When we talk about the physical toll of basketball and how the game is stretching its limits with the science and the range that they're asking players to play, do you not find fascinating? I think I might, after the club here, just spend 50 more minutes talking by myself about this UM game because of all the things I found interesting, and you guys can all leave the room. But the bit of analysis I'm about to give you here, which I think is just funny at the commerce center of all of this. So Moulton leaves the game, two plays in, integral to their interior defense. Immediately, Mississippi gets a 73-yard rush, longest since 2018. The physical toll of at the end of that game, Miami secondary was gone. If you'd played two more quarters, Chambleau would have thrown for 700 yards. Miami was playing nobody in the secondary because everybody was ejected or hurt. The thing I just wanted to point out to you that nobody thinks of this time of year, I don't think, is, hey, those are an awful lot of games they're being asked to play. Miami's secondary is falling apart. Physically, you ask this many games of the players at the center of the commerce, you're going to break a bunch of teams.
It's whoever gets to the end of it, but you're going to physically break this guy, and Messador is going to run out there and risk his first-round talents because of whatever he's doing with needles on the sidelines.
We talked about how it's really getting hot at the right time. It's so much of this is you're going to put 12 really talented teams together. There are going to be some disparities, but it's like, Hey, who's fully healthy? Their running back was not healthy. That made a pretty big difference in that football game. He had one big run and then was useless for the rest of the game.
Do you guys not find funny the idea that the NFL is playing 17 games with adults? We're also doing that with kids' bodies, and they're going to break the joints and stuff.
The fact that Tony's healthy. This kid played all of these games at the college level, where half of them, he was 17 years old. It's insane.
While making that particular catch that needs to be made in bounds, even if it's out of bounds. There has to be Do you not agree that there needs to be something beyond instant replay where you have an athletic feat of such ballerina grace that you'll remember it for a long time, and therefore it should be ruled in bounds, whether the toe was in or not? Do you believe any dollop of judgment should be applied to the judges who are- Just the scale of like, No, that was too cool. No. Esthetic beauty surpasses here our need to get the rule exactly right. That's a completion. Miami wins. No? You're not good with that?
I just don't like that a toe counts if you're facing the other direction there. If you're going forward and you're tiptoe, that counts. But when you're going backwards, if your toes hit, then your heel- The toe did hit first, and then the heel came afterward.
That should be a toe tap. That's in.
That's how it's always worked. It's a toe taper. That wasn't even the most impressive play he made, by the way. That's the crazy part. As unbelievable as that catch was. I would argue that was the most impressive. The catch that he had that was the screen, and then just weaving through defenders for a 25-yard gain, that was the one that makes me go, This guy is a super-star. For me, that plays more on the offensive line. Dude, they're getting out so in front. The blocking there is fantastic. The blocking is amazing. And they had... I mean, that's the three-pronged genius. Of Mario Cristobal. That's where that comes in. But his vision and athleticism and quickness, all combining in that moment for that play when they desperately needed it, to me, that was the one where I was like, Holy cow, this kid It was ridiculous. Let's say this right now. If this kid didn't rush for 60 touch downs his senior year of high school, massive disappointment.
He was special in high school.
He played quarterback his senior year.
You guys didn't even mention the third and sixth play where he broke two tackles. They would have had to kick a field goal. They end up getting a countdown because he broke two tackles because he was too physically strong.
He had 57 catches for 1,018 yards and 12 touch downs as a receiver before converting to quarterback, where he had 524 yards and 8 passing touch downs filling in as the quarterback.
You I would think that would be the end of the club, but it's not. No. No, I'm going to keep going. That's fine. I'll talk to Roy and Jeremy about it. I don't care. No, you guys can all go. Roy, Jeremy, if you guys want to leave, you guys can leave, too. I'll sit here by myself. What are you talking to us about? All I'll need is video.
Tarek Scouble's arbitration? I got to do The hockey show somewhere. Because that's pretty crazy, Dan. You see the tigers? They filed a 19 million, but Tarek Scouble filed a 32 million.
I'm going to just continue to sit here and talk to myself about yesterday's game. I don't care if all of you leave because there were a number of things that I did not get to. One of which is the amount of effort that it's going to be to keep being Michael Irvin for the rest of this as we turn him as a mascot into Max Patkin, the original Clown Prince of Baseball. All I need here actually is video. Lewis, are you still here with me?
No, Louis walked out. Lewis. Oh, he's there. Look at him.
Louis, just put It's up on the screen here because I was trying to teach people before the show, and nobody had any interest in this, and we never did anything else with it, and it was infuriating to me as every day is around here. We were talking about Max Patkin and whether or not he was the original mascot, because I don't actually know the history of this. Is Max Paakin, the Clown Prince of Base, the guy who invented mascoting?
He was more of a barnstormer, Dan. So he was a Minor League player, and then he got hurt, and joined the Navy. And then when he joined the Navy, he gave up a home run to Joe DiMaggio in a game that they were playing against, I guess, the Yankees. But faking anger, he threw his glove and pouted and stuff, and everybody liked it so much that he turned it into just his shtick. Then started from there, he was hired as a first base coach for the Cleveland baseball team. Then after 1949, he just started barnstorming around the country, showing up at exhibition games and being a bit of a clown.
There were mascots before that in American sports?
That I can find out for you.
But so he did not invent the mascoting because the first mascot of any kind that I was introduced to was the San Diego chicken. But then it was explained to me that the history of baseball began with this person who, physically funny, looks like 1940s ballparks, barnstorming, Minor League, entertainment. He's just being a clown. He's being a clown in service of the sport and in service of entertainment.
Yeah, I'm seeing that The earliest examples were there was a taxidermy bear for the cubs in 1908. They later used a live animal in 1916. That's the origin of all of this. But hey, good news for Miami. Sebastian the Ibis is the first image you see on the Wikipedia page.
The things that I was talking about earlier in the show are so dated that I was asking them to get me a photo of Yamayama, who used to be the original University of Miami mascot. He was just a guy who would stand on the sidelines and wander around and go Yamayama. It was just absurd. There was very little talent involved, but he was just the manifestation of silly cartoonish school spirit.
Yeah, I had never heard of him, but I looked him up after you mentioned this. He was a cheerleader at the University of Miami- A single cheerleader. In the '60s, and then basically just continued, even though the program wasn't very good, he continued to be the guy on the sidelines, but also eventually became a businessman and was doing all these other things, but would still show up to the games and be the Yame Yame guy. He, unfortunately, passed away about 20 years ago in 2006. He had a heart attack, so RIP.
But that's the way to go. Jim Fleming.
That's the way to go. That is the way to go.
It's the way Michael- It's the way that Michael Ervin will want to go if he were... No, this That's what he is doing on the sidelines. I'm making the comparison between Yamayama and the evolution of Max Patkin. Did you just kill Michael Irvin? I am saying that if you are the number one mascot for a school and you get your identity from being the number one mascot for a school, if I gave you your choice, how it is that you would like to pair flourish and be remembered, it's I had a heart attack because of my enthusiasm for my school. It's why it is that I'm bringing all of it up, because Michael Irvin is the perfect modern manifestation for whatever it is, the cartoon mascot of Max Patkin and Yamayama R. He is the coolest version we can have because usually those guys are not Hall of Famers.
If we can't get Mario, we'll get Michael Irvin and we'll ask him, Hey, first question, do you hope to die of a heart attack?
We can do that. But do you understand how rare it is to have the mascot be somebody who's an NFL Hall of Famer? It's usually Max Patkin, athlet. It's usually Yama Yama. It never gets to be the NFL Hall of Famer who won championships with the Cowboys. I'm going to do a live show all weekend. I'm going to do it with ketchup on my forehead in a park on a bicycle.
"Did he invent the mascot?"
Dan yammers to himself about UM playing in the National Title Game, as he plans to do all weekend. Well, Jeremy was there, too, but that doesn't count.
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