EP 8 The Punishment

In this episode of Gentleman's Agreement, the hosts discuss their recent bachelor party trip to Ohio. They talk about the fantasy football punishment they did at Cedar Point and their experiences at the amusement park. They also discuss the NBA playoffs, the PGA Championship, disc golf, and their dining experience at a restaurant. Overall, they had a successful and enjoyable weekend. Welcome back to another episode of Gentleman's Agreement, this is episode 8, The Punishment. I got a great episode for you guys today, as always, we have our guest. Yep, Jared is back in the flesh, and we go over the bachelor party. We went down to Ohio for Cliff's bachelor party, and the title, The Punishment, very fitting, because we did our fantasy football punishment down there, so that was a real hoot. Talked about Cedar Point, disc golf that we did down there, and then we move into the NBA. We discussed the playoffs, they're heating up, no pun intended, and might have a couple sweeps on our hands, we'll have to see, so NBA and NHL getting spicy. Then we talk about the PGA Championship, Jake watched a lot of golf this weekend, so he gives us an overview of that. I call it a professional breakdown. Some would say. And then we move into the Tigers, which are a lot less professional, and give an update on them, and finish with a little CDL update. Dee, any thoughts? Well, as always, gentlemen, you know my final thoughts. Sit back, grab a bite to eat, maybe a drink, maybe a Zargonaut, and enjoy the episode. All right, gentlemen, first order of business, we're going to talk about the bachelor party, we'll do a little review, Cedar Point, how that went, our fantasy punishment, and some disc golf at the bachelor party. So, dude, overall, very, very, very successful weekend. I would say, I mean, you just had like a solid lineup back-to-back, shout out Craig for putting all the festivities together, found ourselves in that little Airbnb. I do have one gripe, he did not get an Airbnb with a griddle. That is true. While we're on the topic, I wish the bathroom was a little bit larger, or that there were maybe two, but alas, four guys. We had nine guys, one bathroom. Yeah, nine guys, one bathroom. After Buffalo Wild Wings, not a good way to start off the Friday. That was a little bit interesting, but we had poker night, we had Avalon going on, all the meanwhile we were watching some hockey, it was great. And Friday night we had to get a few more supplies at Meijer. Oh, yes. I feel, okay, first of all, I thought Meijer was a Michigan-only brand, and then you realize they have branched out to the dreaded state of Ohio a little bit more. But we get there, and we have to assemble the costume for Danny's cousin, Brandon. We were trying so hard to, you sent Rex and I on a mission to find like string, a Sharpie, and something to draw on. So we were looking for cardboard. A, we couldn't find cardboard, so we just grabbed like a $2 canvas. Yeah, we got yarn. I have a whole thing of yarn left over still. We cut off maybe a foot of it, so don't know what you're going to do with that. We looked so hard to find a Sharpie, Rex and I. We looked all around the craft section. What did you guys go get? We got food supplies. Yeah, we were on breakfast, dude. We had to get pancake stuff. So you guys went out and got all of the breakfast stuff, and Rex and I for like 10 minutes couldn't find a Sharpie? I think you found a canvas in the time we found. But I can't let you just fall on the sword alone, because we then helped for probably 15 minutes and couldn't find a Sharpie either. It's true. And it wasn't until we found a worker who, after asking, they said, do you know what the DIY section is? And there was a section labeled huge, like seasonal looking section, just labeled Sharpie that had every single size and every single color of Sharpie imaginable. We probably walked by it four times. So that was brutal. Yeah, that was brutal, dude. That was rough. I'm pretty sure she was the only one working in that entire buyers. Yeah. I didn't see another soul in there. I didn't either. I didn't even see hardly any customers. But overall, I would say the costume turned out fantastic. That was head and first punishment. D, would you like to lay out kind of like what this punishment entailed, what the punishments looked like, and what the outcome was? So we had our first, you know, inaugural fantasy punishment. For those of you that don't know, we are all in a fantasy league, the three of us, with some buddies. And we'll talk more about that when we get closer to football season. But my cousin Brandon did take last. So before the year started, we came up with two punishments for the loser, and they got to pick between the two. One was run a 5K in a costume, and the other one was do the blazing challenge. Well, he's not one for spicy food, so he chose 5K in a costume. Problem is, life's a little too busy. He's not going to be able to make it where all the guys can see him run. So he said, I can't really do the run either. So we said, hey, we're all going to be together for a bachelor party. What better way to celebrate than to slap a punishment in there too? So we had the winner, Ben, buy a costume, and he picked a, the best way to describe it is the llama-looking skin from Fortnite. Where you have the, like, unicorn. It's like a pool floatie around your waist. It's a massive blow-up unicorn with a princess hat he was wearing. Yes. And then it was just the full fit all the way down, head to toe. So he wore that in the Cedar Point. Shout-out Cedar Point. They loved it. They didn't care. Security guards were amazing. We were freaked out when we were walking up, because, like, this cop walks right by us, and all of us were side-eyeing this guy to see what he would do. And then we got up to, like, the metal detectors, and the lady, like, gave us a look for a second and then realized what was going on after, like, all the people behind us were, like, shouting, like, fancy football and, like, talking about it. And she was just like, ah, you guys are good. So, yeah, that, uh, the supplies we got Friday was the sign. We made a sign to explain that he does not identify as a human being. That he does not identify as a unicorn. He actually just lost at fantasy, because you need to clear that up. It was so funny, because, so we get to the parking lot, and Daniel stands on top of his car. All of us are circled around Brandon. And Daniel is, like, giving a Lord of the Rings-style battle cry speech. And he is like, this is the day of the inaugural punishment for fantasy football. And Brandon has this necklace to a sign that says, I suck at fantasy football. And we are walking to the gate, and we pass by this family, and there's, like, maybe this five or six-year-old that turns, looks at the sign, and it's a little boy. And he's like, I suck at fantasy football. I could not stop laughing. It was so funny. But, hey, go ahead. We got lots of great, like, when we were in the park, lots of great reactions from people right off the bat. There was a group of girls that wanted to take pictures with the costume. A 15-year-old girl hanging out with a 25-year-old man. Yeah. I mean, whatever floats your boat. Hi, I'm Chris Hansen. But Brandon was talking, like, he got lots of good interactions, like, while we were on rides and stuff. He'd just be walking around, talking to people. Props to him. He did a good job with that. He took it like a champion. You can't really sit down with that costume, so. And that was, it couldn't have worked out more perfectly where, A, thousands of people got to see him in that costume. And then, B, he didn't have to deal with it because he didn't ride any of the rides. So my favorite interaction was when we were going on Vile Raven and we're walking up the steps because we had the Fast Pass bracelets on. And we were walking up and we see Brandon, like, pacing back and forth, talking to some lady, and she's taking a picture of the sign on his back. And all eight of us are, like, screaming, like, yes! It was so, so funny. But, I mean, props to him. He took it like a champion. It was awesome. We had to meet in the middle because he didn't do any physical labor of running, so we decided that three hours would be a good amount of time for him wearing that. So he wore that, you know, from the second he put it on, three hours, until about lunchtime. Then he had to carry it around the rest of the day because I guess we're keeping it for memories. But he did do the punishment. The deed is done. And now we can look forward to next year. That has set the precedent. I mean, we had a pretty wild group there. We had a unicorn. We had, I mean, father boo-boos. And then we had George Washington. So for those of you that don't know, he's been wrecked, got a new cut, new flow, new perm, and he looks like he's straight off the quarter. So that was very interesting. But hit us with a little cedar point review. How was the fast passes? The fast passes were nice. It did feel good to look down on other people as peasants as we walked up to the front of the line every time. You spit on somebody as you were walking by. I mean, you said peasants. Oh, yeah, 100%. As a child. We got to ride the big rides multiple times, which is something you definitely cannot do without the fast pass. That was cool. The food. That's true. We also got the fun day bundle. We got three meals in total. Fun day bundle with the fast pass. It was expensive, but how often do you get to do a bachelor party at Cedar Point? I think we got our money's worth out of all of the bundles. We utilized it all. We utilized it all. We got three total meals, which is a ridiculous amount of money. The barbecue was maybe a small portion, but everything else was... Solid portions and decent food, actually. Panda Express was huge. Oh, yeah. It was like a regular meal at Panda Express. He was dishing. I mean, he was... No small servings there. It was fantastic. Overall, what would you guys say was the best ride we rode that day? Magnum, hands down. No. Getting my mind realigned. Whose seat did I push down? I had to ride with a rando. That was so weird. And then two obnoxious kids behind me. Just screaming. Was it the Maverick? Joshua. Boo-Boo's. Boo-Boo's was behind me, and the entire ride, he is screaming like the Aragorn spear. Or was it the Thaoden? It was Thaoden at the Pelennor Field. And so I have Ben next to me, and he is crying laughing, and I can't stop laughing. And Boo-Boo's is full scream, and it was hilarious. But Millennium Force is a force to be reckoned with. I think it's a tie. Steel Vengeance has grown a lot on me, between Millennium Force and Steel Vengeance. So I think they both were fantastic. We did the two of them combined five times, which is a lot. But hey, we were all, and we all stayed in pretty decent health. No one like puked. We all just kept getting on the rides. We said we were going to be done when we ate Panda, and Cliff convinced us to go again on Millennium Force and then Battle Raven, so there's something wrong with us for sure. But I had a blast. I had, it was a ton of fun. It was a good time. We also, after that, the next day on Sunday, we had to hit up Disc Golf for old Clifford. Cliff, we broke up into teams, right? So three on each team, so we had nine guys there. And Cliff was on my team, and we're on like the second hole. Yep, it was the second hole. Very early in the day, and we had intentions of playing 24 holes. So we're going to be out there for a long time. There's a lake on the second hole. Cliff drives it. I think it went in the water his first one. Oh, yeah. It went to the right. It was barely in the reed. But it was water. Right. It was what? It was Brandon that threw his first drive straight to the center of the lake, and then they took Cliff's, which is right on the water. Yeah, because we're playing where we're lying. So Cliff gets a big stick, fishes his out, we play his. His second throw, it's got to be one of the worst throws I've ever seen Cliff do. That's because it wasn't y'all's second throw. He threw it one more time up onto a hill, and then he went to throw it out of the trees. Right, right. Yeah, so we were actually a good amount of ways from the water. That's what's even worse. Sorry, Cliff. But he goes to flick this thing, and it just sticks on his finger, something fierce, and goes directly left into the middle of the lake, not even close to a shore. This is the size of water. You know, body of water here. It wasn't no mini pond like you'll see at Mott Park. It smelled so bad. The lake smelled so atrociously bad. So luckily enough, it was floating, because those of you that haven't played disc golf, disc golf discs pretty much sink. But his luckily stayed on top and was afloat. But you had the best view. I think, yeah, you definitely had the best view. You were standing with him. Yeah. And he just... What was your initial reaction? What did he say? I was just like, wow. We had captains, right? So like Craig was the captain, Cliff was the captain, and Boo was the captain. Cliff, Craig, and Boo are insanely good. And so you're expecting Cliff to carry, right? And then you see your captain just sending it into the lake. It's not a good vibe. Well, the funny thing is, is that so we all, all of us finish up on hole two. And it wasn't a really like solidly mapped out. So we were trying to look for where the next hole was on three. So we're looking around, and we do this little lap around. And I come to the top of the hill. And it's been like 10 minutes since I've seen Cliff and seen what his decision was. And Craig were gone. Yeah, we didn't know where they went. We were just trying to find the third hole, pop up on the hill. I look out from the side of the trees. Cliff is shirt off. And he is in the middle of this lake, swimming through this absolutely... It's brown water. It is the most disgusting, like it makes Flint look like a dream. And he is fecking this disc all the while, like a black sedan, like pulls around on the other side of the lake and is like parking. I was like, they're watching this kid swim to get this disc. I was like, what a sight this is to behold on a Sunday morning. But wasn't that one of the discs we literally got him for a special part? And that was the reason I think he went and got it, because Craig put together a little gift for him, you know, with a couple of disc golfs, which is nice and everything. But I think Cliff felt obligated to go out and get that one. What disc was it? Was it a driver? It had to be like a fairway driver thing. Like a long or mid-range. Was it the package? I would never throw something like that if I haven't tested it before. Yeah, especially not on a water hole. I would not have went and got it. I would just probably cut my long disc. And what he shouldn't have done, like he said, because it actually had gone over halfway. He could have walked over and gone to the other side. But a little review on how we did. I'm not going to lie. I did not realize Boo-Boos was our captain. And the funny thing is that Craig and Cliff, I could see, I thought you were our captain. Folks, we didn't take a single one of our captains throws in the scramble whatsoever. Maybe one. Maybe one or two. Oh, we did because he split the trees. Remember that fourth hole and it was just straight trees? And you hit a tree and I hit a tree and he just sent it right through. Yeah, and then we used my second shot. It came time because whoever's disc you take, they throw the next shot. He made it like six yards with a hammer throw and smoked a clump of branches. He's like, he just goes trudging in there. That was funny. No, he was our captain. Rex was the last pick in the draft, which is hilarious. Yeah, Mr. Irrelevant. George. He outperformed, I would say, most of us. But we ended up, I mean, it wasn't a bad day for us. We used a decent amount. We ended up playing 18. We lost to your team by one stroke. I realize the reason is Cliff hit a 180-foot putt. Yeah. Or else we literally, you guys, two more strokes, we're probably tied or BB'd. My captain came back from the dead. Was I on the same disc? Did he block it in? Was it 180 feet? It was a long way. It was the farthest throw into a basket I've ever seen in person in my life. Yeah, same. And not even close. It was a long way up. And he flicked it. It was beautiful. Yeah. I don't think, we were over with Ben and Craig's group. But we all heard the chains and immediately were like, hey, no one's near this. We need to look up. And it was like George picking Cliff up in the middle of the woods. He had dried off at that point, thankfully. Do you smell? A little bit. Yeah, that was a crazy shot. But it was a fun time. Good friendly competition from the boys. But what happened after that? Are you talking about us going to the restaurant? No. Oh, geez. I was eating a burger and I was like, I didn't think this thing was smoked. No, that was just tobacco smoke that was sitting on my burger. Yeah, you did not even eat that. It is very rare that I don't finish my food. I had maybe three-quarters of my burger left. And ate the soggy fries. You chose the lesser of two evils. I ate the soggy fries. They didn't have, I don't even know what I wanted to drink. They didn't even have it. Dr. Pepper. Yeah, they didn't have. I thought it was Coke. No, I had Coke. Or Pepsi or something. No, it was root beer. I wanted some root beer. And they didn't have it. And they were like, it's Dr. Pepper. And then I drank it and it sat there for like 20 minutes. And there was a dispenser 10 yards to my right. And I asked Leah, I was like, can I fill that up? And she's like, no, customers aren't allowed to do that. And then she just left without refilling my empty drink. And I was like, okay, this is the beautiful Ohio hospitality that I've always heard of. Quick flash, I have done that at the Flint B-Dubs before where I've gone and just filled up. Yeah, but B-Dubs is chill about that though. They're cool. And they're just like, it's all good. Yeah. Yeah, that restaurant was tough. Probably the worst fries I've ever ate in my life. I was thinking the same thing. Because what did you order that you had to wait on your food for? Or was that Rex? I ordered a wrap, a pulled pork, barbecue pulled pork with mac and cheese in it. It sounded like it was going to, I don't know, it might have sounded repulsive at the moment. It sounded bussing. It sounded good after a long day of disc golf. We hadn't eaten since, I don't know. And the waitress goes, yeah, all right, cool, moves on to Rex. Rex goes, I'll have the mac and cheese something or other. Mac and cheese burger. Yeah, yeah. And she goes, oh, sorry, we're out of mac and cheese. And I'm sitting and I'm like, that perked my attention. I was like, half my meal was mac and cheese. That's interesting. So I say, is mine going to be good? And she's like, oh, yeah, I think we've still got enough for you. And I look at Rex, I'm like, sorry, brother. Well, the one thing, Rex got totally shafted on this entire lunch. He orders like some type of fish or like chicken. He changed it up and got barbecued chicken. Barbecued chicken with a sweet potato. And the lady comes back. It is like 4 o'clock at this time. No, no, no, it was like 2 something. It was 2, sorry. The lady comes back, she's like, yeah, so the sweet potatoes won't be ready until 4.30. It's going to take you two and a half hours to get a freaking sweet potato out that door? Like, holy smokes. So then they bring out this chicken. And it is, no lie, a half-cooked, just small piece of chicken with sweet baby rays just smothered all over it. Like, how much barbecue sauce is on that? And the sweet potato, that looked like just orange squash. That was the worst. And the reason we went to that one is actually our second pick. We went to another one that was going to be a 40-minute wait. Hindsight, we should have stayed there because we ended up waiting longer than 40 minutes to get our food anyway. I know. Well, the funny thing is I walked in there and I asked about the table. And not a very busy place. And I'm standing next to two tables that all you have to do is you have to move them two feet together. Like any other restaurant. And the lady looks at me and she's like, oh, that'll be about 45 minutes. And I looked at the tables to my right and I was like, yeah? Put these two together? She's like, no, sorry, we can't do that. I was like, I hate this state. This sucks. Can't do anything in this state. Can't do anything in Ohio. The only thing I can do is eat a 40-minute disco. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, and the punishment. The punishment, yeah. It's the best thing to ever come out of Ohio, if I'm being honest. Yeah. But overall, I mean, fantastic week. Yeah, again, shout out, Craig. We were chirping you earlier, but it was very nice. Very well planned. Oh, absolutely. And it was a failed episode in which we did a trivia that Brandon had provided. So it will not air ever on this podcast. But Brandon did hit us with a trivia session on Friday night. It was a pretty good one, too. We were all stumped, to be honest. Yeah, we didn't get many. And the three of us had already been through it. How many dimples are on a golf ball? I think 336. Hey, there you go. Hey, I'm going to remember that. You could have said 700. Hey! I tell you what. I'm looking forward to, because the last weekend, or the weekend before, excuse me, was the bachelor party this upcoming weekend. And all three of us are going to be there. It's going to be the real deal. Our boy Cliff is getting married. Getting hitched. Yep. Super excited. They got like a kickball game they got going on. Super stoked. I think it is awesome. I feel like they're competitive, too. So maybe it will be like bride against groom family. I think so. That would be awesome. All I know is that... Are we all team bride? Yeah. All I know is that when I walked up to the shower that they did, and Emma walks up, and she's like, you know what you're wanting for the rehearsal dinner, right? I was like, a jersey, right? She's like, yeah. Again, this wedding is about to be awesome. I think it's in her parents' backyard. Even better. Going to be sick. So, yeah. North Carolina, it's a vacation. It is a vacation. We're going to have a good time. Memorial Day weekend, baby. Yep. So, weekend, you guys are heading out. Friday, the wife and I are heading out. Saturday morning, we're going to fly down. Might be a little late to kickball, but I don't need the brothers to hold it down for us. We need the reinforcements. And maybe the bride's team might be smacking us. Yeah, we'll be all right. We got some athletes. Yeah. Booze. We got Craig. Actually, quick, quick Craig thing. So, this man, this is a perfect segue into softball. Let's talk about softball. This man, I follow his wife on social media. She posted just the other day, maybe last Tuesday, he poked a grand slam for his church. Smoked the ball. Just crushed it. Didn't even have to run out of bases. He didn't make it the first before he walked back into the dugout, right? Okay, so we're going to invite Craig because we needed numbers on Thursday. This man had two infield flies. Two infield flies. He had a nice hit on one of them, though. He sent it yard. You didn't send it yard. Not over the fence, but to left. Oh, speaking of hits, I had a ripper to left. This was the most ridiculous. So, we are annihilating this team. Like 10-0. They are bad. And I rip a line drive to left center. Now, for those of you that are Barcelona sports fans, there is an individual known as Frank the Tank. If you don't know who that is, look up Frank the Tank. Or don't. His doppelganger is sitting in left field. Well, mind you, there are four outfielders. So, he's in the left center. He's just placed there. We're still talking about a hefty, hefty individual. This dude makes the most agile barrel roll, snow cone at the top of the glove. As he's hitting the ground, he rolls into the fall. Comes up and he's still holding the ball. I was like, that is the most athletic play he has ever made in his life. If you got a catch, it's a home run. You're just going to walk around the bases trying to stand up and get the ball. And I was like, there's nothing I can do but hit the catch. It's funny, we were all actually involved in this play. Craig was my third base coach. I was standing on first. And there's like no outs. So, I'm like, okay, do I go, do I not? I'm watching. I'm like, okay, I'm about to run to third. He's going to drop that. And I saw it. And Jared's like trying to tell me what to do. He's like, no, stop. Wait. Stop. Like, doesn't know. And as that man caught it, I saw on the barrel roll, like the yellow of the ball in his glove as he's rolling his entire body over. And it was still in the glove. And I'm like, I got to get back to first. And that man just pops up and guns you out at first. Hey, man, we had your wife on second base. That was pretty epic. She made a pretty solid stop. First hit of the game. Perfectly fields it in. Turns, looks at Ben, one of the boys that have been on the podcast. Over the top, makes the tee. Seven yards to the left of Ben. The best part is he didn't move. He looked at her like, are you serious? And didn't even go after the ball. I throw him directly at Ben. I was pitching. And those are the first two batters. And, like, we played this team before. Like, we're probably going to win. It's going to be fine. It's going to be a chill game. First two batters, a couple errors. And then the heart of their order is coming up. I'm like, uh-oh. I'm in danger. And then we proceed to win like 15-0. Speaking of all that, this team has about every character you can come up with, including Pete Wheeler. But that wasn't on their team. Yeah. This kid just looked like a big old farm boy. Yeah. That was funny because he was standing on second. Nobody, no outs. No, there's one out. He was on second. Nobody on first and third. So there's nobody pushing him. This person hits a grounder that's batting. Hits a grounder right to me. And he sees me. And I'm in the third baseline. And instead of tagging up and, like, baiting me, he, like, sees me and runs even faster and tries to be like, I'm going to outrun him as he's standing still in the middle of the base path. I just tag him and I get a double play. I was like, what was your strategy there? He was trying to hit stick you. Drive the ball loose. I'm like rugby in college, man. Don't you know? Right, right. Yeah, it was a fun game, though. We did come out victorious. More importantly, the whole gentleman gave a quick update on Tuesday. I was unable to attend. We had a big game Tuesday. Yeah, believe it or not, we have a rivalry in church softball. We've found a way to manage that. And we play on this team. And they're pretty dang good. We just joined the league, like, two years ago, but they probably won every single game. Dan fought a guy. That's a story for another time. This is where the rivalry stems. Essentially, this man is too good to, if he doesn't hit a home run, he doesn't run. Actually, the best part is he has a courtesy runner. And he chose this time. He thought for sure they were teeing off on us. Like, they were killing us. One, because our pitcher was bad that game. Not going to mention any names. And two, they were out by a lot, crushing home runs. So he thought for sure he was hitting a home run. And this guy didn't like his hit. I fielded it at short. Made a quick decision to not throw it to Jared, who was playing second. Tagged second. Then I see he's still walking to first. So I might have possibly run to first and not touch first base, but tagged second. Not touch. Tagged. It was a nice, solid tag. Forceful check slash tag. I knew he was there. We'll say that. Yeah. And to say the least, he didn't like it. He wanted to fight me. But he literally screamed, while he was pissed, that his knee just had replacement surgery. So I found out, you know, if you're going to fight me, you probably shouldn't tell me your biggest weakness right away. But. I mean, that is where our rivalry stands. The best part is we are probably the two best teams, so that makes it a rivalry team. Two best teams, and we're undefeated. We are the best team. Yeah, I think we lost the first two times to them. And that was the first year, yep. Yeah, and then I think we beat them the last two times. Yeah, we beat them every single time since. But, yeah, that's kind of where the rivalry stands. So game five. We need a little Javi Baez on the team, you know what I'm saying? A little fire. I'll start swinging that garbage. Yeah, but anyway, so we got that game on Tuesday, and I get a text from Dan earlier in the day. You know, like, you want all your players there. You know, you want to win. It's a big game. He texted me that he's dead. It is not a pretty picture going on in his apartment. He is sicker than a dog. So I was like, this is a bad time to get sick. And I immediately, one of my first thoughts was, I wonder if it was that rat bag restaurant we ate at two days ago. I had the same thing as Ben, the same exact sandwich, but I didn't have calamari. Probably not the best choice to eat calamari at a local pub in the center of Ohio. Yeah, it was bad. Probably wasn't even calamari. But anyway, so he's out. I got sick. But we still fielded a pretty good team. James brought a friend who was really good, so that was nice. And we ended up winning a close game. I think it was 14-12. Yes, it was. I had your mom up there with me. Yeah, yeah. It was a good game. I can't remember anything. There was one, the fall ball. You remember the fall ball? Yes, yes. We were up. Hey, who was umping? The guy Daniel forcefully tagged. Yeah. We were up by six. It was like 12-6 or something like that. It was 13-6. Yeah, you're right. And the max you can score is six runs in an inning. And we've been in control the whole game, like probably going to see this one out. And they all of a sudden start just ripping the ball, cranking it, you know, getting hits. We made a few errors, whatever. No big deal. And then one of their good hitters comes up and smokes one down the left field foul line. And this thing hooked. And from my perspective, that pitcher, which is not a great POV, it was a good foot or two foul. And I thought for sure it was foul. And all I see is the guy standing behind home plate with his arm just pointing to the middle of the field saying, burr, burr, you know, he runs his mouth a lot. And I was just like, no shot. Even our left fielder thought that it was foul. Well, both his knees and eyes don't work. Not only does it go out of bounds, but then it also rolls into the weeds. So I, as the third baseman who is going to be the cutoff, I'm running out to be the cutoff. But as soon as I see it roll into the weeds, I throw my hand up. And for those of you that are listening, when you throw your hand up, that rule means ground rule double. That means that all people on base should advance one base, and the batter should be automatically just advance the second. Everybody else scores. But we throw out of play because we don't have fences. Yes, we don't have fences. James, our left fielder, puts his hand up. Their umpire, this dirt bag, says nothing. And they're just running around the bases. And I can hear, and I'm just like, whatever, dude. I'm done with this. And James is in left field screaming, it's out of bounds! It was so funny. Did they end up going back? No, they didn't call it. Are you serious? Yeah, so when we end that inning. I wasn't there. Yeah, dude. We get in, and my dad is sitting there, arms crossed, dad style, standing right behind the third baseline. And I knew he stood there the entire time, and he's watching. And I looked at him, and he was like, that was so out of bounds. My dad's like, I did not move from this spot. And I could see, yeah. Yeah, but that was real. So they ended up getting six runs in that inning. It was 13-12. Then we got, shout out Caroline. She had a clutch RBI hit to make it 14-12. And then we just got them out in the last inning. So we ended up getting the win. But that was really the only, it was a pretty civil game. Pretty fun, good-natured game besides that one foul call that week. All right. I can't believe they didn't go back to second. Because even if he doesn't rule that, you can still say, hey, it went out of bounds. It's a ground rule double. And they have to go back. Yeah. I mean, we did that. Didn't we just do that on the Thursday inning, where we had to have guys go back and field fly or something? Yeah, it was Josh's, I think. Yeah, because Josh hit. Instead of putting him on first and everybody else was rotating the base, they just, like we had Josh come back and whoever just scored, everybody come back and yada, yada. I mean, we could have avoided all the tassel because it was the same result. Josh was just not on first anymore. Yeah. It's like, just move on to the next thing. Yeah. But I think that's. But 2-0 in the week. We've got a game tomorrow. Yeah, we are undefeated on the season. Game tomorrow. We are actually, Craig and I have already decided, we're not going to pitch tomorrow. We need someone to take up the mantle so they can pitch for next week because we will be gone all week. Nope. You're looking at the wrong. No. I am. We can talk to Jake's little bro and he might do it. Hey, I'm all-time third base. I like my little hot corner I got there. Yeah, we've been doing good. You and I have been playing short in third. I pitched a little. Jared played some short. Yep. Y'all are a brick wall in the infield. Something, dude. I've been off this year, but Jake's making up for my errors. It's the fields we're playing on. That's what we'll blame it on. Yeah. But. After O hit Ben in the head. Off the bounce, it wasn't his mistake. True. True. Yeah, Ben's going to need to wear a helmet next time he plays with us. So we've had an interesting couple, like week and a half, of sports in the sports realm. It's been like playoffs and championships. That's all. There's no. And baseball. And baseball. In which, you know, we've had some pretty interesting series. We've had the Celtics move on from a pretty intense 76ers series to they now play the Miami Heat. And then we also have the Lakers playing the Denver Nugs. In which, if you told me, like, at the beginning of the playoffs, who's going to be on top in this matchup, I was like, Lakers and Celtics. 100%. I would have said Celtics Nugs, but yeah. Okay. What have you guys seen as you guys have been watching these series? So I've been watching the Celtics Heat one a little bit more than the other one, and Jimmy Butler. He's Hemi Butler now. Hemi Butler is a dude, and he's probably the most likable player in the NBA right now. And even last year at this time, he was very likable. Just, like, everything he does is super cool, and he's got swag to him. And just, you can't hate Jimmy Butler. I think he got, I mean, he was already famous, but I think he got big famous when they went to the championship in the bubble. And Jimmy Butler kind of carried that team. And you kind of thought, you know, that year was very unique with COVID. Couldn't bring them back when everybody's full strength and full arenas. And they went into Boston and won two games pretty handily. It wasn't like the last second they hucked up a three and won the game. They had to even come back. Like, in the second game down the stretch, they were down by eight or nine, I think, at one point in the fourth quarter. And no problem on the road. Yeah. And in the third, they were down by 12. Yeah. It was quite a handle. They won. Yeah, they won by, like, six points. Three possessions. No big deal. And it's like, does he have Jimmy Butler? Yes, who's an all-star. But other than that, they're just, like, one of those teams where it's, like, you may not have three all-stars like you did with, like, the trio squad back in the day with Wade, James, and who's the other guy? Bosh. Bosh. Yeah, Bosh. They are just, like, a team that meshes so incredibly well, and it's just pure efficiency on the floor. Did you guys know Kevin Love is on that team? The Heat? Yeah, he's got some gray in the beard. I did not know that. I did not know that either. But shout out Duncan Robinson. Yeah, Michigan man. He broke the Heat three-point made record. He passed LeBron. For the playoffs, yep. Yeah, sorry, playoffs. That's important to note. Yeah, but anytime you're passing LeBron in any sort of record, that's a good thing. LeBron's obviously a big name in the NBA. Was there another record he broke? Was it the single season three record or something a couple years back? Yeah, I can't. Which is insane, too. And the funny thing is, like, he was good at Michigan. He wasn't this good. Yeah. I mean, he's in the final four teams. He just scored 22 points to lead his team to now a 3-0 lead. He didn't lead the team, but he was second in points. You know, in the NBA. Yeah. Which is. Very, very impressive. Yeah, so shout out Duncan. I think even Coach Beeline tweeted about him today. Nice. He got a tweet from Beeline. He deserves it. I would say probably. I have been watching more of the Nugs and Lakers because. Give us a rundown. Honestly, it is the most beautiful thing to watch the fraud. Yes, I am the LeBron James hater. Get absolutely diced by this massive, gumpy-looking white dude. From where is he from? Is it like Czechoslovakia or something like that? I think it's Serbia. Serbia? Even worse. And it's like he just makes the most, like, ridiculously, like, falling down, falling backwards shots that just so gracefully go in. And he is absolutely carrying the Denver Nugs. And it is so funny to watch LeBron struggle. Him and Murray. Yeah. Isn't Murray tearing it up, too? I watched the second game. And the Heat were, I think, winning. And it was like 101-103. Or it was close. You mean the Lakers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Lakers were beating the Nugs, I think. It was like 101-103. And LeBron was, like, 0-for-6 from three-point range. And he kept shooting. Yeah. And Jamal Murray, Jamal Murray, hit, like, three straight dagger threes. And then, oh, I'm forgetting his name. But they had another guy hit another three. And they were up by. The Lakers? No, the Nuggets. The Nuggets. And they had another guy hit a three. They were up by 12. All of a sudden, LeBron's still hucking threes. And then he's turning it over to AD. And I was like, man, like, this is brutal. In that time, which I turn on because I was switching between that and the NHL playoff game. Yeah. LeBron tipped a pass from Jokic. And when he tipped it, he got closer to Jokic. And their bodies might have touched. And LeBron flopped all the way over to the sideline, knocked a drink over, and got a foul call. And this is, like, the five minutes that I turned this game on, this happened. And I'm texting Bennebott. I'm like, dude, this is why I hate the NBA. Because he cares a little more about the NBA playoffs. He was like, well, you just gotta, you know, like, I'm surprised they let that go. Of course, it's the one thing I see. The very next play, Jokic is defending LeBron. And LeBron just, like, stuck his arm out to get post position like any other post player. And Jokic threw himself into the camera people in the paint. And he got a foul call. And I was like, I cannot stand the NBA. The flopping is, like, ridiculous. But LeBron can truck a referee. He, like, trucked him, and he had, like, his whistle in his mouth. Sliced his lip open. Did he? Yeah. The ref looked like he took, like, three punches right to the mouth. He was bleeding all over his face. Well, he was running down the court. Yeah, he was looking back underneath the basket because he was getting back on defense. Smoked Scott Foster, the ref. And they had to do, like, a full injury timeout for this ref. Because he's got blood, like, all over his face. I was like, that's a man right there. You were talking about Murray going off in the second half of game two. He carried that momentum into game three and put up 30 points in the first half of game three. I was watching that over at your house, Jake. This dude, I think he missed maybe two shots the whole half. He was, like, 14 of 16. He hit a magnet for the ref. 30 points. It was ridiculous. He only ended, I think, with 33 or 35 or something. He didn't do much in the second half. But when you put up a 30-point half, you can pack up the night and go home. You did your job. Speaking of that, gentlemen, game four is tonight. Yep. The Lakers are down 3-0. I'm looking at the injury report. Nuggets, no injuries to report. Lakers? Anthony Davis and LeBron James are game-time decisions. I think they're giving up. I could see the NBA pulling some strings and heavily calling this game in favor of the Lakers tonight. Because I was actually looking at, like, stats for this game. The Nugs have never been to a NBA championship, and they've never swept anybody in the playoffs. So they can kill two birds with one stone tonight against the Lakers, which is, like, America's, like, self-proclaimed team, much like the Cowboys. That'd be so funny. Yeah, definitely. I want to see Jokic on Instagram live with all the guns. Just in solidarity with Joss. How many points did you say Murray scored in the third game? I'd say he was 30 in the first half. 30 in the first half, and he didn't end it much more. He had 37 in the second game, too. Porter Jr., Michael Porter Jr., I was trying to remember his name. He was the one who hit another three. Have you seen the little white dude that's popping off for the Lakers, Reeves? Yeah, Austin Reeves. Yeah, that's the problem. That's his popping off one. Austin Reeves. But both series gentlemen are at 3-0. Are we thinking – you're saying 3-1. Are you thinking a 4-0 sweep? I think the Heat are going to take care of business. The Celtics are dead. What, the Lakers? What are the Lakers doing? You said they were down 3-0, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Nuggets will win. Nuggets will win. So you think sweep? You think the NBA? I think that the NBA is going to pull something. I think the NBA is going to pull something. Adam Silver is going to view the script and change the script. Slip the rest. Scott Foster, maybe a little 20 or something like that. Yeah, I think the Lakers are dead, too. I want to take the sweep. I want them to be dead so bad. I think the Heat get the sweep, too. It's going to be weird. Have we ever had both sweep? I don't know. I'm sure it happened, but probably hasn't been in a while. And I am rooting so hard for Jimmy Butler. Like, I like the Nuggets, the Joe Kitchen stuff, too, but it would be insane. That would be like a historic run, too. Yeah, Jimmy Buckets and Duncan Robinson. They were in the play-in game, weren't they? Yep. They actually lost their first play-in game. Yeah. So they were on the brink of elimination. Because weren't they going to play the Celtics earlier if they did win it? I think. Yeah. I think that's what my brother was saying, is if they would have won that first play-in game, it was Celtics in the first series. So the Celtics should be thanking whoever beat the Heat so they could survive a little longer. Yeah. I mean, I'm getting into it because I'll watch the NBA playoffs. NBA is my least favorite professional sport by far. But we watch it to give reviews for the people. And because playoffs are somewhat more intense, you're not seeing 162 to 150 in scores. But, yes. You've been watching a little hockey? Yeah. Did you talk about that at all? I've been paying more attention to the Panthers because I just think this run is hilarious. They literally beat the Boston Bruins, who just had the best regular season ever. Yep. And then they were down 3-1 until the Bruins came back and won. And then they beat the Maple Leafs like 4-1, I think. Yeah, it was light work. And now they are up 2-0. Carolina. On Carolina. And I watched the first game. This was the day I was watching game two of the Lakers. And they went into overtime. Fun fact, all the hockey games have gone into overtime in these conference finals. There's been four of them. They went into first overtime and they scored. And the game is in Carolina. The Panthers scored. So all the fans are just filing out. About ten minutes later, after thousands of reviews, they called the goal back for goaltender interference. So picture all these drunk, pissed off Carolina fans that now just found out their team is still in it. And they're going to drop the puck and play again. And they all have to leave and find their seats or stand wherever and cheer their team on again. Yeah. Now on top of that, they go to quadruple overtime. Which is over two full games being played. And the Panthers still win in the fourth over. Brutal. Really, this is game four. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Which I think is bad on the NHL. They did away with shootouts in the playoffs. And I also think it's absolutely ridiculous to make these athletes go through this. You need to drop to four-on-four in maybe the second overtime. Three-on-three in the third. I mean, someone's bound to score in four-on-three. Yeah. I like that they went away with the shootouts. But they definitely need a little bit more brutal change. Because not only is playoff hockey like a different animal in itself from the regular season. But, like, you can't have these guys who are trying to play a full series just killing themselves on game. Exactly. Just drop it to four-on-four like they do in the regular season. And someone's bound to score. And if you want to complain that the other team, you know, you got shafted because the other team, you know, scored on you, don't go to overtime. You had three periods to try to beat them. It is funny, though, how we go from NBA in which guys are flying ten feet because they can't catch an elbow with, like, the knee. And you've got guys in hockey that are, like, just bashing each other's brains out on the boards. I lost a brutal hit in the first or second round. I tell you. The guy actually had to leave, which is bad for hockey. Yeah, if you have to come off the ice, it's like, oof. There's a reason why half those youths got no for two front teeth. If the wings get good again, if the wings get good, I'll pay for our hockey tickets and we'll go watch a game together. You heard it here first. I think a hockey game with the boys would be sick. And I've never been to a live Red Wings game. I've never either. I've been to the, what is it, the Flint Firebirds. I've been to the K-Wings a couple times. Oh, man. I never got to go to Joe Louis. That'll probably be one of my regrets in life. Never made my way to the Joe Louis Arena before they didn't host them anymore. And I rode the dragster before it died, so we don't have our crosses there. Speaking of other sports that are going on, I watched the PGA Championship, a little bit lighter of a sport, not so intense and hardcore. But it wasn't. It was intense. We had multiple storylines. Not only did we have Brooks Koepka, live guy, winning the PGA Tour, so that could potentially look out for some of the headlines there, but we had probably one of the biggest stories of the entire tournament. We had a gentleman named Michael Block. Google PGA Championship, his name will probably be over top of the winner Koepka's last name because you have a gentleman who is not, he, like, made the cut, but he was never intended to. He is not, like, a professional golfer. He is what they consider a club pro. So this homeboy works at, like, country clubs and has the office where he comes out and he teaches golf. So he'll teach guys, like, the game of golf itself, but he's not really known for getting in the actual, like, it's almost like Bill Belichick stepping in the linebacker and saying, hold my beer, I got this kind of deal. That's a wild comparison. Yeah, like, he'll coach, but it's one of those things where it's like there's a reason why coaches coach and a reason why players play. And there's a storyline. So it started on Thursday, correct? Yes. So it started on Thursday, and then it went until, like, whatever, Sunday or something like that. Michael Block had plane tickets for him and his crew that came out there for, like, Friday night, Saturday morning because he was like, I'm not going to make it past this first cut. I'm just staying here to watch some fun golf, and because since I'm playing in it, I get a free ticket. So he had no intentions of staying until Sunday. Well, not only did he make it past the first cut, but he made it all the way to a top-15 finish on Sunday at the PGA Championship, golfing with Rory McIlroy, and he hit the best shot of the entire tournament, which was a slam dunk hole-in-one. That is insane. I saw the hole-in-one, and I've never seen the ball just go straight into the hole. It was like a hoop. I don't understand how that did it. Like, where does all that energy go? How does that thing just not bounce out? Bounce out, yeah. I guess the pin has helped it a little, or the flag, but... Yeah, there's times where I hit, I don't know, like a four-yard putt, and it hits the lip of it, and it's like, nope. But he can hole it out from 100-plus yards. What did Jeff say in the chat? His brothers were there? Yeah. His twin brothers that were sitting right at the tee box when he hit it. That would be so insane. Because he didn't even realize it. The people freaked out. He was like, really? It wasn't until Rory went up and gave him a hug, he was like, oh, maybe it actually did go. But he didn't believe it until he actually walked up to the cup itself. Now, I thought I read something. Does this mean because he got a par on the last hole, he qualified to play it next year again? I thought I had heard that. I'm not still a very much new golfer. We're novices. We are novices at golf at best. I'm not entirely sure what it is that he qualifies for. I'm interested to see, though, if Kepka that won it, since he is a live guy, he's going to be allowed to play in these other tours and majors that they have, like the Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup is the one where it's like you golf for your country. So it's like that one baseball league that happens right before the season or right at the start, that one game. The World Baseball Classic. Yeah. So that will be kind of fun to see. If he does come back, he'll have a great storyline. Everybody on his side, no matter if he does good or bad. He's a relatively older guy. I like his name, too. Michael Block. Block. That's awesome. Yeah, I didn't really watch it, so I don't have many comments on it. That's a cool story, though. It was all over social media. Reminds me of the guy at the Masters, the junior pro or something. Yeah, the guy that was 19. Then had to go back. Had to go golf 36. All these storylines. But we want to do Tigers update. We want to mess around with some CDL. Let's hit Tigers first, and then we'll go to CDL. For our Tigers, it was a really interesting point of the season that we were heading into these last couple weeks. The Tigers were playing better, and our schedule was softening up. We thought, maybe we're going to start sweeping some teams. Maybe we'll get above 500. They've done decent, but the last series kind of left a bad taste in our mouth. They lost two or three of the Nationals, and the Nationals are not a good team. Not a good team at all. To make it even worse, one of our former players that was around the team for quite a few years, Jamer Candelario, he kind of went off and got his revenge on the Tigers. He had a home run, some doubles, I believe, and just was on base all weekend. Very annoying. No, the last three series have been underwhelming for the Tigers. We had a five-game homestand against the Mariners and Pirates. We went two and three in that. Very poor performance against the Mariners in general, and then you have the Nationals series. We win one out of three, and we're playing KC tonight, but KC is one of the worst teams in baseball, and I don't believe we're going to sweep them because we've just not performed against bad teams. Yeah, and to make matters even worse, Vegas has us as an underdog tonight against the Royals, so that tells us they don't respect the Tigers. I wouldn't either. Yeah. We're bad, but we're not as bad as KC. We put a bet on them to win tonight, so root for the Tigers in the money line. And I guess a little division update, as bad as the Tigers have been doing recently and just kind of ho-humming through the season, nobody has separated themselves. The Twins are still, I believe, like three-and-a-half to four games in first place, and the Guardians are still even behind us by a game or two. They're behind by half a game right now. Yeah, so it's still a cluster in the central. I mean, you don't want to look to win in the division yet, but, man, you would think the Twins would have separated themselves by now, but they're really not. Yeah, whoever wins the division is getting bounced in the first round anyway. Yeah. The Tigers have potential. Like the way Erod's pitching, the way Lang is pitching, the way Riley Green is hitting, we should not be losing two of three to the Nationals. Didn't we lose two of three? Yep. Yeah. We should not be doing that. As much as it is, I know the Tigers are bad and you can't get your hopes up too much, they still need to be playing better because this division is very poor. They still kind of have our attention, though. They still are sitting around that .500, which I guess is kind of what we've been asking for. Mediocre. Unlike the Royals, who are playing tonight, who have a pretty bad record. Yeah, I mean, if we go out there and sweep the Royals in three games, boom, I'm fully back interested. Yeah. They need to take two of three or three of three from the Royals. Yeah, right. And I think that's it for the Tigers update. A short update today, but that's because they lost our interest again. Do you want to hit the quick CDL and then we'll wrap things up? Yeah. So online qualifiers are already over. The season is kind of wrapping up rather quickly. Optic just broke a CDL record for going 5-0 twice in a row in qualifiers. So they're looking good. They're, once again, going to be the favorite to win the major. They still haven't won a major yet. This is their last chance to do it before champs, so really hoping the boys can go out there and get it done. They played Florida, though. Our boy Krejci's team. Yep, I don't watch much, but I do watch when Florida plays Optic for the chance to maybe troll Dan if they win. And they got bounced 3-0. But it actually wasn't terrible. They played decent and put up a decent fight in all the rounds. The hard point was only, I think, a 25-point difference. The search was one or two, one or two rounds. And the control was a big 3-2. Yes, it went to rent a round five for that. So it was a fairly decent showing from Florida. But, yeah, they're still in the league of their own, Optic is. And it was funny. I was reading reviews that Florida might ego chow Optic on Fortress, which essentially means Optic's the best Fortress hard point team. There's no one close to them. And Florida's been playing well on it. And they actually did have in the map set to play Optic on the fourth map, but they didn't even make it to it. But good news is, Florida and Optic, the way things lined up, to start the major, they play each other in the major on Thursday. So maybe Florida, you know, makes some more moves. I forget who gets the first pick. But if Optic gets the first pick and Florida allow it to go through, they'll definitely favor Fortress. And that would be pretty funny to watch. And the winner of that, they're going to get smacked. Plays my thieves. The loser. The loser of that plays my thieves. Because the thieves won a major this year, but there's a curse going around right now. After you win a major, you are absolutely terrible in the next qualifier. Ultra won the third major, they went like one and four. Thieves won the fourth major, went one and four in the major five qualifiers. Optic won the Madden curse. Wait, has Optic won a major? They have not yet. Jared, you got that one. Hey, Florida has as many majors as Optic this year. That's true. I wanted to mention in the Search and Destroy game that I was watching, it was four to four or four to three, one of the two. And they're starting a round and it's like, okay, maybe they can do this. Maybe make Optic sweat a little bit. Round starts, players are sprinting to their positions. All of a sudden in the kill feed, you just see green on green with a nade symbol in between them. I don't know who it was, the players that did it, but they team-naded each other and then Optic took the round easily and went up, I believe it was five-three, and at that point it's kind of over. I was laughing watching. I was like, yep, this is why you are bad. That's why. Florida, they're kind of figuring their team out, but it's a little too late. So, essentially what's coming up is this weekend will be Major Five, Thursday through Sunday, and then two weeks off, or one week off, and then they will be in champs. So, yes, very exciting times to wrap up the CDLCs and hopefully Optic can win one or the other. But, yeah, we appreciate you all tuning into the podcast again. It will probably be another two weeks before we drop the next episode, so stay tuned. Any final thoughts there, gentlemen? I am all set. I got nothing. I got nothing. Wonderful. Hey, it was a pleasure catching up with you guys. Yeah, it's been a hot minute. So it will be another two weeks, but we will catch up again. Appreciate you all listening. Make sure you like and share. And with that, have a good week. ♪♪♪