00:00Five Reasons I Hate You, Athletics Edition.
00:02Number five, your team is a traveling circus, man.
00:06Yeah.
00:06Oakland, Sacramento, you're going to Vegas pretty soon.
00:11Pick a lane. Pick a lane.
00:13Sacramento wants you there so little that they're not even allowing you
00:20to use their city name in front of your stupid mascot name.
00:24Is that how it went down?
00:26For the purposes of this segment.
00:28Even Sacramento is turning you away.
00:30That's exactly right.
00:30You're not wanted here.
00:32You know what it is?
00:33They should have just taken a couple of years off.
00:36Who wants you anyway?
00:38Yeah.
00:39Would anybody miss the athletics if they just disappeared for a couple of years?
00:43You know what?
00:43I told you one of my favorite all-time burns of any insult I've ever seen anywhere,
00:48but definitely in the NFL,
00:49was when Gary Walker was kind of making fun of another defensive lineman that we had
00:54who was knock-kneed.
00:56And I won't say who it was.
00:58Nobody would remember.
01:00But Gary, they were kind of going back and forth, insulting or whatever, in a fun way.
01:05And then Gary said,
01:07Jerry, just go away.
01:09You are knock-kneeded.
01:13I know who it is.
01:14You are knock-kneeded here.
01:16That's hilarious.
01:17Gary Walker.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Oh, Gary was vicious.
01:20It was awesome.
01:21He was hilarious.
01:22Still is.
01:23But, yeah, he's very funny.
01:24Yep.
01:25All right.
01:26Number four.
01:27Five reasons I hate you.
01:29The athletics edition.
01:31Reason number four.
01:32The whole we're smarter than you money ball smugness that the organization still carries
01:37around to this day.
01:38Yeah, they almost act like, you know what you remind me of?
01:40Italy.
01:41Yeah.
01:41There's always some Italian talking about, oh, the Americans.
01:45They think they are so such and such.
01:47But we invented this and that and the other thing.
01:50Cappuccino, pizza.
01:51Bitch, why are you talking about old things?
01:53Yeah.
01:53I don't want to hear about what you did for me in the past.
01:57No.
01:57Do something now.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Okay?
01:59Dude, here's the thing.
02:01The good teams, the non-poverty teams took all your little spreadsheets and your charts.
02:06Yeah.
02:06Your Billy Bean stuff.
02:08And here we just took it and went and won two World Series.
02:12They took money ball and added money to the equation.
02:14Yeah, that's exactly right.
02:15That's exactly right.
02:16So get your smug ass out of here.
02:19What your stupid owner has done is said, hey, what if we also get rid of, we won't spend
02:26money, but we also won't have any smart people in the organization or good baseball players.
02:30It is one of the sad things about these teams moving to Vegas.
02:35I love that Vegas is becoming sort of a sports hub.
02:38It should be.
02:39Yeah.
02:40But that Mark Davis and the Fisher from Oakland, they're getting this red card.
02:47These are bad owners that are getting the red carpet treatment in Vegas, you know, getting
02:51new stadiums and whatnot.
02:52Even the, we talk about them kind of being a wandering circus.
02:57At least the Titans did it right.
02:59And they had to spend a year in Memphis.
03:00Was it one year or two years?
03:02One year in Memphis.
03:03They had to spend one year in Memphis, but at least that's in the state.
03:05You tell me you couldn't find a place in Reno to go play baseball?
03:08Right.
03:08I mean, come on.
03:09There's a minor league ballpark there.
03:10You're playing in one right now in Sacramento.
03:12All right.
03:13Number three, five reasons I hate you, athletics edition.
03:15This goes back to what we kind of teased at the beginning of this segment is that every
03:20year there's one series where the A's are like 30 games under 500 and yet they sweep
03:28the Astros like this annoying little mosquito bug buzzing in your, you know, a mosquito gets
03:34in your ear and it's like buzzing in your ear and it's like, that's what the A's are
03:38like every once a year, they rise up for no reason.
03:41So part of this is on the Astros.
03:44It's this particular reason is 90% hatred of the A's and 10% get your ass in gear Astros
03:50and don't let that happen again.
03:52I think, uh, by the way, for our listeners, this is a nice little, uh, a little bit of
03:55extra personality of Sean that you might not know or realize, uh, Sean much more so than
04:00the average person, uh, despises flying insects.
04:05And to the point where I feel like you must've had a bad experience as a child or something
04:09swallowing one, maybe you get malaria from that mosquito that was in your ear.
04:12I remember, but that would be something I'd probably have like tucked into the recesses
04:17of my mind and blocked out.
04:18You know what I mean?
04:19One time you, uh, Amy and I were eating at a, at a taqueria and we were sitting outside.
04:26It was a beautiful day.
04:27It was like, it was like mid sixties sometime in spring and you were inside and Amy and
04:33I were outside and, uh, and, and Amy starts looking up and she says, is that a fly?
04:38And I'm looking around.
04:39I was like, yeah, yeah, I think it's a fly.
04:41And she's like, we better go inside.
04:44I never knew this.
04:45Like what?
04:47And she said, Sean's not gonna, this isn't gonna work.
04:53I'm such a diva.
04:57And I looked at her.
04:58I was like, really?
04:59Lies are dirty.
05:00And she looked at me and she's like, yeah, really?
05:03And then I walked out with my butler and two trumpets playing and I'm like, nope, this
05:08shall not stand.
05:09Oh, that's hilarious.
05:11She's never told me that.
05:12You might as well have been wearing a toga.
05:13That's hysterical.
05:14It was a little, a wreath around your head and everything.
05:17Oh my God.
05:17No, I'm the worst.
05:20All right.
05:21Reason number two, five reasons I hate you.
05:23Athletics edition.
05:24Um, they harbored two of the biggest roid cheats of the late eighties.
05:28Cheaters.
05:29Jose Canseco, Mark McGuire managed by the most sanctimonious a-hole in the history of the
05:35game.
05:35Tony La Russa.
05:36Oh, I hate Tony La Russa.
05:39Hey.
05:39He didn't even bring up the, oh no, you will in a minute here.
05:42Yeah.
05:43That's a, yeah.
05:44Yeah.
05:44Mark McGuire, uh, and his, and his obviously roided up face.
05:48Yes.
05:51He got peak roid.
05:52I, he was like peak roids with the Cardinals, but you can't tell me that he wasn't juicing
05:58on something in the late eighties with the A's either, man.
06:00They, uh, oh no, no, no.
06:02Yeah.
06:02That was, I mean, that was probably, that was kind of like the, the, the birthplace of
06:06the modern era of baseball steroid usage, kind of like the Steelers with, uh, in the
06:11NFL.
06:11Yeah.
06:11Like the Steelers were just, the Steelers were in on it early and taking advantage of
06:15it.
06:16Yeah.
06:16You see those old pictures of Mike Webster?
06:18Yeah.
06:18Just a center with like veiny bodybuilder arms.
06:21And it didn't end well for him either.
06:24No, no, no, no, no.
06:25Yeah.
06:25So it's, yeah, they, they, to much acclaim, they took a lot of steroids back then.
06:29And so did the A's and probably influenced a lot of kids in the Bay area to take steroids
06:35as well.
06:36Yeah.
06:36Yeah.
06:36You know, it's an epidemic.
06:38They did that influence.
06:39All right.
06:40Reason number one, there's two things I hate.
06:44It's insects and percussion.
06:46Mm-hmm.
06:46The drums, those effing drums.
06:49Do they still do the drums in Sacramento?
06:52I believe so.
06:52I remember trying to, I was trying to listen for it.
06:55Garrett's listening.
06:56Garrett, the A's fan, is listening right now.
06:59He'll text us and tell us.
07:00It's not as, no, it's part of, I remember it not being as impressive in Sacramento.
07:04It's not as, like, it was obviously a part of the broadcast, so I don't know.
07:07Yeah.
07:08But I'd kind of like to go, like, if I was planning a little bit better, it was Easter
07:13weekend, so I couldn't go.
07:14But if I was planning, like, they're going to go to Sacramento one more time this year.
07:18If it's not a weekend, I might try to do a little road trip out there and just see what
07:22the minor league ballpark's all about.
07:23A lot of their gimmicky stuff, like the drums, came from when they were first a young franchise
07:27and they took a minor league approach to kind of making it a fun experience.
07:32Okay.
07:32They said, you know, kind of just making it as much about the experience as the actual
07:37baseball games and everything, which is kind of cool when you're still in Oakland.
07:40Yeah.
07:41I just, I feel like once you go to the Raiders and you're in a brand new stadium and everything,
07:44it's going to lose some of its personality.
07:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:47So I, but if they, if they're still playing those damn drums, huh?
07:51Now we did get a text from Garrett, our former web guy who is, he's the only A's fan on
07:56earth.
07:56Um, he said, you have no reasons to hate the A's.
07:59We're perfect.
08:00Sure.
08:01We have the worst owner in baseball.
08:03Sure.
08:03We don't have a city.
08:05Sure.
08:05Oh, this was one.
08:06A good call.
08:07Garrett.
08:08We signed the guy who ratted on the Astros.
08:12That's right.
08:12They were the safe haven for Mike.
08:14The rat fires.
08:16Did you have some audio from a Riddick talking about that?
08:21Oh, we did.
08:23Yes.
08:23I thought, I thought for sure we're going to play it in this.
08:26So we'll have to get that by the end of the show.
08:28Yeah, no, no.
08:28We'll do, we'll, we'll, uh, we'll, we'll play it.
08:31We'll, yeah, we, I don't want to do it here because we're up against it.
08:33We'll play it in the next segment.
08:34We'll play it in the next segment.
08:35Yeah.
08:36Josh Riddick had revealed some things about Mike fires.
08:39Did I say Riddick?
08:41I was just, I, I apologize to Riddick.
08:43Uh, I was just reading a Louis Riddick tweet in the last break.
08:46What a jerk.
08:47No, I just, cause I mean, no, I, I, I, I, I'm sorry, Josh.
08:51Kyle Brand's a little angry with you right now that you've mangled somebody's last name.
08:55Put some respect on Josh Riddick's name.
08:56Yeah.
08:56He's a little mad, but.
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