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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: How is Patrick Mahomes connected to the Texas Tech situation?
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uh since you've been out covering it do you have the world cup fever and do you know a cure uh the world cup is we're in it now there's no turning back no no no we cannot it does not matter we cannot turn back because we're stuck in traffic and there's no way to go left or right that's one of the reasons there is no turning around even even more cowbell wouldn't hurt wouldn't
help yeah no so what do we what was your initial thought of the festivities yeah so before the first game it seems to me that the fan fests have been going really well uh the the aerial shots from the fan fest have been spectacular and looks really cool uh i'll be curious to hear what people I know who are planning to go, what their reaction is to it. So first test passed, right, FanFest.
And then game day, the first game day arrived, and people had an opportunity to watch the first, what, four days of games and kind of build up a little bit of World Cup fever. And I thought they did based on the number of cars that were stuck, you know, on the roads going into Arrowhead, Kansas City Stadium. Boy, I'm... Are you on the FIFA payroll? I am not. So Arrowhead, at Arrowhead.
Yes, yes, yes, it is Arrowhead. I did a story the other day of, we all know what Arrowhead looks like, but what is Kansas Stadium, Kansas City Stadium like? And in that instance, it's the place of $28 beers. Oh my God, I know. And a $10 bag of nuts. So, look, listen, the atmosphere for Argentina, it was bizarre. to see a sea of sky blue and not a sea of red.
And you saw where all the empty seats, not all, but where the empty seats were because the red stood out. Yeah. And there weren't many.
Once people got in the stadium... At the start, there weren't many or there weren't many... Even on in later in the game.
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Chapter 3: What were the initial reactions to the World Cup festivities?
nil-nil draw between Ecuador and Curacao, all people would be talking about would be getting in and out.
That's right. But I would say, keep in mind, these weren't Chiefs fans going to the stadium. A lot of these people going to the stadium were not from Kansas City, probably a bit of a language barrier as well. I think that was part of it. A couple of reasons for the traffic, in my opinion, the traffic problems were.
What was the language barrier on traffic?
Well, trying to get instructions.
Up yours. I don't understand. What does that mean? What does middle finger mean? Blank me. You know, I can't do another language, but I'm doing the translation of the guy who's trying to figure out. I'm number one. Thank you. I'll wait here.
I know that when we finally broke through and got to the toll booth to show our pass to get in, there was a car in front of us.
that was dead in the water i mean just could not move and uh well i was wondering if people thought oh i i hear the parking's gonna be small but that's fine i'll get there it'll be fine yeah i'll talk my way in i think and then they had people trying to turn around which would just absolutely annihilate the process
You guys have been to the stadium enough times to know ā so that was ā I think the language was an issue. But the bigger problem was at a stadium that has ā how many entry points? How many ā is it seven? I forgot what it is. I only saw two that were working. One on the east side, which is gate six or seven, where the buses come in and out. Okay.
And then one on the ā it's on the west side off of Stadium Drive and then one on the east side off Blue Ridge Cut-Off ā which is where they were funneling. If you're coming in off of I-70, you come in off of Blue Ridge Cut-Off and you come in gate, I think it's gate two. Well, it seemed to me those were the only two gates that were open.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did fans face getting to the stadium?
People knew what to do. And that is not the case this time. People didn't know what to do. And FIFA's in charge of parking, which I think, what a bad idea that was. FIFA should recommend some parking suggestions, but the people who have been running parking at the stadium for as long as the Chiefs people have, they needed to be in charge of parking. And that's just not the case.
Well, FIFA's in charge of everything. And FIFA doesn't... FIFA's not... Real bright. I mean, they're money-grubbing pigs.
Well, I don't think they care about this. No, they don't. They don't care about this.
They don't, which is not bright. I mean, they're globally the NFL. It doesn't matter how bad we screw it up. You people are going to watch anyway. Right? I mean, that's it.
And they did.
That's it. I mean, like, you know, there's things we see in the NFL that are glaringly wrong that with a mild effort you could fix. But they don't. They don't have to. Right?
No, that's right.
And, you know, that's great. Eventually something comes around and your business gets crapped on. Like, you know, we'll see. You know, it's not coming anytime soon. It won't be during my lifetime for either one of them, for the NFL. But it'll catch up to them eventually. Time changes. You always think ā everyone, I've always said that ā
You know, the people, you know, I love the line, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yeah, but everybody thinks history's done on my day. Right. Like, I don't need to worry about over the horizon. This is it. That was all to get here. That was them. Now we're frozen. How I do it is how it will be done forever. Yeah. You know, never, you know, it's like new stadium.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Texas Tech decision?
I feel like, you know, every now and then I back ass into one. I think we talked about this last week. I've said all along that this ends with him not playing. I just didn't because Texas Tech could always quit. The Big 12 could never quit. No matter what it took, they were always going to have to go to the next level. You just cannot have...
One of your member institutions be like, well, we're not playing by the rules. And what are you going to do? Because it all crumbles. So they had no choice, particularly when Georgia and Nebraska are making it clear. We talked about this that you want to be in the the mega league that we all think is going to come. No, you're out. Like we hold the grudge and you're out.
And so like all the signs pointed to this. What do you think? They were defiant right up until they weren't.
Made the video.
Right, made the video right before. What do you think turned it? Because I was talking for several days that Patrick Mahomes is going to talk about this, whether he likes it or not. First of all, I think he absolutely ducked what would have been a mandatory press conference. And the Chiefs went, no, we're not going to subject you to this. When he signs that new contract.
Right, it would have come up. And they would have had a presser for him.
Yeah.
Except for all that was going on, and they knew, and he knew, he was going to have to answer questions. And I'm like, he's going to get to St. Joe, and he's still going to answer at least a couple on it. Right? It's going to happen. And I said, when does Patrick Mahomes go, take my logo off the field? I'm not involved with Cody Campbell anymore. I'm not, like...
There's some Jordan in him in the sense that Jordan said Republicans buy Nikes, too. I said, I want to be clear. Patrick Mahomes is not afraid of standing up for a cause he really believes in. That's true. A Black Lives Matter.
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Chapter 6: How did the public perception affect Texas Tech's reputation?
That's the one we love. Well, let's go to the Alps. Sure, chocolate and skiing. What could be wrong? Not hiding Nazi art. You're right. Forget about that part. I think as an athlete, you don't have to state your opinion on every cause that's out there. So I want to defend the right to be like, eh, not my thing. But he was going to get dragged into this, whether he liked it or not.
And he has worked very hard. Very hard. And maybe he hasn't. Maybe it's come easy. He is a very... Easy brand to get behind. He is a likable guy. He doesn't get arrested. He's a family guy. He's got kids. He's seen with his family all the time. He invests in the community. He invests in the local teams.
He has done a tremendous job of, you know, presenting himself as a likable person and to be on team Darth Vader. Yeah. Which isn't even fair because Darth Vader is, like, glorized. And now, oh, Vader, the greatest villain ever. No, you were going to be the crappiest villain, you know? You were going to be, you know, oh, the Saddam Hussein of college athletics.
I'm not so sure that, like, they were full speed ahead, all buying each other's crap. Until, Pat, I wonder aloud, because I think this would change your mind. If your biggest asset goes, I'm out. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do we need to do to keep you coming down here? Right. I wonder what role he played.
Well, you know, you're perceptive and noticing that he did. There was no press conference for him after signing the contract, which would have been the first time to really ask him and ask about the tech situation. But he has other ways of communicating the way he feels about things through social media and dead silence on this, on Sorsby and what Tech was doing.
So I don't disregard that as a hint of the way he may have been feeling about it.
Because as we know from watching him, when you see him when he's not in front of us, he's like any other, well, now 30-year-old. I was going to say 20-something. Looking at that phone, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. He's hip to what's going on.
Not only that, but he reacts to a lot of things, too. Not with a necessarily comment, but with an icon or something.
He'll like it or resend it and all that kind of stuff.
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Chapter 7: What implications does this situation have for college sports?
You know, they like, no, no, no, no. You're not one of no, no, no. We're buying our way in. Right. Old money doesn't like when new money comes in and goes, no, no, I got a membership at the club. Yeah, I'm building the new 20 million dollar golf range. And I'm now here a member of the Hamptons, you know, links, you know, like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not one of us. Right.
And so there's already that going on. And I just, it's unbelievable. Can we take a minute? Well, let's take a break. I don't want to get behind. Let's take a break. We'll come back more with Blair Kirkhoff. We'll talk a little bit more about this Texas tech thing. Also Kansas going to London. I will do it here.
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All right. The Lafetta delicatessen end of the hour answer of the 33 members of the 3000 hit club, which one had the lowest career OPS.
3,000 hits OPS on base plus slugging for those that are new to the program and the vernacular of a baseball lowest on base plus like the lowest slug. I'm thinking is probably of the 3,000 hits. The lowest slug would seem to be somebody along the lines of, um, uh, Cardinal stolen base guy, rock Lou Brock, Paul Molitor, um, I was going to say Carew, but... Carew, yeah, he did not slug at all.
No, but he had a lot of doubles. That's true. He legged out doubles, so I... But who's... Have we named? You have. Okay, so it's Brock, Moter, or Carew.
I think I like Brock. I'm going to go Brock.
Born on this date, Lou Brock.
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Chapter 8: How does this impact Patrick Mahomes' brand moving forward?
But it does irritate me. Lou Brock gets a little bit of that. Joe Carter had a hell of a career. He had a great, great career. Oh, tremendous. I don't think Joe Carter's, you know, upset. No. But I think he does not get mentioned for the Hall of Fame. And I'm okay when you look at the numbers if you say, okay, he doesn't make it.
But I'm not okay with the fact that I don't think there's even a conversation.
Right, right. He was under 400 home runs, I think, career. I think he's in high threes. One of the greatest moments in baseball history certainly helps him. He was a really good RBI guy.
It was tremendous. He was 100 RBIs every year. Anyone who played fantasy baseball, we paid a lot of money to get Joe Carter on our team. He had 100 RBIs every year. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12. 10 out of 12 years.
For several different teams.
Yeah, including six straight years in the middle. Two, then he had 98. Six, he had 76 in 95, which was a slightly shortened year. Hell, in 94, the strike shortened year, he had 103. What? So, you know, you had a couple of strike years in there. Overall, just since Joe's a local guy, the number's 259-306-464.
And I think if you'd said, because I know the year he was in, they would literally tell those guys, take the bat off your shoulder. There's a guy on base, drive him in. Ted Williams lost the freaking MVP to Joe DiMaggio when he had a 400 batting average and a whatever on base, 500 probably, 550 or something on base. Whoa, but Joe takes the bat off his shoulders.
He's not just going to walk down to first base. Joe, he swung the 56 straight games.
Forget the fact that Williams still had more RBIs than DiMaggio that year.
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