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But what's pretty insane though is that at one point he actually was on television.

In April 2018, ELEAGUE, the esports brand attached to the TBS network, launched a reality show called The Challenger Street Fighter V.

The idea was simple.

Seven people from the fighting game scene lived under one roof near Atlanta and competed in Street Fighter for a shot at the E-League Street Fighter 5 Invitational, a 24-player event with $255,000 as the prize.

It sounds like they wanna have, like, permanently sponsored streamers, but also, I, it...

We're probably gonna see things like E League teams sponsored entirely by Xbox.

Yeah, so they'll bring back more of the Call of Duty teams or whatever.

They're, they're all-

I stayed into it with Tez 'cause, you know, he's at Seattle, Tez and I came in together.

Yeah.

Chet came in a year after I came into the league.

And so I, I was very familiar with those guys, but we stayed into it.

Soon as the game end, "Man, Sharp, how your brother doing? Man, tell your brother I say what's up." Cool.

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when they gi- you, you right.

You know how hard it is to win in the league.

And Will Smith as the catcher has gotta be that voice to make sure these guys are not nibbling.

Yamamoto nibbled, and that's the reason why he was out of that game when he was.

Also, players around the league was texting me during that game that they believed the Brewers had Yamamoto's pitches, especially Bowers, especially the 0-2 swing Tarang had on Yamamoto.

They believe the Brewers had Yamamoto's pitches, which is at this point in time believable.

But tomorrow Blake Snell has gotta come out and attack the strike zone because these guys don't chase and you gotta bully them with your fastball, especially up in the zone.

I, I, I actually think you're onto something.

And, um, teams do hire people for that.

Like, they usually hire someone from, like, the league office or a former referee or retired coach.

But, uh, no, outside the box, I think the, the dude who wears a jersey and, and has a couple Bud Lights and sits on his couch and watches RedZone Channel, like, maybe.

May- that, that might be your best bet.

Like, it's not like we haven't done it before, and I don't think we need any more games.

If we had a little bit less, and they could figure out how to make up that money, which it sounds like they're gonna be able to with the new playoff format they're also proposing.

A seven-game league division series, which I think is fine.

I'd, I'd actually be in favor of that.

I th- I like uniformity across the playoffs.

Jayron Bland, he's gets, he gets to give the pick sixes or he gets torched.

Yeah.

He's one of the most overrated corners in the entire league.

Just a genius strategy.

Yep.

They've got the entire league fooled.

Totally fooled.

Totally.