Latest / Moser, Lombardi and Kane / 3-16-26 Hour 1 - Infuriating Nugs loss to Lakers/Avs got **sigh** GOALIED/USA beats DR in WBC
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Caine on demand. Listen live
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- 0:11Speaker 1: Radio app. I'm Gonna get it Looking Cross shut score
- 0:22Speaker 1: Martin hus So the shutout streak is over below the
- 0:25Speaker 1: dot and the Abs donated a two to one game
- 0:29Speaker 1: with a minute sixteen to go. Crazier things have happened
- 0:32Speaker 1: in the history of the National Hockey League. For Martin
- 0:35Speaker 1: HS is thirty first of the season.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Season series is even at one apiece.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Apps got the first win three to two.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Jets get this win three to one.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Lebron James on the inbound over to Austin Reeves. Whoa,
- 0:50Speaker 4: he's got it out there by Bruce Brown nine, he's
- 0:53Speaker 4: at the bottom part of the mid court circle. Six
- 0:56Speaker 4: throws it off over to Luca. Luca for the game winner.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Way got it.
- 1:03Speaker 4: Jokics looks in catch and shoes inbound hardaway for the winds.
- 1:08Speaker 1: That's an airball. Denver loses a tough one.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Finally, the LA Lakers find a way to beat the
- 1:17Speaker 4: Denver Nuggets. Los Angeles over the Denver Nuggets tonight by
- 1:21Speaker 4: a final of one twenty seven to one twenty five.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Vic.
- 1:27Speaker 5: I was just telling Moge that I had a first
- 1:30Speaker 5: his dad this weekend, which was a twenty four hour
- 1:33Speaker 5: period in which my beautiful baby Jamal Klee was puking
- 1:38Speaker 5: every twenty minutes.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Haven't had to deal with that one before.
- 1:42Speaker 5: And that was all of yesterday going into last night
- 1:46Speaker 5: served as a nice little precursor Saturday, where I all
- 1:49Speaker 5: I wanted to do is puke from two o'clock in
- 1:52Speaker 5: the afternoon Saturday through the rest of the night.
- 1:54Speaker 1: That's it. So it's like the entire weekend was just puking.
- 1:57Speaker 1: It's all. I remember those vomit Yeah, I remember those
- 2:01Speaker 1: days and what it's happening. All I could do in
- 2:05Speaker 1: my head was curse, Yeah, another parent in their kid,
- 2:09Speaker 1: like you filthy animals. You got my kids sick with
- 2:15Speaker 1: some sort of neurovirus and now she you know that
- 2:18Speaker 1: kind of thing. I mean, that's life, man, That's just life.
- 2:21Speaker 1: The problem is, and I I don't know how to
- 2:26Speaker 1: say this, like I.
- 2:27Speaker 5: Don't have a huge issue with the AVS game, Like
- 2:29Speaker 5: part of me is just like that, well to me, mos,
- 2:33Speaker 5: part of it to me is like that happens and
- 2:35Speaker 5: The only reason why it's so frustrating is because Dallas
- 2:39Speaker 5: won again and now they're only three points back to you.
- 2:44Speaker 5: But that doesn't change whatever happened with the Avs. It's like,
- 2:47Speaker 5: all right, one game where the offense didn't really show
- 2:50Speaker 5: up and combined with Hella Buck, I saw the advanced
- 2:54Speaker 5: numbers on that goals expected for the Avs in that
- 2:56Speaker 5: game was four and a half.
- 2:58Speaker 1: They scored one at the very end of the game.
- 3:02Speaker 1: So you got gullied a little bit in that game.
- 3:07Speaker 5: The Nuggets, the Nuggets. The motion is so frustrating because
- 3:10Speaker 5: that's that's the reason why I can't jump on board.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Is a game like that.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I'm ashamed.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Bretchet tears.
- 3:19Speaker 2: I'm ashamed of myself. I'm ashamed of myself. I really am.
- 3:24Speaker 3: I told you guys this in our group text. It's sad.
- 3:28Speaker 3: It's sad. How ashamed I am at myself that a
- 3:31Speaker 3: man of my age cannot sleep at night, wakes up
- 3:37Speaker 3: at three in the morning staring at the ceiling because
- 3:41Speaker 3: he's affected. He's impacted emotionally by a freaking basketball game.
- 3:48Speaker 3: A result, I am here to admit to you, to
- 3:51Speaker 3: all listeners, to anybody that listens. I am not of
- 3:54Speaker 3: sound mind. There is something wrong with me. There's something
- 3:59Speaker 3: emotionally mentally.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Wrong with me.
- 4:02Speaker 3: When I cannot sleep, I can't live based on the
- 4:09Speaker 3: results of a game. It's a regular season game.
- 4:14Speaker 2: And I was so mad.
- 4:16Speaker 1: I was so put off by that.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Yeah, that it affected my entire weekend, and I feel
- 4:23Speaker 3: shame for feeling that way.
- 4:25Speaker 1: But it's the truth.
- 4:26Speaker 2: It's the truth.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Also, I had a I want to get through this later.
- 4:32Speaker 1: I had a dream last night about the Broncos quarterback room,
- 4:35Speaker 1: So we'll get to that. VIC. I saw the two
- 4:37Speaker 1: minute report. I know, you know what's so crazy about
- 4:42Speaker 1: this and why the NBA is so frustrating to me,
- 4:45Speaker 1: and why I'm I'm so.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Worry not why they lost. It's not why they lost.
- 4:49Speaker 1: I understand, I know.
- 4:50Speaker 2: I know it didn't help.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I know that.
- 4:51Speaker 2: You know that was not a foulin. The Nuggets lost
- 4:55Speaker 2: because the Nuggets lost.
- 4:56Speaker 1: I agreed, and AG had a bad final forty five
- 5:02Speaker 1: seconds of that.
- 5:02Speaker 2: I thought AG was fantastic guy.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Okay, AG's not the reason. Okay, Well, turning the ball
- 5:06Speaker 1: over on the inbound pass when you have an opportunity
- 5:09Speaker 1: late to put it away and then missing that one
- 5:12Speaker 1: free ThM. I mean you would have you're you win
- 5:15Speaker 1: the game because you're up by four to nine seconds left. Yeah,
- 5:17Speaker 1: that hurt.
- 5:18Speaker 2: That hurt.
- 5:18Speaker 1: That being said, you know, Brett, I thought about this
- 5:21Speaker 1: over the weekend as well, coming back from Winnipeg, and
- 5:24Speaker 1: I'm already pissed off. Excuse my language. I've never seen
- 5:30Speaker 1: a two minute report from the NBA that I didn't go, well, duh, yeah,
- 5:38Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying, Like, if I see it
- 5:40Speaker 1: in real time and I go, that's a wrong call.
- 5:44Speaker 1: I've never seen a two minute report come out where
- 5:47Speaker 1: I said, oh, I didn't see that. I saw it.
- 5:51Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, you made the wrong call. Why
- 5:54Speaker 1: are they making the wrong call in real time? That's
- 5:57Speaker 1: there's This is where the question lies. Vic.
- 5:59Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with the call that was made.
- 6:02Speaker 1: I do.
- 6:03Speaker 3: I don't have a single problem. The Nuggets were intentionally
- 6:05Speaker 3: trying to foul. The referees on the court were looking
- 6:08Speaker 3: to call a foul because the Nuggets were trying to
- 6:10Speaker 3: It wasn't a shooting foul.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Then again, let me repeat myself. I would I would express.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Anger if the two minute report would have changed the game.
- 6:19Speaker 3: But the Nuggets got exactly what they wanted out of
- 6:22Speaker 3: the intent. The intent was to foul, so it wasn't
- 6:24Speaker 3: a foul. Okay, they're calling the one in the baseline,
- 6:27Speaker 3: the one in the corner three not a foul.
- 6:29Speaker 2: He got all balled, so what so what?
- 6:32Speaker 3: It doesn't change the outcome of the game because the
- 6:35Speaker 3: Lakers get the ball back anyway, They get the ball
- 6:38Speaker 3: back and they lose a second.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Big deal.
- 6:39Speaker 2: It was still nine seconds to play. That doesn't what.
- 6:43Speaker 3: Changed that game is again, for the eleventh time this season,
- 6:47Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets have lost eleven games in one possession scenarios,
- 6:54Speaker 3: the most by far in the NBA. It's no longer
- 6:58Speaker 3: just a oh that's a funny little thing they got
- 7:00Speaker 3: to fix. It's a problem. It's a problem, agreed. And
- 7:06Speaker 3: I lost sleep over that problem.
- 7:08Speaker 1: You're and I want to know.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Am I the only Denver Nuggets fan who woke up
- 7:14Speaker 3: at three point fifteen am stared at the ceiling and
- 7:18Speaker 3: replayed the game in my brain?
- 7:21Speaker 1: Am I the only one?
- 7:22Speaker 2: Am I the only Nuggets fan who kicked the ball at.
- 7:26Speaker 3: A window and almost broke the window when Austin Reeves
- 7:31Speaker 3: found a rebound at the buzzer off a free throw.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Now I consider that play complete luck. I know everybody
- 7:38Speaker 3: wants to blame people for that play. That was one
- 7:40Speaker 3: hundred percent luck. You do that one hundred times ninety
- 7:44Speaker 3: eight times, it won't work.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Okay, that was luck. But there were other.
- 7:48Speaker 3: Things down in the final minute of that game that
- 7:52Speaker 3: were not luck that the Nuggets could have done better.
- 7:55Speaker 3: And frankly, this problem they have in pressure situations, it's
- 8:00Speaker 3: a problem.
- 8:01Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it's another example like this is going
- 8:05Speaker 5: to end up being, as you pointed out, another one
- 8:08Speaker 5: possession loss in which on the year, there's seven and
- 8:11Speaker 5: eleven in scenarios in which games are decided by three
- 8:15Speaker 5: points or less.
- 8:17Speaker 1: But I don't know the numbers on this.
- 8:20Speaker 5: It feels like all too often it plays out the
- 8:23Speaker 5: exact way that this did, which is they had a
- 8:26Speaker 5: seven point lead with three and a half minutes left,
- 8:29Speaker 5: seven points and you can't close the game out.
- 8:31Speaker 1: They have situations late.
- 8:33Speaker 5: In games where you can knock down some free throws
- 8:35Speaker 5: to close the game, they don't do it. Like, how
- 8:37Speaker 5: many times does that happen with good free throw shooters? Yeah,
- 8:40Speaker 5: like Jamal Murray this year, multiple instances fouled at the
- 8:44Speaker 5: end of the clock.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Hit the free throws. You win the game. And you
- 8:48Speaker 1: miss one or you miss two or whatever, you can't
- 8:50Speaker 1: do it.
- 8:51Speaker 2: It's other little things.
- 8:52Speaker 3: It's not doubling on time, it's not sending the ball
- 8:56Speaker 3: handler to the right side of the court. Little defensive issues.
- 8:59Speaker 3: I think it's more defensive than offensive.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna spat it forever.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's going to point through the offensive end missing
- 9:05Speaker 3: shots they're making.
- 9:06Speaker 2: They're making so many.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Mistakes on the defensive end, so many defensive breakdowns in
- 9:11Speaker 3: the clutch.
- 9:12Speaker 2: It's abysmal to watch at times.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Is this a sign of a rookie head coach?
- 9:16Speaker 3: I don't know if the message he said after the game,
- 9:20Speaker 3: and I went back and read it, Bennett Dorando had
- 9:21Speaker 3: the story. The message was sent to make sure that
- 9:25Speaker 3: you send the double at Luca, send him to the middle, and.
- 9:31Speaker 2: That was not executed.
- 9:32Speaker 1: I got it right here.
- 9:33Speaker 6: Yes, Spence has to send it back. We talked about it.
- 9:36Speaker 6: It's the bottom line. It's not a bad matchup. Spence
- 9:38Speaker 6: is a great defender, and so it's not about that.
- 9:40Speaker 6: It's about how good Shay you know, and Luca are
- 9:43Speaker 6: And if once we switch, you have to send it
- 9:46Speaker 6: back to CB. That's where your help is because once
- 9:48Speaker 6: he gets a step, it's over. And now it's you know,
- 9:51Speaker 6: he's foulbating all the things. Once he has the advantage
- 9:53Speaker 6: great players, that's gonna happen. Chase was very tough. That was,
- 9:57Speaker 6: you know, all the way near the sideline. This was
- 9:59Speaker 6: Luca's got to his spot and that can't happen. He's
- 10:01Speaker 6: got to send it back to his teammate. That's what
- 10:03Speaker 6: was coach. That's that's what was talked about. So I
- 10:05Speaker 6: have to keep going through it, all.
- 10:06Speaker 3: Right, so he said, so he said it. So what
- 10:09Speaker 3: he means by send it back? The Laker switch Luca
- 10:13Speaker 3: on Dispenser Jones. Luca goes to his left and hits
- 10:16Speaker 3: that left handed shot. Can't you can't let him go left.
- 10:19Speaker 3: You got to send him back to the middle of
- 10:20Speaker 3: the court. Shay Gils Alexander, when he hit his shot,
- 10:24Speaker 3: he went right. Can't let him go right. Got to
- 10:26Speaker 3: send him back to the middle of the court. Now
- 10:29Speaker 3: it's it's these defensive breakdowns. Do they have to yell
- 10:33Speaker 3: it into their ear? Do they have to scream it
- 10:36Speaker 3: from the lone? What is happening that the messages aren't
- 10:40Speaker 3: getting across because again, if you look at the Nuggets
- 10:44Speaker 3: clutch situations, they're one possession games. Their defense is why
- 10:50Speaker 3: they're in this situation. One of the worst defensive teams
- 10:55Speaker 3: in clutch situations in the.
- 10:57Speaker 1: League this year.
- 10:58Speaker 5: So I have maybe maybe it's a nothing question, maybe
- 11:03Speaker 5: it's a big question. I don't know, but it's something
- 11:05Speaker 5: I was thinking about after the game because that's now
- 11:07Speaker 5: the second time in recent weeks, week and a half
- 11:11Speaker 5: whatever it was where Spencer Jones has had one put
- 11:14Speaker 5: right between his eyes for a game winner, right, And
- 11:17Speaker 5: I'm not putting this all on Spencer Jones. I do
- 11:19Speaker 5: think he's a good player that gives all you know.
- 11:21Speaker 2: Win the Santennial Game without Spencer Jones understood.
- 11:24Speaker 5: I do have one question about this though, for what
- 11:26Speaker 5: this roster is. It does seem kind of odd to
- 11:29Speaker 5: me that the guy that's guarding the best player in
- 11:33Speaker 5: the league, or one of the best players in the
- 11:35Speaker 5: league in Shay and Luca at the end of games
- 11:37Speaker 5: is the guy who started on a two way contract
- 11:39Speaker 5: that is not, you know, one of the guys that
- 11:41Speaker 5: you paid that it's not one of your big guns
- 11:44Speaker 5: that is odd to me?
- 11:46Speaker 1: Is it odd to you as your at your at
- 11:48Speaker 1: your roster?
- 11:49Speaker 5: I understand, but that is it's it's a weird thing
- 11:51Speaker 5: that it's like, hey, maybe Spencer Jones isn't doing this
- 11:55Speaker 5: very well because he hasn't played in these moments he has,
- 11:58Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
- 11:59Speaker 1: Like, maybe it should be guy from making one hundred million?
- 12:01Speaker 1: Where's Bruce Brown? Where's Bruce? Where's CB? And I know
- 12:05Speaker 1: CB got switched off? Where's Cam Johnson?
- 12:07Speaker 3: Where's guys? Like that? That's what I'm meaning. I don't
- 12:10Speaker 3: know the answers to those questions. Again, the game should
- 12:12Speaker 3: have never gone to overtime. The fact that the game
- 12:15Speaker 3: went to overtime is ridiculous. They played it the right way.
- 12:19Speaker 3: They did everything you're supposed to do. They fouled up three.
- 12:22Speaker 3: That's what you're supposed to do, and anybody who thinks different,
- 12:25Speaker 3: trust me, they did it the right way. They just
- 12:28Speaker 3: got completely unlucky on a great play by Austin Reeves.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Austin Reeves was that was the perfect perfect miss right
- 12:34Speaker 3: to his hands. Now, could they have fouled Luca before
- 12:38Speaker 3: he got into his shot and taken that foul? Yeah,
- 12:41Speaker 3: that's always always a risk yep. But guys, that loss
- 12:47Speaker 3: hit me different. Maybe because it's the Lakers and you
- 12:50Speaker 3: know Mike disdain for the Lakers. Maybe it is you
- 12:53Speaker 3: know how certain losses hit you during the course of
- 12:56Speaker 3: a season, That one hit me.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Yeah, like I can tell me. I can tell you're
- 13:00Speaker 1: still wearing it too. No, I agreed. I don't disagree
- 13:04Speaker 1: with you because it changes.
- 13:06Speaker 3: They'd be in third place right now and you'd be
- 13:09Speaker 3: looking at a Nuggets team. The schedule eases up and
- 13:11Speaker 3: they could still achieve everything. Sure, they achieve, but it
- 13:13Speaker 3: doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is you
- 13:16Speaker 3: have to learn how to win close games.
- 13:19Speaker 1: That is correct. I'd like to whine a little bit.
- 13:23Speaker 1: I won't, but I would like to whine. I thought
- 13:25Speaker 1: Luca pushed off.
- 13:26Speaker 3: That's my never gonna get that call in a thousand
- 13:28Speaker 3: I understood. I'm just I'm just saying, yeah, just let
- 13:33Speaker 3: me let me, let me excuse the way. But see
- 13:37Speaker 3: the two things you brought to the table today. You
- 13:40Speaker 3: blame the two minute report.
- 13:41Speaker 1: No, No, I did not blame the two minute report.
- 13:43Speaker 1: I said I hated it. Yeah, I said, I hate
- 13:46Speaker 1: I hate when the two minute report comes out and
- 13:48Speaker 1: it tells me what I already know, and I'm like,
- 13:50Speaker 1: the why are you screwing it up in the first place.
- 13:52Speaker 1: It's just a frustrating thing from the NBA. I guess
- 13:54Speaker 1: at least they do it right well.
- 13:56Speaker 3: I mean, hey, the NHL issued its own two minute
- 13:58Speaker 3: report the real sin.
- 14:01Speaker 1: I already but we already knew that too. It just
- 14:03Speaker 1: it's it's incredibly frustrating to me. That's and that's the thing, Brett.
- 14:07Speaker 1: I think when you look at Vic's face and you
- 14:10Speaker 1: look at his point extra glasses today, face looks red.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Did you get some sun this weekend?
- 14:15Speaker 3: I had to go do a photo sit that to
- 14:17Speaker 3: my face, some photo thing on my face.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Get to that. A little bit later, I had a
- 14:26Speaker 1: photo shoot on my face. Yeah, it was really good.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Somebody shot my face.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Can I volunteer next time? Oh? I'm just I mean,
- 14:40Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. Anyway, the point the point.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Remember remember that thing you got cut off on your face?
- 14:45Speaker 2: See these right here? Yeah, it's either get him cut
- 14:48Speaker 2: off or get what I just got over. You know
- 14:50Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
- 14:51Speaker 1: I've got it.
- 14:51Speaker 3: It's either the doctor said you can either do this
- 14:54Speaker 3: with the laser with the photo thing, or you can.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Get it cut off.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I've got to go in tomorrow after the show. By
- 14:59Speaker 1: the way, Uh, there may be some more.
- 15:01Speaker 3: Uh. This is what happens when you deal with two
- 15:03Speaker 3: olds on the show. You either get your face cut
- 15:05Speaker 3: into or your face read.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Have you ever heard somebody go down to your skull
- 15:09Speaker 1: to get something? It's not that's that I remember on
- 15:12Speaker 1: the front of your face. It's not a fun thing.
- 15:14Speaker 2: See right here, h that is cancer.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I had it cut out right there as
- 15:20Speaker 1: you can see, well you saw at the time, look
- 15:22Speaker 1: like Frankenstein's monster. This whole weekend is evidenced by Vic's face.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Yeah that is yeah. Look, the whole is the whole weekend.
- 15:34Speaker 1: I was a little productive yesterday in the snow. I
- 15:36Speaker 1: got some stuff done yesterday. That's pretty proud of myself.
- 15:39Speaker 1: But that being said, man, the whole that Saturday was
- 15:43Speaker 1: as frustrating as Saturday as you can get, you know.
- 15:45Speaker 1: And I freaking hate the Lakers, and I freaking hate Lebron.
- 15:49Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm gonna say it. I don't like him.
- 15:51Speaker 3: How about him grabbing Jamal and then hey, by the way,
- 15:55Speaker 3: that was arguably the Nuggets lost a very important game
- 15:59Speaker 3: that was probably and Jamal looked like his shoulder was
- 16:01Speaker 3: bothering him. The worst Jamal Murray game of his career
- 16:05Speaker 3: pretty much, and coming it's the Lakers is especially odd. Incredibly,
- 16:09Speaker 3: he owns them. They're afraid of him. Uh yeah, we
- 16:12Speaker 3: have had him and we'll get to it later.
- 16:13Speaker 1: So how about the diving on the floor for the
- 16:15Speaker 1: loose ball? I mean, credit the forty one year old
- 16:17Speaker 1: for diving for that loose ball again.
- 16:18Speaker 3: But I need help. I don't listen. I don't need
- 16:21Speaker 3: you guys to yell at me. I don't need you
- 16:22Speaker 3: to make fun of my face.
- 16:24Speaker 2: I need help. I mean, I'm I'm a man that's
- 16:27Speaker 2: very old, and I'm I can't.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Sleep at night. Not very old, not very old. I mean,
- 16:32Speaker 1: what is wrong?
- 16:33Speaker 2: I can't sleep at night because of a game I had.
- 16:36Speaker 2: This doesn't affect me, but I'm an old man without
- 16:40Speaker 2: a prostate. I had a very heart to heart my wife.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I said, what is wrong with me?
- 16:45Speaker 5: She said, well, I've been taking notes for years and
- 16:49Speaker 5: it's been twenty six years. We'll get back to this
- 16:52Speaker 5: in a little bit. A lot to get to this morning.
- 16:54Speaker 5: Remind her to you guys. What starts tomorrow is our
- 16:57Speaker 5: drop tournament, so we're going to go reasion by region
- 17:00Speaker 5: each day, but tomorrow is going to be the starting
- 17:02Speaker 5: point on that. So stay tuned tomorrow as we'll do
- 17:05Speaker 5: that for the rest of the week. I do want
- 17:07Speaker 5: to get to the abs though, Mose you said you
- 17:09Speaker 5: had a problem with that game on Saturday.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I'd love to hear why.
- 17:13Speaker 7: Next we lacked energy. We needed to play the way
- 17:17Speaker 7: we want to play. They did a really nice job
- 17:20Speaker 7: on the defensive side of things. Even though I liked
- 17:22Speaker 7: the way we checked, I just didn't think like some
- 17:26Speaker 7: of our top guys had energy right Like it just
- 17:28Speaker 7: looked like too tough to get to the hard areas
- 17:31Speaker 7: at ice and we did, you know, in portions or
- 17:34Speaker 7: in spurts of the game, but not consistently and long
- 17:37Speaker 7: enough that as much as we needed in order to
- 17:40Speaker 7: win the hockey game to create.
- 17:41Speaker 5: Offense, it s betar after the game, a game in
- 17:45Speaker 5: which the offense just couldn't find a way. And we
- 17:48Speaker 5: don't use this term often, but I think the analytics
- 17:51Speaker 5: proved this out and bear it out, which I had.
- 17:53Speaker 5: I was conflicted by the way for a moment as
- 17:56Speaker 5: counter Hellibuk after the Olympics has become somebody I like
- 17:59Speaker 5: or felt nothing for him beforehand, but to watch him
- 18:02Speaker 5: do that against my team is not fun at all.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Here's Connor Hellibuck's previous four starts, especially against the Rangers VIC,
- 18:10Speaker 1: where he gave up four goals on sixteen shots. Here's
- 18:13Speaker 1: Connor Hellibuck Rex. Yeah, he's a t Rex in that
- 18:22Speaker 1: little tiny arms, can't He looks at the US.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Olympic goals blocker. Yeah, the blocker won't even fit. No,
- 18:29Speaker 3: the blocker won't fit.
- 18:29Speaker 1: On his arm. He's like, yeah, he's just like, you know,
- 18:33Speaker 1: fighting pucks off in that kind of thing.
- 18:36Speaker 3: And then he's a Walrus against the ABSA and he's
- 18:37Speaker 3: a walgainst the ABS, and he's four and a half
- 18:41Speaker 3: goals expected was the analytical assessment of that game, and
- 18:46Speaker 3: you got one at the very end with the extra attacker.
- 18:49Speaker 1: Here's what the differences I think in that particular game.
- 18:54Speaker 1: I explained it on Saturday. You want your mind blown
- 18:57Speaker 1: before Martin nighth just scored that goal late to make
- 19:01Speaker 1: it two to one. The last goal scored by the
- 19:05Speaker 1: Avalanche in Winnipeg, VIC. Oh my gosh was December sixteenth,
- 19:10Speaker 1: twenty twenty three by Jack Johnson.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Saw that during the game, you guys, said, Jack Johnson,
- 19:17Speaker 3: when you said his name, that he was the last
- 19:19Speaker 3: guy to score.
- 19:21Speaker 1: I was going through my.
- 19:21Speaker 2: Mental rollodex, going god, how long ago did he play for?
- 19:24Speaker 1: Exactly? Oh my god? Right, what is it about Winnipeg
- 19:28Speaker 1: the last guy who hit a home run?
- 19:29Speaker 3: And since he is Nolan r and od I mean
- 19:31Speaker 3: kind of thing, right, I mean, it's it blows your mind,
- 19:33Speaker 3: it's it's why.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Connor Hellibuk's really good last year.
- 19:38Speaker 1: If you remember the Winnipeg Jets won the President's Trophy
- 19:41Speaker 1: with one hundred and sixteen points.
- 19:42Speaker 2: How about the year that they completely riddled him out
- 19:44Speaker 2: of the playoffs.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that this and therein lies what you could
- 19:49Speaker 1: have done. Do you remember what he said in that series?
- 19:52Speaker 1: He said, look, I've stopped every puck I could see. Yeah,
- 19:56Speaker 1: the Avs did an unbelievably good job of screening him,
- 20:00Speaker 1: taking his eyes away, fighting for second opportunities. They did
- 20:05Speaker 1: that late in that game, but I think they could
- 20:08Speaker 1: have gone harder to the front of the net in
- 20:11Speaker 1: the first period. In the second period, and coach Bednar
- 20:14Speaker 1: talking about that after the game basically said, look, they
- 20:20Speaker 1: could have gotten harder, down low, more traffic inside opportunities,
- 20:26Speaker 1: and they started to do that as the game went on,
- 20:29Speaker 1: but early in the game it's kind of just one
- 20:32Speaker 1: and done, you know. Yeah, that's kind of the way
- 20:35Speaker 1: it was. Now. Part of that, too, is you have
- 20:37Speaker 1: guys who, in their very nature as hockey players, that's
- 20:42Speaker 1: what they do. And that's not to say that other
- 20:46Speaker 1: guys won't go to the front of the net, because
- 20:47Speaker 1: they will. Every single guy will go to the front
- 20:49Speaker 1: of the net. But it's your duration there, it's your
- 20:53Speaker 1: comfortability there. Every guy has a role on the team.
- 20:58Speaker 1: And when you have Gabrielle Land of skag Out, you
- 21:02Speaker 1: have Archery Lekkin out. Where does he live? Brett in
- 21:06Speaker 1: front of the net? If you go to his house,
- 21:09Speaker 1: what's what's it? What's what's his backyards? A giant? Now
- 21:12Speaker 1: his backyard is a giant that that is correct. He
- 21:14Speaker 1: lives in front of the net, exactly right. It looks
- 21:17Speaker 1: like he lives at a friggin' top golf Yeah, okay,
- 21:22Speaker 1: So I mean you have guys out of the lineup
- 21:24Speaker 1: who that's where they go all the time, and that's
- 21:27Speaker 1: what they love to do. Other guys will do it,
- 21:29Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, just that that is their primary job,
- 21:32Speaker 1: their primary function, So you're missing some of that. Then
- 21:35Speaker 1: guys are like, all right, well it's up to me.
- 21:36Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. And so then they start doing it.
- 21:38Speaker 1: Now they're banging away, they're paying the price and so on.
- 21:40Speaker 1: But now Hella Buck is into his rhythm, he's into
- 21:42Speaker 1: his game, vic and he's stopping everything. He made a
- 21:45Speaker 1: toe save on his second chance at the right post
- 21:48Speaker 1: that pissed me off. Excuse my language again, I'm like,
- 21:50Speaker 1: there's no I mean, it's all instinctive. And that's why
- 21:54Speaker 1: he won the Heart and is a three time ves
- 21:56Speaker 1: in a winner.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Right, the US is wearing a gold medal, right, So
- 21:58Speaker 2: why the US is.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Are the gold medal chance? Because that's correct, triple gold.
- 22:01Speaker 1: By the way, after the Paralympics, you see that. I
- 22:03Speaker 1: saw that the USCA sled hockey team. Can I see something?
- 22:07Speaker 1: They are so badass? Yeah, they're virtual. I mean they're
- 22:10Speaker 1: they're basically unbeatable. You remember when you called women's basketball
- 22:13Speaker 1: was at its height, Geno Ariama had them cooking. You
- 22:16Speaker 1: just didn't win. You just think they never lost ever.
- 22:19Speaker 1: So that's how the US Paralympic men's team is.
- 22:22Speaker 5: It's awesome what I had or what I came away
- 22:25Speaker 5: with with the Avs game, it's it's weird because that,
- 22:29Speaker 5: then compounded by the Nuggets lost later the Nuggets is
- 22:34Speaker 5: completely different feeling because I am questioning whether the Nuggets
- 22:37Speaker 5: can can.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Nuggets differently because they had the game one.
- 22:39Speaker 5: Well, that along with from a broader perspective, vic I
- 22:44Speaker 5: question what the Nuggets are. I don't know if they're
- 22:48Speaker 5: like a championship level team. My assumption right now is
- 22:51Speaker 5: that they're not.
- 22:51Speaker 1: The Afs certainly are, and a loss like that, moj
- 22:58Speaker 1: it's to me one of those like you shrugging up.
- 23:01Speaker 5: It happens. Sometimes games like that happen. But the problem
- 23:04Speaker 5: is when Dallas wins again and then cuts your lead to.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Three points overtime against the flipping Wings. You know what
- 23:13Speaker 1: I mean?
- 23:13Speaker 2: Like, here's the difference.
- 23:14Speaker 3: Here's the difference the Nuggets, given where they are in
- 23:17Speaker 3: the standings versus the Abs. The Ads are being chased,
- 23:19Speaker 3: the Nuggets are having to chase. The Aves make you anxious,
- 23:23Speaker 3: right because there's a team coming. The Nuggets make you
- 23:26Speaker 3: extremely nervous what are we doing here?
- 23:28Speaker 5: But the Aves aren't being chased as two teams that
- 23:30Speaker 5: are pretty good. It's like they are the elite of
- 23:34Speaker 5: the elite and there's one other elite.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Of the elite that in your division. I put it
- 23:38Speaker 1: this way. I put it this way on Saturday. I said,
- 23:41Speaker 1: it's like the Abs are you saying bolt right, and
- 23:43Speaker 1: you're out of the out of the blocks, yours running
- 23:45Speaker 1: and you're got a big lead all you're like cruising.
- 23:49Speaker 1: And also you look behind you and there's Michael Myers
- 23:51Speaker 1: with the mask on and the knife right, and you're like,
- 23:54Speaker 1: what's he doing? I need to go? You know what
- 23:56Speaker 1: exactly what it was. It's a couple of years ago.
- 23:59Speaker 1: You guys remember the NFC North.
- 24:01Speaker 5: The Vikings and Alliance are both like thirteen and two,
- 24:04Speaker 5: and if one of them lost the game, you're like, oh,
- 24:07Speaker 5: so what we're thirteen and three.
- 24:08Speaker 1: It's like, well that loses the division.
- 24:10Speaker 2: And the injury thing, hey wild card, Well it's crazy.
- 24:14Speaker 2: The injury thing.
- 24:15Speaker 3: It obviously hurts not having your captain. The captain clearly
- 24:17Speaker 3: makes a difference. But if you look at Dallas they've
- 24:20Speaker 3: got key injuries. It doesn't bother them one bit.
- 24:23Speaker 1: No, they're playing great. I mean they're also again still
- 24:26Speaker 1: living on the power play. Why Johnston is having change
- 24:29Speaker 1: the rules of the game. Understood, Understand, here's the deal.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Somebody wrote this in ninety three eight one. I can't
- 24:35Speaker 1: sleep because the Abs are only up three points. It's
- 24:37Speaker 1: crazy how much a sports team can affect my mood
- 24:39Speaker 1: in my life.
- 24:40Speaker 2: So we all have that. There's always something I have.
- 24:43Speaker 1: People in Winnipeg, though, on Saturday go like this, Go
- 24:46Speaker 1: don't sweat it. You're okay. So what we're talking about
- 24:49Speaker 1: so well, the Jets, the Stars tried to track them
- 24:51Speaker 1: down last year. Again, the Stars were the number two
- 24:54Speaker 1: team in the division. Right, remember how frustrating it was
- 24:57Speaker 1: for the Abs where you're all your you're doing is
- 25:00Speaker 1: winning and you're making up zero ground. Right, you're stuck
- 25:03Speaker 1: in the three. You can't go anywhere because Dallas won't
- 25:06Speaker 1: lose either. And they said, look, they got within three
- 25:10Speaker 1: points a couple of times, they finished ten back, they
- 25:12Speaker 1: had one hundred and six points.
- 25:13Speaker 3: And then what happened in the playoffs, Well I'm talking
- 25:16Speaker 3: about that, but what I'm saying, but then what happened, Well,
- 25:19Speaker 3: the Avs had to.
- 25:19Speaker 1: Play the Stars and you don't want to. You're not
- 25:22Speaker 1: the Avalanche will.
- 25:22Speaker 3: Not play the Stars for Winnipeg in the playoffs. Well
- 25:26Speaker 3: they lost, yeah, yeah, I mean be careful.
- 25:31Speaker 1: The regular season is the regular round too. Yeah.
- 25:33Speaker 3: Hey, I'm not going to make this an excuse, but
- 25:37Speaker 3: I've been in your shoes and I'm gonna say yes,
- 25:40Speaker 3: it's a verifiable excuse. Can you explain to the good
- 25:43Speaker 3: people listening to this show your joke of a plane
- 25:45Speaker 3: trip from Seattle to Winnipeg?
- 25:49Speaker 1: How far is that flight? When everything's on time? By
- 25:51Speaker 1: the way, there's a hell of a push I think
- 25:54Speaker 1: from the from the tailwind got there actually, so it
- 26:00Speaker 1: was snowing in Seattle, snowing hard, snow plane.
- 26:04Speaker 2: What time was this?
- 26:06Speaker 1: What dayresday? This is Friday morning, Friday morning, after you
- 26:10Speaker 1: did your radio show with us, After the radio show,
- 26:12Speaker 1: got on the bus, got to the airport about ten
- 26:16Speaker 1: fifty five. Got on the plane at ten fifty five am,
- 26:20Speaker 1: flying to Winnipeg. So that's eleven o'clock your time. That's
- 26:23Speaker 1: one o'clock Winnipeg to you should get in about four
- 26:25Speaker 1: the air you.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Jump on the plane, everybody says, hey, what's up?
- 26:28Speaker 1: Moment. Hey, good drunk takes man.
- 26:29Speaker 2: That was funny.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Good job, good show. Yeah, good stuff. Let's go. I
- 26:32Speaker 1: asked Kyle, first thing, how was the show? It was funny,
- 26:35Speaker 1: It was actually really we had a great show. Vic's
- 26:37Speaker 1: face wasn't red then, but yeah, it was a great show.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Good show.
- 26:40Speaker 1: His face is red. Yah, and okay great.
- 26:43Speaker 3: Uh.
- 26:44Speaker 1: And then you start to get the words. You know,
- 26:46Speaker 1: the door is still open, Well we're not. What do
- 26:51Speaker 1: you mean the door is still open? You know the
- 26:53Speaker 1: front door of the airplane is still open. Stairs are
- 26:56Speaker 1: still there? Okay, you're not so you wait on somebody? Well, no, no,
- 27:00Speaker 1: you're Let me guess.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Johnny went out in the night before and he was.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Yeah, we're waiting on Johnny Lyles. By the way, that
- 27:05Speaker 1: plane waits for no human. Okay, they're a story. Oh
- 27:09Speaker 1: I gotta tell you one time pre Olympic break, one
- 27:11Speaker 1: time years this story first, I will So you're like
- 27:17Speaker 1: one of those shell games. You go from one story
- 27:19Speaker 1: and then you come up with another. Just remind me
- 27:21Speaker 1: to tell that story. But the sea tack is socked in.
- 27:23Speaker 1: In fact, I had a buddy who went to the
- 27:24Speaker 1: game on Thursday and Seattle said I'm trying to fly
- 27:28Speaker 1: home on Friday. All flights my flight canceled. All flights
- 27:31Speaker 1: are canceledus on your flight story, I am. I'm telling
- 27:34Speaker 1: you that's why the airports are socked in. There's no visibility.
- 27:38Speaker 1: I can't see across the runway. You can't see anything.
- 27:42Speaker 1: So you sat there. So you sat there, and it's
- 27:44Speaker 1: snowing hard, and you have to have the right d
- 27:46Speaker 1: icing fluid to take off in zero visibility. Blah blah blah.
- 27:50Speaker 1: This particular airport didn't have that, and so you gotta
- 27:54Speaker 1: wait for visibility to go anyway, sat there for eight hours,
- 27:57Speaker 1: about hours on a runway, about eight.
- 28:00Speaker 2: Hours wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Stop stop on a tarmac.
- 28:05Speaker 3: I would have pulled my hair out. Yeah, eight hours,
- 28:09Speaker 3: seven and a half eight something like that.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:11Speaker 2: Was the plane cold?
- 28:13Speaker 1: No, but they had to shut the engines off eventually
- 28:15Speaker 1: and then hook up this truck that kept the electronics going.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Did you eat? Yeah? How did you eat? Well? They
- 28:23Speaker 1: have stuff on the plane. Then they ordered a ton
- 28:25Speaker 1: of pizzas.
- 28:25Speaker 2: You just ordered pizzas.
- 28:28Speaker 1: So there is a pizza delivery driver, Yeah, who drove
- 28:31Speaker 1: right next to the plane. Well, no, she was outside
- 28:34Speaker 1: the gate. They were you know, they're not they're not
- 28:36Speaker 1: letting him in. All right, so you're out. I got
- 28:39Speaker 1: a double pepperoni and Sausagey.
- 28:42Speaker 3: You're eight hours on the tarmac to get out of
- 28:44Speaker 3: the end. What time do you get into Winnipeg eleven
- 28:46Speaker 3: pm to play at two o'clock? Well, I guess what
- 28:51Speaker 3: time is that?
- 28:51Speaker 1: It was three o'clock. That it was three o'clock Winnipeg time.
- 28:54Speaker 1: But yeah, that's exactly right.
- 28:55Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that's the reason. But it
- 28:57Speaker 2: doesn't help.
- 28:58Speaker 1: It doesn't help. It doesn't help. No, it doesn't help.
- 29:00Speaker 1: I think that your legs are probably, you know, a
- 29:02Speaker 1: little heavy to begin things. Nonetheless, I mean, it's just
- 29:05Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it's it's it's the
- 29:08Speaker 1: rarest of rare that's never happened, it will never happen again.
- 29:11Speaker 1: It was incredibly rare. I know some guys were on
- 29:14Speaker 1: the trip.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Some say, pizza, What did Nate eat? Nate'sa not eating pizza.
- 29:20Speaker 1: He did I don't know. Pecns seemed like, hey, listen, man,
- 29:24Speaker 1: even stuff that people typically don't eat on that plane, celery,
- 29:29Speaker 1: like all the celery's gone, Like people just I think
- 29:32Speaker 1: people just were started eating because they're bored.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Moja's eating cardboard.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I do board eating a lot. It's not good.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I'm eating the poppy can.
- 29:43Speaker 2: So I think Nate ordered some dominoes from Tom Brady,
- 29:46Speaker 2: is what he did.
- 29:47Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So there were guys on that trip though,
- 29:51Speaker 5: mos that have to be getting close talking about Landiskog
- 29:54Speaker 5: like an in logan O'Connor well skating with the team.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Now, the only guy of the three you mentioned was
- 29:59Speaker 1: l oc He was the only one on the trip.
- 30:01Speaker 1: LC was on the trick. Landy was not there. Yeah,
- 30:04Speaker 1: and like he's not there Ross Colton's missing a little
- 30:07Speaker 1: time with his upper body took a shot, so you
- 30:10Speaker 1: know again, Colton is another guy who's who's mixing it
- 30:13Speaker 1: up down low, that sort of thing. I gotta think
- 30:17Speaker 1: that LLC is very close. I've got to think that
- 30:20Speaker 1: that he's been skating with his teammates. I've got to
- 30:23Speaker 1: think that he's getting he's getting to the point where
- 30:26Speaker 1: he's going to need contact and to play, whether wherever
- 30:30Speaker 1: it may be. Well, his original goals whatever, his original.
- 30:33Speaker 5: Time frame was around Christmas if you remember, and then
- 30:35Speaker 5: had a setback. Correct, So he's gotta be nearing that
- 30:40Speaker 5: point to return correct. But the Abs get back out
- 30:43Speaker 5: of them.
- 30:44Speaker 1: But I mean, isn't frustrating. The Abs are still seven
- 30:46Speaker 1: to three and oh in their last ten. No, they're
- 30:48Speaker 1: playing five minutes. You know, these little things aside frustrating losses.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Aside there's still seven to three and oh, and you're
- 30:56Speaker 1: losing ground well, and that's why probably frustrated.
- 30:59Speaker 5: He's two games especially, you gotta win tonight just to
- 31:02Speaker 5: keep pace. And then obviously Wednesday is like gigantically huge.
- 31:08Speaker 1: I know you don't want to play Minnesota in the
- 31:10Speaker 1: first round, but Minnesota's coming back down to reality a
- 31:13Speaker 1: little bit. They're four to four and two, so they're
- 31:16Speaker 1: hockey five hundred in their last ten. They just got
- 31:19Speaker 1: paceted yesterday by Toronto. The may Beliefs have nothing to
- 31:22Speaker 1: play for. Their captain's knee is exploded. He's out for
- 31:25Speaker 1: the year. Austin Matho was terrible.
- 31:27Speaker 2: What about this argument, mos, People are making the argument
- 31:30Speaker 2: that so much is invested in the President's Trophy and
- 31:35Speaker 2: all this stuff, and maybe it doesn't mean as much
- 31:37Speaker 2: as you think.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Well, it's not winning the President's trophy, it's avoiding that
- 31:41Speaker 1: first round matchup. Yeah, that's what it is.
- 31:43Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 31:43Speaker 1: And now that Minnesota is sort of coming back down
- 31:46Speaker 1: to reality just a little bit. And by the way,
- 31:48Speaker 1: if you're the Avalanche, you still have the tiebreakers against
- 31:50Speaker 1: both those teams. Minnesota cannot catch you. Yeah, you are
- 31:54Speaker 1: nine points in the clear with three games in hand.
- 31:56Speaker 1: They're not going to catch you. But in terms of
- 31:59Speaker 1: even the Dalla Stars, regulation wins is the first tiebreaker,
- 32:02Speaker 1: and you've got that, You've got them by six. Can
- 32:07Speaker 1: they make up six regulation wins between now and the
- 32:09Speaker 1: end of the regular season. I doubt it. You got
- 32:12Speaker 1: them in rows right now to regulation in overtime wins.
- 32:15Speaker 1: So you have the tiebreakers of your the Avs things
- 32:17Speaker 1: are I mean, things are still very much in your favor.
- 32:19Speaker 1: And now you got Pittsburgh tonight, then the Stars come
- 32:22Speaker 1: into town on Wednesday. That's a huge game on Wednesday,
- 32:26Speaker 1: and then you're on the road at non playoff teams
- 32:29Speaker 1: in Chicago and Washington and.
- 32:31Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's like, if you can get these next
- 32:34Speaker 5: two tonight and in on Wednesday, schedule eases up for
- 32:38Speaker 5: a little bit, maybe you can put some distance between
- 32:41Speaker 5: you and Dallas again, Like for the love of God,
- 32:44Speaker 5: Dallas has not lost a game.
- 32:47Speaker 3: Since January twenty third. That isn't the AVS shootout win,
- 32:51Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like they've won everything since then.
- 32:55Speaker 1: But are they peaking too early? Is Dallas going to
- 32:59Speaker 1: so they've played sixty six games, Is they have sixteen left?
- 33:02Speaker 1: Are they going to win another sixteen in a row?
- 33:06Speaker 3: You know what?
- 33:06Speaker 1: They might mos, I have no idea. Okay, then you
- 33:08Speaker 1: pretend that I don't think they will, but I guess,
- 33:12Speaker 1: I guess it's possible.
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- 33:16Speaker 5: oh three, five oh four, O nine to two five.
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- 33:49Speaker 1: to tudsports radio dot com slash not a bracket. Hey, Vic,
- 33:52Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever been less prepared for
- 33:56Speaker 1: an NCAA tournament than I am. Hi am right there.
- 34:00Speaker 1: I watched the selection show because I was just you know,
- 34:03Speaker 1: but you really don't know what you're looking at doing
- 34:05Speaker 1: me neither.
- 34:05Speaker 3: I mean, I've watched major college basketball, but I've known
- 34:09Speaker 3: so little about the Akrons of this world.
- 34:12Speaker 2: You know that there's so many teams? All right, quick quiz.
- 34:15Speaker 2: There's a team in the tournament called Queens. Where's Queens
- 34:19Speaker 2: from New York?
- 34:20Speaker 1: Nope?
- 34:21Speaker 2: Where's Queens from.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Bretton, Great Britain?
- 34:23Speaker 2: North Carolina?
- 34:25Speaker 1: What? Yes?
- 34:26Speaker 3: I assumed that you thought too. I thought, oh, that's
- 34:29Speaker 3: good to hear that one of the boroughs is represented. Nope,
- 34:32Speaker 3: North Carolina, but the former Division two school.
- 34:35Speaker 1: I think this selection show is kind of like watching
- 34:37Speaker 1: the NBA Draft.
- 34:38Speaker 5: To me, there's like three things that I recognize, and
- 34:41Speaker 5: I'm like, don't know who that European guy is.
- 34:43Speaker 1: No idea. We all know Keith, right, my old man.
- 34:47Speaker 1: He pulls this on me on Saturday. I call him
- 34:49Speaker 1: a couple of minutes before, you know, way before the
- 34:52Speaker 1: Jets game, and he goes. He doesn't even say, he
- 34:55Speaker 1: goes hello. I guess he said hello. He goes, I
- 34:57Speaker 1: got some really bad news for you. Like what because
- 35:01Speaker 1: are you sitting down? I'm like, yeah, what's going on?
- 35:03Speaker 1: He the sax State Hornets are again not going to
- 35:06Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. I'm like, why, Oh, you think that's funny.
- 35:16Speaker 5: When you spend all that money, you get Mike Bibbi
- 35:18Speaker 5: in there, you have like Shack doing stuff, I mean plays,
- 35:21Speaker 5: uh three or three five four?
- 35:24Speaker 1: Sax State Hornets have never been to the tourney ever.
- 35:27Speaker 2: I kept track of that, to be honest with you.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Do you know who has been to the tournament? Nebraska?
- 35:31Speaker 1: Ma mhm. That's great dude, doing games in Georgetown against
- 35:35Speaker 1: Everson way back in the day and they're just getting drilled.
- 35:38Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but some day they'll make the tournament. Nope,
- 35:41Speaker 1: they won't. I sit here today, I'm on my desk, man,
- 35:44Speaker 1: and they're not in a tournament ever. All right, US
- 35:48Speaker 1: colleges a lot more to get to back.
- 35:57Speaker 5: Did you guys happen to watch the player over the weekend,
- 36:00Speaker 5: especially yesterday and see the meltdown of like eight different
- 36:04Speaker 5: dudes on.
- 36:05Speaker 1: Some day nobody, like, everybody was finding the water except
- 36:11Speaker 1: for Cam and the drive that he hit on eighteen.
- 36:14Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys like I was kind
- 36:17Speaker 3: of surprised that he was taking full send driver in
- 36:20Speaker 3: a moment like that.
- 36:21Speaker 1: That's a hell of it, Like longest drive of the week.
- 36:24Speaker 1: To have the balls to try and pull that off
- 36:27Speaker 1: given what you were facing is pretty badass.
- 36:29Speaker 2: You know that the final drive of that ternam and
- 36:31Speaker 2: his drive was the longest drive of the week on eighteen. Yeah,
- 36:34Speaker 2: he hit three twenty on that sucker.
- 36:38Speaker 1: You've got to be full of so much adrenaline, though.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Can you imagine standing over that ball on eighteen And
- 36:44Speaker 1: by the way, you're ahead of the other guys and
- 36:48Speaker 1: just I mean, well he was tied with Fitzpatrick at
- 36:50Speaker 1: that time.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Yeah, they were tied.
- 36:52Speaker 1: No, but I mean but but in terms of they
- 36:54Speaker 1: still off to play. You're in front of them. Oh oh,
- 36:57Speaker 1: you're like half a hole in front of them. Yeah,
- 36:59Speaker 1: but oh all of them, they were like he fell apart,
- 37:02Speaker 1: he was so far back up.
- 37:03Speaker 3: Well, I can't believe how badly Olberg played on the
- 37:06Speaker 3: final day, he had that suck wrapped.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Well, didn't he after two days? Wasn't he like ten
- 37:12Speaker 1: hunder or something like that? And then just he had
- 37:15Speaker 1: a couple of double crosses into the drink. But to
- 37:19Speaker 1: stand up there over that drive with all those people
- 37:22Speaker 1: and just to grip it and rip it, can ask
- 37:24Speaker 1: you this gotta be a great feeling to be able
- 37:26Speaker 1: to do that? Is there more?
- 37:27Speaker 2: Is there a more expressionless human on earth than Cam Young?
- 37:32Speaker 2: No Am I the only one who noticed that.
- 37:36Speaker 3: I mean, that guy could he can go from one
- 37:39Speaker 3: emotional swing to the other. He could win a billion
- 37:42Speaker 3: dollars in a lottery, or he could stab himself in
- 37:47Speaker 3: the face and the expression would be the same.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna say, vic, I think that
- 37:53Speaker 1: was more than three twenty. I thought he hit like
- 37:55Speaker 1: three sixty fifty or something. Yeah, he was. It was great.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Well Jeff says he hit a three seventy five. Apparent
- 38:01Speaker 1: was it? Yeah?
- 38:03Speaker 2: You know your three seventy five is my three twenty?
- 38:07Speaker 1: Yes? Pretty much. I've watched a lot of golf pro
- 38:12Speaker 1: golf in person, Brett, have you I watched the BMW? Okay,
- 38:19Speaker 1: that's it. I've seen a lot of professional golfing person
- 38:23Speaker 1: include the corn fairy. Yeah, seen a bunch of those.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Those guys are really good. Yeah does this guy smile?
- 38:29Speaker 1: Well that's That's the point I'm trying to make, is
- 38:31Speaker 1: that the vast majority of professional golfers are absolute friggin robots.
- 38:37Speaker 1: That's why I think Tiger the vast majority.
- 38:40Speaker 2: And here's my theory on this, follow me. Tiger resonated
- 38:44Speaker 2: with so many people because he showed emotion.
- 38:48Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it wasn't just hey, you know, here's the
- 38:51Speaker 3: first black golfer doing what he's doing. Yeah, it's the
- 38:54Speaker 3: fact that he was an emotional he's.
- 38:56Speaker 1: A real human being. Because then you hit a long putt,
- 38:58Speaker 1: you fist pump exactly he was.
- 39:01Speaker 2: And I think the emotionless ones, the ones that just
- 39:04Speaker 2: sort of.
- 39:06Speaker 1: I think it's bad for the sport, ain't do much fun. Hey, Brett,
- 39:09Speaker 1: if I'm out of the course with you guys, or
- 39:12Speaker 1: Casey Day, I mean whomever, Right, and I hit a putt,
- 39:14Speaker 1: like let's say I hit a twenty footer, I'm screaming.
- 39:18Speaker 1: It's most I mean, it's what's going on.
- 39:21Speaker 3: I think it's one of the reasons why Scotti Scheffler
- 39:23Speaker 3: doesn't resonate like some as dominant as he's been, He's
- 39:27Speaker 3: just sort of there.
- 39:28Speaker 1: He's a robot.
- 39:29Speaker 3: Yeah, these guys remember the emotion he showed in the
- 39:32Speaker 3: Ryder Cup or the President's Cup.
- 39:33Speaker 2: It was remember the President's Cup. He was going back
- 39:35Speaker 2: and forth with one of his buddies.
- 39:37Speaker 1: It was it was rare. Well to a certain.
- 39:41Speaker 5: Extent, It's kind of like when I'm watching the WBC
- 39:46Speaker 5: US beats the Dominican yesterday two to one.
- 39:48Speaker 1: They're in the final.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Best baseball we will watch all season.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Why are you making that face? Why can't I just
- 39:52Speaker 1: enjoy it? I watched the whole game, so forget him.
- 39:54Speaker 2: It's the best baseball we will watch all summer.
- 39:57Speaker 5: But you watch Venezuela or the dr or somebody else
- 40:00Speaker 5: when they do something cool, everybody in the stadium will
- 40:04Speaker 5: know about it. And I just saw this dichotomy because
- 40:08Speaker 5: the US doesn't do that. Somebody pointed this out, and
- 40:12Speaker 5: it's so true.
- 40:15Speaker 3: All of the other countries what they're doing if they
- 40:17Speaker 3: do something cool, it's bat flips, it's dances, it's music
- 40:21Speaker 3: in the lock, and it's hand signs.
- 40:24Speaker 1: And what does the US do before the d R game?
- 40:26Speaker 2: They go Cam Young.
- 40:28Speaker 5: No, they brought in Rob O'Neil to talk to the team.
- 40:32Speaker 5: You know that is mosh the guy he is having
- 40:38Speaker 5: a party and they're like.
- 40:41Speaker 1: So when I was in Afghanistan, You're just like, dude,
- 40:43Speaker 1: it's just such a different way to approach this. And
- 40:47Speaker 1: I again, the US is in the final. They will
- 40:51Speaker 1: play the winner of Italy or Venezuela tonight. So if
- 40:55Speaker 1: Italy wins, America wins, no matter what.
- 40:57Speaker 5: But uh, Venezuela is one of the those teams that
- 41:00Speaker 5: does all of the bat flips and everything else.
- 41:03Speaker 3: They go the end of their game against Japan, Yeah,
- 41:06Speaker 3: was absolute lunacy.
- 41:08Speaker 1: That was fun.
- 41:09Speaker 5: As much as I well and think about it, Japan
- 41:11Speaker 5: is like incredibly good. As much as I want to
- 41:15Speaker 5: see a rematch between the US and Italy, I would
- 41:18Speaker 5: love to see Venezuela throwing bats around.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Anti Italian again. How many examples do I have to
- 41:24Speaker 2: have on this show of him being anti Italian?
- 41:26Speaker 1: They aren't Italian Americans, Put this.
- 41:29Speaker 2: Down, They're Americans.
- 41:30Speaker 1: Done all right? An, the're Americans? How many men they're Americans?
- 41:35Speaker 1: How many?
- 41:35Speaker 3: How many different examples have you been anti Italian? Do
- 41:38Speaker 3: I need to drum up before. I don't know you
- 41:40Speaker 3: show up with fish in your mailbox.
- 41:43Speaker 1: But they're Americans. Okay, all right, you want to do that.
- 41:46Speaker 2: Fine.
- 41:46Speaker 1: By the way, have you guys seen well hold on,
- 41:48Speaker 1: let me let me can I I want to jump
- 41:50Speaker 1: on your side real quick. I saw an article over
- 41:54Speaker 1: the weekend that was it was one of these for
- 42:00Speaker 1: a country that doesn't really play baseball, this is magical
- 42:05Speaker 1: for Italy that this should like it's a homegrown roster,
- 42:09Speaker 1: and I'm like, all but two dudes are born like
- 42:11Speaker 1: in who wrote that, It's all I have to find
- 42:15Speaker 1: it idiocy.
- 42:15Speaker 3: They have no idea what they're talking about. Nobody in
- 42:17Speaker 3: Italy cares about this, that is correct, but they made
- 42:20Speaker 3: it sound like it's this is like miror nobody cares.
- 42:23Speaker 2: This would be like I'm trying to think if if
- 42:26Speaker 2: an American cricket cricket team went to Pakistan and just
- 42:32Speaker 2: kicked ass, we'd be like, h sweet, cool, yeah, nice,
- 42:38Speaker 2: or you know what like at the Olympics the curling
- 42:40Speaker 2: yeah sweet boys.
- 42:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 42:46Speaker 5: If you guys haven't noticed, I mean, these are high
- 42:50Speaker 5: pressure games. These games matter to these guys that are
- 42:53Speaker 5: in it. A lot of the Rockies participating in this
- 42:56Speaker 5: have played great, but they've been great, sense been terrible.
- 43:01Speaker 1: That's normal.
- 43:02Speaker 5: Like Tovar the other day Friday against Japan, three for fourth,
- 43:06Speaker 5: a couple of doubles. He's hitting like six hundred in
- 43:08Speaker 5: the WBC.
- 43:10Speaker 1: You kind of go down the list.
- 43:11Speaker 5: Every single Rocky that's in this tournament has played fantastic,
- 43:15Speaker 5: which is good to say. Does it apply to anything
- 43:19Speaker 5: beyond this, probably not, But at least they're playing well.
- 43:22Speaker 5: It's better than Michael Lorenzen going out and giving up
- 43:24Speaker 5: like nine.
- 43:25Speaker 1: In two and two thirds. You feel bad for the
- 43:27Speaker 1: dominicanill on that last strike call.
- 43:30Speaker 3: You know, I thought the ball was low, but you
- 43:33Speaker 3: know what they say in that situation, you can't watch it.
- 43:35Speaker 3: You got to do something there close three two count
- 43:39Speaker 3: you got in us, he'd still be at bat.
- 43:43Speaker 1: What when I was when I was all my life
- 43:45Speaker 1: playing ball, my coach had said to me, dude, you've
- 43:48Speaker 1: got to protect the plate, right, just protect? Does anybody
- 43:52Speaker 1: protect the plate anymore? Dude? I don't know.
- 43:55Speaker 3: If I'm facing Mason Miller, You've got to protect. You've
- 43:58Speaker 3: got to try to fill do anything. You've got to
- 44:00Speaker 3: protect the play. Don't put it in the hands of
- 44:02Speaker 3: the dret Pretty ballsy.
- 44:03Speaker 2: Of him to throw a slider there.
- 44:05Speaker 3: The guy was hitting one hundred and two on his
- 44:07Speaker 3: in his fastball and then he slides that one in there.
- 44:10Speaker 1: Well.
- 44:11Speaker 5: The issue with Dominican yesterday, they had a situation they
- 44:14Speaker 5: left the bases loaded early in the game.
- 44:16Speaker 1: They left guys on second and third. Later in the game,
- 44:19Speaker 1: they had another inning where they left two guys on base,
- 44:22Speaker 1: and then they left the guy on second at the ninth.
- 44:23Speaker 3: They averaged ten runs a game because their roster's unreal
- 44:28Speaker 3: like the fact that the US held them to one
- 44:30Speaker 3: run is huge.
- 44:31Speaker 1: But the US advances to the final. They will play
- 44:33Speaker 1: the winner of Venezuela and Italy. Last thing, I don't
- 44:38Speaker 1: watch a whole lot of college baseball.
- 44:41Speaker 3: Oh.
- 44:41Speaker 1: I sent this to la Oh did you?
- 44:43Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 44:43Speaker 1: I did see Stone Lawless yesterday. Kid's name is Stone Lawless.
- 44:48Speaker 1: That's cool name, man. I like that. Look the parents
- 44:53Speaker 1: their last name is Lawless, and like, how can we
- 44:55Speaker 1: try to make our kid as cool as possible? I know,
- 44:57Speaker 1: let's name him Stone hold On said, And I'm sure
- 45:00Speaker 1: his middle aime is like battle Acts.
- 45:02Speaker 2: There's been a lot of There's been a lot of Stones.
- 45:04Speaker 3: Remember Stone, Stony Case was a quarterback for the Arizona
- 45:09Speaker 3: Time Arizona Cardinals.
- 45:12Speaker 2: Case is the nicest guy in the world. He dated
- 45:13Speaker 2: a model.
- 45:15Speaker 3: Anyway, Hey, Brett Brett, Emma Stone, Brett, you mean to
- 45:19Speaker 3: tell me that you Barnstone, you are going to root
- 45:22Speaker 3: against Rocky Starter Michael Lorenzen tonight. Well, I could say
- 45:28Speaker 3: I'm rooting four Zeke Tophar, but Rocky Starter Michael Lorenzen
- 45:32Speaker 3: is taking the bump.
- 45:33Speaker 2: It's a strong man.
- 45:35Speaker 1: Michael Lorenzen had some guns on him.
- 45:37Speaker 2: So you honestly would like to see Venezuela beat.
- 45:39Speaker 1: I honestly don't. I don't care either one' No. I
- 45:43Speaker 1: want to see Italy win. Italy's got a win.
- 45:46Speaker 5: Like I said, the rematch would be fine, But I'm
- 45:48Speaker 5: telling you there would if it was against Venezuela. It
- 45:53Speaker 5: would feel like a country versus a country, as opposed
- 45:56Speaker 5: to US versus that's a kind of America.
- 45:59Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 46:00Speaker 3: It's amazing to me how good Venezuela is in baseball
- 46:03Speaker 3: and the Dominicans just you know, those stories are much
- 46:05Speaker 3: different than American stories, right, the Dominican story.
- 46:08Speaker 2: Those kids come from nothing.
- 46:09Speaker 1: Oh, oh yeah, you got to hit your way off
- 46:11Speaker 1: the island come from. They're hitting, they're hitting bottle caps
- 46:15Speaker 1: with broomsticks.
- 46:16Speaker 5: You got married there, right, Conna, Nelly, can you pull
- 46:20Speaker 5: up this video real quick that I just sent you Stone?
- 46:23Speaker 5: Are you talking about the kid from Tennessee? Yes, Stone Lawless,
- 46:26Speaker 5: watch this before you hit play, Nelly. This is to
- 46:30Speaker 5: either tie or go ahead versus George Georgia. Right, all right,
- 46:34Speaker 5: just play it, play it, go ahead. So Stone barrows
- 46:38Speaker 5: one up bam. He thinks he's either tied or taking
- 46:40Speaker 5: a lead. I can't remember if there's got a base.
- 46:42Speaker 5: He chucks his back down, walks down the first baseline
- 46:45Speaker 5: points it is done down, bumps his chest and he's
- 46:49Speaker 5: robbed at the fence.
- 46:53Speaker 1: You can't look, I've never done anything like that. Or
- 46:58Speaker 1: you better make sure that that thing is leaving what
- 47:01Speaker 1: I didn't see? Did he already start his trot?
- 47:03Speaker 3: Did he already get like around trot the way he
- 47:05Speaker 3: just threw his bat? Tell you the story and then
- 47:08Speaker 3: he and then he bangst flyout.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Yeah it's just a fly, but I mean, did he
- 47:12Speaker 1: start his trot? And they're like, dude, he caught it.
- 47:14Speaker 5: So thirty second story uh, summer league baseball, which you
- 47:17Speaker 5: have to play, and guy, do we have to just quickly?
- 47:20Speaker 5: It's summer leagues of would bat leagues. I'm playing in
- 47:24Speaker 5: Saint Joe, Missouri. They actually they get crowds of a
- 47:27Speaker 5: few thousand people.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Like it's weird.
- 47:29Speaker 2: It's gonna hurry this story up.
- 47:31Speaker 5: I hit a ball dead one that I barreled up,
- 47:34Speaker 5: and I grunted loudly, not intentionally, but I went hit
- 47:38Speaker 5: the ball. Crowd goes silent, and I'm like, that ball
- 47:41Speaker 5: is four hundred and fifty feet. I start my trotter
- 47:44Speaker 5: on the basis. This guy keeps back pedaling and he
- 47:47Speaker 5: catches the ball in the warning track and everybody runts crowd.
- 47:53Speaker 3: My own teammates said, hell of the grunt you had
- 47:56Speaker 3: there for three hundred and ninety foot shot.
- 47:59Speaker 1: Couldn't live it down three or three? I heard you are,
- 48:02Speaker 1: then you're the monicas Sellus of of baseball. I did, Yeah,
- 48:06Speaker 1: I grunted all the time. I don't know what it was.
- 48:09Speaker 1: I would inhale before the pitch came, which was the problem.
- 48:11Speaker 1: You did that on the glove corse, I still do.
- 48:13Speaker 1: He does grunt. Of course, it's because when I swing,
- 48:17Speaker 1: I go. It's like I inhale on the back.
- 48:19Speaker 2: You're supposed to exhale. When you're going back, you're supposed
- 48:23Speaker 2: to exhale.
- 48:24Speaker 1: Well, I don't back after this