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USA Hockey and USA SLED HOCKEY Have One Leg Up on The World's Stage This Memorial Day Week 5-28-25 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, as we're all hyped up in New
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  Speaker 1: York City for Game four of the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Ken the Knicks tied up tonight in Indiana. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first win in uh I think almost
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  Speaker 1: ever in the playoffs against Indiana in the field House.
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  Speaker 1: And so Game four tonight. Gotta keep on living, gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep on staying alive, as Queen would say, I think
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  Speaker 1: that should be the theme song for now. Anyway, before
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  Speaker 1: we get to that, I want to say, yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day and the Mets held a beautiful Military Appreciation Day.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Ryan Pagano and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in the ballpark yesterday could agree that Military Appreciation Day
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  Speaker 1: isn't just one day or a couple of days a year.
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  Speaker 1: It's every day that we get to honor, and we
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  Speaker 1: should honor and think of it for their service and
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  Speaker 1: honor those who sacrifice their lives to keep us safe
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  Speaker 1: on the battlefield. But let me tell you, baseball does
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  Speaker 1: it right. Major League Baseball does it right. The Mets
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  Speaker 1: and White Sox lining up on the base beat, I
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  Speaker 1: got Ryan here, wasn't that a moment watching these guys
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  Speaker 1: line up with the active military on the base pass.
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  Speaker 2: Now that really was and I mean you pretty much
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  Speaker 2: summed it up perfectly that you know, on this Memorial Day, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we can remember those who served and make it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a national day of remembrance because of that, but it
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  Speaker 2: also really has much more of a meeting than just oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're celebrating one day that really this is our national
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  Speaker 2: pastime and you know, there's no better way to honor
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  Speaker 2: those that have served than to play this great game
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  Speaker 2: that we all know them love, especially with how many
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  Speaker 2: of the legends of these of this sport that have
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  Speaker 2: served before I know, not really anybody recently, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: you go back to World War Two and you have
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  Speaker 2: legends of the game like Ted Williams Yogi Bear are
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  Speaker 2: just the name of a few.
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  Speaker 1: And Yogi's a centennial coincides with this Memorial Day month,
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  Speaker 1: so it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Well very interesting as well. And if you don't mind
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  Speaker 2: me bringing this up with Jogi, Berra's Navy Bobblehead Day
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  Speaker 2: coming up at the save.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and we're going to hear from a naval officer himself,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Gerbiner, who was just awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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  Speaker 1: But before I play that for you, I want to
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  Speaker 1: take you inside the ballpark because someone who has been
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  Speaker 1: on the show and has become a friend, Colin Cosell,
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  Speaker 1: really did it perfectly yesterday. Take a listen to how
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  Speaker 1: he keyed up the moment of silence in honor of
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  Speaker 1: those who sacrifice their lives a Memorial Day twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five as a moment of renumbers.
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  Speaker 3: As we've lost to honor low and ed women reading
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  Speaker 3: ultimate sacrifice in.
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  Speaker 2: Service to our country. We asked that you please join.
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  Speaker 1: Us now in this moment of silence as.
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  Speaker 3: A unified expression of gratitude to the heroes who lost
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  Speaker 3: their lives while protecting co pres. We enjoyed two days.
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  Speaker 1: I mean absolute chills. I felt that at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course during the national anthem, you have
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  Speaker 1: the helicopters flying over City Field the uh I guess Blackhawks.
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  Speaker 1: It was very special to be there yesterday and to
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  Speaker 1: be part of that Memorial Day honoring and somewhat celebration
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  Speaker 1: as well to honor the troops of today at City Field.
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  Speaker 1: So very well done and very well done by Colin.
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  Speaker 1: Go So once again, the other thing about the weekend
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  Speaker 1: which I didn't even get to you on Sunday was
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  Speaker 1: that in the IIHF Men's World Gold Game, team USA
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  Speaker 1: Hockey won it. And I believe they did it for
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Gudro when they put when they brought the jersey
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  Speaker 1: up for Johnny Goudreau. It just capped off an entirely
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  Speaker 1: incredible weekend for team USA Hockey and sled hockey, Team
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  Speaker 1: USA slid Hockey now going on to the Slavey Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about adaptive sports here real quick, love that our
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  Speaker 1: boys in red, white and blue are really shining overseas
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  Speaker 1: and we're both hockey officionados, so to see this on
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  Speaker 1: the world stage. And by the way, it was the
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  Speaker 1: first World men's gold since nineteen thirty four. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a long time. So I'm just very thankful that
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  Speaker 1: our teams are kicking butt and doing it. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: not only in the memory of Johnny, but of all
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  Speaker 1: the servicemen and women who have given their lives for
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  Speaker 1: us every day, each and every day, and to keep
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  Speaker 1: our country amazing and great and safe. Because remember Military
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  Speaker 1: Appreciation Days every day, not just one day or two
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  Speaker 1: days or three days a year. When I do feel
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  Speaker 1: like we bring out the troops and then say well,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with you for now. No, we're never done
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  Speaker 1: with the troops. We're never done thinking the troops, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what day of the year it is. And that's
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  Speaker 1: my message here on the One Leg Up Network. Let's
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  Speaker 1: have one leg up, as our veterans have continued to
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  Speaker 1: one leg up for America.