Latest / You Don't Know Ball Podcast / Episode 96: NBA playoff reactions! Notre Dame/ Michigan spring game experience, Masergon natty?
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- Isaac Rowe: What's going on? You don't know Ball podcast nation. Welcome back to the show. ⁓ ⁓ a host today. Jack had prior obligations to go to, so you're just getting us today, Caleb, Alex, and I. Hey, congrats to Jack for finishing school, though. He's graduating this weekend, I'm pretty sure. So he deserves to celebrate, I suppose. He's now a part of an elite group of unks. ⁓ We have another Mesa gone game on. So let us know in the comments if you want us to do a stream of this. We'll figure it out. I'll show it on you. None of our kids are now on the team anymore. None of our kids. So it's a new new era of Mesa gone football. So ⁓ we'll see how fruitful it is. ⁓ no. Let's baby. All right. Well let's actually get into some content here. We have the Pistons still alive in the NBA playoffs in full throttle. Thank God we have the NFL draft is completed. We have Diego Pavia at Arby's. We have a oh no We what else do we have we have baseball tires are playing well right now Okay, they just got that one There was that one graphic where it was whatever division the Tigers are in suck Yeah, the one that's like and and they had now is better than the AL Yeah, something like that because the Tigers are 15 and 15 or they were until last night Yeah, they got one day when today too. I think they won today. Well, that's good. Then they're 16 16 went to a there's also we've also been to a couple of spring games in between our shows. I was going to Michigan. Caleb and I go to Notre Dame as well with Jack as well. But he's not here to talk about it. And our dear friend Dom and our friend Dom shout out Dom. You to both. So that was a lot of fun. We could talk about that a little bit of a preview for those two teams. And then, you know, it's good. It's going to be rather be like a shorter episode. I feel like today is not a lot going on. We'll see. I mean, we'll see what happens. Get into some discussions. But what would you like to start with? What's that fully start of the Pistons because that's the freshest for sure Do you think they're giving up a little bit of a stinker of a playoff right now or no? I mean, yeah, you can't call it anything but a stinker if you're the first seed Now I will say this all credit to the magic for getting in there to be honest Seeing them in the play-in was a surprise if you would have asked me before the season started I would have said the magic are gonna be a top three seed I would have given them the third or fourth seed because that's just how talented they are you stack them up against this Pistons roster player for player on paper. Magic are the better team. Paulo OK. They obviously match each other. They both had 45 last night. Let's go first on the season. That's a great drive. That was a great. That's a great. Wow. Dermot McDermott. Sean Borden is talking shit. Student section. But yeah. I mean, Pistons, their plan. I can't even say they're playing down to the magic. The magic just are the perfect team to match up with them size wise. Every single guy. on their roster that they play is over 6'5". 6'5 or taller. So that makes it really hard when A, you only have Cade as your primary ball handler. This is why I wish we still had Jaden Ivey. For as much of a meme as he is now, he was that second ball handler for us this year despite the injury. matter on Judgment Day, though. Yeah, know. Pisses ain't gonna matter on Judgment Day, man. You know, I'm proud that the Pistons were able to get ⁓ win game five there. This next one, though, ⁓ I don't know. Pistons have been playing really bad ⁓ on the road most of the year. They split the series with the Magic 2-2 in the regular season. I don't know if they can do it. I don't know if they will. I'm nervous. But know, Cade's just got to turn on the heat again. And we need another 40 piece out of the guy. And we need our shooters to make shots in Orlando. That's I was going to say. That's the only way they're going to For the Pistons offense, feels like Cade is really the focal point. If he's not going, nobody is. But if he's high, everybody around him is a little bit better than when he's cold. Isn't that like kind of like not good. It's frustrating to watch. And especially it's just it's only not good because it's the magic. And that's just because they have so much size everywhere. Hard to get inside. Wendell Carter. He does not get enough credit for how good of a center he is. And you can really tell with the series against Jalen Duren. He is completely nullified him in the first four games. Jalen Duren had a good game last night. But even for Jalen Duren standards, it was just an OK game. He had like 15 and 10 or something like that. Like Wendell Carter, like you You can just tell. what he does to make during just not useful at all. So that pick and roll game for the Pistons has not been there. It's been so much. Kate, I saw this, I saw that. And yeah, you're right. If Kate's not going like Kate has to get going in order for everybody else to get going. Because when he does, they bring doubles and then other people get open. That's how we get open shots. It's just hard. They have so much length and it's, it's frustrating to watch sometimes because Kate, can just tell a kid trying to do what he can. He's still coming off a collapse long. He's probably not a hundred percent. So I mean, honestly, fact like you can look at it like it's kind of amazing that we've won two games in this series with how the team is. But I heard they're going star hunting this summer. So I'm excited for that. Who do you think they're going to pair them, Kate, with or a really popular pick is MPJ. I don't know. I think I think we really need like. See, we don't need an MPJ. need someone like ⁓ Trey Murphy is a really popular one. plays for the Pelicans. He can dribble a little bit. Andy's just a really good shooter. It's just the perfect pairing I would like for him. Devin Booker yeah I would love Devin Booker on this team and if we could somehow keep during for as shitty as he's played I would love to keep during around and I would love to pair Devin Booker with Cade but we'd have to give up a ton for him we'd be saying goodbye to sorry Thompson we'd be saying goodbye to Duncan Robinson pride Duncan three more first-round picks couple seconds I this was a contract year for D book I thought he was going be a free agent after this season. Well, if he is, then that's even better. But then we're going to have to get rid of something and not pay Durin. ⁓ But you can look at, honestly, the Pistons were smart for holding out on paying Durin because he might be a really good regular season center. But in these playoffs, just hasn't done anything. So like I said, it's frustrating. I've watched every single game of this team. And I know they're better than what they are. It's unfortunate because we're playing a fake eight seed. So it's just like, it just sucks, man. But it is what it is. The series is still winnable. I'm acting like we're just going to lose, which we probably are going to lose. But I'm going to be watching this game tomorrow night, and we'll see. And it's in Orlando again? Yeah. ⁓ the the Tigers game a gifted scoobal and ver lander his signature shoe he obviously wants to come home he wants to come home I mean he it's obvious ⁓ if you're the prison's front office and he's available like in the free agent market or a ⁓ or a possible trade option you got to feel like they have to go after him well yeah they got to go star hunting they were very conservative these past two years. Trajan Langdon was. So I think now's the time while your team's hungry, your team is ready, your team is still young. You can go take a swing at Devin Booker, and by the time he's 34, 35, all your core players are still in their prime. That's just how this team is kind of constructed right now. So go for it. Yeah, obviously. Good throw, Kinsley. ⁓ He didn't rush it. He just zipped that thing to Alonso. We'll take it. ⁓ OK, so the Lakers are up 3-2. They've lost two games straight. are some they have we also have the Spurs moved on right Spurs and Thunder are the only teams that have moved on so far We've got some amazing. This has been such a great year for the first round and I'm loving it dude. I love play it like I would have all these games go seven if I could Pistons for obvious reasons, I mean, just just love good basketball. So the Nuggets, they can pull off a three one comeback. But Deven Shenzhou and and and the Edwards are out now. So they probably will end up. Yeah, I think the Nuggets kind of struck gold with that injury, though they got so lucky. Yeah, they showed up to the blackjack table and just pulled something out of their ass. Because as soon as Ant went down, I feel like the series is kind of like cooked for the wolves. Yeah, they definitely can win without them. It's just you're not getting enough offense out of anybody else. we've seen in these playoffs, you need people that can create their own shot. And that's what's been sucking with the Pistons is if Cade's not going, no one else on the team is ready to take that next step. Danis Jenkins, he's played so inconsistently these playoffs. I don't think he's made a three yet. Nice. ⁓ And he was such a great shooter in the regular season. But he's still really young, undrafted. That's Shoebridge. Let's go. ⁓ Yeah, that's enough about the Pistons. Play Marcus Sasser, please. mean, the Wolves and Pistons are kind of built the same right now. Taked went down and they started to struggle on offense a little bit. But Anthony Edwards goes down and feels like the whole ship is sinking. stuff without DeVincenzo, too. He shoots nine threes a game, hits three or four of them. That's instant offense. Good defender. He's quick. I like the one series I've been a fan of. was I am a really big fan of this Lakers Rockets series series because Rockets are probably going to win game six and then they'll come back to L.A. for a game seven another brown game seven baby. But that would be crazy if they pull off a three ⁓ comeback never happened before. Do you think you guys do you think they'll be able to do it. I don't think LeBron let's it slide. The goat would never let it happen. Yeah. It's a way is Katie's are playing right now or he didn't even play. No. Well it's go. the ⁓ Well, not really all their chips, but they traded Jalen Green, who was part of that young core and everything. Rockets would certainly be better if they had Fred Van Vliet playing. He was out for the entire season with an ACL or Achilles, one of the two. But he came back. No, Fred Van Vliet. No, not yet. He got injured and I was Tatum doing he's doing good. I mean, it's like he never left. It's kind of crazy. But they did blow the game against the Sixers the other night. So sick. They're in a game six in Philly with a champ. Philly gets a chance to tie tonight so that'll be interesting. Who else is playing? got ⁓ Cavaliers Cavs and Toronto that series is really good Toronto almost stole one on the road to take game five. So now they're going back to Toronto where Toronto is probably going to win. So we'll get a game seven there. And then hopefully the Pistons can deliver, give us a game seven. And then in the West, what's that other? Oh, yeah, Wolves and Nuggets. Wolves and Nuggets? Yeah, great first rounds. mean, by next week's filming session, all of them will be done. I say we do some predictions of who we think is going to just win the series. We don't need to say all they'll win in six. But let's go down the line, Caleb. Start listing a couple of games. I just can't see the Pistons winning in Orlando. So I'm going to go with the Magic to win. As much as I want to be biased right now for the Pistons, I've watched their last two games in Orlando. It didn't look good. It's just they had one good 10 minute stretch there in game four. was the one I was hopeful about. And they blew it pretty much. They can't do that for a whole game. They just can't. Magic. Play the damn song. ⁓ franz bagner who was not moving like this in michigan as well by this plan that he is on the sea and he's not really going to know i think magic when this series to unfortunately who knows maybe we're like jinx ourselves maybe yeah you never know who you got I'm going pissed. I think they're gonna come back. mean, you guys are being Demi doubters over here. I'm gonna be with my boys. I love it. I love it. I love it. think you know what's funny is because I remember on this podcast, you're like, man, what should Alex's favorite team be? And we said the magic for you because they have so many mission. is. They got my mission. They got jet Howard. ⁓ yeah, I forgot about Caleb Houston. They have both Wagner Wagner and Franz Orlando Magic. South right there. Yeah. Let's go. Next series, Toronto and Cavs. I'm going to go Cavs here. I think Donovan Mitchell is he playing? I think Donovan Mitchell and James Harden is a hard do it a beat. So I'm going to go. I'm Harden's on that team, too. Yeah. You know who saved their ass last night, though? Dennis Schroeder. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did. offer them. He's like he's like that solid like is he a six man for that dude? He's such an adventurer around the league He's played for like 13 different teams. I already played for the Thunder sure play the Pistons before yeah, it was on the Pistons for half a year last year because he got traded there But yeah, it's just funny because he's he's a journeyman who you got I'm gonna go Cavaliers as well. I just I think going against James Harden is a bad idea. So yeah them still. I'm also rolling with Cavs. This is one of those series where Toronto will win game six. It's just the home team's going to win. That's just how the four or five matchups are. Give me the Cavs in seven. All right. Caz and seven. Also, they're just objectively like they have the best player, best two players. But you could argue they have the best three. But I don't know. Scotty Barnes is probably better than Evan Mobley. So Scotty Barnes, like a troll. Yes. I don't. Yeah, he might be a little autistic. OK. Might be a little on the spectrum there. I don't know. NBA players are really good. They're really good. But. ⁓ Dude's an all-star, so I can't really joke about him. let's see, what's the 3.6 in the east? What is it? What is it? No, I'm just kidding. Dude, I don't know. ⁓ wait. We already said it. Celtics Sixers. Yeah, Celtics. ⁓ yeah. Why was I saying three six Celtics Sixers to seven Celtics and six. I'm going to say Celtics too. think it's there. Six or seven. Six. OK. I think they'll win this next one. The goal of Dave Portnoy's team, the Celtics. You would be a frickin Celtics fan. Yeah. You slinging the rock on these guys. You're two quarterback system right now. Well, ⁓ shoot. I forgot he got hurt. Kenzie got hurt. Yeah. We got a little Sam Darnold and Cam Newton going on. Yeah, we literally do. I mean, our team is. I have never seen us. I don't know what it is, but I'm this. think I said this last year, but like our offense right now is moving at a level that it didn't move at all last year. That would have been like a three yard game. That would have been like Alice would have lost yards on that. I don't know if it's our offensive line or our quarterbacks or any of this. ⁓ my gosh. Running back. Onk's good. Yeah. Onk Buck got. Did we develop him? No, we got to leave him. ⁓ Do not touch him. throw it shit oh shit oh you really jinxed too alright Alex he had said Celtics Celtics alright this is Celtics oh my god what is that last series in the east why can't I think of it so we just said the Cal we just said the Cavs and uh Raptors we just said the Celtics and Sixers we just said the Pistons and Magic oh Nix and Hawks that's what is yeah ⁓ man, so the Hawks are at home tonight trying to tie up the series. Dude, call me crazy. taking the Knicks. Yeah, can't go get the Knicks right now. Give me Knicks in six. I think they win it tonight. What's his name? ⁓ Trey Young? What is he on now? He was traded to the Wizards. You know what's crazy? They're building something there. They got Trey Young now. Anthony Davis is on the Wizards now. ⁓ So they're trying to compete next year. So that'll be interesting. I'm going to say I'm going to say the Knicks as well. think Jalen what's his name? Brunson Brunson. think Jalen Brunson is the king of New York right now. Everybody keeps calling him that. I don't know if you saw that little skit with the Caleb Pressy. Oh yeah. I that. It's trying to schedule a reservation at the most prestige steakhouse. Just by using his name. He almost got one. Really? Caleb did. Jalen Brunson. That's funny. Yeah, but I take the Knicks here. think they're a pretty solid team. And Knicks and Knicks in playoffs is kind of has a lot of aura to it. Oh, yeah, dude. Like the Garden. Oh, my god. A Garden playoff game. dude, watching that Piston series last year, it's chill. stressful. yeah. It's so I'll do the Knicks as well. can't go against them. Yeah. Even though I do not like Stephen A. Smith. I could see the Hawks forcing a game seven, but I just. I don't know. I just don't think they're ready. I don't think they're ready yet. That seems really young. ⁓ Let's go over to the West now. Nuggets Wolves. Do we think they can pull off a 3-1 comeback? No. I'm going to say I'm going to say no good will win the series. Really? I got two more games to win. They got the joker. So I think I think they're going to come back. They had their game tonight, right? Yeah, they got one tonight. So they got they have to win the night. So I guess we'll see. Oh, So Friday, this could be completely irrelevant. And what do you even matter? All right. I'm going Minnesota. I think I'm also going to risk it for the biscuit and go nuggets here. I think. I with no aunt there's always a chance. I'm going Minnesota because of JJ McCarthy. That's fair Yeah, they'll just end the series They do they are at home tonight so that does help so we'll see if Minnesota faithful comes out and then Lakers I think don't think this Rockets team is the first to pull off a 3-0 comeback. So give me Lakers and 7, though. Yeah, I don't think LeBron's going let it slide, so I'm going to take Lakers as well. ⁓ I'll take Lakers, but. ⁓ don't think this Rockets team is the first to pull off a 3-0 comeback. So give me Lakers and 7, though. Yeah, I don't think LeBron's going let it slide, so I'm going to take Lakers as well. ⁓ I'll take Lakers, but. ⁓ Yeah, it's not going to be big Braun that's going to help him win it. going be little Braun. It's going Braun. X Factor. Yeah, it's not going to be big Braun that's going to help him win it. going be little Braun. It's going Braun. X Factor. He has been getting playing time. don't know if it's because ⁓ they have so many injuries. They LeBron on the squad, and JJ Reddick's like, yeah, I'll play his son. I don't know if he is getting better, if they genuinely think that. I think ⁓ all the highlights are I'm sure he's probably crazy in practice. I'm sure he's such ⁓ a demon on defense, going against He looks like he could be a really good defensive guard, I don't know. It's not getting any taller, that's for sure. You know, it's got to help having Marcus Smart there though, because they're kind of like the same build. Yeah. Bronnie and Marcus Smart, so I'm sure that helps a lot. a right that name down. Yeah, that was our guy. Dion Mount. Yeah, yeah. Let's go mount. Let's go mount. You got to climb the mountain. Where is Kronk? We got Kronk, right? He got hurt earlier in the game. ⁓ he did. Dude, no, dude, that doc got through. It's it's holding. All right. What's the next series? It's was at first. OK. All right. So I mean, that's that's the NBA playoffs in a nutshell right there. Obviously, we're hoping for the Pistons to win, but we'll see what happens. OK, so. the for both these games but it'll probably be on my personal as I get there the worst social media man I'm doing a lot man I'm doing the best I can but uh hey no one's saying nothing but I figure we just run it by our thoughts and our initial thoughts about anything doesn't even have to be about the team you could be about this experience It could be what we thought, about the team, whatever. It's just how are you feeling with that little bit of taste of college football before the summer months? last our out to you sure i mean i think i started to get covered a little bit on this in a prior episode but ⁓ was he so good i'm really hoping that it's ⁓ warmer for the games i hate that i hate going to these damn spring games for especially have really been michigan's every single time i've been it's freezing so really want them to have a warmer spring game once in while but offense Tommy car look good Bryce needs to keep going touchdown. Defense defensive wise I think they looked really nice especially with the linebackers. ⁓ you know not have a lot of experience back there and they do look like the fly around having a good time tackle and hitting hard staying physical so ⁓ defense line looks rejuvenated I mean just having all those skilled players JJ Buchanan Sammy Sosa I mean you can't get better than that dude that was a crazy swim move was a crazy spin move Unch Buck is going nuts dude these are already better than every single game deandre hardman jr. that's his name yeah but ⁓ keep going let's go hardman but ⁓ yeah sammy ⁓ sammy sosa or whatever not sammy sosa sammy sosa i haven't heard that name in a while ⁓ it's whatever is the same all hours of all hours of the year I know you're talking about the new receiver yeah from the user freshman and having all the skill players that we have now is a totally revamped about this season's offensive ⁓ skill I just hope it goes and produces and I just I'm I'm ready to see a turning page in Michigan football. Hopefully that isn't as boring as hell as it was. Yeah, mean, ⁓ I watched that Michigan spring game on the TV. I thought Tommy Carr looked nice. He ⁓ obviously living up to the car name with his brother who we just saw last weekend in South Bend and Lloyd Carr as a legendary Michigan head coach. Yeah, I thought Heider was running really hard. I thought he's gonna be I think he's gonna be a dangerous next year. He might be better than Corum Edwards What's his name ⁓ Jordan Marshall, I think he might be better like that kid is a freshman he's built like a damn senior NFL bat. You know how J J J J J Jeremiah Smith came in Ohio State and he just looked like this monster of a bill that wide receiver. This is kind of what Savion Hyder is for the running back position for Michigan. So I think he's in for a big season behind that well coached offensive line. I think Bryce is I think Bryce is going to be fine. I hope so. think he will be too. So is I'm just breaking off topic for a second. What happened to Kinsey? Is he just done? He's hurt. He'll be fine. But ⁓ Dermot's been slinging that dude. Dermot's got a sling in it right now. It's good to have two quarterback system. okay. No, I'll do three of our guys. We got hurt in the last minute. ⁓ but over all things you'll be fine that the other ishkin looks you know they're definitely still in the young ages of the coaching staff what their income us on a way too early ranking their like think I think people are a couple of seven yeah really top ten seven or nine around the top seven top ten I don't think your top ten I think I definitely don't I think there is there there's their top ten or ten I a top 15 is I'm comfortable of saying that they'll be in there, but you know who is top 10? shit they might be in the top five. They're two. Yeah, Notre Dame is number two. Who is our running back? Caleb and I had the pleasure to go to South Bend last weekend and hang out with Jack. We had a beautiful day. Yeah, I know. We are tailgating a little bit. We walked around the campus. It's Caleb's first time. So I'll let him talk about his experience a little bit. But it was fun. had good time. 64 is our fullback. I like just spontaneously agreed to go. I will say it was cool walking around, you know, just a different campus. It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be and a lot closer to us than I thought it would be. thought South Bend literally meant like southern Indiana. So I thought it was going to like our drive. ⁓ no. looked up where Notre Dame was and I was like, ⁓ this is like just over an hour away. That's kind of crazy. Like that that good of a school for football is kind of just in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. it's kind of cool. And also just the game itself was dope. was you can really tell Notre Dame faithful shows up and they care. And I was surprised by how close it was. Defense came back there and almost won it. Yeah, it was. Well, I didn't even realize that the defense was coming back. Yeah, I know we were just talking the entire time. No, we were we were we were trying to get pictures and stuff. I dabbed on everybody there at the stadium. That was fun. Jeremiah Smith was there. Jeremiah love Jeremiah love was there. Yeah, it's crazy. Three days, two days. the by like where he was standing, which we were at the complete. ⁓ you do that early kitty corner. Yeah. Where you could be from him. We were the complete opposite side and way up. There is no chance. But I mean. It was fun. mean, we took a lot of pictures. We got to see the guys. The team looks nice. mean, there's a fun factory. This was the second most second highest attendance in Notre Dame, blue and gold game, spring game, whatever you want to call it history. So we get to that part of that. It's like 2008 when some other quarterback was really good for us. I can't remember his name. Brady. No, it wasn't Brady Quinn. It was another one. ⁓ and ⁓ the Jordan phase on to get Jaden Greyhounds coming from going back from injury. You got Larry Fitzgerald son who was a dog in this brigade to catching a touchdown. Yeah. Was he the one who caught that touchdown? Yeah, I was on the corner. And then we have Elijah Burris. He's a another former NFL receivers son. He and then we had Jerome Bennis's son, too. I mean, we have a bunch of like really solid players that I'm really looking forward to watching play. this fall. The reason you guys are ranked number two in the whole way to turn way too early. Whoa. We had 90 percent of our production come back from last year. So that's crazy. That's pretty good. But wow. Yeah. I obviously, it's a lot in jail. I've said he was going to come back to. Yeah. He said he wanted to come back. But it's just he's just helping us cope, I guess, for him leaving. I was a drop. whatever. But ⁓ yeah, I wish I wish I could be playing today. Like, you don't. You just got drafted. going to be making 50 million dollars that are running backs are going nuts right now. My God. But yeah, overall, great day, great weather, a lot of fun. So glad we did it. That was an amazing way to start the Saturday. I tell you. Yeah, it was. ⁓ Yeah, I've been seeing just to talk about UCLA a little bit. I've been seeing on social media and stuff like UCLA football stuff popping up. So our coach is getting the community involved way more than I think Deshaun Foster was. Like I wasn't seeing any of this stuff last year. So that's good to see. I'm glad the UCLA team looks like it's having some more camaraderie and stuff. And that should really help us pick up the games we're supposed to win in the beginning of the year and hopefully give us some momentum. That's good building block stuff. I don't think we're going to do anything special, but. ⁓ you if we get a six one season make a bowl i'd be happy to be nice that'd be really nice to do that jail and burger still there no i don't think so i have no idea i need to look for jail and burgers at and i'll look for his brother marie hot dog God, we're getting destroyed now. Okay, come on. It's loading. on. Okay. Nico's still there. He looks to be good. Yeah, Nico's still there. He's not telling me anything. You guys got, uh... number in their freshman year. Samaj was 82 and I think Giles was like 80 something. Who was Giles Jackson? He was another receiver that was like 5'11", same structure. Both really good their freshman year. They both changed numbers their sophomore year. both are ass both are ass now Giles transferred to Washington and then Samaj was sucked his sophomore year and he transferred after this year too Jaylenberger is not in the NFL by the way he undrafted and he only got invited to a Giants pro day dang poor Jaylenberger man ⁓ I thought he did alright I thought he was fine I thought he was actually but there's other running backs to pick from I mean we're watching UCLA versus Maryland and he's our only hope we literally saw two go in the first round Yeah, one was an RB2 on the same team. So yeah, tough RB draft. Come on, get him. What else can we say on this episode? Shout out Torque. No, not Torque. Sorry. Our rookie. Kevin McGonigal. Kevin McGonigal. Yes, he's on. Jeez, he launched that. Uh-oh. I think he's gotten on base 27 straight is what I heard. That's really good. mean, honestly, that's what I have. appreciate that a lot. Not only as a fan of the Tigers, just as like I was not a home run hitter when I played baseball. I'm talking like fifth grade, sixth grade. I was never a home run hitter either. you were never big country? ⁓ You were never big country? No, no. I never hit. The only home runs I hit were inside the parks. Nice. ⁓ you know i i got an award from show scott campbell in a word for you know outstanding players or whatever but my award was best at getting on base and i think i think sixth grade cuz that would have been like what's the junior hoops there's equivalent for baseball north north well it wasn't northwood cuz that was like I know we did it, but we played at Plainwell. It was all Plainwell kids. Oh, yeah. Was that touchdown? Sixth grade. I know you're talking about. Damn, what was that? Is that the softball fields? Yeah, that I played those two. Those fields are ass, by the way. Yeah, they do. So they're so powdery, dude. And then then you'll slide on one one spot of it you just like cut up your entire line. Oh, my God. Yeah, it was like gravelly and spots. Yeah. OK. But I mean, what was it like coach youth ball or something like that? There's some. like that. Yeah. Sixth grade was the last year you could do that before you had to do travel at that point, though. Yeah. So that year was my last time playing baseball. And I don't know how many games we did, but I remember counting. There was only three times I didn't get on base out of all my at bats. So I just loved being on base. Being on base was so chill. Yeah. You're just out there. Yeah, I'm cool. I always felt like when I got a base hit or something, I'm like, I'm like. I'm a god on these bases right now. It's kind of like making a three pointer. You know, that's what I liked about it. And like basketball is just like every time you made a three, it was just like, ⁓ man, I just want the next one. Yeah, everybody is like, that's like we're getting on bases like it's kind like a high. gives you kind of everybody thinks I'm so good right now. kind of golf is like right now. ⁓ my. It dude. It's one good drive and you're like, can't wait for the next drive and you get it. Fairways to the right. Yeah, it's fun. I don't know. mean, I'm getting really into golf right now and Alex golf season. No, I'm not annoyed. You just he was practicing his golf grip at work today. So no, I was practicing lunch and I was I took three of my shittiest balls and I and I put them in front of the garage. I teed off into the woods. I was just practicing, dude. It's all right. On the next. ⁓ Jordan speed but didn't way younger than I should have. But yeah, speaking of Jordan speed, I think he's winning in one of the events he's in today. So maybe some Jordan speed. Maybe a Jordan speed shout out. Yeah. When is the PGA championship? Whatever. Not next weekend, but the weekend after. OK, so this weekend, the Kentucky Derby. It is. Yeah. What day is that? Saturday, Sunday. Oh, No, thought it was Saturday. I think it's on the first second. mean, what day? our team is actually insane idea why does she kind of eating a second so you're right it is saturday this week i have no idea who's racing in it anything but i'm hoping one of the horses are you guys gonna put a money on the horses this year you know i'm dude what i got no money to put on the horses yeah some of us have some of us have obligations to do this year while a wedding and uh... apartment like a month You put money on it. I will three cents that this podcast. I'm put it on Whatever horse is not supposed to win. It's not supposed to win who has the worst odds 60 to 1 odds. Yeah, he's fat three cents. I'll get you 30 cents will pay out to six million dollars. That'd be crazy Why would you not put that down? Yeah, it'd be crazy. They like predicting the win-loss for like every single game out of a team season, dude Yeah, like whatever game is right. So I predict a team to go insane. ⁓ my god. are unstoppable. Yeah, we're pretty good. How are these guys at 94 overall? How is this team better than last year's? I could tell you they don't have JJ at the court. I'm good. I'm not gonna lie. These two quarterbacks played better than JJ ever did. I don't know about ever. JJ had some gains, but last season for sure. This is actually until they later I take back that statement because that was after one game So we got to see how they look JJ led him to a ⁓ semi-final We do forget that. All right. We do forget that. His junior year was pretty good. That was a special year. Yeah. Yeah. The sophomore. No, that was junior were one game away. One game away. Dude, both of them with over and 100. Crazy. Both of them with almost an 180 rating. McDermott and Zebloon Kinsey. Zebulin. Zebulin. McDermott's probably like, why do call that guy Zeb? Yeah, it is Zeb. Let's go Zeb. the derma McDermott is probably like why do you guys bring this guy and I'm better than this guy. Well, yeah, he's been here. Dude, Durbin's been here for the long haul. Yeah. He's like, watch this. Anyone goes out there and slings it to rushing. think we did the most like damn. ⁓ my God. Hardman. My God hurt. ⁓ what is his injury? that's not good but this gets good too. Carlos? Yeah that's the kid that has the 99 speed. Oh yeah he's nuts. Carlos Kabka. And then Dermot and then Zekinsey had a really good Russian game too. He's a pure runner. Yeah he's pretty good. totally didn't even notice that. Receiving. was crazy. Bibbs, Wick, Quiet game. Shoebridge. Shoebridge is in stock like pretty good for what he is. From when he transferred as a freshman to what he is now he's really good. development somewhere else. Can we keep came back? Yeah, we actually sign a shoe bridge. Oh my God, it is him. I didn't even realize I thought we just change his name. You didn't know. No, it's the same guy. Oh my gosh. I didn't even realize that. That's crazy. Welcome home. Kids on kids. He's gotten better. He's gotten better. He's a good tight end. 82 overall now. Where's that 87 guy? Oh, Alonzo Wick. Here he is. Dude, he's huge. He's six or 222. I think he's a junior. we might come back. We definitely recruited him. is where I want to see 14 pancakes. What the That's our tackles. Nine. Nine. Nine. Wait, is Matthew Parker the one you juiced? Oh, shoot. This one. Big, big, big bag. Show him. OK, OK. He's a 91 at left tackle, So funny. Freshman. He's a 91. One sack, though. defensively ⁓ here held again it's all crap i feel like we had a lot more sex and we did the shop we were just getting back there all your work in private we have some characters on defense this year guys i mean you could look at the next name as a list pressures the sack i mean i'm precious that ⁓ yeah. Ricardo. We got like a Zuma. Thailand, Thailand. Yeah, pretty good. I was our con this guy. Thailand from like Kung Fu Panda. I'm so happy we signed that guy. Let's go. This guy is actually a real guy. Like real person. Oh, is he really? Yeah. Let's go. So he's tough. He's from Notre Dame, isn't Yeah, is. I'm surprised he left. Vlestra and Sanders are still there. Time is still there. Hey, you know what? Not bad, guys. Not bad. Wait, we got to see what Unk Buck's injury is. We'll see when we go to the next screen. Yeah. But all right, I think this is a good enough place to end the episode off. What do you guys think? I think it's fine. All right. So any final thoughts before we close it out for this week? You know, go Pistons. That's all I really got to say. I hope they move on. And uh, you know don't waste this year's the one seed man you never know when you might get home court advantage in the playoff again because who knows how good the east might be next year especially with boston on the complete other side of the bracket so pistons lock in don't screw this up ⁓ alex ⁓ go blue ⁓ she had broken collarbone are you kidding me first game you got out ⁓ go blue i hope ⁓ we get we get some developed ⁓ development the playbook and players and everything like that i'm excited for this football season even though we're still in april yeah we're a ways away yeah golf season though golf season bachelor party golf season all that stuff coming up that'll be fun a lot of obviously a lot of fun going to south bend getting a little taste of the college football season we'll start our list season right after the nba playoffs are over and all this other stuff yeah july will be around that start late June, July. ⁓ Start doing some list and whatever. But yeah, it was fun. I'm looking forward to see what happens in the playoffs. Go Pistons. then ⁓ yeah, have a great weekend, everybody. Go watch Kentucky Derby. All right. Remember, we don't know ball. You don't know ball. We all don't know ball. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. Go Blue.