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The NBA isn't Messing Around · Sports Exchange

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Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of Other Sports Exchange. My
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name is Scott Mortar rout the Motor City Madmouth Night's crew. Today you're including
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a new faith out here. But that said, this will be our last
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broadcast in our respective studios. Next week JB Ellis, myself, George Candy
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will take it to Detroit for the NFL Draft. Looking forward to that experience.
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So we're gonna have a great crew there and we'll be roaming around the
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grounds of my hometown and look, can you get an awful lot accomplished.
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But that said, let me talk about the crew. I'll go over the
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topics and we'll get ready to roll. All right, Candy, welcome to
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the Sports Exchange. Thanks Scott, glad to be here. And our newest
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member of tonight is Joshua door Burstein. Here's a guy that's active in the
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chat. Now he gets to take himself active, okay, inside the broadcast
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and this will be a good experience for Josh. I have a feeling on
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our FaceTime call tomorrow he will never let me hear the end of it.
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Salute to you as well, Josh, Welcome to broadcast. Thank you very
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much. Scott, happy to be here. You're welcome, George ike Korn,
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we know the show. Good to be on with all you guys.
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Looking forward to the show and laugh or not leaves. Jbls the guy who's
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making strides in the writing department, proud of the progress he's made in the
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last couple of weeks. It's up. JB. Welcome back, thank you,
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thank you. What's going on? Guess us? We have a show,
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we have a lot in the chat room. We have some big,
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big topics and we're gonna get to them. But you know what, Candy,
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let's start off in the chat room because we're never going to catch up.
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So when we'll start early and you get to read them. I Corn
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Rocket Scientist, what's going on? When is it going to start? It
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started? Baby, Joshua, Okay, looking forward to the show tonight.
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Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go to bed unlist the show is lit. Mister
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Doris said, it's going to be lyddy, It's going to be hey,
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gorgeous. How are you doing? What's going on too? Toot from c
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what's going on? Will? And are you at the pool tonight? I
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can only wish I have didn't seen one of them in a while. Just
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keep going out there, all right, we'll get to them. We have
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a really really, really strong show tonight with some incredible breaking news that occur
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today. But that said, let me go ahead and get to it,
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all right. Big news of the day and sports is John Tay Porter,
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the Toronto Raptors and the Center, has received a lifetime ban from the NBA
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for discussing confidential info to betters. No no, no, JB take it
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from there. Not much to talk about with this. It's pretty simple.
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You have to have integrity. It's within the rules of the game. It's
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part of the collective Barty or emit and the rules, the by laws.
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Right, it's you know, dead issue. Bye bye, John Tay,
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Good luck wherever you go. You're not gonna play the NBA anymore. Good
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luck trying to play basketball. McDonald's Burger King, you know, RW Wash
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Utility Company, not gonna make the kind of money it didn't lead minimum,
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So good luck. You ruined something good. Hopefully everyone else learns from the
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stupidity of that. Overseas, maybe I don't know, who knows, They
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probably can't. Who knows the kind of better they have over there? All
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right, Candy. We've talked about betting before on the show. Why people
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think they can still get away with it and they're not gonna get punished is
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beyond me. So Adam Silver delivered the league's most severe punishment. Bye bye,
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You're gone, cardinalson, You're no longer gonna play in the NBA.
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Okay, Joshua, I'm sure he's not the last one that's going to be
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doing this. He's just one of the ones that got caught. The only
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thing I wish is he was feeding me some of that information so I can
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finally win some bets. Oh you like that, Candy? Look at this
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one. Candy is on. You always have a great show. All right,
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Well that's good. I'm glad she's a drawer. Oh look at see
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a real big man like skittles or having ms today. I don't know your
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mouth and laugh low josh is on you. Yeah. I kind of wondered
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about it too when he actually asked me if you had rooms. So yeah,
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we we always make room if we can. All right. That See,
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you're not the only one that loves Candy, So let's see, all
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right, good stuff, all right, George, Betting is a no no
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I know, because you're a detroitler, you're going to bring up Alex Carra.
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I know you will, but bear in mind he didn't last His suspension
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won't be nearly as long as what his reporters getting. Yeah. Well,
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yeah, this stuff's gone back for years and years, as we know Alex
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Karis and Pete Rose of course, and you know, this investigation started way
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back last March, so this has been a year and a month. So
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they did all the due diligence the league dead and obviously found out that this
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was very, very bad. And it's ironic that you know Silver the commissioner.
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I read where he was the first major US Sports league commissioner to advocate
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for legalizing and regulating sports betting that came into twenty fourteen, ten years ago,
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op ed in the New York Times. Well, this didn't help this
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guy at all. So you're you're out of the game. And the Toronto
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Raptor has supported this action, so herbal way feud end your career, buddy.
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But like like you said, JB, they're all aware of It's in
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the collective bargaining agreement and they know the rules. Yeah. The only thing
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I'll add to the whole thing is Pete Rose obviously found out the hard way.
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Now the lifetime ban, I think it's very easy to say that John
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te Porter is going to suffer the same bait, and I'll piggyback off of
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Joe. Okay, reality is, try to find a job playing in the
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NBA, let alone a high paying job, good luck. I don't know
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how they'll treach overseas, Mexico wherever. But me, how can some of
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these players to me not understand where they're at. I mean, this is
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a great job if you can get it, and how many people in the
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G League and college try to get it only for a guy like John ta
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Porter to go ahead and blow it all to me. We've seen a lot
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of NBA stories where like John Morant getting into trouble with his guns. But
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you know he got rehabs, so we think. But as far as Porter,
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there's no rehabbing. This is a bad habit. He needs to get
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help, all right, Wait, Scott, I want to I want to
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add one more thing. He placed thirteen bets, ranged from fifteen dollars to
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twenty two thousand. His net winnings were twenty one thousand, nine hundred and
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sixty five. Was it worth it? NBA salary is what twenty one thousand
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nine to sixty five is less than even Caitlin Clark is going to make.
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And the WNBA and her rookie deal. Was it really worth it? Well,
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it's pretty obvious it wasn't because he's done. All right, So here's
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an interesting NFL topic that I really came to my attention. It was worth
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putting on here, just so you know. We'll have all kinds of NFL
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Draft coverage in Detroit beginning next week. As I mentioned before, Joe Ellis
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and I will be at Radio Row, Candy Ebling will be with Jeremy Bulwrick,
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and George I Corn will be representing the Detroit Monitors, so you know,
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and we'll we'll have other people that will bring along as well. But
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that's how the lineup is currently set up right now, All right, let's
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go to football. According to Matthew Washington, there's a report that New England
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft wanted the Atlanta Falcons owner I rather warned the Atlanta Falcons
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owner Arthur Blank not to trust Bill Belichick. Well, so I guess we
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know why Belichick didn't get the job. But I'm not going to add I
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want, I don't want anybody answer that question. So I'm going to start
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off with George, Okay, do you think Bill Belichick gets another job in
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the NFL after Robert Kraft? Amid? Okay, all these Super Bowls threw
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him under the bus because if there was ever a time he could have gotten
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a job, it would have been this. And the older he gets,
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I think the more difficult to me it will be to get one. So
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George, what do you think is Belichick ever going to work again as a
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coach. I think it's going to be difficult. Scott, this was really
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really headline having news today if indeed it's true, because it forces Belichick into
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a tough situation because if he did not have the support of his own owner,
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and then furthermore, the owner went to a potentially new team in Atlanta
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and to warn them so to speak. This is major stuff. Man.
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We've heard over the years the difference is going on between Tom Brady of course
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in Bill Belichick, but this stuff is even worse if this is true.
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So yeah, I mean, you know, he's in his seventies, so
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he didn't get a job. This year. I don't think he should worry
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about it, you know, and I think he could still do television commentary.
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But it all depends. I mean, what kind of charges are coming,
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if any accusations. I mean, but yeah, I think it's going
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to really hurt his chances. I really do. All right, Josh,
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what are your thoughts about this? Not really my area of expertise. But
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he's old. I say he's done. Let him retire. Maybe he can
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come on the Sports Exchange in his next career. Yeah, don't hold your
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breath. Okay, but if he's done, it's good for Don Shuler anyways,
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because then his all time winning record is intact candy. So I think
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what'll be interesting is Bill Belichick is co hosting the Pat McAfee show Draft Spectacular
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on April twenty fifth, so he'll be able to put his take on all
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of this. Do I think he'll coach again as a head coach. Most
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of the NFL is heading towards younger coaches. I don't know that they're looking
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for a seventy two year old coach. I'm not saying that he couldn't coach.
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He could, but I just don't see it happening like he wants it,
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because, let's face it, Bill Belichick, he's coached for so many
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years that he wants more than just coaching. He wants to be a GM
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as well. So he wants to have more control. And I don't think
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there's any team that's going to give him all of that. Yeah, a
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great point, King, I was just about to get that nobody's giving him
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control. But I'm going to turn over to Hill. Listen, there's a
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time to walk away and have some dignity. You know, if you keep
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getting interview request or being talked about never getting a job, doesn't that look
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a million times worse? You know, sometimes you're just gonna call it a
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career. You know, if you call it a career, he had a
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great one, one of the best coaches in the NFL history. Or he's
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gonna worry about these owners that could care less, like the guy in Jacksonville
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Trolly wants to make money, doesn't want to put a winning, winning team
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on the field. The order in Atlanta who doesn't know how to hire the
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front office so that they can put together a winning program when they have great
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players on the roster already. You know, don't stress it He's made plenty
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of money. Go coach in college, built a team. I'm sure college
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as would take him, and what a great recruiting pitch. I'm Bell Belichick
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with all my Super Bowl rings. I coached the greatest quarterback of all time.
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You know, I think how much money he can make from the boosters
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if he went to college and he could do the same thing he did on
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Sundays except on Saturday, that he can win a national championship and say,
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you know, you have the greatest coach that ever lived. How many guys
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have done that? Great point, So I'll just tell you this, Joe,
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I'm going to add to that. Okay, not only do I think
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he's an ideal fit for college, here's the biggest thing that doomed him.
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Anytime you force Tom Brady out like he did, that sealed his fate if
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you're going to arguably the greatest quarterback. The rings proof itself and the thing
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that makes Tom Brady one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time? Though?
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Was it not only his quarterback play? How about his unselfish nature of taking
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pay cuts to go out there and surround the team with better talent. I
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don't think the deck gets looked at enough. But you got Belichick's you know,
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I understand his moves for trying to run people out a little bit beforehand.
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But then there became that open ended debate, okay, where who would
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win a championship first, Belichick or Brady. Well, we saw how quickly
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the New England Patriots fortune dwindled, right, okay, and then we saw
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how quickly the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won it all. And once Craft saw that
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his son Tom Brady was let out the door prematurely, don't think in a
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million years that that didn't fester into my eye. Had had enough with the
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bell. You let this guy go. And you know, I'll tell you
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what. Candy's right. All you guys are right, Okay, nobody's given
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him control anymore. Either you're gonna coach or you're not going to coach.
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Okay, and that's it, Joe again. I'll go back to your point.
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College, Okay, might be the way to go. You know,
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Like, let me tell you Dean Smith. You know how he used to
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go out there and recruit. One of his recruiting pitches was if you come
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to play at North Carolina. And yes, the North Carolina Tar heels.
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I guarantee you that we'll go ahead play a game in your hometown. Now
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who, I'll tell you who would turn that down? If you want to
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play for a Marquee program, getting the pros right where Dean Smith is telling
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you we'll play a game in your hometown. I'm gonna play for me.
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I think it's pretty good, don't you. You know? I mean,
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I'm just recruiting. You have to do, Joe, said Bill Belichick.
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Yeah, I'm Bill Belichick. Right, Okay, you know I could coach
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at college. I'll get you, bro. He's right, Dean Smith.
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They all have different recruiting pitches. All right, Well, you know what,
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Let's talk a little bit of golf. Okay, and here's what we're
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gonna What's I want to ask everybody a question. What's more impressive Tiger Woods
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becoming the first player to make twenty four consecutive cuts at the Masters, or
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Scottie Scheffler winning last weekend tournament. I'm gonna start off with Josh Finely Scotty
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Scheffler winning. He's on a great run right now. He's on a Tiger
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woodsleg run and he's unstoppable. It's gonna be he's got a hard guy to
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beat. He just took it away on the back nine on Sunday and it's
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just unbelievable to watch him play right now, Okay, Joe, listen,
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Scotty Scheffler is in the league of his own right now. Uh. You
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know, he ran away with the lead Sunday when players crumble, you know,
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the people, the players that behind him just couldn't couldn't keep up.
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They had chances. They were down two strokes with eight holes left. Before
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you know it, it was four or five strokes. Guy, guys on
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fire, and you know, great win, Candy, You know, I
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I get your point, you guys, that Scheffler like lights out, But
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didn't we expect that, Like I don't know that we expect Tiger Woods to
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keep making all of these and being in there. He has had such a
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long career, and granted, golf is a game you can play a lot
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longer, but I don't know. I almost think Woods because just because of
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the longevity, You know, we expect this out of Scottie Shuffler now and
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he's on top of his game, don't get me wrong, But is it
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a better feeder accomplishment? I don't know, I guess I'm gonna give it
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to Woods because he's been through so much. I mean, look at he
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came back from that car accident and everything like that. He resurrected his career
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back. I gotta give him a lot of credit. You know what,
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For me, it's a slam dun Tiger Woods. I mean, first of
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all, when he played at the Masses for the first time, he literally
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rant overlapped the field, is what he did. He blew them away that
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they had to redesign that course because of Tiger Woods. But to be able
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to make twenty four consecutive cuts at the Masters, really, I mean that,
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that to me is as far as I'm concerned. And okay, let's
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put that other comment up. Robert Ordell, Tiger Wood says the best video
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game. Enough said, here you go, Robert, thanks for validating my
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point. Tiger Woods being able to do twenty four secondive Masters to me is
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easy. I understand, it's got the Scheffler is a heck of a player,
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and he had a great weekend, but Tiger Woods. But that's why
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I presented it this way. I gave everybody in either or George, that's
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a tough one. For me, but I'm gonna go with Woods also,
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like you guys were saying, what he's battled back from health wise, a
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terrible auto accident and try to salvage his game and obviously on the one of
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the top stages in the world augustin national command. And that's an incredible streak
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that he has going. I know he ended terrible with the last especially in
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the last couple of rounds were really bad, but he took it all like
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a man. He played the four rounds, made the cut and Scottie,
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Yeah, you've got a great career, hea are you have no question about
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it. We're not denying that. But what Woods has done in totality,
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I'm gonna I'm gonna say Woods on this one too. All right, Well,
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you know what, I like this quote because it's exactly where we're going.
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Let's get to the hockey hockey topics. Can do you want to add
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anything to it? Nope, I'm good, I'm good, all right,
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A little bit. Absolutely. I think it was impressive Tiger making the cut.
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He always makes the cut out Augusta though he hasn't missed a cut in
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twenty four years there. But nothing tops be winning a green jacket. You
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can't beat that. And Tiger once he did make the cut, he ended
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up in last, but I think it was last place after making the cut,
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which was unfortunate. I always root for Tiger. I'm a big Tiger
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fan, but winning a green jacket, I don't think anything. Trump said,
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Oh, maybe not, but don't worry. He's won his fair share
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room anyway. So what's the difference. The only difference between Tiger Woods and
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Scottie Scheffler. His golf is better when Tiger Woods is playing four rounds instead
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of two. And if you don't believe me, okay, now that you're
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officially a part of the media, Josh, look at the TV ratings.
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Okay, you're right about that. And I do think Tiger has it in
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him to maybe win one more unfortunately, I hope, so I think it
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might happen. Got a root for the guy, I mean, he's a
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Capricorn like I am. I think he's December thirtieth or thirty first. I
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think December thirtieth, and I'm December twenty ninth. Got a root for my
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fellow capricorn? My god, seriously, all right, well, my popular
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demand, I said, Okay, we're gonna go out there. Oh I
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like what. I put that comment back up. Okay, kay, I
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like the last one. Of course, the old people would say, would
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yet, Donna Wright, rocket scientists, oldies would say would Oh I don't
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know. Jb Ellis, Are you an old people? Did you say?
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Scheffler said, all right, well not all old people say would. Okay,
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I'm not an old person. I don't by it to the old thing.
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Old is not me, Oh it is. Yeah. I'll find that
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out next week when you're paired up with me on Radio Row. We're gonna
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have a good time ls hanging their kids. There's potential for you. So
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all right, let's get to the hockey topics. I know the NHL.
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Unfortunately for the Red Wings their season is over, but they gave it a
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heck of a run. But we're not talking about the Detroit red Wings tonight.
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We're talking about the Arizona Coyotes are moving to Salt Lake City. Let
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me tell you, I knew the Coyotes were a disaster when they went to
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Arizona, that they should have played in the Arizona Memorial Coliseum. Instead,
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they went to America West Arena, where you know, one side of the
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hockey nets where you couldn't even see him. And then I had an issue
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with their PR guy, who didn't like the way I criticized their venues.
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And it's safe to say I never covered anymore Iotes games and now twenty five
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years later, they're done. So with that said, Okay, mister hockey,
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well at not gordyhow but we got to get Joshua Door his deal year
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and he likes to talk about hockey. He's on the right show to do
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it, all right, So let's talk about the Arizona Coyotes. But thoughts
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about the move. It was way ever due. That franchise is a pretty
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is an embarrassment. The players aren't treated right. They're not treated like an
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NHL team, and it's good that they're going to go to a new state
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and get treated how an NHL team should. It's like a minor league franchise
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in the NHL, and it's time for a move. Well, I don't
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even hear that they weren't even paying their hotel bills at the end of the
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year, and they said the flights they took were junkie flights, the food
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wasn't good. They sounds like they just were not treated right. And I
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think it's a good move. Yeah. I mean again, they weren't paying
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their hotel bills. Hotels are ganging up on them. That was dysfunctional from
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the beginning. And you know the way I look at it, I saw
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it twenty five years ago. George and I actually met a guy who's one
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of their PR guy who I didn't have an issue with. And when we
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met him over because he's with Anaheim and they'll say the PR guy, right,
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remember George that he said that the guy was really a little bit too
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skit, so so he didn't I want to put the wors in this guy's
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mouth. I'm a little bit nervous for the sake of conversation that. But
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I knew all along that they should have gone to the Arizona Memorial Coliseum.
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Then when they tore down a shopping mall in Scottsdale that was the location they
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were supposed to with, that deal found a way to fall apart. Scottsdale
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doesn't trust him, Glendale kicks him out, and then they're ending up here
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inside of a forty five hundred and five thousand seed venue. Ironically, Okay,
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the owner of the Coyotes still has the rights of the American Hockey League
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franchise is what he has, so it'll either be in Tucson or Tempi.
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I think it'll be Tucson next year. So Joe, all right, Well
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that said, I gave you a lot to work with about the Coyotes.
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Okay, going to you like the move. It's a disgusting, dysfunctional team
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in Arizona to disgrace because the people of Arizona deserve NHL team and because of
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the reckless acts of their owner, they don't have one. Because I'm sure
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that they would support the teams, but they were so turned off by the
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team that you know, it's not winning or losing its location. It's about
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how they're treated, how the team is perceived, you know, and moving
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the team is a no brainer. Utah. I don't know if they'll be
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able to support a hockey team. It'll be interesting. Just so. The
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logo looks pretty good. I'm excited about it. I would like to see
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them go to Canada. Canadash have more teams, you know, Hockey United
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Canada is what it's all about. Utah, Vegas Larna Hockey doesn't really make
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much sense. But whatever, Hey, as long as you support the teams,
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who cares well. Let me just tell you this though, even when
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Gretzky couldn't say, the Coyotes over in Glendale. So when Gretzky couldn't save
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it in Glendale, then, as far as I'm concerned, Okay, nobody
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was going to save it there. That was a trade wreck waiting to happen.
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Okay, Candy the Coyotes. Wow, yeah, I mean they're talking
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about the NHL is going to buy the Coyotes from owner Alex Morlow for one
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billion dollars and then sell them to Ryan Smith for one point two billion dollars.
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Arizona's hockey operations staff would relocate to Salt Lake City with the Coyotes,
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and Marilla would have five years to secure a new arena, at which point
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he'd be granted a team of his own if he's successful. But wait a
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minute, they haven't been able to get fans and get a great stadium.
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I mean, Scott, you and I have been there, like it's just
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not I don't understand. But then again, I don't understand a lot of
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things about stadiums and why these billionaire owners don't think they need to fund stadiums,
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and they think they need all kinds of help from all the taxpayers.
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And yes, I get that. Cities get a lot of revenue and get
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fans in and so they get profits there. But these billionaires are making more
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and more money. And it's you know, Salt Lake City. Kudos to
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them for, you know, trying this and getting a NHL franchise. I
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know there's a lot of other cities that would like it, But will it
25:51
succeed there? I hope. So the only thing I'll say about it is
25:56
candy and I went to the arena in Glendale and that and I think they
26:00
call it the Heela River Arena at that time in the West Valley their fan
26:03
base, I get it wasn't on the West Valley the more where the money's
26:07
that in Scottsdale. I get that. But you know what to me that
26:11
twenty five years and you can't get it right. But they'll get five more
26:15
years and we'll find out if they're either going to be back or not.
26:19
And that's about that now. Joe, you talked about a Canadian team,
26:23
you know, and obviously the Coyotes, Joe came from Winnipeg. They were
26:27
the former Winnipeg Jets. I think there's only one city that would warrant a
26:33
Canadian team, and that would be Quebec City. They got the arena in
26:37
place. I've heard thoughts about Hamilton or some of these other places. No,
26:42
no way. Quebec City, on the other hand, I could definitely
26:45
see that as a possibility, a little bit of realignment and all of a
26:48
sudden of the Montreal Quebec rivalry intact. That said, we'll turn over to
26:52
George Well. I like the move. I think it's a very good move.
26:56
And I'll tell you why. Salt Lake City is a winner sports town.
27:00
They've hosted the Winter Olympic Games, they are seriously considering hosting and bidding
27:07
for. I should say, first you got a bid for the twenty thirty
27:11
four Winner Olympics, and by then hopefully they would have a new arena for
27:15
the Jazz and the NHL team and Salt Lake City And this is a report
27:21
based upon a number of factors, is listed as the fourth among four hundred
27:26
and three US cities in growth, jobs, wages, high tech industry.
27:33
So to me, this is a brilliant move. I mean, yeah,
27:37
they've got the Jazz in the NBA, but they love their hockey out there,
27:41
just like Denver loves their hockey, and Salt Lake City wuld be a
27:45
nice rival for the Avalanche someday. And I think it's the best that the
27:51
NHL could do under their circumstances. And like you said, Candy, I
27:56
mean, they're going to give him a chance, but how really can you
27:57
expect him to come through with this with the background of no stadium, no
28:03
stadium, no stadium, no new arena, and you're giving them another chance.
28:07
But I think that's the only thing that Gary Bettman and the owners could
28:10
do, so hats off. I'm looking forward to it. I'm glad they're
28:14
doing it. Arizona another situation, just like the Oakland A's cannot support a
28:18
team any longer. It's just too bad. But they might return someday to
28:22
the Phoenix area, but we'll see. But I'm all for this one,
28:26
Scott. Let me tell you what. Gary Bettman has done everything that he
28:29
can to keep hockey in Arizona. All right, rocket scientists, I got
28:33
some good advice for you. Okay, you want some comments up there,
28:36
give me something worth posting and then I'll do it. Okay, fair enough.
28:38
Some of the things I'm seeing right now. Obviously I'm Ray, Charles,
28:42
I'm blind. I can't see them as well as i'd like to,
28:45
Okay, and then I'll be more happy to post them. Hate the safety
28:48
in that way. But you know it is what it is. You've got
28:51
a good vibe. You wanted some hockey, all right, rocket scientists,
28:55
this is your chance forget the dog check. I want the real stuffs.
28:57
Deserve a big dog check right now, big dog check whatever it is from
29:03
the big motormile there. Come on, rocket scientists. You've been begging me
29:07
all week on these faith time calls for hockey. Get with it, man,
29:11
Come on, rocket scientists. I have it out for you tonight.
29:14
Get me some real good stuff to work. You want domin, get me
29:17
reading the put them up there. All right. That said, we'll go
29:19
on to one other topic that I want to get to. Why do teams
29:25
change coaches during the regular season? This is gonna appear. This can apply
29:30
to all sports, but the one that Joshua rocket scientists and nobody can get
29:36
figured out. They made ten, twelve to fifteen attempts. They knew,
29:40
okay, that I was going to go out there and I mentioned the Utah
29:42
one, but the one that Joe Ellis should be all too familiar with.
29:48
Okay, what part of New York are you from? Who's your favorite team,
29:51
Joe? In hockey? The Islanders? Okay, very good, great
29:56
segue, elis Okay, So the New York Islanders, High Red Wings,
30:00
Nemesis, Patrick Law, clean shaven and all by the way, and now
30:04
they're in the NHL player See, Joshua, you could give me twenty guesses
30:08
you would never have figured out I would bringing on Patrick laugh no matter how
30:12
hard you tried. Okay, you're getting it. So if that said,
30:17
Joe, I'll let you lead off the segment, okay, And that's this
30:21
first of all. Give it as a two part question, Joe, what
30:25
are your thoughts about teams changing coaches in the middle of the air. Sometimes
30:32
you have to sometimes it's just not working. There's a time to do it,
30:36
and there's a time not to. You know, most organizations don't understand
30:41
when and when what the time to do it is. But you know it's
30:45
not always done properly. Look at Milwaukee. I don't think the move that
30:48
they made mid season basketball wise was the right time. And I think that
30:52
the Bucks suffered for it. You know, it just depends on the team,
30:56
the organization, how the players respond to it. It's a tough choice.
31:02
A good question. Some talks about the Patrick wall hiring listend He's,
31:08
you know, one of the for the best goalies of all time. He
31:12
knows hockey, he's coached, he's done well. Can't or rug hired somebody
31:18
like that. I'll tell you one thing though about Patrick Waugh. Not easy
31:23
coached will, but he's been able to perform with during the most clutch situations
31:29
for the Avalanche of Montreal Canadians and so forth. So let's tell you if
31:33
Patrick Wall to me is a guy that should be in hockey. The New
31:36
York Islanders obviously thought enough of him to bring him in mid season. He's
31:41
done an unbelievable job turning that franchise around. All right, Josh, go
31:45
ahead, what's your take on it? I think it was a good move.
31:48
I don't know if it's always the right choice to change your coach in
31:51
the middle of a season, just like j B was saying with Milwaukee,
31:53
but Patrick wa was a legend. I think it was an awesome move for
31:57
them. I think they made the playoffs. They pretty sure, yea,
32:02
and yeah it was a smart move. It's good to have a guy like
32:05
that on the bench, and he's a legend in hockey, and it's good
32:07
to have him in the NHL. Okay, well they have the old second
32:10
part to this Rocket Scientist sixty nine evident he took my advice. Okay,
32:15
you want comments up there. We need questions like this question for Josh,
32:19
who are you a bigger fan of Wah or Luongo? Uh? Wah is
32:22
a bigger legend than Luongo. He was a better goal even though they are
32:25
both great goalies. But I grew up watching Luongo. I know him personally.
32:30
He's a great guy, and I'd have to go to Lulongo on that.
32:34
Okay, we'll write it with Rocket Scientists again and then everybody else can
32:37
continue. All right, from Rocket Scientists, give us your two playoff final
32:40
teams. Two playoff final teams. I'm gonna go with the Panthers and the
32:49
Dallas Stars. Okay, fair enough, Okay, all right, so all
32:53
right we went with you JB. Candy. Some talks about why chains you
32:59
know, do they change teams in the middle. Obviously, if the doc
33:01
rivers situations that worked out, But overall, sometimes it works and sometimes it
33:07
doesn't. Weig your thoughts, Candy, So I think it really depends on
33:13
the team dynamics. Is it the right move for the team at the time,
33:17
do they need do they think that the coaching isn't being effective? Are
33:22
the players not listening to the coach? Are they not following the coach?
33:29
Do they not respect him? But if you're going to make a change,
33:32
I think you need to make a change because you know that there's somebody else
33:39
out there that's going to be better for the team. Because if you're not
33:44
getting better, then why are you changing, especially mid season, because I
33:47
think that really can mess with the flow and the chemistry. But again,
33:55
if you need that shake up, it might be beneficial. Do I think
34:00
the Bucks, because we all know that I'm a big Milwaukee fan, do
34:06
I think that the Bucks made the right choice? You know, we'll never
34:10
really know because he did we didn't give grip and enough of a leash.
34:17
But the question is is what else was behind that decision? Because I don't
34:22
think it was just as easy as let's go out and get somebody else.
34:28
I have a feeling it has to do a lot with Giannis and maybe what
34:32
he wanted and or didn't want. You know, at first he did want
34:39
coach and then I'm not so sure that he did in the end, and
34:44
maybe that's why they made a change, or maybe there was a conflict with
34:49
the ownership group. You just never know. Like so, do I think
34:53
it's beneficial sometimes? Do I think Milwaukee is better this year because of it?
35:00
No? But it still remains to be seen because, let's face it,
35:04
the way we the way we how do I want to put this,
35:12
The way we determine if it was successful or not is if they win it
35:15
all, because let's face it, that's what it's all about. If you're
35:17
a Super Bowl champ, you did great. If you want to ring,
35:22
you're great. You know, if you win World Series, you're great.
35:27
If you're an NBA champion, you're great. So I guess it remains to
35:30
be seen. We'll see. If Milwaukee wins the championship, then we're all
35:34
going to say, yes, it was the right choice. But if they
35:37
don't, then we're going to say, no, it was the wrong choice.
35:40
All right, Sally, I don't know where a lot of your comments
35:43
have gone towards me, which is why I haven't put a few up,
35:45
but I will put this one up. You are right about one thing.
35:49
I do like Krusty Pepperoni pizza. And if you go to Detroit, there's
35:52
a lot of good deep dish stuff. Is Joe Ellis is going to find
35:55
out when I drag him all over the place and take them with some really
35:59
good play in Metro Detroit. So Alice is going to have to realize that
36:02
he's got probably the one person out here that could probably cart him around town
36:07
and show him some of the best places. Alice, get ready to have
36:10
Tony Islands, okay, and deep dish pizza, and I guarantee, okay,
36:16
I'll show you some really good places and if and you know, you
36:20
might even get to have a stake on a seven hundred and fifty five degree
36:24
volcano rock all right, allis will save your appetite. You're gonna have to
36:29
work it off. I don't know any shoes you have, but bring two
36:31
or three because you might burn up your sneakers before long. Who have I
36:37
left out here, George or You're well, it's always a gamble. I
36:42
mean, nobody knows. I would suspect that the general manager or the president
36:46
of operations or and or superstars are kind of like the liaison. These guys
36:54
are going behind the coaches back or even talk to the media some of them,
37:00
and they're letting people know that we don't like coach A because he does
37:04
this to us. What it is, it's very subjective, you know,
37:07
if the team appears to be going in the wrong direction, there's always the
37:13
prerogative of making a change. And sometimes, like Candy said, sometimes it
37:16
works, sometimes it doesn't. And yeah, the ultimate is going to be
37:20
how far do we get in the playoffs or did we even get to the
37:22
finals, and of course did we win the title? So making changes,
37:28
I'm not totally against them. I'm not a big fan of that, you
37:31
know. And Scott keeps reminding me. I talk about Detroit a lot,
37:35
but I'll just leave it at this. We had a guy who was a
37:37
low key manager and named less Less Moss was hired to take the Detroit Tigers
37:43
to the next level. I guess who was available down at Cincinnati because they're
37:47
crazy owner or general manager, lets Parky Anderson go. So the biggest boldest
37:53
move the Tigers made that I can recall was they fired a good guy,
37:59
a good baseball man, Les Moss, and they hired Sparky Anderson. How'd
38:02
that turn out? Pretty damn well? They won the nineteen eighty four World
38:06
Series. So yeah, sometimes it happens, and sometimes you gotta do it
38:09
well. If you want me to top that, that's easy. All I
38:10
got to do is go to La. Okay, Magic john Here's the thing.
38:15
A lot of these in season coaching changes are a result of superstar players
38:20
putting their foot down, and this is what has to happen. Okay,
38:22
Joe, I think you're not in your head right, So if I believe
38:25
you are, so here let's go back to let la. How about when
38:30
Magic Johnson got Paul West had fired? And who was his replacement? Ever
38:34
heard of a guy named pat Riley? And guess what? Yeah, showtime
38:37
you get it. There's a theme here, So you know the Milwaukee Buck
38:40
situation. Wasn't sure about it whether they had reservations in the first aid,
38:46
But why would you have hired Adrian Griffin if you had any doubts? I
38:50
think the biggest mistake they actually made was when they let Mike Boonholzer go.
38:55
I really do I mean Mike Boonholder the heck of a coach one on All
38:59
Championship. I think all the impatience. Maybe Gianna's got impatient. I don't
39:02
know. Do they work in some case yes, some case no, depends
39:07
on the situation. So you know. So again, Joshua, Okay,
39:10
just to put things in perspective at their hockey, I knew you were going
39:15
to get to Patrick Wall, and I'm glad that you did make your initial
39:19
debut appearance when Patrick Wall came out of the Yeah. So you guys consider
39:23
to think you could prove me for information, But I like getting hockey topics
39:29
on from time to time, and the Sports Exchange and fire up are the
39:31
two areas you're most likely going to hear them anyway. So if that said,
39:35
everybody and the crew did an outstanding job. Josh, how do you
39:38
feel now about being nervous being on here? I feel good. I'm no
39:42
longer the Florida Fried Chicken. Yeah, well that I pinned that nickname Joe
39:47
on this guy. But he kept talking to me, Oh I'm scared.
39:53
Okay, well guess what it isn't that difficult? He did, and he
40:00
did a pretty admirable job. So Candy, Uh, what are you smiling
40:04
about what while I'm just I'm putting up some questions here that the fans want
40:09
to ask. Josh, all right, go ahead, which sport is more
40:14
difficult? Hockey or golf? Definitely, hockey is the most difficult. I
40:16
mean golf. Actually, sorry, I correct myself. Golf is the most
40:20
difficult sport there is. And we all know full well that hockey has the
40:25
best playoffs out there anyways, compared to any of them. I don't think
40:29
too g Okay, well, all right, go ahead. So now one
40:36
of the ones you got up there, all right, go ahead, you
40:40
don't if you don't need to win it all. I agree with your thought,
40:45
But just being in the game and having fun could make you more famous
40:49
than winning. William good commat all right, and you know what rock this?
41:00
Uh? If you want people to sing songs, go to American Idol.
41:02
We don't do that on this show. And sing the song at the
41:07
same time. I have a lovely piano behind me. That's you at George
41:13
have the same decorator's right next to me. Yeah, it's amazing, isn't
41:16
it, JB. I love what you guys did with the place. Yeah,
41:22
yeah, I don't know if I could call them the Beverly Hillbillies.
41:24
But we'll think of something else that matches that attire. I'll need to think
41:30
about that, So Motown Illbillies. Not really. Joe. Are you currently
41:35
in Chicago right now? Yeah? Yeah? When do you actually get to
41:38
Detroit Thursday? Oh next week? You're coming in Thursday? Yeah, stuff
41:47
to take care of before then. Oh so you won't be at there earlier
41:51
in the week. Huh No, okay, problem know. So with that
41:57
said, any closing thoughts, you know what I root for? Parting shots,
42:00
So Joe, go ahead and lead on. How about the Cubs five
42:06
and four on the road trip. They didn't blow two late game leads,
42:09
would be seven and two. They're gonna be a first place by the end
42:15
of April. Not looked back bye by Milwaukee. Sorry Keeddy, you guys
42:19
had a good run, though. We took your manager. Now we'll just
42:22
take the division, Okay, Josh from parting shots, anything you want to
42:28
get off your chest real quick in the sports world, Absolutely, I'm looking
42:30
forward to the Panthers playing the Lightning that starting Sunday. It's gonna be a
42:36
great series. And I got to finish this off with a dark juke.
42:42
Okay, your parting shot can't go away from that, George. I'll tell
42:47
you what. There isn't anything greater than those Detroit Red Wings come from behind
42:51
victories. The last few days just unbelievable hockey sending games into overtime, then
42:55
winning it, and then yesterday's of course, was one and a shootout,
43:00
and yet the Red Wings finished just an eyelash short as Washington Capitals beat them
43:05
out. But hockey town is back. It was a great season. Red
43:07
Wings had some really good shooters, but they need to show off the defense
43:13
and the goaltending in the offseason to contend next year. Candy some parting shots.
43:20
Well, my parting shot, I'm saddened. I'm glad that we're starting
43:27
to have more focus on women's basketball and women's college basketball. But if any
43:35
of you know Caitlin Clark was a number one draft pick on Monday night,
43:40
she is going to make for her entire four year rookie contract. It's worth
43:47
three hundred and thirty eight thousand, fifty six dollars. That's it for four
43:53
years. The Denver Nuggets mascot Rocky make six hundred and twenty five thousand,
44:01
dollars annually. How sad is a mascot making more money than a professional athlete
44:09
in a sport for four years. I get WNBA hasn't been up there,
44:15
but I think there that is a huge salary discrepancy. I can tell you
44:22
that Clerk will earn a base salary of seventy six thousand, five hundred and
44:28
thirty five dollars this year. I can also tell you that the the average
44:36
NBA mascot earns sixty thousand per year. And just to put it in perspective,
44:44
when you look at the contrast, Victor Wyamba, similarly hailed as a
44:50
generational talent, albeit on the men's side, secured a four year rookie contract
44:55
worth fifty five point two million dollars when he was selected in the number one,
45:01
number one overall in the NBA for twenty twenty three. What a disparity,
45:08
What a travesty that it isn't that it's so far apart, all right?
45:15
My parting shot is this, we talked about Bill Belichick. Obviously to
45:21
me, you know, not getting hired cycle. I would love to see
45:27
Bill Belichick and Nick Saban take their knowledge and stay on television permanently I think
45:34
that Nick Saban will be doing that with ESPN, and I think Bill Belichick
45:37
needs to do that as well. I think the fans would really appreciate from
45:42
the knowledge that they've had both coaching. And you know, the reason why
45:45
Nick Saban got out of it is he's sick and tired the name, image
45:49
likeness, you know, the free agency that's going on. So Nick got
45:54
out at the right time. He knew that when he kept having to recruit
45:57
his own players and everything going on, he did. And Bill Belichick he
46:00
gave it a great run. Okay, but I think it's time for you
46:04
to finally turn in the clipboard headphones for a microphone. Football will be better
46:12
because of it. Nick Saban looking forward to senior commentary later and I believe
46:15
they're both going to be over at the NFL Draft next week, so well,
46:20
perhaps we'll catch up with him at some point. Katie, go out
46:22
there, and I want you to go over all the other stuff that we
46:25
have. Well, first, Joshua wanted to say something about my parting shot,
46:30
so let's let him stay what he wants. I see where you're coming
46:36
from, Candy, but I don't think the WNBA makes any money. I
46:42
think I lose money. As far as I'm aware, I haven't looked into
46:45
it too much. She's gonna make millions with sponsorships and endorsements and everything,
46:51
and I don't see how they can pay them more. If the WNBA is
46:57
not making money. Maybe that'll change with this shift, with these players coming
47:00
in making it more popular. Perhaps it'll enhance their salaries. But for how
47:06
popular the WNBA is compared to the NBA, I don't think they should be
47:10
making anywhere near an NBA player salary. I respect that opinion, but again,
47:17
a mascot who puts on a costume and entertains is making more than she's
47:24
gonna make for four years, which and you can't say that you're going to
47:30
the game to see that mascot. You're going to go to the game to
47:34
see Caitlin the mask. That's my point. The mascot WNBA or like an
47:39
NBA mascot. You're saying it's an NBA mascot. Well, the NBA teams
47:45
that are paying that mascot are profitable teams. I see where you're coming from,
47:50
and hopefully it does change. Hopefully the WA NBA can bring in more
47:52
revenue. But even without even with just her salary on the NBA or the
47:59
WNBA is gonna make a ton of money. Okay, Okay, giggle Gator,
48:06
you're right about one thing. Great minds think alike. Very good.
48:08
All right, So what that said? Okay, Candy, go over our
48:10
information. Will everybody go theres and we'll call it a night, and obviously
48:15
put this punn. It will be on the row night and fire up.
48:17
Candy will be handling both shows. I'll be off tomorrow night and next time
48:21
you'll see me and next week in Detroit. Go ahead, Candy. Okay.
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50:21
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did a really good job. He covered an Angel's game recently, what southern
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California? Was it like ten days ago, Joe or so, yeah,
50:40
about ten days and then he did a really good job. But one thing
50:44
that you should look for in that story, by the way, is a
50:46
one on one interview that he was able to get with Mike Trout. It's
50:49
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50:53
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52:08
the new guy on the planet. Well, everybody know how they get hold
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of you as well, Joshua Door here. You can get a hold of
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me Monday through Thursday on the South Florida Sports Exchange YouTube channel chat room.
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I'll be on there all the time. Everybody has to come on. It's
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a great show, great channel, awesome energy. We need more people to
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follow this show. Let's blow it up. And you know what, Josh
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ton I will tell you this, you have an open invite anytime you want
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to come on a show. I think he really did a really excellent job.
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Yeah, we'll definitely keep the door open for you. This is an
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honor of Smoking Jay. All right, well there you go. But you
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did a really good job first act. So everyone, you're proud of everything
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that we've done. Tonight, this does conclude. This edition of the Sports
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Exchange will be on the road Detroit. We don't know exactly what the broadcast
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situation is gonna like you likes, so stay tuned. I'm anticipating we'll do
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a show on Tuesday. But again I'll come up with more Claire lication as
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time goes on. But the one thing I do know, Candy is lunch.
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You everybody know about some of the other broadcasts that you do as well.
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So Tuesday nights you can find me on Chicks and Salsa or three Chicks
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in a Pod. Just depends on which we're doing that night, but it's
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always Tuesday nights seven thirty Eastern time, and then of course tomorrow night Fire
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Up. Me and Smoking Jeremy b are the hosts. It's typically anywhere from
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eight thirty to nine o'clock is when we start. You just never know.
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It depends on how long pundit's pundit goes but always if you subscribe and you
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click the notifications, you'll know when we come on and boom, you can
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be right in the chat room, just like Josh. And look, Josh,
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he's been in the chatroom and look he got himself on the show.
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So great job, Josh. Yeah, we do reward top notch chatters,
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and Joshua seems to not only take it as typing and turn it into talk
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and that's what's all about. So Josh, you are an example of what
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we're trying to build out here, people that are willing to come on with
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us and talk sports. And that's what we were able. And I need
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to call out Blake and Rocket Scientists, and I love Dusty and Branden.
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They need to get on here next. Okay, well whatever, we'll see
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how that works out. But you did a heck of a job for sure,
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saw on that. But that's it on. So that concludes this edition
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of the Sports Exchange on behalf of Candy Evelin, Josh Bernstein, jb Ellis,
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and George Eichorn. My name is Scott Morgan, Rothlamover City man Mouth.
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Thank you for joining us this on this edition of the Sports Exchange,
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and we will catch you the next time. Good Night everybody, good night
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everybody, and thanks for all the people that were commenting in the chat.
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Thank you all right,