Postgame Show: The Worst National Anthem of All-Time
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Jeremy Taché returns to the show. You just heard his baseball segment there, and I appreciate you following the sport, so I don't have to. You're very welcome. And it's a Midsummer Classic. It's a big deal. You probably covered this. I'm not going to listen, so I'm asking you directly.

Did they change anything about the Home Run Derby? Whoa. I recorded it. Spoiler alert. I can tell you about the structure of it without spoiling it for you? Does that work? No, it's boring. You can just talk about it. What did they do? Did they do anything differently? Was anyone annoyed with it? Because...

We did this entire show, and this is all a bridge to get to the worst national anthem of all time. Trust me, we'll cover that here in this post-game show. But everybody that I knew that was in my circle was consumed with the video game dropping last night, and I have never heard less...

about a home run derby, so much so that I don't even know what the rule changes might possibly be if there were any at all. So there were rule changes as there kind of seemed to be every single year with the home run derby. It feels like they're constantly trying to tweak it. But it was actually super competitive and really entertaining. The first round...

every single hitter was not in a bracket. They were just competing against each other. So it was eight hitters and they had either three minutes or 40 pitches, which when you work out the amount of time, it's just about the same. The reason they kept it to 40 pitches was just so that you didn't have anybody basically speed swinging through the entire thing, able to out

home or somebody else. It ended up seeming unnecessary, but that was just to make sure that no one got like too many swings. It was guaranteeing that everybody had the same amount of pitches that they could see. And I think what that did is it made the pitchers that much more important. It was the most important pitchers I've ever been. I'm out on that because this contest, as long as I've seen it, isn't so much about how far you can hit the ball.

and how consistently you can do that. It's how good your pitcher is. It does help. Look, having a good pitcher really matters in this one, and you saw multiple examples, Billy, since you recorded it. I won't tell you specifically who suffered or who gained from a good pitcher. Best pitcher of all time currently, Robinson Cano's dad. Cano's dad was the best. That old man lobbing up pitches to Josh Hamilton. That was also an all-timer. But what was good is this was a really competitive derby.

So like the first round, you had several guys within just a couple of home runs of each other trying to advance to the next round. You had upsets in that first round based off the betting odds. And then from there, it was cool because everyone kind of learned what the strategy needed to be, how they could handle their bonus pitches, how home run distance could be able to factor into all of that. And so in the end, it ended with this.

basically in the final few seconds, seeing whether or not the guy who went second in the championship round could Homer in his final few pitches to get there. And it ended within, well, a Homer of each other. It was really, really entertaining and really, really fun. Billy, can you just shut your ears for a second to cover them up? DJ Irie there. I,

did not see DJ. I didn't see him this year. First time in a long time. It was the guy from SNL that's clearly trying to do a lot of marketing with baseball because he's Hispanic. What's his name? Marcelo? Yeah, the dude from down here. Yeah, he's like clearly his agent is getting him involved in baseball. He's in a commercial. He was doing like the intros for everybody. Who won? I'll cover my ears. Cover your ears? Teoscar Hernandez.

It seemed like every team Mike, you look like you don't know who that is. Is that one person or two? It seemed like every team that was represented had their second best home run hitter in the competition. That's funny, right? Ohtani wasn't in it. Phillies, Harper wasn't in it. It was just like, who's the second best home run hitter on your team? Alec Boehm was great

though. He was really fun. And what was awesome is every time that the cameras went up in the TV production element toward one of the players, they kept all the microphones on. And so you could kind of hear their side conversations. And Alec Boehm, when he advanced to the second round, he had a moment where he's just like, ah, just like everyone expected.

But just talking to himself, it just happened to be that the camera was near him. And so he had some funny moments. I think people really enjoyed getting to see some of the personalities there and the bonding between the players that stuck around to watch all of it. So for me, it was the perfect setup for tonight's All-Star game with Paul Skeens on the bump. I'm stoked for that. So I did it. As I mentioned, I didn't hear anything about the Home Run Derby until right now. However, I did see one thing. One thing transcended this event so much.

that it was shared in group chats all across America. And at one point while we were playing CFB 25, someone just put it up to the headset and said, listen to this. This is indeed, Fergie is off the hook, the worst national anthem I have ever heard. Who is this? She was Ingrid Arnott.

She still is. Yeah, I guess, well, for now. I'm asking you because you usually know these contemporary singers. I've never heard of Ingrid Andres. They said she was a four-time Grammy-nominated country singer. That didn't sound like it. And she is bad at singing. Do you guys want to hear the whole thing or just the parts that I marked? No, whole thing. Let's do this. Oh, say can you see

by the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars the perilous fight or the ramparts we watch were so gallantly streaming

Oh, the fireworks. Taylor. Dallas, sorry, this is in Dallas, I guess. Arlington. Yikes. Yikes. What the?

God bless America. Sounded like someone was poking her in the armpit at the end of every line. Like, eh. Eh. Eh. It goes without saying. I'm not going to say it. It goes without saying. For the land of the free. Whoa. What a riff. Whoa. Because the previous runs had gone so well for her, too. She's like, no, let me cook. Tripling down. And the rocket's red.

Oh, dude. Dude, there's like this IG account that does like impersonations of like the indie folk singer that just does like a cover of an 80s pop song and that felt more put on. That is...

So bad. She tried. At the 63rd Grammys in 2021, she was nominated for Best Country Song, Best Country Artist, and Best New Artist. Wow. Was that Wishful Drinking? Best Country Album. I apologize. Best Country Song? Maybe I'm just wishful drinking. More hearts than mine.

That's it. I mean, contemporary music is littered with auto-tune. You got to live-tune that thing. What's really amazing is her Wikipedia says, fans and critics drew comparison between Andre's performance at the National Anthem and Fergie's rendition at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game. Wow.

They've already put it on our Wikipedia. Well, so what made the Fergie one iconic outside of just how bad it was was like Draymond's reaction to it and everyone trying to hold back laughter. Was there an element of that? There was an Alec Boehm moment of him. They showed him on camera and it wasn't even at the worst part. It was like earlier on when you could tell it was going the wrong way, but it hadn't quite gotten there yet. And you can see him kind of doing the same thing of like,

about to crack a smile, kind of looking down on purpose, knowing the camera was on him. I'm kind of hoping that Jason Tatum runs into a bad anthem just so he can start copying everybody else's reaction to bad anthems. Oh, the thing with Fergie, though, she was doing a thing. Like, she was trying to make it a jazz-y. She was doing her, yeah, she was trying to make her own version of the Marvin Gaye. Maybe that's what was happening here. No. And it just went poorly. Good for her. We know her name now.

Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. Stugatz, guess what? What? You know what you can do with Peloton? What? Get the app, go outside, ride a bike. Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside. Well, you do, you can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloudy or you just don't want to get outside, maybe it's too hot.

summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

I sense that with you. We're beyond starting. Okay. Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus. It's not just a bike, a treadmill too. I'm going to go outside. I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to do it with Billy Gill. I want to be in your class. I want you to be my instructor. You know what? I won't be your instructor. You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together. I won't be the instructor of the class. We can have Camila could be our instructor. I like the Grateful Dead class. My daughter, she uses the Peloton. Mm-hmm.

She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead 2. So let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.