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Terminello's Take On Rangers Knicks Playoff Runs, Caitlin Clark and What to Expect WIth NYC's Boys of Summer 6-4-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All Right, Well, a couple of
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thoughts here tonight. Firstly, firstly, I made a decision because of all
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the health stuff that's been going on. I'm gonna take a little breather.
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And I can't believe I'm saying this as we're in June, but I'm take
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a little breather from the ballpark and I'll be back the week of June seventeenth
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when the Yanks take on the Orioles and the Braves. But I want to
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make that announcement. Not that I'm an influential figure or anything, but I
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wanted you guys to know that that was going on. Hey, you know
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some interesting things I've been reading up on today, mainly this. According to
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Westwood One, there's an interesting story about a study revealing podcast listening habits.
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I got this from the podcast Pro newsletter, so I of course was curious
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about this, and Inside Radio posted this just about fifteen hours ago. New
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podcast consumer study focus on back episode and first day listening. Findings from the
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latest in an ongoing series of studies among weekly podcast consumers show a significant amount
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of consumption taking place within twenty four hours of a new episode's release and back
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episode listening are strongest among women and longtime podcast listeners. So if you noticed
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with this show, by the way, the Alex Scarett podcast networks subchannels of
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Adapting and One Leg Up on Sports and then the one Like Up with Alex
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Scarett feature. If you notice these different sub features, I sometimes put the
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same show on each channel because I realize it's almost like a radio dial.
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You might not find me here, but you can find me there. You
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might not listen to One Leg Up on Sports, but you might find me
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on One Leg Up on Adapting, and it's the same kind of inter twenty
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content. You might not find me on One Leg Up on Sports, but
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they're there on One Leg Up on Alex with Alex Garrett, so boom.
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I try and not mix a match, but be linear and syndicative if you
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will, of the shows. So Cumulus Media and Signal Hill, in conjunction
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with Maru Matchbox, surveyed more than six hundred respondents during April, covering many
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aspects of podcasts listening behavior. Half of the weekly podcast consumers they say,
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listen to new episodes of our favorite podcast within twenty four hours of release,
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while twenty one percent say they do you immediately after its release, and then
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seventy one percent That makes up seventy one percent of the sample. Among heavy
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consumers, those listening to podcasts for more than six or more hours a week
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say that thirty percent are listening upon release. So there's an immediacy of podcast
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consumption, says Cumulus Media Westwood One Arc Audioactive Group Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard.
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Three fourths of women go back to catch episodes that they missed, compared
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to sixty two percent of men and sixty seven percent of total podcasts weekly listeners
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go back to catch missed episodes. So here's my question with all these stats
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I'm throwing at you tonight, The question is do you listen to the show
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upon release, like immediately or do you listen to it twenty four to forty
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eight hours later? Do you catch up on old episodes? Where do you
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find the podcast? Which outlet are you listening to? This podcast is Thankfully
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Thanks for to God syndicated on Spreaker, my home ship where everything gets produced
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and then distributed from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, our radio. Where are you
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listening to this show? And do you catch up on miss episodes or do
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you wait for the new ones. That's all I want to know in your
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email Alex at alex GNYC dot com, Alex at alexgnyc dot com, because
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I find myself when I syndicate the singular show and put on multiple channels,
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it gets heard more than just the one. So is that the right approach
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is annoying to you? Like, what were your thoughts? Just give me
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your thoughts before we get into Terminilo's take. I want to get into that
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Westwood One study with you. But again, on the sport side of things,
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I will not be going to the stadium until the week of June seventeenth,
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so I'll miss everybody I know. I'll have a little fomo, but
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it's for the better and I'm on the mon I'm on the men, I'm
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on the recovery. I think I'm sounding stronger every day. I want to
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thank Project Als for interacting with us when I posted a bit of the Liul
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Griggs disease Als episode on my instagram's alex G Production and alex G NYC one
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where we've kind of formed a partnership with the NR Hour Nithan Media and I
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have really been tweeting each other, reposting each other, restoring each other,
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adding to each other's stories. It's been a great connection so far and looking
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for that to grow. So that being said, go follow the NR Hour
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Underscore as well, and the many great media personalities out there working their asses
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off to get you the latest sports news and other things. But that being
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said, before further ado, I want into this week's Terminello's take. We
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haven't had one with lou Terminello in quite a while, so here's what we
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talked about on this week's edition on the Alex skartt podcast Network and one leg
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up on Sports. Terminello's take was put on hold for a moment, but
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and Loui, you've been there every several way since I was hospitalized on May
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twentieth. But here we are back on the air to wrap up a crazy
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couple of weeks while I was hospitalized and recovering, known as the Rangers Versus
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Panthers. I mean, let's start there. Would you play with a broken
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ankle? Let me ask you that to start out, Louis, Okay,
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Well, hockey players are a different kind of breed and they played with broken
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bones. But Alex. Most important thing is that I'm glad that you're on
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the mend, that you're getting better, and I hope that continues. And
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as always, thanks for having me back. I really appreciate it. But
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I guess now we'll start with Rangers and Panthers. I mean, look,
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my ankle didn't fall off during this time, but Jacob Truba's did. I
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don't understand why the story is now and it's just a bizarre recap to a
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series in which they even get production from him or the first line. Can
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we start there, yes, And I mean Truba had did not have a
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good playoff series. Now maybe we know why he did not have a good
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Excuse me, he did not have a good playoffs even against UH Washington and
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Carolina committed a lot of uh bad penalties, turned the puck over a lot.
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Yes, he had some hits and he was still blocking shots. Man,
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And you really gotta you gotta give it to these hockey players. They
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really they really uh leave no stone on turn. They actually do leave the
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uh you know, their their heart and soul on the ice. The number
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of block shots the entire injured team had against the Panders, I mean a
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lot of those guys, Good Drow and others were diving right in front of
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that puck. I think Wheeler, while he was on the ice, had
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a couple of blocks too, and he was just back for one game,
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but he was trying to make an impact. And I noticed that these guys
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were trying to protect you were the best they could in some games and other
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games. I questioned the defense to be honest, Well, the Rangers have
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some decisions to make. I mean, their first line, and you know
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we're talking about Cryer in Sabana Jad. I mean, let's face it,
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if Crier doesn't have that magical third period against the Carolina Hurricanes, the Hurricanes
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probably win that game. And I bet you the Rangers we lost Game seven
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at home, they would have been reeling. The pressure would have been amazing.
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But if you look at the totality of the series against the Panthers,
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the Panthers really were focused. And you know, as I said before the
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series began, the difference would be the power play and Igorsha Sterkin, even
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though I thought it was an even series going in, but the power play
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was a difference. Unfortunately for the Rangers. It's not like we thought their
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power play was one for fifteen in the Eastern Conference Final, and Sir Sterkin
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was all world off the charts. You can't play goal any better than Igor
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Sterkin played. But Panarin had had an eight gold drought until he scored with
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one hundred and twenty seconds to go in the series, coming off a year
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where we had one hundred and twenty points. Your best players have to play
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your best in the big games. Panaren, Krider Zabanajad did not. And
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we're going to find out Any injury updated on Paneren is out of possibility,
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because now it seems like the one taing in hockey. You find out all
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kinds of guys playing with all kinds of injuries on these teams. I mean,
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there's a room of going around that Cono McDavid's been hurt these whole playoffs.
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Know if that's true or not, but they're not going to say anything
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now. One of the reasons why they don't say nothing when it happens is
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because they're afraid that if they say Trooper has a broken ankle, if Paneren
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has a a shoulder separation, they're afraid that the opposition is going to target
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those injuries. That's why the NHL when they give out those injury reports will
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say upper body injury, lower body injury, because they're trying not to prevent
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further injury. If somebody plays, they don't want to play to be targeted
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when he comes back or if he plays with that injury. But let's face
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it, there was too many games in this series where the Rangers went twelve
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thirteen minutes with no shots on goal. I mean even Saturday night, with
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their desperate backs to the wall, they went twelve minutes without a shot on
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goal. This happened multiple times in the Conference final. Everybody was saying the
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Rangers are going to look desperate. I didn't sense desperation at all. I
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kind of thought the Panthers were either just controlling the game that well or the
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Rangers were a little slower overall. I could be wrong, but I just
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it's it was bothersome. And then the fact that you know, talking about
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injuries, Florida did him in on Adam Fox a lot with his injury.
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I mean you could tell he was he was hobbling around, and they took
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advantage of that, didn't they. Yeah, well that's what that's what you
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have to do. But the Rangers' problems were they played without the punk way
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too much in the series. Florida always had the puck and the discipline of
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the Florida Panthers and playing that for check structure consistently was so impressive. And
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their ability to play with and protect the small lead. These games were not
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six to one, these all these games were two to one, three,
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two, And their ability to protect a small lead was stunning to me.
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And the Rangers couldnt so they they then they did league Game five and then
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they just gave it away. It was it was the long disheartening and you
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kind of knew once actually Game four, my apologies, Game four they had
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a leader, and then they gave it up. And once that series was
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tied, didn't you feel like it was shifting the Panthers way? Even though
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it was tied, you could tell the momentum was in their home of the
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you know, end of the ice if you will, Yes, I thought
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that the momentum was on the Panther's side, Alex. They're forwards, their
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dmon almost were never out of position, the little things that they did the
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stick check to knock the puck away from Ranger forwards. Winning of the battles
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along the boards at times, the Rangers places off. They really did,
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and you know this is management. Put this team together, win the Cup.
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And let's face it, this is not like the Knicks. Who are
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you know? They they lost in second round. They had a ton of
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injuries. But this was a stepping stone for the Knicks. For the Range,
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this is a failure they had to win the Cup. I mean after
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last year's blowing the to nothing lead, after winning the first two games at
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Prudential, blowing to nothing lead to the Devils, and now following up with
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this, following up a new coach Alex. They've had three coaches since twenty
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eighteen, Quinn Galant and now Peter Lavalette Kneeling. I thought lobby Let did
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a great job most of the year. I just feel like something needs to
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change where they're not passing it all the time. I feel like they did
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more passing than shooting, and maybe that's because of the Florida defense. But
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also just take the damn chance and shoot it. I mean, that's what
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you're supposed to do, are you. Yeah, Well, as they say,
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shoot that puck on on net and anything can happen. And the Range
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has really made it easy for Lebrowski, you know, and lebro Browski is
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a fantastic goaltender. And as we said going in, this was the one
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series where the Rangers would not have an edge and goal. Even though shaster
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can play off the charts, he was tested ten times more than Sergei Brabowski.
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And I mean Shasterkin, I mean the Rangers can extend in the summer.
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If they don't, they're crazy. Even though he has one more year
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left on his deal, He's got Jinny Bobrowski is making ten million. He
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has one year left on his deal, so I assume that the Shasterkin's going
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to get ten million, especially with the with the cap going going up this
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year. But this is a failure for the Rangers, and there's no other
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way to sugarcoat this is not okay. We had a good year and Peneran
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s put forty nine goals and we won the Presidents Trophy. This this year
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is a failure for them. That being said, they'll go into next year
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and they'll they'll probably make some changes on defense. They're not gonna get rid
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of KeAndre Miller. I don't believe, but he was terrible in this series,
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he gave the puck away and he wasn't strong on the punk. The
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Rangers as a team aren't strong on the punk along the boards behind the net.
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Look how the Pants dominated play behind the net, the Ranger net.
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But again it's not that Sam Bennett or Matthew could chook or lighting the lamps
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at a record pace. The area on the ice was so tight, you
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know, it's it's hard to get scoring chances in the playoffs. But even
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with the Rangers failure. That being said, next year, the Range is
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going to be a team again. This is not the end of for them.
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That's going to be one of the favorites to win the stan Lee Cup.
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They are President's Trophy this year, Stanley Cup next year. I'm calling
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it now, all right. Now, here's the other thing that's that's a
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bit concerning to me is that Crier's time. You know, he just saw
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actually Pavolski hanging up today for the Stars and they had a grueling series against
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Edmonton. But I mean, Crider, is he not in the same boat.
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I know he's been there all the less, but he might be getting
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up there. I don't know. I just don't know how many years later
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left with well Joe Pabowski, who retired today. A great career. I
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mean he was drafted I believe two hundred and fifth overall by uh I guess
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it was. I guess it was by San Jose. He had scored four
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hundred and seventy six goals. He's thirty nine years old. Crider is still
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in the prime of his career. He's thirty three years old, and you
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know he has time left on his deal. He has three years left on
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his deal at like six point six million. If you said to me,
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and if I'm a general mandra on other team, who do you want on
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your team? And I love Panarin, Crider, Panaren Orzabanajad those three,
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and you could pick one for your team, I would pick Cryer because he's
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fast, he's strong, He's tremendous on the power play. His tip,
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his ability to tip the puck in the net and stand in front is as
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good as any in the league. He can kill and score penalty. He
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can kill penalties and score short handed goals. H Crider would be the guy
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that I would want on my team. I mean they got Zabanachad left at
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six years at over eight million dollars a year. I don't know about that
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one. That one, that one's that one's shaky, and I think panera
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Let's I guess Panerin has a couple of years left. But Miko was very
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disappointing. I mean, that shot that just went over Labrox. He said,
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you need to make that, don't you. Well, you would think
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somebody with that kind of shooting ability and with those kind of hands, you
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know. And again I don't know. I gotta gotta remember that play was
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a puck on edge or how you know. Uh, but yeah, he
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shouldn't be shooting it over the net and you know, and basically uh into
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this into the netting above the glass to because you give me the line breakdown,
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you give me the whole picture. Whereas I feel like most of the
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media, unless you're really into the sport, it's not like you can single
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out one guy when it comes to hockey. It's not as easy to let
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me put it that way, whereas easily criticize the guy for striking out looking
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you know. But but with hockey, I don't think the media goes into
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the whole analytics of it because it's tough to analyze unless you really follow the
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sport and follow how lobby Let's making his lines every night. Right, No,
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I would agree with that. I think to the common eye, the
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common spectator's I you're on d right. I mean I love the sport.
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I mean I love the wole sports. I love hockey, and I enjoyed
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this series very much, as far as Flori's staying to a game plan that
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you think would be impossible to consistently execute. Now what they're going to be
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playing the Florida The Florida Panther are gonna be playing the Edmonton Oilers. I'm
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surprised Edmonton beat Dallas, but they did, and Dallas blew a chance to
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go up three games to one. They were when two nothing had Edmonton,
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and Edmonton came back in Game four and Edmonton finished them off. The two
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best players on the ice starting on Saturday night will be Conor McDavid and Leon
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Dryside. But the best roster and the best goalie by far or with the
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Florida Panthers, And it's going to be interesting to see how the Oilers are
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going to handle that. For check, the Oilers defense shaky. You don't
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want Conor McDavid coming back to help them get out of their zone. You
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want Con McDavid to be, uh, you know, in the neutral zone
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getting ready to accept the pass from from a defenseman. So it's gonna be
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a very interesting series. I don't think it's gonna be a short series.
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I think it's gonna be a long series. Obviously, Uh, Con McDavid
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knows the pressure that's on him since it's taken them this long to get to
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his first Stanley Cup final. But boy, you really have to, you
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really gotta tip your hat to the Florida Panthers as they prepare for this series.
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They have a week off, and I think that I think they're gonna
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be ready, Alex. I mean I I lean towards I leaned towards the
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Panthers in the series. But I think it's gonna be an excellent series.
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And I don't know if you saw the first goal the game the other night
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on Sunday night, McDavid, in tight spaces just made move after move and
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and and scored spin moves right, I think I thought, oh my god,
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Alex, Alex, I don't know if there's anybody else in the NHL
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who could have done what he did the other night in such a tight space.
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Well, it just so happens. I haven't David Shirt in the in
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the in the closet ready to put all right, I'll be well. Number
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ninety seven and number twenty nine dry sidle. Those two jerseys are going to
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be the ones that we're gonna be looking at because they're gonna have to carry
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They're gonna have to carry Edmonton, I mean seek Cody CC. Darnell Nurse
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very much criticized about these playoffs. It seemed like the last couple of games,
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Darnell Nurse it hacted the game more. They're gonna need him to do
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that obviously. Evan Bouchard is a great right right handed defenseman. He's been
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great for them. Hymen's been great for them. It's goning be an interesting
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series. I mean I would lean towards Flora, but I'm looking forward to
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it. And this is the Stanley Cup Final where the two teams are furthest
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apart. There's never been a Stanley Cup Final where two teams have to travel
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so far. And I think it's just might get a double overtime one of
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these games. You know, why don't you do that on getaway day?
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Well, I think the NHL is going to and I haven't seen I really
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I should have looked at the schedule, but I did. I think the
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NHL is going to give them two travel days, So after the game on
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Monday night down in uh the the greater Miami Miami, Miami area in Sunrise,
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they are going to have two days off to get to Edmonton and vice
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versa when they come back. So that that's good, you know. So
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I think for Florida though, it's gonna be different than uh, than facing
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the Golden Nights like last year. I mean, I think they have a
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better matchup coming into this one. Yes, they do definitely have a better
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matchup. Vegas was deep, Davis was big, Davis was good. Vegas
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was very very good, and that's why they wanted championship. So now at
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the same time as we were dealing with some health issues, you know,
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the Knicks had that weekend before I went in where they kind of it was
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it was a run of injury. I mean, look, ob even when
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he tried to play, wasn't the same. It's just if they were a
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healthier team, they would have beat the Piecers. But we kind of left
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off before Game six. What was your thought on the rest of that series.
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And then of course the Celtics, you know, swooping out in Indiana,
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making Nick fans cringe a little bit because it could you know, it
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could have been us there, you know. But it's well, a couple
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of things on game six. On Game seven at the Guard, you know,
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the uh Pacers came out and shot a record sixty seven percent, sixty
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seven point never been done before, and they had one hundred one points at
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the end of three quarters, the most since nineteen sixty three after three quarters.
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In the seventh game, the teams are even. The Knicks injury,
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especially to Oh Jay, I don't knowb definitely obviously it was a factor.
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But again the Knicks were down by twenty five in the second quarter, and
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you know you could come back and make these little runs, but you knew
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the Knicks weren't going to come back and win that game. And then when
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Indiana played Boston in the conference final, well, again, I am a
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big fan of coach Rick Carlisle, but his his coaching decisions the last eight
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point five seconds of that game when Indiana was up three really have to be
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questioned. I mean, he kind of blew that game for them. He
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blew that game for them. They should have called the time out and moved
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up to gain all that real estate. So they want to be throwing it
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so close to their own basket. And the same thing happened, you know
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in you know, in the game down the road. They're in game three
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and then of course not having their best player for the last two games,
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Tyree's Halliburton was a nail. Mcauffin. Indiana is a team on the com
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it's just not it's just not their time. The Knicks are a team on
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the com It's just they just have to get better. The knixt problem is
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what they're gonna do with Julius Randall. And by the way, the Celtics
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cannot afford to and we'll get to the rand on the second, but the
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Celtics cannot afford a Jalen Brown by himself doing heroics thing against the MAVs.
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They have to have everybody, and I mean Jason Tatum and we've talked about
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this off air. H if he if he doesn't do well, you think
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the media is gonna go after him, right like he's gonna be a big
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pressure this this Finals against the Mavericks. I do, and this is a
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good matchup for Boston. Dallas's best two players are basically guards in Kyrie Irving
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and in Luca Dantic And obviously Boston has a great defensive guards, you know,
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led by Jaln Brown. They're getting Chris, I was saying, is
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back a huge, huge factor coming back on Thursday. I don't know how
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healthy he is, but we'll find out soon enough because he helps him so
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much defensively. I am not a Celtic fan. I will never root for
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the Boston Celtics. I really really don't care who wins this series. I'm
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ambivalent on that, but I can't see the Celtics losing this series. I
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think it'll be I think it'll be a long series. But I have to
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favor the Celtics in the series for sure. I mean, Dantech is probably
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the second best player in the NBA after Nikola Jokic. Kyrie Irving has been
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tremendous and but I think the Celtics have will have too much to win.
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But we'll see again. If the Mavericks win, I wouldn't be surprised,
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just like I wouldn't be surprised if the Oilers won the Stanley Cup. But
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I think if I lean towards Flora in the Stanley Cup, I lean towards
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towards Boston in the NBA Finals. Well, let's go back to the next
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real quick, because you mentioned Randall, and by the way, I just
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was thinking about this. Hartenstein was injured as well. I think that came
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out a couple of days later, and of course Dante di Vincenzo just it.
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He didn't have that shot like he was having earlier on in the postseason.
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But in this offseason, I mean, are they gonna come back with
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these five? I think you gotta think about Brunston and hart for sure,
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you know obviously coming back, But well, how does the rest of the
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lineup shake Upler? Well, I mean, Randall has a semi untradable contract
27:34
and for them to get better, and they have to get better right now.
27:41
The Knicks saw and we gotta remember this was a very Eastern conference.
27:45
Isn't gonna be as soft as it was this year. Nobody had an easier
27:48
run to the NBA Finals than the Boston Celtics. But Orlando's going to get
27:52
better. They're a good young team. They're going to get better from experience,
27:56
Indiana's going to get better. I'll know what their cap space is.
28:00
But somebody's gonna sign somebody. Can the Knicks do that, because right now
28:06
the Knicks are in NBA never never Land. You're in the middle and you
28:11
can't get to that next step now. Obviously, with Randall hurt, Brunson
28:15
expanded his game, became a true superstar, scoring forty points in all lordly
28:21
that became a famous thing for the Knicks to say workload management. That was
28:25
a term tossed around a lot this season for the Knicks, right right,
28:27
And really, the Knicks were won a few teams that didn't give guys days
28:33
off and games off, which I commend them for. It's gonna be interesting
28:40
to see what they do with Randal. I mean, I think Randall and
28:42
uh Jalen Brunston before he got hurt, their chemistry was better. But you
28:48
know, let's face it, Donte DiVincenzo pretty good player, better defensive player
28:56
than Julius Randall. Better, he can watch shots. Interesting the Nicks have.
29:03
It'll be an interesting summer for all of the Winter Sports teams. It'll
29:07
be an interesting summer to see how they do to improve, so we will,
29:14
and then in the summer, the Boys of Summer. It just seems
29:17
like, see, I like these transition I can just go right to the
29:19
next topic because you make it. He's so easy for me, Louis.
29:22
But the Boys of Summer. I mean, let's start there with with up
29:26
in the Bronx. And I've said this maybe all air, but I will
29:30
say here Sodo al Steinberner, love the Seimer and her family. They've been
29:34
great to me and everything. But to talk about not having money in a
29:41
in a year where Jan Soda is a free agent, it just didn't sit
29:45
well with Mettle, Like, just let him play the game and we'll talk
29:48
contract after. I don't know. And now the pressure as he keeps performing
29:52
continues to build even before you know July hits right. Well, you know
29:59
what I think of one. So I think he's as good as a hitter
30:02
as Otani. I mean, if you match them up against each other,
30:04
as far as all air key stats, including on base percentage, I love
30:10
Soto just the Yankees have two of and and again, as I've said before,
30:17
I hate lists, but the Yankees have two of the best four or
30:22
five players in baseball, and Judge and Soto. Uh. And let's let's
30:27
look at the potential signing of Jan so Yes, he has Scott Boris as
30:33
his agent. Yes, Scott Boris is tough to deal with. But let's
30:37
look at the teams in Major League Baseball. Who is going to sign Juan
30:41
Soto if the Yankees don't. Yes, I know there's always, as they
30:45
say, that one crazy owner that comes out of nowhere and will give him
30:48
so much money that he can turn it down. But let's let's let's look.
30:53
Baltimore is not gonna sign Juan Soto, Toronto's not. Maybe the Rogers
31:00
Communications has a lot of money, but you know they might be in the
31:03
mix, maybe just to drive the Yankees' price up. The Red Sox,
31:11
I don't know. The Red Sox have shied away from these big names.
31:15
They traded, They traded bets, and you know they traded their guys.
31:21
Uh. In the Central, the Cleveland, the White Sox. None of
31:26
those central teams in al are going to go after Soto. In the West,
31:30
Houston, I don't think so so we know Oakland's not. We know
31:36
the Angels aren't. You know they would have signed Otani And of course I
31:42
think the Dodgers over expending themselves. Whether I would be shocked if the Dodgers
31:48
try to add another big name, big money player. I mean, are
31:52
they are the Mets gonna go after them? I don't think so. I
31:56
mean because this year of transition for the Mets is just a smoke screen.
32:00
I have no I know what did what they're trying to do, but you
32:04
can't do that. You can't do I mean, the Mets don't do anything
32:08
well. They don't pitch well, they don't field well, they don't hit
32:14
well. Do you think one Soto wants to come here and be the savior.
32:17
He doesn't have to be the savior. On the Yankees, they got
32:20
judge well. They also have a really unlike other lineups I've seen, they
32:24
have a supporting cast around them too. I mean, this whole lamp.
32:29
They have a supporting cast around them. You're you're one hundred percent right.
32:31
And look what's in the minor leagues. Jason Domingez, who has come back
32:37
from his injury and has been blasting home runs down in Somerset, New Jersey
32:45
for the Somerset Patriots. They just moved off to Triple A, and uh,
32:49
they gotta find a spot for him. The Yankees are loaded the Sodo
32:53
trade and really was a signing for the Padres. Didn't get that fifty million
32:58
dollars from their TV deal. I don't think the Padres would resign them anyway.
33:01
They probably have kept him at least to the trade deadline, not the
33:05
whole season this year, but I would be surprised. I'm not ready to
33:07
make a definitive statement saying that he will be a Yankee because as hot as
33:15
he is and as brilliant as he's been through the first two months, a
33:17
bad postseason, and the media is unrelenting on him or a band stretched down
33:24
the stretch of the season with the fans boo. Let's face it, they
33:29
boot Aaron Judge. What do I really want to be here? I don't
33:35
know. And you know, maybe the Phillies will be in play. I
33:38
don't know. It's gonna be interesting to see, but I think, you
33:43
know, I mean, why would he want to play for the Yankees,
33:46
especially in that stadium with a left hand swinger like that. It's a beautiful
33:51
porch, you know, for him? And right now, here's the one
33:54
fascinating thing about this Yankee season, which everybody that's a Yankee fan, and
33:59
everybody say the best record, But I'm a standings guy, and I still
34:02
see the Orioles are nipping at the heels of the Yanks. That's why I
34:07
love they swept the Giants. Okay, Arson Judge goes in there and lights
34:12
a fire against the Giants. That's great, they sweep them, But what
34:15
are you doing against your indivision rivals? I want to still see them.
34:19
You know, they lost three or four of the Orioles. That cannot happen
34:22
again this year against the Orioles. And I know they know that, but
34:25
it's important to restate that they did not do well the first time against Baltimore.
34:30
They got to fix that up. Look well again, I'll just give
34:35
you this in nineteen eighty eight. In nineteen eighty eight, the Mets were
34:39
one and ten. The Mets were excuse me, the Mets were ten to
34:45
one against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the nationallygue Championship Series they lost to the
34:54
Dodgers' four games to three. So so yeah, I don't know it,
35:02
just it. It's so. What I'm saying is the regular season doesn't mean
35:07
much. No, but I think they are both going to be in the
35:12
top six and they're both going to play each other. Yeah, and I
35:16
have to believe the Yanks will. I mean, they could get that first
35:20
round by they're they're they're all on their way to that. And seven teams.
35:23
It's funny because obviously the Mets will have a chance, but there are
35:29
teams like the Astros I think still lingering. You have to think about that.
35:32
I know they're struggling, but the Astros still have a chance to this.
35:36
And I know they got not written off, but they were sort of
35:39
laughed at. But they've been winning a few games here and there. So
35:43
the Astros are definitely still definitely still in it. They only have to finish
35:47
six and if they get in, they will be very dangerous. And I
35:52
don't want to upset you, Lily, but you know, I look at
35:55
the Mets and they're they're dropping in. I said, the Mets don't do
36:00
anything else the closed door meeting. So there's that. There are three and
36:04
five since door meetings, so you know, well, anything could happen.
36:08
Well again, closed door meetings are great, but you have to have talent.
36:14
The Mets have no talent. Mcgeal looks washed up, They have no
36:17
pitching. Their best picture singer has been out of all year, Edwin Diaz,
36:23
I am sure, and he was okay the first five or six weeks,
36:28
but he wasn't. Edwin d is of two years ago. And I'll
36:30
go, of course, those are once in a lifetime years. But uh,
36:37
he's not one hundred He wasn't one hundred percent. Now he has an
36:39
impingement in the shoulder. They lose Brooks Rarey for the year, a very
36:44
good left handed relief pitcher out for the year. You can't win, and
36:50
they did nothing to improve themselves. They're mediocre. They're bad, and they're
36:54
boring. And this is coming from a die hard Mets fan. They're bad
37:00
and they're boring. I can't believe that Sterns sold this bill of goods to
37:07
Cohen that to reset the organization. I mean, yeah, okay, you
37:12
want to be like the Dodgers do with the great farm system. You know,
37:15
I was watching something the other day. I think I was watching the
37:16
Brewers and the Cardinals last week, and they were talking about a couple of
37:20
trades that the Brewers made or and I forgot who they made them with,
37:24
but they would trade for nine guys, and the nine guys at the Brewers
37:30
gave up not one of them's in the major leagues, and they got Yellich
37:35
and they got somebody else. And I thought, who was the other guy
37:37
that they got? And the biggest thing to me was they let Counsel go
37:39
to the Cubs. I mean, I know, it's just that was on
37:45
counsel. That was counsel. That was dirty pool by Counsel. You don't
37:52
blame Sterens for not resigning him then, no, he was. Stearns was
37:55
gone Brewers by the time. Counsel used the use the Brewers to get a
38:04
better deal from the Cubs. Pretty wild. Well anyway, you know,
38:08
and what were I saying about Searns that the Milwaukee playoff years weren't always great
38:15
under his leadership. I don't know. It's just you're you're right, you
38:19
are one hund right. But again, a Met fan will say, will
38:22
be in the playoffs four out of five years, even though the Brewers were
38:25
one to nine or something like that. So you are right, but you
38:30
just want to get into the playoffs. I'm looking at the wildcard. The
38:32
Mets are only four games out, but like, well, that shows you
38:37
how stupid it is for Major League Baseball to have all these extra teams in
38:42
the playoffs race. See I saw that they're only four games out, and
38:45
Alex, there's gonna be a team that's gonna be under five hundred one of
38:50
these years, and it could be this year. The National League is not
38:52
strong. You take out the Dodgers and the Phills. I mean, I
38:58
know the League League, Major League Baseball was trying to even and out by
39:02
putting DH. But I will say this time and time again, Louis,
39:07
the NL has not found any struggles in the DH position. It's almost like
39:12
they put a picture up there still a little bit. I mean it's not.
39:15
Oh no, I would disagree with you on that. Obviously, the
39:19
Mets have a good DH and J. D. Martinez. The Dodgers have
39:22
Otani. I mean, first of all, I now that I see the
39:28
DH in the National League, and especially I hate the DH. I mean,
39:31
it takes so much strategy out of out of out of baseball. I
39:36
really do, and actually I hate what baseball has become. I mean,
39:39
four times this year a pitchers had seven no hit innings. And one of
39:44
the great things to watch is a complete game no hitter and seven seven inning
39:52
guys with pitched no hitters. They've come out. It's ridiculous. Roo was
40:00
the excitement is. That's one of the best entertainment values, whether you're in
40:04
the park or watching on TV or listening on radio. The nine inning no
40:08
hitter that stood out. You don't see that anymore. They've taken away his
40:15
second start, no hitter through six Boom took him out at right, he
40:21
was at one hundred pitches. And I watched that game. It was a
40:23
Friday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Alex he was dominant, and you
40:30
know he only he will only start another five days, so he could have
40:32
gone a few more you know, pitches or what not. But you know,
40:37
crazy. And by the way, I'm looking at this thing even more
40:40
as you talk about the losing teams losing records. I mean, how is
40:45
it that at twenty one thirty nine the bar lit through all the eight games.
40:49
I don't know. Yeah, it's very very right. I mean,
40:52
you're right. I mean in nineteen sixty nine, the Mets were nine and
40:57
a half games out with seven weeks to go in the season, and they
41:00
finished first and they won one hundred games, not nine games out to finish
41:04
six being twenty games on the five hundred. It's well, we'll have to
41:10
see how it all shapes up. But you know, I just think that
41:14
closed door meeting might have made a difference. I don't know although that they've
41:17
got it. I don't even know what to blame for the fact that they
41:22
almost won another game last night and they had six losses in May when leading
41:29
the eighth. I think if they have won five of them, what would
41:34
their record be if they were five and long instead of zho and six?
41:38
Right, bro, if you have those five wins, they'd be like thirty
41:42
and thirty five, right, So you know it's it's a huge difference.
41:47
Now, someone who is trying to make a difference in her sport was Russ
41:54
you know, really really roughed up the other day. And I know it's
41:58
just it's a but for for NBA or the BNBA says, that's not a
42:02
legal push by by miss Kennedy. What are your thoughts on Caitlyn Clark and
42:08
uh and that push. I think I think this girl's jealous of her that
42:13
pushter right, Well, again, I don't understand and apparently and I guess
42:21
there's a montage of clips that the Indiana Fever have put together that they send
42:25
to the league about Caitlyn Clark being fouled about being called. Let's face it,
42:32
she's a rookie. She's a highly regarded rookie, and they're gonna take
42:37
shots there see if she could take it. Well, obviously she can take
42:39
it. But what happened on Saturday was not like she was battling for loose
42:45
ball on the floor at court. It wasn't a mad scramble under the basket
42:52
and things happened. I mean, this was premeditated by Kennedy Carter on a
43:00
pass. And to make it worse, Angel Rees a very good player.
43:06
She leads the WNBA as a rookie in rebounding celebrating it. Angel Rees has
43:12
issues, you know, she's all about Angel Rees. Caitlin Clark isn't about
43:15
Caitlin Clark. She's about helping her team win. And the Indiana Fever are
43:22
a because obviously they had the worst recor in the league, and they had
43:30
the number one pick, and they correctly picked Caate and Clark. Caitlyn has
43:34
done a spectacular job. I mean, the six Networks that televised WNBA have
43:42
all had their highest ratings this year. Now, five of those six games
43:46
had the Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark involved. But don't these players see it?
43:53
I mean a WNBA draft drew over two million on ESPN, which I
43:58
think last year drew like four hundred thousand. Nobody, kids, Let's face
44:01
it. I'm I am really happy that women's sports are on the way up,
44:08
whether it be the UH National Women's Soccer League, this great premier women's
44:15
hockey league that got off the ground in January and had a tremendous first season,
44:22
and the w NB every night for those games, by the way,
44:27
so there were sellouts almost every night. I am a big proponent of women's
44:36
sports because I think athletics teaching you so much about how to handle yourself every
44:44
day in life. But what they what what these people who are crapping on
44:49
Caitlin Clark. Uh, They're They're wrong, they really are. I mean,
44:54
look at the revenue streams, how they've increased because of Caitlin Clark.
45:00
She has lifted WNBA. Believe that nobody gave a crap about you. I'd
45:05
actually lift all her critics and and those that are jealous of her. She
45:12
may raise those paychecks to one day, you know. So there's no doubt
45:16
about it, Alex, They're all going to get paid now. Shennany Carter
45:22
her passes revealed. Did you know that she had been benched or suspended by
45:27
the Atlanta Dream in twenty twenty one? He conduct detrimental to the team.
45:31
So she's had other she's had other issues. This is a problem player,
45:37
and yet she keeps being signed. And to me, I wonder why not
45:43
because of you know the fact that she's the girl or woman or I should
45:45
say or whatever. Why is she still being inside she has all these issues,
45:50
that's my question. For a start. Apparently, and I've never seen
45:53
her play, but apparently she averaged seventeen points as a rookie in twenty twenty.
46:00
Uh so she she probably has some talent. But again, just like
46:04
in uh, in men professional sports, everybody thinks that they can handle the
46:10
problem child. That's why, uh, that's why the Chicago Sky signed Carter.
46:16
That's why you see it in the NBA or the NFL, whether it's
46:20
Odell Beckham or whether it's Antonio Brown, they all think that they we can
46:24
handle we can handle a problem child and talent wins until it just tears up,
46:31
tears up your team. But Billy Jean King said it today. Here
46:37
is the number one woman who fought for women's sports more than anybody. The
46:43
w NBA better not blow it with this Caitlin Clark situation. They better get
46:47
this under control. You know they do, and you know, and where
46:52
is where are people like Sue Brn and Megan Rapino, all these crusaders of
47:00
for women's sports. Where are they silence crickets? Diana Tarazi did she say?
47:06
I think what Harrison Bucker is going to say next? I guess right,
47:09
So there's that. Well again again it's it's a basketball play. I
47:17
think it got way too much attention. But uh, you don't want your
47:22
meal ticket to get uh say, start where they start with a premeditated hipcheck
47:29
what's next, Kevin McHale, Kurt Kurt Rambas clothesline. Take a look at
47:35
that in nineteen eighty four NBA finals. I mean that was unbelievable. So,
47:40
yes, the league is it is rugged. I'm sure it is just
47:45
like like like the like the NBA has been throughout its history. But let's
47:51
face it, in the previous twenty four to twenty five years of the WNBA.
47:53
Really, do they ever have this kind of attention? No, they
47:57
have, No, they did not. Well and by the way, speaking
48:01
of a problem child, did you see what happened in baseball before I let
48:04
you go today? A actual ban from the game? Yep? Or a
48:10
San Diego Padre let me get his name right here to Kapeta Marcano. No,
48:15
I guess this is a fallout because they also simultaneously cleared show. Hey,
48:22
so this must have been part of our investigation finding out about him A's
48:25
pitcher, Michael Kelly, Padre's pitcher Jay Groom, philly'sn't fielder, Horses Rodriguez
48:31
and divebacks left picture. I mean, I don't understand how they get involved
48:36
with this. And by the way, this is what happens when you involved
48:39
betting in sports for the average fan. The players are gonna get involved to
48:44
one day, when are they gonna learn that? Well, we kind of
48:46
said that, you know, since you know they take any sponsorship sponship money
48:51
from uh fan Duel and Betway and Draft Kings and all the rest of them,
48:57
that's something like this was gonna happen. But Uh, Marcano's gone for
49:02
good. I mean, obviously he wasn't a major player. He wasn't Tani.
49:07
And again I'm not saying this, Oh Tani had to know what is
49:13
what his buddy was doing. I can't believe. I mean, I'd almost
49:15
find it hard to believe he didn't know. And if he wasn't Otani,
49:20
they I'm not. Maybe that's why they're turning a blind eye to it.
49:23
I'm not accusing Altani of it, but dollars right or something like that.
49:29
Yeah, I mean, it just seems weird to me, Alex. It
49:32
would be anybody else. It would be from page News as far as I'm
49:39
concerned. But you know, it's show hey, and oh, well he's
49:44
he's getting that's the thing. He's putting money into the league for them,
49:46
So it doesn't matter, I guess. So it's just it's not right in
49:51
this. I just I just can't. I just refused to believe that he
49:54
did not know what was going on, and to be completely cleared today that
49:59
also, it's like, what what is this? I want to say that
50:04
you know, what I'm saying is a Hillary investigation something, you know what
50:07
I mean, it just it's nuts. Anyway, that being said, there's
50:13
a lot to talk about. I think we did a damn good job.
50:16
One last thing though, hyr Irving, a former Net, I just feel
50:22
like we've talked about him a lot. He's found himself in Dallas and he's
50:27
been the most comfortable. I mean, that is a dynamic duo with Jokic
50:30
and and and Kyrie and I don't know if you just had that supporting cast
50:36
member. Once again, we're talking about supporting CAATs member. He hasn't had
50:37
that right before until Kyrie. Really, so they've gelled this year. You
50:43
know that they have. You know, Kyrie is who he is. He's
50:46
a phenomenal talent. I think he's he's one of the best players I've ever
50:51
seen. Uh. He's the best ball handler in my opinion, since Pete
50:57
Maravich. He's got a high basketball like you you know, it's a shame
51:02
that uh uh he's not going to the NBA Finals with the Nets in Durant.
51:07
But the NBA is sometimes so weird with that stuff. But the uh,
51:12
Luca and Kyrie do form uh a great one two combination and they have
51:21
they have excellent chemistry. I don't know if it's if they can beat the
51:24
depth of the Boston Celtics, it could happen, but it's gonna be tough.
51:34
But but Dallas has gotten Lively and Gabbert, They've gotten great help from
51:39
their support guys. So it's gonna be and again maybe Kyrie with Jason Kidd
51:45
as his coach. And remember Kyrie was a New Jersey Nets fan. He
51:50
was born and raised in New Jersey. When when Kid was doing his thing
51:53
for the Nets going to the two finals, maybe there's some kind of some
51:57
Pontico between those two. I don't know, but the kid is getting Kid
52:01
is just hoping that he gets four more wins out of Kyrie and Luca to
52:07
not only have played on an NBA champion with the Mavericks, but the coach
52:10
the NBA champion Mavericks. So I want to say I got this note today.
52:16
This is how cool it is to be plugged into some of these things.
52:20
Apparently Kyrie has launched a new sneaker ahead of the finals, and I'll
52:24
post that link below, But according to Anta, they partnered with Kyrie to
52:30
celebrate the Mavericks with a new sneaker called Playoff Energy. So check out that
52:35
sneaker. And you know, I love these guys. They use their creativity
52:37
off the court to do something like that and sell it. That's pretty cool
52:40
marketing right there. It sure is, it sure is. So I'll drop
52:47
that link below. But Lou always a pleasure on Tourminello's take anything that we
52:52
didn't lead that we're leaving on the table. I feel like we covered everything
52:55
up until this point. Yeah, I think I think we did. Obviously,
53:00
we're going to get into the heat of the summer and the only thing
53:02
that we're gonna be that's gonna be worth talking about are the Yankees until we
53:07
get to football training camp at the end of July, so we'll uh,
53:14
you know, so we'll we'll see those higher. The Bills signed a Olympian
53:21
football experience is very interesting. I think he was a wrestler, I think
53:24
I read. But that's a little unique twist to their off season. And
53:29
I know Aaron's throwing dimes. Aaron Rodgers is looking pretty good. He just
53:32
gotta, you know, keep at it and maybe stay off the podcast for
53:37
a while and just spocus on football. What about what say you? Well,
53:42
he focuses on football. I mean, his attention is never diverted from
53:45
football. He's he's that dialed in. He's a very smart guy. I'm
53:50
sure. I know he's going to be on McAfee's podcast once a week.
53:53
By the way, McAfee getting back to Caitlin Clark. What mcaf he said
54:00
yesterday about Caitlin Clark, if you haven't seen, it was really uncalled for.
54:07
So I know he's been in the he's been in the news. A
54:09
lot of these guys are are in the news for speaking out about this,
54:15
and apparently Stephen A. Smith said, Uh, some of these gals that
54:19
are covering the w w n B A I got them their start. I
54:21
mean even he's chiming in about but his involvement in just this is why I
54:25
tuned out some of these guys, to be honest. Yes, the gas
54:30
bags, they don't focus on the task at hand, which is finding a
54:36
solution. And that's the problem. It is like no one's really uh maybe
54:39
there are a few of them, but but they're not even finding a solution
54:43
to something like this. They're just kind of letting the media talk about it.
54:46
And I think w NBA, I don't know there's issued a statement or
54:50
not. I haven't seen a statement from the w NBA. Yet I have
54:52
not, and that's as of five four on Tuesday, June fourth, So
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that's all you need to know, Louis. As far as that's concerned,
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the w n B A is maybe uh lack of interest. I don't want
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to say like interest, but they're not they're not vocal. I'm sure they're
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worried about about what's going on. But remember, any publicity is good publicity.
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The w NBA has never had as much publicity as they've had since Clark
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came into the league, and this incident has even brought it to another level.
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So everybody's talking about it. Everybody. Yeah, I think wrong,
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mhm. I think it's overblown. But they're talking about Alex they are.
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And and the other thing that I will say is we watched how a reporter
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from India, Indiana was actually suspended for the way he was talking to her
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during training camp. I mean, every step of the way it's been and
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now it's it's And remember these w NBA rookies finished their NCAA season, like
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Clark played in the championship game. A week later, she's drafted. A
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week after that, she's in training camp and they then they start the preseason
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and the regular season. There's no break like the NBA player has from draft
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time, which is going to be at the end of June, I think
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June twenty seventh or June twenty eighth, until until training camp at the end
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of September. It's a totally different It's a totally different thing, you know.
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So, and the other thing I will say, because I've kept an
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eye on her too, is I gotta give kudos to Kate Martin, who
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also got drafted in this rookie class, and I think that was huge because
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she played a big role in IOWA as well, alongside Kaitlyn Clark. So
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for her to be in the WNBA as well, she needs some kudos out
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there. So I'm gonna give her to her some kudos as well on this
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podcast because she's not getting enough recognition for being drafted. Let me put it
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that way. Well, I'm sure Caitlyn Clark recognizes her teammates contribution to them
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getting to two straight final fours. So I mean it's those two are the
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core of IOWA right there, and a couple others, and to see them
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both in the league is great. It's just we've got to see how this
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progresses. Now, they did play the Liberty, and I was just thinking
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to myself, imagine if that happened in New York. That would be disaster
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if the Liberty did something like this. But we're just a class of your
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town in that regard, I think, right, Louis, Well, it's
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easy. It's easy to be classy when you have a super team like the
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Liberty does. And Sabrina I and Escu class act. Okay, she is
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a class act, a great spokes spokesman for the league as well, by
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the way, and we'll see. And one of the point, Tanny Carter's
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not turning out for the Olympics, but Caitlyn Clark is. And that's my
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mic drop for this episode. All right, Louie, al right, Alex
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all right. Hermielo's take once again, loved having you and we'll do this
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again soon. Absolutely look forward to it and continue to feel better in your
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recovery. Thank you. One step at a time, sir, talk to
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you a little bit. That's been Terminello's take with one only louse Termanella