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Episode 21: The Ballpark Food Tour
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College football sits only two months away and yet the long offseason continues as the sports calendar consists of only baseball and World Cup Soccer. Two experiences we are mightily enjoying but that can't necessarily fill up 90 minutes on there own...so the boys embark on the most important list of all...the list of MLB ballpark foods. Only it isn't really a list, its just a rehashing of why we would certainly try almost anything these ballparks have to offer.
Also, the round of 32 has already brought upsets in the World Cup as the US awaits a date with Bosnia on Wednesday, Brendan Sorsby refuses to go away, the NHL draft was electric, and hockey may come to Houston after all!!! All this and more on the 21st installment of The Coastal Launch Sports Talk!
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Introduction to Coastal Launch Sports Talk
00:00:01
Cody Atkinson
Hello and welcome to the Coastal Launch Sports Talk. I'm Cody coming to you from the bayous of Houston, Texas.
00:00:08
Justin Daulton
And now Justin coming to you from the magic of Orlando, Florida.
00:00:12
Cody Atkinson
And today we will be your destination for food. While this remains a sports podcast, sports are not complete without the food that joins it, whether that be at home, at the tailgate, or in this case, At the ballpark, a sport is only complete with the right eats.
00:00:29
Cody Atkinson
Back at the beginning of the season, ESPN put out the top new ballpark eats for 2026. And we'll be playing a little game of smash or pass with the list
ESPN's Top Ballpark Eats: Smash or Pass
00:00:40
Cody Atkinson
of of ballpark eats.
00:00:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:00:42
Cody Atkinson
If if we are are nothing else, we are fans of food and we are fans of ballpark food. So. With our trajectory set, it's time to sit back, walk in, and get started with the rundown.
00:00:52
Cody Atkinson
This is the Coastal Launch, and we are ready for liftoff here on episode 21. The
00:00:59
Justin Daulton
All right, man. Officially half a year doing this. You know, we're crazy that we're halfway to to a 52-week year doing this podcast, man. But let's jump in. Not a lot to talk about this week, but so we're going to get to the...
00:01:12
Cody Atkinson
summer is upon us.
00:01:14
Justin Daulton
The summer is upon us, but hey, we only have one more list video or list episode for everyone out there next week. And then when I get back from my vacation, we will dive into some college football previews.
Brendan Sorsby's NFL Legal Battle
00:01:26
Justin Daulton
So yes, the summer is upon us, but we are very close to talking football once again, which is exciting.
00:01:32
Justin Daulton
Instead of talking about this, this lame-o that we're going talk about once again for i feel like the fifth the fifth time on this podcast.
00:01:33
Cody Atkinson
Very exciting.
00:01:36
Cody Atkinson
yeah The story that we announced as complete last week is not complete.
00:01:39
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:01:44
Cody Atkinson
it
00:01:44
Justin Daulton
We hope it's complete. Brendan Sorsby, I guess we are now the unofficial podcast of Brendan Sorsby.
00:01:51
Cody Atkinson
I think every person who talks college football has unfortunately become an unofficial podcaster of Brendan Sorsby.
00:01:59
Justin Daulton
um Since we recorded last, the NFL has decided to not hold the supplemental draft. Not just because Brendan Sorsby, but just because they're assuming not enough talent to hold a supplemental draft.
00:02:12
Justin Daulton
um But
00:02:12
Cody Atkinson
He would have been the only player in it.
00:02:15
Justin Daulton
So, and then in addition to that, the CFL has sent out a memo disallowing Brendan Soresby. And then of course, shortly thereafter that, because this just seems to be his move, is that Brendan Soresby is suing the NFL for not hosting the supplemental draft.
00:02:29
Justin Daulton
So great. Oh, good for him. um So I don't have a lot of thoughts here, man. He's he's running out of out of options here outside of the the UFL, if that's the route he decides to go, which it sounds like the ownership Uh, today said we have an open door, man. Come on in. If you want to play in the UFL.
00:02:46
Justin Daulton
Um, yeah, basically.
00:02:46
Cody Atkinson
they really? I didn't see that.
00:02:48
Justin Daulton
Um, so for me, it's, Hey, sit down, put the fries in the bag for a year, man. Like you're just take your one year suspension and enter the NFL drop next, uh, next, what may, April, May.
00:02:58
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah, April. Yeah, late April. No, there's not a ton to say on it. It is definitely for me, a shocking turn of events. I did not expect the NFL to, to keep him out like this, just because like I mentioned on the show last week, like Keishon Boutte bet on his own prop bets in college.
00:03:17
Cody Atkinson
He's playing Calvin Ridley placed bets while he was away from the team he's playing. But I guess this really does come down to kind of, this is the NFL's way of levying a one year suspension on him, um which which does make sense at the bare minimum.
00:03:31
Cody Atkinson
I'm, I don't know. Everyone deserves a second chance. I don't necessarily believe you deserve a second chance at the very thing you had before every time. Sometimes you disqualify yourself from the lifestyle you had before and you have a second chance at life doing something else. I personally probably am more in line with like, I don't want gambling near the sport. yeah.
00:03:53
Cody Atkinson
For me, the one year suspension is ah is a little weak, but I think that's effectively what's happening. And I do support that we're at least doing that. And he's not kind of getting a chance to enter the NFL
World Cup Surprises and Impacts
00:04:04
Cody Atkinson
scot-free. And the NFL kind of, if you, i don't know if you read the letter they released or if you heard anybody reading it, but like they came down pretty hard on him just being like, you've shown.
00:04:12
Cody Atkinson
no remorse for what you did.
00:04:14
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:04:14
Cody Atkinson
you've You've, you've, you've taken no ownership of your mistakes and you've simply tried to use the legal avenues to get your way. And when that didn't work, you viewed the NFL as a fallback where you could get away from, you could run away from your problems.
00:04:26
Cody Atkinson
And, and he's doing the same thing. He's doing them now. And so he won't learn, but it it really does feel like it's time for Brandon Sorsby to accept defeat, take his penalty and just work on like just fixing his image and coming back out the other side, a better person. I'm 90% sure I heard from somewhere that Texas Tech paid him.
00:04:47
Cody Atkinson
that they were like, hey, we're still going to pay you, just go away, which crazy to me.
00:04:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:04:51
Cody Atkinson
I didn't think that was true, but I heard some people saying it. So if that's the case, then it's also like, dude, just take a year off. You you just got $5 million. dollars Take a year off, take your lumps and and come back with a better image.
00:05:04
Cody Atkinson
The only thing that i wanted to highlight from this is like technically, he could he could try to return to college again now that the store's closed. And so i just, I think it's huge that the Big 12 did not pull their lawsuit at the point that he declared for the supplemental draft. They kept their lawsuit against Texas Tech and uh ken paxton active and they're still pursuing it and i think that helps keep the door closed so that we don't have to reopen the college football aspect of this which for the life of me i i don't want to see reopen so um i think that's probably the biggest takeaway from this um but to to your point like this story just needs to end i'm kind of tired of talking about it just take your lumps and move on and and and let's talk about actual sports you know
00:05:53
Justin Daulton
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, i don't I don't have much else to say. So let's move on, man. Let's talk about something that's ah that's fun. we We've been a pod that's been around for all the national stuff this year. um And the World Cup is giving us even more national pride, right?
00:06:07
Justin Daulton
Last week, we already talked about on the pod that the U.S. already locked up their group stage. Cool, moving on. Meaningless game against Turkey. Yeah. Still ended almost winning the game and going perfect in the group if it wasn't for last minute goal from Turkey.
00:06:18
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:06:23
Justin Daulton
But as he kind of went into it, no Pulisic, a lot of guys with yellow cards out just to make sure that you can go into the round of 32 game, whoever was going to be against A, healthy B. no penalties going against you to potentially playing a man down.
00:06:40
Justin Daulton
So well I think it was Friday that we found out that it was going to be Bosnia that we're going to play on Wednesday. But the shocker that came to it because we talked last week about what a potential very easy path to the quarterfinals and email maybe even maybe the semifinals became very difficult when Belgium won their group.
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Cody Atkinson
I
00:07:00
Justin Daulton
When we were talking last week, Belgium was not in line to win their group, but then won their group.
00:07:04
Cody Atkinson
think it Egypt, right?
00:07:06
Justin Daulton
Yeah, was Egypt or Iran that were like one and like kind of right in that range that were kind of battling for It and ended up being Belgium that came in and won their group.
00:07:10
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:07:17
Justin Daulton
So now we have a much more difficult path to it because i in the in the round of 16, right? 32 to 16.
00:07:25
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, you'd be you'd you'd hit Belgium in the round of 16.
00:07:25
Justin Daulton
Yeah, 16.
00:07:27
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:07:28
Justin Daulton
Barring they got a win. We haven't talked about what happened today before we logged on that upsets can still happen in this tournament.
00:07:33
Cody Atkinson
Oh, yeah. Well, we almost got two today.
00:07:35
Justin Daulton
But
00:07:36
Cody Atkinson
We got one.
00:07:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I almost got two.
00:07:37
Cody Atkinson
We almost got a second one. And last I checked, the other, the current game is, I don't think the current game count as an upset either way, but, like, that's a good game.
00:07:45
Justin Daulton
What's going on with the Netherlands? Because I saw that as I was leaving work.
00:07:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it's one-to-one as we talk right now. Netherlands, Morocco, um I'd have to wait until they put the score bug back on to tell you what minute we're in.
00:08:03
Justin Daulton
Yeah, but anyway, um you know, it's not it's not written in stone that we're going to face Belgium. when It's not written in stone that we beat Bosnia. so
00:08:10
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:08:11
Justin Daulton
But, man, still still yeah it's still really cool to see the the fact that there's still a chance for this team to get to the round of 16 and even potentially have a chance to get to the semifinals and get to that final eight, you know, that elite eight, you know, if you want to use basketball terms.
00:08:27
Justin Daulton
So, you know,
00:08:27
Cody Atkinson
I
00:08:28
Justin Daulton
Definitely something we're going to continue to follow. I don't think there's a lot of talking points until the game happens on Wednesday. So we'll have more to talk about next week, obviously, before, hopefully before what would be ah an Elite Eight matchup against potentially Belgium or whoever Belgium is playing.
00:08:44
Justin Daulton
I don't have the bracket up in front of me.
00:08:45
Cody Atkinson
i think it's Senegal.
00:08:47
Justin Daulton
Senegal. So, I mean, we'll see what happens, honestly. But, I mean, what a great time. And like I still am loving the international fans' reaction to, you know, American food and American culture and all this stuff.
00:08:58
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:59
Justin Daulton
It's been so fun to watch everyone be like, it's not as bad as it as it's marketed to be coming over to America. It's like, because usually people, when you talk about people from coming from, like, European and countries all that, they
00:09:05
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:09:09
Justin Daulton
they come to where I work. They come to Orlando, they go to Disney, they go to Universal, they do the touristy stuff. So like now they're going to these other cities that aren't known as tourism capitals are going to, you know, your, your Houston's, your Seattle's, your, you know, yes, you're getting your LA's and New York's mixed in there, but like you're getting these other places that aren't tourism destinations and they're getting to see what is like actual true like working class America and and everything so it's still really cool to watch everyone be like I'm taking gallons of ranch home and my like buying extra suitcases because they they've discovered ranch and Chick-fil-a sauce and so they're just loading their their luggage up with all the all these American food items.
00:09:39
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:09:46
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. I think it's pretty incredible. Like the world, the world cup has become an absolute avenue for the U S to export obesity. Like the damage that's going to be done is going to be universal for a long time. Like these countries that are so much healthier than us, they just learned why we aren't very healthy and they're taking it back with them in droves.
NHL Draft and Expansion Talks
00:10:11
Justin Daulton
yeah they they learned They learned what sugar was finally.
00:10:11
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:10:14
Justin Daulton
like they did They discovered sweet tea.
00:10:14
Cody Atkinson
yeah
00:10:17
Justin Daulton
i don't know if you've seen these people like reacting to sweet tea in Texas barbecue.
00:10:17
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, exactly.
00:10:20
Justin Daulton
like it's It's so fun to watch. like like like There was a Japanese guy that that I was watching on TikTok. He's like, I feel gross by the amount of Texas barbecue I just ate. And was like, we've all been there.
00:10:32
Justin Daulton
likeve I've consumed in on God the amount of Texas barbecue.
00:10:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, dude.
00:10:34
Justin Daulton
And i was like, I gotta go take a nap.
00:10:36
Cody Atkinson
You're going to feel disgusting and and come noon tomorrow, you're going be like, why am I back here? like i feel so I felt so gross yesterday. Why am I auditioning to feel gross again today? It's going happen.
00:10:47
Cody Atkinson
It's just life.
00:10:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:10:48
Cody Atkinson
Enjoy it while you can.
00:10:48
Justin Daulton
And it happened, you're going to, the next day you're going to end up at Canes or Whataburger and you're like, all right this is great.
00:10:52
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. And then and I'm telling you, dude, the, the, some, but some of these like, like canes and stuff like you're canes popping up all over the world now.
00:10:54
Justin Daulton
So, yeah. Yeah.
00:11:02
Cody Atkinson
And like some, some dude who's like, who's like Texas barbecue, isn't quite taking off in Texas because like the competition's too rough. It's just going to up and open in London. like You know what i mean?
00:11:13
Cody Atkinson
like Like, you know how that happens, right?
00:11:14
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:11:15
Cody Atkinson
Like, you'll just be going, you'll you'll be like, like in Corpus, there was this great New York pizzeria and it had zero competition because it was the only New York pizzeria and it was the bomb and everyone ate there.
00:11:20
Justin Daulton
yeah hey
00:11:26
Cody Atkinson
And you're just like, they probably wouldn't have made it in New York. So they just came here to do it. now you're just going to see them all going to like Japan and stuff. and It's just going to, yeah.
00:11:35
Justin Daulton
it works out for us because we just end up in london one day we like oh look at this this this offshoot lockhart texas is here in london
00:11:41
Cody Atkinson
Oh, no, dude. I know, I know, mean I know you haven't been in Houston in a while, but it's just like, I'm going to, I'm going to show up to London and a Pinkerton's is going to be right there. Like my favorite barbecue.
00:11:50
Justin Daulton
I have heard of Pinkerton's. I've not eaten it, but I've heard, i at least I have heard of Pinkerton's.
00:11:51
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to like the Pinkerton's a London spot and I'm just going to lose my mind and how excited I am to have Pinkerton's on vacation or something.
00:11:57
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:12:04
Cody Atkinson
No, it's it's definitely been a been a blast to see.
00:12:04
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:12:07
Cody Atkinson
um i think the biggest takeaway for me, though, for this is like... like there was always this idea, right? You expand to 48, are you going to get worse games?
00:12:19
Cody Atkinson
Cause more countries are in. And when you expand the knockout to 32, like all the talking was like this first round is going to be whack. Right. Like, and, and rightfully so like USA Bosnia is not mentally is not like a draw, right?
00:12:29
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:12:32
Cody Atkinson
Like Belgium, Senegal, not a draw, Brazil, Japan, not necessarily a big draw Germany pair and Brazil, Japan, Japan was up one, ah one Oh at the half. I think that went into extra time.
00:12:45
Cody Atkinson
i didn't quite get see the end of the game. it was either scored in stoppage time or it was scored in overtime. You talked about Paraguay upsets Germany on penalty kills after VAR review pulls the German goal off.
00:12:58
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:12:59
Cody Atkinson
We're getting electricity, and and this is this this is looking like a tournament of of chaos, a tournament of upsets, which bodes great for for the us like we haven't seen it with the top of the top right like like france hasn't fallen um yeah that's true
00:13:14
Justin Daulton
I mean, Germany is at the top of the top. Like, you're youre talking about this, what, a second or third winningest country in World Cup history.
00:13:20
Cody Atkinson
yeah i guess i'm just thinking like back to like last world cup right like argentina i'm thinking like argentina france spain yeah england like if if i see one of them go down then it's like all bets are off the tournament's wide open
00:13:20
Justin Daulton
Like, i in...
00:13:24
Justin Daulton
Sure, sure. In France... UK or England, Spain, yeah.
00:13:36
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:13:37
Cody Atkinson
But even then, the tournament's starting to feel open because, like, and there's a little bit of, like, I texted you as a joke. i was like, oh, so that means, like, if Paraguay, like, largely tied Germany in regulation and, so and and well, 90 plus another 30, right, before they went to um the penalty.
00:13:50
Justin Daulton
Yeah. ninety In 90 minutes, yeah.
00:13:55
Justin Daulton
Right. Penalties, yeah.
00:13:58
Cody Atkinson
So I'm like, that means that the U.S. is four to one better than Germany because we Paraguay. And, like, it's partly a joke, but also, like, If Paraguay is a legit competitor, then that really, in my mind, reshapes what that four to one victory is.
00:14:13
Cody Atkinson
and you're like, oh, maybe the U.S. is like a real like a dark horse type to to upset somebody. not Maybe not to win at all, but to like to to to to give Spain like to upset Belgium and give Spain a scare, you know, like which would be incredible if you could do that.
00:14:22
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:14:28
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I mean, you're... you're
00:14:30
Cody Atkinson
They change the course of soccer in this country.
00:14:33
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I mean, we talked about last week, right? Like the impact that this tournament can have on the next generation of soccer youth in America, right? Like the potential of we talked about it, we talked about it with hockey, right? The the chance of seeing kids choose hockey over basketball or football, right?
00:14:51
Justin Daulton
now you're going to look it and be like, you can choose one of the big four sports and it it legitimately be the big four sports in in the world, right?
00:14:51
Cody Atkinson
Good.
00:14:59
Justin Daulton
You're not just talking about baseball or football like you're talking hockey's involved basketball's involved soccer's involved you still got football which is a global thing right so you have all of that now in play and you can pick and be good at it and you can literally get the top of the top playing that sport for the country and and potentially taking over the world i mean we talked about the pulisic was on my club of chelsea for so long like he he's playing international soccer right we talked about growing up with like tim howard playing in goal uh playing for arsenal i believe
00:15:29
Cody Atkinson
I think played for... thought it was Everton.
00:15:31
Justin Daulton
You play for someone in the perimeter. might have been Everton. That does sound right. So, like, you know, we there was some of that in there, but it was always MLS players playing World Cup soccer.
00:15:40
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:15:41
Justin Daulton
So now we are starting to see, yeah, yeah.
00:15:42
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, like Donovan Wallace.
00:15:45
Justin Daulton
So now you're now you have the potential of, like, this next generation really getting a chance to play international soccer and playing club soccer internationally, which is huge for for American soccer.
00:15:58
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, no, I mean, this...
00:15:58
Justin Daulton
So, but I'm excited, man. And like like you said, like I, at work, we don't have the the the Fox broadcast. so I'm watching the Telemundos broadcast because it's an NBC company.
00:16:06
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, nice.
00:16:08
Justin Daulton
But man, let me tell you, if you have a chance go listen to the Telemundos broadcast when Paraguay won the game, they were electric.
00:16:08
Cody Atkinson
Yeah,
00:16:15
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it was so good.
00:16:16
Cody Atkinson
Nice. Nice. No, it's, it's been ah it's been an electric world cup. I know like, I know the Turkey game didn't matter. um i still felt deflated after that goal went in.
00:16:27
Cody Atkinson
Cause I was like, dude, I really wanted to, I really wanted to beat Turkey with the backups. And like, I really wanted to feel like, Oh, this not only is this team good, but it's deep.
00:16:32
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:16:37
Cody Atkinson
And like, you can weather some storms.
00:16:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, we're we're definitely not deep.
00:16:39
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. And yeah. So I think Turkey definitely exposed like the lack of depth. But yeah, but Paraguay beating Germany in a lot of ways, in my mind, resets the deflation where you're you're back to inflated. you're like oh that like Paraguay just pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament and like we we handled them.
00:16:56
Justin Daulton
Yeah, we dog walked this team.
00:16:58
Cody Atkinson
yeah
00:16:59
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:17:00
Cody Atkinson
so I feel like the vibes are right back up. and just Ultimately, to be like... but We can move on here in a second, but like the vibes around this World Cup are are pretty incredible.
00:17:10
Cody Atkinson
like Just soccer fans are wild groups. like i went I watched a USA Turkey at a bar down the street, and it was standing room only and just the loudest I've ever heard when when either goal one or goal two were scored.
00:17:14
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:17:27
Cody Atkinson
And you could hear a collective gasp when Turkey scored. like It was so much fun. And and I'm going back on on Wednesday and we're going to get there an hour early so we can actually get a seat this time because like I got there right as the game started and there was already like the standing room section was full.
00:17:43
Cody Atkinson
You're just like squeezing in between people, apologizing for being in their way. it was so.
00:17:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:17:47
Cody Atkinson
And then and I swear another hundred people float in like after the game started. It was so much fun. But the vibes are incredible. Yeah. I felt like it feels like Olympic hockey, like the vibes do.
00:17:59
Cody Atkinson
and And the more I think about the more i I want the World Baseball Classic to have the same vibes in the U.S.
00:17:59
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:18:05
Cody Atkinson
because it has these vibes in Venezuela and DR and Puerto Rico. like It has the vibes there.
00:18:12
Justin Daulton
In Japan and yeah.
00:18:12
Cody Atkinson
And i I want to see the vibes for that be just as high. like I want the players to buy it. like we We got three international tournaments this year, but we really felt like if it feels like we got two in an exhibition.
00:18:25
Cody Atkinson
And so we need to clean that up because like if we get all three of these again like that, what an incredible year that is for just for for just like national competition.
00:18:25
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:18:35
Cody Atkinson
It's incredible.
00:18:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah. I mean, you, you have such a potential with how the kind of cycle ends up. And then, you know, in two years we have the Olympics, like we have the summer Olympics in LA. So like we have another chance to play this country on a grand scale and show them what we can do.
00:18:50
Cody Atkinson
That's true.
00:18:51
Justin Daulton
And, you know, in, in any a at least an olympic season that we in so like we get a really good chance to showcase that it once again out in LA and LA is a city that is built for for these type events so it is be a lot of fun to to kind of continue to watch the Oregon flag football yes in two years should be in two years
00:18:58
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:19:06
Cody Atkinson
I think we are getting the women's World too. women's world cup too And yeah, one or two years or whatever, the Women's World Cup is in the US also. So that's a lot of chances to to really just kind of show off and from a tourism perspective.
00:19:24
Justin Daulton
absolutely But let's shift over, man. A lot of World Cup talk. We'll talk more next week after through the U.S.-Posnia game, and hopefully we're talking about a U.S.-Belgium matchup. So NHL draft did occur last week, as well as the and are the NBA draft, but no
00:19:33
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
MLB June Performances
00:19:40
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:19:40
Justin Daulton
one really cares about the NBA draft.
00:19:41
Justin Daulton
um ah
00:19:41
Cody Atkinson
yeah Yeah, we don't have thoughts on that.
00:19:43
Justin Daulton
um But something that you talked about a couple months back when the season where the regular season ended is the inevitability of Gavin McKenna being drafted to to the Toronto Maple Leafs. now happened.
00:19:57
Justin Daulton
I still don't think the Toronto Maple Leafs have fixed everything they need to fix. And I don't think Austin Matthews is going to want stick around after this contract is over. But hey, you have your guy of the future.
00:20:08
Justin Daulton
so I'm going to kick it to you to kind of talk through just your general surface level thoughts because i don't think either of us are draft specialists for the NHL.
00:20:16
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah not not draft specialists. I've admitted on this pod, like if you're listening to this pod for NHL talk, you are largely listening to somebody who's learning the structure of the sport as we go. Like like like like Michigan State, I guess like from a winners losers perspective real quick, like Michigan State had five players drafted in the first round.
00:20:36
Cody Atkinson
I'm 90% sure as I was reading all five of them are going to Michigan State.
00:20:41
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:20:41
Cody Atkinson
to play hockey for like a couple of years before they, so like, that's just a new concept to me. Like you're, you're drafted. Like, like I think Penn state had some guys drafted and then I was reading like they might, they won't get to Penn state for not this season, but the next one, you know? And you're just like, what is, it's so weird to me, but there's just like, even in the first round, even in the top 10, you're drafting guys that aren't headed straight to the and NHL.
00:21:06
Cody Atkinson
So there's a lot to, yeah.
00:21:07
Justin Daulton
Yeah, you're drafting rights, and then they can go play, whether it's collegiate hockey or there's a lot of them that'll go play in Canada and play under 18 leagues a lot of times, too.
00:21:09
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:21:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, like you kind of send them, you're like you're allowed to go play here kind of thing, right?
00:21:20
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:21:23
Justin Daulton
And then that's when you'll kind of see them bridge into like the East Coast Hockey League, or sometimes they're
00:21:27
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
Dan Housen and the Miami Dolphins
00:21:29
Justin Daulton
good enough that they can go straight to the AHL and stuff like that.
00:21:31
Justin Daulton
So it's weird.
00:21:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, so I guess I always knew that, but i just I didn't know how early these guys were getting drafted, right?
00:21:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:21:37
Cody Atkinson
like For the college guys, I still kind – it blew my mind that a guy went in the top 10 and wasn't NHL ready. you know like I didn't know it was like that. like i thought that was like, don't know, first rounders are playing in the and NHL, second and third, like you're sending them somewhere to develop.
00:21:55
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:21:55
Justin Daulton
No, but you can also pull them up at any point.
00:21:57
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:21:57
Justin Daulton
You just have to sign them to like their NHL contract.
00:21:58
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:21:59
Justin Daulton
like You sign like a rights contract to like own their like future, basically.
00:22:02
Cody Atkinson
yeah
00:22:04
Justin Daulton
And then a lot of it will be like they'll send them to go play college, and and then they'll do like the Frozen Four and be like oh, you're good enough. Let's go. Let's get you onto the onto the current roster for Stanley Cup.
00:22:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I mean, that that's the Porter-Martone story from the Flyers this year, right? He leaves the the ah hockey playoffs and or
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00:22:24
Cody Atkinson
the college playoffs and heads straight to the NHL and makes a huge impact on the Flyers down the stretch. So I guess it's just it's just more widespread than I thought it was. I thought those were more like spot cases. and So that blows my mind a little bit.
00:22:39
Cody Atkinson
But all that to say, like, if you're look like, we're not experts, you're, you're listening to guys who are at least one guy who's like kind of learning it all as he goes. But, you know, absolutely shout out Gavin McKenna. I am a, I did do grad school at Penn State. So I'm a Penn State hockey fan.
00:22:55
Cody Atkinson
Loved, watch loved the signing, loved watching him play. I think him going to Toronto is a huge, is like a great fit just because he is, he's not only Canadian, but he's indigenous. And so um I feel like it's really cool that he gets to go to like an original sticks, like Canadian franchise. think a great fit. But to your point, I think it's a full rebuild for them. I'm not sure they can keep Austin Matthews around.
00:23:20
Cody Atkinson
Like, I don't think that's enough to keep them around. And and and I know they did sign him. they traded for radish and like they're doing other stuff too but i i mean i don't expect them to be competitive immediately but but i will be excited to see what what he can do and it's just the nfj hl draft as a spectacle it was incredible justin bieber announced the pick for toronto which was wild i kept and they they they drug it out for so long but i really did kept expecting him to like start singing like i thought they i thought they paid for a song because like he just kept staying up there and i was like all right he's gonna sing at some point right
00:23:27
Justin Daulton
Yeah,
00:23:41
Justin Daulton
yeah that was crazy.
00:23:49
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:23:54
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:23:55
Cody Atkinson
but But then you also, like, leading up to the draft, you had five trades, I think I saw, where it was like five pre-draft trades that involved the movement of first-round picks. And then you had five trades go down during the first round, just moving around. So there was just tons of movement, tons of spectacle, tons of excitement.
00:24:11
Cody Atkinson
I watched the NHL draft this year for the first time. I've never really watched it before, and I thought it was a blast. um Even though, again, i learned partway through, i was like, what do you mean that going to college? He was taking, like,
00:24:23
Cody Atkinson
Sixth overall or whatever. you're like That's wild. um it it was It was still a blast, man.
00:24:26
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:24:28
Cody Atkinson
and I've got a couple of winners and losers thoughts, but if you got me anything you want feed off of those two thoughts before I get there.
00:24:34
Justin Daulton
um no not really i did pull who the lightning picked um obviously a lot of these names aren't going to really mean a whole lot um but i do want to point out um stephan shigurin that's a name for you um he he is a goaltender um out of the out of ohl i don't know where that's from what country that is but um
00:24:46
Cody Atkinson
okay
00:24:57
Justin Daulton
The Lightning are picking goalies, which is interesting.
00:24:59
Cody Atkinson
There you Yeah.
00:24:59
Justin Daulton
you know you know We talked a little bit a couple, you know what feels like a couple months ago, it may have just been last month, ah you know is what is the the expectancy on Andre Vasileski?
00:25:10
Justin Daulton
As someone that is getting a little bit older, you know i you were you were watching hockey with me when the Lightning started the transition from Ben Bishop to Andre Vasileski.
00:25:21
Justin Daulton
And the Lightning front office were geniuses and when they moved off to Ben Bishop and went to Vazzy because they were right. So I don't know. This is the guy, you know, obviously I trust the Lightning front office to go out there and make deals and and make things happen.
00:25:33
Justin Daulton
But it is interesting to see that, you know, obviously I think once you get into that fifth or sixth round, even in the NHL draft, you're drafting best player available. But it's interesting to see that there is some stock going into the goalie position in Tampa.
00:25:48
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I mean, if you want Tampa to keep seeing the success it's had, I think you have to hope that they keep operating in the way they had. And one of the best things Tampa did was move on from from Ben Bishop when he still had he still had value, he still had life, he still had juice, and they had a guy ready to take over and be the next dude. and And I think as a Lightning fan, you have to hope that they're able to execute something similar with Vasilevsky at the right time. like Obviously, if that guy was taken in the sixth, I can't imagine that time is this year or next year or maybe even the year after that.
00:26:18
Justin Daulton
No, yeah, yeah.
00:26:19
Cody Atkinson
But but if they if they can go get a guy that's ready in five in four to five years and and they cut bait at the right time, pick up draft capital, all that, you've got to feel really good about that. Yeah.
00:26:30
Justin Daulton
Yeah, just something to keep an eye on as as Lightning fans that are listening to the pod, you know, something to think about over the next couple of years as, you know, the Lightning look to see what this championship window looks like and time to move on from pieces.
00:26:31
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:26:43
Cody Atkinson
yeah Absolutely. I just got a couple ah a couple quick, couple quick winners for you. Obviously, i already said Michigan State. I think Michigan State's a huge winner. Five guys drafted in the first round. I think what I was seeing was like they're all going to play at Michigan State. So absolutely. If you're interested in college hockey, you're looking for it. Michigan State is a team to watch, apparently.
00:27:02
Cody Atkinson
um And also,
00:27:02
Justin Daulton
do we are we putting our Are we putting our Dan Houser money on in Michigan State to win the college final four next year?
00:27:10
Cody Atkinson
Let me think about it. I got to get back to you.
00:27:11
Justin Daulton
Okay.
00:27:12
Cody Atkinson
my My buddy Matt's a huge Michigan State fan, and what he would tell me is that they will just find ah a more more like daring way to to to crush his spirit, so don't buy into it.
00:27:22
Justin Daulton
Okay.
00:27:22
Cody Atkinson
But I'll also see. if he If his vibes are up at all, that's a good sign because he's usually prepping for he's he's prepping for pain. um So i'll I'll check what the vibes are there.
00:27:30
Justin Daulton
Okay.
00:27:32
Cody Atkinson
but
00:27:32
Justin Daulton
Okay. Right.
00:27:33
Cody Atkinson
And then we'll we'll see because we can put the money on that, double it give you know double it, give it to the next person so we can curse whoever we need to in college football. um And then also winner, San Jose Sharks. they for For a moment, it looked like they were going to skip on Ivar Stenberg and go defender at pick two, but they were able to make moves to get the ninth pick, which allowed them to take Stenberg at second pick. And then also they were able to get, gosh, I forgot his name, Keaton Veerhoff, I think.
00:28:06
Cody Atkinson
is his name at pick nine, which was a defender that was projected to go higher than that. And then also at pick 21, they moved up, but they were able to use more value to move up to pick 21 and take a guy.
00:28:18
Cody Atkinson
I think his name is Ryan Lynn at 21, who was projected to be like a a mid T early teens. Like he was kind of like a 14, 15 production. So it just really feels like they got a lot of value.
00:28:26
Justin Daulton
Thank you.
00:28:29
Cody Atkinson
Again, I think this is a situation where not all three of them are playing for, San Jose next year, but you have to feel really good about putting three, you know, high value first round picks around Macklin Celebrini, who already looks like he could eventually become the, you know, best player in hockey. So he's got those vibes to him, you know, like he could be that and in five years or whatever. and And it really feels like they're building around him. So winners, San Jose and Michigan State.
00:29:00
Justin Daulton
Very cool. Yeah, I don't have much, obviously, you know, anytime you have the first round pick and you're taking the obvious pick. um And Gavin McKenna, you have to consider Toronto to be a winner in that way that, you know, no matter what, no matter what your future looks like, you know, and I definitely don't have any love for that organization, but you gotta, you have to tip your cap to an organization to not mess up a number one overall pick.
00:29:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:29:20
Cody Atkinson
yeah Yeah, it was, it was, it was good on them to not overthink that they were big winners on the lottery night for sure.
00:29:24
Justin Daulton
And when you have a potential generational talent in front of you, you have to take them, you know, no matter what the rebuild looks like on the backend.
00:29:36
Justin Daulton
Absolutely. um We're gonna keep it with NHL, man. Something near and dear to your heart. News that I wrote to you a couple days ago is NHL expansion talks continue to happen, but the league has officially stated that they are looking at the Lone Star State, and two cities have been identified.
00:29:59
Justin Daulton
One is Austin, Texas, horns down, and Houston, Texas, where you and I are both are from. And so i want to kick it to you, man, because you have a lot, obviously a lot of thoughts. We talked a little bit before we hit it record and we can talk a little bit more about that here. But I know you have something to get off your chest right away.
00:30:19
Cody Atkinson
Well, i'll I'll keep my thoughts succinct, right? in In a lot of ways, this is just a carrot dangled out in front to keep me motivated that hockey may come to Houston one day. Based on the way the article was written, like it really sounds like Houston is the main focus of this ownership group.
00:30:36
Cody Atkinson
um And After looking into it for a couple of years, like Austin has been added. And my hope is that that's a leverage play to be like, if you don't get us what we want, then, you know, we we can always go down the street.
00:30:53
Cody Atkinson
and and plan a team in Austin and and end the dream of of hockey in Houston. right So that's my my hope is that it's ah it's more of a leverage play to get the city of Houston to approve. there's It sounds like they would need or at least want a new building now playing in the Toyota Center, which is a big ask. They got to find the land. They got to get taxes approved. There's a lot to be done there.
00:31:16
Cody Atkinson
In this situation, I would be more than happy to do my part paying taxes to go towards that stadium.
00:31:20
Justin Daulton
Yeah
00:31:22
Cody Atkinson
But but yeah, so my hope is it's a leverage play to get what they want. If hockey ended up in Austin, it would probably be the most devastated I've ever felt about anything because I don't think austin I don't think there's a world in the future where Austin and Houston both have teams.
00:31:38
Cody Atkinson
I think the Austin team would supplant the the Houston team. it would kill the dream forever. I would become a fan of the Austin team. They're close enough and I have family there so i can go visit and watch with ease. I would ah would become a fan of the Austin team, but on on the inside, I would die knowing that.
00:31:55
Cody Atkinson
That that my dreams of hockey in Houston are dead. So I very much so hope this is a ploy to get what they want from Houston. And I very much hope so that the city of Houston listens and gives them what they want so that we can get hockey in Houston because I will be a day one season ticket holder, even if I don't have the money for it, I'll find it I'll breaking bad my way into some, some income if I have to just, just to experience that, that the announcement that i have for you though, is I've been making fandom decisions with the idea that hockey and Houston was a, was a pipe dream that was never going to happen in good faith.
00:32:13
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:32:28
Cody Atkinson
If there is, if there are moves being made to, to explore expansion to Houston, I cannot become a fan of another team right now.
00:32:29
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:32:37
Cody Atkinson
I have to immediately renounce my Minnesota fandom.
00:32:38
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:32:41
Cody Atkinson
and continue what I've been doing, which is just rooting for a different team every year just to have something to care for. But like I cannot, in good faith, invest in the wild the way that I was planning to if this idea is here that in like three to five years I i am abandoning them for for Houston.
00:32:58
Cody Atkinson
I have to start saving, man. I gotta start saving for these jerseys because they're gonna be $500 by the time they come out.
00:33:01
Justin Daulton
Yeah. yeah
00:33:04
Cody Atkinson
I gotta start saving for season tickets. So I can get an upgrade from the cheap seats to the slightly nicer seats. Like I got to start prepping for the possibility and I can't be, I can't be spending my mental energy and my hard earned money on, on the wild. So I am, I am back to free agency. And, and I will just be, i will be bandwagoning a team every year just for the fun of it. And, and, and I'm, and, and the the, the money that I would be spending on a team is, is going into a fund so that I can buy everything the day it comes out.
00:33:36
Justin Daulton
So I guess my follow up question is, since you announced that you, now that you pulled it back, are you going to be a wild fan this season to carry through at least some sort of the commitment?
00:33:46
Justin Daulton
Or are you going to be free agent until you get to like preseason and then kind of, and then kind of suss it out from there?
00:33:52
Cody Atkinson
I'm going be a free agent until preseason and suss it out. I think there's really only two. There's probably three. Probably three realistic opera options for this year. Minnesota being one. Returning to San Jose fandom so I can watch Mac and Celebrini being two.
00:34:06
Cody Atkinson
And then just trolling you as hard as humanly possible by rooting for the Canadians. Those are the three realistic ones.
00:34:12
Justin Daulton
Yeah. It'll be
00:34:14
Cody Atkinson
So I'm just going to see how things go and see see what seems like it's going to be the most fun. And I'm going to go with that knowing that I have zero investment in any of it because right now all I can invest in is is hoping and dreaming that that Houston wins out and that I actually get to see hockey in Houston because I wasn't – truthfully, i was like, i we're never getting a team, but I'm always going to believe we're going get a team, but like we're not going get one.
00:34:37
Justin Daulton
cool. it'll be it'll be cool be
00:34:38
Cody Atkinson
And now I believe –
00:34:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it it'll be cool because i get to treat that team like I treat the Astros. like
00:34:45
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, you got a secondary team.
00:34:46
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i have a but I have a backup team. It's not the team that I put emotional stake in, but it's a team that like I can buy gear because I'm from Houston, so I can still root for Houston teams.
00:34:53
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:34:56
Justin Daulton
The only one that is exclusive to me from Houston is the Texans. But at least get a backup team that if if it comes to point where the Lightning are eliminated, then I at least have a backup team that I can enjoy the rest of the Stanley Cup because of that.
00:35:05
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:35:07
Justin Daulton
So regardless that.
00:35:08
Cody Atkinson
I just get the ability to actually invest in hockey, man. Like, I love this.
00:35:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:13
Cody Atkinson
The sport is so much fun. I love this sport. And I have so much trouble keeping up with it because there's just no ties to it, dude. Like nothing I follow, i can actually look around and enjoy in my daily life. Like I can't go to work and talk to people about the wild.
00:35:31
Justin Daulton
But hey, you know, and they said what they they're giving them a couple months to do this investigation to, yeah, six months to do this investigation in these in these two cities.
00:35:35
Cody Atkinson
Six months.
00:35:39
Justin Daulton
and And I hope that they discover what we all know and is true is that just because you keep Austin weird doesn't make that a good thing. um And that Houston is a much more luc at or lucrative environment to build sports teams around in because you don't
00:35:53
Cody Atkinson
ah It's a much more lucrative market, man.
00:35:56
Justin Daulton
yeah i think the biggest question it's something we can we can table for when it becomes official um is kind of where they decide to do this whole thing at right we we talked about the potential of doing it in bridgeland where they're where the texans are doing their new um headquarters um i don't remember where the rodeo said they're building their headquarters now i'm assuming that okay yeah so i mean it makes sense if everything's going to go out towards bridgeland i wonder if that's the direction that they're going to go because it's only written ah ah written in the stars at this point that the Texans are going to fully move out that way.
00:35:57
Cody Atkinson
More people.
00:36:14
Cody Atkinson
I think they're building it in a similar area as to Texans, if I'm not mistaken.
00:36:29
Justin Daulton
you just got to wait for Harris County to kind of approve some some traffic stuff out there to make it easier to get in and out of out of that area.
00:36:29
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:36:36
Justin Daulton
But if that's the direction you're going, you can almost build an entire complex with shared parking you all that stuff for hockey and for football.
00:36:44
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:36:44
Justin Daulton
So that's the direction you're going. It just, it makes a whole lot of sense to me.
00:36:48
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it makes a whole lot of sense if you if you can't find Land or opportunity downtown near minute may or dyke in now and Toyota center and think shell energy is the name of the soccer.
00:36:54
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
00:36:58
Justin Daulton
Right.
00:37:02
Cody Atkinson
Like if you if you can't make it work there, which I don't know where you would do it, then you might as well go out to where the NFL team's probably going to join you and you know, however many years.
00:37:13
Justin Daulton
Yeah, think I think the Texas are there through 2030.
00:37:19
Justin Daulton
2030, 2032, sometime around in that range. So yeah, you're talking about, I think they wanted to make a decision by 2030 is what I was reading on the Texans on, are they going stay at NRG or not?
00:37:25
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:37:27
Justin Daulton
And it seems very much like they want to move out NRG, which makes sense. So it's been built, and it's been open since 2001.
00:37:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I mean, it's not a great stadium, so.
00:37:34
Justin Daulton
So yeah, yeah. And still
00:37:35
Cody Atkinson
And I think there's there's still basically a hole in the roof from the last hurricane that blew through it, so.
00:37:41
Justin Daulton
haven't figured out what we want to do with the Astrodome. So just move away at this point.
00:37:45
Cody Atkinson
I mean, honestly, dude, if they would just if they would just tear that down, which they need to, you could build you could also just build a hockey stadium there.
00:37:53
Justin Daulton
Yes, that's true.
00:37:54
Cody Atkinson
And they won't.
00:37:54
Justin Daulton
And there's parking.
00:37:55
Cody Atkinson
They won't.
00:37:55
Justin Daulton
No.
00:37:56
Cody Atkinson
And it it wouldn't even be the best because if the Texans leave, now you're stuck with this next door. And part of the issue about nothing being built up around it. We don't have to get into that. It wouldn't be perfect, but it's pretty wild that that continues to stand while other things could easily fill it and make this a more, like, just make it a better city.
00:38:17
Justin Daulton
Yeah, and there's been good ideas over the years too, but that's not what these people are listening to us for, man. But we can talk we could talk ah Houston sports area very soon, hopefully, in in the next couple of months as hopefully this family figures out that Houston and is the place to go.
00:38:23
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:38:31
Justin Daulton
You guys
00:38:32
Cody Atkinson
Hopefully in the six months, I'm about around the end of the year. I'm going to be be clocking anything that says freedkin in it or friedkin or however say that. Like, I want to know what y'all decided.
00:38:42
Justin Daulton
are going to be driving around.
00:38:42
Cody Atkinson
And honestly, if you're doing research, come.
00:38:43
Justin Daulton
You're gonna see like a car with it.
00:38:45
Cody Atkinson
Dude, if you if you did, I'd follow them. I'd follow them until they stopped. And I'd be like, you're looking to learn about Houston, huh? Let me tell you why you should build here.
00:38:54
Justin Daulton
going take it to pink or it's real quick.
00:38:56
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, man. I'll be like, shoot. I'll take you Pinkertons. I'll tell you all about why everyone I know wants hockey in this town. Like, shoot.
00:39:06
Cody Atkinson
I'd sign up for season tickets on the spot if it helped.
00:39:06
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:39:09
Justin Daulton
It probably would. But anyway, man, moving on so we can get into the fun part of this episode.
00:39:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, we got to move on.
00:39:14
Justin Daulton
The wrap up this week, we have not been able to talk about the Rays and the Astros and for a couple weeks now. So um we just want to kind of wrap real quick, just kind of their month of June. So the Rays, 12 and 13 for the month, we talked a lot about it over this past couple weeks, that the cold streak that the Rays had gone on.
00:39:33
Justin Daulton
But it wasn't for a lack of trying. The momentum died in the arms. A lot of movement in the rotation, moving guys into the bullpen, pulling bullpen arms up.
00:39:44
Justin Daulton
im Just trying to figure out what worked as we get into the dark days of summer. um But if you look recently, the Rays are now on a five-game winning streak. and looking really good doing it we're hitting again pitching's looking really good um some things to note my com commitment but was one stat have multiple stats for you now um yamni diaz yes goes down with shoulder strain injury but should be ready for the royal series to start on wednesday and um which would technically be the last game of june so we could technically go 500 june
00:40:15
Justin Daulton
um But he should be ready to go. Leads the league in average. um I know average is still kind of like a dead stat. I know we're moving on to, you know, more and all these other, all these more analytical stats. But to me, batting average still is ah is a pretty, you know, standard setting, you know, stat up to to see how a guy is doing.
00:40:35
Justin Daulton
But he's leading the whole Major League Baseball in that stat. And then Junior Caminero, 22 home runs, is in fifth place in the MLB behind names like Schwarber, Alvarez, and Buxton.
00:40:46
Justin Daulton
So pretty good company to be a part of there. And a lot of the race getting hot again is because of Caminero is back coming back alive and becoming more consistent at the plate again.
00:40:58
Justin Daulton
So exciting there. And then something that you called, is that the Yankees had are starting to struggle earlier than you predicted.
00:41:08
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:41:09
Justin Daulton
And a lot of it is you start looking at it started with the judge injury and he's not going back for a while. But you're starting to see those shifts that the Rays are getting hot again. The Rays just took overtook them in the division. Now they're up like I think a game and a half in the division right now.
00:41:24
Justin Daulton
But also the best record and in the AL because as we talked about last week, AL not super competitive at the top. But you're looking at a race team that has a very good potential to expand the gap in the American League East to the point to where the Yankees aren't even in the conversation for the division if it continues to go the way that it should go over the next couple of weeks. You know, obviously, I'll start right here in a couple weeks.
00:41:47
Justin Daulton
But you have a really good chance here in Tampa to really extend the league, you know, go into the trade deadline, be aggressive, of you know, get what we talked about, you know, get another arm for the bullpen, get another outfield bat, and you're probably going to feel really good.
00:42:00
Justin Daulton
um about the direction of this team going towards october so um it's good to see that this team was able to kind of overcome this slump that they were in and you know we talked about it like we're not pulling the the eject button you know now on the race like you know every team goes through a cold a cold slump so it was good to see that this team has that that way with all to get out of the slump and kind of get moving again so um that's all i got but excited for july to see what this team can do in july
00:42:25
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I think the biggest thing for the Rays is if you are able to extend the gap with the Yankees really struggling the way that they are, then you really can send the message to the front office that this needs to be an aggressive deadline, that you need to kind of shake up the the formula and really go all in on this year.
00:42:39
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
00:42:44
Cody Atkinson
And then that really gives you the chance to pull away even further, even once the Yankees get healthy because New York toxicity, like when they start sliding, they start sliding. It's hard to get out of.
00:42:55
Cody Atkinson
And if the Rays can really kind of shore up weaknesses at the deadline, they can really ah make a huge statement this season. And i I'll certainly be here for it if they do.
00:43:08
Cody Atkinson
If we kick it over to the Astros, good news on the Astros for like the first time all season, man. Like the Astros are 15 and 11 in the month of June.
00:43:19
Cody Atkinson
They are 22 and 14 in their last 36 games, which dates back to a sweep of the Cubs that really felt like it started this momentum for them.
00:43:30
Cody Atkinson
The Astros hit three games below 500, which isn't great, but is a huge improvement from from where they were back in in May when I was kind of ready to bury them for the season. and And I was like, they were one loss away from me burying them. And then they showed life and I was like, all right, I won't i will do it.
00:43:48
Cody Atkinson
um But it's a little bit of like, how much do you buy into this, right? Like the Astros are on an incredible run right now compared to their season as a whole. But over the 11 series that they've played in these kind of 36 games that I'm talking about, they've only played three teams that are currently above 500.
00:44:09
Cody Atkinson
Two of them are at 500, the Rangers and the Pirates, but only three teams.
00:44:09
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
00:44:13
Cody Atkinson
Above 500, the combined win percentage on the season of of these 11 teams is 487. So sub 500 in the aggregate. um And in a lot of ways, this is very exciting that the Astros are are making a run.
00:44:28
Cody Atkinson
And in a lot of ways, even a bad Astros team should have been expected to go on a run kind of like this because you're like, you're too two series against the Tigers. You're a better team than the Tigers.
00:44:39
Cody Atkinson
Series against the Royals, you're a better team than the Royals. Series against the Guardians without ah Jose Ramirez. Like, that's not all that intimidating. Series and Rangers A's. Like, there's... there're It's a little... It's exciting, but it's also a little bit like, don't... Don't go crazy. So, all that to say...
00:44:59
Cody Atkinson
The Astros are moving in the right direction, but I am not sold that this is the real deal. um I am holding out. So the Astros are currently playing a series with the twins who are above 500.
00:45:10
Cody Atkinson
um They lost today, I think, because the umpire took a little too much control of the game there at the end. But it is very close game. They have a chance to win it. They didn't win it, but they still have a chance to win the series after the twins, the rays come to town.
00:45:24
Cody Atkinson
That'll be the biggest test they've had since they played Chicago, really. Actually, since they played the Brewers and the Pirates, probably, but they lost both of those series, so that'll be a big test for them. And then the Nationals come to town right after that, which...
00:45:37
Cody Atkinson
You know, doesn't sound like a great team, but it's above 500. So they've played three teams above 500 in the last 11 series. The next three series, including the one they're playing right now, all teams above 500. So if the Astros continue this streak over the next three series, then I will buy in on this team being real.
00:45:56
Cody Atkinson
If they don't, I will not buy in. but I think we're pretty much guaranteed that the Astros will be buyers at the deadline because of the nature of the front office and kind of what they've been communicating.
00:45:58
Justin Daulton
And
00:46:06
Cody Atkinson
So I have no choice but to root for winning because in this case, rooting for any sort of tanking is not going to accomplish anything. They're not, they're not going to sell. So all you're doing is getting draft picks that may or may not pan out. There's not, as a fan, there's not a benefit in rooting for a tear down because it's not coming. So I might as well root for them to win.
00:46:25
Cody Atkinson
um and and give it give it nine games and i I'll see how I feel about whether this flash in the pan is real or if if it's fool's gold. And thats that's what I've got for you for the Astros there.
00:46:37
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:46:38
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I guess for me, you'd like the silver lining for you is, you know, you're, as of today, sitting 42 and 45. um the mariner sitting at 42 43 and the ranger sitting at 43 and 42 so you are you're very much in contention so it me and it makes sense to buy i get the cautious optimism right the you know it does it is it going to matter in the long term that's completely up to kind of how this next month goes um in the same way that it matters for the race to see how the next month goes but
00:46:50
Cody Atkinson
and
00:46:57
Cody Atkinson
Oh, you're 100%. Okay. Mm-hmm.
00:47:11
Justin Daulton
you're in the conversation We talked about it last week that the AL West is a very weak division and anyone can step up and win that division. You know, neither one of us were confident enough to say the athletics could pull it off. You know, I talked, you know, last month about the Rangers having a chance to pull it off and, you know, and it's very real at the Mariners. Like it's, it's a three team race. So it's something to definitely keep an eye on over the next month to month and a half to see who really steps up to be the actual like leader in the clubhouse per se. Yeah.
00:47:41
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, no, for sure. The Astros are every bit in the running, not only for the AL West, but the wild card as well, because the AL as a whole outside of, you know, New York and and Tampa is just played very weak.
00:47:53
Cody Atkinson
So they're, you know, I think two games out of the division there. I think it's like two, one or two games out of a while.
00:47:59
Justin Daulton
to gain out of this it It's a game out of the wildcard, yeah.
00:48:00
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. A game out of the wildcard. So you absolutely have everything in front of you. I tend to not like I don't get too excited about sneaking into the playoffs because like I have to really believe that this team has the bullets to do something when they get there.
00:48:15
Cody Atkinson
And that's so that's kind of my stance of like do something against the twins, the Rays and the Nationals.
00:48:15
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:48:22
Cody Atkinson
And I'll get excited that you can do enough at the deadline to like be a team no one wants to face when the time comes. And until then, I have to take a deep breath and be like, you you are currently beating teams you should beat.
00:48:36
Cody Atkinson
So let's go beat some teams that we shouldn't beat. and And then I'll change my opinion on what this team is. But they will be buyers. And so I might as well be all in on them making something happen here.
00:48:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Well, man, I have one notification for you before we kick it over to ballpark food.
00:48:52
Cody Atkinson
Oh, all right.
00:48:52
Justin Daulton
and it's And it's just a really fun notification for you because you didn't respond to it in the text message. um
00:48:57
Cody Atkinson
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:58
Justin Daulton
We are, um if anything, become unofficial podcasts of many topics. We are now the unofficial podcast of the Dan Housen cursing slash uncursing professional sports teams.
00:49:03
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:49:09
Justin Daulton
As of today, Dan Housen has officially uncursed the Miami Dolphins. So...
00:49:14
Cody Atkinson
Big.
00:49:15
Justin Daulton
all eyes on the Miami Dolphins, a team that's rebuilding, but they're uncursed.
00:49:15
Cody Atkinson
Big time.
00:49:21
Justin Daulton
So, you know, something to keep an eye on. We've got sports bettors in the chat. We've got people like that that are willing to put money on things or send us money to bet on Dan Housen and stuff. We'll do it. I will put money on the Dolphins if it comes down to it.
00:49:33
Justin Daulton
But i just wanted to put that out there as we kind of continue to watch what Dan Housen does with sports teams over the the next couple months.
00:49:39
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. does't Does an uncursed carry the same weight as the curse, right? Like if he curses them, they're they're done in in our eyes.
00:49:46
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:46
Cody Atkinson
Like they're they might as well be done.
00:49:47
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:49:48
Cody Atkinson
An uncursed just means that they have a chance to to accomplish what they normally could. Like like this doesn't make the Dolphins Super Bowl contenders just because they were uncursed, right?
00:49:55
Justin Daulton
Right. It just means that it just means like good things and can start to happen.
00:49:57
Cody Atkinson
It just means like
00:50:00
Justin Daulton
So it doesn't mean that you're going to win championships. Now, if you like white you said, we want to curse the Texas Longhorns when it comes to Thanksgiving. Yes, that means they are dead in the water.
00:50:09
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, we still should do that.
00:50:09
Justin Daulton
A&M's going to all put, bet the mortgage on A&M to win the game, right? um Uncursing this means good things can happen.
00:50:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, we really should do that, though. Yeah, I'm down.
00:50:18
Justin Daulton
I would love it. Absolutely.
00:50:21
Cody Atkinson
Depending on what his rate is, I'm 100% down to to care to pay him on Cameo to Curbs, Texas before the game.
00:50:23
Justin Daulton
Absolutely.
00:50:27
Justin Daulton
I'll look into it. I'll report back next week on on how much it costs for for us to pay him.
00:50:29
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. i Honestly, dude, the rates might go up by then if he's having then his success rate continues.
00:50:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, correct. But I'll kick D-man. Let's have some fun with some ballpark food.
00:50:41
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, man, let's have some fun with some ballpark food. So we we are fans of the ballpark food. There's nothing wrong with the classics, right? i could like Go to a game on Dollar Dog Night and have a party. Go to a game on Thirsty Thursday, which I don't think any MLB team still do Thirsty Thursday, but have a party.
00:50:51
Justin Daulton
It's okay.
00:50:58
Cody Atkinson
Get some nachos with the, yeah, the helmet nachos with the fakest cheese you've ever had that that just tastes like baseball and you're like, it feels right.
00:50:59
Justin Daulton
Love a good helmet, Acho. Yeah.
00:51:07
Cody Atkinson
I'm a fan of that. Do your thing. But MLB teams... they They go crazy with the food. They figured out that if you put out something signature, something that you can go get, that we will pay for it.
00:51:20
Cody Atkinson
And unfortunately, they were right.
00:51:20
Justin Daulton
Yes.
00:51:21
Cody Atkinson
We will pay for it. And so what we have here, I i thought I remembered this being like a the most unique food for every team, like one for each team.
00:51:32
Cody Atkinson
That is not the case. I wasn't able to find an article that that took that approach. ah But this, I think, is about 20,000 of the kind of the top new signature weird items coming to MLB this season. So I've got the link here.
00:51:47
Cody Atkinson
I'm going to kind of talk you through Justin. I know you've got it yourself on the doc too. So if you want to be, if you, if you have it pulled up so you can look at it, but, but, but I'll be, I'll be describing it for the listeners as well.
00:51:55
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I'll follow along.
00:51:59
Cody Atkinson
So, so we're going to start this off with the Texas Rangers. they're They're serving up a ah ninth inning rally sombrero, which I don't think means you can only buy it in the ninth inning. If so, this is way too much food to be selling in the ninth inning. That's stupid. So this is a, this is a wearable hat, a wearable cowboy hat.
00:52:18
Cody Atkinson
And in the the folds of the cowboy hat, which it's the cowboy hat's made out of paper, um is a large fried tortilla with all of the nacho mix-ins in it and these are kind of premium mix-ins like this is shredded cheese this is pickled jalapenos pico de gallo guacamole black olives we have little tabasco cups in the cans in there i see some sour cream and some lettuce like this isn't this isn't rico's cheese this is a riley sombrero but in the little tip top of the hat is where all your nacho chips are so you wear this thing and you walk around dipping it
00:52:35
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I see some guac in there. Yeah.
00:52:55
Cody Atkinson
in there.
00:52:55
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:52:57
Cody Atkinson
Smash or pass, man?
00:52:59
Justin Daulton
I will get one thing out there before we move before we say this. um The ratio does not seem good. that there's not enough There's not enough chips in there to consume all the toppings in there.
00:53:07
Cody Atkinson
No, it does not.
00:53:12
Cody Atkinson
one of two things one there's either not enough chips in the top or two the chips are irrelevant if you just break off the tortilla and use that right like why are because because that tortilla looks like a real tortilla those chips are the normal ballpark chips and i don't know that that's a good combo normal ballpark chips with premium toppings right like i want better chips i want better chips is what i'm saying i want i want more and better chips
00:53:20
Justin Daulton
Fair. Fair. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:34
Justin Daulton
I mean, at the end of the day,
00:53:39
Justin Daulton
fair. want more. If that's all the chips I get, it's a pass. But if there's chips like built into like into the boat underneath like underneath all of it, could be could be onto something.
00:53:48
Cody Atkinson
oh yeah
00:53:51
Justin Daulton
I think just in general, because of my love for the the helmet nacho, I'm going to say smash just because I love nachos at a baseball game.
00:53:59
Cody Atkinson
i think i'm going to say the same but i do have the same issues with it right like i i do i want a better quality like if you're making these premium nachos i want premium chips with my premium nachos because those ballpark ones are way too salty um the other thing
00:54:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:15
Cody Atkinson
How am I supposed to to make a consistent quality nacho if all my ingredients are spread out like this, dude?
00:54:20
Justin Daulton
Fair.
00:54:22
Cody Atkinson
It's going to be so hard. The work you're going to put in to making a consistent chip, like this stuff's got to be all. You got to mix it all up in there and you got to make it easier for me to pull this off because I'm just looking at that as a lot of work to get every ah little bit of everything on my chip.
00:54:32
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:54:42
Cody Atkinson
um So it is a smash.
00:54:43
Justin Daulton
But looks so good.
00:54:43
Cody Atkinson
It it is still a smash.
00:54:44
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I know.
00:54:45
Cody Atkinson
I'm eating i'm eating it 10 days, just 10 ways to Saturday or whatever. But I do think it can be improved though.
00:54:53
Justin Daulton
Yes.
00:54:55
Cody Atkinson
All right. I have a feeling basically like a pretty consistent answer down this list. um Atlanta Braves have put together seven inch burger called the Bat Flip.
00:55:06
Cody Atkinson
This thing looks crazy. two pounds of seasoned beef patties, braised short rib, crispy pork belly, melted cheese, crunchy onions, green leaf lettuce, sliced red tomatoes, and fried egg.
00:55:20
Cody Atkinson
um i would click on the show more. It's all on this, whatever this bun is. It's a very flat bun. If I dare click this link, I'm crashing our, our we' we're losing our connection.
00:55:27
Justin Daulton
yeah um click Yeah.
00:55:31
Cody Atkinson
But yeah,
00:55:32
Justin Daulton
Don't click the link.
00:55:33
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, if I click this, we're done. But it's on a very flat, look what looks like a really good bun. i don't know if it's sour bread or ciabatta or something like that, but this thing looks incredible.
00:55:45
Justin Daulton
So here's my thing, and I think we're going to differ unfortunately on this one. Number one, I'm not a Friday guy on my burger. So like you, you lose me on the friday but that bunda burger ratio is
00:55:51
Cody Atkinson
Okay, that's fair.
00:55:56
Justin Daulton
horrendous a Like,
00:55:58
Cody Atkinson
It is horrendous.
00:56:01
Justin Daulton
ah it almost seems to be like a Big Mac. Give me a a third ah third piece of red in the middle to hold it together.
00:56:04
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, that's true. you put a third bread in the middle, that would be pretty elite, I think.
00:56:09
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I will say though, I love braised short rib on a burger. It's so good. Like it just adds a nice little flavor pop in there.
00:56:14
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:56:16
Justin Daulton
But um'm um'm it's a pass for me because of the fried egg. And like I said, the bun to burger ratio. Like at this point, I might as well not even have the bun and just deconstruct it and just eat it as it is.
00:56:27
Cody Atkinson
I mean, honestly, that's what I was going to say. i This is 100% a smash for me because you could sell this to me without the bun and I would eat it to death. and And so honestly, like you're right that the bun to burger ratio is way off, but the bun is an afterthought. I don't care. I need to know what crispy pork belly, seasoned all beef patties, and braised short rib tastes like all in the same bite.
00:56:53
Cody Atkinson
I just have to know.
00:56:54
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:55
Cody Atkinson
So I'm eating.
00:56:55
Justin Daulton
I love crispy pork belly too. So, so good.
00:56:58
Cody Atkinson
If you put this next to the nachos that we just discussed, I'm picking this one.
00:57:03
Justin Daulton
Fair. Take away the fried egg and I'm probably with you.
00:57:06
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, means you could you can alter it.
00:57:06
Justin Daulton
So.
00:57:08
Cody Atkinson
Just go no Friday. mean,
00:57:10
Justin Daulton
Hey, no fried egg in with you. I'll do it. I'll do it.
00:57:12
Cody Atkinson
I assume you can make alterations, you know?
00:57:15
Justin Daulton
If I'm paying $30 for a cheeseburger, I better be able to make alterations to it.
00:57:19
Cody Atkinson
That's true. Yeah, we are prices not being considered in this exercise, just to be clear to all our fans here.
00:57:23
Justin Daulton
No, no.
00:57:25
Cody Atkinson
um New York Yankees have a mini dessert chicken bucket. So this is the new trend where you have what looks like a fried chicken wing, only it's ice cream.
00:57:38
Cody Atkinson
And this appears to be a bucket, which I think the buckets are relevant in this point, because there's only in the picture, at least there's only two in there. I feel like if you're going to do a bucket like
00:57:46
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:57:49
Cody Atkinson
Put three at least.
00:57:50
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i mean I'm anticipating at least a three piece in there, yeah.
00:57:50
Cody Atkinson
um Yeah. So I feel like they got to up that a little bit. But what are your thoughts on this this fried chicken joke, it's ice cream trend?
00:58:02
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it's a textured thing for me, man. I'm biting into this expecting to get fried chicken consistency, and I'm getting what I'm assuming is vanilla ice cream on the back end of this.
00:58:14
Cody Atkinson
I believe so, yes.
00:58:15
Justin Daulton
So, like, I don't know. I'm indifferent. i
00:58:20
Cody Atkinson
Okay.
00:58:20
Justin Daulton
The bucket's a cool idea because you get I'm a big fan. like I have a Ray's ice cream helmet in the in my shelf right here. It's like, I'm a good, I'm a big fan of having the the container to bring home.
00:58:31
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:58:35
Justin Daulton
i don't know if I can get behind eating ice cream in a fried chicken vessel. I don't know.
00:58:40
Cody Atkinson
That's fair. This is a trend that I haven't tried, but it's actually one of those that I've always wanted to try just because I think it's a fun concept.
00:58:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:58:48
Cody Atkinson
I think I would try this at the grocery store first. Like I'd go find the ones that they're selling at like HEB or whatever.
00:58:51
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:58:54
Cody Atkinson
And if I like it there, then I'll get it at the ballpark. But if I don't like it there, then I'm not going to get it at the ballpark. But this isn't some like unique recipe that they've introduced. This is just them taking a concept that got popular outside of the stadium and then doing it with it.
00:59:10
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Okay. I clicked the next picture. Is this going to help you?
00:59:13
Cody Atkinson
Oh, there's more pictures.
00:59:14
Justin Daulton
um Yeah. It's a, it's a drumstick shaped ice cream with a chocolate covered cookie bone center, a coating of white chocolate and candied cornflakes served in a souvenir mini chicken bucket.
00:59:21
Cody Atkinson
No.
00:59:25
Cody Atkinson
All right, I'm back in.
00:59:26
Justin Daulton
Yeah. It's an, that's an immediate smash. give me Give me three of them.
00:59:29
Cody Atkinson
I'm back in.
00:59:30
Justin Daulton
Give me three, give me three more to chef.
00:59:30
Cody Atkinson
Dude, that was like that that was a good call. on the on the There's multiple photos here. The chocolate-covered cookie bone center and the coating of white chocolate changes everything.
00:59:42
Cody Atkinson
I'm trying this 100%.
00:59:42
Justin Daulton
Yes. Yeah. 100%.
00:59:45
Cody Atkinson
Well, I think...
00:59:45
Justin Daulton
can I get to Yankee stadium right now to try it? Like that's an immediate smash.
00:59:48
Cody Atkinson
What a 360. Or what a 180 we just did there. That was an immediate smash.
00:59:52
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:59:53
Cody Atkinson
Shout out to the Yankees for doing that. It's the only thing want to give be credit for. um
00:59:56
Justin Daulton
Fantastic.
00:59:57
Cody Atkinson
Pizza Donuts is coming up next, dude. Only in Colorado where the only thing higher than the elevation of your stadium is the crowd watching the game.
01:00:06
Justin Daulton
The people in it.
01:00:07
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:00:07
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:00:08
Cody Atkinson
They're making Pizza Donuts at Coors Field. These are donuts covered in garlic butter, grated Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, marinara sauce, pesto sauce, and Italian seasoning.
01:00:21
Justin Daulton
So here's my question, and it's on it there, and i obviously i can't tell. Is it still a glazed donut, or is it just something that's cooked like a donut? Like, is it just like a cake donut with the toppings on it?
01:00:32
Cody Atkinson
That's a very good question. i don't know if it's a cake donut or if it's a, ri I don't think it's glazed. I think the garlic butter is taking place of the glaze.
01:00:37
Justin Daulton
Because if it's...
01:00:39
Cody Atkinson
Like, I don't think you would glaze it and then do this on top.
01:00:40
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:00:42
Cody Atkinson
That would weird.
01:00:44
Justin Daulton
Okay. um I'm gonna smash.
01:00:48
Cody Atkinson
Okay.
01:00:49
Justin Daulton
Yeah, and...
01:00:49
Cody Atkinson
I'm going to go, um um I'm going pass on this one. I don't, i I don't want pesto on my donut.
01:00:52
Justin Daulton
ah See, here's the thing.
01:00:54
Cody Atkinson
The pesto, I'm out.
01:00:56
Justin Daulton
Fair. Here's the thing. I'm going to flash you back a couple of years. Okay. You and got, forget what, home plate viewing of the bombers, which was all and all the food you can eat, all the drink you can drink, right?
01:01:08
Cody Atkinson
Oh heck yeah, dude.
01:01:11
Justin Daulton
um I was the only one brave enough to try donut burgers.
01:01:11
Cody Atkinson
that was awesome.
01:01:18
Justin Daulton
Okay. And the donut burger was, the donut burger was delicious, just too sweet.
01:01:18
Cody Atkinson
I do recall that.
01:01:22
Justin Daulton
So that was why I asked about the glazing or the glaze donut at least. And so if it's just a garlic butter, I'm out.
01:01:25
Cody Atkinson
Okay. So if it's glazed, you're out. If it's not glazed, you're in. Okay.
01:01:30
Justin Daulton
Yes. Yes.
01:01:32
Cody Atkinson
I think I'm out either way.
01:01:32
Justin Daulton
Yep.
01:01:33
Cody Atkinson
I've had the, I've had the donut burger at the Rangers stadium before. um I didn't have it at the bombers that night. that's it You would have to tell me, but that's not not a good season for some of us, but um I'm out with the pesto. I don't want pesto on my donut.
01:01:50
Justin Daulton
Fair, fair.
01:01:50
Cody Atkinson
It's the the flavor profiles just too, it's too different for me. if If you tried it and you were like, no, this is really good. Then I would give it a go. But outside of that, like I'm not, I'm not doing this on my own.
01:02:02
Justin Daulton
Well, the good thing is you could probably get into a ah Rockies game for like five bucks and then spend $20 on this. So it it balances out in the long run.
01:02:10
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it absolutely does. i would love to see a Rockies game one day, too. say I think the views from that stadium are pretty sick.
01:02:14
Justin Daulton
Yes.
01:02:17
Justin Daulton
Shout to the Grounds for Russell All-Patriot today, like how immaculate their field looks. And like, it's just so good.
01:02:21
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:02:21
Justin Daulton
Like if you have a chance, like go look at what they did over the weekend. Ballpark's beautiful.
01:02:26
Cody Atkinson
Someone has to take pride in what happens on that field.
01:02:29
Justin Daulton
That's fair.
01:02:30
Cody Atkinson
In this case, it's just the grounds crew. Oh, man, the Marlins are putting out what they call the machete. machete a two foot homemade flour tortilla grilled on a flat top with melted mozzarella and waksica cheeses uh santa didn't say that right house marinated carne asada smoky guajillo pepper sauce salsa verde and cilantro uh the hardest smash that there's ever this is just a this is just a massive like carne asada quesadilla and i'm eating all two feet you gotta get your own
01:02:40
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:02:58
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:03:04
Justin Daulton
Yeah. This, this is just a, just a, ah street taco and I'm down.
01:03:09
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:03:09
Justin Daulton
like Yeah.
01:03:10
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:03:10
Justin Daulton
Where the the good thing when, when you put Mexican food in front of you and i and being from where we're from, it's an almost an immediate smash because just our love for, for Mexican food.
01:03:10
Cody Atkinson
hundred percent.
01:03:18
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:03:20
Justin Daulton
Yeah. The immediate smash.
01:03:21
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:03:21
Justin Daulton
And I can only, and I could be there four hours and try this. So maybe, maybe I try to get to get down to software to try the machete myself.
01:03:24
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:03:27
Cody Atkinson
Well, the, the rays do appear on this list as well. So I do, and the Astros do too. So I do think at some point we have to commit to trying at least one item on this list before the season's up.
01:03:37
Justin Daulton
Okay. Well, I'm going to Rays game in September, so I will definitely try whatever is on the Rays menu whenever we get down to it.
01:03:44
Cody Atkinson
I think it's going to be worth it too. San Diego Padres are putting on a s'mores pretzel. Freshly baked braided pretzel features chocolate graham cracker crumbles and marshmallow whipped cream.
01:03:58
Cody Atkinson
And what appears that there appears to be some marshmallow whipped cream on the pretzel already. And that's like a dipping on the side, which is pretty sick.
01:04:07
Justin Daulton
Yeah, smash.
01:04:08
Cody Atkinson
Yes, mash.
01:04:10
Justin Daulton
like i sleep Sweet pretzels are sweet pretzels aren fantastic.
01:04:10
Cody Atkinson
there' What do you want to say? Yeah.
01:04:14
Justin Daulton
if you if you you know Churros are one thing, but like when you get that like the Indian's cinnamon sugar pretzel, it's so good. so yeah this
01:04:22
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:04:23
Justin Daulton
having and really ah Having all the s'more stuff in it, the graham cracker crumbles, yeah, dude, sign me up.
01:04:28
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. This is not a far departure from just like a chocolate covered pretzel or a cinnamon sugar pretzel. Like I've had enough close to this to know that I need this.
01:04:39
Cody Atkinson
And yeah, I meet it every time.
01:04:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah. And I'm going to go straight into a sugar comatose after it that I'm go need like a beer or something to like balance me out after eating it.
01:04:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. du Dude, were you looking ahead? Cause the very next thing we have is chicken and churros. You were just talking to the Chicago Cubs are putting out. So this, this is funnel shape funnel cake shaped. It's churros, crispy fried chicken thighs served with golden brown churros, ancho syrup, and fresh strawberries.
01:05:10
Cody Atkinson
Uh, I'm definitely eating this. I, I honestly not a big chicken and waffles guy. Um,
01:05:15
Justin Daulton
Sure.
01:05:15
Cody Atkinson
I find it too hard to get like all of, i find it too hard to get the bite that gets the good combo of them. and And I just, I find it not, it always sounds better than it is, but um one thing they're doing well here, they're doing chicken thighs, not chicken tenders.
01:05:31
Justin Daulton
yeah
01:05:32
Cody Atkinson
You're getting the dark meat chicken, which I think is going to be a good serve here. And the churro, gotta know, like I'm i'm getting this.
01:05:42
Justin Daulton
If it's fresh, if the churro's not fresh on it, immediately out. Because, like, a steel churro on it is awful.
01:05:47
Cody Atkinson
It's probably not.
01:05:50
Justin Daulton
But just...
01:05:50
Cody Atkinson
it's It's a ballpark.
01:05:51
Justin Daulton
the Correct. But the picture they have, smash.
01:05:55
Cody Atkinson
The picture sure looks good.
01:05:55
Justin Daulton
Like, picture looks great. Like, I don't know, man. Like, I'm a big kind of a churro.
01:06:00
Cody Atkinson
That is a good call on the. That's a good call on the freshness of the churro could kill the whole thing.
01:06:02
Justin Daulton
Like, I...
01:06:05
Justin Daulton
Yeah, like I mean, I live in theme parks, so like I know what a good churro is. so like if you mess up the churro, this whole situation is a a failed experiment. But if I lived in Chicago, this would be something I got like every single night I was at the ballpark.
01:06:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:06:19
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I'm at least trying it once. If the churro is fresh, I'm getting it every day for the rest of my life. If the churro is not fresh, I'm i'm moving on.
01:06:26
Justin Daulton
Yeah, absolutely.
01:06:26
Cody Atkinson
But I'm getting it.
01:06:26
Justin Daulton
But I agree with you with the chicken thigh.
01:06:26
Cody Atkinson
100% getting it.
01:06:28
Justin Daulton
You get that that juicier...
01:06:28
Cody Atkinson
Throw all the strawberries out. Those are just decoration, though.
01:06:31
Justin Daulton
Yeah, that's great.
01:06:31
Cody Atkinson
That's stupid.
01:06:32
Justin Daulton
I don't I'm not eating healthy at ballpark.
01:06:32
Cody Atkinson
Not eating those.
01:06:33
Justin Daulton
Get that get the fruit out of here.
01:06:34
Cody Atkinson
No. not They're not even on top of it.
01:06:34
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the the juicy chicken.
01:06:36
Cody Atkinson
They're just off to the side. I'm not doing that.
01:06:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the the juicy chicken thighs immediately such a better choice than like the the tender or the or the breasts.
01:06:42
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:06:43
Justin Daulton
So like immediately yeah I'm with you on the goal the chicken thigh.
01:06:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We're moving to, i guess we're staying with the dessert theme. So this is going to be third dessert item in a row.
01:06:56
Cody Atkinson
Arizona Diamondbacks, in my opinion, known to do these trends very well with there with their end game.
01:06:56
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:07:01
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm. They had the hot dog a couple seasons ago.
01:07:04
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I think they were kind of one of the originators of the like, we're putting crazy food in the stadium. um They have the Take Me Out to the Ball Game Shake, a salted caramel shake with whipped cream peanut butter sandwich cookies. Those are Nutter Butters.
01:07:20
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
01:07:20
Cody Atkinson
I just used the brand name. Kit Kat bars and Cracker Jacks. So this is one of the fancy new shakes, right? Like you've you've seen these these kind of gourmet shakes where you – yeah, yeah.
01:07:28
Justin Daulton
Yeah, we have one at Universal. we Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:07:31
Cody Atkinson
So it's it's shake all the way up to the top, and then they just – they top it like a like a Bloody Mary with just everything they can put on it.
01:07:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:07:38
Cody Atkinson
And um I'm eating it.
01:07:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the the hard part about this is usually the milkshake and the ice cream is an afterthought because we have one, the Tusam Chocolate Emporium at Universal. It's really good.
01:07:51
Justin Daulton
The toppings are just so rich and sugary that by time you get to the milkshake, you're just like, meh, don't really care about the milkshake.
01:07:53
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:07:58
Justin Daulton
um But I do like the fact that it's a salted caramel, so maybe you do get a different balance of flavors in there.
01:08:02
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:08:05
Justin Daulton
It's a smash. It's not a passionate smash like it was for the other ones. But i do... I do...
01:08:11
Cody Atkinson
didn't know. passion in this room. Sorry.
01:08:21
Justin Daulton
It's still good, just not as good as the other ones.
01:08:23
Cody Atkinson
Understood. No, I get that. I've never tried one of these gourmet milkshakes before, so I don't actually have experience with like how how it all comes together. It looks incredible in every photo, but never tried one. I certainly, certainly would try this one.
01:08:40
Justin Daulton
We'll get to Orlando later this year. We'll do a podcast live in person and and then we'll we'll...
01:08:44
Cody Atkinson
Pop-tart bowl. Or Pop-Tart Bowl, we're coming.
01:08:48
Justin Daulton
Okay, is that official? Pop-Tart Bowl?
01:08:50
Cody Atkinson
I mean, it's as official as something can be when the tickets don't go on sale for four more, or for like six more months.
01:08:56
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:08:56
Cody Atkinson
I think the game the game is six months from today, but it's about as official as it can get six months out when tickets aren't on sale yet.
01:08:57
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:09:02
Justin Daulton
ah Okay, perfect, perfect.
01:09:03
Cody Atkinson
We don't know who's playing.
01:09:04
Justin Daulton
Okay, cool. But yeah, we'll do a podcast live and we'll go to CityWalk and we'll get you one of these top-level shakes because easily accessible at Universal.
01:09:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, on game. uh washington national so this is the dc monument chicken tower and impeccable name dc mut chicken incredible uh the item itself does not do justice to how good the name is um it's a sandwich featuring grilled chicken smoked bacon mixed greens chipotle ranch gruyere cheese and a soft pretzel bun i think this looks plenty delicious but i feel like you could get this at any brunch restaurant in any major city in the u.s i think this is gonna be a pass for me because i feel like i've had this i've had this as a hipster brunch before and i just i don't need it at a ballpark too incredible name though
01:09:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:09:53
Justin Daulton
Yeah, great name. um I do like the little baseball skewer in the top.
01:09:56
Cody Atkinson
yeah the three pickles is a nice touch too they're not cheap and i don't know yeah
01:09:58
Justin Daulton
like That's a, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it just still takes something I could get at Chick-fil-A. So it's a pass.
01:10:05
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I'm sure it's good. um and No fault with him going this way. It's just I think this is too common of a of an idea.
01:10:12
Justin Daulton
I feel like they could have done so much more with it.
01:10:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah. Tampa Bay Rays, here we go, Justin.
01:10:17
Justin Daulton
Oh my god.
01:10:17
Cody Atkinson
this is what you This is what you agreed to get before you saw what it was, the Oreo brownie milkshake.
01:10:20
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:10:22
Cody Atkinson
So this is very reminiscent of the Arizona milkshake we just saw, except a little a little more calm on the toppings, which I think it seems like you might like.
01:10:31
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:10:32
Cody Atkinson
There's what looks like half of a brownie. And then an upside down a sugar cone. I don't, I like they kind of going into it You have, and then mostly just sprinkles and whipped cream, a chocolate soft serve milkshake in an Oreo rimmed cup topped with a mini ice cream cone.
01:10:39
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:10:49
Cody Atkinson
Like I said, in a brawny wedge. ah Yeah, dude. If you put this next to the Arizona one, I'm trying this one first.
01:10:57
Justin Daulton
Yeah, this this one is though yeah more approachable.
01:10:57
Cody Atkinson
It's more approachable. I
01:11:00
Justin Daulton
Do I get to keep the cup? is it If it's not a paper cup, I'm so i'm stoked.
01:11:03
Cody Atkinson
have to.
01:11:04
Justin Daulton
If it's just a normal...
01:11:05
Cody Atkinson
I have to imagine this is keepable. it looks It looks like it would be a clear plastic cup.
01:11:08
Justin Daulton
like If it is...
01:11:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah, if it if it's a if it's a cup I can bring home, this is elite. like s tier. Yes.
01:11:15
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, because it says Devil Rays, which is sick.
01:11:18
Justin Daulton
yes like this like um and i love that this city connects uh as well yeah immediate smash and it's like who doesn't love oreo and brownie like mixed together like yeah so good yeah immediate
01:11:21
Cody Atkinson
thank you
01:11:27
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:11:29
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. I think this is one of the better we one of the better executed ones on the list, if you ask me.
01:11:36
Justin Daulton
yeah 100 one hundred percent
01:11:38
Cody Atkinson
all right seattle mariners this one you might have to help me on this this is the most unclear thing i've ever seen it's the washington state ferry boat which i think is just the vessel that carries this food it says nothing about the food it just the mariner celebrates 75 years of the washington state ferries system and 50 years of the franchise with a souvenir that can be that can hold food too so it is unclear
01:12:02
Justin Daulton
it looks like fried It looks like fried fish.
01:12:04
Cody Atkinson
It does look like, it looks like fish and chips with tartar sauce on the side. I'm out. um I don't want...
01:12:09
Justin Daulton
Hang on, let me see if I can get the... If I can actually get it from Washington...
01:12:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, because it it is it is very unclear whether you can get multiple things that just go in this boat and you're paying for the boat, or if you have to get what appears to be fish and chips with tartar sauce in in said boat. Very cool boat, I will say. Like, the vessel...
01:12:34
Cody Atkinson
is is quite exhilarating i could see why you would want it but i'm i'm not efficient chips at a ballpark guy
01:12:39
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:12:43
Justin Daulton
So it looks like you have options.
01:12:46
Cody Atkinson
okay okay
01:12:47
Justin Daulton
Are selling a new Washington State Ferris souvenir boat for various food options at Seattle Sea Mumble Park Available as an $8 upgrade to your food options like nachos, chicken tenders, and fries, fans can take home a novelty food vessel that is synonymous with the city of Seattle.
01:13:02
Justin Daulton
Also included with the fair are two sauce holders on each side. According to the Mariners' press release, the idea of the Supermanyer Fair is celebrate 75 years of the Washington so State Fair system and 50 seasons of the Seattle Mariners.
01:13:15
Justin Daulton
um
01:13:16
Cody Atkinson
So I think this just doesn't count.
01:13:17
Justin Daulton
Yeah. elder
01:13:18
Cody Atkinson
This isn't a food. You're just getting normal food in a boat.
01:13:20
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it's it's it's the vessel. Yeah.
01:13:23
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. but we We can skip.
01:13:24
Justin Daulton
I do like that it's only an eight. I will say only an $8 upgrade is fairly inexpensive for something like this because this looks nice.
01:13:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:13:32
Justin Daulton
It looks like it's is on paper. It looks like an actual, like, I could, you could put that out.
01:13:35
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. I mean, coming from a...
01:13:37
Justin Daulton
Like if you're Mariner's fan, like you could put it out there on the table and do a little charcoatery with it.
01:13:38
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:13:43
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I mean, kind of coming from a kind of a team, you would expect them to upcharge this way worse than they did. So shout out to them for making it affordable to the fan. But I would say this, but based on the fact that this isn't actually a food, I think this is outside the scope of our ah of our game here.
01:14:01
Cody Atkinson
So if you're a Mariners fan or visiting the Mariners, go get it if you want it, but it is not food.
01:14:02
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it's a pass just because I'm not a...
01:14:08
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i even if I visited T-Mobile Park this year, it would still be a pass. I'm not spending that and putting it my suitcase to get back to Orlando.
01:14:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:14:16
Justin Daulton
Not doing that.
01:14:16
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. So we'll move on to actual food here. The Philadelphia Phillies, the Schwerbaum Sunday, as you noted, i think he's leading the majors in home runs. So Schwerbaum's a plenty in Philadelphia now that they're they're back up.
01:14:26
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it sure is.
01:14:31
Cody Atkinson
It comes in a mini helmet. I think that's huge. It is soft serve of ice cream topped with a funnel cake fried strawberry uncrustable.
01:14:34
Justin Daulton
Elite. Yeah.
01:14:42
Cody Atkinson
Oh, buddy.
01:14:42
Justin Daulton
Love it. Love it.
01:14:43
Cody Atkinson
Fresh strawberry sauce and fruity cereal pieces. These are fruity pebbles um or off-brand fruity pebbles. this is This is a hard smash, man.
01:14:55
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:56
Cody Atkinson
A double. You're taking ah ah a sandwich and you fried it in funnel cake batter. Like, yeah, I'm here for it.
01:15:02
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah. It's first off, everything tastes better out of a mini helmet, whether it's nachos, ice cream, whatever it is, everything tastes better out a mini helmet. um But then you, yeah, you deep fried and uncrossed bowl. So you're just speaking to my Texan heart at that point.
01:15:17
Justin Daulton
um And then you're just giving me soft serve ice cream, which is also elite at a ballpark.
01:15:19
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:15:20
Justin Daulton
Yeah. The heart's match.
01:15:21
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. This belongs at a state fair, truthfully.
01:15:24
Justin Daulton
Yes. Yeah. This, ah I expect this to be at the Houston rodeo.
01:15:28
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. um'm andnna I'm going to skip over this 999 challenge here. Um, Unless you got anything you want to quickly say about it, I think this is a very well-known thing. And teams are just kind of picking up on making their own version now, which is cool in a way. But also they're they're giving you smaller portions than if you did the 999 naturally. not that I would try either because I don't think i would survive.
01:15:52
Justin Daulton
So here's my only thought, right? in first off, you're not you're not consuming nine hot dogs and nine beers in one inning. So your food is going to start getting cold and your beers are going to get warm.
01:16:04
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:16:05
Justin Daulton
So this is a terrible idea because the idea of the 999 is you can get up and move around and allow the food to work its way through and the beer to work its way through by stretching your legs and going to get your next beer or hot dog.
01:16:17
Justin Daulton
So by doing this and getting it all in the first inning, you're going to have really warm beer and that's just not what i want out of allpar So pass.
01:16:26
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. hard Hard pass there. Uh, New York Mets, Mr. Met chocolate whoopie pie. So I had to look this up earlier in the day. What a whoopie pie is. Um, so I've never heard of this before in my life.
01:16:38
Cody Atkinson
Um, this is two kind of pieces of chocolate cake here with a, uh, a cream filling in the middle. i you know, I, I guess you would think standard, like little Debbie cream type of cream.
01:16:53
Cody Atkinson
Um, and And then now obviously it's shaped here to look like mr Met. There's nothing over overtly exciting about this, but I definitely, if you give me a dessert that looks like Mr. Met, I'm going to eat it.
01:17:08
Cody Atkinson
Because like I got to.
01:17:08
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i think i think from the novelty perspective, yes, I'll eat it.
01:17:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:17:16
Justin Daulton
If it's just like a normal thing that it was in the ballpark, I'd find it's blocked right past it, though.
01:17:20
Cody Atkinson
yeah yeah if this wasn't cut out to be a fun shape i'm probably not getting it because i think it's just too i think it's too standard like you're like there's nothing there's not a big draw it's just normal at that point but i am gonna fall for the novelty of it 100
01:17:36
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:17:39
Cody Atkinson
all right i think we're getting yeah so that's what i'm saying like some of these Like this is making me think colorado like ah like a stop in Colorado is it is is this because the next two are the Rockies.
01:17:40
Justin Daulton
Oh, the Rockies back on the list.
01:17:51
Cody Atkinson
So like a stop in Colorado it is a stop well spent. They're coming up next on the list with a Dubai cinnamon roll. So this is I think everybody knows about Dubai chocolate at this point. This is a cinnamon roll topped with chocolate, vanilla ice cream that is coated in pistachio, with pistachio, caramel puff, cereal chocolate.
01:18:11
Cody Atkinson
k kaaifi which I guess is, I don't know.
01:18:12
Justin Daulton
Katafi? Katafi? ah
01:18:15
Cody Atkinson
We are close enough, um which is what makes Dubai chocolate, Dubai chocolate. I did not think I was somebody who would like Dubai chocolate. I had Dubai chocolate covered strawberries recently.
01:18:26
Cody Atkinson
it was incredible. It it was like that the Dubai chocolate, the pistachio mixed with the chocolate was way better than I thought i was going to be. I would try this in a heartbeat.
01:18:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I don't think I've had Dubai chocolate yet. So I can't speak on whether am that person or not. um i am a fan of cinnamon rolls. So I think you got me just on the cinnamon roll aspect of things.
01:18:47
Cody Atkinson
here
01:18:49
Justin Daulton
um I'm out on the Dubai chocolate until I tried. I needed i need a baseline. that That can't be my first experience with Dubai chocolate.
01:18:54
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:18:57
Justin Daulton
I need to have a baseline first.
01:18:57
Cody Atkinson
That's a good point.
01:18:59
Justin Daulton
So I think
01:18:59
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. you, you gotta, you gotta to get out there and try this. Like I i thought it was going to be overrated. I didn't think I was going to like it, I'm telling you these do buy chocolate covered strawberries. I was like, Oh my God, I'm in heaven.
01:19:09
Justin Daulton
Okay, yeah, I'll get a baseline and then I'll report back.
01:19:10
Cody Atkinson
So yeah.
01:19:11
Justin Daulton
As of right now, indifferent. So there you go
01:19:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got get the baseline. You can't have a good, ah you can't have a good feel for this menu item without knowing kind of what, what, what it's constructed of.
01:19:23
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:19:24
Cody Atkinson
But what you can know about is the Glizilla, which is coming up next.
01:19:26
Justin Daulton
My God.
01:19:28
Cody Atkinson
Also in Colorado, a two foot, one pound hot dog designed for sharing asterisk. you don't have to share. It doesn't give us a lot of description here, but this appears to be covered in macaroni and,
01:19:43
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it looks like a mac and cheese scenario here.
01:19:43
Cody Atkinson
um Like maybe some, yeah, maybe some jalapenos or some salsa or something. um
01:19:50
Justin Daulton
Yeah, definitely some sort of sauce. Yeah.
01:19:52
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell.
01:19:52
Justin Daulton
A
01:19:54
Cody Atkinson
There's a green and a red to it. So it make it it leads me down the salsa side of things.
01:19:59
Justin Daulton
little salsa verde action there.
01:20:01
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, but it's it's a little bit hard to tell. I'm trying it though. I'm a sucker.
01:20:06
Cody Atkinson
If you put macaroni on a burger or a hot dog like or a pizza, like I'm going to try it.
01:20:06
Justin Daulton
ah you
01:20:13
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i here's like I've had a mac and cheese hot dog before and it slaps.
01:20:16
Cody Atkinson
Okay.
01:20:17
Justin Daulton
So yeah, this is this is a smash.
01:20:18
Cody Atkinson
Now there you go. Yeah.
01:20:19
Justin Daulton
It just harkens back to something the only regret that I think you and I have from college is not trying the stoner pie from Gumby's. um It makes me want to go out to College Station with you so we can try the stoner pie from Gumby's.
01:20:27
Cody Atkinson
Oh yeah.
01:20:30
Cody Atkinson
I'm not sure the Gumby's is still open if we're being honest here.
01:20:30
Justin Daulton
And that's what this reminds me of.
01:20:34
Justin Daulton
God, that would suck if Gumby's, if Gumby's is gone, this since that's like that's a loss for College Station.
01:20:34
Cody Atkinson
It might have closed down.
01:20:38
Cody Atkinson
And I'm just going to say I went to bat so hard for trying that like every day and nobody ever wanted to try it.
01:20:44
Justin Daulton
You did. You did.
01:20:47
Cody Atkinson
I was like, dude, guys, it's a pizza covered in mozzarella sticks and anything they can find in the fridge at the moment.
01:20:47
Justin Daulton
Yep.
01:20:52
Cody Atkinson
Why aren't we trying this? And then nobody ever wanted to try it with me.
01:20:55
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:20:56
Cody Atkinson
And I couldn't go buy it on my own.
01:20:57
Justin Daulton
If Gumby's is still next time I come to Houston, we're going conversation so we can try the Stunner pie.
01:20:58
Cody Atkinson
It was too sad.
01:21:04
Justin Daulton
I will make that agreement for you right now.
01:21:05
Cody Atkinson
Dude.
01:21:06
Justin Daulton
You're on the pod.
01:21:06
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. It's illegally binding. You said it on air.
01:21:09
Justin Daulton
Yep.
01:21:10
Cody Atkinson
All right, we're we're wrap we're wrapping this up now.
01:21:11
Justin Daulton
What we got next?
01:21:13
Cody Atkinson
we got This is the Astros one, which I will commit to trying by the end of the season. This is brisket donuts.
01:21:19
Justin Daulton
okay
01:21:21
Cody Atkinson
So two fried brisket donuts in quotation. So i'm I'm guessing it's just shaped like a donut and it's not actually a donut. I think this is just fried brisket made out to look like a donut covered in barbecue sauce um on top of homemade mac and cheese, but then also there's just some shredded
01:21:31
Justin Daulton
okay lettuce looks like you might have little lettuce situation on top too
01:21:41
Cody Atkinson
Cheddar cheese is what it looks like kind of on top. This, I think you see a little bit. Okay, maybe, maybe a little bit of lettuce, maybe some coleslaw, something like that.
01:21:51
Cody Atkinson
Hard to say.
01:21:52
Justin Daulton
i yeah Maybe a slaw, yeah.
01:21:53
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, or that, honestly, that looks like it might be like crispy onion strips or something.
01:21:58
Justin Daulton
Ah, even better.
01:21:59
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, i' i'm I'm trying it. like Like this is a, I love brisket. I love deep fried things. We've already talked about I'm a sucker for mac and cheese. Yeah, it's an easy decision.
01:22:10
Cody Atkinson
I'm getting this.
01:22:11
Justin Daulton
I guess my thing is I've never had fried brisket. So like, I'm just curious and all into itself of like, what is fried brisket like? Cause is it like, is it is it, does it harken back to like chicken fried steak?
01:22:18
Cody Atkinson
I don't know. Got to start somewhere.
01:22:22
Justin Daulton
Cause if it is like, yeah, I'm on board. I'm on board regardless.
01:22:26
Cody Atkinson
I mean, I've had... I'm sure I'll put it this way.
01:22:26
Justin Daulton
I like.
01:22:27
Cody Atkinson
I've had turkey and I've had fried turkey. I like them both. I've had steak.
01:22:31
Justin Daulton
Fair.
01:22:31
Cody Atkinson
I've had chicken fried steak.
01:22:32
Justin Daulton
Fair.
01:22:33
Cody Atkinson
I like them both. So I don't think frying brisket is going to make it
01:22:34
Justin Daulton
Fair.
01:22:37
Cody Atkinson
any less than what it was.
01:22:40
Justin Daulton
Fair. Well, whenever you make the trip to Daikin, I need a play-by-boy of the consumption of this brisket donut.
01:22:45
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:22:48
Cody Atkinson
yeah It's funny because I've already been twice this season and i kind of forgot that I was going get this. i just didn't do it.
01:22:54
Justin Daulton
But it's for the pot now, so you have to do it.
01:22:54
Cody Atkinson
And yeah, only now, because I think I told you back in April when this was first dropped, I said I'm committed to trying this this year and then I just forgot.
01:23:01
Justin Daulton
Yes. Well, now it's now it's on now it's on the internet, so you have to do it.
01:23:05
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:23:05
Justin Daulton
So congratulations.
01:23:07
Cody Atkinson
Thank you. ah Boston Red Sox lobster poutine, not lobster poutine, lobster poutine.
01:23:14
Justin Daulton
laster
01:23:15
Cody Atkinson
This is crispy Cavendish Farms fries, Luke's lobster meat, clam chowder, and crispy bacon served in this little paper boat.
01:23:26
Justin Daulton
I'm out just because I don't like seafood as much as other people.
01:23:28
Cody Atkinson
Dude, I could not be further out.
01:23:30
Justin Daulton
And that's okay. but um But I will say the boat elite. I would i would get it just for the boat.
01:23:40
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, boat absolutely elite. I have in no way, shape or form in this life or the next. Are you convincing me to eat lobster and clam chowder from a ballpark?
01:23:53
Cody Atkinson
I'm just not doing it. I've worked ballpark concessions before.
01:23:55
Justin Daulton
fair
01:23:57
Cody Atkinson
I'm not buying lobster or clam chowder from them and I'm certainly not putting them together.
01:24:03
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:24:04
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I'm not making it to the ninth inning.
01:24:04
Justin Daulton
Cool idea though, especially for up there.
01:24:07
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, no, it's a very fun idea. I shout out to that. If you live in the area and your stomach's built for it, good for you. I'm not making it through the game. If I order that.
01:24:16
Justin Daulton
I mean, it's the same way people look at us for the amount of Mexican food we consume.
01:24:19
Cody Atkinson
That's true.
01:24:19
Justin Daulton
Like, our songs are just built for it.
01:24:22
Cody Atkinson
That's true. they're yeah they're They're wrong though. And this is the last one. We are, this is, this wraps up the list here. The, from the Pittsburgh pirates, the heavy hitter dog, This is a foot log, long hot dog with cornbread coating, which I believe just means this is a foot long corn dog.
01:24:38
Cody Atkinson
I don't know if maybe that's just not well known in the whole country, but like this is what we call a corn dog.
01:24:39
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
01:24:44
Cody Atkinson
Yellow mustard and pico de gallo served in a special baseball bat boat. The baseball bat boat is paper. uh so this is i'm gonna be honest and this is i think this is a signature thing for pittsburgh um i'm pretty sure i just ate this as a child like this is just mustard and pico on a corn dog like they're not doing anything that crazy or i'll eat it because i'm pretty sure i've had this before just because that's what was in the fridge you know
01:25:12
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I wonder if this heavy hitter is a brand and it just means something to Pittsburgh. um And this was just kind of their their way of doing something.
01:25:17
Cody Atkinson
well maybe
01:25:20
Justin Daulton
But I'm with you, like yellow mustard is just synonymous with what you do with ah with a corn dog.
01:25:24
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:25:25
Justin Daulton
I'm not even the biggest mustard fan, but I still dip my corn dog in mustard because it it makes the most sense. um
01:25:30
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:25:31
Justin Daulton
The pico is fine. i could I'm not the biggest pico guy, but pico is fine.
01:25:36
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. I mean, the yeah, I guess from from where we sit, I don't view this as adventurous.
01:25:37
Justin Daulton
I'll eat it just for the sake of eating it.
01:25:44
Cody Atkinson
So like, yeah, I'll try it.
01:25:44
Justin Daulton
Sure. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
01:25:47
Cody Atkinson
Cause I'm, I'm pretty sure I've just like had a corn dog and mustard and like Pico was nearby and i was like, Hmm, I wonder what this would be. And then I just did, because that's just like, those are just the ingredients you have nearby in Texas in the nineties or the early two thousands.
01:26:03
Justin Daulton
Fair, for fair, fair, fair.
01:26:04
Cody Atkinson
Uh, I find it interesting that this is viewed as adventurous, but, um, for Pittsburgh, maybe it is.
01:26:11
Justin Daulton
yeah I don't know what normal food culture is in Pittsburgh outside of
01:26:12
Cody Atkinson
And that's yeah.
01:26:14
Justin Daulton
outside of Philly's cheesesteaks. okay.
01:26:18
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I've been there once. Permanee Brothers was the bomb. Huge fan of Permanee Brothers. you i think I think it's, if I'm not mistaken, it's known for putting fries on the burger.
01:26:29
Cody Atkinson
Like it comes out of the kitchen with fries on the burger.
01:26:30
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Okay.
01:26:31
Cody Atkinson
it was It was elite.
01:26:31
Justin Daulton
yeah
01:26:33
Cody Atkinson
i was a huge fan. I don't know much else about Pittsburgh outside of that.
01:26:34
Justin Daulton
moving
01:26:38
Cody Atkinson
But that's what we got today, man. Those are the... I think near 20-ish menu items that are new to 2026. If you're listening to us from a city that's not Houston or Tampa, hopefully yours made the list.
01:26:51
Cody Atkinson
Get out there, give it a try. Let us know what let us know what it was like. We are committed to trying the ones near us and and and letting you know if if they're worth a the the trip as well, especially. i guess like I could have done this before and I could have been like, for those traveling to Houston for the World Cup, so we can buy the Astros and get them. But But I didn't do that. So you're going have to come to Houston for like work or something. because By the time I try this, the World Cup will be will be long gone from town.
01:27:19
Cody Atkinson
But that's what we got, man. ah Ballpark food is is headed in an incredible direction. that that was a ton of fun to just look these over and and pick them apart. There's some hits, there's some misses. But but man, it's fun to to to see what they're doing at these stadiums nowadays.
01:27:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, no, 100%. It gets me excited to go because I didn't get to go to a Rays game last year because Athena was under one and we just couldn't really get out of the house a whole lot. So very excited to to get back to the ballpark later this summer and enjoy some Rays baseball in the trough where I don't have to die in 100 degree heat watching a baseball game.
01:27:57
Justin Daulton
But I can also go get what it looks like to be a very delicious milkshake while that game is happening.
01:28:03
Cody Atkinson
Absolutely. And with that, we'll, oh, you got something else?
01:28:05
Justin Daulton
um Well, got next week. We we got to tell them what next week is.
01:28:09
Cody Atkinson
Oh, that's what i was about to do.
01:28:09
Justin Daulton
um
01:28:10
Cody Atkinson
I'll let you do it. Go for it.
01:28:11
Justin Daulton
Okay, okay. My bad, my bad. Next week, we have the top 10 last b list video for you guys for the summer. um Top 10 sports moments that shaped our fandoms. Cody, let's go ahead and set the precedent because I know you you hate doing list videos and all this stuff. So I'm going to set it now.
01:28:27
Cody Atkinson
Okay.
01:28:27
Justin Daulton
it's all It's all sports leagues.
01:28:29
Justin Daulton
So it can be it can be professional to amateur. It can be you know international. it can be you know It can be any sport moment that shaped the fandom into what it is today.
01:28:42
Justin Daulton
So it can be what allowed you to be as, yeah, personal.
01:28:43
Cody Atkinson
It's personal, right? It's my fandom, right?
01:28:46
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:28:46
Cody Atkinson
Okay. Right.
01:28:47
Justin Daulton
like what made you an A&M person is going different than what made me an A&M person, right?
01:28:51
Cody Atkinson
right
01:28:51
Justin Daulton
So it can be those things, but I want to know what the top 10 moments that made you into who you are today as a sports fan. It can be good memories. It can be bad memories. We've we've got enough bad memories over A&M football that still keep us hook and line and sinker into the next season.
01:29:03
Cody Atkinson
Certainly do.
01:29:05
Justin Daulton
so um
01:29:06
Cody Atkinson
Certainly do.
01:29:08
Justin Daulton
So definitely that. And then in two Mondays from now will be your solo episode, which you're giving me hints on what you were going to do. That might be different now with some recent announcements.
01:29:17
Cody Atkinson
It's going to be different now, man. I was going to break down the wild off season and learn.
01:29:19
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
01:29:22
Cody Atkinson
i was going to take everyone on a journey with me to learn my new team. it is going to be different now. that That episode is the day of the home run derby. So we will be in the midst of baseball all-star festivities.
01:29:31
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
01:29:35
Cody Atkinson
The draft is that weekend um and we'll be less than a month away from the trade deadline. So hopefully we'll have some, some juice around that. I think it will probably be a baseball all-star break type of,
01:29:47
Cody Atkinson
episode and a little bit of MLB draft, a little bit of home run derby, a little bit of all-star format, a little bit of trade deadline. and you know, baseball will be most but most of what's going still, maybe some world cup and, and we'll kind of just dive into baseball for as long as it takes us to, to wrap it all up.
01:30:05
Justin Daulton
Yeah. And then when I get back from vacation, we will start with our first official college football preview with the newly rejuvenated Pac-10 preview.
01:30:12
Cody Atkinson
Yep.
01:30:15
Cody Atkinson
Pack 10.
01:30:17
Justin Daulton
Yeah. So you to talk about Boise State in the Pac-10 preview. So that'll happen. And then to round off the month of July, our WWE wrestling correspondent, Mike Judd will be joining us for the Summer Slam, which is the WrestleMania summer.
01:30:33
Justin Daulton
So he'll be joining us for for that, where you get to play mediator of doing the predictions like we did for WrestleMania. So we get to watch Cody pronounce names again.
01:30:44
Justin Daulton
So that's always a great time.
01:30:44
Cody Atkinson
yeah yeah
01:30:46
Justin Daulton
We'll see if he does research this time around.
01:30:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, we yeah i'm going to do it I'm going to do it based off of the names that were like impossible to read, too. I think I got someone's name entirely wrong because I thought the E was an in or something like that.
01:30:58
Cody Atkinson
And I was like, I can't read this.
01:30:59
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:31:01
Cody Atkinson
i I think I think and said Ryan Ripley and it was Rhea Ripley or whatever.
01:31:04
Justin Daulton
It was Bria Ripley.
01:31:04
Cody Atkinson
I was like, dude, I thought the H was a Y.
01:31:05
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:31:07
Cody Atkinson
i thought that was like, oh my golly.
01:31:11
Justin Daulton
Absolutely. Well, that that route that's that that gets us through July, but we'll get to some more football previews into August as we get closer and closer to to football season, man. where it We're about two months away from from real football again.
01:31:23
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. And that's that's when the show really, really kicks off because we will be we are crazy about the NFL and and college football.
01:31:34
Cody Atkinson
we Yeah, fantasy football too.
01:31:35
Justin Daulton
Fantasy Football 2. Yeah.
01:31:37
Cody Atkinson
That will be the ah season of the year that we are most excited for and and the only really season that we haven't had a chance to cover yet because we started with the first episode being a Super Bowl recap.
01:31:48
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. that will be kind of the last thing that we have a chance to talk about of all the of all the sports. And so very, very excited. I'm definitely enjoying the summer. It's been a blast doing like these lists and pointless episodes that we we come up with, but it'll be fun to have easy topics every every day now.
01:32:08
Justin Daulton
Yeah, absolutely. We're almost there.
01:32:10
Cody Atkinson
Almost there. But with that, we just, I think, thanks for joining us again. Like I said, if you get a chance to visit one of these ballparks, try some of this food, let us know what it is. Let us know if we if it's worth the stop or also if there's something that's not on this list because it's been around for more than a year or it just didn't make the list for whatever reason. Let us know so that we know to go try that as well or to just let you know in the comments whether we would try it. But with that, thanks for joining us. I'm Cody.
01:32:38
Justin Daulton
I'm Justin.
01:32:39
Cody Atkinson
And we'll catch you next time. Peace.
01:32:42
Justin Daulton
Peace.