Pardon My Take
MLB Playoffs With Jeff Passan, CFB With Matt Leinart, Bears Beat Commanders In The PMT Bowl + Guys On Chicks
15 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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On today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we've got a pack show. We got Jeff Passan on to talk MLB playoffs, the looming lockout, and a lot of other cool stuff. He's been on the road with the Blue Jays and Mariners series. We're going to talk playoff baseball. We also have Matt Leinart on to talk some college football.
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Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, October 15th. And listen, we're not leading the show with the Bears commanders. It's coming up back in studio, but the Bears did have a big win in Washington on Monday night.
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Chapter 2: How does the Bears' recent win impact their season outlook?
And the Dodgers also hit. I say it's not fair in the most I'm just jealous of it mode. You know what I mean? It's not like I'm like, oh, this is not fair. Baseball's ruined. I'm saying it's not fair. I want that. I want an owner who's just like, oh, yeah, we already have a ton of dudes that are awesome. Let's just pay another dude. $100, $200 million just to get even more awesome.
Oh, all our guys are injured during the year. It doesn't matter as long as they're healthy for the playoffs. We'll be fine. And that's just what the Dodgers are doing. It's like they're just, the Brewers are a good team. They're a really good team. The Dodgers are just squashing them. The Dodgers are – there's no doubt about it. They're a great team. They're an awesome team.
But I like watching good games, and we haven't gotten too many of those from the Dodgers. I mean, well, granted, game one, it got good. There was some chaos that happened in game one. I still think that Bryce Terang should have stayed in and just took one for the team. You've got to wear that one, right?
Okay, so – and Max, I want to hear your take on it because you played no big deal in college. Yeah. I was thinking about it because, yes, sitting on the couch, we all in the moment were like, how do you not take that one?
I think that's just muscle reflexes where it's like you're just trained to get out of the way of a pitch, and he's not even thinking in that moment of like, oh, if I get hit – It was just total muscle memory. Dodge the ball. Of course. Yeah, that's exactly. I think the only way that you wear that pitch is if you immediately identify a curveball and you know that it's going to hit you.
And then you can tell yourself, okay, just don't move on this one. But if it's coming in at any rate of speed whatsoever, you probably do move out of the way. But that's where I'm saying a guy like me or you would actually be an asset because our reaction time wouldn't be good enough. We would get drilled by that.
Not only that, but we would go in and hug the plate and just be like, please hit us. Max, is that a fair take or is it wrong?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Commanders' performance against the Bears?
It depends on the player. I'm wearing that shit all day. But that was the sort of guy I was. Actually, no, I got hit by a pitch so much I never moved. Granted, I wasn't seeing 100, but I saw pretty fast pitching and I never even – There's players out there that are wearing that pitch, and he just isn't one of them. That's what I'm saying. It's his muscle memory.
No one's going to fault that guy, but he's just not that guy.
Right.
And I will fault that guy. I will fault that guy.
Max, how much shit did you put on before you stepped up to bat? Did you have the arm protector? Did you have the shin guard?
I had both. I had a shin guard and an arm. Because those are the only two things that... can actually – other than a helmet. But those are the only two parts of your body that if you get hit, it can actually like fuck you, fuck you up. And as someone who loved getting hit, if I have those two things, why would I get out of the way?
So when you would walk in college ball, you were like – remember when Barry Bonds would walk and it would take him like –
20 seconds to undress he would just stand there and just slowly take everything off and throw it back like the elbow guard the shin pad like it was so funny when you it would just be this long process of like yeah you just walked me now you gotta watch me undress in front of you bitch you'd have to have like two kids run out there to grab all this stuff and take it back to the dugout yeah
Bonds covered his whole arm. So it was like the top part and the bottom part. I just had the little elbow thing right here. So it was just a one strap. See you later. And then my leg thing was a two strapper. So it took a couple seconds.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Mariners' playoff success?
Yes.
Against Washington State.
We know ball. A lot of people were saying, what are you guys talking about? Big Cat pointed out, like, hey, I feel like this is a letdown spot when Ole Miss has— Georgia. Georgia next week. Georgia on deck this week. Big time letdown spot for Ole Miss. I didn't think that the boys were going to follow the coach's instructions and be hydrated on Friday night. 11-45 kickoff?
Like, that's an early, early game for the boys down in Oxford. So— Student section sucked. Me and Big Cat know ball. We know ball. Other big games. Ohio State's defense is so fucking nasty. I don't really know what else to say about that. Wisconsin plays them on Saturday. I think Luke Fickle is fired, by the way, soon. And maybe McIntosh, the AD. I think they're rightfully not...
sending someone to be the interim head coach with Ohio state and Oregon on deck. Yeah. Which actually is a correct move. Cause you don't want to have like a new guy. Just be like, Hey, here you go. The two toughest Wisconsin's a dumpster fire, maybe worst program right now in power four, but Ohio state. is awesome. Their defense is awesome.
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Chapter 5: How do the Dodgers and Brewers represent different team-building philosophies?
Illinois scored a touchdown in the red zone and it was like the most shocking thing ever. Yeah. Holy shit, they actually did it. Every time you get in the red zone against Ohio State, they just absolutely smush other teams. Ohio State is so good. You're right. They are better than they were last year. I don't see anybody beating Ohio State. I don't.
It would be a huge disappointment for the Buckeyes if they lost the game. What about Red River? The shootout. I'm going to say it. I don't think John Mateer should have come back that quickly. You know what it reminded me of? Remember when Russ Wilson was like, yeah, I got this broken finger, and it usually takes guys five weeks to come back from it.
I'm going to come back in two weeks because I'm built different. I think that had something to do with what John Mateer was going through. I feel like, yes, credit to Dr. Shin for getting him out there, but maybe there's a reason why it should take a little bit longer than that to come back. Yeah, I would say so. He had a really bad game. Arch played okay. The Texas defense was awesome.
Awesome, awesome. Yeah, Arch had that nice backyard football touchdown. I'm not a big Brent Venables. I mean, the guy can only think through defense. I think I saw a press conference where they asked him, like, hey, what's wrong with your running game? He's like, well, it's our defense. Like, all right, dude, there's two sides to the ball here.
Chapter 6: What challenges do the Yankees and Mets face moving forward?
It was very funny that there were articles coming out about Arch being like, is he the first bust in the history of college football? Yeah, I know. There have been a few other guys that haven't performed up to their expectations. I'd say so, yeah. One would be, like, there was a guy named Jimmy Claussen that committed to Notre Dame at the College Football Hall of Fame. Yep.
He did his, yes, I'm going to Notre Dame there. Didn't really work out that well for him. But, yeah, like, give Archer a little bit of time before being like, yeah, this guy sucks. He's going to be out of college football forever. Yeah, we're kicking him out of college football. We're not even talking about the NFL anymore. We're just kicking him out of college football. Yeah, he's young.
And then LSU held serve at home. There's nothing worse than flying out of Baton Rouge on game day, by the way. Yeah, that's true. It's the most FOMO that you'll ever get. You're the only asshole that's driving to the airport in Baton Rouge on a Saturday for a Saturday night game in Death Valley. And then you just see all the tents set up. People have been cooking gumbo since like 8 p.m.
the night before. Everyone's hammered at 9 a.m. Yeah. I've done that a few times where we've even done the college football show back in the day where it's like you do the show and then you get to the airport and no one's in the airport. Everyone's at the game and having a great time. Yeah, I ran into Paul Skeens and his girlfriend on Friday night, and he says hello. Oh, nice.
And he is a listener of the show. It's the first time that he'd seen me without my sunglasses on. He was like, I didn't know you had such beautiful eyes. And that's a man that knows beautiful eyes.
Wow.
Yeah. I like Paul Skeens. Yeah, he's a man. Good guy.
Great routine.
Yeah, we've run into him twice. Remember, we ran into him at the UFC fight. Yeah. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What makes a night out memorable according to Jeff?
That's awesome. There's nothing like one of those nights where everything just clicks.
Yeah.
You know, everything feels good, and it's like this was a good idea to go out and drink beer tonight. I'm happy I did it. And you get to that bar where you're like, you know, someone might throw out like, hey, should we go somewhere else? You're like, nah, we got it right here. You're not going to go chase something. It's like what we have right here is perfect. Let's just be here.
Chapter 8: How does Jeff Passan reflect on his experiences?
It was it was one of those magical nights that I will always remember. And it's just, you know, yeah, you live for those like I'm 45 now. And I have I have learned over time that don't just like cherish those nights afterward. Just make sure that in the moment you appreciate all the cool things that you have. And last night was one of those very cool things.
You're 45? Yeah. You look great. Yeah, you look great, Jeff. You look really good. That type of introspection, you sound like a guy who almost died by a tree. Hey, that's the other tip, everyone. Almost died by a tree and you will cherish those moments. Yeah.
Or just stay away from trees. Yeah, stay away from trees. It's like a very simple rule of, like, stay away from falling trees.
Yeah, it's a great idea. All right, Jeff, you're the best. We appreciate it. Maybe we'll try to do this again before the World Series. Playoffs have been incredible. Thank you so much. Everyone go read those articles, too, because they're really good. Can you talk shit real quick to Stephen Che? You're saying, like, talking shit to a person you're in a fantasy league with?
Stephen Che lost our dingers-only league this year, and he has to pitch. So can you just talk shit to him real quick? Be like, hey, Steven, fuck you.
Steven, why do you suck? Your mom does not like you, and you have an ugly face.
By the way, that's an off-season. If you do get a lockout, an off-season story you can write. Steven Che is the commissioner of the Fantasy League, the famous Tommy Pham, Jock Peterson Fantasy League, Fantasy Football League. I'm in it. And Stephen Chay's the commissioner. Stephen Chay knew nothing about baseball like two, three years ago.
And he now is like, like enacting rules on like Manny Machado and Mike Trout and like dropping the hammer on these guys. So maybe that's an off season. If there's a lockout, you can, you can do like a, I'm just, hold on. I'm more of like, you're in the slap league. Yeah. I'm in the slap league. Dave was in it. So they, they got, they kicked Tommy fam out. Dave was in it for a year.
Dave hated doing it, and so I took his place. So I'm in the slap league. But the craziest part is that Stephen Che, this nerd who's ugly face. Literally didn't even know what baseball was six months ago, is basically telling like, hey, Mike Trout, you can't do that waiver pickup. So it's a wild league. It's a wild text message thread.
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