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Florida Panthers, King of the Road · Sports Exchange

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Happy Wednesday, everybody. This is Scott Morgan Roth the Motor City Madmouth on
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the Wednesday edition of US Sports Exchange, which happens to follow Pundits Pundit with
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a great loaded show. And I'll be on my way to Chicago. Well
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sort of confidential after this show is over with. Anyways, you know I
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don't fly as fast as I should, although if I went on the Interstates
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cops, I hope you're not hearing this. It doesn't matter. It is
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what it is. But looking forward to the second half of my hat trick
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tonight and I'm gonna do it with my all star team. Well to my
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right, Jabella's welcome to the big show. What's going on? What's going
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on? You brother? You and we had smoking Jeremy b How you doing,
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Scott? There you go? I love the salute boy. We have
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really groomed you really really well. To talk about developmental JB. Oh,
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we got two of you. Jab's out, Oh well whatever. I don't
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know a lot about math, but I know we have JB to the second
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power. Okay, that's as far as I'll go to Math. And we
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have George Aikorn, who's ready for another round. Round whatever, whatever,
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thank you having. Yeah, Korn's gotten a lot of work today. He's
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gonna be This will be his fourth show of the week and I bailed him
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out of being on the fifth one, and I'll get to that in a
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moment. And last, but not least, Jacob Christner, what's up?
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And JB, I'm jealous of your ice cream. It's pretty good stuff.
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So I want to summarize a little bit about last night in case y'all are
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hearing it for the first time. We had a great show last night on
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the Sports Exchange with Melfer and I had the opportunity to talk to Richmond Webb
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and that was a great show. And Mel Farmers earned himself a spot okay
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as my co host, and he's no longer an analyst, So I feel
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bad for Meloy's gonna have colleague Flower hears that I get through though. His
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first act was unbelievable, so I just want to put that out there.
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But I expect tonight to be really well. Like the game, the perfectionist
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part of me is coming out anyway. He's neverthelast, all right, first
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and foremost, as we get to business here, and I can tell you
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will Vogel is going to be up and running here. I don't know anything
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about track and field, but Vogel will probably run the sixty minute version of
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the Sports exchanging about three point three three. Okay, So with that said,
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we'll talk about sports Toronto of the week, Toronto, Canada. Let
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me preface this a little bit. Last night to Florida Panthers ended up beating
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the Maple Leaves four to two last night to take a one to nothing lead
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over the Toronto maple Leaves. And I can tell you right now I've been
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to Toronto what a great town it really is. And I'm wearing this King
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of the Road hat because it's going to segue into the next topic. So
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JB analyzed Toronto on a scale one to ten. And let's not forget that
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they do. I call it a three and a half town when you consider
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that you have the CFL not the NFL. But then again, Buffalo is
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right around the corner, so they might many of them may go to the
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Bills. So on a scale one to ten, JB ellis and a reason
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or two will help. What are your thoughts about Toronto? So I would
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say a solidy. They got the NHL Hall of fame up there. They
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got the expansion Raptors from years ago. Right. The Maple Leafs are always
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good, they just can't seem to win. The Blue Jays are on an
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upswing, a lot of young talent, and they've won, you know,
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within the last twenty or so years, thirty years a couple of times.
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They've always done pretty well. They have a great stadium. It's still called
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the Rogers Center. I don't know. I don't keep up with naming rights.
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And they got the l which you know, was the second best football
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league in the world. They have one of the better teams of that.
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So overall I'd say a solid eight. Yeah. When I was there,
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it was a sky dome. It will always be the sky Down. I'm
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with you, JB. Okay, naming rights, I get confused anyway,
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so I'll just stick to the original and be done with it. So,
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okay, mister smoking Jeremy me, I agree with it being an eight um.
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And yes, the Argonauts they tend to win that Canadian Football League every
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now and then, so they are a good Canadian football team. The size
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of a circus with the field the size of a soccer field. But that
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being said, yeah, that's just the end zone, good lord, fifteen
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yards deep and ten yards wider. But anyways, uh, yeah, I
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give him a solid eight. Yeah. No shortage of Great Cup titles for
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the Toronto Argonauts, all right, George, you and I have been deal
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with Toronto for years. Yeah. I went to a few games at the
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old Exhibition Stadium. Oh man, talk about the Blue Jays playing in uh
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some adverse conditions. It was cold as hell, you know, and it
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was it was not the best of locations. It was right in the middle
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of their exposition center of their state Fair, if you will, and we
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would call it. But now they got the SkyDome. They've had the SkyDome
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for a while. Um, their fans are pretty loyal in baseball. I'm
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gonna go with the guys and I'm gonna say eight. Also, I'm glad
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you mentioned JB about the Hockey Hall of Fame because that is a definite plus
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for that city. And although I haven't been there, I did make a
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visit to the research Center for the Hockey Hall of Fame and it's just incredible.
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This building is shumongous and they have all the research facilities there. They
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have such deep collections of everything, so baseball, football, basketball. Of
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course, my boy Dwayne Casey coached them to some great teams there when they
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when he was coached in Toronto. So I'm going to give it a solid
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eight also, all right, Jacob, your last eight eight and a half,
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I mean, just the idea that how long it took for Toronto to
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get out of that first round, and the fans just build that place time
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and time and time again. It's an original six. You get to get
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those, then you get I mean, the Blue Jays are all I mean,
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the Blue Jays they don't always fill, but the fans want them to
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be, and then you get they want them to be good. You can
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already tell that. And I still remember that pop that they got when Joe
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Cutter hit that home run. I remember that. It's same pop then you
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get then you get the CFL, and CFL has some crazy fans. So
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the thing is, there's nothing I can say. I think Toronto is definitely
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an eight eight and a half. Well, I got some pretty good stories
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tell you about this town here. Number one. On my twentieth birthday,
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I saw the Montreal Canadians take on the Toronto Aple Leaves at Old Maple Leaf
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Gardens, and I was able to find a way to get a ticket reasonable
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on my birthday that night with a friend and nine that sundery a birthday,
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I'll tell you. Yeah, back to twenty years or about four years since
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I've been in Maple League Garden day. But they still kept the building there.
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They've just redone it to make it a moral, smaller scale building.
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At least they respect history. Number two. I went to the Hockey Hall
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of Fame when it was over at Exhibition Place, which is kind of neat.
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Number three. I've also attended games at Exhibition Stadium as well. But
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here's one of the most interesting things that ever happened. And you guys,
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you can't since you're my eighteen Okay, we'll definitely appreciate this. I was
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married one time. I don't know where the background noise is coming from,
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but I don't think I could really compete with it. So if it's there,
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it is. If it isn't, it should go away, hopefully soon
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enough. Okay, But here's the thing. When I was married to my
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ex wife, Susan, and I went on this ride called the Dead Man
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Drop, and they had this thing panted on the bottom, but it was
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mental on top, so what anything happens to me? I had bands on
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top of the at all. And I suffered a major concussion on the ride.
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It was unbelievable. So I'm over an exhibition stadium for about two or
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three hours, you know, in the medical ward. And my ex wife
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said, you know, Scott, I haven't seen you go quiet in a
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long time. Two or three hours and shut me up up the dead man
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drop, so you know, wow, you up the clock. I still
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have concussion issues, but yeah, what the heck? And I love Toronto,
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one of the greatest cities out there on the planet. That's why I
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was that we can bring it up today. And hey, there's no shortage
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of tradition, all right, Well, before Will Vogel has a heart attack,
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we'll put his first one up Aprica. Well, and they'll keep him
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falling after that. Jeremy, you're gonna read them though, all right,
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hasn't Nate a reader tonight? Go ahead? Well, you're gonna try to
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read it, all right? Anyways? Go ahead? Oh sorry, Terrero
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is an eight? I agree. Blue Jays have won a World Series,
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Raptors won in NBA Championships, and Maple leaves have a rich history. Very
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good point. Well, yeah, very good point. All right, that's
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good. All right, Well, you know what, that'll segue to our
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next topic. Okay, and we're talking about the Florida Panthers. I actually
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named this episode after the Florida Panthers with my King of the road Head.
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Why I did that, Well, that's pretty easy, Okay. All they
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did was upset the Boston Bruins, who only had one hundred and thirty five
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points, sixty five wins, the most NHL history, and a President's Trophy.
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That means absolutely nothing. And according to George Richards All the Hockey now,
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the Cats have won four out of five road games. So jb ellis
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or the Florida Panthers a team of destiny. No, the Bolster Bruins are
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a disgrace. Okay, no way that they should have lost that series.
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The Florida Panthers, great for them, you know, they won game one.
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Toronto doesn't get one. They're horrible the playoffs when it comes to Carolina.
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Next route. If they make it to the next route, they're not
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going to go any further if they happen to be Toronto, because Toronto has
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a shaky history of the playoffs. But but you know, they went out
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there and they want to congratulations. Can't take anything to get stub But the
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Bolster Brewers are disgraced. Have the best record in the history of the NHL.
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Had to go out there and lose to an eighth seed. Disgusting.
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Okay, Jeremy, before you go ahead and give me your two cents,
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you know what your job is tonight. Yes, the Florida Panthers in the
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playoffs have Kachuck meaning import points, montur and goals and Bobrovski tied for second
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and wins. They're better at home than on the road this year. Yeah,
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maybe, but they're looking awfully good right now on the road. That's
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why they're still playing in Lawson's at home. Like JB said, they are
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a D I S D R A C eight. Okay, now what's your
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take on this one, Jeremy, the Florida Panthers, you know what,
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what can you say? I mean, they've everybody expected Boston to cruise to
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the finals versus somebody on the eastern side, and it's never easy. I
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don't care who you are. That's true and never is and that's why of
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these games, you play them on the ice, not on paper. George
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Ikorn, I've lived through at Scott and JB. The Red Wings did the
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same thing. The Red Wings said all kinds of records, won the President's
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Trophy, and down they went to the San Jose Sharks. On this program
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a couple of weeks ago, I was the only one that had any faith
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in Florida winning that series, and I did pick them to win more of
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a guest than a hunch. But I'll tell you what, if you're in
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Beantown right now, you're not a happy soldier. Of course, you still
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got the Celtics with a chance, even though they're down. But I'm telling
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you Florida is on a roll and I'm not counting them out from anything.
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Toronto, You're right, Jab They've got a bad history in the postseason.
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They finally got out a round one, so um, you know this thing
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could go seven games in Toronto and Florida is going to be a hell of
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a series. Okay, what about you, Jacob the Big This reminded me
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of the Blues. It just does all the years of Saint Louis. I
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saw two Presidents Trophies in my lifetime. And two first round losses. I
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see that. I saw. I had all these hopes when I was in
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high school. Oh my god, we got Detroit again. You're gonna get
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out of this time? Yeah? Right, always the four to two.
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There was one four to three, and then then I remembered the being off
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the top and then the being off the top of the post and then stealing
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it from Gretzky and double over there. I think it was double overtime,
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and they did it. I was in game seven in Detroit. It's like,
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I mean, I saw so many Blues, the heartbreaks, and then
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what did the Blues do? Two nineteen dead last in the January? Are
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you going for the first round? You go for the first round draft pick?
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Oh? No, We're just gonna keep on waiting. There, we
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wait the whole thing. It's like, that's something tells me that's gonna be
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Boston someday somewhere. It's like, it's like, there's gonna be any of
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those somewhere someday. It's because the sand Cup playoffs are just about the hardest
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playoffs to win, and sometimes it's like everybody gives you all this and then
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you're a target. Sometimes it just takes you being under the radar and get
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hot. All right, Well, you know what I gotta tell you this,
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This is a long one before ian go ahead. Candy's in the background.
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AA, She's doing all of her track stuff. So here you go,
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all right, Jeremy, and then I'll go ahead and talk about the
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Panthers. I have plenty to say, but you've got a lot of reading
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this time there, mister. All right. Toronto Maple Lease, Raptors,
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Blue Jay's Argonauts, Wolfpack, the North American Rugby League Marley's AHL, Toronto
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FC, MLS Lacrosse is one of Canada's two national sports. The Toronto Rock
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was the first Canadian franchise in the NL. The Honda Inde Toronto is one
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of just seven Canadian circuits and stands out as one of the longest running street
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races in any country, second only to the Long Beach Grand Prix in California.
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There you go, all right, that's good stuff, Candy. All
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right, So here's the deal. Okay. The Florida Panthers a year ago
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had one of playoffs series like twenty nine or thirty years. They beat the
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Washington Capitals, got that grill off their back. Okay, item number one
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this year. You know, obviously they're a team that dropped off by thirty
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or forty points and backed into the playoffs on the last day or so,
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and then they beat Boston. I do believe that the Panthers are going to
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wipe out the least in four or five games. I don't think. I
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don't see it going work five. Their challenges obviously go to the Obviously the
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Eastern Conference finals another story. So there's no question that they're a feel good
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story. And they made a head coaching change in Paul Maurice is what they
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did, and they let go Andrew Brunette, and I thought they were headed
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on the right track with Joel Quinnville until he got involved with that scandal that
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ran him out of the league. So, you know, I'll tell you
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whether they win an all or not. They've surprised me a bit because of
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the fact that they were able to just take out Boston on its own.
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Think about, you're a heavy underdog, but they were on house money.
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Let's not get her. So when you're on house money, it is so
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easy to play lose, isn't it. I know we all agree with that.
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Yeah, and then yeah, and then of course the Boston puns just
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invalidated the President's Trophy. So we can all say next year the regular season,
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but that's that's the NHL playoffs. It's by far the best playoffs that
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they sport, oh, no question. Not only that, like to say,
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it's the hardest one to win anyhow, So that doesn't matter. But
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I'm with you all the but that's a good story here. Again, I'm
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so busy. I don't have time to go out to their games anymore because
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I have a lot of things going on. So this year in twenty three
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is go where I can continue building what we're doing here with myself and sideline,
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and go where I have to go when the time comes. But hey,
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more power to the Cats. I don't think anybody expecting anything out of
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them, and we'll just see where this run goes. It's really hard to
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believe. And they're in salary cap purgatority together, so they're putting band aids
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on their salary cap problems and it's taking good coaching. And obviously I think
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Matt Kchuck is he the guy. So there you go, so I think
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it to me, they've done They've done much better than I gave him credit
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for. All Right, one more hockey topic, okay, and then we'll
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go from there. And I'm gonna go ahead and preface this one with another
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with another will vocal comments, so I can set this one up all right.
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But Jeremy, don't read this one yet until I tell you too.
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Okay. The Seattle Crack and Dave Hackstall as their head coach developed a good
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program at the un North Dakota from two thousand and four two fifteen. This
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is a second year expansion team. He got a raw deal with the Philadelphia
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Flyers. He coached there for three years. He's won thirty four one on
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one and forty two and at North Dakota two eighty nine, one, forty
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three, forty three. You know what. To me, Dave Hastall is
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an absolute genius. And I think the Philadelphia Flyers probably wish they didn't get
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rid of them. Maybe they did. I think that John Tortoreoa will do
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well over there. But Dave Hackstall to me, he didn't have enough time.
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I don't know what was going on in Philly. So that said,
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JB, Okay, give me, give me your take. Now, let's
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go ahead. I'll actually j Jeremy read this one. Sandals goalie is a
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fourth best percentage in the playoff seadle is better on the road than at home.
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All right, Well, when you come up with those numbers, please
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do me a favor. Okay, provide the facts with it. Well,
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we'll take your comment, but if you want to come up with percentages,
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please do a little bit more extensive research. But that said, jab ellis
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can give me your take on the Seattle Kracken, I gott it. Expect
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them to get past the first round. Um, I'm correct. They played
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Colorado, which defending Cup champion. You know they how to play a perfect
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series to get past them. Then they came into round two, one game
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one, so they're they're looking good. You know they're again. The NHL
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playoffs is the strange phenomenon. If you get into the right hot streak at
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the right time, it doesn't matter where you finished or where you're playing a
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lot of it depends on the goalie. But as Will said, you know
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the fourth best percentage you know the playoffs. That's that's huge, all right,
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Jeremy, I agree this. The Cracking with their second year are far
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exceeding expectations for their team, and it's mostly due to that head coach.
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He's done a fantastic job. And as you said, the Flyers have floundered
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since and they'll probably be fine with their new coach, but it's going to
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take them a year or two to recover. Okay, let's go comment from
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Big Dan Davis. You know all too well, we'll just forecast a little
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bit. Jeremy. Hurricanes are currently up on the Devil's four to one in
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the third game in the third in game one in the second round of the
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East. Well, there you go. They could be a tough help for
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sure. Thanks Big Dan for putting that inn. Alright, George, go
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ahead. Well, you know, the Kraken can thank the NHL Commissioner Bettman
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the Board of Governors because that we've had a complete makeover of the expansion draft.
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It's not the crappy players that you used to see that were sent to
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your team. You are now getting good, talented players. Plus you have
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an opportunity to sign other players, you have some money to work with,
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and look what happened in Las Vegas and now it's getting repeated in Seattle.
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So they can thank the NHL and they're lucky Stars don't get me wrong.
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I mean they've been managed very very well Seattle, But I mean the whole
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thing is laid out a lot differently than when we were younger, and those
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teams came into the league and got the pardon the expression, crap heap of
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players from other teams that nobody wanted. So hats off to Seattle. Um.
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I still think the Vegas Knights are going to come out of the West.
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But what a story. Those two teams have been just fantastic the last
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three or four years, especially in Vegas case. I'll tell you, be
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certainly amazing at the Cracking and Vegas Golden Knights end up meeting for the right
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to compete in Lord Stanley cuph My god, that'll take parody to a different
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level if I ever saw. But you know what the wildcard here is.
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I'm gonna say Dave Hackstall his second year and he built a great program at
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the University of North Dakota. And I'll tell you what, when you talk
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about initial hires, a Seattle Cracking got it right. They really really did
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on that one. All right. Well, you know where's Mark Mancini and
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Ralph Williams when you need them? This is a topic design to pull those
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who forgot me. Oh no, I'll get to them, but I just
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want to I'll do a little segue. Go ahead, Jacob, I was
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just messing. No, no, you're good, You're good. No,
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never forget you, Jacob. You know that, brother, I got all
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about anybody. No, there's two they are two things. There's two different
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sets of organizations that are degree rooting for the Kraken, the environmentalists and all
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they and all of them. What's the good thing? You know? Anybody
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like the switchboard operators for all the video take everybody. If you've ever seen
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their video screw you know they're three D not even three D anymore like eight
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K video thing with the Kraken at the beginning and everything like that. It's
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a complete show. And now that's in the Stanley Cup playoffs. That gets
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it's good shown all over in video. And then also there the stadium is
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their stadium is full fledged, full fledged green one the first one in the
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league is full fledged green. That's gonna get shown in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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It's gonna get spread around in the Stanley Cup playoffs, those stories are
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gonna get spread around the longer they're there. That is what's going to be
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rooted for. And you're gonna start seeing this in other areas. It's gonna
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start and probably the Kings will probably start doing it with Los Angeles, and
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you're gonna probably see it in New York. You have some of the Blue
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States, and they'll just keep building from there. You're gonna start seeing changes
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in these buildings and in all the kind of stuff and in all these technology
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that we see now. It's gonna be because of the Stanley Cup play.
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It's gonna be a start, all right. Let me point something out real
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tell you this. Okay, a nice description of the stadium, Jacob.
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But here's the deal, pal, many many years ago, yours truly saw
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Seattle SuperSonics game over at the Key Arena. That's very same building, okay,
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And they've done a lot of work to get it back up there.
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And then Seattle been fighting with everybody a long time. That's why they lost
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the SuperSonics in the first place. So I'm glad that they're still using the
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existing structure of it and redid the whole thing. And let's face the reality,
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Seattle's a great sports one. I think we went ahead and did a
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sports Time of the Week on earlier in the year. But the second are
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a great story. They are. And I'm still hoping that Saddle gets a
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SuperSonics back at some point because they deserve it. But let's not kid yourself.
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Well they do, but but you know, I was actually hoping that
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they would name them the Seattle Metropolitans to bring back the first US team never
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went a Stanley Cup. It didn't quite work that way. But the cracking
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is what it is. I know what the area stands for, having been
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to Seattle, one of the most gorgeous cities on the planet. Then you
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know, if you haven't been to Seattle, go to the Pike Streak Market.
24:11
And I had a chance to see a game over at the Seattle Kingdom.
24:15
You guys are looking at geez, we're having you been well Europe.
24:18
And that's about that. So we'll go to bring back sixth Stadium. Oh
24:22
gosh, Seattle, Seattle pilots. Yeah's all right, we'll leave that one
24:26
alone. All right. Well, I gotta get to baseball. And I
24:30
was kidding with you. I wasn't looking over you. I want to see
24:33
we can dig Mark man Sini and Ralph Williams out of three rivers, okay,
24:37
And I wonder why the heck the Pittsburgh Pirates, okay, are twenty
24:41
wins and ten losses in the first place in the NL CenTra JB. I
24:45
must have took a dump pill of night. So maybe you can help me
24:48
get smart on this one. Young talented players, you know, just playing
24:53
well. They built the farm system. They you know, grown it for
25:00
years that it's outside that the young players they have and just started clicking.
25:04
You know, it didn't happen for a little bit. They actually sighed Brian
25:08
Reynolds to an extension, which is a great move because there was talks about
25:12
it being traded to the Yankees that you know, he didn't It sounded like
25:15
he didn't want to go there from what I understood, but you know,
25:18
the Yankees were definitely interested in it up. But they signed him long term,
25:22
which is a nice thing to see Pittsburgh actually keeping somebody they developed now.
25:27
But yeah, a lot of young talent has just played really great baseball,
25:30
and it's weird to see Pittsburgh and first the Yankees at last. It's
25:34
a very strange thing. Also, you know, something that hasn't happened ever
25:38
in history, the end of April, the Yankees and Cardinals both to the
25:42
last place. Yeah, I'll get to the Yankees in a moment, so
25:45
bear with me on that. I think. An interesting side note to what
25:48
you said, though, Jab is that Bob nuttings net worth is one point
25:52
one billion dollars. So if anybody think that this guy is broke, I
25:57
was saying, not, Okay, Well, we'll get to the Yankees in
26:00
a moment. All right, smoking, Jeremy be I know baseball in your
26:03
deal, but I've given enough time to at least provide a little insight on
26:07
this one. Some thoughts about that the Pirates are not walking the plank.
26:11
Well, you know, they've started a couple of years in the last decade
26:17
like this where they started out hot. I want to see him continue it.
26:21
I mean to be hot after the first month of the season. It
26:25
is what it is. I want to see it. If it continues,
26:29
if they continue to play like this, then great for the city of Pittsburgh.
26:33
Yeah, it's a blue collar town. What we'll came about four hours
26:36
from Detroit. All right, George. Six years ago they had a player
26:41
by the name of Andrew McCutcheon. And now he's back. You know,
26:45
now he's the Savy veteran, you know, thirty six years old. I've
26:48
always been am a cutcheon fan. I'm just so happy for him, you
26:52
know that he's back in the fold and that the Pirates are doing what they're
26:55
doing. Yeah, the owner's got money, JB. You hit on it.
27:00
They got some young talent that they're playing very very well. Can they
27:03
sustain it? Who knows? But it's a lot of fun while it's well,
27:06
it's going on right now. But yeah, mccutcheen, I've always liked
27:08
him as a player and that was real smart and then getting getting him back
27:12
and being their DH. Well you know, George, Yeah, go ahead,
27:18
he's go ahead. Read thank you. Pirates have a solid team,
27:22
Will said, with McCutchen, veteran leadership, Brian Reynolds, Kay, Brian
27:27
Hayes, and solid pitching with Keller and Contraras. It's crazy they are doing
27:32
their solid young player cruise. Now you have a Will and George. All
27:38
right, Jacob, what's going to decide? This is what happens when it's
27:44
a young team that has been terrible for so many years get starts getting good?
27:49
Is it always depends on July? Right? There is are there veterans
27:55
that want to go? Are there is there a GM that knows how then
28:00
knows how to play the game, that knows how to get the trades right,
28:03
get the right players there. Because it's too long to stand still.
28:07
The season is too long to stand still, and then you can collapse.
28:11
All the same. Great for Pittsburgh, and I hope they can be able
28:15
to because if it's not, then they're done this season. You have to
28:17
go into the off season. Hopefully you'll get some players. But if they
28:22
July it happens and they have a great trade deadline, who knows. Yeah,
28:30
I will site to see the Pittsburgh Pirates being buyers for a change in
28:33
set of sellers. You know what, George, we gotta comment in the
28:36
chat room. So we're just gonna stand the Detroit team while you just read
28:38
it, and then I'll give my two cents. Okay, yeah, from
28:41
Big Dan Davis. The Tigers won both games, so they're doubleheader today versus
28:47
the New York match. Game one Detroit one, six to five, and
28:51
oh my god, Bias actually homeward in this his first home run of the
28:55
year. Game two Tigers one, eight to one, and Eric Coss Homer's
29:00
of former Tiger Max Scherzer. Pat has got his first form or in game
29:04
one and then came back in Game two and got a home run too.
29:07
So thank you, Big Dan. There you go for all you Detroyer's watching.
29:12
Now you have a Tigers update. The only thing I'll say about the
29:15
Pirates is I hope they don't become sellers and that they're able to retain their
29:19
young talent. There's no question I think Pittsburgh is a great sports town.
29:23
And that's just hands down, it's just a pirates of unfortunately being the victim
29:29
of a small market through the years of not being competitive. We know the
29:32
Steelers are and the Penguins are right, but let's face reality, Pittsburgh Pirates
29:36
have a great history. I got to do look back at Roberto Clementi,
29:38
Willie Stargel and the rest. So yeah, and there's no question that Andrew
29:42
McCutchen, to me, has been an outstanding edition. I think he appreciates
29:47
the fact that he's back in Pittsburgh as well, because he's revered there and
29:51
so of all the other stops he made along the way. Final topic of
29:55
the night before we go, who are parting shots to be the New York
30:00
Yankees? Jblis you alluded to us. Let's right down in particular, sixteen
30:03
fifteen last place, eight and a half game back behind Tampa Bay. Okay,
30:07
what is the problem, mister ellis what the Yankees? No imagination?
30:12
A horrible GM, one of the worst managers in baseball, stars that could
30:18
hurt way too much and overpay joke of an ace Pitcher who made you well,
30:25
but I could ever respect him. You know, the stadium that's awful.
30:33
And I'll be a Yankee fan forevery one that doesn't know. So okay,
30:37
all right, Jeremy, Yeah, I'm injuries are plaguing that team.
30:42
On top of everything, they've overpaid to be a slugging team and don't have
30:48
enough consistent bats to be able to have some play centers on the team.
30:52
That's what I see. I mean, you got what, seven guys that
30:55
could probably go for thirty plus home runs and you've got two guys that might
30:59
hit for average. Right, yeah, there you go, all right,
31:03
George, Yeah, you guys have summed it up really good. I mean
31:07
the injuries are a factor, but you got to play over injuries. This
31:11
team is uh is made up of a lot of stars and LeMay, who
31:17
hasn't got off to the start I thought he would. I mean, Judge
31:19
has been okay, but nothing like the terror he was last year. You
31:23
know, Ta Tampa Bay obviously has set that division on fire. And it
31:27
goes without saying in Baltimore is playing well too, and then you got Boston.
31:32
I'll tell you it's gonna be tough. I mean, the Yankees to
31:33
make the playoffs if they still if they still are playing like this, like
31:37
you said, Jacob, come July and August, we'll see what what where
31:41
they're at. Just like you mentioned about Pittsburgh, I'm the Yankee fans won't
31:45
wait that long. Of course, they got a win before then. But
31:48
I've never been a big fan of either JB of their managers, so there's
31:49
there's just a lot of problems there. Well, I'll close this topic on
31:53
one thing. I'm sure a lot of the New York fans have really liked
31:56
to hear Aaron Moon don't work out. The only call I would make it
32:00
Don Manningly. Get Don Manningly back in the Yeah, I mean I work
32:05
with Don, So am I gonna be biased? City? It should be
32:07
in the Hall of Fame? Yeah? Am I gonna be a bias?
32:08
City? Should be with the Yankees? Yeah? And I'll fetch you my
32:13
last dollars that a lot of New York Yankee fans will probably subscribe to this
32:16
channel because they know I'm a big Don manning Lee guy. Anyway, you
32:20
should anyways, just kidding, but if we try harder to bring your good
32:22
stuff. But really, all kidding aside. Don Manningly should be the first
32:28
and only call to pilot the New York Yankees never had a chance to win
32:31
one as a player, but this guy here is what the Blue Jays is
32:36
in the division right now, and I think the next move without a doubt,
32:38
Don Manningly in a perfect world, and I don't know if this world's
32:43
perfect or out, but at least perfect in the Bronx, Don Manningly should
32:46
be your next manager period. I have nothing more to say at the top.
32:52
It bring back Don. If Aaron is out the door, all right,
32:55
Well, we're gonna go to parting shots and I'm looking forward to going
32:58
on confidential so ry to move this thing along. But we're still making pretty
33:01
good time on the back end. So what that said, jblis give me
33:05
your party shot, please, sir. So we're we're mired in the playoffs
33:08
right now, the NHL playoffs and the NBA playoffs, and you know,
33:14
right now we have what eight great series going on. You got you know,
33:20
the Suns against the Nuggets, which the Nuggets are up to nothing,
33:24
Lakers against the Warriors, which is a great series. In the East,
33:30
you got Celtic Sixers, You got the Garden couple of life with the Knicks
33:34
against the heat, and then you got hockey, which you know, you
33:37
got the Florida Panthers that are that are playing unbelievable against Toronto. There's a
33:43
lot of great sports right now. And then on top of that, you
33:45
got about twelve to fifteen baseball games a day. What a great time of
33:50
year it is. Yeah, I'll tell you what. If you wins,
33:52
you're gonnat the NBA five hundred to Coca Cola six hundred or a Memorial Days.
33:58
So if you think it's good now, just waiting one better. Yeah.
34:00
No, George and I had a chance to experience some Memorial Day weekend
34:06
over in Indianapolis, and we saw some basketball there and we saw in the
34:09
Indy five hundred a good point. Jabe, All right, Jeremy, is
34:15
its parting shots? Right? Yes? It is? Okay, Um,
34:19
I'm very excited about one thing that happened this weekend. The Lions gave up
34:25
three picks to move up to ninety six in the draft to get a guy
34:29
out of a small school, Western Kentucky University that came out of an even
34:32
smaller school Northern Alabama. Roderick Martin. I like this guy because he had
34:38
size in a pressure presence from the d tackle position and it didn't really cast
34:45
some arm and a leg to do it. Well, it's your parting shot,
34:50
but I remember you making a Yankee comment. Do you want to go
34:52
any further with it? Or you all right with what you said? I'm
34:55
alright with what I said on that, all right, just making sure you
34:58
got it all in all right? Or giant coorn your partying shot. Well.
35:01
Last Saturday was a great day for Detroit. Detroit Historical Museum celebrated its
35:07
one hundredth anniversary, yes centennial, and these guys were asked to put their
35:14
figure, their handprints, and their footprints in the special section outside the museum.
35:22
Lomas Brown, Gregory Kelser, Ken Daniels, and George Blaha four Detroit
35:30
greats. Obviously Ken came from Toronto. They came to Detroit various ways.
35:36
But what a special night that was. I couldn't make it, but that
35:38
was a special night to see guys that I look up to, guys that
35:43
have been mentors to me, such as Daniels and Blaha, and especially Ben
35:46
Wallace and Lomas Brown and Gregory Kelser. What a great night for Detroit to
35:52
have their own heroes in the cement outside the Detroit Historical Museum. Salute to
36:00
them. Good stuff, George. All right, Jacob, go ahead.
36:04
I'm very very, very very happy with the Bears draft this week. He
36:07
just passed week very happy, all the all the trenches, all of happy,
36:13
which is not and okay in a right back you know, it's just
36:15
like, but it's all trenches, and I'm so happy with it. It
36:20
means that this GM's paying attention. It means this GM knows that they don't
36:24
have the offensive system yet to be going to get a bunch of playmakers that
36:29
may or may not get anywhere. And this is what I'm very happy with.
36:34
They got a bunch of trenches. They're gonna have protection. Wonderful.
36:37
I'm gonna beat the dead horse to this over and over again until people start
36:43
getting this. Wouldn't it be so beautiful if Justin Fields had a second year,
36:47
not a third? Guess what? This is what I was talking about
36:52
the first pay I've go played up too early and the guess what right now,
36:59
going to the third year, he has to play out of his mind
37:01
because in the fourth year, the Bears owe nothing on their cap if they
37:07
want to let him go if he wouldn't play good, and that is that
37:12
is I check that on the spot track. He don't owe a thing,
37:15
so he has to play the time of his life to try to get that
37:17
bag. And that is the thing. It wouldn't be happening on year two,
37:22
it'd be happen it's happening on year three. And you want to know,
37:24
what's why I'm saying this right now is not just for him. It's
37:28
because of Anthony Richardson. They want to play him right away, and he's
37:30
way worse than Justin Fields was way worse. Give these kids time, give
37:40
him time. Quit Russian up for your fantasy leagues, Quit rushing because you
37:45
want to make him starting on Madden. Quit this, get get out of
37:51
your get your head out of your you know what, and start learning this
37:53
game a little bit and start thinking like a GM a little because then again,
37:59
in about three years from now, when if a Field is gone or
38:01
Richardson's gone, you're not gonna be complaining. Oh I knew that. No,
38:06
you did it, because otherwise this wouldn't be happening. Well done.
38:09
I like that. Then again, I like them all all right, my
38:13
partning shot the Oakland A's had a new low with two thousand, five hundred
38:16
eighty nine fans. My goodness, are we drawing a lot at the Holy
38:22
Moly, No, this is not an April Fools joke, folks. This
38:25
is how the may fact is what it is. Unfortunately, it bottoms out
38:30
as a May fact because it's so here's a deal. If I were MLB,
38:34
I would pay off Oakland and get them to launs Vegas in twenty twenty
38:38
four. Now here's a fact of the day for you. Last night we
38:42
talked about it on baseball. We're gonna talk about it again. Okay.
38:45
And that's John Fisher, the Oakland A's owner, as a net worth of
38:51
two point two billion. Man, maybe he probably does, but you know
38:53
what, here's a situation. Okay, get him to Vegas a SAP twenty
39:00
five hundred and eighty nine bands. Seriously, that is absurd. I know
39:07
that the late the A's are in a lame dug situation, but my goodness,
39:12
I mean bringing in the new laws Vegas Ballpark if that's what you do.
39:15
But at one point or another, do you embarrass yourself as a city
39:19
and a sport get them out of there, and if if I were MLB,
39:22
just paid Oakland up and get them out of there and giving their money
39:24
and good riots, all right, Candy, is a couple of facts I
39:28
want to get out there before we wrap things up. So there's some nice
39:32
facts out here. The Milwaukee Admirals announced their relationship with the National Predators of
39:39
the National Hockey League will be extended two more seasons. So that's pretty good,
39:44
you know, like I've had an opport. The Milwaukee Admirals are certainly
39:47
one of the better AHL, and National Predators to me are one of the
39:52
finest organizations on the planet. And I know that Barry Trouts will do a
39:55
really good job, all right. With that said and making good time on
40:00
here, So we're gonna let jb Ella's lead off. Okay, Well,
40:02
everybody know how they can get a hold of out JBD to score the programs
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were working on something together. It's just a matter of time before we put
40:20
it together. State tun will give you further announcements. Okay, so all
40:23
right, well before I go over to Smoking Jeremy B. There's no way
40:27
I cannot put Big Dan Davis on. But you know what, I'm gonna
40:29
read this one. I a great Scott. Get Oakland to Vegas. California
40:32
won't miss them. They have enough teams anyway. Vegas will attract more baseball
40:36
fans and that number in Oakland, boy, Big Dan Davis. So we're
40:40
really set in a standard high at two thousand, five hundred and eighty and
40:44
I gave me a break. They've only got one way to go, my
40:46
friend, and that's up. Okay, go ahead, smoking Well. You
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