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Wolves roll in Game 2, Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon on
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a Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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the next two hours to talk sports with you.
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And thanks for starting your afternoon with us on an absolute
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Chamber of Commerce day here in the capital city.
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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We will start in about 25 minutes.
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We'll talk some Hawks. Hawks are in town.
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The baseball team at Principal Park, Oregon say what a
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beautiful weekend they've got ahead of them.
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Some warm weather, but it's, you know, to be expected, right?
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It is May, after all. But yeah, by all accounts, it's
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going to be a gorgeous weekend and a pretty good series taking
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place down at Principal Park coming up starting tonight.
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So that will be early in the program.
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Then we'll give 4 of you an opportunity to win for us some
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grub from the chicken coop. You know the drill.
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If you haven't won anything in the last 30 days, you are
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eligible to play. Or if you and if you played in
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the chicken coop in the last 30 days, you can't.
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I've got that 30 day clock that has to expire before we let you
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back in. And the Commissioner Condon is a
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stickler for detail on that one. He will not let you buy our into
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the contest. So that'll come up here at about
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O 10 minutes before noon for questions.
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You know the way we do it, get the most right.
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You'll get a $50.00 gift certificate to use it.
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Any of the three chicken coops. The runner up gets 20 wings.
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Our number 2, Travis Hines going to talk some college sports
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stuff, some Iowa State stuff that's coming up here at one O 2
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with Travis Hines. And then we'll hit the Las Vegas
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Mike Pom, VP of operations at Circa Sports.
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We'll go behind the counter. The latest numbers.
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What are they seeing? Etcetera.
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I have to think that the books have been enjoying the second
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round, the NBA playoffs, a lot more than the first with all
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these dogs winning or all these Rd. teams winning.
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Well, and we certainly know about the number of people that
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just throw in a money line parlay, right?
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Those kind of ones that just how dead they've been this torn hill
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seemingly every single time until what the Thunder did in
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Game 2 and what the Wolves did in Game 2.
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But those two will starts that we have out east, the surprising
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nature of it, how head and shoulders both Cleveland and
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Boston had looked compared to the rest of the field.
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To lose a game, OK, it happens. But to lose both at home, it's
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wild. It's unthinkable.
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It really is. I think that they yes, you are
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exactly right that this is going to be that's going to be a good
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start to the week. Certainly I I believe so.
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And then probably, like I said, probably got crushed early on
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when the favourites were rolling of the two teams are in O2
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holes. See me.
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So obviously Cleveland and Boston, they both get out, one
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didn't get out of, they both get beat.
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I still am confident. Confident.
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In Boston, the Celtics coming back, Tatum didn't look right,
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Not involved in the first half. Big moments, just didn't get it
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done. But I believe in the talent.
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They shot the ball so poorly for them and I don't think that
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continues even as charged up in environments.
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Going Oh, it's going to be bananas at Madison Square Garden
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tonight. Transfer.
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When is it? Tonight or tomorrow?
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Tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon.
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Oh, that's what you said. Middle of the afternoon.
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At 23230. Perfect.
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Yes, beautiful middle of the day matinee or MSG.
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And then the nightcap. The Golden State Minnesota games
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at 7:30. It's a great Saturday.
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It really is. Those are the two series I think
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I'm most compelled by and excited to get those back to.
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Back how many NHL Saturday? They're both.
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They got the two games that played last night.
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Carolina will host and Edmonton will host.
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Five o'clock 8:00 central starts for those two in those match
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ups. But of the two and I, I said it
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before the series began, I was shocked at the Pacers price and
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that series price that we talked about.
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I thought that the series was a lot closer than that.
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I still don't think this series should be as close as it has
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been. And two, nothing lead, but
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Boston LED both these games by 20 points, led by 20 both times
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late not got off to a first quarter lead in the middle of
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second quarter. No, no, no in the fourth
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quarter. And to lose one of them after
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being, what would you know, who puts out the probable odds of
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winning? It's like 90 some percent who
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does that. Well, they're all over the
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place, are they? Yeah, and they're all wrong.
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I you brought up something that has become a source subject for
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me because how many times do we come in and talk about those
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wind problems and it doesn't matter the sport and the wrong,
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you know why the wrong? Because it happens more than 99%
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of the time. When your wind probability is
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99%. We should be talking about it on
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a weekly basis, yet we do. Yeah, every couple of years we
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should be talking about. It right that is so your
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probability chart is garbage. I know what that's I never
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thought of it that way, but you're 100% right because we
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talk about it more often than we should.
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I like math. I like numbers.
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If you're the one. This is the one that it's going
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to spit out though. It's wrong.
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That is not probability, and however you come to it, the
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maturation show that it's not. Right.
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You know what pissed me off yesterday?
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Speaking of being wrong, and I don't care that they were wrong
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in the White Sox favor, but how could ABC rush to their Twitter
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account, ABC News to anoint the newly minted Pope as a Cubs fan?
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I mean, there's two choices, right?
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But yeah, you know, I mean, did you just assume it's no wonder
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people don't like the media, the news media anymore because
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something is seemingly as easy as that they got wrong.
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I do wonder and I heard one of the many interviews with his
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brother Sudhupro's brother where he mentioned, well, half of our
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family is Cubs fans. True mom is.
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So you might Hey, I know that mom is a it could be a simple.
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But he grew up on the South Side, apparently, so you would
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almost, you'd almost think that, you know, by default you're a
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White Sox fan. But did I hear he's a Packers
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fan? No.
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Well, you know what? I shouldn't say that.
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I'll. I'll tap the brakes on that.
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That was just a passing comment that I heard.
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I don't know that that would be disgusting.
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I think that's probably a Packers fan.
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That was that was trying to get under your Bears fan.
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Could happen. Yeah.
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Is there a Winnipeg Jets? No, that was me.
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You are trying to get God on your side.
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Look at you, yeah. Well, I need something.
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We've got George Morrissey tonight back in the lineup.
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So maybe it worked, but but, you know, just get it right.
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You know, it's simply you got a 50% chance.
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Do your dude Dylan, do your homework.
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I mean the the Cubs organization rushes to their marquee outside,
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not the network. That was more embarrassing I
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think than this. Totally agree.
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He's. One of us.
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Yeah, that that was that was the biggest problem.
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You know where they're getting it from.
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They're getting it from their trusted source.
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ABC News get it right? No wonder you're hated.
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Not just you, ABC, the media in general.
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Good God, as simple as that. Anyways, I digress.
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We're all over the. Place now we are, but it's
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Friday. Soon it'll be football Friday
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and then we'll stay in one lane. Thank the Lord for that, right?
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Speaking of the Pope, anyways, we will talk to Tom Kaikert
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again. Just a beautiful day for
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baseball if you're looking for some to do this weekend.
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three-game series down at the principal park tonight and night
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game. I think 6:30 first pitch
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tomorrow is a 335 and then it's an early start on Saturday I
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think due to the forecasted. I mean, are we still upper 80s
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for the weekend? Is that what let me just.
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Yes, yeah, I all. Next week 8082 tomorrow 80 on
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Sunday and sun no clouds at all. Beautiful Next.
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Week kid and all next week. All.
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Thursdays. Yeah, sign for that.
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Setting up well. Indeed.
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All right, let's get Jeff in here, then we'll get back to
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what we're talking about. Hi, Jeff.
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Yeah, I got Cleveland tonight -2 1/2.
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You guys think I have a shot? Cleveland tonight -2 well.
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Isn't the that's a pretty good number because I think it's up
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to 5 1/2 now. You got the right side of it,
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yeah. I got that's still sandal.
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That's pretty good number. When did you get it?
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When did you get it? Yesterday.
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Yesterday. Well, it's gone in your favour.
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Jeff, you got a bad line. Appreciate the call.
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Good luck to your team tonight and I hope you cash your bet. -2
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1/2 I would feel Clinton's got to.
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Bounce back, don't they? I mean the both fan bases are
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going, both buildings are going to be absolutely bonkers with a
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chance to go up 3. Nothing on the on the one seed
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or the higher seed. Man, I don't.
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I kind of hope both of them get by.
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So Garland, he was at practice today, he's expected to go as
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the terminology that they mobley with that ankle.
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I'm not sure. They said he was at shoot
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Around, but they have not used the same terminology expected
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like they did with Garland. Now here's the other thing Jeff
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just mentioned. He had a 2 1/2 and I'm looking
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at the line movement. Yeah, it sat at 2 1/2 for a long
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time. It opened at 1 1/2, it was a 2
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1/2 yesterday and today it's shot up.
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Yet, at least nothing that I am seeing on the NBA injury report
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has either of those guys out. So DraftKings is down to five.
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So that is the one shop that's moved it down a little bit, but
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everybody else across the board circa 5 1/2.
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And then the late game tonight in Denver, the OKC is a 5 1/2
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point favorite. Do you give Denver a chance to
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to bounce back in this? Yeah, I do.
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Because you were spot on yesterday, I'll give you credit
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on that. When you couldn't, you move the
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alternate line. You couldn't have been.
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I was sweating at the end too, and Luca Garza was in there
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like, come on, Luca. You know, that's it's too bad
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that that wasn't tonight because that would have been a good
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chicken coop. Luca Garza over under 1 1/2
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point. Oh yeah.
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Or just a half minute, Yeah. 'Cause he's going to get in the
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game late, we would assume. So when it comes to that game,
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let's let's spend a minute on that one.
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You know what the you know what Minnesota still needs to do?
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In my opinion, Anthony Edwards needs to get going.
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Yes, yeah, He hasn't played well.
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No offensive. I don't think he has hasn't.
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Played well. He's done a lot of rather really
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good things, obviously, right? He's rebounding, he's assists,
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he's not turning the ball over, but the offensive numbers are
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not there for him. So if you're a Timberwolves fan
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and you're in the sport, in the spot, maybe you feel optimistic
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about it because you know it's only a matter of time before
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this guy gets going. Draymond, were you watching when
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he was freaking out again? No, I didn't see that part.
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What did he do? He got a technical.
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Yeah, OK. And then he wouldn't shut up and
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he just so he's already up. To so he's he's mouthing off to
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the refs. After he got the tee, after he
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got the tee and it wasn't even a tee, it was he went up there, he
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was sprawling around, he got fouled, but his elbow because
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he's flailing like an idiot and he elbows Nas Reed and so he
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gets hit for a flagrant. And so that's his fifth point.
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The way they do kind of the point system you get up to seven
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in the playoffs. That's the automatic suspension.
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So not only did it is he up to 5 all right you're getting close
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to that line and a flagrant one that's two points so that if the
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next flagrant one he's going to be suspended.
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But then on top of it, he's yelling at the refs he's MF ING
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them. He is just going absolutely
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crazy. Steph had to walk over and bring
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him back into the corner. What are you doing?
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I, I think people know I despise it.
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I, I just, I can't stand it. It makes my blood boil.
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I just, that's the edge. Those are the things that you,
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but those kind of things when you're that close.
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To it, man. And and you're going to hurt
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your team another not only are you hurting him right now, but
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you're going to hurt him down the line by doing.
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I didn't get a technical even though he swore right in the
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face of official and so they got him a break.
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I saw a social media post of somebody that was there, ears
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clear as day, him swearing and and not just.
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Did the ref look away? No.
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He he was still. He stared at him, and he still
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let him go. Let him go.
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Wow. But to play that close to the
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fire when you're Draymond Green, I don't understand.
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Yes, that's the edge. Those are the things he's got to
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do, those things he believes in order to compete and be able to
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stick in this league as long as he has.
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But at that point, you're down 17, it's a lost game.
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All you're going to do is hurt your team down the.
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Road yesterday. That's one of the that's one of
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the talking points of this game. You know, if indeed it's not
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going your way and you were right spot on to thinking that
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you know, it's name, your score, type of game and it and it
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clearly was that you know, watch your PS and QS Draymond, because
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these things add up. Jimmy Butler has to be a lead
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for them to, I believe, Wendy if they're the next two games in
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San Francisco, they're just so. Take a night off last night in
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some ways. I yeah, I think they saw right
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away. I'm with you.
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And it's something that we thought very well could be the
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case yesterday, that it was going to play out in that
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fashion. You could tell he doesn't look
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right either though. That hard fall that he had in
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game two, he had the 1 outstanding with 37 point game
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that he had, but short of that he hasn't looked right.
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Obviously whatever they're going to get out of Curry, if
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anything, out of Curry. At best, it sounds like Game 6I.
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Hate to say it because I'm a Minnesota sports fan for
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everything except the NFL, but I feel really good about the
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Timberwolves moving on to. The conference championship?
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Wouldn't that be so? When they win a series, that's
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how they end every year, right? Oh, you're right.
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How it's only happened twice. No, but.
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Maybe this is the year Trent Condon.
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One more step. Yeah, one more step and they're
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there. Oh yo-yo yo, NHL from last
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night. I stayed up late watching.
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Did you see the winning goal? I did.
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It was a. Beauty, isn't he something?
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I mean, there's a reason he's, you know, considered by everyone
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to be the best player in the game.
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Jesus on ice. Mcgees yeah.
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Connor McDavid I mean, he made Jack Eichel, who's not a
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defenseman in his defense, right?
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He's a forward. And he was, he was back
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checking, gotten place to try and stop him.
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But he I mean, he's just looked like a traffic cone.
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You know, if there was a posterizing in in hockey, that
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would be it as McDavid sashayed around him, made him look bad,
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found dry, settled in front of the net.
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And you knew what that was not going to end well for V EGK and
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it didn't. But maybe this is the year,
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Trent, that the Cup finally goes back to Canada.
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Maybe this is it. There are certainly two teams in
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the driver's seat, both of them with two.
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Nothing leads in Toronto and Edmonton.
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Tell me about Edmonton, the new goalie, Picard.
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Picard. Picard, Yeah.
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So he wasn't the starter. He's been everywhere he's been
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in the in the AHL. So a journeyman.
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Yes, yes, he's been. He's been cut so many times,
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released so many times, had to fight his way back into the NHL.
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For the last half decade, you've been saying Edmonton's got a
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goalie problem. Yeah.
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This. Guy, I still think they kind of
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do. Is it lightning in a bottle
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though? Maybe.
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Maybe we've seen average goalies get hot.
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It's even an average goalie though.
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Or is that even maybe giving him too much credit?
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Yeah, maybe a tad below. Yeah, I think he is.
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You know, Palm, Mike Palm. I heard him yesterday or the day
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before. He made a really good point.
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I'm going to talk to him about it.
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He doesn't think Con Smythe a lot of years is the winning
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team's goalie. Is the Con Smythe OK?
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It's like the quarterback. He's going to win the MVP,
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right? There's not a goalie in the
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playoffs this year that is going to deserve that.
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So here. So here's what I did yesterday,
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OK? So this is an investment
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opportunity. This was for me and you know,
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you looked at my watch and you know where.
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We went so the Conn Smythe is the MVP of the playoffs of the
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playoffs. Right in the in the in the
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Stanley or in the NHL? But because the goalies have not
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been very good. They haven't been.
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They've been bad. We have an opportunity.
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So I'm taking a fly. So I lie.
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I open my app and you know I believe in my team, right?
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If I'm the only I'm the one and they're I think they're 16 to 1
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to win the cup. Hellebucks not win the the cons
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might may he that that that ship has sailed.
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Even if he you know, well, maybe if he shot, if he won every game
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by a shot of going forward, he might get back into it.
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So I went to their best player to try and find his odds, and
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that's Mark Scheifley. So I start looking around for
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Mark Scheifley and DraftKings has him at 50 to 1 bed.
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Rivers has him at 150 to one. Wow, Circa has them at 325 to 1.
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I think I know where I'm going so.
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I could get 16 to one if they win the cup or take a chance
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that they win the cup. I'm happy regardless if I cash
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my bet or not. Or do I think that the best
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player on the team is going to be the con Smythe winner?
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So that's what I was doing. And I mean, the just the
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difference in prices, 50 to 150 to 1 and 325 to one.
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Now those are the only three apps that I have.
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I don't have a FanDuel. I don't know.
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Is Caesar still in business? I don't have a Caesar's.
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Those are the three I have. But, but I guess as much as
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anything, this kind of reinforces what Trent and I say
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all the time, you know, open up other apps, let's look around.
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You want 50 to 1 or 151, I'll take 150 to 1.
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You want 151 or you want 325 to 1.
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I mean, it's pretty simple. Yes, right.
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That's outstanding, right. That's good if they're.
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Going to win the cup. And it's not going to be goalie.
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No. Is there anybody else?
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Yeah, Kyle. Connor, he's their goal scorer.
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OK, went to, went to the University of Michigan.
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Yeah, he's a hell of a player. I mean Schifley is the name I
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know. Schifley's the guy that stirs
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the drink. He's a centerman, Connors his
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winger. Schifley sets him up, but he can
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score on his own and his own, right.
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So that's what I did anyways. But but shop around.
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That's right. That's your best.
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Price, That's good price, yeah. Good price.
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So Kate Horton apparently is going to start on on Saturday
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for the Cubs as they move into New York to take on the Mets.
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So for the chicken coop contest, I came up with an an outs total.
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Did you see what I gave is that I.
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Didn't I? Hadn't clicked So what?
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What? If you were setting the number
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of outs that Kate Horton would get that you would bet the over
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under at at what? Knowing that if he makes it into
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the 5th inning, he's he's got 15 outs.
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Yes, I would put it at. 11 1/2, I went 13 1/2.
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You think I'm too high? So you think we'll get mostly
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unders at 13 1/2? No, I mean, we might get a Cubs
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fan in there. Leave it.
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Yeah, I think that's a good. That's a fair.
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We're in the same ballpark. Yeah, we're not too, not too far
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away. I'm I'm excited to see him
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pitch. Is he going to get much?
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The reason that I would take it a little bit lower, he's
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probably not going more than 5. No, absolutely not.
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So because of that, that's why I would move it down a little bit
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more. All right, you know, let's
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compromise. 12 and a half, 12 1/2. 12 1/2 an inch.
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Right now on the fly, so there's one of your questions if you're
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getting set to play for the chicken coop, 12 1/2 will be the
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over under total on that one. All right, good stuff.
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We will take a time out. By the way, the afternoon show,
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well, today's version of the afternoon show, Lucas and Sean
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are teaming up there at Scheels at Jordan Creek this afternoon
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It truly is. I mean, it's got everything,
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right? It's literally got everything.
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Cyclone stuff, and you make your way through all that, all the
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pro teams, and then on top of it got the canoe.
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How many times I've been there for T-ball stuff for Jack?
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Oh sure. Softball stuff for Ella.
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I'm guessing the golf stuff has been prominently displayed now,
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especially this weekend. Oh absolutely.
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All right, other than that, if you want to go to the game on
20:36
Saturday at Principal Park, caller one right now, 4 tickets.
20:41
If we don't answer the phone, that means you're probably
20:42
clubbed. So caller one right now,
20:45
515-284-5966. It's a 3:30 first pitch.
20:49
If you can go, the icubs will put 4 tickets in your e-mail
20:54
inbox and they'll do so here within at some point this
20:58
afternoon. We have our caller and put them
20:59
on hold right now, so if you're trying to dial in, you're too
21:04
late. But that it's an ongoing series.
21:07
They play tonight, they play Saturday and they play Sunday.
21:10
Huge opportunity, it really is. It's a.
21:13
Gorgeous weekend. So what is on the line in this
21:15
trend? So this is really important for
21:18
positioning for to be an NCAA tournament team.
21:20
They get swept. Their RPI that sits in the mid
21:23
60s right now drops into the 70s.
21:24
They get a game gonna hang about in the same spot.
21:27
If they win the series, They're into the 50s of the RPI.
21:31
Coupled with the possibility of a regular season title, they're
21:34
gonna be in really good shape. Win a game against a top 10
21:38
Oregon State team? That's a success.
21:40
Win the series, now we're talking a sweep.
21:44
We're then all of a sudden you're starting dreaming a
21:47
little bit. Can you move up to a number two
21:49
seed in a region? That's kind of the conversation
21:52
that goes. And then of course, Oregon waits
21:53
next week back in Iowa City for the regular season finale of the
21:57
Big 10 and potentially capping off a regular season
22:00
championship for the first time since 1990.
22:03
And doing it and you're number one with Oregon the way they
22:06
spend, and Washington and USC and UCLA, that would be huge.
22:10
Absolutely. We'll take a time out.
22:12
Miller and Condon back with Tom Caker Sports Radio Network.
22:22
Mary Condon welcome back 12:30 on a Friday.
22:26
Chicken coop giveaway still to come this hour.
22:28
Hour number two, Travis Hines on Iowa State, Mike Palm, VP of
22:33
operations at Circus sports, trying to make a couple of
22:36
plays, Circus sponsors those before we get out of here at
22:38
2:00 there is give this a little plug here tonight with the
22:43
Hawkeye baseball team in town tonight prior to the game
22:46
tonight. If you're looking for a place to
22:47
get together, there's a swarm event at Exile Brewery downtown
22:51
Des Moines from 4:00 until 6:00. So Hawkeye fans a get together
22:56
at XL Brewing in downtown Des Moines?
23:00
Should be a lot of people at that I would assume before they
23:02
make their way over the ballpark.
23:03
Yeah, grab a swarm Gold nail, maybe a Swarm seltzer, and get
23:07
yourself a little pregame before you head over to Principal Park
23:09
and watch those Hawkeyes knock off the Beavers.
23:12
This is a really good idea, Tom, good to talk to you.
23:14
Good idea on the swarms front, but and a good idea on the fact
23:17
that the baseball team is going to play in downtown Des Moines.
23:21
It's going to be a beautiful weekend here in the capital
23:23
city, I'm guessing all over the state of Iowa.
23:26
And I hope they do more of this. I, you know, and hopefully it'll
23:29
be banged out or certainly draw a lot of people seemingly some
23:33
buzz about this. Tom Caker, good to talk to you.
23:35
How are you? Yeah, there is and good to talk
23:38
to you guys and and yeah, it's going to be I think a lot of
23:41
fans wandering over to to the park and see the Iowa baseball
23:46
team has been one of the real surprises and all of college
23:49
baseball this year and and facing a legit, you know, top 15
23:54
ish team with with Oregon State and Iowa needs.
23:59
You know, if Iowa takes 2 out of 3 and it's going to help them
24:03
feel pretty good about their NCAA chances regardless of what
24:06
happens. And then, you know, next week
24:08
Banks fields going to be packed to the rafters when Oregon comes
24:11
to town. So you can do a little Iowa's
24:14
can do a little scoreboard watching this weekend with the
24:17
Big 10 results while they play and, and yeah, this will be a
24:21
fun, fun. How about, how about Oregon
24:24
State's travels? They they started their week in
24:27
Hawaii and they're going to end up in Des Moines, IA this
24:30
weekend. All over the place, the life as
24:33
an independent, certainly in college athletics, we're seeing
24:35
that a full head. What baseball question.
24:38
We know Rick Keller is outstanding and what he does
24:40
with the just lack of resources that they have for Iowa
24:42
baseball's incredible what he's been able to do with this
24:45
program. What can you tell us about the
24:47
new pitching coach this year, Shawn Kenny?
24:49
The last set season, those expectations that they had fell
24:53
flat. A lot of it was the bullpen
24:54
early on and even the rotation was not what we, I think,
24:57
expected a year ago. What has Shawn Kenny done with
25:00
this group? And we know over Miller was
25:01
going to be a stud at the top. But they're good, they're deep,
25:04
and they got some bullpen arms, too.
25:07
I often think that sometimes, you know, good and bad are
25:12
contagious, especially in baseball.
25:15
I think it sometimes happens in basketball too, when you're
25:18
just, you know, not making free throws late in the game and it
25:21
just kind of gets contagious. And and I think that was what
25:24
happened last year with Iowa baseball is that they just
25:27
couldn't throw strikes, just plain and simple, could not
25:30
throw strikes. Brody, Brack, Marcus Morgan,
25:33
even Ober Miller struggle all the times putting people on
25:35
base. The bullpen struggled walking
25:38
people and Shawn Kennedy's has come in there and basically just
25:43
throw strikes just and and it starts at the top of the
25:47
rotation with over Mueller and he has really settled down and
25:52
is, you know, just not walking people.
25:55
And he lost control a little bit in the last game at Washington
26:00
where he was through I think 5 and 2/3 and five innings.
26:05
And he just that next that 6th inning.
26:07
And I think he just throw a strike.
26:10
And but that's just how important that is for for the
26:15
college level. You've got to throw strikes
26:16
because you can't give up free bases.
26:18
And that's I think the big thing that Kenny's got him to do, is
26:21
just throw strikes consistently, not give the free bases up.
26:27
Tom Kakert, hawkeyereport.com joins us.
26:29
Tom, I know that the story's five days old right now, but we
26:33
haven't spoken to you since last Friday.
26:35
And of course, the game took place the game Sunday at Carver
26:40
Hawkeye. I mean, it's crazy, right?
26:43
This, the get in price I think I saw was $600.00.
26:45
The get in price to Madison Square Garden tonight for
26:49
Celtics and Knicks is $600. I mean, it's just, it's just
26:53
amazing. Just kind of your recap on what
26:56
you saw last Sunday and what you've heard subsequent to that.
26:59
Yeah, it was just it was so cool.
27:02
It's just you kind of got those feelings back that you had from
27:05
the previous couple of years when they made the final four
27:08
runs and seeing a lot of the gang back together and seeing
27:12
Lisa Bluter there and and you know, seeing Gabby Marshall back
27:18
and and just everybody. It was kind of like all the
27:21
family got back together again for a little reunion and and
27:25
seeing Caitlin and just and you know, the most Caitlin thing of
27:28
all time. You talk about a superstar
27:30
meeting the moment. And I know it was a 50 point
27:34
game at the time or whatever it was.
27:36
I mean it was just was out of hand.
27:38
But she comes down and she knows she's coming out of the game at
27:41
the end of that third quarter and she's not going back in.
27:44
And to just come down and just drill a 36 foot shot is just
27:50
that's Caitlin Clark. She gets the moment, doesn't
27:53
she? She really, truly does.
27:55
Meets it all the time. Just meets it and meets it and
27:59
meets it and it's, it's, it's unusual.
28:03
Don't just say that it's just unusual.
28:06
And that place got so loud, but it was like, I'm like, I saw her
28:09
pulling up and I'm like, yeah, of course she's going to take
28:12
that shot. And of course it's just going to
28:14
swish. I mean, just that's who she is.
28:19
Basketball things feel like they've slowed down with
28:22
McCullum and company. They had a couple of guards that
28:25
have come on visits. There was that big kid from
28:28
Belgium that was talked about. Looks like maybe he's going to
28:30
end up at Virginia. What do you read into that?
28:33
You know, there there's a couple of those guys haven't committed
28:36
anywhere that they're still after or at least brought in on
28:39
visits. Is it a financial thing?
28:41
Is it Iowa pumping the brakes? Why haven't we heard any bit
28:44
more with kind of those last couple of prospects Iowa had
28:46
hosted? Yeah, I think it's kind of like
28:51
a game of chicken almost. It's where they've got an asking
28:54
price and Iowa is just sort of like, yeah, that's a little rich
28:59
for our blood. How about a, how about a lower
29:02
price? And they're holding firm.
29:04
Iowa's holding firm. And you know, the other options
29:07
might be holding firm. I assume that on their price
29:10
tag. So I think things will probably
29:13
start to break here in the next week or two with those last
29:16
couple guys. But there's just I think I was
29:21
probably close to being out of money.
29:25
You know, they're just, there's only so much money that's going
29:29
to be out there for them and to spend an NIL and I just don't
29:35
think they want to spend it on on and keep spending and keep
29:41
spending. I mean, you know, you're getting
29:42
like Illinois now has like the the Baltic All Star team with
29:47
their roster for next year and it's over $10 million.
29:50
And they're 80 to 1 to win it all, by the way.
29:52
Not that I. Illinois won't win a national
29:54
championship well. Yeah, 80 to 1.
29:57
It's wild, though, that you're going to spend, you're going to.
29:59
And they readily admit they've spent over 10 million on that
30:02
roster. Nuts.
30:03
And it's just, it's wild. There's so many teams this year
30:08
that have spent over 10 million because everybody got crazed
30:11
before they thought the the house decision was going to come
30:14
in and they were just throwing, throwing money away like a, like
30:17
a drunken sailor on shore leaf. I mean, it's just, it's wild.
30:20
It's a lot of money to go 24 and 11 and lose in the second round,
30:23
but to each their own. He's a GIF.
30:26
It was kind of, I think the guy that we're talking about there.
30:28
I did have. One more, we haven't talked a
30:31
whole lot about Neva and Shabazz, the kid that was
30:33
committed to previous staff under Fran.
30:36
Then McCullum comes in, remained committed to Iowa and after
30:40
they've talked to him. So he's from over in your area,
30:42
it's a Davenport kid. What can you tell us about
30:44
Shabazz? Kind of what kind of player is
30:47
he? Because whatever reason, he's
30:48
kind of flown under our radar here, certainly in central Iowa.
30:51
Yeah, and he's actually been living in central Iowa, which is
30:54
the loud thing. He's at the the the Iowa United
30:58
group with that that prep school there.
31:01
And they have quite the AAU team, by the way.
31:06
They're tearing up the Adidas league right now.
31:08
I think they went undefeated last weekend from what his what
31:11
his dad was telling me. Yvonne dad I see on a regular
31:15
basis and he was telling me that they just tore it up.
31:19
But Nvonne playing really well. He missed a lot of time during
31:22
the year. He had a little bit of a
31:24
hamstring issue during the season being coached by Dean
31:27
Oliver at the prep level. I believe Justin Ole is coaching
31:31
him at on the AAU team. So you know, local product
31:35
there. He's he's coaching the the AAU
31:39
team and they're really good and he's playing really well.
31:43
He's playing more point than combo, but he's got good size,
31:47
good strength. He can be a a really good
31:52
defensive player when he puts his mind to it and and he's been
31:56
doing that really well as well. So I think the outside shots got
31:59
to come all around a little bit, but plays crafty with the ball.
32:02
I I've always liked Yvonne's game.
32:04
He's really smooth with the ball.
32:06
You know, I want to go back to some of the nil Tom, before you
32:10
let you go here and you mentioned the fact that you know
32:13
they're they're right now the the players are holding firm to
32:15
their price. Is this going to kind of like
32:17
being buying a ticket from a scalper that you know, it's 100
32:21
bucks but 5 minutes before the game might be 90s, you get
32:24
closer to the season, might the price tag drop and you can maybe
32:27
grab a grab a player who at the time was out of reach.
32:31
But now the closer we get, maybe, you know, he he goes on
32:35
sale. Yeah.
32:36
I think that's, I think that's what they're hoping that, you
32:39
know, maybe that that happens that that the price tags start
32:43
to drop and, and because I think most of these guys want to get
32:47
somewhere by June, So we're closing in on that couple weeks
32:51
away and and then they can get somewhere in June and start
32:56
working out with their new teammates.
32:57
So I that's why I think in the next two weeks things will
33:00
really start to break. But right now everybody's just
33:03
sort of like in a holding pattern.
33:04
There's a couple guys out there, but boy, there's, I think a lot
33:10
of these guys are thinking, well, I can just hold out and
33:13
get this giant bag because I'm the last one standing.
33:16
When all these other schools are like, we're out of money.
33:20
You know, we're out of money. We don't have any more to spend.
33:23
So we're going to have to, you know, you're going to have to
33:26
lower your price tag. So we see George Nejas.
33:29
He goes from walk on at Iowa State to walk on at Iowa.
33:33
But when it comes to those walk ONS and potentially bringing
33:36
walk ONS back, we don't know exactly how this how a
33:38
settlement case is going to figure out.
33:40
But when we hear the terminology that's being used coming back,
33:44
roster limits are going to change.
33:46
So are they suddenly going to start knocking on doors?
33:49
And what about a guy like Dejas? He was on the roster at Iowa
33:52
State. Is he going to count?
33:53
Do we have any clue or is this just more chicanery And we'll
33:57
we'll figure it out as we go? Yeah, it's just more stuff.
34:01
I think they just have enough. They've got a little space left
34:04
and I think they're willing to go over the one O 5 maybe a
34:08
little bit if they want to. I can't remember where they're
34:12
at. I think they were slightly under
34:13
the one O 5. Maybe they were.
34:15
They're over a little bit, but it won't matter now that
34:18
everything's grand. It's just it's such a disaster
34:22
and and so unfair what they did by by, but I will try to do the
34:28
right thing and and you the schools that just hung on to all
34:33
their guys, they're going to get rewarded here and they're going
34:37
to have extra guys for practice and everything this year because
34:42
that's how it's going to work out.
34:44
But what do you do? I don't know.
34:46
It's just it's you're never rewarded for doing the right
34:50
thing. No, I was going to come back and
34:51
bite him by the sounds of things.
34:52
Tom Keikert, hawkeyereport.com. You do buy right by us every
34:56
Friday. Tom Keikert wants you to know
34:58
that. Thank you again.
34:59
We'll we'll talk to you in a week's time.
35:02
Thanks, Tom. Have a great weekend.
35:03
OK. Yeah.
35:04
Thanks. Guys, see you buddy Tom Keikert
35:05
hawkeyereport.com part of On Three Media.
35:09
My first four callers. If you have not played in the
35:12
chicken coop giveaway, now is your opportunity. 515-284-5966
35:17
We've got the questions. If you get the most answers
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right, you'll get a $50.00 gift certificate from the chicken
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The runner up could get 20 wings.
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Miller and Condon chicken coop giveaway next.
35:31
Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Hillary Condon, welcome
35:37
back. Final couple of minutes, First
35:38
hour of the program. Chicken coop.
35:40
Yes, it's that time of the week again.
35:42
Give 4 of you an opportunity. Kevin, Terrence, Casey and Brad,
35:46
tiebreaker for all of you National League teams in
35:50
baseball tonight combined, just the National League teams, 15 of
35:54
them. How many runs will they score
35:57
today? Closest without going over?
35:59
That's the tiebreaker. Chicken coop.
36:02
They have three locations, 12725 Meredith Drive in Urbandale,
36:07
60th and Ashworth in West Des Moines and in Ankeny just South
36:12
of the DMAC campus on oral labor.
36:16
Kevin is up first. Kevin, welcome to the program.
36:18
How are you? I'm good.
36:20
How are you good? Kate Horton scheduled to pitch
36:24
tomorrow over under 12 1/2 outs for Kate Horton under Rico Miko.
36:32
Rantnon has scored a hat trick in his last two games.
36:35
Will he score a goal tonight against The Jets?
36:39
No. The Cleveland Cavaliers are a 5
36:42
1/2 point favorite over the Pacers.
36:47
Cavaliers. Over under 10 1/2 runs tonight.
36:50
The Yankees take on the A's in Sacramento.
36:54
Over tiebreaker National League teams only total runs closest
36:59
without going over today 52. Thanks Kevin.
37:04
Enjoy the weekend. You as.
37:06
Well, thank you, Sir. Terrance is with Miller and
37:09
Condon. Hi, Terrance.
37:12
Hello, Kate Horton over under 12 1/2 outs under Miko Rantnen.
37:18
Does he score a goal tonight for Dallas?
37:23
Yes, yes. OK.
37:26
Cavs 5 1/2 point favoured over the Pacers.
37:31
Pacers over under 10 1/2 runs tonight in Sacramento.
37:34
Yankees versus A's under. Total runs by National League
37:42
teams only tonight closest without going over.
37:48
Let's go with 14. Terrence, enjoy the weekend.
37:53
Thank you. Thank you.
37:56
Casey is next. Hi, Casey.
37:58
Hey, how's it going? Good.
38:00
Kate Horton over under 12 1/2 outs under.
38:04
Miko Rantnen, Light the lamp tonight in Winnipeg.
38:08
No Cavs 5 1/2 point favourites over the Pacers.
38:13
Give me the cab. Over under 10 1/2 runs tonight,
38:15
Yankees at A's. Over please.
38:19
National League teams will score how many runs today?
38:23
Closest without going over 54. Thanks, Casey.
38:26
Appreciate it. And Brad is next and last.
38:29
Hello, Brad. How are you?
38:31
Hey, good. How are you doing?
38:32
Doing fine. Kate Horton over under 12. 1/2
38:35
outs over Miko Ratnam. Will he score no Cavs 5 1/2
38:41
point favoured over the Pacers. Cavs.
38:45
Over under 10 1/2 runs, Yankees at A's under National League
38:51
runs tonight Closest without going over 11.
38:56
It is OK Brad, appreciate it. Thanks for playing and thank you
39:00
to the chicken coop. I'd have gone 15 if he was going
39:03
that strategy. Understand that one?
39:05
Yeah. We'll see, We'll see.
39:06
What was it last week? America League team?
39:08
It was 54. Was it 50?
39:09
454. So most, a lot of guys in the
39:12
ballpark, hey, it's a beautiful night.
39:14
If you're looking for something to do.
39:15
If you're out tonight, you're headed to the It's opening night
39:17
at Prairie Meadows. Oh, yeah.
39:18
I'm the guest handicapper in the paddock tonight.
39:21
Nice. Yeah, so stop by and say hi if
39:24
you're at the track. I'll be making my picks doing
39:28
that here tonight. And I spent the morning trying
39:30
to download DIRECTV on my phone. TNT on my phone Direct.
39:36
TV should be enough. I hope.
39:38
As long are you signed in. Yes, then you're good.
39:41
I hope you're good, I mean. You're.
39:44
Good, I hope. So, you know, you know how often
39:46
my I'm on the go. Constantly.
39:48
And you know how I keep up. On your phone, the DIRECTV app,
39:52
Yes. I am on that thing constantly.
39:55
You'll be fine. I will be in my chair for puck
39:57
drop period #2 but period one. Hello baby.
40:02
Plug that into your. You can listen to the audio as
40:04
you're making a way. Back I have Sirius so I can get
40:07
the radio call. I can get The Jets radio call
40:09
tonight. I'm in hog heaven.
40:10
Stop at the track if you're out there.
40:11
It's opening night. Prairie Meadows hour 2 is next.
40:14
Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.