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Good morning, everyone. It's the shipping container rocking with you on a Tuesday. What is it, Tuesday then, Chris talking to you. Anything with a T talking to you on it Tuesday. Are we doing good today though?

I feel like this is a rough one last night for Marlins fans.

It's a good morning. It's a new day. All right. Yes, it was just a Monday. The Marlins lost. It's fine. Hi, I'm Billy. Go, this is Chris Coey Roy Bellamy. Greg Cody is here as well. No, Dan knows two guys. No, Mike Anthony will be joining us shortly. He's having Internet issues. I don't know why I'm telling you that. You don't need to know that. Anyway, Greg, it is sports going on.

We've been talking about this. We're going to start with the Marlins because we want to start with the Marlins in the playoff chase right now. Now, the Marlins had a controversial play in terms of play calling your decision making. I guess this is not something that was decided on Harris and yesterday decided to go first to third on the infield, you know, like chopper that went straight up in the air, got a little aggressive people that were watching the Marlins game going back and forth.

Should he have gone? Should he not have gone? We've walked you through the play. Now, here's the thing. It ended up being a double play. It's the tying run in the ninth inning and it gets them out of the ballgame, essentially. Right, because it becomes instead of a runner in scoring position with one out, now you have nobody on two outs. And then Brian Anderson, the next the next at bat hits a ball that he could have tagged up from a gotten to third anyways and gotten there with two outs.

But we don't need to cry over spilt milk frag. Should Monta Harrison have gone on that play?

Yes. Yes, I like the aggressiveness. It's what brung them here. As the old saying goes. I mean, the Marlins sort of lived by that. They steal a lot of bases. I think they've stolen home a couple of times this year. They're an aggressive team. They manufacture runs. And in this case, you know, Monty Harrison's got some wheels for a big guy and and it took a perfect throw and desperate tag to get him out.

I just think that I'll take that I'll take that chance, because that's what they've been doing to get where they are.

That is a fair point. They have been an aggressive baserunning team. They've gotten a lot of extra runs this season because of good aggressive base running. Now, Todd Hollandsworth was saying the same thing as you yesterday, and he said he had one quote where he was like, when you're an aggressive team, you can't pick and choose when to be aggressive. And it's just love it. It's just flatly absurd by him. Like, yes, Todd, you can be an aggressive team.

And yet at moments in the situation, read the situation, you can be not as aggressive like it was a ridiculous comment. And I've gone back and forth on this. Donny said the same thing as you, Greg. He said, we're an aggressive team. I told Monte, do that every time. Now, I don't know if he's just sticking up for his player there and doesn't actually believe that, because if you saw the conversation between a third base coach and Monteiro's and after that play, it didn't look like he was saying good job to him.

It looked like it was a teaching moment and he was having like a conversation with him about why we don't do that. But anyways, I love Donnie having his guys back that I like, regardless of whether it's the right player, not Donnie afterwards was like, I want him to do that one hundred times out of one hundred. That's how we play blah, blah, blah. But yeah, I, I'm I've gone back and forth on this.

You know, the funny thing about baseball and sports in general. Right. Like so if Jonathan V.R. is the one that makes that play, everybody crushes it. Right. He's everybody hated how dumb he was making baserunning decisions and mistakes and stuff like that. But because it's a rookie and because you know, you have six games left in the season, I guess seven, including yesterday's game, like, oh, we've got to be aggressive. What a letdown, by the way.

And we have lots of things coming up today. We're going to talk to Greg about LeBron in the MVP voting and him complaining about not winning MVP. Does Greg have any votes? Who does great vote for? I don't even know. I just wrote it down. We're going to ask him how can he get to that yet? I also have a restaurant thing. I need to get off with Greg at something. Oh, all right.

And there's obviously Monday Night Football yesterday big. Monday night game Las Vegas played in the new stadium, the Marlins right now before we move on from them, are still fifth in the in the playoff rankings right there ahead of the Cardinals who have the National League playoff picture with six games left and six days left in the season. A total mess. It's crazy, there are like 10 teams that can get in, the Marlins have been sitting pretty pretty much all season long in playoff contention.

They could easily follow their fifth. Right now, they're ahead of the Cardinals who moved ahead of the Phillies, who are only a game behind the Marlins, are now eighth in the playoff picture. So. I've been playing this game where I'm like the Marlins should be the second or the first wildcard team, we need to just get in at this point, right? Let's not play around and play these games because we have three more against the Braves and then three against the Yankees.

So nothing's guaranteed. We just need to focus on beating the Phillies. If we don't if the Phillies leapfrog us, we just need to assume we're not making the playoffs. That's how we should be living our lives right now.

Yeah, I mean, the Phillies lost, which is good yesterday because the Marlins lost. They got off to a hot starts going through runs in the first inning and then immediately gave up four runs. And that kind of took the wind out of your guys sails, but it took the wind out of my sails, even though we've been down like five sometimes. I don't know. I keep saying we the Marlins have been down like five runs sometimes. And I'll text Chris and I'm like, not out of this one yesterday.

As soon as they scored three and gave a form like, I don't know how this game is going to turn out, that's one of the really your sales.

Are they like big sailboat sails, like, you know, big schooner sails? What kind of sales are they?

I like to think that I have one giant like mast of a sail. Right. And that's like the primary sail. And then should something happen to that sail, whether it gets like a tear or something, I have like maybe two smaller secondary sails that I'll put up at the same time and hope that that'll kind of catch enough wind to keep propelling me forward slowly. Because as sailors know, the one thing you don't want, you don't want to get stuck out at sea.

Right. Especially on a sailboat without a sail. So you have to have kind of secondary sails that you could put up in case of emergency. Now, my big sail was up yesterday, but it was losing some of that air. So I was hoping maybe we could just kind of scooch our way closer to land and get there safely. But unfortunately, we were a little bit offshore right now. Right. Is that where you're wanting to go when wind is in your sales or out of your sails back to land?

Probably not. You probably want to go further out to sea to explore. Right. But like, I'm a safety first kind of guy, so I want to make sure that I have the wind to get me back to land, not to get me out into the middle of the ocean where I'm just kind of going to be stranded out there. Yeah, exactly.

You know, kind of sail that you have, what? Yeah.

Oh, I like the big old fashioned, you know, 19th century schooner sail, you know, sort of a weird v triangular shape to it.

And one thing about me is that when I'm shopping for sales, I look for a sale. Logo, which one of us would you think would do the best if we were just thrown in a sailboat and they were just like go because I would not have any clue what do I don't think any there's no there's not really any boat you could put me in that I feel like I don't know how to go sideways or backwards. Like, I just know how to steer forward.

Like, I just feel like I feel like you might be OK if I put you in a sailboat right now. And I was like, go sail. Yeah, I'll be good, really, though, I feel like you have to YouTube it. Yeah, I mean, you got YouTube, anything to get some sort of training in something that you've never done before. But yeah, I figured. Sales would be awful on a sailboat, in a motor boat would be fine, because that's just like a car on water.

You just continue this odd turn.

Odd Greg Codi turn anyway, is Tony's arrived. Look at Tony's here. How's your Internet? What's up, boys? All right. Yeah, I'm here.

I was being a little bit weird. Roy, I know you feel me Xfinity Comcast sometimes.

Oh my God. We're talking sail boating. And if we were just dropped into a sailboat like our boating abilities, if you'd be able to just get the boat away from the dock and bring it back like are you a guy that if I threw you in a sailboat all by yourself you could get it away and back.

What kind of sailboat, I guess, would be my question. What's the size of the boat? Because I've been in a catamaran before on vacation and it's kind of like your limit.

What size footage, sailor? No longer, because obviously you think that you can do up to a certain point where can you navigate a boat up until how many feet of snow?

Probably probably like anything from 10 feet on.

I probably can't because it's just too much. The catamaran was like maybe like six to eight feet. It's got like a nice to side on on each and let the you open up the thing.

Obviously I knew how to do it when I was I was down and stuck on it for the starboard side. Yeah. Like a little Hobie cat is what you're doing. Exactly. And those are easy. Right. If you could just crash it up on the on the beach. I feel like that any of us can navigate a boat.

But if you need, like, precision parking, I feel like that's usually where limit like I'm thinking of Wedding Crashers, member of the oh well sounds like faking it. And he's like, I got you starboard side like that. Put me on a boat. I just like for visualize like that's what I would be like on a boat, you know, port side and starboard.

Do you know which is which.

Oh no. I always go back and forth on that. I totally get confused. It's like a coin flip, you know, you should know but I totally always get confused.

I love how you say you go back and forth where you just have no clue and you know, it's a fifty fifty thing. Like I don't even think you go back and forth like you have no clue. You just know it's fifty fifty. Right.

Portside is left and starboard is right. And again I think it's front and back.

Oh no, no, no, no. That's Arthaud. Oh magnificent.

Oh look at that. Halfway up huh. It's on to the longshoreman's this group. Oh that's true.

Also Royte know Poseidon starboard if you're looking towards the front of the ship. Yeah. Portside is towards the dock area. No, starboard is towards the opposite side.

No, I'm not going to look this up so that. No, that's not how you do it. Because if a ship can part two ways with the front, OK, let's say you're going to the Port of Miami, correct. You can have a ship that's facing the American Airlines arena or you can have a ship that's facing the ocean. You can't just say that the one that's on the side of the port is port side because it can part two different ways, right?

Exactly. You mean exactly the opposite of what you just say. I'm agreeing with you. You're right. OK, I think port side has left and starboard is right. And the reason I think it is is because someone told me that and I remember thinking, that's weird, because if I'm getting on a cruise ship, they're usually facing the ocean. And the port side, you'd think would be the side I'm getting on. But port side is actually the side that's facing the ocean.

And the port is on the starboard side of it's facing the ocean. But there's a 50 percent chance that I'm wrong about that. Starboard is right side. Right, Sarge? All right, there you go. All right, Greg Cody, I have a question for you. There's lots of sports going on. We kind of covered baseball. I mean, there's stuff we really want to break down for us. Could but who wants to hear that?

The big story of the week is LeBron James missing out on the MVP again. And I guess it's not really a big story because it wasn't that much of a surprise and it wasn't even that close of a vote. I think he got like 16 of 101 first place votes.

Here's my question to you, because a lot of complaining has been done not just by LeBron, but by other people saying they should change the way that voting is done. It doesn't make any sense. It LeBron only got 16 votes and all this stuff. Right. Why are people so outraged about this? I feel like it's a little bit of pandering to LeBron because it wasn't a close race. It wasn't like this clear thing, like LeBron was the MVP of the season.

He's going to win. Oh, my God. He was robbed. He lost by like 10 votes or something like that. He got absolutely blown out by Yoni's. And I'm wondering if this is just pandering to LeBron, in your opinion or if you think that there should actually be some sort of changing of the voting process? Do you vote for the MVP of the NBA? No Baseball Hall of Fame voter.

And currently that's the only major vote I have.

But I see LeBron frustration. I see it because he's been the MVP runner up four times. He's lost four NBA finals. He's missed his second place and a lot of ways as great as his career has been. So I get the frustration and I also see why it's happening. I mean, here we're crowning Giannis MVP for the second year in a row. At the same time we're dissecting his monumental failure in the playoffs for the second time in a row.

So you think to yourself, wow, is this guy really the MVP of the league when he can't get his team to do what it's supposed to be when the stakes are highest? So I get it. And I think the rules should be changed to reflect the playoffs as well. There's a separate NBA finals MVP. That's fine. But, you know, you can't keep crowning MVP whose teams keep fizzling in the first round of the playoffs. It just doesn't make much sense to me or in the playoffs, I should say.

Not necessarily the first round.

Gregg, what do you think of the people that say media members shouldn't have a vote in these like MVP and Hall of Fame ballots and all these different things?

Unsurprisingly, I defend the media voting because I think the media is inherently impartial in a way that former coaches and players wouldn't be. And we've seen that in in Baseball Hall of Fame voting where the what used to be called the Veterans Committee sometimes overrides the writers vote and puts in players who barely got any votes at all among the writers. And, you know, I just think there's an independence to having writers vote.

There's plenty of instances, though, where writers hold grudges and don't vote. People aren't like Roberto Alomar didn't get into the Hall of Fame his first time around because he was rude to the media, like Barry Bonds hasn't gotten in while that steroids related to. But a lot of writers hold grudges. They're not completely independent.

Oh, they're so sensitive. Writers are so sensitive. Greg Cody, Denville, Greg Biggio. And first year, because he was mean to him once in an elevator.

Wait, is that is that true? No, I made that up and it's probably something like that. Why didn't you vote for Craig Biggio his first year? That is true. That is a true statement that Craig Biggio missed being a first year Hall of Famer by like, I think four votes and Greg Cody did not vote for him. So.

Well, here's the thing. Every every Hall of Famer has their own criteria for voting. And the good thing is, unlike the NFL, we're only like forty to forty five persons vote in the Hall of Fame. There's a wide enough electorate where the consensus is usually spot on, but individually you're going to have little peculiarities. I know writers who sometimes don't vote for and this is why a guy like Derek Jeter ends up not being quite unanimous because some writers will not vote.

You only get ten votes. Some writers won't vote for the obvious choice so that they can then give their extra vote to somebody who is somebody who needs it.

Right, exactly.

Somebody who needs it and has to stay on the ballot in some instances. Yeah.

And in the case of Craig Biggio, plainly put, I didn't think he was a first ballot Hall of Famer. You know, he maybe I see somebody as a guy who maybe five years from now is going to get him, but he's not the first ballot Hall of Famer to me is sacrosanct. It has to be the top of the top. It has to be the Derek Jeter level. Guys, if it's a borderline guy and he's his first year on the ballot, chances are I'm not going to vote him.

I feel like I'm just speaking for me.

I feel like you just wanted to say, say sacrosanct there. He just wanted to work. It is a nice in real fact, back to LeBron real fast. LeBron wants the best of both worlds. He wants to make super teams and have all the best players on his team and then he wants to be MVP. It's like LeBron then DP's, a guy like Giannis who has less help around him and is doing something equally as impressive as your team with less.

Talent around him, like LeBron, can't have these make a super team, get Anthony Davis here and then be like, I also want to be most valuable. It's like LeBron, I think we've catered enough to you around this league, like, OK, you can not be the MVP, LeBron. It's the one thing that you like that we don't just hand you for being the case.

So that's kind of why I wanted to ask Greg about this, because I saw I think it was Richard Jefferson saying we need to have two awards, we need to have the MVP and the best player in the league award. And it's like we don't need to be creating new LeBron new awards just to be handing things to LeBron. Seriously, he can't win everything every season. And like, I don't I don't hate LeBron as much as a lot of people hate LeBron, but we don't need to be inventing awards to give them to LeBron to pad his stat do to like you just thought you just pitched such a great idea.

Adam Silver should create an award called the LeBron James Award, and he just gives it every little league wins every year.

And it's like, there you go. Are you did we do everything for you now? LeBron, that's that's such a great idea. That is funny.

Until the year that the writers get mad LeBron, they give the LeBron James award to Giannis and then LeBron gets mad about that.

All right, Greg, before we move on to other things, I had a question for you did what other votes have you had in the past? You said presently you only have the Baseball Hall of Fame award. And I'm wondering what prestigious voting rights you've had in the past that really I want to get to how it is they took the votes away from you.

I've never voted in.

Other sports has only been baseball. You know, every day rotate the whole thing. They rotate the votes like every third year. I'll vote for the general manager of the year or another, you know, rookie or the rookie of the year or a position like that.

I love when you get the email of some random stat. I know you're probably like, OK, I haven't looked at the Al stats all season. Let me look at this.

Well, I do believe me, I take my vote seriously and I do I do a lot of research. I over research my vote.

So I will say that. So do you know, like set in stone, like every third year I'm going to have a vote for something. I don't know what it is or you just kind of every once in a while go on and you check your email and you're like, oh, this year I'm voting for this award in baseball, right?

Yeah. Not in a normal year. You know, you get an email from the Baseball Writers Association of America and it comes out of the blue. You don't you don't know who what category you're going to vote for. You don't lobby for it. You don't ask for it. And it just sort of shows up and it's like, wow, OK.

So do you have anything this year that you're voting for outside of the Hall of Fame? No, I don't.

It's like every every third year you get skipped in every third year you have a certain vote and every third year you have another vote.

So is it possible that you have it every year and you just like it goes to spam or you just miss the email and then like people don't get the votes? Do you get a paper ballot in the mail or is all via email? Because I feel like a lot of people could be losing their ability to vote for some of the awards just because it gets buried in, like Bath and Bodyworks canoodled discount codes and stuff like that.

You know, it's funny, the baseball writers are old school and maybe this shouldn't surprise you, but it's a it's a paper mail in ballot. You know, there's nothing electronic about it. You receive your paper ballot in the mail, you fill it out by hand, you sign your name, you put it back in a self-addressed stamped envelope and you send it back in. It's so quaint. It's so, it's like nineteen sixty one. Oh reposted.

You know, voting. They do prepay postage for now about that. Greg, in your illustrious career, what is the one that you hope to have the invitation to to vote for?

Right. Well, I wouldn't mind being a pro football Hall of Fame voter, I wouldn't mind being in any sports MVP voter. And by the way, parenthetically, LeBron was pissed off about the disparity. He was pissed off about the idea that he got 16 votes.

If he were to lost by four votes, he would've been complaining just as much.

Well, true, true, true, true. But no, I'm not a you know what? I'm very satisfied to vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame. And that's it. I'm, you know, whatever.

Does it bother you that Poppy gets to vote for the Heisman? It doesn't bother me, I find it funny. I do think and nothing against Poppy, who probably knows the Miami Heat as well as I do.

Here comes here comes a poppy. A swipe at Poppy. No, no, not at all. But, you know, the Baseball Hall of Fame, for example, really weeded through its its voter roll a couple of years ago.

You made it and you made it and I made it these three thousands of voters.

And now I think there's like four or five hundred. And and, you know, the husband needs to do the same thing. Let's be honest. I mean, there are.

But I love Poppy, but is he right, you said ridiculous Poppy should definitely have a Heisman vote. We should Poppy should be the only person deciding. It should be only Poppy deciding and take everybody. Maybe Poppy and Lee Corso. Maybe we need a third person. And Roy Roy, Lee Corso and Poppy, whoever gets the most votes gets the Heisman.

That's a great idea, obviously, because it's a funny curveball and it's not a feeling.

All right. If I have two topics, I want to go down to you guys. You guys want to talk about Greg at a restaurant or a fantasy gripe that I have with someone in a fantasy league of mine which we want to get before we go to those?

Can I ask you a question, Greg?

How do I wonder how you feel on Tuesdays if we're going to get deep and kind of explore Greg in a way here for a moment? Because, Greg, today is a great Cody Tuesday. And as history has shown us, especially since we've had the change in our schedule during the national show, not not too much, Greg. Usually a lot of going to Greg to kind of make them the butt of the joke at the end of the hour.

Spoiler alert, it's probably going to happen today, but during the other segments, we don't go to Greg a whole lot. Then we ask him, is there a back in my day which Greg is there back in my day to day or no? Yes, there is. All right. But if there's not a back in my day that it almost seems like you're in time out for a little bit because you didn't do it back in Monday. So now's really the time that you shine on Tuesdays.

It's the local hour and it's like this is going to be Greg time. We're going to go to him on the Panthers and the Heat and her. I don't know why I went to the Panthers, but the Marlins and all the different sports going on. By the way, the hurricanes right now are like the forgotten team of the city somehow while being ranked number twelve in the country.

Would you love that? You love that, Billy. It's funny, it's kind of funny, and now that the big tent is going to come back, I'll see how long we're going to last. And it is it is funny how important the can seem in the national spectrum of all these national TV games until the SCC arrives. And it's like, all right, get the hell out of your Miami.

Well, so that's kind of my question. Not that this is what we're talking about, but is are the hurricanes actually kind of forgotten right now or is this just me giving my own sensibilities? Because there's two other playoff runs going on right now that not a ton of people are paying attention to the hurricanes? Is that mean they played two games that they were setting up when you were talking? Oh, this isn't what I was setting up. I've kind of been derailed.

So anyways, back to what I was getting to. So it's Tuesday and this is Greg's data shine. But nationally, we don't always get a ton of gragg. And then the big story is kind of like, I don't know what that's going to be today. So the local hours, really, when Greg's time to shine. Right. And here we are and it's your time to shine. And nobody showed up for this except me, Chris, Roy and Anthony.

How does this make you feel?

Hey, I'm good with it with an asterisk. It can be frustrating at times because sometimes and then there's this you know, sometimes it feels like particularly since the national show has gone from three hours to two, it seems like I'm only on there to miss the hard network out into being trapped and missing the hard network out and further back in my day. I appreciate the local hour and all the ancillary stuff, giving me an opinion to actually speak on sports topics and such, because those chances on the national show are pretty.

You get between, you get paid the same. You're not bothered by this. This is all fake fake outrage and it really isn't.

And, you know, actually in one I'm like Greg Kotero podcasts. I devoted a pretty big segment to things I like and don't like about being on the show. One of the that was just click bait to get Lebedko listeners to listen.

Now, it was actually a way for me to vent and let off a little of the steam that really just invited me to to let off in that portion of.

Of course, I love being on the Today show or else I wouldn't be doing it, but it's not a perfect ride. You guys may be able to relate to that. I mean, there's not everybody is in is in a role that that they feel is 100 percent suited to them. But that's the dynamic of a show that involves a dozen people.

So I didn't. I got to be honest, I got a lot realer than I thought it was going to get. I didn't think that we were going to get an actual answer out of that. What as you went to the Great Hardy show with Greg Cody, what is the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody about this week? Well, we actually have Isilon, is he Gutierrez, and we talk about a lot of fun stuff, it's talk a lot about some heat.

We're auditioning a new announcer for the show. You know, Dan does the intro to my show, but we're introducing auditioning his replacement. Wow. And so that's fun. And I have my contract expired. Now we're just going to give on the booth. To be honest with you.

I have an idea. See, Dan has always said that these pre like local hours and big cities are supposed to be little secret nuggets filled diehard listeners that, you know, you hear something here and you get the joke on the national show. What if today we sabotage the hard network outs and me like the three of us that the four of us, Roy, Tony, me and Billy, we all like Tex. We remind Greg at the end of the segment, hey, this is the hard work out segment.

Make sure to stick the landing here. And like we give him, we remind him so that he kills the hard network out today where every time he's like baby or you never know, like he just hits it. But I don't feel like he'll be able to do it because he doesn't have the clock and we don't have the clock. So even if we tell the hey, the hard network out is this segment, he has no way of knowing exactly what it is.

So actually scrap that plan. You're going to get crushed by the hard work.

I mean, it seems too late for this.

Like you've now open this door where if he hits it, people are going to be like Chris absolutive to the stooge that told Grug.

So, Greg, you need to do is you need to Google like world clock. And then you could see like second by second what the time is and then you'll know when it is that you want to hit it. Wow. Like, what are you doing right now, Chris? Like, you're kind of undermining the entire show.

You I mean, no, no. I'm doing exactly what Dan has said once done with this, like, podcast stuff. Give the listeners who listen to all this stuff little a little carrots for a little treats for. This is what you get. You get to know now. But we're not doing it. We're scrapping it now.

They are going to be the victims of this because they were not in this hour. So they're going to be the ones missing out on the jokes. Wow. Because my idea was going to be I want because Dan asks him, what do you guys want to talk about or what do you guys want to do this? And my idea was I just was going to try to get a list of things Greg wants to talk about and present them as things that I'm interested in talking about and just sneaking in everything that Greg wants to talk about, like sprinkled throughout.

Right. So, like, if he's like, hey, Chris, what do you want to talk about today, Chris? Like, you know what I was thinking about Greta Garbo. And then they can go into like, oh, Chris, you were talking about this.

And then boom, you know, I talked to you on the show.

Yeah. Yeah. And that's how we get his way onto the show by all of us saying, you know, I really want to talk about pocket watches or whatever today.

That's a that's a brilliant idea. I think everybody just you all should fill out a list that includes the new Greg Conejo podcast. Wow. Gregs levels up to Mavis Staples.

Staples, right.

The Lowballs. Big win. Big win. The levels had two players over 40 points this past week. Oh, don't get me started and lost. No, no. We won big. We lost our opener, but we roared back like lowballs do.

Let me let me tell you about this fancy thing real fast, because it looks like we're not going to have time for the restaurant stuff. Maybe we'll get to it on the national show or in the big city. All right. So so I was down by seven points in my fantasy league coming into Monday night. And I had nobody left on my team. But the person I was going against had their defense and they were up by seven points. They were up by seven points.

And they had my.

Is really what kind of father is Chris?

I'm a fantastic father and she doesn't bother me during the show. All right. Back to my story.

OK, so I'm up seven point crazy here and he's working. All right.

Explain what you're doing, Chris. Like what? Would you just quit? And she wants food. So she's coming at me all at once. And I'm trying to tell this family she not eat today yet. I mean, see what she does to me when she knows I'm stressed out. She'll bring me the she's brought me Oreos and I just opened it for him. It's eight thirty in the morning. OK, that's the kind of that's Raceland.

I just gave parenting the Parenting 101 Oreos at eight thirty in the morning and a tablet.

OK, I'm getting this story. And whether she wants it or not, I'm hoping it's a tablet. Like a computer tablet. Not like a pill tablet. It's a computer tablet. Yes, yes. OK, a wooden tablet. So I have a set. I'm down by seven tablet. I'm down by seven points and have no way of coming back because I have no players left and the person I'm going against just has their defense left. The Saints defense last night.

What do you guys do there? Do you take that defense out or, you know, so quick, like a vaudevillian?

No, you have dignity and pride and you have self-respect and you leave that defense in and you just play the game the way. Sounds like you have a loss. Yeah, I lost and the Saints ended up getting positive points. So this coward, Brandon and I'm going to name him Brandon Justice, you coward. That's not a real name you is. Wait, hold on.

Is this the guy that that that's a lawyer now or was this one.

That's a lawyer. That's my my ex, my fantasy expert friend. You should check him out when daily sports. What does Brandon Justice do. He's just a friend of mine and he's our star or something. I mean, maybe I'm on the side. I don't believe so. He's my Arber guy. Everyone has a friend that they text when they need plant advice. This guy is so good at planting stuff like he's saying.

Everyone knows, hey, you guys don't have a friend when you're like you don't have a green thumb. No one has a green thumb. I do. But just a different kind of green thumb a but I'm telling you that's a coward move.

Brandon, just as you leave that defense in and you roll the dice, you you let the chips fall where they may. You don't defect. You don't have a bench spot in your starting lineup out of here with that.

Well said. We got to go see guys later. Christopher, did I hear you right, Brandon benched his defense? Well, yeah, because he was up by seven. I don't think that's a I don't think you're allowed to do that. Well, yes, you are. You are.

You know, the league rules state that you have to have a complete starting lineup, that controversy.

This is where Greg Cody is just making up rules that he's never said out loud to anybody in the league. And like, you're able to take people out, like, wait, is this the same league Gregersen? Yeah, it's our family. Like, Oh, no, you can't. No, this is controversy.

Get them out. Get them on the game right now. Get branded on the Zoome.

We have eight starting positions and you need eight people playing, including defense.

OK. Oh wow.

What's the punishment for that Brandon and thing? There's not going to be any retroactive punishment but in my in my latest league home page update, I'm over there.

I'm going to mention that from now on you cannot bench and I'm sure you can.

No, no. It's in the league bylaws. Thank you, Billy.

Billy knows the league better than Christopher now defending Brandon.

I was just ripping him. And I'm like, now Greg wants to come in flying past me and be like, the rules should be.

It's like you're allowed to do it. Greg, are you still doing the newsletter? Yeah, every week. Yeah. But what, they didn't come out. This is the one today. Week one. Oh wow. Did you do Wheatus already or that comes out late. Oh I do that today. I'll do that right after this shows. The headline says Pappi Chickens and Roughriders on top. You said when you send us the can you send us the newsletter so we can read it?

I'd be happy to. I'd like to put it out on Twitter or something.

Yeah, I'd like to see a weekly update. Christopher Christopher is my social media guy. Christopher, how do I put that on Twitter?

We'll figure it out, OK. I'd like I'd like to share that with people.

Now, how is it looking up your fantasy? Just regular API, the one, of course, that has the Gaila at the end of the year, right?

Well, we're only two weeks in. My brother and my other son Michael, tied for first place after week one this week. Dick's Roughriders one 15 and one. Wow, that's that's straight up.

That's the story. That's second best ever. And I went, no, there have been a few perfect season, perfect weeks. I went 14 and to the lowballs.

So I think the lowballs now I have to figure out the standings, but we're we should call forbad first week pretty well.

How many ups that we have this week? Just unique hits.

Oh, yeah, that's the right call. We call that the raccoon's award this week.

I think my my grandma's team's name. And she's no like my late grandma. My dad's mom was her team was named Ruths Raccoon's. So that trophy has been named in her honor because she didn't know anything about football. So she always led the league and because she would just pick like random games and she would hit home the most. So she was picking way more upsets than other people would. So she always led the league. And she's right.

She would pick a winner based on which city she would rather live in. I literally could not name a single player.

Yeah.

Did she ever take home many awards, aside from, you know, she was a perennial last place finisher, but she but she has the all time leader in coon skins in reckons any kids. So, OK, that's the way that goes.

What a dick lose this week. What was the game that he lost. Yeah. What was the game like?

If it was a gimme, he's probably kicking himself. He never picks the dolphins. So it definitely wasn't. The only game he lost was he picked the Vikings to beat the Colts. Wow.

He's kicking himself. He's probably losing sleep after that one actually hurt me in a parlay. I was surprised.

I thought I had a unique hit with picking the Raiders last night, but it turned out three of our league, three of our six didn't pick the Raiders, which shocked me.

Chris was fishing for a unique hit last week by picking the Browns. Yeah, even though the Bengals covered.

But straight up. Right. I tend to be the second all now that my Nana's is not in the league anymore. I think I'm the most aggressive picking upsets in this league. It usually lands me the most unique hits because I tend to just think that there's going to be upsets. That's actually a good question, Anthony, that I hadn't considered. Is it just straight up or is it against the spread straight out?

Well, Prii, the main peni is is just straight up. My picks in the Herald are both ways I keep track of my record straight up and against the spread.

OK, and how are you doing in the Herald? Because you brought it up. Yeah, we were talking about this. Yeah, the same.

I went fourteen into my straight up picture, the same in Pappi and in the Herald against the spread. I think last week I went I think nine and seven any time I'm about five hundred against the spread. I'm happy.

Greg Cody doesn't realize is that he releases his pick in the paper on Thursdays. And if you're competing with him in Popeye and really need to beat him in a week, you could just make the same picks or you're not supposed to you're not supposed to do that.

Oh, I hate to think that because Christopher knows that he's actually OK.

You're never competing for you're never competing for the top. So I've never really have to worry about your picks. Really haven't I won two championships in a row.

Yes, I was just making a joke. Go ahead, Billy. And I tell you a story of something similar to that that I did once. And it was the rudest thing that I've done to someone. And I did it just to be annoying. So you're saying that you can see on his newspaper who it is that he's picked and you could theoretically pick the same or the complete opposite of him just to kind of just makes it it just makes it easier for me knowing where he's at.

OK, so I don't know if I've told the story before and if I have it, I'm sorry, but one time someone sent me, it was like a big Powerball thing or whatever, and you guys can kind of see where this is going. It was a big Powerball drawing. It was like a couple hundred million or something like that. I was like Powerball fever. And someone sent me a picture to show me that they bought Powerball right for the week.

So then I went to the gas station. I saw the picture and I played the exact same numbers and I took a picture and I sent it to them. And I go, we're in this together.

Oh, so let's go. That's so I'm sorry we lost.

Really, I guess if you guys were to hit every. No, they're not going to be that mad because there's probably some ridiculous amount of money.

So but that is just such a funny I remember when I was like this early in Dallas, the the it was like. I've got to like one point seven billion dollars that everybody was playing the Powerball, like they ran out of Powerball tickets like 60 bucks, I never played and then, like, nobody won. It was just like.

Hate the light, it always felt weird seeing those billboards I just said, nine hundred and ninety nine million likes clearly over a billion dollars.

So I drove I drove by a gas station and I don't play that often. Right. But the Florida lottery, it appeared to me it looked like it was like one hundred twenty five million or something like that, like a couple of weeks ago. So I'm like, you know what, like I'll go and I'll spend a dollar and, you know, I'll get quick picks or whatever and see if I win. Ravon Pumping gas, what's the big deal?

So then I got to check my numbers the next day and I see that it's not one hundred twenty five million, it's one point to five million and there was a little decimal in there. And when did we start doing decimals in the lottery? Because I was totally thrown off here. Like I thought that this that I was going to have like this life changing hundred twenty five million dollars and like not that one point twenty five million dollars in. I mean, but it's not as plain.

That's what you get at the taxes. You probably get like five hundred thousand after taxes on the right. Anyway, figures, half local hour, a lot of talk to the big zui.