I've had jazz chisholm last night, sucking on a lollipop in the middle of the game at second base. And then Aaron Boone's saying that he did tick him off. And he talked to him after the game. We will never see it again. But a quick pivot here, because who knew that lollipop gate was going to happen? Who could foresee such a thing? And I've been actually anxious to talk to Chrissy Freud. And she joins us now via Zoom. Christy, it's Craig and Big Mac.

Good afternoon. Thanks so much for spending a few minutes with us today. How are you? Good. How are you? Doing great. So just for background's sake, Chrissy worked at the athletic. I think I have that right. And was there around the time that the whole Deanna Rossini Mike Vrable thing blew up.

And she commented on it and then lost her job because she commented on it.

And it's since, but on my words not hers, a bit of a crusade to kind of open up Pandora's box a little bit more than it's already been open in regards to some of the untoward relationships that some reporters may have with the men that they cover in the NFL.

So I appreciate you joining us.

First off, did they tell you why they fired you when they did?

And were they honest about, hey, we're not comfortable with a fellow athletic employee commenting on things that involve us or

are they just like hey you're at will uh goodbye good luck to you uh so i was with usa today sports

media group so i had been in the running for several jobs with the athletic and it had come in

the second place several times and i know a lot of people there so i do have a lot of affiliation with the athletic. Got it had come in second place several times. And I know a lot of people there. So I do have a lot of affiliation with the athletic. At one time, someone had proposed that Diana Rossini should be my mentor and they were working out the athletic. At the time, at the time, the athletic also almost hired me. So that's kind of where it's a little bit. You were employed by USA Today.

You almost worked at the athletic, but obviously had connections there and had interviewed there.

So USA Today decided we're not comfortable with you commenting on the biggest story this

offseason in the NFL?

Yeah, it's funny.

I mean, they took them like three days to say something.

And by the end of day one, there were like two and a half million views.

So I guess the USA Today, they all just live under a rock.

Isn't that funny?

Anyhow.

Yeah.

So the statement, the statement itself that was released, the email that I, and the phone call that I had, everything was different.

I was not told of any, I never signed any professional conduct anything.

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