00:00What's the question of the day, fellas?
00:02Well, last night was kind of sad watching Brian Abreu.
00:06And it made me think about a question of the day.
00:08Which athletes who suddenly lost it was just sad?
00:11Can I just tell you, before I answer that question,
00:13I said this to Seth earlier, and I don't know how you guys feel.
00:16I was more angry at Brian Abreu using up the last challenge they had
00:21as a pitcher than I was about the three-run homer.
00:24That's fair.
00:24It was five inches at least out of the zone.
00:28Supposedly, the Astros don't let their pitchers challenge.
00:30It's a rule.
00:31Correct.
00:31This guy.
00:32This guy with his 7.97 ERA is challenging.
00:35What the hell?
00:36Anyways, so guys who just flat-out lost it.
00:40The first one I thought of was Chuck Knobloch.
00:42Oh, wow.
00:43Oh, the yips.
00:44The yips.
00:44That was kind of sad.
00:45Jeremy Lin.
00:46Jeremy Lin was sort of like this.
00:48Well, you're thinking off of Lin Sanity?
00:49I never got sad about that.
00:52Him and his going up into the air without a clue of what he was going to do
00:56with the basketball.
00:58That was always fun.
00:59It was just me.
01:00I'm going to jump now and see what happens.
01:03I need to be looking to pass to the people who weren't there.
01:07Yeah.
01:08Yeah.
01:08I guess I'll shoot it.
01:10I have two Houston-related.
01:12Okay.
01:13Matt Schaub.
01:14Of course.
01:14Matt Schaub.
01:15Ah, you bastard.
01:15You stole mine.
01:16Oh, sorry.
01:17Oh, I got to have two.
01:19All right.
01:19I'm just only going to give that one.
01:21Do you have another one in the holster?
01:22No.
01:23Okay.
01:23No.
01:24He had the one.
01:26He's like, why bring two when you've got a great one?
01:28I apologize.
01:29I apologize.
01:30I've got this one right here.
01:32Yeah.
01:32So, before Cesc gets to his, I've got eight.
01:35Okay.
01:38So, the other one is Jose Abreu.
01:40Oh, Jose Abreu.
01:41Jose Abreu.
01:42Yeah.
01:42Not Brian.
01:43Yeah.
01:43I didn't even.
01:43Yeah.
01:44The other Abreu.
01:46The other Abreu.
01:47Yeah.
01:47Yeah.
01:47Yeah.
01:47And I know he was sort of, like, by some metrics, when they signed him, he was starting
01:52to, you know, which happens when you're 34, 35.
01:55Yeah.
01:55His numbers had started to drag down.
01:57Like, the power number.
01:58Like, a really good batting average in OPS his last year with the White Sox.
02:02Yeah.
02:02And he got here, and other than one month in September of his first year here, he was awful.
02:07Awful.
02:07Can I offer a challenge to this?
02:09Yeah.
02:10Were we at all sad about this?
02:11I feel like that one jumped straight to anger.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Yeah.
02:14That's fair.
02:15Jose Abreu.
02:15Yeah, the Jose Abreu one.
02:16Straight to anger.
02:17Right?
02:17Like that.
02:18Just anger.
02:18In hindsight, though, he always, like, he wore it, and, you know, he wasn't even shy.
02:23He felt, you could tell he felt bad about it.
02:25I would say, you know, I'd add an obscure reference for a Texans player.
02:29Aaron Colvin.
02:31Yeah.
02:31Because Aaron Colvin went from being one of the best slot corners in the NFL to all of
02:34a sudden, in 2019, went from being a starter in week one to off the team within, like,
02:40three weeks.
02:41That's funny.
02:42He got cooked in that week one, too.
02:43He got cooked.
02:44I had a deep cut as well from the Texans, Seth.
02:49Steve Slayton.
02:50Oh, I like Steve Slayton.
02:52That one hurts, too.
02:53Steve Slayton.
02:54He was a bi-weekly guest on mine and John Harris' radio show back in 2008.
03:00Wasn't he offensive rookie of the year?
03:01He was up there.
03:02He set, I don't know if he was the offensive rookie of the year, he set the all-time Texans
03:07record at the time for all-purpose yards in a season, and I think he set the rookie
03:11record for all-purpose yards.
03:12Yeah, he was amazing his rookie year.
03:14That was supposed to be Amon Green that was doing it that year.
03:17Oh, that's right.
03:18Yeah, that was supposed to be an Amon Green year, and then here comes Steve Slayton.
03:21And then, you know what did him in?
03:23Is he came back to camp the next year, and he was slight, he was small, and he took a
03:28lot of punishment his rookie year.
03:30And we would see, Johnny and I would see him in person every couple weeks, and by the end
03:33of the year, he was not moving well.
03:34Yeah.
03:35He was taking, they were pounding him into the ground.
03:38So he, looking like he ate Steve Slayton, like he was huge.
03:44And ironically, he's a chef now.
03:46Oh, really?
03:47He is.
03:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:48Chris Myers told me that a few years ago.
03:50Yeah.
03:51Yeah.
03:51Steve Slayton's like a gourmet chef now.
03:53That's awesome.
03:54So he can eat all he wants, and he can get as big as he wants to.
03:56Yeah.
03:56Hell yeah.
03:57That's a good one.
03:58Steve Slayton.
03:59One year wonder, Steve Slayton.
04:01So, all right, fellas.
04:02Well, Seth, antibodies to you, my friend.
04:05Antibodies to you.
04:06And Mad Magazine was generally considered to have more cultural influence and a distinctive
04:13voice as to Cracked Magazine, which was just what people read after they finished reading
04:19Mad Magazine.
04:20Yeah, yeah.
04:20Cracked was the Beatles.
04:22Cracked was the Monkees.
04:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:24No, Mad was your hilarious friend you went on a road trip with.
04:28Cracked was the one like, okay, when am I going to be done talking to this guy?
04:32You're my buddy and everything, but when's this conversation?
04:35Cracked was the girl you snuck out before your roommates woke up.
04:38Yeah, yes, yes.
04:40Cracked was a butter face.
04:42Yes.
04:42You have to go now.
04:44You got to go now.
04:47No cuddling.
04:48All right.
04:49We're done.
04:50We're out of time.
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04:57John, is it weird that I oddly got defensive of the Monkees there?
05:00I love the Monkees.
05:01I feel like a lot of people do.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Like variety shows and everything.
05:05I feel like Seth was wrong in slandering the Monkees in that moment.
05:09I have seen the Monkees in concert.
05:11I bet you have.
05:12Yeah, yeah.
05:13I sure have.
05:13Yeah, man, like you were old enough to be their parents, weren't you?
05:16This is like one of those insane days, which is like, tell us how old you are and by what
05:22concert you went to for the first time.
05:24Elvis was my first concert.
05:25Look, I've been to a Monkees.
05:26Elvis was my first concert.
05:27You're 97 years old.
05:28But to be fair, I was like 10, 11.
05:30What's that, Seth?
05:31Yeah, I've been to a Monkees concert too, John.
05:33And I was in fourth grade, and I could tell that it was just crap.
05:39Yeah.
05:41It was just, what are you talking about?
05:44Like comparing the Monkees to the Beatles.
05:46Like the Monkees were a satire of the Beatles.
05:49Like they're just, oh.
05:50How many Monkees can you name?
05:52Catchy tunes and everything.
05:54I don't know.
05:54There was the good looking one, and there was the guy that invented.
05:58There was the other one that invented, what did he invent?
06:01Whiteout or something in real life?
06:03Peter Tork.
06:04Yeah, yeah.
06:05Peter Tork.
06:07Yeah, he invented Whiteout.
06:08Come on.
06:09Mike, what was that one?
06:10Mike, Mike something.
06:12Mike Lawrence, Mike Lawrence, something like that.
06:14That sounds familiar.
06:15Yeah, yeah.
06:16Yeah, that was a big question.
06:17I had no idea that you were once a 13-year-old girl, but good for you.
06:22I was.
06:22I watched them on Saturday mornings, the Monkees.
06:25Hey, hey, we're the Monkees.
06:27All right, I'm good.
06:29Appreciate you, sir.
06:29I'll leave you to your Monkees worship.
06:32See?
06:32See?
06:33He's a closet Monke.
06:34He knows every word to that song.
06:35Sean's with us.
06:35He's singing the song.
06:36We brought Sean over to our side.
06:37We brought Sean over to our side.
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