- 2 days ago
Grant is very specific with the type of jerseys he would wear…what do you think?
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00You like the movie.
00:01All of a sudden, 8 billion people have seen the movie.
00:03You don't like the movie anymore.
00:04You hate the movie.
00:05You know what movie I love is the one that no one's watching.
00:07So the point of Jersey hipster, Paulson,
00:11is that I need to have a jersey that nobody has.
00:13I'm not really a hipster in my life.
00:15I don't necessarily care to be.
00:17But when it comes to sport fandom,
00:21I would say in this particular way I am.
00:24Maybe not in other ways.
00:25You've got to have the unique jersey.
00:26And you've talked about this before.
00:28It's a long time ago.
00:30But you live for that feeling where the one out of every,
00:35I make up a number, 127 people that see the jersey will go,
00:40oh, that's awesome.
00:42Right, because most people won't even know A, who the player is,
00:46or B, there's not enough ball knowers to really appreciate
00:51that it's an awesome jersey.
00:53It doesn't happen.
00:54Because I'm going for the deep cut.
00:56Sounds like the word hipster bothers this guy.
00:58Then the deep cut Paulson is what you're looking for, okay?
01:02We shortened the jersey hipster.
01:04The better I do, the fewer other jerseys there are.
01:09My dream is only me and his parents have his jersey.
01:14That's your best case.
01:15Maybe he's got a brother and a wife.
01:17If there's a single-digit amount of people on the planet,
01:19and this has been since I was a kid.
01:21I got a Matt Bowen jersey before that was cool.
01:24I have a Mike Barrow jersey in a closet somewhere.
01:26He never played it down for Washington.
01:28I have a Chris Horton jersey.
01:30We could go round and round the horn here on random dudes,
01:34so I just thought we're pretty cool.
01:36I really liked Ndukway Kalou.
01:38You know, forget an Ndukway Kalou jersey.
01:39Who didn't?
01:40You're like, the best-case scenario, the fourth-line winger who's there
01:46to just be rough and tumble, and if everything goes great,
01:49he might get you three goals on a season.
01:51How many people have a Steve Alexi jersey?
01:54The Alexi family.
01:55He used to get into a couple of fights and be a last defenseman in every now and then.
01:59He's here to scrap.
02:00A lot of healthy scratches and scraps.
02:02And he wore great suits up in the press box.
02:04We saw him up there a couple times.
02:05He's like, wow, that's a handsome guy.
02:06That's my guy.
02:07Are you a fourth-liner?
02:08Are you a third-pair defenseman?
02:10Is there a chance you're getting parked because the coach is disappointed in you?
02:13I probably have your sweater.
02:14The fourth-line winger that gets called up,
02:17and his jersey's not even available in the team store yet,
02:19but you have it somehow.
02:20Do I have an Ovi sweater?
02:22No.
02:23Of course I don't.
02:24Do I have any?
02:25But isn't that your favorite player ever?
02:30Oh.
02:31Did I just come on to something?
02:32No, I mean, yeah.
02:33Why'd your voice go up?
02:34Well, because this, I mean, again, hipster Paulson.
02:37Yeah.
02:37I can't say yes.
02:38Who's my favorite capital ever?
02:40I've got it.
02:41I can't say Ovi.
02:42It's Matt Hendricks, isn't it?
02:43It's probably Matt Hendricks or somebody like Matt Hendricks.
02:46I can't say Ovi.
02:47Everyone says Ovi.
02:48Does he make your top?
02:49It extends to players you like, not just jerseys?
02:51I guess it does.
02:52I mean, if you were to ask me, my childhood team is the Baltimore Orioles.
02:56Okay.
02:56Who's my favorite Oriole ever?
02:57I'm not going to say Cal Ripken Jr.
02:59That's late.
03:00Is Luis Matos or Daniel Cabrero?
03:02It's Daniel Cabrero.
03:03Yeah.
03:03That's stupid.
03:05Respectfully, that is dumb.
03:06Yes.
03:06I sponsored his baseball reference page for many, many years, but I have to be a hipster
03:11on this.
03:12Not like, but you know, like everyone loves James Wood.
03:15That's my favorite national.
03:15Everyone loves Juan Soto.
03:16That's my favorite national.
03:17Everyone loves Max Scherzer.
03:19But I have to also acknowledge how much I like this random dude who plays once a week.
03:25You know what I'm saying?
03:26Yeah.
03:26I mean, it's the same thing that I, that I do in general, not with players, but I have to
03:30let everybody know that I know.
03:32I think there's some of that.
03:34I insist on it.
03:35And I think there's probably some crossover there.
03:37Maybe.
03:39Because as you already said, like the ball knower is going to know.
03:42Yes.
03:42But it's not really a, like, you know, that I know there's no conversation that happens
03:47where I'm about to like show off ball knowledge.
03:49It's more about, I'm not going to fall in line with all the people that are just doing
03:57the easy thing.
04:00Everybody wants an eight.
04:01God bless you.
04:01I'm glad there are eights everywhere.
04:03I've bought more eights than the average bear.
04:05I got my brother's eights.
04:06I got my sister and eight.
04:07I got auntie and uncle eights.
04:09I bought a bunch of Ovechkin.
04:09You've purchased plenty of eights.
04:10I've never worn an Ovechkin sweater in my life.
04:12You've never worn one?
04:13Not one time.
04:14Never.
04:15Even when you're sitting right up there on that, on that glassware.
04:18I don't own one.
04:19How could I?
04:19Oh.
04:20So you borrowed, you could have borrowed one?
04:21I've probably bought 30 cap sweaters in my life.
04:24Think about this.
04:25I have an Andrew Cristal Capitals hockey sweater who's never played for them.
04:30I don't have an Alex Ovechkin.
04:33At any point, do you just kind of look back at the road behind you and all the flames
04:39and go, what have I done?
04:40I have an 18 Chandler Stevenson because he was on the third line that I fell in love with
04:46during the cup run.
04:47Didn't he score a goal against the Penguins in the deciding game or in that series?
04:51He probably, yeah.
04:53He had a huge goal in that series.
04:54I love Chandler Stevenson, who ended up going on to Vegas and having a great career.
04:58I have a Chandler Stevenson sweater.
05:00I don't have an Ovi sweater.
05:02I don't have a Backstrom sweater.
05:03I don't have a John Carlson.
05:05I don't have a Braden Holpe.
05:06And I never would.
05:09It's not that I don't like those guys.
05:10I love those guys.
05:12And how do you show it?
05:13Not with a jersey.
05:14I show it in a lot of ways.
05:16I just don't show it with a jersey.
05:18Let's go to Chris, who's in Reston.
05:20What's up, Chris?
05:22Hey, how's it going, guys?
05:23Thanks for taking my call.
05:24Hey, buddy.
05:25Both of you are spot on, and that previous caller has got it so wrong.
05:30It sounds like he's got a Peyton Manning and a Tom Brady jersey in his closet.
05:36The Rob Lowe NFL hat?
05:37Yeah, yeah, totally.
05:38Exactly.
05:39These are not the jerseys that you need to purchase.
05:42Like, I've shown up to your guys' events in, like, a Ben Wallace Bullets jersey.
05:47Yes.
05:48Like, you know what I mean?
05:50Yeah, of course.
05:50And by the way, my hair is long and luscious, but that's besides the point.
05:54Well, you couldn't play for Grant?
05:55Not in that Ben Wallace with long hair?
05:57He'd cut you or trade you.
05:59I'm channeling his energy there.
06:01No, but I mean, like, my jerseys are, like, deep cuts of my home team.
06:07And this guy was just sounding like he's going to get the hottest shirt.
06:10Like, I can't tell you how many times I've walked by the black five jersey at Dix, and
06:16I haven't bought it yet.
06:17No, you can't.
06:19Oh, you can't get a Jaden Daniels jersey.
06:23No chance.
06:25Why would I do that?
06:26What do you mean you can't?
06:27Sure you could.
06:28I can't.
06:28Well, I mean, you can't wear number five.
06:30No one's saying you can do that.
06:31He's the most popular player on the team.
06:33Now, did I buy my kid a Jaden Daniels?
06:35I did.
06:36Did I buy my brother a Jaden Daniels?
06:38Absolutely.
06:38Let's say he's the MVP of the league and wins a Super Bowl here.
06:43It's even more a reason that I can't.
06:44You couldn't.
06:45Just to say thank you, you couldn't buy that jersey?
06:47The only way I could wear his jersey is if the opposite happens.
06:51Then, like, if people stop wearing his jersey.
06:54He's traded before the season starts to the Colts.
06:57I'll buy a Jaden Daniels Colts jersey or something.
06:59Unbelievable.
07:00Yeah, but, like, if, do more than 100 people own the jersey?
07:08I'll say yes.
07:08I can't wear it.
07:09Why?
07:10Can't do it.
07:10Why?
07:12As soon as I start to see other people wear my jerseys, they go away.
07:15You get uncomfortable.
07:16I got a Ryan Leonard sweater before he got called up to the Capitals.
07:20I remember it was before he got called up.
07:21When he was still at Boston College.
07:23You're telling everybody.
07:23I mean, he literally hadn't graduated college yet.
07:26Playing in Boston, I should say.
07:27And when he was still playing in college, I get the little kid Leno.
07:31And then as soon as he gets called up, every Tom, Dick, and Harry wants to get a Ryan Leonard
07:35sweater.
07:35You know what I had to do?
07:37Fold it up and say you had a good run.
07:40But even though you were first, why do you have to put it away?
07:44That's what I'll never get.
07:46You were first.
07:46Because now I'm just one of thousands of people at the game wearing a Ryan Leonard.
07:50But then what happens?
07:51Nothing happens, right?
07:53It's not a hipster jersey anymore.
07:54He's a top five most popular player on the team.
07:56But what drives that?
07:59Like, is there anxiety?
08:00Is there discomfort?
08:01Is there irritation?
08:03In other words, you go, I have to.
08:04No, you don't.
08:04It's the accomplishment.
08:06Again, you have the thing no one else has.
08:09Mike in Alexandria, what's up?
08:12Hey, guys.
08:13How you doing?
08:13What's up, bud?
08:14Would you consider a Craig Anderson capital jersey?
08:18A hipster jersey?
08:20Definitely.
08:20He did win a playoff game for him.
08:22Absolutely.
08:24How many people do you think have that jersey?
08:27Seven.
08:29You win.
08:29Then you win.
08:30In fact, you win harder than I've won in a long time.
08:34That's a big time victory.
08:36And Craig Anderson was a capital for like six seconds.
08:39I mean, an hour and a half?
08:41During the pandemic season.
08:42I don't remember him playing and winning in a playoff game.
08:45I'll take his word for it.
08:46He played four games for the Caps that year.
08:48Yeah.
08:49I just looked it up.
08:50But you get, I mean, the fact that he has, like, that's an incredible jersey.
08:56There's going to be a lot of technicality.
08:57You're going to try to punch a hole through this.
08:58I'm telling you, this is an inexact science.
09:00I understand.
09:00This is a moving target.
09:01Yeah, yeah.
09:01I don't love that one, though.
09:03I'm not, like, going back in time to get obscure jerseys.
09:06That could be an avenue that I could open.
09:08So you're not going to do the Mike Bibby Wizards jersey because he never played here because
09:12that's...
09:12Because it's obscure.
09:13That's, like, that's trying too hard.
09:15Now you're a tryhard.
09:16I don't want to be a tryhard.
09:17So, like, the example I'll give you is, I think Chris called in a little bit ago and
09:21he said, you know, he has a Ben Wallace or something like that.
09:24Like, you know what would be hilarious is, like, an Ifeani Olete jersey.
09:28Or, like, a Rock Cartwright jersey.
09:30I'm not going back in time now to get those now for the back pat.
09:36I'm mostly doing current player back pats, if that makes sense.
09:40If he got a Craig Anderson that season, perfect.
09:45You get a Craig Anderson now because he played four games and no one knows it.
09:48Or some flea market or a yard sale for a buck.
09:50Look at that.
09:51And you're like, mm.
09:52Try hard.
09:53You tried too hard.
09:54God, this is tough.
09:55This is so hard to find.
09:57It's a moving runway we're landing this plane on.
09:58The sweet spot is tough.
09:59Nico, how are you?
10:02Doing well, gentlemen.
10:03How are you guys doing?
10:04Good, buddy.
10:04You know it when you see it, Danny.
10:06Yeah.
10:06I got number 33.
10:08Sammy Ball.
10:08Does that count as the hipster jersey?
10:10It's a good jersey.
10:12I would not call it a hipster jersey.
10:14That is not a hipster jersey.
10:15Retired, uniform, number, one of the greatest players in team history.
10:19Unique and definitely something I would rock, probably, because no one else at the game
10:24is going to have a 33 ball.
10:25That's pretty damn good.
10:26But it's certainly not a hipster jersey.
10:28And also, I want to add the rule, we're not going back in time, like, to legend status.
10:34Mm-hmm.
10:35I think, now, if it's semi-recent, like, I haven't worn my Steve Alexey or my Matt Hendricks in
10:40a while, but I think those still play.
10:41It's in the 2000s.
10:43You know, it's fairly recent.
10:44And it's the modern era, the rock, the red era.
10:47Did they wear the same uniforms?
10:49Although, for the commanders, that doesn't count, because they change uniforms every three
10:52seconds.
10:53Bernie in Potomac Falls, how are you?
10:55Well, I'm doing well, but I don't think I'm relevant any longer.
10:59What I was going to say is my number eight for the Capitals.
11:03He's, for me, it's Larry Murphy.
11:05And I used to, he's my favorite capital of all time.
11:07I'm of that age.
11:09He's in the Hall of Fame and won a bunch of cups.
11:11I thought it was a hipster jersey when I got it, when Ovechkin came up.
11:15And the other one, I was going to say that I know when I first got it, it was a
11:18hipster
11:19jersey.
11:19I got a bias jersey about 20 years ago, when nobody was wearing them.
11:23Right.
11:24And I wore it twice to go see him play at UNC.
11:27So it had other meaning.
11:29Now they're all of it.
11:30They're replicas everywhere.
11:31He's kind of had a rebirth.
11:33But that was my hipster jersey.
11:35Larry Murphy, number eight, when Ovechkin was playing, and bias.
11:38Great one.
11:39I have a, sorry, I didn't cut you off.
11:40Slipped.
11:41But yeah, that's a really good one.
11:42And then by the, the bias one is now like mainstream pop culture.
11:46You see it all the time.
11:47People like wear it on television nationally.
11:49Which actually is really cool, by the way.
11:50As a quick side note.
11:51I love that.
11:52Amazing.
11:53Very, very cool.
11:53But yeah, I think there was a time where those were hipster jerseys.
11:57Probably, if you were the only one that had them.
11:59Matt, Yorktown, you're on the fan.
12:01What's good?
12:02Hey guys, I'm loving the conversation.
12:05I wouldn't necessarily call them hipster jerseys, because I got them at the time when they were
12:08popular.
12:09But I have in my closet, and still wear them every once in a while, a Jake Plummer Arizona
12:14State jersey, and a Colt Brennan Black Hawaii Warriors jersey.
12:19So this is another lane that you're driving down, which is fine.
12:22But the throwback to college and or high school of a player.
12:26Somebody got a John Wall autograph when I was hanging out at the draft event we were
12:30doing at the Anthem, and they were showing him his high school jersey, and he's like,
12:34oh, bring that up here.
12:34I'll sign that.
12:35And that's a great way, by the way, to get a player to sign an autograph, because those
12:38are rare.
12:39Different lane, though.
12:40You understand?
12:41And it's not for you.
12:43It's not a lane I drive on.
12:45It's not your Jalen.
12:45This is not me telling anyone else how to jersey.
12:48Everyone's got their own way.
12:49But if you're trying to get into my club of jersey hipster Paulson, you just got turned
12:55down with a velvet rope.
12:56It is such an exclusive club, and it's never in one location.
12:59It's tough to find.
13:00Okay, so someone goes, give us examples from the current teams.
13:04Easy.
13:04Yeah.
13:04So you want a Nationals jersey hipster option right now.
13:09I would say if I had to buy a jersey today, I would get a Abimelech Ortiz.
13:17So it's an Ortiz 81, probably going to end up changing his number.
13:20But I get steamed for Abbie, for sure.
13:23The other one I would consider today would be a Andrew Alvarez 54.
13:29I don't even like Andrew Alvarez.
13:30I don't think he's going to be in the big leagues in two years.
13:32That's a perfect jersey hipster jersey.
13:34The last Nats jersey I bought was a Bo Porter when he was the third base coach.
13:39I want to be so clear about that.
13:41When he was the third base coach.
13:43And he had been out of baseball as a player for years.
13:45It's actually one of my most embarrassing jersey hipster purchases when you hear it.
13:49I spent $300 on it because it was a game-worn Bo Porter jersey.
13:53Yeah, he wore that in a game.
13:54Bo Porter coached third with that jersey, and I bought it at Nats Park as a replica,
14:00authentic Bo Porter jersey.
14:02So let's go Nats super quick.
14:04Ball or strike.
14:05Jersey that you would get or not.
14:07Okay.
14:07All right, ready?
14:08Because this might help people.
14:10Miles Michaelis.
14:11No.
14:12No, right?
14:13Because some people might think, oh, is that hipster enough?
14:15No, just because I don't want to remember that anymore.
14:17Exactly.
14:18Mitch Parker.
14:21That's tough.
14:22Isn't it?
14:23Mitch Parker's the perfect jersey hipster jersey.
14:25This is what I'm saying.
14:26So even though he's not good at all, yes, that's a perfect jersey hipster jersey.
14:31Brad Lord.
14:32Perfect.
14:33Clayton Beater.
14:34The whole team's pretty good because they're very obscure and no one has their jerseys.
14:37Uh-huh.
14:38Clayton Beater's too good.
14:39Throws 98.
14:39Orlando Robolta.
14:42Phenomenal.
14:42That feels like your wheelhouse, right?
14:43That is phenomenal.
14:44I should get one tonight.
14:45Now, Carson Palmquist.
14:47On the 40, man.
14:49He's an opener.
14:49Honestly?
14:50Perfect.
14:51You see?
14:52There are people seeing this now?
14:53That's what people need to understand.
14:55This is how the game is played.
14:56You roll up with a Tom Cosgrove jersey.
14:59No, Tom Cosgrove is a tryhard.
15:01You're trying too hard.
15:02What?
15:02Trying too hard.
15:03That was not okay, but Robolta's fine?
15:05Yes.
15:06You know it when you see it, man.
15:07It's impossible.
15:08Brian in Alexandria.
15:11Guys, I love this sort of conversation.
15:13I think that having the third-line hipster jersey is kind of like when your friend walks up
15:17and you says, oh, yeah, I'm a huge fan of that band you like, and you've got to say,
15:19oh, yeah, what are your top three songs?
15:21And you've got to challenge him to prove that you're a better fan than he is.
15:24Like, oh, yeah, I've got a number 10 Matt Bradley jersey at home.
15:27What do you got?
15:28Let's face it.
15:28At its core, that's kind of what this is.
15:30That's what this is.
15:31A little bit of like, oh, you're a Caps fan?
15:33Yeah, are you?
15:34That's pretty cool.
15:35You have an Andrew Cristal jersey?
15:36You're not that much of a Caps fan, are you?
15:38Connor in Arlington.
15:39What's good?
15:41Hey, guys.
15:42I've only had three jerseys my entire life.
15:46Jay Beagle in high school, Matt Hendricks in middle school, and a Jeff Schultz jersey in elementary
15:50school.
15:51We have, we've had, I've had all three of those jerseys.
15:54You might be in the club, Connor.
15:56You might be in the club.
15:57Connor, if you had to buy one more jersey right now this minute, you had to spend it, you had
16:01to get a jersey, what would you get?
16:03Any team?
16:06A Kalon Black San Francisco 49ers jersey, because he was at JMU with Cignetti.
16:11This guy gets it.
16:13He's in the club.
16:14I feel like he's speaking your language.
16:15Absolutely.
16:16If I had to buy a Capitals sweater right now?
16:18Today, right now, you've got to go spend money on a Capitals jersey you're getting?
16:23Ethan Frank.
16:25An Ethan Frank 53, who probably won't make the team.
16:29Or, if you want me to get someone who's definitely going to be on the squad, my Cap sweater for
16:35this year, I like going young typically, but I'm going to go against type here a little
16:39bit.
16:40I'm going to go Boone Jenner.
16:43Me and Mr. and Mrs. Jenner.
16:45That's the list.
16:46We'll have that sweater for opening night.
16:49So you couldn't do Ilya Protas, for example?
16:51Oh, God, no.
16:52I mean, I haven't.
16:53I'm not talking about Alexi Protas.
16:54His brother.
16:55I understand who you're talking about.
16:56If I was getting an Ilya Protas, I would have had to do it a year ago.
16:59It's too late now.
17:01It's way too late to get an Ilya Protas.
17:03There's going to be like 15 of those on opening night.
17:06I mean, that's unfathomable.
17:07You know how many Conners are out there trying to impress people with an Ilya Protas?
17:10There's so many Conners.
17:11He's already on it.
17:12Eight dudes named Conner went to JMU.
17:14Let's go to Scott in Arlington on the fan.
17:17Scott, what's up?
17:19Hey, how we doing?
17:20Hi, guys.
17:20Grant, you are so close.
17:22I think your hipster club is borderline tryhard.
17:26I think you've got to go random, like one-time All-Stars, like Christian Guzman or John Lannan,
17:32Jack Cordero kind of thing.
17:34Then you're going to hit the sweet spot of people who know what they're talking about,
17:37and no one else has got a Mark Langston or a Tim Walsh jersey.
17:40I do like the leveling up of he was good but not sustainably.
17:45Yeah.
17:45Like, there was a peak.
17:47There's a gleam, man.
17:48There's a gleam.
17:49Like, you've got a Jose Vigro jersey.
17:50It means you were there for Matt Chico and Tim Redding.
17:52You know.
17:53Everybody knows the player.
17:54Yep.
17:55This might actually be the next thing I start doing.
17:57I've got to give this more thought.
17:58But the throwback obscure player.
18:00Like, enough with the guy that's on the fringe of the roster right now, guy.
18:04I'm talking about the 2014 obscure player.
18:09That could be my new lane.
18:11Let me think about this.
18:13G&D on the fan, Joshua Josephs.
18:15He was actually number one on my list of hipster jerseys to purchase for sustainability.
18:21They're going to be here for a while that I gave out earlier today.
18:24You'll hear the interview I did with him today next on the fan.
Comments