Gaines was making some pasta over the weekend and Chris is only eating vegetables now. Gaines went to cook at a newly married friend's house because they have a bunch of new toys to play with. Jeff had his life saved by a couch-bound quasi-roommate who went to go smoke and found a sideview mirror fire. The CFB playoff is set and Travis thinks Oklahoma is going to get rolled. Four seed Bama is a favorite over Clemson and that helps justify their presence over Ohio State. Bomb Pop Guy calls Gaines out for trying to beat Vegas. Mizzou is heading to the Texas Bowl and it's part of the revenge tour. Chris jumped immediately to the strip clubs in Texas. We're anti-Houston on this show. Terry Beckner is coming back next year but Drew Lock may not, because Chris Mortensen said he could be a first round pick. Mizzou is going to have a mean D-line next year, and that's necessary considering how rough the schedule is going to be. Would Travis text a girl from Texas? Texas rules! Travis is the new resident expert on the Texas Bowl. Can Travis use a press credential to sneak in to the Texas Bowl and get drunk? Everyone in Houston impersonates James Harden to get his runoff. Gaines reminds us that SLU invited the forward pass. Mizzou may be the academic class of the SEC, but are they better than a single Big 10 team? The committee should've taken Roy Moore into consideration. Travis is sticking up for Mizzou's academic standards. Mizzou is definitely not a tier one law school.

Jeff is a little frustrated by the response rate. The deal may be coming imminently or may not. Are other people more credible than us? Jeff thinks it's the Dodgers but Gaines thinks it's just a method to drive the cost up. The Mariners are using players to attract Ohtani and Gaines wants the Cardinals to try the same tactic. Dallas Keuchel made a call that helped push Verlander. Travis thinks the Cardinals have gone out of their way to do everything to get the deal done, but it may not be enough. Travis has now changed his opinion in the middle of a sentence. The national image of St. Louis has a big part to play in why Stanton doesn't want to come to St. Louis. Are they trying hard enough? Gaines is holding Mozeliak accountable. Sean McVay killed Jeff Fisher but Gaines might have brought him back. Gaines is the Saint Louis Live Cleveland mouthpiece and he thinks the fans would rally around Jeff Fisher. Sam Darnold may go back to school just to avoid the Browns. Aledmys Diaz gets shipped off to Toronto for a bag of balls and we barely mentioned it. Who would we have brought to the Stanton meeting? Hologram Stan Musial may have been what would clinch the deal. Travis is excited that he can write off his private jet maintenance now. All of the sudden Travis doesn't want to talk about Michael Porter Sr.'s salary. 

On the first of the month, the studio turns in to diaper central. It's a Stanton-palooza all over St. Louis as well as in Los Angeles. Peter Gammons says the Marlins want prospect info from the Giants and Cardinals. What exactly are official reports? Stanton should tour the Federal Reserve. Giamatti has some problems with dates. As a pro sports owner, Gaines has some insight into fiscal years. Chris said "hockey sweater" as we talk about Hockey Fights Cancer night. Hey, Travis is here! Gaines doesn't scrape his windshield in the morning. Travis is not optimistic about Giancarlo. Shohei Ohtani is stoked about going to see the Rocky statue. Was the Jimmy Page/P. Diddy song on the Godzilla soundtrack actually good? Jeff and Yale are going to open the Ladle Ladle Ladle food truck. Mozeliak would have to do the John Cusack in Say Anything bit with Stanton. Maybe they can steal Giancarlo from the church like in Wayne's World 2. Let's give Giancarlo the best apartment in Ballpark Village. Travis wants to let Giancarlo treat North City like The Sims. BREAKING NEWS: Yale is in for the soup truck but we have to have matzoh ball soup. Travis is going crazy from all the whiteness this morning. Manute Bol may have been way too old when he was playing basketball. Mizzou basketball may have a ceiling now, but Travis has already shifted his focus to Jeremiah Tilmon. Travis wants to know who the white representative of black people is and isn't thrilled with the answers. The Wal-Mart White Guy is Larry The Cable Guy. 

Giamatti is in charge of the music today and Chris is surprised no one is upset about it. Travis became a godfather last night and spent his time at the hospital tweeting about all of the nurses. Chris is down on SLU nursing degrees. Jeff had a roommate who was an overnight security guard who carried a gun and didn't love the job. Travis doesn't know where babies come from. Michael Flynn is pleading guilty this morning but Katy Perry was at Ted Drewes. Gaines is kicking Katy Perry out of his wedding reception. Tiger had a nice round and shot 69 yesterday, but Travis isn't a fan. Mizzou is going to be a "tough out" according to Travis but won't say they're better than Duke. Is Donald Trump actually a good golfer? He's never made the cut at a pro-am. Benjamin Hochman (@hochman) joins the show to chit chat. The Tennessee AD got canned after only 8 months after royally screwing up the football coach search. Gaines is holding John Currie accountable this morning. 

Joined live in studio by Gabe Kea (@gabekea) for the last segment. Gabe is a huge Buffalo Wild Wings enthusiast when it comes time to watch hockey games but he's not sure why he has to keep paying the tab. Jeff knows who Daniel Sprong is and everyone is ashamed of it. Gabe was in town for Flyover and had an excellent time. Comedians are notoriously short and Gabe is not and Travis wants to know if it's weird. It's pretty absurd that it took very famous men to get the ball rolling. Gabe had to tell his daughter that The Secret Life Of Pets had to be off limits now. People in Indianapolis aren't ready to get real about Peyton Manning. Travis has a bad history with Gabe's dad. Pope Francis is the woke pope. Gabe has a very Canadian way of saying "sorry." St. Louis has been mad online lately and the transition to MLS was pretty easy. There may have been a little bit of flooding at Westport this weekend. Travis badly wants to talk about the Royal Wedding because he's way too in to Meghan Markle. Was the sexual harassment keeping Roger Ailes alive? Ken Lay may be alive in Argentina. There's way too much Yale Hollander talk this morning. Gabe used to coach at the Christian athlete hockey camp. Fair or Foul ends the show as always. 

Brad and Jeff take a look at the Blues' matchup with the LA Kings and talk about changes to the lineup and ways to improve the power play. Special attention is also paid to Hockey Fights Cancer night at the TBD Center.

It's Hockey Fights Cancer night for the Blues with the Kings in town. LA played in Washington last night and that may play to the Blues' benefit because Darcy Kuemper has really bad numbers against St. Louis. We may be coming down to it on the Stanton front. Jeff might go to Taco Bell too often. The Cardinals bullpen is also pretty bad and needs a bunch of arms thrown at it. Caller Jim has some thoughts on the Cardinals and Blues and clearing up the scheduling issues. 

Joined right off the hop by Martin Rucker (@RuckerSouthSide) to break down Mizzou football. Gaines is concerned that Josh Heupel is looking for head coaching jobs because he thinks Drew Lock is leaving town. Why does the University of South Alabama hate America? Morning Melee and Fair or Foul get out. Are we eating well right now? Getting customized jerseys can be a tricky thing as a kid. Dick Boushka's number is being worn by Aaron Hines. Greyhound racing is a little weird. Gaines has SLU rumors that he can't say on the air but thinks there will be changes soon. No one ever needs the Matt Lauer button. Geraldo threw himself off a cliff yesterday and Chris thinks the whole conversation is depressing. Rex Tillerson is getting forced out but nobody cares. 

We kick off the final segment by getting into some soft rock emo music from the early 2000s and Jeff has really terrible taste in music. Chris once threw a party promising the lead singer of The Ataris would show up and he couldn't deliver. Gaines really wants to know who his friend had in the car that was super whiny and probably one of Jeff's favorites. Chris got to hang out with Skrillex when he was doing screamo. Gaines has no recollection of his first CD but it may be Nellyville. Chris says his was Dookie. The Columbia House CD club was a big deal. The Rick Ankiel game was a major part of childhood for Gaines and Jeff. Trump didn't really do anything in St. Charles yesterday. Gaines doesn't know the train dance. The club business is a crazy business but Jeff got to enjoy some bottle service and a room at the Four Seasons in the meantime. The places to party in the St. Louis area tend to shift around. Riding a mechanical bull is pretty hard. Gaines doesn't like syrup. Fair or Foul closes the show as always. 

The Blues lost last night and it was pretty ugly. Zero combined offense from Schenn and Tarasenko is going to make it hard to win games. Hockey Fights Cancer night is Friday and it's going to be pretty emotional. The Hot Stove remains frozen waiting on some movement and it's hard to get to backup plans until the first one is done. Jeff gets deep into the political talk in the second segment and a discussion of decency and what it looks like. Jeff's really excited to be able to shave today because the mustache looks terrible. What would happen if Giamatti got flooded in? He says he'd come in in a canoe.