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4-15-26 Hour 2 - Erik Johnson/All-day appetizers, Nuggets playoff rotation/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: Chwortz.
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  Speaker 3: You said, no stupid questions. We'll see what I can do.
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  Speaker 3: But you're coaching a real veteran team here in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: What's the different approach you're taking to this team as
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  Speaker 3: opposed to your old team, a young team in Philly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm getting out of the way. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: trust the team since I've been here. I have been
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  Speaker 4: here a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I trust the team, the battle tested.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to guide them.
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  Speaker 5: If I think they're going off track, I'll guide them
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  Speaker 5: back and they'll take over from there.
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  Speaker 4: So I need to get out of the way most.
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  Speaker 6: Of the time.
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  Speaker 2: What's with the suit and tie?
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  Speaker 3: You only wore the tracksuit the last year.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even start.
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  Speaker 7: Are we done?
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  Speaker 8: We're done?
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  Speaker 4: Shif Thanks Tork, Sean Toderell.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody.
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  Speaker 4: That is Eric Johnson and he joins us now in
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  Speaker 4: might ask you a couple of dumb questions and be prepared.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, no worries, whatever you want, I'll answer it.
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  Speaker 4: We're flying solo. By the way, Moser got in at
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  Speaker 4: three am, so he's still not on the show. He's
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  Speaker 4: getting sleep. Vic's off today, Bednar's face is broken. So
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  Speaker 4: you get just me and you're gonna like itto, huh
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  Speaker 4: it's something like that. Yeah. I want to ask you though,
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  Speaker 4: in games like this, like the Avs have had the
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  Speaker 4: ones heed locked up for a long time and so
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  Speaker 4: it's like, how do you handle the rest versus Russ
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  Speaker 4: discussion and all of that, But when you get a
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  Speaker 4: moment like you did last night, the empty netter for
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  Speaker 4: the Avs led to Natchus having his first one hundred
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  Speaker 4: point season and McKinnon winning the Rocket. Richard, how much
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  Speaker 4: of the personal accolades for this portion of the schedule
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  Speaker 4: you think matters to those guys.
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  Speaker 8: I think they're pretty happy that they locked everything up
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  Speaker 8: team wise before last night, and then individually they did
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  Speaker 8: as well. Right, Nate's gonna win the Rocket unless McDavid
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  Speaker 8: has like six goals tonight. Yeah, Date just gets hundred points,
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, I assume they'll rest everybody tomorrow. But I
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  Speaker 8: think that matters, right, so they can just get those
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  Speaker 8: guys a rest and focus on the big task at
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  Speaker 8: hand for sure.
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  Speaker 4: What if you notice between I mean, it's the fourth
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  Speaker 4: duo in AVS history with McKinnon and Natus both getting
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  Speaker 4: one hundred points in the same season. Him and Miko
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  Speaker 4: did it twice, and then Forsburg and Sakic did it
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  Speaker 4: once in the ninety five ninety six season. Obviously, production
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  Speaker 4: is there with Nachus, but the style of play and
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  Speaker 4: how that fits with McKinnon. Can you compare and contrast
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  Speaker 4: that a bit with what Miko was bringing to the table.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, right. I think the biggest thing, of course is
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  Speaker 8: being a righty, so right away, I think Nate and
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  Speaker 8: Marty had to figure out how to make that work.
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  Speaker 8: Nate hadn't played with really a righty consistently much of
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  Speaker 8: his career. Two lefties with Landeskog and Ranton, and I
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  Speaker 8: just think you you know, you're getting open on different
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  Speaker 8: sides of the ice. That takes some time, and just
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  Speaker 8: two different styles of play. Marty's quick, Miko liked to
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  Speaker 8: get guys on his back and make plays. You know,
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  Speaker 8: with guys pretty much draped all over, and Marty's a
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  Speaker 8: little bit more surgical and precise with how he moves,
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  Speaker 8: and I think it just takes time to find where
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  Speaker 8: different guys are going to go on the ice, So
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  Speaker 8: that was probably the biggest thing. But yeah, there, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I think anyone with enough skill and smart's like Marty
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  Speaker 8: has can play with Nate. And yeah, so far it
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  Speaker 8: looks good. But now we'll see if Marty can do
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  Speaker 8: it in the playoffs. That's the big question.
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  Speaker 4: When you guys were there in twenty twenty two, when
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  Speaker 4: you were getting ready for the playoffs, similar situation. You
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  Speaker 4: guys were locked into your seed and then it was
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  Speaker 4: awaiting whoever the opponent was going to be. How much
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  Speaker 4: scoreboard watching and standings watching did you do? And I
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  Speaker 4: know you'd never say it out loud, but were you
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  Speaker 4: pulling for like, man, I really want to face this
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  Speaker 4: team in the first round.
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  Speaker 8: No, you can't pick and choose, and anyone can beat
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  Speaker 8: anybody on any given night. And I think, of course
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  Speaker 8: there's certain teams you match up better against, like for example,
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  Speaker 8: I think the Abs will sleep the Kings. I think
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  Speaker 8: they'd sleep the Ducks. I think, of course Edmonton would
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  Speaker 8: give them a tougher series. So I think they know
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  Speaker 8: who they're you know, they know what teams can give
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  Speaker 8: them problems in certain areas. But you can't you can't hope.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you're definitely paying attention to it lightly who
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  Speaker 8: you might play. It's honestly more of a pain in
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  Speaker 8: the ass for like Aaron de Graff, who does all
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  Speaker 8: the team's services and has to hold all the hotels
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  Speaker 8: right now, and Anaheim and Edmonton and potentially LA So
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  Speaker 8: that's the biggest logistical issue is the team services people.
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  Speaker 8: But as players, you know, you just get ready to
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  Speaker 8: play and show up where you're playing. So I think
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  Speaker 8: they're keeping tabs on it, but nothing nothing crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Johnson with us the Rising superstar of the World
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  Speaker 4: War Leader. I gotta tell you, I love the interactions
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  Speaker 4: you have between the bench. But we were just talking
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  Speaker 4: about this because Riker does this too. He goes in
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  Speaker 4: between the benches for AVS games that Altitude has and
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  Speaker 4: you watch bed Nard take a puck off the face
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  Speaker 4: I mean for how he immediately left in the injuries
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  Speaker 4: he's dealing with. As players, do you just kind of
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  Speaker 4: shrug because you still have a game going, or like,
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  Speaker 4: how do you handle that when you watch your coach
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  Speaker 4: take one off the noggin and leave the bench.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I was right there between the benches
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  Speaker 8: for that game, and I saw it hit him flush.
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  Speaker 8: I had a perfect angle of it, unfortunately. But yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I think as a player on the bench, you're just
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  Speaker 8: you know, wow, that really sucks for coach, but you
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  Speaker 8: still got to keep playing. And it really took the
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  Speaker 8: wind out of the sales of the crowd. I could
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  Speaker 8: just hear it all suck out of the building, as
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  Speaker 8: it should. So I mean you're thinking that, Okay, I
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  Speaker 8: just want to As a fan, you're thinking, I want
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  Speaker 8: all my players to come out unscathed, and then you
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  Speaker 8: manson and then you lose Bednard. But that that that happens,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, and there's way more close calls than you think,
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  Speaker 8: And you know, I hope it doesn't come to the
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  Speaker 8: point where it's like baseball where someone gets tagged with
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  Speaker 8: a line drive and then you're seeing like coaches or
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  Speaker 8: analysts wear helmets on the bench. Yeah, you know, because
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's that can happen super super frequently and easily,
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  Speaker 8: and not much time to react that to get his
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  Speaker 8: hands in his pocket. I saw it and he doesn't
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  Speaker 8: think that puck's gonna hit him no way, and takes
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  Speaker 8: a bad bounce and bang. So yeah, that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 8: That's a tough one. That was tough to see. I
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  Speaker 8: hope you hope he's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 4: Have you had a close call? What are your calling
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  Speaker 4: games this year?
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  Speaker 8: Not like that, but sticks and stuff like that. You
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  Speaker 8: got to definitely be careful, you really like you know,
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  Speaker 8: you're on your talk back, you're on your mute button,
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  Speaker 8: you're looking at your notes, you're looking at the play.
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  Speaker 8: You're seeing where the play is gonna go, where it
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  Speaker 8: came from, where it's at. So you really have to
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  Speaker 8: be sharp down there. And it's it's there's plays where
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  Speaker 8: you're thinking, wow, I can't believe that it didn't come
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  Speaker 8: in here, and plays where you think, no way, it
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  Speaker 8: comes in here, and you know, you get a stick
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  Speaker 8: or a puck comes close, but nothing super close. But
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  Speaker 8: you always have to be be watching for sure, just.
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  Speaker 4: Out of curiosity. And I'm knocking on what I pray
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  Speaker 4: to God this never happens to you. But if you
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  Speaker 4: were to take a puck off the mouth, you had
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  Speaker 4: a famous smile before you get the chompers fixed. Are
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  Speaker 4: those chompers drilled into your head now or can those
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  Speaker 4: get knocked out too?
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  Speaker 8: Well, they can get knocked out. They're just veneers. Besides
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  Speaker 8: the three screwed into my gums, my fake ones. But
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  Speaker 8: I've had enough dental work for about twenty five lifetimes,
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  Speaker 8: so I think I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: You told us like that process. When you've got those
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  Speaker 4: done this offseason, that was like the most brutal pain ever.
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  Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, it was just long, like eight hours in
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  Speaker 8: the chair the first time, came back two weeks later,
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  Speaker 8: six hours. You have to go under for both of them.
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  Speaker 8: Just a lot of BS maintenance and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: But no, I just I wanted to get him done.
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  Speaker 8: I just didn't want to be that toothless Oh you're
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  Speaker 8: that old retired hockey guy with no teeth. I just
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  Speaker 8: don't want to be that guy anymore. So I decided
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  Speaker 8: to get some real teeth.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what. What's really interesting here because
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  Speaker 4: we've been talking about this forever. I'm sure you guys
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  Speaker 4: have too. I'm just curious because I just saw Matt Dushane.
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  Speaker 4: He's complaining about the playoff format as everybody does, and
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  Speaker 4: I got to say, when you're on top of the mountain,
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  Speaker 4: like the Avs are looking down, you're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: playoff system doesn't look that bad from here. But as
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  Speaker 4: a player, what percentage would you say of players in
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  Speaker 4: the league hate this current playoff format?
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  Speaker 8: I think some years you love it and some years
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  Speaker 8: you don't. Like Last year we didn't like it playing Dallas, right,
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  Speaker 8: and they didn't like it either, And this year they
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  Speaker 8: don't like it. In Minnesota doesn't like it either. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's definitely cyclical, But I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 8: to change. I really don't. You're seeing some teams that
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  Speaker 8: everyone knows that are going to get knocked in the
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  Speaker 8: first round that probably shouldn't. But I just think as
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  Speaker 8: a player, you can't do anything about it. You just
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  Speaker 8: got to go play, right, I mean, what would it
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  Speaker 8: be like? The matchups are what they are, and like
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  Speaker 8: Colorado is going to play who they would be playing
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  Speaker 8: in the one versus eight anyway, right? You know, Dallas,
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  Speaker 8: the Dallas Minnesota one. That's that's the teams that get
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  Speaker 8: screwed the two three seeds usually. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think it's going to change, But and you
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  Speaker 8: can't do anything about it, so just just play. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: we did it. Teams do it and win and then
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  Speaker 8: you think it's great. But I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 8: to change.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Johnson with this, how many teams in the West
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  Speaker 4: outside the Ass and the Stars you think have a
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  Speaker 4: shot to come out.
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  Speaker 8: Carter Hart Key's playing like he has in Vegas. Vegas
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  Speaker 8: has a big chance to come out. I don't know
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  Speaker 8: what's going to happen with Dallas and Minnesota, Like they're
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  Speaker 8: gonna beat each other up in the first round and
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  Speaker 8: then you know you're staring down Colorado in the second.
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  Speaker 8: So like, I don't I don't see any way that
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  Speaker 8: Colorado Dallas, excuse me, Dallas Minnesota doesn't go six or seven.
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  Speaker 8: Like that's that's about a sure thing. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 8: think I think Vegas. I think Utah is sneaky, but
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  Speaker 8: that's gonna be a tough first round matchup to whoever
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  Speaker 8: they get. But I would say Vegas, the way they're
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  Speaker 8: playing right now since Towarts has come over, and the
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  Speaker 8: way Carter Hart's played the last few games, Vegas is
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  Speaker 8: gonna be a tough out. So that's that's my second
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  Speaker 8: team behind Colorado in the West.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's interesting. I know you played for Torts,
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  Speaker 4: but to bring in a guy I think was seven
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  Speaker 4: games left in the season, a coach that was outside
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  Speaker 4: the system and just be like, hey, go coaches in
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  Speaker 4: the postseason. Is that that's gotta be weird for the
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  Speaker 4: players in the locker room, right. It's just somebody that
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure couple of played for him before, but still
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  Speaker 4: it's somebody outside the organization coming in at the most
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  Speaker 4: important time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I think they did their research though Vegas did, and
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  Speaker 8: they know what Toorts can can bring right away. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I think I think it was a great play by
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  Speaker 8: Towrts and just the way that he can aspire and
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  Speaker 8: the way that he can push the buttons right away
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  Speaker 8: of a group, especially a team that was kind of
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  Speaker 8: fluttering around like Vegas was. So for me, the biggest
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  Speaker 8: thing is Towarts knows he doesn't have to do a
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  Speaker 8: whole lot with that team because they're a veteran group
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  Speaker 8: and they know how to win, they know how to play.
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  Speaker 8: He just has to tweak a few things here and there.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, I mean, he has such presence when he
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  Speaker 8: gets into a locker room, and he's so entertaining to
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  Speaker 8: listen to, and you just have so much respect for
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  Speaker 8: him that I think it was a great move by Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that the West, they have maybe the
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  Speaker 4: top two teams in the league with the Avs and
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  Speaker 4: the Stars, but the East is loaded with a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of competitive teams. What do you think happens in
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  Speaker 4: the East.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's going to be the most fascinating one
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  Speaker 8: to look at. Is I think of outside of like
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  Speaker 8: Carolina Ottawa, I think will be a tougher series, and
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  Speaker 8: people think Carolina should come out of there pretty easily.
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  Speaker 8: Really is going to be Boston, Like, that's going to
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  Speaker 8: be a heck of a series. I think that's that
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  Speaker 8: one's gonna goaltending. I think Ladar has the edge there,
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  Speaker 8: but that's a toss up. And then I think Boston
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  Speaker 8: He's going to be an awesome series versus Buffalo. I
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  Speaker 8: think Boston's going to come out of there a little
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  Speaker 8: bit more playoff tested than Buffalo is, but that's going
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  Speaker 8: to be a great series the way Buffalo is playing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I think for me, I would pick Montreal to come
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  Speaker 8: out of the East if they get the goaltending. That's
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  Speaker 8: who I like, kind of a my sleeper dark horse.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what games you're doing yet or is
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  Speaker 4: that still undecided?
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  Speaker 8: I do know, can't share, but I'm doing this weekend
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  Speaker 8: games one and two of a series, and then I'll
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  Speaker 8: be doing game two of another series the following week.
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  Speaker 4: Gotcha, And then last thing for you, j I always
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  Speaker 4: appreciate the time, So I have two things. Moser is
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  Speaker 4: still not on because he got in at three o'clock
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  Speaker 4: in the morning. Is there a message you want me
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  Speaker 4: to give the Mosure about him being lazy not showing.
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  Speaker 8: Up when I was tired? I still woke up and
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  Speaker 8: went to work.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll play that for him later.
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  Speaker 8: And then maybe I didn't. Maybe I wasn't that good,
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  Speaker 8: but at least I showed up.
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  Speaker 4: It's embarrassing, exactly right, That's what I say. Now tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be at Bonnie Bray Liquor because I'm gonna
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: be with Tyson Barry as He's taken his chili ones
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  Speaker 4: beer over there. Is there a message you want me
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  Speaker 4: to bring to Tyson?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? He had to have John Mitchell fill in for
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  Speaker 8: me since I couldn't make it, so make sure you're
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  Speaker 8: telling Mitchie that too.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, got it, got it, EJ. You're the absolute best.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 8: Buddy, any time, Brad. Thanks man.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Johnson again the rising superstar of ESPN. He does
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  Speaker 4: such a great job and they love it. Have you
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: ever noticed that? And Ellie, every time he's doing a game,
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: they cut to like the studio crew and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: EJ is just so great at this. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: of course everybody know it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and he got Taser to end their interview by saying,
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  Speaker 7: love you, EJ.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly how your reporters are going to get that?
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  Speaker 4: I know, you drop a love you to a reporter.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's been in the news lately. I suppose
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  Speaker 4: different way three oh three five nine two five. We
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  Speaker 4: usually talked to Bennar, but again, Bennar's got to EJ
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  Speaker 4: said it. He was right there, he watched it happen
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  Speaker 4: right in front of him. It was a direct shot,
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  Speaker 4: and so he's still recovering from those injuries. But usually
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: we talked to the coach and we'd have that brought
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  Speaker 4: to you by mister Ruter Plumbing proudly rooting for Colorado's
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  Speaker 4: hockey team. But big thanks to EJ for joining us
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  Speaker 4: this morning. Back after this, big thanks to Eric Johnson
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  Speaker 4: joining us. Vick isov today and Moser is still sleeping.
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  Speaker 4: Suppose you got in the house at I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: three o'clock last night, get some rest mode. I told
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: you that Pecher says, can you really have the appetizer
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  Speaker 4: for the entire dinner? Don't tell me you haven't done
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  Speaker 4: it before. I've ordered mott sticks and nachos and everything else.
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  Speaker 4: It's a nice meal.
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  Speaker 7: Isn't that basically what a Super Bowl party is. It's
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  Speaker 7: just appetizers for the entire party.
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  Speaker 4: So I have when I have people over in my
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: house for to watch Broncos game, or they came over,
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  Speaker 4: Uh had some people over to watch the Masters on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: And you get the crock pots out and it's caso
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  Speaker 4: dip and it's little uh mini meatballs and pigs in
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  Speaker 4: a blanket and all that, and you're just picking the
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  Speaker 4: whole day. Like I love that. I'm a picker when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to food. Now, Don't get me wrong. I'm
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  Speaker 4: also a hoover vacuum. You put something in front of me,
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna eat it. I don't care what it is.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: There's like few exceptions to that. One of them is like,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: if if you give me what is the is it trout?
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Is that the fish that they serve where it's like
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: the full fish, but it's just splayed open and all
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: the stuff's cooked inside. I can't look at an eyeball. Well,
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: I can't do that. But I love when you go
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: somewhere and it's just an assortment of snack foods and
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: you just pick pic pic. I love it.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: So just one last thing on that. I had that dilemma.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: You've probably had this when you go to cover a
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: game and you're in the press area. If the arena
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: is good to you and they leave out a whole
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: assortment of snacks, Yeah, yeah, I've I've had that debate
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: with myself where I want to take advantage of it
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: because it's free food. I want to get everything they
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: have to offer, But I don't want to come back
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: to my spot in the press box and just have
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: a plate that's as piled high as Scooby and Shaggy
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: in front of the entire rest of the Denver media.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Am I gonna be that guy?
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Well, you look, we're fortunate enough that we have, like
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the radio suite there at ball Aerina, and so every
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: once in a while I stop by and I do that,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: and that's what that entire place is. It's like, here's fruits,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: here's a couple of chicken nugget platters, here's a couple
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: of pizzas, and I'm just you picking all day. Texas says,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: it's like ordering a twenty piece wing for yourself. I
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: always get confused. Wings feel like an entree to me,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: but they're always listed under apps. And I don't know
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: anybody who's ordered the wings and then gotten a meal afterwards,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: So why is that in the app category? I think
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: that's what it is. Appetizers are things you have before
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: you have your meal, but wings, they're the meal. That's
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the meal. Anyway, going back to the Nuggets, we are
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: still awaiting days and days and days until this game
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: one one thirty Saturday against the Timberwolves, and I am
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: caught in this place of I think this team is
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: capable of doing some pretty big things, but I have
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: a fear in which the defense could come to burn
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: them if they don't show up like they should, Like
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's an effort thing, or if
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: they're not good at it, Like I've wondered this forever,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: up until this year, where you bring in names like
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Tim Hardaway Junior. There's been this common narrative surrounding the
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Nuggets that like, why don't they shoot more threes? And
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I go, well, they're not good at it. They haven't
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: been anyway. They've been okay from an efficiency standpoint, but
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: they don't take a high volume or they didn't take
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: a high volume of threes because that wasn't their specialty.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: It wasn't their expertise. Their expertise was getting inside the
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: paint hitting mid range jumpers, and they were really really
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: good at it. You know, I forget the number, but
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: I think the Nuggets won like four playoff games on
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: the way to a title in which they had four
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: or less made threes because it wasn't their style. It
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: is now now it is. But I'm trying to figure
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: out defensively, are they not good on the defensive side
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: of things because they choose to not give the effort
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: required to be a good defensive team and they get
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: really picky and choosey with it, or is it because
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: they just aren't very talented at it? That I don't
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: know yet. I do know that not having Aaron Gordon
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: for a large portion of this season factors into that
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: if he's healthy, it should change, and that Peyton Watson
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: being hurt factors into that. If you get both a
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: healthy Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson for the postseason, well
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: I think that changes what you do defensively a lot.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: But I still don't know the update on Peyton Watson.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Like it textually says, is he good to go on Saturday?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I have no idea that one. They're playing pretty close.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: But bottom line is you gave virtually everybody a huge
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: amount of rest. Think about this for a second. If
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: you had guys who were banged up that needed to
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: just take some time off. The last time that those
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: guys played, let's see here, it was the Memphis game.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: So that game featured ag Cam Johnson, Jokich, Jamal Christian Brown, Hardaway, Valentiunis,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Bruce Brown, basically all your big dogs. But that was
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: on April eighth. The first game is going to be Saturday,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: April eighteenth. That is a full ten days of no
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: basketball to get yourself right. You almost literally can't have
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: more time than that. So anybody dealing with banged up
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: knees and hammies and soft tissue stuff, well, that's the
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: most amount of time you're gonna get to get rested
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: up before this starts. Anyway, And I am very much
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: in the VIC camp. Now it's go time. There's no restrictions.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: You're either gonna play and get hurt or you're gonna
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: play and stay healthy. Really nothing in between. And so
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: that goes for guys like Ag Peyton Watson, like I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: don't know if you have any more time to rest.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: We're either gonna see if you can give it a go,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and you can, or you can't, and we'll move on
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: from there. But the ability of the Nuggets, and have
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: wondered this what the rotation could look like. Everybody pairs
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: down their rotation when you get to the postseason everybody.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: But how much are the Nuggets gonna do that? That's
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: my question. Because they're starting five. I think, especially with
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the Watson injury, is going to be what you would
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: typically think it's gonna be. It's gonna be Jokic, it's
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: gonna be Murray, it's gonna be Christian Brown, it's gonna
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: be a g and it's going to be Cam Johnson,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: which means Peyton Watson's gonna play coming off the bench,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: and Tim Hardaway Junior is gonna play coming off the bench,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: and Bruce Brown is going to play coming off the bench.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: As far as the others are they gonna play Valenunis,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I mean that could be a matchup related maybe against
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: some teams you play valentiunas and some teams you don't.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I think there could be a lot of these games
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: in which Valentiunis is a DNP. Another question about a
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: guy like Julian Strawther, I think that he's earned the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: right to play some minutes in the postseason, But where
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: are you gonna fit that in? You know, is Spencer
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Joe going to be a guy that you throw in
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: for defensive purposes at times? Maybe? But I think that's
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: about as far as you're gonna get because outside of that,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: your other names are Zeke. I don't think Zeke is
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: gonna find the floor. I don't think Pickett's gonna find
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: the floor. But the question is are you gonna go
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: eight deep or you're gonna go closer to like ten?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: And ten just feels like way too much for a postseason,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: like you're gonna be playing Jamal and Joker forty minutes
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: a night. That's what it's gonna be. Now, maybe not
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: a restriction, but can you play a little bit more
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: around the idea of Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson. Maybe
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: that's where the Valentounas stuff or or uh, Julian Strawther
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: gets a few minutes here and there to help alleviate
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: them from playing thirty eight minutes a night. Maybe, But
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: at the same time, it's like it's time to go.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: But if you want to look at fears, here's the fear.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Just take a guess how many games Aaron Gordon played
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: out of eighty two this season. The answer is thirty six.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: And that was not like Christian Brown. He played in
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: forty four. But that was one long, extended stretch at
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the year. Tried to come back for
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: a second, got hurt again, But he's played pretty consistently
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the second half of the season. Gordon has been in
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: and out, and in and out and in and out.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Like Gordon played in October, got hurt in November, came
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: back in January, hurt in February, came back in March.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You know you're playing these types of games with it,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: and it's kind of like you're holding your breath every
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: time that he on the floor, and A Texas says,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: please explain why you wouldn't play big val Look, man,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I've been on the record. I just love when I
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: say that when I do a radio show, everything's on
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: the record. You can wrete this down, help record this.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I think you do play him. I think he's effective
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: when he's in the game. I think he is more
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: than serviceable as a backup center. And it feels like
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: every time he goes out, he plays for ten minutes
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: and he has twelve points. Like, I don't know why
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: you wouldn't want that. It gives a different flavor too,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: because it's you're not asking the big man to run
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: your entire offense through him. At the ebo, let Valentunis
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: get low and start to bang in the paint, like,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I think that works perfectly. I would have no issue
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: if the Nuggets went out there and trotted ten deep
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: the thunder do it. But I just I don't know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: because there's some parts of David Adaman that seem very
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Michael maloneish, and this is one of them. It's that
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: and uh, it's the kind of guys that he trusts
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: in big moments, And it's the emphasis on I will
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: lean towards the defensive side rather than the offensive, which
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: in this case, the Nuggets have no problem scoring the basketball.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: They're one of the best offenses in the history of
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: the league. Statistically, that's not a problem. You need to
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: find a way to get stops. And I think in
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the case of Big Val, I think he sees him
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: as a defensive liability when he's out there, which I
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: don't think is totally fair. But if it gets to
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the point where the Nuggets are doing a whole bunch
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: of switches like valence, units just can't do it, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: neither can Jokich really when it comes to the switch game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: But Jokic is so oh dominant and historically like arguably
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: the best all around offensive basketball player that's ever lived,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: that you live with whatever deficiency is on the defensive side.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: But I personally, I'd have no problem Trott and ten deep.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I think it's to not use that when you finally
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: have the ability of depth. I think it would be
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: foolish not to years past, they had to, you know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: last year, it's Game seven against OKC. Aaron Gordon is
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: playing in that game seven on was it grade two
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: or three hamstring strain? Something that should have kept him
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: out for weeks? Why? Because who the hell else was
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: gonna play? Porter couldn't lift his shoulder or couldn't lift
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: his hand above his shoulder, so he's got He had
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the giant diaper on there for three straight weeks and
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: was super ineffective because it's hard to play basketball with
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: one arm, and yet he had to play? Why because
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: who the hell else was going to? You know, we
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: found out Westbrook kind of broken hand. He had to play?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Why because who else was going to? Like, you don't
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: face that problem anymore. You have guys that are trustworthy
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: coming off the bench. And I would trust Peyton Watson,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and I would trust Tim Hardaway Junior, and I trust
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Bruce Brown, and I trust Valentiunas, and I trust Julian Strather.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I trust all five of those guys. Now, anything beyond
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: that I think is a little bit different. I wouldn't
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: say the same for Zeke, I wouldn't say the same
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: for Picket. You know, I don't think Tias Jones is
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: going to see the floor. I said it from the
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: beginning that that buyout guy that they were going to
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: get just felt a lot like a get me over
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: to the postseason kind of thing. And once you get there,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: that guy's not gonna play. But I think you got
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: five guys on your bench right now that are worthy
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: and more importantly trustworthy in playoff minutes. And if you
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: don't use them because traditionally, well you pair down your
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: lineup when the postseason starts, I don't buy into that.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I think you have an advantage that some teams don't.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: A lot of teams can't go ten deep, so that's
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: where we are. Texas says val can get some early
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: fouls too, that Jokic can't. That's true. I mean I
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: would tell anybody coming off the bench for you outside
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: of maybe like a Peyton Motson and Tim Hardaway Junior.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: But if you're Bruce, if you're Strawther, if you're Valentiunis,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: you are going to play defense. You got six fouls,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: be willing to use them. The whole point to gathering depth,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: the whole point to trading away Michael Porter Junior, was
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: to construct a roster like this where you have ten
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: guys available in the postseason that you can trust and
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: would be willing to play. You have it, I would
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: use it. I don't know if they will, but I would.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Three oh three, five oh four, oh nine two five.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I have some breaking news, Brett. What's that next segment?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: He's back.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I was just getting in a groove.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I'm yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: Well, Oh, by the way, you're gonna have to get
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: ready to learn mos buddy, he's awake, all right.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: So we'll talk to Mos here in a couple of minutes.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: The Nuggets are in the playoffs in Game one is
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Saturday against the t Wolves at Ball Arena. Tickets and
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: all information you need about the team and the playoffs
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: are available at Nuggets dot com slash playoffs. Don't want
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: to miss a second of this series, so Nuggets dot
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: com slash playoffs. Oh by the way, and Mark Moser
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: joined us next, Oh by the way, your stories around
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: sports in the world. We feel like you should be
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: aware of. Oh by the way.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Hi, Emosh, you know you're just arrogant enough to go.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: You know what, I don't even want you want today.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: I got this whole thing.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: I got it. I did think about it. I got
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: this whole thing. I'm good.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: It's you know what it is. It's probably because they
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: sent you a really nasty text at about what three
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: in the morning?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was. I think it was about
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: three in the morning.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Since you're really nasty text, you're like, you know what
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: I got you today?
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Huh uh uh you set your alarm for for six
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: thirty and six thirty one pm. That's a pretty good thing,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: isn't it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Oh you went PM with it? Yeah, got I take
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: the stupid phone. Sorry, buddy, I'm glad you got. Oh
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: you want to getting good old clock radio?
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: God, I miss a good ol' clock radio.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: So somebody asked, They said, uh, should we should we
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: call him and try and wake him up? And I said, no,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: it's fine, just let the guy sleep. I didn't know.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if you wanted that or not. So
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I was just like, let me no, No, I would
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: never Hey, you'm a boy, believe you guys. Hey, I
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: got you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Uh anyway, that's Sammy, that's Sammy Saucy.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta kiss and do this first. But oh,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: by the way, did you guys happen to see shocked
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Mojecause we talked about this the NBA playing was a
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: lot of fun yesterday.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it actually was. I know, obviously didn't watch any
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: of it. I was doing my own thing, and then
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: I was on a plane home. But I got home
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: and couldn't I know, it's a shock. I couldn't sleep
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: when I got home. At almost three in the morning.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I'm watching Sports Enter highlights the best VP that is
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Van Pelt on repeat.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: It looked pretty dang good, dude. It was overtime, wild finish.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: But in the middle of that Miami and Charlotte game,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Lamello is on the floor. He grabs Bam for no reason.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Bam falls down, he leaves the game. But that guy,
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: whatever you've got to say about Bam, and I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: he's a very talented player. I just think the eighty
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: three point thing was gross.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: But I like Bam a lot.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: That guy does not leave with injuries. That guy plays,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: He always plays. He limped off the floor, did not
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: come back in a do or die game where they
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: really could have needed him. This is what LaMelo said
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: after the game.
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: I apologized on that one. I mean, I got hit
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: in the head and didn't really know where I was.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: But I'm gonna check on him. And see if he's
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: okay and everything.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: LaMelo, it kind of looked like on film that you
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: might have grabbed his leg.
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: I mean, did do you intentionally grab his leg?
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: I haven't even seen. Like I said, I got hit
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: in the head, didn't even know where I was. But yeah,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: just playing basketball. But like I said, sorry, and I'm
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: gonna check on him.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: So hang on a second. He's trying to say, here,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I got concussed. So I assaulted somebody, That's
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: what he's saying.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a weird, weird explanation. Spolstra was red hot
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: about it after the game.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: I didn't see it, but that. I don't think it's cute.
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: I think it's funny. I think it's a stupid play.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: It's a dangerous play. Obviously, are our best players out.
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: I'm not making an excuse. So the Hornets played great,
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: you know, and they made those plays down the stretch.
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: We we had our opportunities to win. I just that's
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: a shame. You know, he should be penalized for that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: I don't think that belongs in the game. You know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: tripping guys, you know Shenanigans and you know Curtis was there.
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: It's his responsibility to see that. And if it's not
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it. If you know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: somebody has got to see that. You know, he should
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: have been thrown out of the game, you know for that.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Here's the thing. I don't know how the NBA handles
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: his motion. That is that could very easily be something
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: that's suspendable. There's no doubt about it. Are you gonna
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: do that? I do it for the Yeah, that's exactly right.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Do you have the guts to do it? I don't know.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the answer is.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: But uh but it's weird that even and the explanations
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: even weirder than the play itself.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't get it. I don't either. Now
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I didn't give this guy enough credit.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: Mode.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, so we did not have Bednar
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: on this morning. Bennar is still in recovery from taking
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: a puck to the face. We did have EJ ONJ
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: actually talked about it. He said I was right next
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: to him when it happened. He was doing the game.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: He was and he said that was a direct shot
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: right to the face. And I told you that the
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: next night, the Orioles had a game in which their manager,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Craig Albernaz, he was in the dugout. He took a
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: line drive off the face and he came back in afterwards.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I was like, well, he didn't have broken bones, that's
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: why wrong. Uh, yeah, he did. He had seven fractures
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: and a broken jaw. He's having to eat baby food
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: for the next six weeks. What you know what, hey man,
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: if you're a baseball manager and that happens to you,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: take some time. The team will be okay, all right,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: we'll go out there and field some ground balls. Don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: worry about it. I can't believe moj seven fractures and
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: a broken jaw.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: You know, when you talked about it the other day, Brett,
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I didn't. I hadn't seen the actual line drive into
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: the dugout, but I would suspend his player because he
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: was so late on that pick. It was. In fact,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: I would, I would argue to you, And I guess
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: I'm making this kind of funny because the guy's okay,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: he just has to eat baby food, which, you know what,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: in the grand scheme of things, some baby food's pretty good.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I've tried it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Ever you ever hark on the little one's baby food
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: time are not bad, it depends.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: But he was so late.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: In fact, I would argue that you could not be
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: more late on a pitch and get a bet on
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: the ball than dude was.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: How about that. Let me give you a story, mos.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: It didn't happen to me. I've done this before. I've
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: hit line drives in the dugouts. You're way early on
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: a change up, you're way late on a fastball. Like
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: it happened right right. We were playing fall ball once
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: buddy of mine, and he was in the dugout getting
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: drink from the Gatorade cooler. Somebody turns on one right
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: in the dugout slams him in the ribs. He drops
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: like a sack of potatoes. He sounds like the the
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: grape stomping lady, just like making that sound. Our trainer
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: comes up and he says, what you got? He goes,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: what you mean? I got no ribs? It happened.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: That's awesome. Hey, I've got one for you. Did you
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: see the end of the blue Jacket season last night?
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: We played brick bonus earlier, but we can do it again. Yeah, dude.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: In fact, the thing is when you read the quotes,
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: that's one thing, but when you hear it, yeah, you
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: can't do it justice.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Compared to what this is. Do you like coaches doing this?
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, nel, if you got it, there, I got it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 11: Probably gotta just look at the statue three hits twenty
• 37:59
  Speaker 11: three giveaway, like, I don't know if I'm back, but
• 38:03
  Speaker 11: if I'm back, I'm changing this culture. These guys, they
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: don't care. Losing is not important enough to them. It
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: doesn't bother them, Like, how can you go out and
• 38:13
  Speaker 11: play like that? Should have done this about a month ago.
• 38:16
  Speaker 11: But this is why we are where we are. This
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: is why we run of the playoffs. That kind of
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: effort losing. You have to hate losing. I don't care
• 38:25
  Speaker 11: if it's a meaningless game, I don't care. Show up
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: and compete. Three hits twenty three giveaways.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: It goes on from there. Now, if you're wondering what's
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: going on here, First of all, he had to take
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: like thirty he was crying. He had to take like
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: thirty seconds before he actually spoke, And that was one
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: of those anger cries. That wasn't sad cry, that was
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: angry cry. They were two seven and one down. The
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: stretch where they were firmly in playoff position before that
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: and just completely fell apart.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: They in the Detroit Red Wings, they both had a
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: playoff spot and they both just frittered it away down
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: the stretch, which is unbelievable, you know. And again I
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: think it's good for Columbus to get in if they can, right,
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: and Rick Bonas was brought in and they got a
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: bump from Rick Bonus and then he's probably not wrong.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: There's a reason why, you know, people keep getting fired
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: there and whatnot. They got to change the culture of
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: that team. And he's just beside himself because all you
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: ask is for guys to be professional. Yeah, all you
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: ask is for guys to be pros out there, and
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: then when they don't give a rats rip, man, that's
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: a hard thing to deal with, it really is.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Well, it's because it's my wife has talked about this.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: She's in sales and she had to manage a team before.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: She doesn't like managing people because she just wants to
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: be responsible for her own stuff.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: She is.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: The thing that makes me the most mad is I
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: can't force somebody else to care like I care, and
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: that bothers me, right, and I think that's what he's
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: facing right now. Nelly, go ahead, you got something.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Oh, by the way, I think moj by the time
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: that you had your daughter gender reveals and the whole
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: gender reveal party craze, that was not a thing yet
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: you didn't have to go through that.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: No, No, that was not a thing.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: So, Brett, for either of your daughters, did you do
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: the whole gender reveal thing? Did you have a whole
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: party and like swing at a baseball the baseball exploded, it
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: was pink.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Nope. We got an email from the hospital and we
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: opened the email and it said boy or girl.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: Well, as a general rule, I'm on the same page
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: as you guys. I don't really do the whole gender
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: reveal thing. But over the weekend I saw one that
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: I think was actually pretty tastefully done. So this was
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: Brandon Fought of the Arizona Diamondbacks doing a gender reveal
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: for his brother, and the broadcast actually talked about it,
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: so it was pretty cool.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: Today, Brandon Fought, you noticed the pink laces his brother,
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: Brett and his partner Hannah were watching back in Kentucky
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: today And the reason those laces are pink and the
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: reason it involves a brother and white Hannah. That's for
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: a gender reveal for the baby that Breton Hannah are expected.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: That's cool.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: So Breton Hannah, congrats you're having a girl.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: I like that, as you said, or Nelly tastefully done.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just pink laces in the cleats. I think that's subtle.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: You don't need to shoot off any fireworks and burn
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: down the state of California.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Just something, something, very subtle.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: When did you know? It's funny because I lived in
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: this era. I'm in this era, but I'm trying to
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: think my daughter's twenty. When did gender reveal stuff become
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: a thing? When was that?
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Oh like five years ago? Maybe ten years ago?
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Too much, too much? Just quickly here on the way out,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: did you see Kevin Kissner talking about The Masters and
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: how they broadcasted it. He's not happy?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: What do it?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: You have no play live shots? I don't know.
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: Our production team at NBC prize themselves on playing every
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: shot that they possibly can live, and we talked about
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: with Dan Hicks. When we can't, we have to say
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: a moment ago because we're trying to make the whole movie,
• 42:14
  Speaker 12: make sense, right, we don't want to show you tap
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: in on sixteen and go oh yeah, and he's already
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: hitting a shot on seventeen because obviously he has to
• 42:20
  Speaker 12: walk over there. I have no idea what they're doing, literally,
• 42:23
  Speaker 12: no idea. They're showing every shot on tape. It's incredible.
• 42:27
  Speaker 12: I don't even know how the announcers call it. Literally,
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: I don't know what how Colt can act like he
• 42:32
  Speaker 12: doesn't know what's happening when it's already happened.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: He's so right, there was there was so much it
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: felt like filler in the middle of The Masters. The
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: fact that we didn't see a single shot of Lee's
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: meltdown when he took a ten and he's in the
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: woods looking for his butt, Like, I think that's ridiculous.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: I think, well, the Masters kind of doesn't want you
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: to show some of that stuff. But that being said,
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know who's in charge there, but it just
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: it didn't.
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: It didn't.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of critic isn't put it that way?
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: You didn't go well, yeah, one last thing.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm trying to parse my words here because it
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: really was surprisingly bad.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Shane Lowry's hole in one that wasn't live,
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: was it? Didn't they go back to it? Yes, it's
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: a hole in one.
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: One last thing here, EJ had a message for you,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Mosher when he joined us earlier.
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: When I was tired, I still woke up and went
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: to work.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll play that for him later.
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: And then maybe I didn't. Maybe I wasn't that good,
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: But at least I showed up.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: That guy, I swear to God, just a nice little
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: I said, do you have a message for Mosure. He's
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: still sleeping right now. That's what he told me.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: It was not out of it was not a I
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: H three oh three five O four nine two five.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: By the way, Brett Brett, Brett, Brett Brett, Yeah, yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: I got your buddy.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: Oh.
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