Welcome into Outkick the show. I am your fearless leader Clay Travis. We got some new digs. Welcome to October. Welcome to my new universe here in the Outkick studios. Just so you know I've been talking about how much outkick is growing September was our biggest investment ever. We are adding a lot more bells and whistles a lot more studios coming but this one is the new debut and it comes just in the

time for 2020 getting really strange even wilder than it's ever been before the braves won a postseason baseball series y'all that's how crazy 2020 already is right off the top here. I want to encourage you all to go sign up for outkick VIP and notice how much we have been growing how many people we've been hiring the best thing you can do to support outkick is to go sign up for the outkick VIP right now you will be well on your way to saving a bundle and also getting hooked up in a big way.

I'm going to give you a graph copy of my book VIP phone lines to call for the radio show you'll be able to get a lot done you'll be glad that you did it you'll be well on your way to supporting outkick and allowing us to continue to grow join thousands of your friends in the outkick VIP right now I mentioned it right off the top the braves have won a postseason series let me repeat and let me reiterate the braves have won a postseason series a big deal. All right. The braves I've not won a postseason series prior to this one since 2001 you are very well. I'm sure. That's a good way to do that. It's a good way to do that. I want to encourage you all to go sign up for the best thing you can do to support outkick. I don't know I'm sorry I'm going to do it again. So I'm going to leave that to you, it's a good way to do that. I'm going to make sure I'm going to give you a lot of money

I heard me talking about it on the radio I made the decision yesterday to take my 10 year old fourth grader out of school we watched the nearly five hour unbelievable bottom of the 13th inning win Freddie Freeman after the Reds made the decision to pitch to him why would you pitch to the NL MVP when you have no necessity to do it I don't know but the Reds did an unthink goodness they did because the braves got a hit went up one nothing the no Zuna got hot braves pull away five zip win just about a half hour ago they are now waiting to see who's going to do it

and when between the Cubs and the marlins to know who they will play down in Houston to potentially try and advance to the NLCS that is absolutely fantastic I'm excited to see how the braves do going forward hopefully you saw the video of my fourth grader hopping on Fox Bet live and letting Todd Ferman have it letting him absolutely have it the NBA finals have hit and all time low in viewership the official and final numbers are not

yet out for the overnight but last year over 13 million people watched game one that was between the Raptors and the Warriors and that was an incredibly low rating because there was a Canadian team involved this year are you ready for this 5.2 million people watched that is an unmitigated disaster for the NBA and the overnight numbers we'll see what the total final numbers are but it's likely this is the least watched NBA 5.2

and the final game in yours or mine life Mark Cuban is going to be spinning like crazy if you haven't been paying attention to Mr. Cuban the owner of the Dallas Mavericks has been sliding into my messages like crazy on Twitter trying to spin myster his way out of a disaster for the NBA Jason Whitlock has got a great column up on outkick I would encourage all of you to go check it out make sure you don't miss a one of his columns at all but the NBA finals all time low still at least based on this game

and this overnight number no NBA playoff games so far has had a higher viewership than the documentary about Michael Jordan and the 1990s air of bulls that aired on ESPN that's flat out unbelievable the Steelers and the Titans have been postponed until later in the season probably week seven I actually think this works in the Titans favor despite the fact that the Corona Rose are running around with their hair on fire talking like this is a really big deal

Titans weren't going to be able to play with wide receiver AJ Brown table the one was potentially not going to be able to play now either assuming they stay healthy against the bills and the Texans this would mean that when the Titans play the Steelers in a couple of weeks as the third of a homestand here in what would have been a by week the Titans will be an infinitely better shape then they would have been playing against the Steelers this weekend I also think this is a sign of how desperate the Corona Rose are that they now basically are starting to focus on the game.

They're not going to focus on things that aren't even having that substantial of an impact everybody's healthy asymptomatic no major issues with any of the people that have tested positive with the Titans our king of the Corona Rose Darren Revelle tried to come after me tripped fell knocked himself out welcome to Darren Revelle's life on Twitter and he is being soundly ridiculed as is typically the case on the Twitter machine by the way I want to circle back around on the Corona Rose Corona Rose are arguing about two things right now one they are are not going to be able to play with the Titans.

They are arguing upset about the fact that college football coaches aren't wearing their masks enough imagine being a grown man sitting and watching a college football game and the thing that you notice is whether or not the head coach is wearing his mask enough I'm sorry that is a sign that you are a total Corona Bro loser on top of that as if it were not enough how about the fact that the braves and I'm not blaming the braves here because I think it points to the absurdity of the situation in general the braves are allowed to have that

thousands of people in the battery that they own right outside of the Atlanta braves truest park they can all watch on the jumbo tron there thousands of them in close proximity to each other but they are not allowed believe it or not to actually be present in the stadium but you can have thousands of fans outside the stadium watching on a big screen right outside of the stadium when all the restaurants and all the bars and everything else are open this is absolute a

absurdity there is zero statistical evidence now for all jobs not to be back open for all schools not to be back open and for all sports to be back played there's zero doubt about this the only people still fighting about it are idiot Corona bros but I thought that was an interesting window into the absurdity of how Corona virus is impacting sports if you were watching the braves over the last couple of days they had massive crowds close packed together watching a big screen outside of the stadium but they weren't allowed to sit in the

inside the stadium where they might have even had more space between them and others by the way this has been the case for months it was the case when we went and watched the braves play I didn't want to talk about it or tweet about it or discuss it because I didn't want the Corona bros to get that shut down I don't blame braves fans who want to be in person as close as they possibly can to their team and want to be celebrating games and hanging out and having a normal life I do bring blame the absurdity of in MLB rules that that's allowed to happen.

Kate Mays at the University of Tennessee and Joey Gatewood at the University of Kentucky are now eligible big additions for both programs well done by the SEC to make this happen Mays will solidify already an incredibly talented Tennessee offensive line now we just need Jared Garantano to be able to make some plays by the way early news on the University of Tennessee I am going to be in Knoxville for the Alabama game on October 24th we're going to be doing an outkick event in Knoxville just so you know I'm going to be doing it.

So if you're going to be there if you're a Bama fan if you're a Tennessee fan if you're a student or if you're just someone who lives around Knoxville that weekend of October 24th I'll be up in Knoxville looking forward to going and watching University of Tennessee play Alabama and also have a couple of fun outkick events maybe even sports gambling could be officially underway potentially in Tennessee by that point we will see how about the twins the Minnesota twins I want to apologize to everyone out there who happens to live in Minnesota it is unprecedented.

It is unbelievable it is without any kind of statistical possibility almost that you could lose 18 straight playoff games in Minnesota 18 straight major league baseball playoff games over the last 16 years that's I mean you could it's like flipping a coin and having it land on heads 18 straight times or 18 straight times having it land on tails I don't know that there is any sporting fan base more

cursed right now than the Minneapolis area sports fan one of my buddies Scotch Shapiro who's one of my bosses at Fox Sports Radio he put this on Twitter and I was going to read it make sure I didn't miss it because I thought it was pretty interesting Minnesota sports and again I'm sorry for Minnesota sports fans the twins have lost 18 consecutive playoff games which is unheard of unprecedented and virtually impossible to pull off the timber wolves have advanced past the first round of the playoffs once in 31 years of existence

the Vikings are O and 4 in Super Bowl and their last Super Bowl appearance was 44 years ago and the Minnesota wild have advanced past the first round of the playoffs three times in 20 years maybe in the 90s it wasn't awful but Minnesota right now the toughest place to live and be a fan of all four pro sports leagues how about this positive news they have finally caught the L.A. cop shooter in L.A.

who walked up on the two police officer sitting in their cruiser ambush them shot them in cold blood it was the right decision for us to donate $10,000 to the for the capture of those individuals at out kick of that individual at out kick and I'm glad that they finally got caught I would point out that the NBA stars who claim to care so much about social justice issues I haven't seen a single Laker I haven't seen a single Clipper I haven't seen a single NBA player taking the game out of the playoffs

taking a stand on how unacceptable it is to shoot police officers and offering any kind of support whatsoever for the capture of that that shooter of the police officers but fortunately out kick puts our money where our mouth is and we are helping you out as best we can right there a couple of other facts and details that I want to dive into New York Times

do you remember the New York Times basically fired their editor in the entire newspaper had a French Revolution when they decided that they were going to publish an op-ed by a sitting United States Senator Tom Cotton that argued basically that it was not necessarily a crazy idea to send in the troops to quell the riots

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