It's time for The Mailbag, presented by Whitney McNutt of Tommy Morgan Inc. Realtors, where I answer your questions from RebelGrove.com and Twitter.

I solicited questions. You delivered. So here we go...

No. That makes you a human.

It's almost impossible to say because they haven't settled on a format yet. However, I've long thought a healthy Clippers team would beat the Lakers and I think the Bucks are a legitimately elite club. So I'll go Clippers-Bucks.

We grilled on Sunday. I did briskets and Laura made a black-eyed pea salad, a charred corn salad, collard greens and jalapeño and cheese beer bread. It was delicious. I did more than 1,700 calories worth of Peloton to prepare for the caloric intake. She also made these damn cookies that the kids love. I only ate two. It was a remarkable accomplishment. They're incredible.

It's my dream. That, and to have a Zoom call with Jeremy Pruett.

Playing sports? You know what, some of my favorite memories are just random sports. I had a really good game pitching when I was 12.We won, 2-1, and the opposing coach, trying to fire up his team before the final inning, said, "This guy can't pitch."

That pissed me off. I struck out the side. In the handshake line, I shook his hand and said, "Can't pitch, huh?"

He followed me into our dugout, got up in my face and made an ass of himself. If someone did that to Carson, there'd be a brawl. Luckily, my parents were angry at me for being disrespectful. Instead of a postgame peanut buster parfait from Dairy Queen, I was sent to my room.

I hit a home run off my friend William Colvin when I was 14. He was still angry the next morning at driver's ed class. He said it barely cleared the left-center field fence. Barely, my ass. I crushed that.

There was this kid from a nearby town who nobody could touch. His name was Tracy something. He threw hard and he was kind of wild, so everyone was scared of him. For some reason, the ball looked like a freaking balloon coming out of his hand to me. I would hit him all over the park. No idea how or why, for I wasn't particularly good. I had an interception as a freshman in the Red-White game at Ruston and I remember being really pumped. I don't know how much of the rest of the stuff really sticks out all these years later.

The younger I was, the more sports were fun. I remember whiffle ball games in the neighborhood more than I remember RHS baseball games.

Carson and I have certainly bonded over sports. He likes to talk about teams and games and seasons and players and the Jordan documentary has interested him in 1990s NBA.

Mostly, I just love watching him play. I love watching him play soccer. I don't really understand the game, so I sit and watch and cheer and just get to be a stupid dad. That's awesome.

I'll be shocked if media is allowed any face-to-face access this fall. I doubt the press box will be open to media and I can't imagine they'll allow postgame access either. I would think everything would be done via Zoom and/or teleconferences. Frankly, last season we started covering games remotely so we could do the postgame show. Turns out we were likely ahead of our times.

Sure, we're all impacted by our experiences. I suspect Jackson was shaped by his playing career to a degree.

No, Manning versus Brady was a glimpse into their rivalry and friendship. I didn't watch a lot of it. It's golf. I don't play at all, so I really don't understand it at any nuanced level, and I don't find televised golf to be all that enjoyable. However, I watched 20 minutes or so on Sunday and found it generally fun.

Yeah, that would be a fun conversation to have in a big window of time. I can't foresee that happening anytime soon, but I'll try to put that one in the back of my mind in case that opportunity presents itself.

I like Rogan. I am not an every-day listener, but I listen some. He's good. He's raw. He's real. He has conversations. His style of podcasting is similar to what I enjoy if I had the talent and skill and medium to do it. The $100 million, which will have him exclusively on Spotify by the end of the year, is fantastic for him and will be a boom for Spotify. His style of podcasting is very popular.

I can't imagine what it will mean for MPW. Nothing, I suspect. I mean, I love interviewing people and discussing new things, but I suspect most of our listeners want us to resume the old format sooner rather than later. I'm not talented enough to venture out on my own Rogan-style. I give the guy a ton of credit. He took chances with his topics, built an audience and then built an empire.

This year? Probably, though that would cost them more TV money. Long-term? No. I love the seven-game series format.

Yes. However, context is needed. That 2003 NLCS was so emotional. The drought was very much a story and that team, with Prior and Wood and Sosa and Alou, had captured the hearts of Cubs fans. It beat Atlanta in the NLDS and appeared to have Game 6 in hand when all hell broke loose. Initially, I was mad at Bartman and Gonzalez and Baker. Over time, I focused as much on Game 7 as I did Game 6. The next spring, I was in Mesa and I met with then-Cubs GM Jim Hendry. Interestingly, he was haunted by Game 1 more than any other game. Had the Cubs won, he felt, they would've swept the series.I feel for Bartman. I wish he'd come out of hiding and accept apologies, but it's his life and he has the right to live it as he wishes.

I'd open it up and let people live. I'd let people make their own choices. Frankly, I'm shocked that's not more of a widespread opinion.

I think I'd own the Yankees. How cool would that be? All of that history and money and passion would be pretty damn cool. Or maybe I'd own a small-market team and try to win a title that would mean so much to the people there.

The hype entering this postseason is silly. Moving forward, however, the Nets will be a real contender. Durant and Irving form a hell of a nucleus.

Carson: "They're OK. I like the bottom color way (purple and gold). They're not bad."

I realize I've let you down. The pandemic stifled my momentum. I'll try to do better.

I don't know the person so I can't comment there. As a journalist, I find his behavior reprehensible and I have no respect for him whatsoever. In short, professionally speaking, he's a clown.

Note: If this gets back to him, his response will be about my supposed fandom. It's the only bullet in their chamber and deep down, they know it's a flawed argument. They can't prove what doesn't exist, but #MSUTwitter will blindly play along.

I give the man credit for the work he did to take Ole Miss down. He destroyed Hugh Freeze. He, single-handedly, finished him. Ross Bjork wasn't going to fire Freeze, not even after a second NOA. Robertson's work -- however he did it -- was the coup de grace. His book, while horrible (yes, I've glanced through it and wonder why he didn't hire an editor), gave him some recognition.

However, his comments in recent months about a "war" between Ole Miss and MSU are the ramblings of an unhinged, unhealthy person. I can't believe real people view a college football rivalry as a "war" or truly believe people at two schools separated by two hours in one of America's smallest states are that different from one another.

I've said Ole Miss should distance itself from that rivalry. I believe I'm right. I don't think it's healthy, but I've also said I'm not an Ole Miss person and therefore, I'm not qualified to truly have that opinion.

Still, he will play the fan card on me. If I've learned one thing in my 12-plus years on the beat, fandom is very important to people like Robertson. Inside the beat, I've had my lack of fandom used as a weapon at every turn. Robertson and #MSUTwitter, meanwhile, play that card, proving if you only have one play, running it over and over is the only possible strategy.

But back to your question. I don't know him personally and doubt I ever will. On the surface, we don't appear to have much in common. Professionally, our philosophies couldn't be more disparate.