Christian Yelich, An Insane Sports Weekend Recapping CBB, Fury/Paul, Russ Wilson Postmortem And More Plus Lottery Ball Drama
Wild sports weekend and we talk about all of it. College Basketball Saturday was insane with a bunch of upsets and buzzer beaters. Baseballs new rules are complete chaos. Paul vs Fury, PFT and Big Cat talk about how bad their teams suck and more(-). Who's back of the week including LIV Golf and Billy almost found a bone in the East River(-). Brewers outfielder and MVP Christian Yelich joins the show to talk about the upcoming season, our lifelong bet with him, the funniest times he's been ejected and tons more(-). We finish with the lottery ball and we have a winner(-).
Who Is Back
Big CatLIV Golf will never be a team sport because golf is inherently individual
My four-year-old son Chris walked in the other day and he was like, dad, can we watch the ACEs? He's a Big ACEs player. I don't know why they thought like, golf is not a team sport. No. It's never gonna be a team sport. Ryder Cup is countries, America. People are watching for America on that one.
Big CatI will bet on Will Zalatoris in every golf major until he finally wins one
Will Zalatoris on the leaderboard. I was like, God fucking damnit. This is the year for sure. This is, I will bet him in every major until he wins a major. That is a guarantee.
Billy FootballThe East River is full of prehistoric bison bones dumped by a developer
Dirty Water Don... he's found a bone. He found a jawbone of a steppe bison, which is just a prehistoric, gigantic bison. He found the jawbone in the East River. So that means that it is true. There were tons of bones dump there. It means that they're sniffing in the right place.
PFT CommenterSam Hurd was released from prison early to serve as viral marketing for the movie Cocaine Bear
Sam Hurd has been released from Federal penitentiary... after serving a 10 year sentence for distributing cocaine. Timing is very suspicious with the release of Cocaine Bear. A lot of people are saying that this judge might have taken some money to do some gorilla marketing for the movie.
Recap
Big CatThe college basketball chaos on Saturday was triggered by Fran McCaffrey's stare down with the referee
I think Saturday we got the chaos all because of Fran McCaffrey's stare down. It was from that point on the day, just went off the fucking rails. There's nothing like a good old fashioned coach just staring at a referee so close and neither one of them was gonna walk away.
PFT CommenterMLB pitch velocity will decrease by 0.02 mph this year due to the new shot clock rules
This guy Corky knows his shit. He is projecting right now an average decrease in pitch velocity this year of 0.02 miles per hour. Whoa. Because the new shot clock rules. So yeah, keep that in the back pocket. We're gonna see slower fastballs this year.
PFT CommenterKeith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from his cat, which is why he's messing up player names
Keith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from living with his cat. Oh. That's why he's messing up names. But I mean, is it really a mess up? Because Chaz Chisholm [Jazz Chisholm] is just a Hall of fame name.
Big CatI would rather be a grumpy, triggered sports fan after a loss than be numb to it
I absolutely let my team's success dictate my mood. I was very upset, grumpy, mad... people should be applauding the fact that I'm a grumpy triggered bitch after my teams lose. Because I could easily just remove myself... but I don't. You'd rather care way too much than be completely numb to it.
Big CatThe Bears should consider trading both the #1 pick and Justin Fields to maximize draft capital
The Bears Trade, the number one pick. Okay. The Bears also trade Justin Fields. Then you're loaded. Just have like eight first round picks. The Eagles were able to load up because they were able to, to take advantage of a cheap contract with a quarterback. What if we just strip it all the way down and get all the picks and have all the Cap and Caleb Williams, Drake May coming up.
PFT CommenterLosing three Super Bowls in a row is better than winning one and being irrelevant for 49 years
Losing 15 Super Bowls... this is kind of a mini dynasty you get to go to. Like, just think about how fun Super Bowl week would be. If for the next 50 years I said that your team can win one Super Bowl, but the rest of the 49 years they won't go to the playoffs. Or in the next 50 years, your team can lose 15 Super Bowls. I'd take 15. That means you have 18 months of pure joy in your life.
Big CatNathaniel Hackett's biggest mistake was trying to be Russell Wilson's friend instead of his coach
His biggest crime, Nathaniel Hackett was he walked into a situation where he just wanted to please everyone and he wanted to please Russell Wilson. And he wanted to kind of be his buddy, not his dad. That's where you get first time head coach. Right? You don't come in and you're not gonna lay down the law.
Billy FootballJake Paul purposely lost to Tommy Fury to make the rematch more profitable
The conspiracy part of Twitter... they were saying that Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. I think the storyline's better for a second fight... because no one would want to watch another one if he just beat him.
Interview
Christian YelichRobot umpires will have unintended consequences like calling strikes on balls in the dirt
I don't want robot umps. No. Because I think there's gonna be a lot of unintended consequences with that... there are a lot of breaking balls that'll be in the dirt that'll clip the bottom of the strike zone technically. They'd have to figure out a better way to do it. I don't want robots.
Christian YelichBunting to break up a no-hitter in the World Series is acceptable
If it's like seventh, eighth inning, I don't know... but in like a World Series playoff game... you kind of have to. It's the World Series. Anytime it's a playoff game. It's when it's like 10 nothing and a guy's bunting, it's like, what are you doing right then? But in that [World Series] situation, you have to.
Christian YelichCatchers are the biggest psychos in baseball because they stop projectiles for three hours
I think there's different tiers of it... but catchers, yeah, they're crazy. Who would want to crouch for three hours every day? Just stopping projectiles. Getting hit with bats and foul tips and all kinds of things. You guys are crazy. I wouldn't wanna do that. Any catcher in the league is a different brand of psycho.
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