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The episode begins with Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla celebrating the Texans' recent win over the Colts, particularly praising the defense’s strong performance. They also note that Anthony Richardson was benched after the game.
Next, the conversation moves to the NFL trade deadline as the hosts discuss Stefon Diggs' recent injury and wonder if the Texans will make a move to bolster their roster. Scott expresses concerns about the upcoming matchup with the Jets, specifically criticizing Kenyon Green’s performance as one of the worst guards in football.
Switching to basketball, they recap the Rockets’ opening week, noting the team’s 2-2 start but emphasizing that they could have easily been 4-0. They commend Jalen Green for his excellent play so far this season.
As always, the episode wraps up with the "Horses Ass of the Week," "Tips of the Cap," and "Scumbag of the Week" awards, along with a new "Special Comment" segment for extra insights. This episode provides a thorough mix of analysis and humor for dedicated Houston sports fans.
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Introduction and Host Background
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to Born on the Bayou Sports, a Houston sports show made for Houstonians by Houstonians. Join Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla every week as they break down the latest in Houston Astros, Rockets and Texans news. Tim's a former minor league broadcaster and Scott has written two books on the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Baseball Highlights: Cy Young and World Series
00:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, if probably Eric could get it figured out, it would make things a lot easier because he was that guy everybody was counting on this year to be a Cy Young candidate, take that big step forward, and help anchor this rotation with Progmer. Since he's come to Houston, we can look at the development of guys like Carlos Correa defensively, Jeremy Pena defensively. We need to know about his fragments. Certainly, I think I'm better than average third baseman.
00:00:56
Speaker
And now you're putting teams in 3rd and 8th, 3rd and 7th, 3rd and 9th. Now Hill comes to Will Anderson. Pin back your ears, let's go. So if you're by you, born and bred, or just like spending time of the age, sit down, relax, and stay Houston strong.
00:01:23
Speaker
Welcome all my friends to the song that never ends. We're back and better than ever here this week I'm born on the bayou sports. Welcome back in Scott. Yeah, I don't know but better than ever is a Term I would use but you know, hey, you know got to take the good with the bet you know last week we started off the show with we discussed Paul Goldsmith we discussed we discussed Freddie Freeman and I'm not going to say Freddie listed, but it certainly seems like he had his ear to the ground on our discussion. And he has so far through four and a half games put together and all time world series performance. So Scott brain teaser time. Is this enough? Is this what he needed? Yeah, I think he pushed his ticket the moment he hit that walk off grand slam. Now, obviously a walk off grand slam by itself is not going to get you there. I mean, you know, Joe Carter, correct?
00:02:18
Speaker
He what? You know, Joe Carter, correct? Right. Yeah. He, he had to walk off and, you know, in a ninth inning of the world series, drove in about 14, 1500 runs, but obviously is the totality of his career. Wasn't nearly enough. Yeah. And then for Freddie too, it's not just the grand slam, right? Four homers through the first four games of the postseason. Um,
00:02:40
Speaker
and for the World Series part of me, he's, he's definitely put his stamp on this one. And he's, he's kind of made this the Freddie Freeman World Series, at least so far. Right. I think he's the odds on favorite to be the MVP if the Dodgers win the World Series. Yeah. yeah and As we stand now, the Yankees are winning game five. So, you know, if things go as they, as they have been, they will be returning to the Los Angeles and, uh, stranger things have happened literally. So who knows?
Fan Behavior and Sportsmanship Issues
00:03:10
Speaker
What were your thoughts on the, um, incident? I guess we could call it the fan Mookie Betts incident in right field. Um, you know, the, initially they were, it seemed like they were going to let those fans return for game five. And then after some, I guess public outcry, the Yankees reverse course and took the tickets away and gave them to some, you know, cancer patients, which I think was good. But what, you know, was that, that's the most New York thing ever is literally like fighting Mookie Betts in the stands.
00:03:39
Speaker
Well, not only that, but the reaction to it after that. And I think you were the one you sent me basically the the whole reaction to the fact that everybody's considering them a hero. I mean, it's just a it's is nuts. It really is. I mean, i can I can understand, you know, there are two random assholes in every city. But whenever you have the whole other fan base going like, yeah, I mean, thats I'm sorry.
00:04:08
Speaker
ah crazy. I mean, I am all for making it hard to make the play on the visiting team coming into the stands, right? That's your job as as a fan of the home team, right? But the moment he makes the play, that's it, right? Like you're not trying to hurt the guy, you're just trying to make it harder for him to make the play. Yeah, I mean, there's there's a line. and And there's no harm in sitting there and saying, hey, you know, I know what y'all are trying to do, but y'all crossed the line.
00:04:38
Speaker
And to me, if you've done that, of course, we're going to get to that kind of overall point later on in this podcast. Just stay tuned for that one. But to me, the fit there to see, to treat these guys like folk heroes is just incredibly nuts. You know, it almost reminds me of, do you remember that whole stink between Auburn and Alabama where, was it Auburn that had the trees?
00:05:03
Speaker
I think the Auburn fan, uh, poisoned the Alabama. fraud Okay. Okay. I couldn't remember which way it went, but basically the, uh, the Auburn radio station was like, we're just appalled that you did this. I mean, it's the stupidest shit that you could ever do. So at least, you know, somebody in that moment stood up and said, no, ah this is, this is wrong. No, absolutely. Right. There's.
00:05:31
Speaker
There's probably two fan bases in Major League Baseball who don't know that line. And it kind of just so happens they're playing each other in the World Series. Yeah, possibly. but I think probably Oakland Raider fan might be worse, you know, if you go back to those days. Oakland Raider fan is probably an LA Dodgers fan, though. That could be. That could very well be.
00:05:55
Speaker
i Don't know but like at Oakland a fans. Yes, I'm saying if you're not an a fan anymore ah Where are you gonna go probably I don't know I I hate the Dodgers man, and I really I don't even mind the Yankees as much as like most Yankees fans Well, I think you remember when the Astros were there They're throwing ice at him like dudes were like peeing on people's legs in the urinals and stuff like that It's just like some called for yeah, I think My daughter's boyfriend came over and we were watching, I think game one, because we actually saw that the grand same live. And I think what we both landed on is the fact that whoever wins this, their fans are going to be insufferable. And yeah and whoever loses this, their fans are going to be insufferable. So I mean, it's literally a nowin no win, no lose scenario. Again, I'm going to be interested to see what the ratings and everything are at the end because
00:06:52
Speaker
Like, yes, you've got two major markets. I'm sure that'll give you some, some boost, but let's look at the ratings in the middle of the United States. Cause I'm intrigued. What percentage of just random baseball, you know, how many twins fans are watching this game? How many St. Louis Cardinals fans or Kansas city walls fans are watching these games? Cause I'm, I'm curious. Like I have little to no interest to watch. And it's two years in a row for me. We're like.
00:07:19
Speaker
You know, Astros last year lost to Rangers and the ALCS and like I had no desire to really watch those World Series games and this year we we lost early and I was just done. So I don't know. I'm the outlier on that sense, but I'd be intrigued to know like what percentage of random baseball fans in middle America are watching this World Series. I think there's some intriguing things about it. I mean, I think obviously the being able to see show you a tiny going up against Aaron Judge.
00:07:48
Speaker
Although obviously Aaron judges laid a big fat egg until tonight. He did hit his third home run the postseason tonight, but. All in all these, they're just not very likable on both sides. Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. Couldn't couldn't agree more. I show Hayes a fun story during the regular season. Mookie Betts a great baseball player, but there's just. It's too much bad blood with me between
NFL Performance Critiques
00:08:17
Speaker
both those teams.
00:08:18
Speaker
um I mean even even to this point Brian Cashman bringing it up at the start of the world series of like we would have been here sooner you know if we hadn't been cheated by another team like Completely forgetting that you got fucking busted the same year man like just because we banged trash cans and you used Apple watches Let's not forget that you did the same exact thing So it's just so frustrating so like I hate both and then you got Joe Kelly on the Dodgers And I just like I don't know if there's a more punchable person immediately baseball than Joe Kelly um Like, that's a guy that, you know, for charity, i'd I'd hop in the boxing ring with Joe Kelly for charity, for a charity event. Yeah, it used to be AJ Przyński, but I think, yeah, I think Joe Kelly's taking that crowd. I was going to say, though, on on a good note, my parents came over to to give a Halloween gift to Ann, and they found a box of 1995 tops, like a special edition.
00:09:16
Speaker
And so I started opening them tonight because, you know, I know the whole thing is like, yeah, an unsealed, you know, a sealed box. Yeah. this That era doesn't really hold up though, unfortunately. yeah collectors So to me, it's more exciting to open those up and see like, Oh, I know this guy. And I don't, I don't remember that guy. You know, and so it's kind of interesting to see how many guys you actually remember. And I've only opened up about five or six packs, but I've stumbled onto about a half dozen Hall of Famers.
00:09:45
Speaker
Yeah, there's I mean How many how many packs in a box 2025? Yeah, I mean it's at least you know, it's not 30 so makes sense but speaking of Guys you would or would not want to step of the ring with I would not want to step into the boxing ring with Anthony Richardson But I also don't want to rely on him to complete an NFL pass because this guy might be one of the worst NFL quarterbacks I've ever seen and Texas played closer than it should have been, but man, they made him look bad. Yeah. So for those of y'all that don't read the stat sheet, 10 for 32. Now, imagine this. I think Josh Allen's numbers were actually worse. on a good word But and we've produced two of the worst completion percentages since 2000. Well, and he was a mere nine for 19 in the opener. So, you know, two games under 50%. Now,
00:10:44
Speaker
To be perfectly fair, Tim, I think there were probably at least three or four drops in that game. So, you know, yeah, his wide receivers didn't necessarily help him out, but we saw what happened. You saw what happened with ah Shane Steichen this week. What did he do, Tim? He pulled the plug on him. Yep. He was going to Joe Flacco, which... I think that had more to do with his press, ah his post-game press conference, where he admitted that he was tired and took himself out of the game.
00:11:12
Speaker
Well, that and at halftime, the the announcers, I don't know if you got your watch red zone, but we were watching, you know, the live feed and the announcers at the half are like, man, they need to pull this guy and they need to put in Joe Flacco and they they didn't. And that ended up probably costing the game. You know, especially considering the state of the Texans offense right now, right? Where in that game.
00:11:37
Speaker
digs get, um, yeah, digs gets a, you know, a non-contact injury. We all know what that means when he goes down and, you know, now you're playing this game, no Nico Collins, no digs. Um, you know, tank Dell is your main wide receiver and let's hope we can run the ball. Well, right. You, you finally have the balls to pull green out at left guard.
00:12:01
Speaker
And it lasts like the best drive of the game and then Patterson gets a concussion and back to green we go and we're back with him again this week. And so, I mean, I don't know if one person can drag offense down more than than green is right now, but Kenyan green is fucking killing this offense, man. Well, the other thing about that second half, and this is what gives me, you do this better than I do. So can you do an old Hank Hill? You know, dang it, Bobby. not Dang it, Bobby.
00:12:31
Speaker
but that's Yeah, that's better than I can do it. I was saying that multiple times in the second half. So the first one were third and two. So we've been running the ball over their gut. You know, we've been running Joe Mixon. We've been doing the short passing game, the quick passes, so that, you know, green doesn't kill you. So third and two, here's my play. I'm going to run a long wide receiver screen to John Metchie.
00:13:01
Speaker
with Xavier Hutchinson as my only leading blocker. How did that one work out, Tim? I'm going to assume it didn't pick it up because Red Zone did not show that play. That was about a three or four yard loss. And that was a Kaimi Fairbairn field goal, which you know initially gave them the lead. So then we get the ball back. And I don't know if you saw this play. So we have first and goal on the six, with Joe Mixon just absolutely running it down their throat.
00:13:30
Speaker
I mean, we're stealing their soul. Next play, first down, Joe Mixing trips. It becomes second and goal from the eight. So next thing we're going to do is we're going to do a wide pitch play to Joe Mixing where it's a bad pitch, kicks off his shoulder pad, goes to the Colts. Luckily they called him down by contact because as it would have been a touchdown and 26 23. So.
00:14:01
Speaker
When you're up three points and you're trying to run the clock out, why are you running a pitch play? I just, I don't get it. And as good as some games that Bobby called last year, I haven't seen it, man. Like the pitch play is ah is a staple of that Niners offense. I hate it.
00:14:21
Speaker
I'm with you. It takes way too long to develop and our offensive line isn't fucking good enough to get that push to let him have five, six yards of open field to work with, right? We don't have our big Nico Collins, good blocking wide receiver out there. We've got. Mechie and Hutchins and Dell. Okay. That's not exactly the wrecking clue crew leading the way.
00:14:42
Speaker
And our best blocking tight end and Brevin Jordan is out. So why exactly are you running these plays that require good lead blockers out in front of you when you just don't even have that on the roster right now? It's non-existent. The feeling I'm getting is that he's basically setting up his head coaching resume. And so he's calling these plays at portions of the game where it's like, man, if this works, dude, I'm going to look like a genius dude. And it's like, no.
00:15:11
Speaker
You've gained 70 yards, basically just playing smash mouth football, quick running plays, not slow developing ones. And Joe Mixon just basically dashing them the whole time. I've got a crazy idea. If you started a drive on your own 20 and you've made it inside their 10 running plays a certain way, keep running them that way. They're working.
00:15:36
Speaker
Why are we all of a sudden going to go like, well, now it's time for me to pull a play out of my ass so that I can show this, you know, when I'm going to head coaching interview and say, look at the genius of Bobby slow. No.
00:15:47
Speaker
and I feel with that, he's costing himself coaching interviews at the end of the day. And it's not just Sloak that does this, right? like this is Every NFL coach feels like he's got to outsmart everybody in the room. like This kind of thought process cost the Seattle Seahawks a Super Bowl when they literally are running it down to see ah the the Patriots throats all day with Marshawn Lynch. They get the one yard line and they throw a slant, right? I mean, this is this is the same hubris that we're dealing with of I've set this play up all game. I know that we're running it down their throats, but because of that, they're going to overcommit. And I know just if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right. If you're hammering a nail in and that nail is is going in perfect, you don't need to bring out a screwdriver at any point. It's a nail and you have a hammer. You've got the fucking tools that you need. You don't need the screwdriver because you don't have a screw. You have a nail. Yeah. And who's who is making? He can he can just fill in the contract.
00:16:44
Speaker
Ben Johnson in Detroit. He can fill in the contract, you know, of how much he's going to get. He can name his price. He can name his destination because what he's figured out is, look at all this talent I've got. I'm just going to use the talent. I'm going to let them show off and I'm going to score 50 fucking points a game. And look at that.
00:17:05
Speaker
And let's be honest too, right? Like the odds are, if you're getting hired as a a coach in the NFL, you're not going to a winning situation. You're going to a team that had a bad season that needs to recuperate and put some things together. Why not try and win a Super Bowl? why ah Fuck your film resume, right? You've got a collection of talent. Use it. Blow the fucking scoreboard up. Win football games. I understand this team is six and two right now.
00:17:31
Speaker
But like I don't feel like or offensively we've played like a six and two football team. I don't feel like we've ever just dominated a game from start to finish offensively. And we, at many points in the season, had the weapons to do so. There's no reason why when you had a healthy Knicks, Dell, Diggs, Brevin Jordan, and ah the tight end, um ah Schultz, that we're not lighting it up.
00:18:02
Speaker
Well, I get it. Bad starts happen. The Minnesota game happened and then, you know, Green Bay. But but realistically, this is not look like a 62 football team offensively defensively. Well, this thing's a monster. And I think going into season, we said this defense is going to be a monster, but we also thought the offense would be a juggernaut. And I feel like the main thing holding it back right now is Bobby slow. It.
00:18:27
Speaker
Well, not only that, but you mentioned the two games where they didn't get off the good starts, but I think in the other six games, they scored a touchdown or a field goal first drive of the game. So Bobby has that you know that that plan of that first 10 to 15 scripted plays that he actually does a pretty good job on. It's what happens after that. It's what happens in the third and fourth quarter.
00:18:51
Speaker
when the other, when the defense comes back with a response to what you've been doing and you don't have a counter punch. What D'Amico Ryans has done consistently, every game he's figured out, because even if you look at say the Minnesota game, Minnesota gained, they scored most of their points in the first half. D'Amico Ryans figured out in the second half, okay, here's what we need to do to shut these guys down. And he's done it.
00:19:15
Speaker
And he's done it, you know, the fourth quarter has been our time. Our defense is time to shine. And you look at Texan's history, that it has hardly ever been the case. Even during JJ Watt's best days, it's hardly ever been that you're like, okay, we're going to hand a slim lead to the defense. Oh, shit. Here it goes. I mean, now you're like, slim lead the defense. Fuck yeah. Let's go. Right. Hey, you need, you need 80 yards in two and a half minutes and you have to get a touchdown.
00:19:45
Speaker
Okay. Good luck. You haven't done it all game, right? So that's, I mean, obviously fantastic there. and And Scott, if I, if I gave you odds or, you know, futures odds right now on who will be a head coach, the NFL first, Matt Burke or Bobby Sloak? Uh, just based on the way this season's gone, Matt Burke is going to get interviews.
00:20:10
Speaker
I think so. But the problem is with Burke is that people are going to see it as D'Amico Ryan's running the de defense. I think Bobby is going to get an interview. Someone's and depending on how he is in that room. Yeah, but you you would be a bad GM to not do your due diligence and bring that guy in realistically, right? The problem is, is that you know everybody wants to skew towards offense these days. And so I think Bobby is going to get more interviews. And so the odds are that, you know,
00:20:41
Speaker
somebody's going to look at it and go like, Hey, look what he did with CJ Stroud. And then, boom, he's got a job. I don't disagree with you, but I also think the 49ers defensive coaching hire tree is long and people continue to hire off of it. And I don't know. I truly see a scenario where, um, this defense puts up historic numbers this year. Mac Burke is gone and bull who knows? Maybe Robert slaw comes, comes and hangs out with his boy to make as a DC next year. I was going to say, speaking of, I think your biggest, I think Burke's biggest problem is Sala because yeah, he was from that 40 Niners coaching tree and look what happened to him in New York.
00:21:23
Speaker
but You can also if I'm Robert Sulla, I'll go in there and be like hey go look at what my defense did Yeah, mean pretty damn good defense in New York I was forced into a trade of Aaron Rodgers by my owner the guy's a nut job and he ruined my locker room And he kept forcing the owner to trade for more of his friends Yeah, it's a perception issue and and speaking of you know the Jets which we will actually be seeing tomorrow I don't know if you saw the line shift Yeah, Stefan Diggs caused the line to shift three points uh, the Texans opened up as point and a half point favorites. And now they're a point and a half point dogs, which I think is actually where the line should be because this game scares the shit out of me because you're basically, here's me. You're you're going to say you're going into a game where your, your weapon is tank Dell and maybe tank Dell and possibly, you know, if you're, if you're really creative tank Dell and
00:22:21
Speaker
you've got you know You've got your left guard. You've got your replacement left guard. He's still going to be in concussion protocol because I've never seen anybody clear that thing in three days. So you can either go Kendrick Green, who hasn't really played this year, or you can throw out the worst rated guard in football. Worst rated guard in football. I saw pro football's rumor here today, Tim.
00:22:50
Speaker
They said that some teams are actually inquiring about trading for Kenyan green. I saw and I think I had to pull off the side of the road because I was going to crash, you know, laughing so hard. you know When someone in the comments of what I was reading pointed it out, like, think of it from the Texans perspective, right? You need offensive line help. Guys, a first former first-round pick who's never stayed healthy. Maybe he's struggling with the scheme. Maybe I can get this guy in. Like, literally, Bill O'Brien traded for three cornerbacks with the exact same story, right? Like, this guy was a first-round pick. Couldn't say how Vernon Hargrove sealed stuff like it. Like, the Texans have made those moves before. Let's not, like, if we could get a sixth-round pick for Green, I would,
00:23:33
Speaker
and run to the fax machine to get that paperwork in. I'm driving him to the airport, man. I'm ordering him an Uber X, and we'll never see you again. Yeah, I don't think you're getting a sixth. I think probably the best thing you could hope for is maybe a pick swap, you know, maybe get a sixth and trade somebody a seventh, you know, and that's... I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm okay with that anything that gets this guy out of town because they keep giving him the job.
00:24:02
Speaker
And I just, I don't get it. I mean, first round pick, right? That's got to be what it is. Cause we, I mean, they pumped him up in camp. Everything out of Texas training camp was green looks like a first rounder. This is, you know, ready for a great year. You know, even we had, um, uh, Cody on. He was even saying that green looked better. Right. So.
00:24:30
Speaker
Every bit of media in the world was saying Kenyon Green looked apart this year. So I don't know what the hell is going on, but there's no reason this guy should ever play another down in football. But yet here we go again to a great pass for us, number one, on a ah sketchy fucking field that that that playing surface worries me just as much as anything else up there in MetLife.
00:24:52
Speaker
Um, yeah Aaron Rogers is basically playing for his NFL career at this point, right? Like he needs to win out to make the playoffs in that division. And like, what happens if he takes again, that's pretty much it. Aaron Rogers rides away and suck them. I see him coming out balling. Yeah, I think so too. And I think the thing is with green, um, mean watching the game was just surreal because basically what they said is not only did he get pulled,
00:25:21
Speaker
But he was sitting separate from the offensive unit. So basically like he was banished to you know sideline Siberia, where you're going to be over here just hanging out by yourself. Then and all of a sudden, you know they score a touchdown on the drive that probably where they looked the best, they had the whole game or mixing scores on a rushing you know touchdown, which was awesome. And that's the play that Patterson ends up getting a concussion on. And I just don't, i to me, I would have gone with Kendrick Green.
00:25:51
Speaker
in that moment. He was so bad last year. He was fucking terrible. But he can't be the worst guard in football. You already got that. Because he hasn't played yet. He was the worst guard in football last year.
Texans' Roster Challenges
00:26:03
Speaker
I just don't. Well, I'm going to get to this later. I'm going to get to this as later, Tom. I want to move on. But yeah, I think my question to you is,
00:26:13
Speaker
And obviously we've kind of danced around it. We danced around digs going down for the season with a torn ACL. He's done for this year as a Texan, which means that he might be done as a Texan because ah he's basically going to win your contract. So my question to you is if you had a choice and you could go out and acquire a wide receiver or an offensive guard, which one are you going? I'm going to go guard.
00:26:42
Speaker
because I know Nico is going to be back in a week or two. um However, I still want the Texans to go get a wide receiver. like I want both, realistically. You've got some draft capital to work with. um At this point in the season, you're not trading first-round picks. You're trading third, fourth, fifth.
00:27:01
Speaker
um You know if you look at what like to Sean Hopkins went for I mean Deontay Hopkins went for his fifth rounder Yeah, I believe right like and I guarantee you in hindsight um Had you known Diggs is gonna grow out you would go get Hopkins in a second, right? Like he's knows Houston. He's loved here um I think he would be welcomed back in the locker room with open arms I don't think Tennessee would ever send him here because it's in division, but I think hindsight 2020 you would have made that move now since then Deontay Johnson has been moved from Carolina, um, to Baltimore. And, uh, from what I've read, the Texans did not pick up the phone on that. Um, probably a little bit too expensive for them, but there's some guys out there, right? Like, um, anybody on the giant roster should be up for grabs. Well, well, I was going to say there's guys that are mentioned as available. There's one guy that to me, I would, would be a wet dream for me.
00:28:01
Speaker
but I don't think he's going to be available. That's Cooper cup. I think with the type of, the type of routes that digs was running, I think c cup is perfect for, he's a, he's more of a possession receiver. He's more of a guy that's going to go out there eight, 10 yards and make those kinds of catches and move the chains. And you still would have Dell and Collins to move, you know, to stretch the field down the field. There's guys like Mike Williams,
00:28:29
Speaker
who I know the Jets are trying to get rid of, but I don't know if Mike Williams really moves the needle you know for this offense. No, that's not something you're looking at. I mean, Slayton from the Giants, I think would be a nice pickup. He had 100 yards against the Steelers defense on Monday night football. Daniel Jones throwing them the ball can only go up from there. Fucking Daniel Jones cost me this weekend fan. oh Really, to be honest, to be honest, my my lack of checking my roster in the morning and leaving C.D. Lane on the bench really cost me against you. I played Scott this week at Fantasy for our listeners. Yeah. Took a dreaded L. Took a fucking bad L, folks. Well, but you put up some points. I did. I got i got an explosive team. Like when you look at the other the day, if I started C.D. Lane, you're toast. Yeah. um If I had started Kelsey over Evan Ingram, I might have, you know, maybe stayed that off a little bit. ah But yeah, I mean,
00:29:27
Speaker
Daniel Dimes. I even told you before that game, Scott, I'm relying on Daniel Jones to put up big points to make the Steelers go negative so that I beat you in fantasy, and it's the worst possible position you could be in in a fantasy world. And lo and behold, Daniel Jones sucked. Threw a pick six, didn't he? No, he didn't throw a pick six. He just threw a pick. And he got sacked several times, and he stripped sack.
00:29:56
Speaker
So other than that, he was fine. Danny dimes, baby. Danny fucking dimes.
Houston Rockets' Season Analysis
00:30:01
Speaker
But from going from things that sucked to maybe something that's a little underwhelming, let's talk huge to Rockets basketball. Because even though the Rockets come in at two and two, am I wrong when I say we should be four now? No, you're not wrong. And and I'll say this. I'll start off with the one ah huge positive from those four games.
00:30:25
Speaker
And that is that Jalen Green showed up all four games. First week of the NBA leading in points. Now there were some individual plays where you still kind of scratching your head going like, okay, what's he doing? But you know what? I think every NBA player has those there. I'm sure if you watch, you know, just oodles of LeBron James or Steph Curry footage, you're going to see, you know, moments in a game and you're like, dude, what are you doing?
00:30:57
Speaker
and And Jalen Green has us. But the thing is, what we always said about Jalen Green was, is that he had moments in the last three years where he just did not look engaged at all on offense and on defense. And the one thing I will say about him this year, especially in the last game, but even in games where he was maybe struggling for part portions of the game, he was engaged. And that's that's all you really want from him. Yeah, there were certainly times last year when maybe the shots weren't falling and he kind of just felt like Jalen Green just disappeared from the game. You know, he floated around the three-point line with Jack one up in a bad position and that'd be it. Where um the last four games, Jalen has pulled up points, yes, but he hasn't
00:31:42
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been hot from three all game. He hasn't been efficient at all times. And in those moments, what was he doing? He would create for his teammates. He would find a way to get to the line. um Fourth quarter of of the the most recent game against the Spurs, Rockets blew a 21 point lead in that game and it got close. And in the fourth quarter, it was Jalen Green that put the game away through a combination of Creating open looks for his teammates getting into the lane finishing getting fouled. I mean Jalen's first step is electric to me like he is He's looking like he could be a a Dwayne Wade type slasher with a better jump shot Yeah, I think If we're making this a sandwich, of course, we put a positive and negative positive
00:32:33
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um After the first half of the opening game, Sengoon has not looked good. I mean, that first half of that opening game, he was, I mean, he was rebounding, he was squaring, he was just, he was active on defense. And you're thinking like, man, this is all-star Sengoon. And the last three and a half games has not been that. No, I would say Sengoon has been part of the reason we're two and two right now, right? Like Sengoon.
00:33:04
Speaker
did not play well in the second half of game one and you know didn't play great defense down the stretch in game one and that allowed the pelicans to get back into it and then next thing you know um some man and um lamello ball just get unbelievably hot and can't miss and and you you drop one you should have won uh game three of the season against the Spurs You're gonna get when when Vinyama I get it good defensive player, but last year it seemed to me that those matchups and goon had a little something extra and he Outplayed when Vinyama multiple times and and this time around Did not have his best stuff now in the fourth game of the season he got an early foul trouble and that limited his minutes some but yeah, I I
00:33:52
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have been a little bit disappointed so far in Cengun. I wonder maybe as some of that is, is there running the offense to him a little bit less this year, seeing what Jalen Green has been able to do. and And I wonder if he's just not getting those same touches in the same portions of the the court as he was last year. Yeah. And so, and I agree with that. And I think to finish off the positive sandwich, um, I really like, you know, number one, Fred Venblee not only is a consistent performer,
00:34:23
Speaker
Just like Jaylen Green, there are moments in the game where like in the first game, he just, he went cold. But when you look at the stat line at the end of the game, he's producing, you know, double digit points. He's producing, you know, good assist totals, low turnover totals, you know, steel here and there. And from what we have heard, he is really mentoring Reed Shepherd and he's you know mentoring him hard, which I think is only, I saw, you know, we saw a little bit of him.
00:34:53
Speaker
I think in game, was it two or three of the season where he dropped two, three pointers? And i mean that and the first one was just you know sidestep, quick shot, boom. And you know it's one of those that wasn't even a swish. It was ah that perfect where it it just goes straight down. like rip It rips the net more. Yeah, and you're like, did that ball even go in? That's what I love about and NBA nets, where like sometimes they just don't even move if the shot's so perfect.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah. And so I think Reed Shepherd's got something. He may not have something for a while, but you're you're seeing glimpses of it. I think, and to continue on that compliment sandwich, I'm going to add in Amen. Amen Thompson has been really good to start this season. And what I've noticed, Scott, he's a little bit more confident in that jump shot. So I'm knocked down a corner three the other night. I texted you, bet the house. Amen. Amen's hitting threes. He hit a pull up.
00:35:52
Speaker
Mid-range jump shot, right? Like last year it was this guy's gonna get to the rack Or he's gonna pass and that was it right the jump shot was broken This year like he looks more like maybe like a prime Russell Westbrook Well, maybe he'll shoot 25% from three, but like he'll hit enough He'll hit enough of them He'll hit enough pull-up jumpers that you have to come out far enough that he could then get by you in the pink yeah, and of course the difference between him and Westbrook is Eamonn Thompson, if he ever gets starters minutes, will be an all-MBA first team player. I mean, Westbrook was a phenomenal defender. I i was never a huge Westbrook guy, but the guy played defense. He played hard. I think Thompson, with his length, can be an even better defender. I won't disagree with you. And I do think, I mean, I think overall the Rockets guard play.
00:36:46
Speaker
has been good to start the season. You mentioned Fred Van Vliet, you mentioned Reed, you mentioned Amen Thompson, obviously Jalen's been good. um I even like, we got a glimpse of Steven Adams for the first time on Thursday night, and I think he adds a really nice level defensively to this Rockets team. Like you can go with a completely different style lineup with Steven Adams on the court. When you can go Steven Adams and Jabari Smith, the length that you have in the front court is Fantastic with that lineup, Scott. Yeah, what I like about that is I like the fact that if you have games, like this is what kills you in the opener, is that you know in the second half, you really needed to sit Sengoon for defensive reasons, and you didn't add have Adams there to take his spot. I think he's not a guy that can play big minutes consistently, but if he's a guy that all of a sudden Sengoon can't solve a guy defensively,
00:37:44
Speaker
You know, maybe Adams can play 20, 25 minutes in some games. And you got to heart and sign the next game if he needs to take one off. Yeah, exactly. I mean, Jack Londale, I like is a... Londale, I'm sorry, not heart and sign. Londale. Yeah, Londale, I like him as a, you know, as an end of the bench kind of guy, but he's not a guy you want getting 20 to 25 minutes. No, and at the end of the day, Scott, the Rockets lost game one because they could not come up with an offensive rebound, could not get it done.
00:38:14
Speaker
guarantee you if Steve Madams was able to play that game they would have come up with a lot more I'm sorry defensive rebounds that led to offensive rebounds they couldn't come up with it they could not rebound at the end of the game and it gave way too many second chance looks to the Pelicans I guarantee if Steve Madams on that court a lot more of those balls get handled that guy is a rebound machine he's a Samoan Dwight Howard
00:38:38
Speaker
and these like Let's be honest, there was a time in Dwight's career that that guy cared about nothing more than getting boards. Like Dwight was going to get 15 to 20 boards and get the fuck out of his way while he went after the basketball or you were getting trampled. Is Steven Adams Samoan? I thought he was. He's got the tattoo like the guy from Moana. I thought he was like Aussie or something. Is he? I don't know. Adams didn't sound like a Samoan. He could be Australian. You might be right. Maybe he's like indigenous Australian.
00:39:07
Speaker
Uh, but yeah, I'm with you. Um, I mean, I think those that that they missed that presence in that first game. Definitely. I mean, even back in the day, Robert or used to talk about like, sometimes you gotta have a guy that when you come down the paint, you're going to catch a forearm shiver, right? Like you don't get to just walk down main street for a free layup. Last year, the rockets didn't have that guy, right? maybe Maybe Dylan Brooks, but he's just not big enough to be that guy.
00:39:37
Speaker
Steven Adams is that guy, you want to come down the paint and catch one of these forearms right in the, right in the chest on your way up. That was old Larry Smith back in the day. I don't know if you remember him at all. That might've been before your time. A little bit before. Uh, but he was like, he was a sane, normal Dennis Rodman. I mean, he's a guy that on the offensive end, you did not want the ball in his hands.
00:40:03
Speaker
But he was a guy that off the bench would routinely get double-digit rebounds. I mean, a little bit like Charles Oakley, right? Like, the guy's not exactly an offensive star, but he stuck around the league a long time because he was a physical defender who rebounded well. Same for Dennis Rodman. Those guys have a place in this league. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Scott, let's take it to our horses ask this week. Time to start giving away some of our special awards.
00:40:32
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Who do you have for us here this week, Scott, as your horse's ass? I hope I eat crow on this, Tom. But looking at this as of right now in this minute, um I'm looking straight at you, Nick Casario. How in the hell was it your plan to have Kenyon Green and give him the job? His PFF rating was the worst in the NFL in 2022.
00:41:02
Speaker
Okay. So your, your plan was this guy lost some baby fat. So he's going to be a good guard. That was your plan. I have no, I have no problem with the fact that you want to maybe just sit there and say, we hope he's going to win the job, but we're going to bring in a decent veteran to compete with them just to keep them honest. us But you didn't do that. You had kinder green who, as Tim has said,
00:41:32
Speaker
We'll just say he was shaky last year and shaky in Pittsburgh. And that'd be nice. That's being nice. And then you had Jared Patterson, who was your backup center. That's your backup plan at left guard in case Kenyan green sucks. And guess what? Kenyan green sucks. So now you're going to have to go out there and waste draft capital in order to trade for somebody.
00:41:59
Speaker
And you're going to have to hope that that guy can pick up the offense in the span of a few days. Now, there's no way you could have made a trade this week with a Thursday night game. There's no way you could get a guy ready to play you know meaningful snaps at left guard for this game. So now what what are you going to do? You're going to have to hope you can make a trade in advance of the trading deadline, which is next Tuesday. And you're going to have to hope that that guy can get up to speed with enough time you know to make things going. Because I have a bad feeling about this game. We went to New York last year. Everybody expected us to win because they had Zach Wilson at quarterback. And our offense laid the biggest egg that you could ever lay in your life because we lost Nico Collins on the first series of the game and literally had nobody at wide receiver. I also think that CJ was playing concussed. Yeah, that's possible as well. But the thing is is that
00:42:57
Speaker
If tank Dell goes out of this game, who do you got?
00:43:03
Speaker
That's, that's a really good question. I mean, I mean, is, is tank Dell the most like gotta start fantasy guy on the league? You gotta think he gets 15 targets this week, right? No kidding. But well, I think what, in or they're going to run, you know, Joe Mixon 30, 40 times. I mean, it's going to be one of those two things, but I can get,
00:43:27
Speaker
Hey, we we have a stack wide receiver core. We didn't think we would to lose one to a hamstring and then one to an ACL tear. Okay. I get that all day long. I get the, in addition to that, we thought Xavier Hutchinson and John Metcie would step up. And Robert Woods. I get that. None of those things have happened, but that's okay. You know, you can't plan for failure, but when you're one spot in between picking a guy up off the street who has a beer gun and saying, hey, you think you can block some defensive tackles? I mean, you had to have a better plan than that. Come on.
00:44:07
Speaker
I think that's what's really frustrating is is for the most part like casseros had good plans in place for everything else, right? Like yeah, we have a stacked wide receiver room and and that allows us to still have a tank tell when you lose your top two wide receivers like look what's happening in in Tampa Bay right now they lost their top two guys and a lot of nobodies are catching balls for them at this point So being able to withstand that and you still have a Robert Woods and you still have matching and you still have Hutchinson Like you've put almost every other position group in, in a really good place to be successful. When you need a linebacker, you wouldn't got the best available linebacker out there with YE, Devin White. And yet we just ignore left guard. I just, I don't understand it, Scott. I don't either. So who you got, Tim? All right. So for this one, I don't know who exactly the person is.
Sports Controversies: Statues and Depictions
00:45:03
Speaker
But we are going to say, whoever the sculptor was that was in charge of putting together the Dwayne Wade statue that is outside of the Heats of Arena, you are a horse's ass. Because it doesn't even fucking look like Dwayne Wade, first of all. When they unveiled it, Dwayne Wade turned around and said, who is that?
00:45:24
Speaker
Because he doesn't think it looks like him. Like, it is possible to make good statues, right? Like, if you go look at the Bijo and Bagwell statue outside Minute Maid, it resembles Craig Bijo and Jeff Bagwell. If you go look at the Roberto Clemente statue in Pittsburgh, looks a shit ton like Roberto Clemente. When I went to San Francisco and saw the Willie Mays statue, looked a lot like Willie Mays. When the NFL has busts for Hall of Famers, they all look like the fucking player.
00:45:54
Speaker
What is going on here? That the NBA can't get a sculptor that actually knows what Dwayne Wade looks like. This guy is the best player who ever played his whole career with your franchise. He is the face of your franchise. You're putting his statue outside the stadium and you couldn't have a quality control meeting at any point, at no point in the process. Did anybody go, why are we giving Dwayne Wade a great beer? That's really weird. He never had one of those when he played with us. Nope.
00:46:25
Speaker
It's like they looked at a picture of fucking like Denzel Washington, and they said yeah that guy That's that's what we're gonna model this that it. I don't know if you've seen the picture Scott. It is it is so bad oh You know there are two things that come to mind when I was thinking that there's like that Charles Barkley commercial when he was but being a part of you You played the old NBA legends when they're old Yeah, the guy with you the wall. They probably take it into the hole But ah but Did you ever, um, this is, you know, the song was released before your time, but did you ever see, uh, the video for hello by Lionel Richie? I have. Yeah. And all that song may be before my time. I am a fan. I was not a fan of the video. I mean, it had that blind sculptors making like a creepy or kind weird, but Lionel's weird.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yeah, well, and the thing was, when we stayed at Disney, they played that song every morning. It was like, it it was their go-to. We and we even up made bingo cards for our Disney trip, and and one of the you know slots was, hello, is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile. but Yeah, it's a jam. that's fuck it's It's a straight jam. All right, Scott, who are you taking the cap to this week?
00:47:50
Speaker
ah I'm going to say this. So a few weeks ago I took it the TCU coaching staff to the woodshed. They were coming off of a loss to your U of H Cougars where we just did not show up. Now what have we done since then? We held Utah to a touchdown and we had a nice comeback win against the Texas Tech's Red Raiders. now Neither of those are really good football teams. I'm going to come out and say that. But Andy Avalos, defensive coordinator in particular, you, sir, have stepped up when during the bye week, and you've coached these guys up. Because here's what happened with that game, Tim. They won 35-34 against Tech. But that was with three turnovers. So to me, you take those turnovers away.
00:48:43
Speaker
That defense gives up a lot fewer points, and it's not even a close game. And then, of course, getting two key turnovers on their own. So the defense has definitely showed up the last two games where one went away from being bowl eligible, which I think was everybody's realistic goal at the beginning of the year. So tip of my cap, Kendall Brows, I'm still giving you the side eye. But Andy Avalos, I'm tipping my cap to you.
00:49:13
Speaker
You have Kendall Briles on your staff, too. We do. That's a lot of UH Cougar blood on your on your staff. Kendall's ROC for quite some time. You have Dana over there as well. Oh, we know, man. All right, Scott, I'm going to tip my cap to the Sam Houston High School, Texas. I got the assignment ah this Friday. I had Sam Houston taking on Grand Prairie High School.
00:49:43
Speaker
Both teams were winless in district and Sam Houston had not won a district game since 2020. They hadn't won their homecoming game in probably 10 years. um It was homecoming and senior quarterback Ken Jones um played an unbelievable, fantastic game. This is a team that is working really hard to change the culture. And one of the things we talked about on the broadcast is, you know,
00:50:13
Speaker
Picking games like that where you can win a homecoming game for your fans, for your for your fellow students, to be able to go to that dance on Saturday in a great mood, and to be able to to win that game for the first time in that graduating class's history, to go out your final ever home game as a senior, as a win, to play a you know a near perfect game like Ken did. I think you only had three incompletions on the game.
00:50:36
Speaker
Made the right read all night defense played great and just seeing the reaction of those students right because this is a team that Has has been beat pretty bad in some games and and and had some not great turnout to some of the games I've done for them this year, but they pack it out for homecoming and The fans were reward rewarded with a great game and it was it was exciting to see um for those seniors, you know for that special moment of of knowing that you did something really important and and when you can come back and you know, two, three years later when you're in college and come back for a homecoming game. And this is now a completely different program. And, you know, you can say it started with that win that night. So, um, that was my hat tip to the, to the Sam Houston Texans. Yeah. Great to see, you know, program turn things around. I don't know what, what life was like for you and ah when you were at Lake, but when I was at Lake, um, seems like three or four teams would schedule us from homecoming every year. I'm not really sure why.
00:51:35
Speaker
other than the fact that we sucked. But, you know, maybe they had things turned around by the time you went through there, but... So, my sophomore year, we went to state semifinals. um Would have gone to state finals. We actually got the stop we needed on fourth down to get the ball back with the lead in, like, less than a minute left. And the the cornerback who made the tackle slapped the guy on the helmet afterwards after he tackled him. 15-yard penalty. Oh, man. They finished off the drive. We never got the ball.
00:52:04
Speaker
That was the end of it. And then the next two years, um, got by the name of drew Decker became the quarterback and we ran the triple option offense. And and quite frankly, drew just was not fast enough at quarterback, um, to be able to guide us to the promised land the way that, uh, our previous collection of talent did. Like, I mean, we had.
00:52:27
Speaker
We had this guy named Elric Jones who ran a four to nine 40, but he was also 20 years old as a senior in high school. And, uh, he was a beast, but he was also afraid to fly. So when recruiting time came, he went to McNeese state cause they took a bus everywhere. Well, that works. Um, so yeah, we were not that good. Definitely. I have one good year, one or two good years where I really got into it. We, uh, when I was there, there was a player at Pearland by the name of Fauzi Whitaker.
00:52:57
Speaker
who ended up going to UT and then played in the NFL a little bit for the the Panthers. And this guy was a stud. And so we were like the featured game of the week on on UPN back in the day. And so that one was was pretty fun as well. yeah but and good voice Boys basketball won state my freshman year. That was the year Bill Kruger is still coaching. And so we just had a bunch of little white guys that are six foot, six foot one, that whenever they would run fast breaks,
00:53:26
Speaker
they would just stop the three-point line and drain threes. And so that, I mean, that was pretty, yeah, it was a pretty awesome, you know, to watch, you know, though back in those days. One of them ended up, his dad was the athletic director, and he ended up, I could still remember him coming in when he would work out whenever we were coaching volleyball, and he would stand out like about 25 feet out of the hoop and just drain every shot.
00:53:55
Speaker
I mean, it was just, it was amazing to see. Yeah. The, um, the best athletic group when I was in, in high school was girls golf. They won a state title and got close to others. We had, I think a whole top five for those girls that year went D one. That's pretty solid. Yeah. I mean, they were state champs, right? Like one of them went to TCU, one went to like Texas, one went to A and&M, one went to Oklahoma state, like.
00:54:22
Speaker
We like our girls golf coach was awesome. Like I wish she was the men's coach that lady Understood what it meant to be a golf coach. Whereas like we had a guy making us do push-ups if we missed five footers that' That'll teach you Tim. Yeah, that'll help the mental game. Yes. I got 20 on this podcast. Yeah How can I make a pun if I can't even lift marks yeah just literally willie mays hazy get out there
00:54:50
Speaker
Oh, all right. Well, other than my scumbag golf coach, Scott, who do you have for our scumbag of the week? Okay. This is a hard one to label. Uh, so I'm just going to have to set this up. Uh, for those of y'all that were not, I have not been paying political attention. Um, there was, it you know, we'll just call it a hate rally at Madison Square Garden for, you know, ah Donald Trump, uh, where a comedian,
00:55:20
Speaker
who I will not name, you're free to name them, I'm not going to do it, um called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Now, usually, this is where we get the usual comments afterwards. He also talked about the fact of, you know, African Americans carving watermelons instead of pumpkins. Boy, that's hilarious.
00:55:46
Speaker
And Hispanic people you know refusing to pull out. Boy, that's that's a nice little joke for the kids. um I didn't even hear this, refusing to pull out one. So what does Trump do? Trump does what Trump always does. I don't even know him. I don't know who that guy was, as if he was just some derelict, homeless guy who walked up to madline Madison Square Garden and went like, hey, man, dude, I'm an comedian, dude. Oh, yeah, sure. Come on.
00:56:16
Speaker
I mean, so basically the reports are that in his routine, which was read over by staff. He wanted to call Kamala Harris the C word and I'm not even going to say that word in public. I don't know how you feel about that word, Tim, but I'm i'm certainly not saying it.
00:56:40
Speaker
I love using that word on the golf course, but that's about it because everybody else gets up in arms. When I worked for the soccer team, there were like four British guys that used that word and used it well. And I respect it. Like if if you could use that word well, it really hits home, but it offends a lot of people in the process. Yeah. And so the Trump team, they, they cut that line.
00:57:05
Speaker
He didn't have that line in the speech. So, but they did load the speech onto a teleprompter. So, that tells me a couple of things. Tim, it tells me, number one, that they saw his speech. They said, oh, we didn't know he was going to say it. Bullshit. Call him bullshit on that one. And, number two, that at least one other person, if not multiple other people, are fine with the Puerto Rico comment.
00:57:31
Speaker
Couple of points of scumbag. And this is why I don't know who to direct this to. Number one, I said this earlier this week. There are and my sub stack. There are three groups of people that vote for Trump. And I want to be very clear about this for people who are listening, who may be saying, Hey, I'm a Trump voter. Well, I think there are three groups of people. There are people who have made the Fostian bargain that he's giving me an abortion ban and he's giving me a tax cut.
00:58:00
Speaker
And so I think he's good for the economy. And I think, you know, he he follows my Christian values. And so therefore, while I hate him, I'm going to vote for him. I don't have a ton of respect for that viewpoint, but okay, you know, fine. Group number two are the groups of people who are basically saying, I can never, ever, ever vote for a Democrat.
00:58:27
Speaker
Actually, oddly enough, respect that point of view because for president, I've never voted for Republican, never done it. And I've been voting since 1992. However, I'll tell you what one of our friends did. One of our friends refused to vote for Kamala Harris, refused to vote for Donald Trump. So he wrote in my wife's name. So Janet has a presidential. Hey, there we go. Wow. So there, or you can leave it blank.
00:58:57
Speaker
i alert never I left like every judge spot that only had Republicans on it blank. Or you can, you can vote in a third party candidate. You have choices where if you think somebody is detestable, but you don't want to vote for a Democrat, you have choices. You don't have to vote for Donald Trump. The third group of people though, is the people that I want to address this evening. And those third groups of people are the people that heard that joke.
00:59:26
Speaker
and loved that joke, cheered loudly at that joke. And they said, damn straight. If you are voting for Donald Trump because he is a racist, because he is a womanizer, because he is xenophobic, because he's homophobic, if you're voting for Donald Trump because of that and you're calling yourself a Christian, dude, you're turning in your Christian card. You're not a Christian.
00:59:57
Speaker
You're a nationalist, you're a fascist. Vote for your fascist, and you can't look me in the eye, ever again. But you know the other part is, and other people throwing this scumbag cake that I'm baking here, J.D. Vance afterwards, when asked about the comments, just said, well, I think we're taking too much offense, and we're gonna, we just gotta stop taking offense to these things, we gotta get over it.
01:00:25
Speaker
You know what, JD? I know you try really hard to play a human being on TV. So I'm going to give you a nickel's piece of free advice. If you offend somebody, the person who is offended gets to decide if they're offended or not. If you use a racial sur you use an ethnic sl if you use a anti-woman slur, if you use an lesbian a bisexual, transsexual slur, they're the ones that get to decide whether or not whether they're offended or not. Not you, not the one who made it, they get to decide. So in this case, the Puerto Ricans, who are not only in Puerto Rico, but are represented everywhere across this country, the Hispanic people, after they were told they don't pull out, they're the ones that get to decide.
01:01:22
Speaker
African Americans who have to hear yet another watermelon joke, they're the ones that get to decide whether or not they're offended or not. And if they want to come forward and they want to sit there and say, yeah, that's cool. I'm not offended. That's their choice. It's not mine because he wasn't telling any jokes about me because I'm white. And the whole thing is that he's punching down. You know, that there's, you know, there's a part of the roast.
01:01:52
Speaker
is that we don't roast somebody for their identity. We roast somebody for the decisions that they make, the things that they do. You know, to me to sit there and say, oh, he's black. that's That's not funny. Oh, he's gay. That's not funny. Well, Scott, I think part of it is they're just not good comedians. Cause you mentioned like the Hispanic pullout joke.
01:02:20
Speaker
I've heard a hilarious pullout joke before that was well timed, well done. And the premise of it was, imagine being the first guy who figured out that you can pull out. Like that premise was a hilarious joke. The one presented at the RNC or whatever you want to call that convention. Not funny. Not at all. Extremely offensive, right? But they love that. They love, they think that being edgy and offensive is funny.
01:02:47
Speaker
and that's why you see a string of failed comedians just shift to being anti-woke comedians because it just means you're not funny you're just not fucking funny you can sit there and just say offensive slurs on stage and a group of this country will pay to see that and that's where it's at but you're not a good comedian and and this gentleman just isn't good and we'll save more of this for a little bit later we're gonna do a special comment section a little later on in the show so Scott I don't want you to get too wound up too early all right you go ahead I I am going to tell a little bit of a story, Scott, for my scumbag of the week. Because again, this one, I'm not really sure who exactly to label the scumbag here. But again, let me tell you this story.
Election Concerns and Political Defense
01:03:29
Speaker
I went to vote on Saturday. I took my daughters with me. I believe in educating him about the process of why I'm voting for people, my my research, all those things. I have my ballot printed out, checked who I want. So when I get in there, bam, ba ba bam, bam, bam, bam.
01:03:47
Speaker
I get there, I'm given a paper ballot. I'm given a pen and I'm told to fill in the box, shade it in for the candidates that I want. Weird. I've used a voting machine for the last four, maybe five elections, but okay, I do it. I don't love it because I'm not super neat and organized. I don't color well between the lines and I'm a little worried that maybe this is gonna be an issue, but okay, I fill it out.
01:04:15
Speaker
I turn it in, and and I casually ask the question to one of the, you know, volunteers, you know, they're paid, but, you know, not well, but I ask, hey, why are we doing paper ballots um when we've had computers for quite some time? and And the answer I was given was computers are too easy to be hacked, and this is just safer. Okay. I politely, I feel like calmly,
01:04:42
Speaker
Responded that that exact line cost Fox News about nine hundred and sixty billion dollars with a defamation lawsuit. And then I was asked to leave the premises. Started reaching out to people. Hey, did this happen to you in your district? did This happened to you in your district. No, it's not not happening in every district. This is a decision that Denton County specifically made. And what's scary to me, Scott, is we're a purple district. We're a very purple area. This area is up for grabs.
01:05:10
Speaker
especially when it comes to you know things like Ted Cruz, local representation, things of that nature. But especially when it comes to someone like Donald Trump, who is more than willing to cry foul, to challenge elections, and to very easily say these ballots were handwritten. They're taking too long to count. Throw them out. And so now my vote is up in the air. I am in a a situation where I don't know if my vote is going to be counted.
01:05:39
Speaker
And that absolutely terrifies me. Did you hear about what happened in San Antonio, Tim? Uh, was that the machete guy? No, no, this is at a polling place. So guy walks in to a polling place wearing his MAGA hat. So a 69 year old poll worker politely goes over to him and said, you know, sir, you know, can you please remove that hat in the voting place where we're not allowed to wear you know, ah anything overtly for, you know, one candidate or the other in the voting place. So a guy removes his cap, he votes, turns in his ballot, puts the cap back on when he's still in the voting place. So the 69-year-old polling worker goes back over there and asks him, please, sir, take the cap off while you're in the voting place. And do you know what that guy does? Probably assaults her. He punched the guy.
01:06:39
Speaker
69-year-old man in the face three times. Yep. Freedom. mar That's what we're talking about here, Tom. Yeah. And it's just, I mean, I so i saw people in MAGA stuff, and for the most part, they just let it slide, Scott, because they don't want to get hit in the face because they make like three bucks an hour to do that. But to me, risking my vote or possibly disenfranchising me as a voter is fucking bullshit. And I won't stand for it.
01:07:09
Speaker
I've already filed complaints. I've done everything I can. I called Dominion to let them know that they are still um available to see some people if they want, because this guy's over here spreading lies. So I literally left a voicemail for Dominion. All right, Sam. All right. I know you want to take a moment here, Scott. I had posted a couple articles on the um the Tim's Mind Cannon sub-stack. And I know you wanted to take a moment to make a special comment and and Hey, I'll give it to you. I think what struck me today is that, and you mentioned something in your article that I think, I think everybody relates to and that is, um, and I am, you have to forgive me. I can't remember which article it was, but you referenced the fact of going on to strangers, you know, basically social media and making comments and how that kind of releases some dopamine, but really doesn't do
01:08:09
Speaker
any good because you know our our opinions are all entrenched. I think what pisses me off most about this mess and Square Garden rally is that it pisses me off. I'm usually not a pissed off person. I don't like being a pissed off person. But the one thing I do do for a living, Tim, is I teach English. Words matter. Words have specific meanings.
01:08:40
Speaker
And the one comment that I keep seeing online that just boils my blood, Kamala Harris is unqualified. Okay, so let me you know let me fill this out here for people that don't quite understand because maybe you haven't applied for a job lately. But see, when you apply for a job, like when you apply for your last job, Tim, didn't they have qualifications that you had to meet?
01:09:08
Speaker
They did. And then they also background checked me to make sure I wasn't lying about those qualifications. Well, and and what were those qualifications? College degree, a certain amount of time spent working in the Google platform, Google certifications, things of that nature. Yeah. So let me explain how this works folks. Cause I'm going through the process of applying for counseling positions. And so when I apply for counseling positions, basically what that means is that it says,
01:09:35
Speaker
Okay, I have to have a master's in school counseling. I have to be certified as a school counselor. I have to have taught at least three years in the classroom. Okay, these are basic qualifications I have to meet. Now, just because I'm qualified doesn't mean I'm the one that should get the job. So when somebody says that Kamala Harris isn't qualified,
01:10:01
Speaker
It's just an absolutely ridiculous response. And so basically what you're telling me is that you're either A, sexist, B, racist, or C, you're an idiot. It's one of those three. Uh, and there's also a D, all of the above. I think it's a majority of D Scott, because realistically, number one, they talked about that. She, you know, you slept her way to the top.
01:10:30
Speaker
She was elected, like the positions that she got after entering a consensual and actual relationship with like the guy she was working with, she was elected those positions, like people of San Francisco elected her. So that kind of throws that away. Then I can list like some really stupid and VP candidates or VP that have existed on the Republican side. Like what, what did Dick Cheney have that made him a good Republican candidate? What, what did he do?
01:10:59
Speaker
besides, like, ruin the Constitution forever and get Halliburton a shit ton of money that said, this guy's a a good VP. What the fuck did Spiro Agnew do that ever said, like, this is a guy who could be a good VP, right? Like, it's fucking vice president. What is the qualification for vice president? Well, the point is, though, is that you're mixing up the terms. When you're saying she's not qualified and you're saying she's not smart,
01:11:26
Speaker
She's going to be the first president if she wins on Tuesday. She's going to be the first president in history that has served in all three branches of government. First one folks, first one out of 47. How about this Scott, random, random bit of trivia trivia for you. Who's the only man to serve as both president and Supreme course justice? That would be Taft. There you go. I'm not a history teacher, to here you but anyway,
01:11:56
Speaker
I teach history in addition to teaching English, folks. I do both. I'm i'm ah um' a triple threat. But I do think you're you're right in what you're saying, though. I do think... Yeah. and But the but whole basically, you can say that I don't think she's the best candidate for the job. That's fine. I don't like her ideas. But to say she's stupid, like, to me, I can't say that Ted Cruz is an idiot.
01:12:20
Speaker
a He's a Harvard-educated attorney with a solicitor general in the state in the state of Texas. you know He clerked for a Supreme Court justice, been a senator. So to me, to say that he's not qualified to be president is stupid. Now, I could sit there and say that I think his ideas are stupid. I could sit there and say that I don't think he has the character that you want in a president. I can say those things. But I can't sit there and say that
01:12:52
Speaker
He's not intelligent. He's a Harvard educated, you know, Harvard educated attorney. So to me, it's, it's, it's precise language that bothers me, but I guess the overall special comment to him is that I don't like being angry, but I am angry and I think I'm justified in being angry, but I don't like it. I think you're right. I think the anger is justified, right? I think.
01:13:20
Speaker
Both of those pieces that I put out the last couple of days came from a place of frustration on my own part. you know I had spent a better part of a day arguing with someone who who said Taylor Swift was stupid. right And it was just like all because state an article got posted, which is a lie, that but Kid Rock turned down Taylor Swift to appear on her tour. It's like, number one, i can I would bet every fucking dollar that I had that Taylor Swift never invited Kid Rock to appear on her tour ever. just I am not the president of the Taylor Swift fan club, but I'm pretty well aware of like her political leadings and she's not going to associate herself with Kid Fucking Rock. Number two, this is someone one who figured out that she could rerecord her entire
01:14:01
Speaker
Alva, like all of her music, her catalog, and take the rights away from her previous record company and get that for herself. Is that something a stupid person does? Or is that something a pretty smart savvy business person does? So like, again, say what do you want about her political beliefs. Say what you want about the quality of her music. Maybe you don't like Taylor Swift. That's fine. But she's not stupid. She is actually a very intelligent human being who like fucking puts riddles out for her fan base on a regular basis of like,
01:14:32
Speaker
In-depth thinking of like I snuck the number 13 in here figure out what it means right like let's be on and you're right words matter and and While i I get that the second piece to me the first one I wrote was was even more important Because the words that matter to me or the way that we treat our youth right like we raise our kids to have certain morals and ideals and be ready to take on the world a certain way. And then when they get out there and they realize the world isn't what it's supposed to be, and they say something about it, we get mad at them. And that's what's so frustrating to me is the younger generations continually are the ones who go, hey, this is bullshit. And we go, you got to learn how the world works. Fuck that. i mean Change the fucking world. Let me tell you a story, Tom. I think we have a few minutes left here.
01:15:25
Speaker
um When I was in high school government, I actually missed the first week of the semester because I went to the Washington DC for a program called close up. I don't know if you've heard of that. I have. But when you go to close up, you spend a week in Washington DC and you get behind the scenes, you know, look at, you know, a different government. We got to see Bill Clinton's inauguration. We got to meet Sater Day O'Connor who was on the Supreme Court at the time.
01:15:52
Speaker
And that was just our clear light delegation. So there's like 20 kids meeting with Sandra Day O'Connor. Even though she was appointed by Ronald Reagan, she you know it was a huge honor just the same you know to listen to her. So when I came back and I went in to take government class, I keep in mind, my tat my dad taught government before I was born. He taught US s history. He taught me everything he knew. So we were doing an assignment one day and I was basically saying, you know what?
01:16:23
Speaker
I'll agree that, you know, I'm not going to make John F. Kennedy the best president ever if you don't make Ronald Reagan the best president ever because she was just hugely conservative. And so she said, well, who do you think was the first president to send troops to Vietnam? And I said, you know what? Her name was Ms. Kurtzman. You know what, Ms. Kurtzman? It's funny, I was just in Washington, D.C. and we were at the Vietnam wall and the first year of People dying was 1958. Can you tell me who was president in 1958? And she just started, you know, just going, you know, she's like, oh, shit, moving in. So we took a political spectrum test. So here's what this woman did, Tim. She she did this even when she had an assistant principal in a room and she just like, she looked at me at the end of class. Okay, Scott, can you give us the liberal point of view?
01:17:22
Speaker
And she called me out like that. And then she's like, okay, after the political spectrum test. Hey everybody, what do y'all think Scott is?
Youth Advocacy and Generational Shifts
01:17:31
Speaker
And one one girl, her name is April. I don't know what her married name is now. He's a communist. So that was how the adults of our time, of my time, treated us, Tim. It's a time under tradition, you know, adults,
01:17:50
Speaker
crap on the youth. And that's one thing I've tried never to do as a teacher or as a youth leader is I've always tried to sit there and say, y'all are doing terrific things. Keep up the good work. And I mean, that's what a good at a mentor and a good adult should do. No, absolutely. I can't tell you how many times in my twenties when I started moving to the left, I was told Oh, well, you know, once you get older and and have a little more money or have a family, you'll realize, you know, conservatives, the way to go. All you, you young liberals, you don't understand the way the world works, all that stuff, right? But at the end of the day, um, you know, if you look at it from a business perspective, right? When you have a problem you're trying to solve in the business world, sometimes a fresh set of eyes coming in, looking at a situation, helping you problem solve, finds a new solution.
01:18:41
Speaker
Why don't we let society work the same way when someone new to the society coming in as a worker coming in as this out of college, fresh, ready to take on the world. And they're met with, you know, bullshit in the job market. They're met with housing costs that are ridiculous. They're met with grocery costs that are rising. And we've got Kroger executives on tape saying they're going to raise prices as high as people can take it. Why are those people not allowed to say anything? Why, is why is it?
01:19:09
Speaker
that we drown them out. And so my biggest thing is, um, if we, if we raised our kids the way we want them to, and we trust them, why do we ignore them? Yeah. And I was thinking to that commercial smiling, cause it was like that guy, uh, you know, the meeting he's like, you know, you got to bust through the paradigm. You know, Jesse, you got to think outside the box, Jesse step away from the box. But I love that, you know, busting through the paradigm.
01:19:37
Speaker
Uh, it was just, you know, comedy gold back then, but yeah, you're, you're absolutely right. And I think the big thing is the baby boomers have fucked everything up. It's time for new generation. Yeah. You've had your shot. It's time for gen X. It's time for gen Y. It's time for the millennials. It's time to give them a shot at it. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. Well, that's going to do it here for the special comment portion of the show. Uh, we appreciate everybody who stuck around.
01:20:06
Speaker
I know we can get on a soapbox sometimes, but it's all for the greater good. But that's going to do it for us here this week.
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
01:20:13
Speaker
I'm born on the Bayou Sports. Be sure to like the Facebook page. you'll Subscribe to the YouTube. Add us on on Apple Podcasts, whatever your podcast of choice is. I did create a new Facebook page for Tim's Mind Cannon. Head over there. you know Follow that page. A lot of good content coming out here as we get closer and closer to the election. and you know, eventually a new president either way. So Scott and I will continue to pump out the the content there on his substat thoughts from a native Texan as well. All right. Yeah, absolutely. Tim and and and either way, yeah, something, something history will be made. Yeah. Well, someone new will be an office one way or another, but that's going to be it for us. We appreciate everybody who joined us this week. We will see you next week. I'm born on the body sports.