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Bernie Williams Joins OneLegUpAlex At Pinstripe Pride 2025 and Terminello's Take Wraps Up The Week 2-1-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, in honor of Pinstripe Pride weekend, I wanna
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  Speaker 1: do a then and now for you because back then,
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, I had the very fortunate
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  Speaker 1: interviewing Bernie Williams at the Queen's College Colon Center after
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  Speaker 1: a Tolerance concert. Here's how that conversation went back in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm here with Bernie Williams, who is
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  Speaker 2: here at the Tolerance concert tonight. So he worked with
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Owen tonight. What was it like performing with him?
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  Speaker 3: I felt sober, matched, was like so intimidated. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's such a great group of players, and I was
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  Speaker 3: just trying to keep up. It was a good experience though,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm never you know, I've never been exposed to
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  Speaker 3: playing US so I have such a language of music,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as far as in a hardcore jazz straight ahead,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I never played that. So it was it
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  Speaker 3: was really a really great experience for me to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there was one message that you hope people can
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  Speaker 2: get out of this concert, what would it be?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the whole message, the whole message about tolerance,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, for my particular case, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: would talk about the example that I'm given that it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you don't have to choose between sports and music,
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  Speaker 3: and they all can coexist amicably, amicable. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: you have the talent to do both, you know why not.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, today you played take me out to the
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  Speaker 2: ball game, You're endition. What was like playing it in
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  Speaker 2: center field an opening day of the new Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very surreal experience for me. I would
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  Speaker 3: have hoped that I was in uniform with a glove on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's playing center field. But as time tells,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you you can only borrow your ability for
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  Speaker 3: a little time. So I think the next best thing
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  Speaker 3: was to go out there and play my tribute to
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  Speaker 3: the game to the fans that were there. I think
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  Speaker 3: it was very fitting, so I feel really good about it.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you there.
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  Speaker 3: I ticket was very fitting, so I feel really good
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And congratulations on tonight, oh thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward now fifteen plus years later, and it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a cycle, right, you get into these people every
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years, I guess because at the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Pinstripe Pride event put on by Hall of Fame signings,
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  Speaker 1: and so I got a chance to catch up with
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  Speaker 1: Yes all Star Gold Glover and World Series Champion and
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  Speaker 1: really a friend, Bernie Williams, take a listen to that.
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  Speaker 4: Let's me to be a pinchrp Pride, Pinstripe Pride, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is this is all about Pinstrip.
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  Speaker 3: Pride, all the fans, all the people showing their love
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  Speaker 3: and just to have the experience to play with the
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  Speaker 3: best team.
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  Speaker 1: And then you had a guitar to sign today. How
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  Speaker 1: cool was that? It was awesome?
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  Speaker 3: Man, It just kind of brought me way back to
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  Speaker 3: the years that I was playing guitar in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 3: meanings springsting and him found me my guitar and saying
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  Speaker 3: if you ever get tired of baseball and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that was a great experience, Bernie, Thanks as always,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you grateful that Anna and Jake allowed Gaby and
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  Speaker 1: I to be part of that media scrum if you
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  Speaker 1: will at Pinsroy Pride, I mean, we got to see
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of that Yankee family, Yankee legends, Yankee
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  Speaker 1: Hall of famers, including Zezi Sabathia and uh A shout
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  Speaker 1: out once again to Jake and Anna, and you know they,
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  Speaker 1: along with Justin Time Baseball and Frank Luna and Rob
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  Speaker 1: Gomez at Yankee Stadium and Matt Eisen truly embody that
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  Speaker 1: inclusionary vision and that inclusivity that mister Seinberner afforded my
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  Speaker 1: family and I when he took my dad and I
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  Speaker 1: am to the suite in September of two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years ago.
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  Speaker 4: What happened today, What happened today, an American.
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  Speaker 1: Dream with Hall of Fame signings felt like an encapsulation
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  Speaker 1: of what mister Seinberner began twenty five years ago. My
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  Speaker 1: family and I am ever so grateful, and I know
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  Speaker 1: he and Pops are watching along with us and are
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  Speaker 1: always along with us in the journey. Someone else who
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  Speaker 1: embodies this inclusivity and kindness is not other than lou Terminello.
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  Speaker 1: And right now I want to wrap up this week
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  Speaker 1: with Terminello's take, which has a lot of insight into
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  Speaker 1: why JT. Miller was traded to the Rangers from Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks, who up into this recording had won five straight.
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  Speaker 1: What their hot streak.
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  Speaker 5: Means and prayers and thoughts to the families of the
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  Speaker 5: fourteen figure skating athletes who perished the horrible plane crash
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  Speaker 5: over the potamac. Lou Terminello and I cover it all
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  Speaker 5: on this week's Terminello's Taake. All right, welcome back to
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  Speaker 5: One Leg Up with Alex Garrett, and on my line
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  Speaker 5: once again is lou Termineo Lewis Terminiello. More formally, welcome
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  Speaker 5: back to your take Terminilo's.
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  Speaker 1: Take this week, Alex good foot out? Are you footballed
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  Speaker 1: out yet? Because I don't even want to talk in
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  Speaker 1: depth about this last two games last weekend because a
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like this not a script but the same
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  Speaker 1: old story. Right. The Chiefs go in take out the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles who are making their first Super Bowl since
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  Speaker 1: they actually played the Chiefs a few years ago. So
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a rematch. But you know, I'm fired with
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  Speaker 1: other things. I know you wanted to cover really quick
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  Speaker 1: our title championship weekend games. Tell us what your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: were real fast.
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  Speaker 4: Well, as I'm not surprised that we have a Kansas
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  Speaker 4: City Philadelphia rematch from a couple of years ago. As
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  Speaker 4: I said, I was rooting for Buffalo with my heart,
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  Speaker 4: but my head said Kansas City. As we talked about
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  Speaker 4: last week, but real quick. The Commander's fantastic year going
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  Speaker 4: from four to thirteen to fourteen and six, and they
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  Speaker 4: have the most important player going forward in their quarterback
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  Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels. The Eagles great team, great offensive line, great
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  Speaker 4: running back. Jalen Hurts play his best game of the
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  Speaker 4: year in my opinion on Sunday, and he looked one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent healthy. And now he has two weeks to
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  Speaker 4: get ready for the Chiefs. But he really threw the
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  Speaker 4: ball well on Sunday, Buffalo at Kansas City Alex. The
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs do what championship teams do over and over, from
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  Speaker 4: their outstanding coaching staff to their players. Andy Reid a
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  Speaker 4: great coach, but the thing we forget about, he's also
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  Speaker 4: the offensive play caller. He's a Hall of Fame offensive
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  Speaker 4: play caller. And even at that last play on third
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  Speaker 4: and nine, with a minute thirty five seconds to go
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  Speaker 4: to Samaji p Ryan, he had the scheme, had the
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  Speaker 4: Bill defense confuser out of position. He was wide open
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  Speaker 4: through that Mahomes through that little swing pass clinched the game.
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  Speaker 4: I do think that McDermott made a couple of mistakes
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  Speaker 4: going for those two point conversions early, and he didn't
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  Speaker 4: get either one of them. The first one he shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have gone to, but because he missed the first, he
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  Speaker 4: had to go for the second. When they went I
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  Speaker 4: had twenty two to twenty one. But if he didn't
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  Speaker 4: go for those two point conversions, just keep a single point,
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  Speaker 4: the Chiefs would have gone for a two point conversion
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  Speaker 4: later in the game, which they converted, and the game
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  Speaker 4: would be thirty one to thirty one. Before the controversial
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  Speaker 4: spot situation on third and one, and with Kinkay catching
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  Speaker 4: that swing pass and I think he got a bad spot,
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  Speaker 4: and then Alan with the tush push. They said that
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  Speaker 4: he was short. I thought he had it, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 4: And the final result thirty two to twenty nine Kansas
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  Speaker 4: City and they're going for their third Street. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that wraps it up, absolutely does.
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  Speaker 1: And you know there were two controversial plays I've highlighted
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago. Then everybody's up in arm is
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  Speaker 1: about and again, as I predicted, lou the Bills Mafia
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  Speaker 1: and actually Raven Fans contributed to an organization. Dalton Kincaid's
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  Speaker 1: part of it's like a tradition. When these guys don't
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  Speaker 1: make that player, don't make that kick, the fans have
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  Speaker 1: their backs, and I was really it was really nice
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  Speaker 1: to say that Kinkaid got a lot of donations to
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  Speaker 1: his charity a day after he dropped the ball. But
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  Speaker 1: that's a very tough play to make.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't that was a.
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  Speaker 6: Really tough that was That wasn't like Mark Andrews the
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  Speaker 6: week before, Alan made a great throw against the against
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  Speaker 6: the Blitz on fourth down, and Kincaid was you know,
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  Speaker 6: he stretched his body out, should he nine times out
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  Speaker 6: of ten?
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  Speaker 4: Eight times out of ten? Would he have caught that bull? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: but hey, you're not going to kill He's a terrific
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  Speaker 4: tight end. You can't kill the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. And he was a difference maker the whole
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  Speaker 1: year for the Bills as well, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely, there's that.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm fired up today about is in that little
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  Speaker 1: arena known as Carna Seca Arena is home to not
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  Speaker 1: you know, just any ranked team in the country, but fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth ranked in the country. Lou we talk about this
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  Speaker 1: last year and I was sort of like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Patino was on a slow start and he said, you
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  Speaker 1: just watch, well, we've been watching and that slow starts dissipated.
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  Speaker 1: There are fourteenth ranked, probably even more after this week.
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  Speaker 1: Boy are they a contender or not? Or what heading
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  Speaker 1: into March Madness coverage here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that a doubt. And it's like we said last year.
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  Speaker 4: We said that the bubble team last year, as Patino
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  Speaker 4: was getting his feet on the ground and making the
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  Speaker 4: transition for the Saint John's basketball program, that they would
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  Speaker 4: be a bubble team, and they were and they could
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  Speaker 4: have gotten in. They just missed. This year, we said
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  Speaker 4: that we think they can get to at least the
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  Speaker 4: second weekend of the NCAAA tournament, and I think there
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  Speaker 4: is no doubt about it. That's what's gonna happen. I
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  Speaker 4: would say that probably in a four, five, six bracket,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sixth seed now, So it depends what bracket
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  Speaker 4: they're in, as far as they could how far they go.
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  Speaker 4: This is a good team. They played good defense. They
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  Speaker 4: were a little spotty sometimes offensively at times, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: they had nine and one and Biggis played for the
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  Speaker 4: first time since eighty four eighty five, which was the
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  Speaker 4: last time Saint John's made it to the Final four.
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  Speaker 4: That year, there was three biggest teams that made it
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  Speaker 4: to the Final four. So you know, they're on a streak.
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  Speaker 4: They've won seven in a row. They played Providence at
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  Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden on Saturday. They're playing very well. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you can't you can't criticize them. They came back from
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  Speaker 4: sixteen points against Xavier. They were able to they able
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  Speaker 4: to win that game. They got off to that big
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  Speaker 4: lead against Georgetown the other night and they didn't let
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  Speaker 4: Georgetown breed the rest of the way. Their defense is good.
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  Speaker 4: He's not gonna let them play bad defense. And that's
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  Speaker 4: because he's a you know, he's a great offensive coach,
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  Speaker 4: but he's also a great defensive coach. You know, their
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  Speaker 4: three point shooting, like many, is sporadic, but this this
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  Speaker 4: is a this is a team that right now is
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  Speaker 4: ahead of Connecticut and who would have thought that? So
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  Speaker 4: a great job. Who looks like the argist in February
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  Speaker 4: and Bad East Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: You know who was scouting out the Georgetown Saint John's game.
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  Speaker 1: One of your former coaches, Lawrence Frank, was there on
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  Speaker 1: the of the Clippers. So that game was highly touted
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And I guess uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they they were looking at Star freshman Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Serber and yeah, you're come, Saint John's mowing down everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So that was an interesting term of events. I guess
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  Speaker 1: for what they were expecting to see, they saw something different.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you never know what's gonna happen when you go
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  Speaker 4: out to scat the player. You could scather the player
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  Speaker 4: and he's having a game where he's just the lighting
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  Speaker 4: it up. And then you can have a play that
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  Speaker 4: you think is going to you know, you're looking for
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  Speaker 4: his skills and he has a horrible game. So but
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  Speaker 4: they look at these guys so many times.
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  Speaker 1: And kudos is Zach Brazilier for reporting this, by the
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  Speaker 1: way on UH on the New York Post. You got
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  Speaker 1: to shout him out for that kind of reporting that
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  Speaker 1: you don't get anywhere else. I feel like, well, there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 4: Well he's he's right now the number one college basketball
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  Speaker 4: guy covering New York New York Sports. He's excellent, he
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  Speaker 4: really is. And he's all over Saint John's. Now that's
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  Speaker 4: now that Saint John's has re emerged after all these years.
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  Speaker 4: He has his pulse on on the UH on the
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  Speaker 4: Saint John's Reret storm, and it's it's gonna be Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Now once you know, once the Super Bowl's over, you
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  Speaker 4: go through that period of getting ready for the NCAAA tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Next week from next week is the NBA trade deadline
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  Speaker 4: February sixth, so they'll be one or two trades that
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  Speaker 4: probably happen there, and then, uh, the NHL takes that
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  Speaker 4: two week break for the Four Nations tournament and then
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  Speaker 4: their trade deadline on March seventh, and I think you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna see some movement in the NHL. I think the
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  Speaker 4: Rangers might be involved. I almost for sure, even though
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  Speaker 4: he's having another terrific year, but he's in the last
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  Speaker 4: year of his deal, and the Islanders I do not
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  Speaker 4: believe you're going to extend him as he's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: now in his early thirties. I think brock Nelson will
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  Speaker 4: be a trade, a trade deadline deal, because the big
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  Speaker 4: rumor is that at the end of this year he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna go to Minnesota, where you know, which is where
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  Speaker 4: he lives.
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  Speaker 1: And before that, the Islanders have not a five game
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  Speaker 1: win streak, which is pretty good. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 1: a little lagging there. But is that five game winster
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna lead to anything? I mean, where do you
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  Speaker 1: see what this team.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there are only two points out of a playoff
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  Speaker 4: spot now, so it doesn't look like mister Lamorello is
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  Speaker 4: going to break up the team. But I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he's going to let a guy like brock Nelson leave
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the year and not get anything
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  Speaker 4: for him. I mean, if he if he signed him
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  Speaker 4: to a two year extension before the trade deadline, I
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  Speaker 4: could see that. But he's not going to do what
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  Speaker 4: the Islanders did. And this is not unloose bold was
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  Speaker 4: he had just gotten there. He's not going to do
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  Speaker 4: what the Islanders do with Tavares. And they could have
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  Speaker 4: trade Tavaris at the deadline that year. They were not
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  Speaker 4: going to the playoffs that year, and Tavaris held them
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  Speaker 4: up and he ended up leaving and the Islander's got nothing.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think that's gonna and and don't get
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  Speaker 4: me wrong, brock Nelson is not as good as John Tavares, so,
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  Speaker 4: but he's still not gonna do that. The other guy
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  Speaker 4: the Islanders might get might move at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 4: and this doesn't mean that they're giving up on the season.
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  Speaker 4: They Another pending free agent is Kyle Paul Mary and
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  Speaker 4: he's been a bit islander since they got him. But again,
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  Speaker 4: you just don't want these guys to leave at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year. And he got nothing for them,
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  Speaker 4: So that's something to look at. I mean, where there's
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  Speaker 4: already been a big trade between Colorado and UH and Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: you know, with Miko branton In going to to Carolina
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  Speaker 4: and a shocking deal. I mean Branton and it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: as a free agent coming up. He's an unrestricted free agent.
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  Speaker 4: He was six in the NHL and scoring, but Colorado
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  Speaker 4: still moved him and they got they got UH tailor
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  Speaker 4: Hole back from Chicago. It was a three way deal.
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  Speaker 4: They got Martin Nichetz back and he's excellent and UH again,
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  Speaker 4: I could see Carolina making another trade because I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: if you know about the UH, the the fractured locker
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  Speaker 4: room in Vancouver, between J. T. Miller and Elias Petterston.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're shopping Miller.
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  Speaker 4: They're shopping.
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  Speaker 1: They're shopping back to the Rangers. We don't know where.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, a couple of weeks ago, would looked like
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  Speaker 4: he was going back to the Rangers. And I bet
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  Speaker 4: you Crider was in that deal. But it must have
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  Speaker 4: fallen through. So that's something to look at. It's killed
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  Speaker 4: the locker room. Now, Vancouver's in the last spot right now.
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  Speaker 4: Uh in the UH, in the and in the Western Conference.
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  Speaker 4: You know they're it cooks by a legend. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: come on, Rick Tockett, even on the video games. I
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  Speaker 4: used to play as a Flyers and he was always
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  Speaker 4: in that game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Rick talking. I remember him for years. So
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  Speaker 1: to see him have a fractured locker room's attle surprising
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  Speaker 1: because he's a legend in the sport. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little surprising, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Well again, when he got there and when he went
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  Speaker 4: from the TNT broadcast panel and on their pre and
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  Speaker 4: postgame show, Vancouver turned their season around. He did a
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  Speaker 4: great job. And I expected to Vancouver to not be
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  Speaker 4: in the eighth spot right now. And there's still a
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  Speaker 4: lot of season ago. But this J T. Miller Elias
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  Speaker 4: Peedson personal issues between them, I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 4: has gone on for way too long and they got
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  Speaker 4: to rectify it. It looks like a buffalo is the
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  Speaker 4: leading landing spot if they trade Peterson and again with J. T. Miller,
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  Speaker 4: he's thirty two years old. Peasants only twenty six, so
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  Speaker 4: he would have to go to a team, and he
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  Speaker 4: has two years left on his deal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're missing out on the biggest transaction which affected
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  Speaker 1: the New York area and that Tony d'angelo's back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it possible D'Angelo has lit up the Islanders? I
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  Speaker 1: mean no, is there no coincidence that after he got
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  Speaker 1: on that team they're winning five in row. Maybe he's
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a spark there, you know.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: You know, well, obviously the Islanders have suffered injuries to
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: their two best too of their best defenseman and in
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: uh no adopts and then Ryan pull like and we
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: don't know how long how long they're going to be out,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: so they had to uh fortify the defense. Now the
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Island's power play, we know is not good. Tony D'Angelo
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: was immediately put on the power play. Yes, we know
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: he has his issues. We know, uh uh he has
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: a tough time controlling his emotions on the ice, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: but when you're desperate, but you know, he's a talented guy.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: And everybody says, Okay, he might be a little hard
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: to handle, but you can't you can't each talent, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: he's a talented guy. He's a good skater, he's got
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: a good shot from the point on the power play,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: he's a good punk handler, all things that the Islanders need.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: So he's only signed for the rest of the year,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: so it's not a long term commitment. If he goes
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: off and does something dope be on the ice, they
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: can cut him. Yeah, so it's really not much of
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: a risk at the stage of the season, and the
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Islands were desperate.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: By the way. Gabby and I will be at the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: UBS Arena for the February twenty fifth Rangers Islanders. If
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you want to come by and take a trip to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Long Island, we'll be there. Louis, I would love to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: see you there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't gone. I haven't gone out yet this
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: year to Ubs, which is on me. But yeah, I
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: think that's only the second that's will be only the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: second time that they've played the Islanders in the Ranges.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: They played really early at the Garden and so but
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: those games are always those games are always fun.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And they might be competitive, even more competitive because they're
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: both buying for that last playoffs. But I'm looking at
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the standings here and I mean, you know, Rangers fifty
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: two as was fifty one, and yet I'm just not
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: used to seeing the Rangers in twelve in the conference.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just seeing them in sixth seventh, you know, a
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: little higher than that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: And I just spoke there's are four points out of
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: the last playoff spot. I thought there were two, but
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: they're four points out of the last playoff spot. They
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: have a game in hand on a couple of teams,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: including the Rangers the Canadians. They have three games and
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: heads on the Flyers.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So but how important is going to be momentum? I mean,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: obviously heading to this Four Nations tournament, I see it's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: going to be at the Boston at TV Garden, by
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the way, they're going to play call games up there.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: They'll be at the Belt Center in Montreal for it too.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But to you and in general with hockey, momentum always
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: seems to be important. So where do you want these
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: teams to line up if they're going to make a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: playoff run after this Nation Should they be in that
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: nine tense with a good chance to get eight to seven?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You know the type of thing?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the thing is you want to finish now.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: A week from Saturday is the last day of play
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: before the the two week break. The last games are
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: February ninth, and then they come back on February twenty second.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: You want any team in the NHL wants to finish
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: strong before they go on this two week break, because
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: you don't know when you come back. Are you going
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: to come back flying out of the shoot is going
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: to take you a game or two to get back,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: And in the case of the Rangers and the Islanders,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: you can't afford to have a two or three games
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: slow start when you come back. That could that could
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: kill you. But like you, I in shocked that the
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Rangers aren't aren't you know, in the first, second or
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: third spot in the Atlantic, in the Eastern Conference, in
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: the Metropolitan Division. The shocking the shocking result of this
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: NHL season so far, and they have done a fantastic job.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: The Capitals being thirty four, eleven and five. I mean,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I thought there was a chance they would not make
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and they have a seven point lead over
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Carolina and a nine point lead over the Devils, who
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: who I think The Devils have played the most games
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: in the league. The Devils only have twenty nine games left,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: they think so, so we'll see but the Capitals Spencer
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Carbary has done a fantastic job as their coach, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: if Ovechkin had missed those sixteen games, he would have
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: been really close to that record. He's twenty goals away.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: He probably would have been ten goals away to the
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: all time scoring record of eight ninety four by it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Well, that's the other storyline, because you know, Ovechkin was
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: really shut down, maybe because of injury last year as well.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: But he's come back and twenty twenty five, the whole
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: calendar year is gonna be about whether he can make
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that even in twenty five. I mean, there's a real
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: possibility could do it next year now and.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Uh, he got off to such a slow start, like
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: you said last year, and you start to think at
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: his age, is he's slowing down? And then he had
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the great second half of the year. He got off
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: to a great start and then broke his leg, but
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: came back after sixteen games and scored right away. It's
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: gonna be tight for him to break the record, I
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: think before the end of this regular season, but he'll
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: do it early in twenty five. Twenty six for sure,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: really an unbreakable Many people thought the eight ninety four
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: was an unbreakable record, and he's gonna go a way
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: past it. He's gonna go into the into the nine hundreds.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, lou Now, now let's talk about another
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: team that is really bringing New York hope. Because every
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: night now they're in a five game win streak every night.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It is kind of electric to watch Brunts and kat
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Hart all teaming up and being that team together. The
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Knicks are given New Yorkers hope, aren't they. I just
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: feel like every night's a hopeful win. And because they're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: stringing these streaks together, they had one earlier in this season. Hey,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they could be back up at the top of the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: conference again, right, Louis, Well.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: They're up there there now. And I don't think you
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: can get a handle on how these teams this is
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: for the league, this is not just for the Knicks,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: on how these teams are going to perform in the
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: playoffs by looking at the regular season. It's really hard
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: in the NBA that of twenty twenty four to twenty
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: five and the last couple of years of getting a
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: handle on how teams are going to perform in the playoffs.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Cleveland is thirty seven and none, you know, wherever the
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: heck they are. I don't know how they're going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: perform in a playoffs. Are they just taking care of
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Are they more focused on the regular season that most
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: NBA teams don't really care about. Could be I'm not
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: saying that that it is. But the Knicks, I mean,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: obviously nixt town is tremendous. They made some tremendous acquisitions
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: last year and this year. And I still want to
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: know a reason why the Minnesota Timberwolves traded Karl Anthony
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Towns a week before training camp. That's just that's a
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: mystery to me. And there's never really been clarity on
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: why Minnesota did it. But that's neither here nor there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I would worry a little bit about the Celtics. They
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: seem to be going through the motions, and that's what
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. Are they going through the emotions now and
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: then when the playoffs be in, they're going to just
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: hit the on mutton. That's very tricky. Trying to hit
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the on off switch doesn't mean doesn't mean that you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: going to get through uh the uh uh the playoffs.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: That aren't trying to hit that on off switch and
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: thinking you can turn it on at at at any time.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Is tricky, but we'll see. Right now, the Knicks are
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: only one game behind the Celtics, and uh, I think
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: the Knicks are going to try to win it. Not
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I think the Knicks are gonna try to win a
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: division because it puts him in a better seating position
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: and the end couch Alex. There's no reason why the
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Knicks can't get to the conference final or an NBA
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: final this year. No reason.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And we said that last year too. And the other
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: difference maker is a healthy ob which we didn't have
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: in the postseason last year. Now he seems to be back.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a better overall as a team this year.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And I tell you, Kat's really taking him and Jalen
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: are off to the All Star Game, by the way,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: but him and Kat haveing been taking the bouquets. But
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I think Obi and Heart are definitely worth mentioning too.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, he's Jason Hart, a guy who
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: bounced from team to team the first four years of
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: his career. When the Knicks got him, I said, okay,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: spare part, okay, you know, and he's the perfect fit
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: for this team. And he's raised his game. He went
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: from a spare part to a solid, more than solid
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: NBA player, a guy who can compliment a winning team.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: And that's what he's done. I mean, the guy hustles
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: all the time. He's an undersized rebounder, A seven foot
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: guys don't rebound like this kid. He's done a fantastic jobs. Next,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: it was a great It was a great steal, a
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: great pickup for the Knicks. Does anybody miss? Does anybody
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: miss quickly?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Now? Pys nically Barrett?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, does.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Anybody miss Barrett? Now? Do they?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: When we and people were mourning that trade? Me too
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: because I wasn't sure what that would mean? And actually
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: does that many miss Randall? Right? That's the other big one?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Well, well again, I always told you that was addition
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: by subtraction Randall. Can I take you so far? They
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: don't miss Randall? They do not miss Randall?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I mean quite a different And you know what cris
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to leon Rose, who knows what he's doing, even if
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: may not look like because I didn't get to the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: final last year, he knows what he's doing every year.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's been well.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Again and again, let's let's let's cool od Jets. Remember
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: he also signed Kemba Walker and uh Eric Fournier and
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: those were two those two guys were shot when they
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: signed him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: So they say Fournier, what a what a disgraced exit
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: from New York that was, because I mean, that.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Was just a bad signing by the Knicks. You know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: it's nothing that the kid did.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It was rough, but it was not a pretty divorce either.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: But you know, now there are better days and better
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: wins and go far. Because of what happened last year
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and the fact they lost in seven to Indiana, not
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: only the players but New Yorkers are like, all right,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: let's get over that hump this year, let's get to
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the conference final and more. I mean a lot of
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: people are probably walking to that garden thinking Larry O'Brien trophy, right,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I mean you want I would say that they have
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: they have a chance. It all depends on on the
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: uh the bracket. It really does, and you know what,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: we'll we'll we'll see what happens. But they had there
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: were deam of stars.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The one topic I really want to get your take
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: on is what is happening in the NBA that Adam
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Silver wants to make this The commissioner wants to make
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it ten minute quarters. I mean, there are historical records
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that could never be broken. Now I'm hearing if they
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: go to you know, forty minutes instead of forty eight
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: as is the game two hours and fifteen minutes average,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: that's incredible. Or ESPN research telling us that last night
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and right what's the difference, what would be the difference?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: What's the reason because all the stars would play, there'd
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: be no reason to sit somebody? Is that maybe?
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Why? Well, a couple of things. And you know, as
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: as you pointed out, last night games right now for
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: this year two hours and sixteen minutes, and ESPN research
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: over the last fifteen years says two hours and fifteen minutes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: The game is short as it is, it's by far
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: the shortest time of any game played in the NFL,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: the NHL, or or Major League Baseball. It's a bad
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: idea short in the game. Why so it fits into
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: the two hour television window. Alex, that's that's that's not
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: going to do it. And if he said this might help,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Adam Silver said, this might help us load management horse.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: You know why players are still going to take off
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be all full and management just because you
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: take eight minutes off a game, which I believe is
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: like the equivalent of fifteen full games if you go
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: if you play forty eight minutes. But again, players are
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: still going to take off. There's gonna be load management anyway.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: They start doing these gimmicks just like Major League Baseball did,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: and we're not gonna go through the Major League Baseball
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: gimmicks again. But this is just another gimmick? Is it?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: A gimmick?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Right now? Is allowing billions of dollars to be spending
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to one player millions of dollars spending in one player.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: That's the gimmick the MLB is struggling with right now.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Because we'll get to that before we end the show today,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, because there's a lot about that too.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: But any NBA has this in season tournament, who cares?
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I don't who wanted this year? Milwaukee, right Milwaukee, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: could barely remember the They have this playing tournament to
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: get a tenth place team and that doesn't deserve to
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: even smell the playoffs, But they do it so they
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: can sell at to one of these net to one
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: of these networks or one of these streaming companies, and Alex,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest with you, the regular season is unwatchable.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: It's unwatchable, it really is.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, well you kind of know every
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: night it's going to be one hundred plus points per team.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of predictable too, how much it's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be and all that other stuff we'll have to see.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And then I'm sure the other thing about this league
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: is there are concerns out there and maybe one of
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: they started putting in a four point line that was exaggeration,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: but they're worried about other gimmicks that could becoming the NBA.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Are you worried about that?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Well, I saw that four point line story. If that happens,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I may never watch here. Talking to a guy who
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: spent almost three decades in the NBA and this is
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: a four point line makes me sick. That's terrible. It's unwatchable.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: That's that's as bad as the gold Thank god that
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Goldeneck bat got knocked down right away four point I
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: saw that too, I mean, thank god it got knocked down.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: And then the other idea they were floating was that
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: if a guy gets held on the three they get
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to shoot two free throw What is that? That doesn't
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: make sense to me either. I don't I don't get that.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: No, like I said, they're putting these dopey gimmicks in there,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: and uh, I don't know then. And I'm going to
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: tell you one thing. Uh you know, you talk about
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Kansas City getting calls and I'm just gonna make this
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: prediction here and at the end of January, the end
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: the NBA now needs. For years, they didn't need New
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: York anymore, but I think now they do. So any
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: close call in the playoffs, I'm gonna say this right now,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: at the end of January, the Knicks are getting them.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, if there's a close call, the Knicks
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: will be getting them in the playoffs. The NBA, the
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: NBA needs the Knicks right now to go far because
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: the TV ratings are are have fallen down and they
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: need I do believe that could be wrong, And I'm
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: not saying that the games are fixed. They are not fixed,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: but benefit the doubt like the Chiefs get benefit of
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: the doubt. Don't be surprised. I could be wrong.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: There were calls last year that people were like, well,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: how come the Knicks that were able to get that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: extra shot off or something right, and.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: That one game against Philly, you know that they blew it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: But so again, I'm just throwing it out there. I'm
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: not a conspiracy theorist as far as saying games are fixed.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: They're not, but you know they're benefited. Doubt the either
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: way call, just like people think the Chiefs are getting
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the either way call. I have a feeling, and I
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: could be wrong, that might be going the next way.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: This playoff season, we'll see if the Knicks are playing
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: in Orlando Magic in the first round, and the Magic,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: who have a pretty good team, they've been really beat
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: up the share with injury, they have a chance to
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: beat them in the sixth game or seventh game, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: here's a close call. I don't think the Magic are
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: getting the call. That's all. That's all I'm saying.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, while we're on the NBA topic, the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: other thing about Coast to Coast here is the complete
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: implosion of what seems to be the Lakers. I don't
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: know what's going on over there, but they're not the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: franchise they once were. You know, not only just the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: winning part, but just the fabric of the team. It
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be there. Am I missing something little?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Well? I mean at twenty six or nineteen, I don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: know if anybody thought they would be much better than that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: But now Anthony Davis has a pulled, pulled stomach muscle
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: or something might be out for a week. As great
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: as Lebron still is, I don't know if the chemistry
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: is there. He got Lebron, you got Anthony Davis, and
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: you would say, all right, that should be enough to
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: put you within sniffing distance of the Oklahoma City Thunder
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: and where they're nowhere near them. And let me say
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: one thing. Two years ago, the Houston Rockets won fifteen
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: games and won sixty seven and o'doka became the head coach.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: He had he left in disgrace in Boston after he
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: were suspended for some indiscretions with with a sexual situation.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Other teams didn't want to sign them. The Nets, we're
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: going to sign him, and then backed off at the
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: eleventh hour. He went to Houston. He did a great
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: job last year, and this year the Rockets, the young
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Rockets are thirty two and fourteen, and we don't know
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: a lot of their Stars. We don't know a lot
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  Speaker 4: of their contributing plays. They are thirty two and fourteen.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: They have the second seat in the in the Western Conference.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: He's a great coach. Yeah, I'm not gonna sit here
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: and judge him Morley, that's for him. But the only
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: thing I know, he's a great he's a great basketball
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  Speaker 4: coach and he's done a great job with them. And
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: the Nets should have hired them after that, but they
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: got gun shy. So but the Nets have a fine
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: coach and Geordian I remember.
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  Speaker 1: How disastrous that was too, because it was like they
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: were gonna have them and they didn't have them. It's
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: just a lot with the Nets, and the Nets are
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: another team. I know that you work with them, you
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: follow them, and you're very frustrated with them. But we
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: can get that through another day.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's all about Cooper Flag, my friend, and they're
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: doing a very good job of making sure that they
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: get into that top three or top four. I mean,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: that's a problem with the NBA tanking and it's so rampant,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: and it's they don't even try to hide it.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: But that's why I wonder if he's making it so
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: that you can't sit any guys. You could basically pay
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: your five guys. There's no reason to sit somebody in
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a forty minute game. He might think, well maybe all
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that guys.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: You know, they they went there was tanking when I
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: was in the league, so they went to the lottery,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: and now there's tanking to get in the lottery. So
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know the answer is.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: The other two storylines is that it seems like almost
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: every week you're seeing these possible deals falling through, which
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: also includes the honest I mean, I don't know why
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the Bucks want to moving, but it seems like they
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: have shopped him around a little bit. And then the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Butler story is very interesting because this guy keeps down,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: showing up, keeps getting suspended, and the heater in the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: midst of a playoff race. I mean, how bad does
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this look for Miami.
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  Speaker 4: It's just I mean, it just goes to show you
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Butler is everything what's wrong about the NBA. And we've
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: seen it. We saw we've seen it with every team
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: that in the league. The players can run the league
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: and the only thing is a franchise that is coached
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: by Eric Spolstra and is run by Hall of Fame
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: executive and pat Riley. They aren't going to take no crap.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: And he's given them more than one chance to get
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: back in the And this guy's been suspended for the
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: third time this year. I don't think he'll play for
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: the Miami Heat anymore. But the thing is the guy
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: will get traded, He'll go somewhere else. These guys, these
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: guys don't change. It's said, it's said, there really is.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, here's Jimmy Bulterer, who was an okay Big
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: East player, not a star in any way, shape or
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: for him, and he made himself into a superstar. He's
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: made a lot of money. And I don't know. I
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: don't know what these guys wanted. They make more money
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: than anybody in in professional sports. I don't get it, Alex,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: I really don't. It's it's it's a turnoff. It's an
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: absolute turnoff.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: You know what else is a turnoff. And we'll get
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to more of the NBA because I also see the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Balls have been trying to ship people out. I mean,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: this trade headline might be wild. We'll have to see
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: how that goes. But I want to go another turnoff,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: and that is the fact that Alonzo's letting Scott Boris
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: dictate how he handles this Met situation, and Peter Alonso,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to be quite frank, has not handled this well at all.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Can I say the term piss poor? It's been that bad,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: And I think it's just because Boris is in the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: guy's head, isn't he.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Well, you are one right, and this is not going
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: to turn out well in my opinion. I hope I'm wrong.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: For Peter Alonso, the Mets will be fine. He should
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: have signed that Met deal a couple of years ago,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: and he made a mistake when the Mets well from
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Met twenty three million dollars a year for seven years,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: and then he fired his agent who got him that deal.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: He fired his agent and he hired Boris, who thinks
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: he runs major league baseball. And unfortunately Boris might be right,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: he might run major league baseball in many ways. But
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's re signing with the Mets. The
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: only way he resigned with the Mets. I think all
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: of his other options are not are not available if
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: he signs somewhere else, if he signs with the Detroit Tigers,
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: which hasn't I haven't seen it. Anyone just throwing that
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: out there or or the Toronto Blue Jays. He's gonna
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: be miserable. He's gonna be miserable, Alex. I mean, how
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: many bedrooms or bathrooms do you need? You can buy
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: the same You could buy the same bedroom house with
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: seven bathrooms or six bathrooms and seven bedrooms making twenty
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: three million dollars a year for the next five years,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: like the same as if you're making thirty five million dollars.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I mean, you know you can
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: only sleep in one bed at a time. You know,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: It's it's ridiculous. He's gonna be miserable, Alex. I'm telling
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: you he's gonna go somewhere. He's gonna be miserable.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: But I was just gonna say, you know, Boris is
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the same guy that's responsible before really screwing up the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: year of I know, I kind of rebound Blake Snell
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and Jordan Montgomery starting late. Yeah. I mean, that's really
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: all you need to know about Scott Boris, the.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Guy Martinez too last year.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: He has no care for the teams. There's no statesmanship
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: here with Scott Borris. It's just his way the highway,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and that's going to ruin baseball if they really let
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: him take control of the league. And then you know,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: there's theories out there that there's gonna be a union dispute,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and I kind of agree with that idea.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Luis that Yeah, no, I hear you. I mean, they
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: gotta take care of his nonsense because everybody talks about
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Stephen Cohen. Stephen Cohen might be the richest single honer
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: in baseball, but the Dodgers conglomerate is worth over three
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: hundred billion dollars and what the Dodgers are doing in
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: baseball is terrible. It's terrible.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: By the way, did you know Magic Johnson has stake
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: in the Commanders as well? I mean, this guy is everywhere.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: I had no idea Magic is quite the entrepreneur. I
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: did not, Actually, I didn't know that until I saw
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: it the other day about Magic and the Commanders. Yeah.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And then we had how Simon and Ay I guess
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: saying and I love the Simon Andy family saying well,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: we don't know the Dodgers year is going to turn out,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: almost saying, you know, we can't really compete with them.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: I guess, so that that is the most that is
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: hilarious for him to say that they are the ones
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: who they are the ones who started this said fifty
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: years ago. So I'm not feeling sorry for al Steinbrenner
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: that first of all, the Yankees hat will have no
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: competition in the American League. As I said to you
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, the American League right now,
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: at the end of January, we look at it. The
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: American League stinks and the playoff series. Yes, should they
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: breeze through the regular season. They should breeze through the
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: regular season.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: But but I some think they need another bat. I mean,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get through with just Judgings Tinton.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: They need that other bat there. I mean, because it's
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: is gonna.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Be themand's going to be on the team. Is he
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: gonna make the team? I don't know. I mean, are
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: you gonna sign Bregman? They did? You know they have?
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: They did? They? Did you know? They they did sign Bellinger?
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Cordion Bellinger should be a bat for them. He should be,
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: especially with that short porch. He's a great athlete. I mean,
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: I can't see the Yankees having any difficulties unless they
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: have injuries. But I love the fact they have a
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: great pitching staff.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: We are different than the average fan, because the average fan,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: especially on the Mets side, went to Amazing Day at
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: City Field last week and started yelling at Steve Cohen
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to sign Alonzo. And here you and I Isa saying
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: it's not a Cohen's fault, it's really Borius and Alonzo's fault.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, no one's thinking about.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: It that way.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: If you're a fan right now.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Well, fans are emotional. Well, well, let's face it, we're
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: all emotional, even us as fans, you know, even though
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: we look at it through a different lens, But was
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: fans are emotional. We want our you know, we want
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: to see our our our our teams be successful. We
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: want to see players who have been successful with the
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: team and contribute to team success stay with the team.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: And unfortunately, in modern sports that's not the way anymore.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: So we'll see exactly we will and uh, louis always
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: a pleasure. Anything else you want to do a Termino's
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: take on this week before we wrap up today?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: No, not not really, Like I said, everything, Once we
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: get past the super Bowl, the winter sports seasons will
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: be in high gear. Spring training will be here. Uh
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: college basketball tournament will be here. Which is obviously the
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: best part of the college basketball season, and you know
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: that's what we have to look forward to. But right now,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: it's all about h February ninth, six point thirty, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Can can Chiefs make it three straight Super Bowl victories
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: in a row? And we'll talk about that next week,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I guess we should mention our thoughts in
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: prayers with families because there were indeed sports figures, in fact,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: figure skaters on that plane.
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: I mean, horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy, community a horrible tragedy,
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: and you know that is something you can't even get
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: you get your head around.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: It's just uh, it's it's it's just terrible. And we
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: pray for we pray for everyone who are going through
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: these stuff times now, and it's just terrible.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Well, in that note, Lou Termino's take back next week
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: with a odd video presentation for the Super Bowl preview.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: We got to do that, right, Louis, And a little
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: bit forward to it all right, Termino's take for the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: week of January twenty seven. Thanks for joining me, Lou,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alex