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Cubs/Pirates fan injury, T-Wolves Beat Lakers, Bill Seals talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Alright, good afternoon and welcome to Miller and Condon on
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a Thursday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller for the next couple of hours to talk
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sports with you. We appreciate you starting your
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afternoon here with us. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. Hour 2 is a throwback to the
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60s, maybe the 50s for crying out loud with our guest list the
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way it shapes up. But Bill Seals is going to be
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here to kick things off at the bottom of our number one
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cyclonereport.com. Couple of things on the Jennifer
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Bill to discuss. Obviously, I want to know more
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if you can share more about the rivals on three merger that is
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taking place. Jamie Pollard went on a podcast.
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You ever by the way, good morning.
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Have you ever heard of Jack Trice Mafia?
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No, I have not I. Have not either, but he had
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Jamie Pollard on his podcast and getting a lot of a lot of
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traction running the message boards and on X amongst Cyclone
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fans, Pollard just laying out what lies ahead for the athletic
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department and the $20 million that they're going to have to
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come up with as everybody is. But so we'll talk to Bill Seals
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about some of those issues, but give Jack Trice Mafia on XA
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little publicity for what he was able to do in getting Jamie
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Pollard. So that's Iowa State
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conversation. The bottom of the hour number
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one, Hour 2 mentioned it's a throwback hockey and horse
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racing. How about that?
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We'll start with Joe O'Donnell. That's your hour.
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There it is. Yes.
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I don't get many of them in a year, but we'll take this one.
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And it's lines up like this. Joe O'donnell's the radio voice
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of the Minnesota Wild. They have their backs up against
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the wall tonight, a winner go home scenario for the Wild.
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They'll host the Las Vegas Golden Knights 630 puck drop.
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ESPN has that one. And we'll talk to Joe about how
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the Wild can get this series back to Las Vegas for a game #7
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which I believe would be on Saturday should the Wild
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advance. And they played this series
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incredibly tough. So hopefully the home folks at
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the Xcel Energy Center can lift their team to a Game 7 on
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Saturday. And then Dick Girardi, formerly
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of the Philadelphia Daily News Inquirer, one of the
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Philadelphia papers, wrote there.
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For decades, he's covered decades of Kentucky Derby's.
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So as we've done over the last four or five years, Dick Girardi
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comes in and shares his insight on this year's Kentucky Derby.
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That comes up about 1:30. The race itself comes up on
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Saturday about 5 minutes or so before 6:00.
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Our time is when the gate is scheduled to open and 20 horses
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will break out of it in search of the roses.
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Trent. We'll make some plays of the day
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before we get out of here. Circus sports sponsor those and
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away we go. Boy, busy day in sports with the
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winter sports, both on the ice and on the hardwood.
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And then you got a guy falling out of the stands in Pittsburgh.
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And that was a scary incident if you've ever seen one.
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That certainly was would be on your list.
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Apparently. And this is coming from a person
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who allegedly was sitting five rows behind the the guy that
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fell out of the stands. He'd been into his cups, if you
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want to use a British term. He'd been tying one on.
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Well lubricated. Yeah, he was well oiled.
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Well oiled. Let me get the exact tweet that
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this person who again, this is, this is her, this is his or her
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kind of thoughts on what I was sitting five rows behind him.
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He was drunk inning before he ripped off his shirt, poured
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half a beer all over himself. He jumped up from his seat when
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the Pirates got a hit. He jumped up so quick while
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being drunk, he literally propelled himself off of the
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ledge. So we're rooting for him.
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He's in critical condition, apparently with a skull
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fracture. That is the latest the Pirates
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and the Cubs are back on. They're playing.
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I think they're bottom of the second inning right now.
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Paul Skeens doing Paul Skeens stuff.
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So far against those Cubs. The Pirates lead one to nothing,
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but obviously you don't see that very often, thankfully.
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But a scary incident, Trent. It really was and just seeing it
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on social media, if people did miss it because it wasn't on
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Sports Center, I don't think they were showing it on on those
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kind of highlights. If you're not part of social
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media or don't jump on to that. It was a guy and basically very
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grainy video. It's not anything you can really
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pick up easily on the television.
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You said you saw an angle from more of a field.
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From field level, kind of a little bit off to the third base
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side, but at field level. And they can, I mean, he flips
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over in the air coming down. So I posted it on my tweet on my
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ex because I saw it before the national media picked up on it.
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And then I saw a tweet that he's passed and I thought, you know,
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I'm not going to put that out. So I untweeted my ex.
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Whatever it is you do. Changed it up.
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Yeah, I just took it down, but apparently he's still alive but
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a fractured skull. So rooting for him.
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But yeah, I mean, just a scary incident.
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Obviously the Pirates and the Cubs, they were shaken up by
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what transpired on their playing field and the game was delayed
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until they came back and and came out the medical personnel
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and carted him off the field. If you want to see it, it's all
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over action so you don't have to search very hard to find it, but
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hopefully this guy pulls. Through it's gross.
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It is. Just be and he kind of know.
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At least we think we know a little bit of the background.
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Free. Falling.
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Well, imbibe, yeah. Having a good time?
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Yep. Maybe a little out of control,
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but yeah, sounds like it. Not that.
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No, it'll be interesting to see where where it goes because he's
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got witnesses that say he was, you know, he's bombed, but still
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it's the lead shy enough. Who knows where it's going to
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go. But the only person going to
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make the money on this course is the attorneys for both sides.
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If we'll we'll see where it goes.
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Billable hours, billable hours. So let's but that, but that
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play. It was impactful to the game.
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It was, yeah. They took the lead on that play.
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That's why, you know, the guy was so excited.
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By the way, earlier in the game. Have you seen the highlight of
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PC as throw from not shallow center field, not the warning
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track, somewhere in between and no business even being close.
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And originally, the runner was called out as he tried to tag up
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and come home from third base. Bases were loaded, tags up, runs
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hard and the umpire called him out and it was a Bang Bang play
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and I thought PCH did nailed him but just the fact that it was
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even close. Trent.
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Right. What a player.
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He really is. He's got it all.
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The only thing that you wonder about is how consistent that
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bat's going to be. I mean, it's big strikeout
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totals, but and today's environmental baseball, if if
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this was 10 years ago, 15 years ago, that would be a huge deal.
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But now, no. You'll get elite level defense,
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you'll have the elite level speed which is back into the
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game now with the bigger bases. And the stolen base numbers
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across baseball, I mean, they're they are setting, I don't want
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to say Ricky Henderson, Tim Raines, 80s era, right?
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But for the first time in a long time, the stolen bases back
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baby. Absolutely.
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And you're seeing that when you have a player with those kind of
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abilities that build you to drive the ball and it feels like
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he's just going to get better and better.
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If he never hits 270 in a season, that's fine.
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His kind of prototype back in the day, Well, you better hit at
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least 275. Yeah.
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Now that doesn't with. 2530 home run right that.
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That's not the case anymore, no. It can be a different type of
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player. In arm, my God.
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And hit 235 and be able to get away with it with a speed guy
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like that. And I think he'll be better than
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that. I think he has a chance to be.
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26270 probably in there maybe. He's never gonna find a bad
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title. No, I wouldn't think so.
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I wouldn't have gold gloves. Oh yes, too many holes in that
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swing to do that. But all the other players.
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Still too. Oh.
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Yeah, and it'll get better. No, it will.
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Has he been up the He hasn't been in the big leagues for a
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year, has he? No, I don't think he has.
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No, I don't think he has June, late May.
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Not sure exactly when, but I don't think he's been there for
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a. Year and did he get sent down?
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After he went back. After he went back, or was it
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just he recalled, they pulled back the playing time.
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I don't recall. I thought he finished up pretty
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well in September. If memory serves, his September
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numbers were. Absolutely.
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I do remember that point, yes, that he was able to do that.
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I'll see if I can find a game blog for him.
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His minor league stats popped those up last season.
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He was with Iowa, and he only played 26 games with Iowa.
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Yeah, and that probably isn't it.
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It was he got called up. Got there.
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I need to go. Yeah.
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Well, fun to watch. No doubt about this.
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All right, so let's get to the NBA from last night and those
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Minnesota Timberwolves in was in a in five games, five games
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knocked off the Los Angeles Lakers the three seed with Luca
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and LeBron. They are done in the fourth
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quarter of these games. You can tell that there's not a
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lot of depth on this Lakers team because look at the fourth
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quarters, right? The scoring in the fourth
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quarter just keeps going down, down.
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They scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter last night in
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a game that they had to win or off to Galveston.
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They would go 16 points. Obviously not cutting it.
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And you got to give credit where credit is due and that's the
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Rudy Gobert. I mean what a game this cat had
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last night. 27/24/24 rebounds, 27 points out of Rudy Gobert.
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He was just a match up nightmare.
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And the lack of defensive big man for the Lakers.
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I don't know if that was entirely their undoing, but boy
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it played a huge. Role so we go back to the trade
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deadline. Mark Williams on his way there,
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a big body guy that can move, good defensive player.
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They would have given up Dalton Connect, who didn't play last
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night. No.
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Cam Reddish didn't play. Wow.
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And a first round pick in 20310. God that's what the Lakers would
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have given up for a guy that certainly would have changed the
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way the series went. Yep, with Mark Williams I don't
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believe the T Wolves win in five.
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They still might have won the series, but to think that it's
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going to be because he saw it again and it showed up in the
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ability and offensive rebounds on a night were the Timberwolves
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shoot 7 of 47 from the three-point line 30.
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Couldn't make a three to say through then went over 11 from
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three. Ant was awful.
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He was shooting the basket. Yeah, he did other things well.
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Daisy. Rebounds were there.
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When Conley hit that corner three to make it back up to six,
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when felt like pretty close to the dagger at that point.
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When he hit that 3 pointer at that time they had missed 18
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straight 3 pointers. That's amazing.
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And they still held a three-point lead at that time.
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You look at any of these numbers, you look at the way
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that Ham played, you look at the way the three-point shooting
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was, you say not only the temple.
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There's no way they're winning. They got throttled.
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You're playing alt liner, you're laying 20 1/2 with confidence.
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Sure, with the Lakers. Feeling really good about it.
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Final score one O 396 T Wolves with the win.
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The Lakers look old. They did.
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They look slow, tired Luca with the back injury.
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But that was obviously a factor. With Luca, do we have to talk
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about this though? His weight.
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Well, that, but just in general, when things aren't going well,
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he likes to uh huh. Yeah.
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Go back to the finals last year and Winmore was at the forefront
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of it. Right.
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No, he. Was he called him out?
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He did, and there was a reason he knew people in The Mavericks
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organization. Do do The Mavericks look better
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today or still inept? It's still inept.
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Yeah, but that trade doesn't look as bad today as it did, I
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don't know, a week ago, right leading up to this point, like
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Lucas. Lucas a a a bucket make getting
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machine right? This is what he does.
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His offensive numbers are always going to be there, but his
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defense isn't. I mean, there were times who was
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it that just took the ball? It might have been McDaniels.
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Oh yeah, he was tremendous again.
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You just walked around him like he was a traffic cone, for
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crying out loud. Didn't even put up any, any
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degree of defense. Look like a Hawkeye out there in
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the Caffrey era. But that's going to change.
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By the way, I feel a pretty good feeling about that.
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I'm very optimistic about McCollum installing some
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defensive prowess with his group coming up this winter.
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It was another fun game that was a fun series in a way as happy
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as a Timberwolves fan that they got the.
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Series win. Who are they getting next?
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They will get the winner of the Warriors and the Rockets bottom
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side of the bracket, likely the Warriors.
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Rockets still have to win two more.
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They'll go back to you. Golden State San Francisco on
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Friday night will be Game 6 for that one.
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You take your chances there, yeah.
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Draymond's going to be in the middle of it.
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He's going to annoy the crap. And if you think I was bothered
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yesterday when we were talking about the Warriors, just wait
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till next week because it's going to go to another level
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because just in general, he annoys me and it'll be playing
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the team that I root on. But Steph, we saw the numbers
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now, yes, Lakers, Warriors would have been an incredible number
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for the NBA, but people are watching and.
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Steph Curry's hands hurt, too. Anthony Edwards is continuing to
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climb up that mountain. They showed it last night.
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This organization had only advanced past the first round of
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the playoffs one time before he got there.
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They've done it twice. I saw a screenshot of his draft
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year. Ugly.
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Wow, it's. A.
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It's a good thing that the T Wolves had the one.
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Well, and I remember us talking about it.
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Wait, OK, you take the shot. Neither of us thought he was
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going to be. Very No, we didn't.
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We both thought grab Wiseman, right, Right.
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You take A7 footer, that's the pick.
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What are you thinking? Whoops, One of the balls went in
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the draft. I mean, it's just a bunch of a
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bunch of guys that I mean, I'm not sure half of them are in the
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league. Well, that was the 2020 draft,
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so. That's what the year was.
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You had that part of it too, Yeah.
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Wiseman too. Lamello Ball was the 3rd pick.
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Patrick Williams, Isaac Koro. Oh, Killian Hayes, Obi Toppin,
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Jaylen Smith. Oh, wow.
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And then Halliburton went 12, Tyrese Maxi at 21.
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Those are the good players. Yeah, that's basically.
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Redrafting. You're taking Halliburton too?
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Yes. Oh, absolutely.
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Yeah. Yeah, there's no.
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Man, good stuff, good stuff out of the NBA.
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Well done for you Minnesota Timberwolves as you advance on
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and they're still going to be playing basketball, which is
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it's a it's a fun watch. It is late watch, but
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nonetheless I saw more of the game last night than I thought
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that I would because during between periods I didn't stick
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around. You know, watching the between
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periods of the hockey game. I was overwatching the T Wolves
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and it worked out really well. They were kind of separated from
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themselves. So they were both at both when,
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you know, between periods going into our at halftime.
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So I saw a lot of basketball. I didn't think that I would.
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I was watching your jets, They got TV #2 last night.
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They were up in the upper right. Yeah, that's where The Jets were
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occupying the space. I don't, I mean, I'm, I'm
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waiting. I'm refreshing Twitter here
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every like minute. A Shafley, Shafley injury, yeah.
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I mean, he's their best player by a mile and he got jacked up,
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he got levelled. So I didn't see the first, I saw
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the 2nd and when they came out and then didn't have the sound
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on, obviously Timberwolves had the sound and they had something
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scrolled because I didn't even realize it.
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I clicked on the FanDuel Sports 671.
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Oh, you're watching Midnight Lewis?
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Yeah, that that feed and they put on there that he hasn't
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played yet. And I'm like, oh, and didn't
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know the story. Then finally looked on Twitter a
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little bit later and found and saw the clip of that one.
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Yeah, it can't be. It can't be very a fun
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conversation because The Jets have a Shen Blues captain is a
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Shen the Blues captain. Shen knocked out The Jets best
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player. So that's got a little bit a
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little bit be a little bit awkward when the two brothers
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are getting together at some point this summer.
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But The Jets go to Saint Louis up three to Washington has moved
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on to big games tonight. Obviously the wild we'll talk
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about that with Joe O'Donnell is series are coming down and
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knock. How about the Florida Panthers
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getting by Tampa Bay just dominated just dominated him, no
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doubt. Alright, let's take Anthony.
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We're going to get the Bill seals bottom of the hour.
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By the way, coming up this afternoon on the drive about 330
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Frank Caliendo going to be in studio with with Heather and
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Lucas hoping he'll do a he'll lend his voice to a a promo like
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he did last time, as it's yes, it's still 1460, but it's also
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one O 6.3. Cataliendo was good enough to do
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that one of the last times he was here.
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And then tomorrow morning, Sean Roberts has the Iowa State QB,
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I'm told, perfect Roccobecht 730.
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And you know what, I'll text Sean during a break to make sure
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I've got the the time right because Rocco's going to join
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Sean tomorrow morning at 7:30. And that's a good get.
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But we got Bill Seals and he's going to come up here in about
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10 minutes. I look forward to doing that.
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What from baseball last night, other than the guy falling out
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of the stands, did you watch much baseball?
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I watched, I mean, back and forth to the Cubs early for me.
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I like the fact that it started at 5:40, which is perfect for
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you. For me, not for you.
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You got daddy duties, what else? From baseball last night.
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Anything floats your boat. That was basically it for me,
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yeah. I didn't see a whole lot outside
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of the Cubs watch the the Twins fall apart again in the middle
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innings. So that was very frustrating.
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So now they've Cleveland's taken two of the first 3.
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Yes and back at it here this afternoon and it is scoreless as
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they go to they're. Already playing?
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Yes. Couple of we got 4.
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Live 8 games. Five games underway already.
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Wow, Cubs still trailing 1 zip. Yes, Paul Skeen's doing Paul
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Skeen's things. All right, let's get Anthony in
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here. Anthony, thank you for being
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patient. What's on your mind?
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Hey, how you guys doing this afternoon?
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Good, good, good. Yeah, I want to talk about that.
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Lakers fall out last night, actually, not the entire series.
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The two questions I do have for you guys is the Lakers is much
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to blame for not getting a stunter.
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Last time the Lakers had a stunter on their team.
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Oh gosh, you had to go back where Shaq was playing.
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And guys, I like Minnesota chances getting the championship
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rig. I like to look at Garza, his
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first championship rig. I do have a trivia question here
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for you. All right.
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When's the last time a a former Hawkeye basketball star has
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earned a championship ring? At what year did he play for and
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what team did he play for? Well, I know.
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BJ did listen to the Go Hawks and Go T Wall.
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All right. Thanks, Anthony.
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I don't know. I'd say Bobby Hanson.
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Was Bobby Hanson there? No.
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Or it had to be. BJ it was Hanson was there 93?
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Just the first one. We got one, yeah.
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And BJ was there at least for the 1st 2 and I believe all
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three before he went to Golden. State are we missing anybody on
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that Houston team from the mid 90s Bullard he he was still.
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Around, yeah, Ben going a little bit deeper, There's not a whole
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lot of guys around rosters. I mean it was Reggie Evans never
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won a championship, right Though he was in the league for 1012
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years, no championship for him. He was, I believe on a finals
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team, but I don't think he got a title.
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And who else will there be? Obviously not the buries.
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They've been on bad teams for the most part.
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Nothing there. Garza just starting his career
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and of course the Timberwolves haven't done it yet.
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Bullard might be the guy. Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
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Anyways, Rocco Bect is at 725. Sean just sent us a text.
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Rocco back tomorrow morning with Sean at 7:25.
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That should be a good piece with the Iowa State signal caller.
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All right, we're going to take a time out.
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Let's get the Bill Seals. He covers Iowa State at
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cyclonereport.com, part of the rival slash on three.
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Where, where, where are we going with this?
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Bill Seals, good to talk to you. Quite the news yesterday in your
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world. Well, that's I think it I think
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it could be big news actually. There's no Iowa State
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representation over it on three right now.
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And as you guys see, they do a a wonderful job on a on a national
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scale covering football and basketball recruiting.
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I understand the we're going to have double the network of
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analysts now as you combine the resources there.
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So I think myself, it's going to be, it's going to be a great
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addition. So will your writing, you know
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your coverage, will it appear on the new cyclone on three side or
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do do we do we have the the particulars with that yet or is
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that still to be determined? I think it's still yet to be
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determined. I don't think they're going to
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break my site up though. Then the the community on there
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is you guys well aware. I mean, it's been together a lot
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of these guys have been part of that for over 20 years now.
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So I I don't think that that they're going to come in and
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break that up. It's a good thing going.
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And so I think you'll still see that part of that and and my
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writing as well. And I think just the
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particulars, we'll see how that sorts its way out.
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But it sounds like they want to get this thing closed by the end
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of the second quarter. So I think by the time Iowa
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State kicks off in Dublin, Ireland, you'll have a pretty
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good idea how this thing's going to look.
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Be good and looking forward to certainly that.
23:40
Quick question for you on the basketball front.
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Last I think 3 days now each day individually, they've been
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announcing the transfers at least with the official press
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release, even though these guys have been committed, signed for
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a really long time. Any idea of the justification,
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the reasoning behind that of of waiting well for a lot of these
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guys 2-3 weeks to even have that announcement out there, even
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though they've all signed not the dotted line.
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Yeah, I think just kind of spreading things out, not not
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saturated, you know, a Newsday right now with all, all of those
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signings, I think to spread them out.
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And as as we we've seen with spring ball being over now, I
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think it's a perfect week for them to kind of start rolling
24:20
those rolling those things out. And and yeah, I mean, it's with
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with spring ball though, Yeah, again, wrapped up, it's it's,
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you know, it's going to be a lot of recruiting coverage like this
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that you're going to see from, you know, here on through much
24:35
of the offseason. Bill, I know that you took a
24:38
stab at the depth chart coming out of the spring ball.
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Did you see anything? Did you make any significant
24:46
changes? I guess not, not to what we saw
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because we didn't see any depth chart.
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But in your mind, did you did you see somebody that in at
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least to you might have, you know, impacted his spot on the
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football team with the with the spring practice?
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Well, I think the biggest one that I, I kind of as I was going
25:05
through this that I debated over was Brett Eskelsen in there at
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that Z wide receiver position. I, I think a lot of a lot of
25:15
people coming out of last season would have thought maybe Carson
25:18
Brown would be there walk on that did some great things last
25:22
season. And even Daniel Jackson, we
25:25
didn't, we didn't hear much from much about him from the coaches
25:29
over the spring. So I wonder if him, it's
25:31
probably still a process of him getting back from his injury.
25:35
But we did. And in talking to Campbell,
25:38
talking to Mauser and Noah Pauly at times throughout the spring,
25:43
Brett Eskilson's name was one that came up pretty frequently.
25:47
So I put put him there on on the Z line.
25:51
You know, Eli Green, he's another.
25:53
As I went through the PFF numbers, it only played the
25:57
steps. He did play, only 30% were in
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the slot. So I don't think it's a foregone
26:01
conclusion that he's going to be there with Xavier Townsend.
26:05
He lined up all over the field. So who knows that Eli Green did
26:09
great things that that North Dakota State and he could be an
26:12
option at the Z. But I think the way things are
26:15
trending, they they really like what they've got in in Brett
26:17
Eskeldson. Wanted to ask you about a wide
26:20
receiver and Jackson was on my list but another guy Kai Black
26:24
so local kid. He had a lot of really good
26:27
offers. Big receiver though, if.
26:30
Like like 62636? 4 is he and there were some
26:34
people that believe that he was better suited to become a tight
26:37
end as opposed to a wide receiver.
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If it doesn't happen this year, is that maybe in the plans?
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Hey, let's see if we can bulk him up and move to tight end.
26:44
Has there been any talk about that, that you know, Bill?
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Most certainly there has been talk about about that happening
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and to be honest, I'm surprised that that that he's not changed
26:55
over there in the roster now. We we didn't have our eyes on
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all 15 practices. We don't know the amount of reps
27:01
that he got it tight end that very well could still be in the
27:05
works. But going off what they list on
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cyclones.com right now, he's still shown at wide receiver.
27:13
What I will say though, is that you got tight end, yeah, they've
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they've got a bunch Bramer Bramer back in there, Gabe
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Berkel. But beyond those two guys,
27:24
Cooper Alexander was still on the shelf with the shoulder
27:27
injury throughout the spring. I think they like what they've
27:30
got out of Keaton Roskopf. He's kind of in that, you know,
27:34
maybe that mold of a Gabe Berkel, except a couple years
27:37
younger. He's going to be a blocking kind
27:39
of guy first, I think at this point.
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Then beyond those two, you've got a couple of walk on.
27:45
So I think that time, if if there ever was a time for him to
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make that move to tight end, it's probably this season
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looking at at how that position was coming out of the spring.
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And I also, I didn't mention Tyler Moore as well.
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He said he's one that was injured as well as coming out of
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that injury and into the spring that's lingered on.
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So we'll we'll see how that shakes out.
28:08
But yeah, he certainly, I think it adds something to tight end
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right now. As you think back, what was the
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chatter about Bramer Spring like?
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Obviously, this guy's a fresh show.
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The tremendous glimpses of what might lie ahead.
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Injuries have really curtailed that.
28:24
What kind of spring did he have, Bill?
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I think he had a phenomenal spring from everything that
28:30
we've been told that he, he was. I, I think the subject of a few
28:34
of those posts from Cyclone football on the, the X social
28:39
media platform, a few highlight videos of, of him and he looks
28:43
to be back at the level that he was.
28:47
I, I wouldn't really say that he was at that level.
28:49
He was as a freshman last season because starting in, in training
28:53
camp, he wasn't really healthy. We just didn't see it.
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But I, I think he's back to where he was as a freshman.
29:01
You, you couple him with Gabe Berkel, who was actually the
29:04
team's third leading receiver last season.
29:06
Who would have thought that Berkel would have been the third
29:09
leading receiver? But I think they've got a
29:11
dynamic duo right there with the with those two and and Bramer
29:15
back at that level he was in in 2023.
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Go back to the conversation that we heard from Campbell right as
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things were wrapping up and you can see his frustration with the
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new roster limits that are being in place.
29:27
Well, now they're walking it back and trying to figure out
29:29
what this is going to look like. Let's say it happens and Iowa
29:33
states able to grab another 10/12/15 kids on their roster
29:38
that they didn't think that they were going to have.
29:40
Is it reaching back out to walk ONS?
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Is there going to be an ability for some scholarship guys?
29:45
Where would that be? If it turns out that they're
29:47
able to get another a good handful of players, how would
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they do that? Navigate that here throughout
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the course of the summer. Well, I think that's a good
29:54
point that Trenton and you look at their roster right now on
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cyclones.com and a lot of those kids that are in the transfer
30:01
portal still haven't been removed from the roster.
30:04
So that need to believe, you know, maybe they maybe they know
30:07
something that we don't yet. So I would think that's probably
30:11
where you start if they reach back out to those kids.
30:14
There are some, however, that have been removed and you follow
30:17
some of them on social media and they're getting some pretty good
30:20
offers. Like, you know, one of those
30:22
local kids, George Nahas has gotten some pretty good ones so
30:25
far, one of those offensive lineman.
30:27
So I, I think that's probably where they start.
30:30
They they try to get back out to those kids if they can carry
30:33
more. But yeah, it's just it as
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Campbell was saying, it's ridiculous that here we are what
30:39
May 1st and they still don't really know what that what
30:43
that's going to look like come season opener in in Ireland.
30:48
You know when you when you talk to your colleagues or throughout
30:51
the rivals network that the cover of Big 12 sites, what's
30:54
kind of the consensus is this is kind of, you can throw 6 or 8
30:59
schools into a hat and, and, and pick one out.
31:03
I mean, is there going to be a lot not a parody because this is
31:06
seemingly a league that is going to have that most years from
31:09
where I sit anyways. I mean Arizona State came out of
31:12
nowhere. You would think Utah would get
31:14
get back. Iowa State's usually in the
31:16
hunt. Oklahoma State was really good
31:18
at an awful year last year. K State's going to be in the
31:22
thick of things. Baylor pops up now and then what
31:25
what's kind of the the consensus as we sit here on May the 1st is
31:29
the, you know, who's going to be when?
31:31
When you guys get together with Meaty days, who's going to be
31:34
the number one team? Who's going to have the target
31:36
on their back? Well, I think it's probably
31:39
Arizona State after, after what it accomplished last season and
31:43
and as you guys saw took Texas right down to the wire and in
31:47
that CFP game, I think it starts there.
31:51
But then again, you look at what that what that media poll was,
31:55
and I think was the Arizona State was picked last, I think
31:58
the end of last season. So in this era of the transfer
32:02
portal, it, it's really hard to predict where, where things will
32:06
ultimately land, especially after what Arizona State did.
32:10
They've been active once again, I think in the portal and and
32:13
bolstering that, what they have coming back and that that
32:17
quarterback, gosh, he's a he's a good one.
32:19
I think he's going to be right up there as a first round draft
32:23
pick at at some point 11. He's a dynamic player.
32:27
So I think it starts with the Sun Devils and then you've got,
32:30
as you mentioned, that pack of schools with Iowa State.
32:33
I think it's going to be really good Kansas State.
32:36
We'll, we'll see if Oklahoma State bounces back and you know,
32:40
how, how, how long does TCU stay down?
32:43
And Kansas had a down season but really kind of turned things
32:47
around. So this though, I think a big
32:49
pack of schools probably in there behind Arizona State right
32:53
now is the the standard bearer of the conference.
32:56
Bill, we got to hang out together last year in Vegas, had
32:59
a good time doing that. Obviously Big 12 Media days are
33:02
moving back to Texas now. Ken and I's views are a little
33:05
bit tainted because of our love of Las Vegas, But have you
33:08
talked to any of your media colleagues what people think?
33:10
I'm sure the people in Texas are happy about it, but outside of
33:13
that, the return back to going back to Texas as opposed to what
33:17
they had a year ago in Vegas. Well, I tell you, that
33:20
experience in Vegas was a good time at every everything except
33:23
for the 118° temperature. If I get into a Leeds and
33:27
stadium, yeah, it was miserable outside, but but it's a dry
33:31
heat. Was a really good.
33:33
Yeah, yeah, dry heat. Yeah.
33:35
So. But then again, you know, some
33:36
of these, these these media days down in Dallas, it hasn't been
33:40
real cool. Humid.
33:41
In recent years either so, so yeah, I think that the the the
33:44
destination not as attractive as it was.
33:48
Sure they had their reasons. And and we're not even having it
33:51
back at AT&T Stadium either. It's at the Frisco in Frisco at
33:56
the Cowboys practice facility and they're utilizing that where
34:00
they've had pro day in the past for the Big 12.
34:03
So yeah, it's a little bit different destination this
34:06
season. We'll we'll make the most of it.
34:08
But I think that time of the the summer and that what that first
34:12
week or two in July, there's always going to be some great
34:15
news coming out of that and and looking forward to getting back
34:18
down again this year. And then I got to assume that I
34:21
was stable to start a week earlier than all the week one
34:23
teams as far as their fall training camp with with the trip
34:27
to Ireland awaiting the next to last week in August.
34:31
My God, Bill Seals, what do you got coming up this week at
34:33
Cyclone Report? Dot com Well, I'm just digging
34:36
into the the other half of that depth chart projection for the
34:42
defensive side coming out of the spring.
34:44
That'll be something to look forward to.
34:47
I'll probably have that slated up for everyone on Friday.
34:51
And then just put up an updated list of those official visits
34:56
for Iowa State football coming up starts the end of May, that
35:01
last weekend coming into June so that you can get the full
35:03
rundown. That's the most up to date that
35:06
you'll see out there right now of who's going to be in town.
35:09
Some BIOS on those guys and gosh, Iowa State last check #21
35:14
in the country right now in that 2026 class and a lot of very
35:19
highly ranked kids going to be in aims for those those O VS.
35:23
So as as usual, the recruiting won't slow down on on Cyclone
35:27
report. We'll keep hitting that really
35:29
hard. And then yeah, we'll we'll get
35:32
football camps as well coming up.
35:33
So lots of good stuff. Seals, we'll talk to you next
35:37
week. Appreciate it.
35:38
Appreciate it guys. Yep, good to talk to Bill Seals,
35:40
cyclonereport.com part of the rivals slash on Three Network.
35:46
Did we ever find out which Hawkeye was the last one to win
35:49
a champions? Nothing officially it was of the
35:52
ones that I was looking up, it was Matt Bullard was more recent
35:55
than what we saw from BJ Armstrong.
35:56
So that happened. BJ departed after their
36:00
back-to-back losses in the playoffs.
36:02
Oh, did he OK? Year one with Pippen not going
36:04
into the game, Tony Kukoch hit the buzzer, and then the next
36:07
year when MJ came back and they lost to the Magic in the
36:10
conference semifinals, that was the last time for BJ in Chicago.
36:13
So as I've seen it right now, it's Matt Bullard.
36:16
I think it has to be because. Ryan Bowen played a long time.
36:19
He. Played the Nuggets.
36:20
No. Yeah, exactly.
36:21
They didn't get there. No, it was not a good basket,
36:23
not a good Nuggets team, if memory serves.
36:26
All right, it's a quarter before 1:00.
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We'll take a time out, Come back, wrap up our #1 Miller and
36:31
Condon are in the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
36:48
I'm Miller and Cod, then final couple of minutes here.
36:50
Our #1 Ryan Bone was an assistant on the Nuggets.
36:53
Trent. No, no, no player.
36:56
Is that what Anthony said? Anthony's not going to accept
36:58
that. All right.
37:00
I bowed as an assistant. Get out of town.
37:02
Jim has been patient waiting throughout the break.
37:05
How are you, Jim? Well, I just want to refresh
37:09
your memory. I'm the retired principal of
37:11
Coming out of Break. You guys are playing smoking in
37:13
the boys room. Call it well, it's funny.
37:16
And I said, you know, Lakers, man, there's a futures for you,
37:19
Ken. Yeah.
37:22
Let me qualify this. I was up 15 units in football.
37:24
Trent and I took an absolute bath in NBA, in college
37:27
basketball this year. I think I'm down.
37:29
I think I ended up down 27 units.
37:30
You must be tailing Trent. Yes, college basketball is
37:34
normally my money making one. I I have to re evaluate this
37:37
offseason with the new rosters, the way that it's implemented,
37:40
playing underdogs like I normally do.
37:42
It did not work at all throughout this whole season and
37:45
and I think that's a big part of it.
37:48
Remember the Purdue game where they were up like 12 at
37:50
halftime? Can't remember the Minnesota,
37:52
they lose by 17. They still 14 points in the
37:54
second-half. Yeah, I had Purdue.
37:56
But anyway, I did have one thing right.
37:58
Yeah, I did say five games, Ken. Well done.
38:01
That was like the that was a varsity play in the Jays.
38:03
It was unbelievable, wasn't it? It truly was.
38:06
Yeah. They don't let, they don't give
38:07
you credit for that one, Jim. I had to mess up.
38:10
Good stuff, brother. Good to hear from you.
38:13
Yeah. Thank you, Jim.
38:14
Appreciate it. Yeah.
38:15
Smoking in the boys room, Yeah, that's a cool principle.
38:18
I caught a few smoking in the boys room over my career.
38:21
Yeah. Was not good.
38:24
Maybe Nitty, but you got to, you got to keep checking, right?
38:26
You got to look in the mirror and self evaluating where you're
38:30
going wrong. And it just, I never could see
38:34
it throughout the course of the season.
38:36
And it's not that I'm a huge winner every single year.
38:38
I had one monster. Year keep your head above.
38:40
Wall, absolutely. And it just, it never happened.
38:44
I thought I had a kind of through the back half of the
38:46
year, like in February, I had a good run for a couple of weeks,
38:49
but the same things just that I've done for years just weren't
38:52
there. But that's more spending.
38:54
And and that's, you know, I make my picks every single day.
38:56
Look, I'm not a winner. I'm not a pro.
38:58
I. And don't claim to.
38:59
Be no, absolutely not. It is something that I do for
39:02
fun. This is enjoyment for me.
39:03
This is not a money making endeavor.
39:06
It is what I'm going to drink it much anymore.
39:09
Don't smoke, don't do the fun stuff.
39:11
I don't have a whole lot of vices.
39:12
This is my vice, but I'm not going to have my car payment.
39:16
My mortgage is not going to be tied to it, I bet.
39:19
Get education. 20 bucks a game, that's what I do over the
39:22
course. And you know what, in a bad
39:24
season I might lose a couple 100 bucks.
39:27
That's what it is. So that's the way that I gamble.
39:29
I know that's not for everybody and that's the unfortunate part
39:32
is not everybody can do it that way.
39:34
But systems, they change, they evolve those numbers that work
39:38
because sports are evolving and we're seeing that happening
39:41
right now. As we talked about earlier with
39:42
Pete Crow, Armstrong, right, the kind of player that he's
39:45
evaluated. Same thing in sports.
39:47
You have to constantly move and from the Allen Boston's of the
39:50
world on down, they'll tell you the same thing.
39:52
You can't do what you're doing. 1015, sometimes two years ago.
39:55
Yeah, I wonder if the how those guys did.
39:57
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