could say yeah I like the Colts on that one. Packers at Saints.

Saints minus three. Who you got.

I you know what, Packers. You say the Packers all the way. All right.

We're hoping you come back next week. Thank you, Steve. Always good talking to you. Hey, likewise, man.

Thank you. Fun weekend for Miami, not for Billy Gill, he wants to fast forward through the weekend because he fears that the Marlins will not clinch tonight or this weekend. He fears heat calamity. He fears. He fears they just did the ending of Shawshank Redemption, the writing at the end was, I hope, I hope, I hope he fears. He fears, he fears. Let's update a couple of polls here.

Two God's please at Leadbitter show on Twitter. We'll update the rest of the polls of the post game show. Has Mike Tomlin surgically altered his eyelids so he never blinks? Ninety five percent of the audience said, yep.

Let's open up the club, Mike Ryan. I want to open up the club, send everybody into the weekend, even though it is eight fifty eight fifty in the morning on the West Coast, it's never going to get old.

This is unbelievable. Let's open up the club.

We will play also in the post game show, the sound of Allen Iverson not going after me, but I think maybe I should make it about me. You got just to get the rub of people thinking that Allen Iverson is beefing with my father.

Let's Ahadi play. That's what you do. Let's let's open up the club with the first sound. Who's the first sound in the club?

Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.

12, 12, chuggers before choo choo. Six pairs of two 12 chug, chug, chug is actually No.

12 chuggers. It's six chug chug. Is it 12 chuggers. What a sweet.

And Marty Smith's America. If you want explanations like that and exceptional math. Marty Smith's in America part of the Libertarian Friends Network.

What else you got there might also you could maybe not go Jonathan Villa, New Wave. The second question. Oh, I'm sorry, Chris. That one haunted you. You had some trouble sleeping because you made Villanueva. You made him a gringo. Who else is in the club? I don't want to be rude, but this to got expression in Italian like, yes, you got to get that is Matthew Modine rather inexplicably feels like a month ago.

It's amazing though. He asked us that question again. That was Matthew Modine.

Yeah. You're not being rude at all. Yeah. Yeah. I love my real last name is Weiner, so it's not much better.

That is sure to be a suey laugh next year. So we could just say that we had on Matthew Modine.

Who else is finding him hilarious. You got his actual last name is Weiner. Who else is in the club?

This one place up. Oh yes.

Coming. No one cares about you. You're pathetic. You care about me. No. Yeah. Because you got the worst decision in the history of the sport.

I broke your face. No party fake newsman. You didn't break right up in protest in a way that was fake. See you next time.

Look at me. Wait till I see you. Next on news, your dad your dad got unfinished business. Really better show up then. Wait a minute. Wait till I see you next time to get him out of here. Wait till I see you. Next, we need to get Covington and he is broken. I love that. That's the real thing has ever done. Yelled your dad. You rage filled place because he was so tired of hearing the fact that his face was broken.

Your dad was in the club, Mike.

You're right. I'm sorry. This is unacceptable the way that I am.

I'm trying to tell him how that is Dominique Foxworth and my Grion having the single strangest argument we had this week.

And if we on the food chain blame. Oh, yeah, that was James.

Kind of brings me back all the way back to yesterday.

If we on the food chain, blank, blank on the field, who else in the club.

That is Chris Cody, just very excited about heat happening, very unpleasant. Again, we're going to give these people the visual image of starting new the crowds and surely we can have sex with for you. Oh, yes. Yes, Chris. Make it happen, Poppy.

Yes, you got to. Who else in the club? That's it, we ran down, we can't we just understand I'm sorry.