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Buccaneer Arena is no more, Brian Walton talks Cardinals, Scott Agness on the WNBA & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2, Millary Condon, Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network, Trenton Ken, take you until just before the top of the
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  hour off the bench coming up at that time, Sean Lucas, 2 until
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  5. Overtime, Iowa from 5:00 until 6
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  in about 10 minutes or so. We're going to talk some Saint
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  Louis Cardinal baseball with our friend Brian Walton.
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  thecardinalnation.com, cardinalnation.com for Brian and
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  then preview the WNBA and in particular the Indiana Fever.
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  I think I saw they were picked, oh, kind of in the middle, I
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  think third, maybe top. A couple of lists came out.
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  One of them was purely for clickbait.
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  The top ten players in the WNBA, they had a 10th.
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  I'm guessing they got he got the blowback he wanted.
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  Absolutely yes. And it's funny that that 10th
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  ranked player on the list, that was the one that showed up on
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  all the social media and all the pictures and things like that.
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  Not the number one player, no, as it should be with Asia
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  Wilson. She should be.
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  Yes, totally agree. Yeah, and.
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  But that's 678, not. Collier up in the twin seas,
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  pretty good player. Enrolled.
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  Yes, absolutely. There's another one, but #10.
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  No, no, come on. We'll I just hope, I hope she
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  can stay healthy. I really do have a good have a
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  healthy year, see how far that they can go and see how much,
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  you know, are people still tuning in?
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  We shall see. To win the championship.
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  Are they third choice? They are the third choice.
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  So it would be it would obviously be the two teams we
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  just talked about, Aces and Lynx.
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  Oh, the Liberty, NY still a favorite plus. 224 the Liberty
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  Aces at plus 390 This is from DraftKings Fever plus 450 the
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  Atlanta. Dream.
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  Well, what's my kid talking about?
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  That the links are free square. Well, they're 8 to 1 always,
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  right? If it's a free square at 8:00 to
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  1:00, load it up. I have.
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  What kind of prices were you getting?
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  Well, I'm, I'm stacking them together, you know, OKC and
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  Colorado and yeah, so much for that 8 to 1, like the fifth
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  choice. How hilarious it'll be if you
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  hit every leg and then it gets to the end and you get to yell.
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  I'll be out by then. You'll be yelling to Kale.
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  Oh, really? The lakes?
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  Thanks son. I've never steered you wrong.
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  Right. Yeah, Yeah, that's been all
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  great advice throughout the years in the world of wagering.
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  This is what the A. Couple of things I want to I
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  want to get into the football schedule because it's coming out
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  next week before hopefully, yeah, hopefully, although I
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  think it was CNBC, they or maybe Sports Business Journal, one of
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  those outfits said it will happen next Wednesday or
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  Thursday. Buccaneer Arena close for good,
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  close for good. Lot of good memories now.
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  Not as many memories I'm sure as you had back in the day.
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  I mean, were you your love of hockey?
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  You know, you got out of the house a lot more I know back in
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  the day than you do anymore. Was Buccaneer Arena like once a
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  year? You try to get there.
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  Oh yeah, probably. I mean, I think, you know, when
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  we did our show, our afternoon show there, they made that run
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  in the play offs. I want to say 2005 or 6.
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  In fact, the guy that's playing on Minnesota, Jeff Petrie,
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  defenceman was on that team. His dad, Dan Petrie pitch for
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  the Tigers, the 86 World Series team, Dan Petrie, his kid Jeff,
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  who's been in the NHLA long time.
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  But so we, I was there all the time for those games and they
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  were so much fun. And it's, it was really good
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  hockey. And I'm still, I guess it still
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  is, but there was just something about that building, right?
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  That stink in a good way, not stink like OPU.
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  It just, it felt like you were in an old barn, you know, I felt
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  like I was home. I felt like a bunch of Canadian
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  rinks that, you know, with the bowels of the arena.
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  In fact, I think that's where the first time Sean Roberts
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  introduced me to the time. His new girlfriend.
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  Oh really? Kaylee who?
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  His wife, obviously. I think that's where I met Sean
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  and Kaylee for the first time. I read a game there.
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  I went there a few times, especially right when I moved to
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  town. It was cheap entertainment.
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  Friday night went to that bar that's like Kitty corner from
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  it. Have a couple of pops
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  beforehand, then slide on over so.
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  What was the name of that bar? I was.
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  I've been at that bar, yes. There's, well, there's a couple.
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  There were a couple. There was one that was a hockey
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  bar. Yes, yeah.
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  And I don't know if that's still the case anymore, but it
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  reminded me. So my first ever hockey game was
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  probably, I don't know, 8-9, ten years old, something like that
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  at the North Iowa Fairgrounds. The North Iowa Huskies, who were
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  then part of the USHL, where are they?
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  And their coach, PKA O'hanley, I think was his name.
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  They had a lot of success. They were good.
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  But even in that where your markets are, Waterloo and Sioux
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  Falls and Mason City was too small, they could not compete
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  fight it. So they eventually moved and
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  they have some other, I don't even know what level of league
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  that plays there now, but that building like Buccaneer Arena
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  looked like look like a palace in comparison to the North Iowa
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  Fairgrounds of the way that they played.
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  It was just a completely different world.
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  Then went to a lot of Waterloo Blackhawks games also in the
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  USHL when I was at you and I and then afterwards and I did a lot
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  of work with them because the station that I worked at, we
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  also broadcast the Blackhawks. So did a lot of that do nothing
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  about the sport? And you had a drink though.
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  That was part big part of the Friday nights, $2.00 beers.
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  Yeah, it, it, it was a, it was a blast, absolute blast.
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  I loved it and and now obviously they're tearing that day.
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  You know what got it? If memory serves, I think that
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  was derecho, right? I, I know we're, we're statewide
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  now and I want to try to appeal to that portion of the audience
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  as well. But this is a pretty cool.
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  This is a big story because if you grew up in Des Moines, if
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  you're a sports fan, you know clones aren't playing, Hawks
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  aren't playing, whatever, Drake's not playing.
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  You want to find something to do on a Friday night, Just
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  something different. And it was a fun time.
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  It was a fun Time Buccaneer Arena, but it's closed and I'm
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  pretty sure that it was the roof that that got blown off during
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  De Ray show. Remember that storm?
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  We were on the air. Yeah, we were.
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  We were doing our show here. Got a little windy?
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  Little windy. But that's what that's what
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  happened to him, right? That was the beginning of the
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  end for Buccaneer Arena. I feel that.
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  Pretty connection makes sense, yes.
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  Pretty sure here's Todd real quick and then get to the NFL
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  scheduling. Brian Walton coming up here in
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  just a couple of minutes on the Cardinals.
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  Hi, Todd, How are you? I good.
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  I think the bar that you guys are talking about is the
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  Ridgemont because it had like the fast times at Ridgemont logo
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  almost. And then one of my favorite
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  memories of being a young man in my 20s was quote UN quote buck
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  beer night where a beer was a dollar and you could buy like 6
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  at a time. I mean, just great times in that
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  building. No, there was some fun times, no
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  doubt about it. Thanks for the call, Todd.
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  I don't know what they're do, don't know what they're going to
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  do with the land or how much it's worth, but.
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  Well, and that area I drove by not too long ago, like there
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  used to be that huge Kmart out there that was right across the
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  street. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  That is no longer that's that well, Kmart's no longer but
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  there you know that area, what you can do developmentally wise
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  and and what makes sense because the.
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  Ridgemont, are we dead? So what it?
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  Was yes, that was fun place yeah, had good times in that one
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  that area. How you build, you know, places
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  like that back up and and kind of get it because can they do
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  anything? I told you I went to a hockey
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  game now a couple months ago there at the, at the, at the
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  recplex. Recplex.
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  It's not a big building, though. It, it wasn't built for that,
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  for a USHL team. I don't know the finances behind
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  it or anything like that. Well, they were going.
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  To Merle Hay Rd. you remember that?
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  Absolutely, that fell through or Merle Hay Mall rather and and
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  that fell through. And there's been back and forth
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  about that, about the possibility of it coming back
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  hockey in this market. It is interesting because we saw
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  what happened over in Iowa City, in Coralville and with the well
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  AA affiliate. Yeah, whatever, Whatever the
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  consideration is for that and going away at least for a year.
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  No, I don't think they're coming back.
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  I think that's probably the end. Is it, and those are completely
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  different circumstances. We're talking USHL where you got
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  kids high school age that are doing it compared to guys that
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  are moving their way up in the minor leagues.
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  I just, I don't know the financials behind it.
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  That is hard to wrap your mind around what it costs to operate
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  those kind of things. And because television revenue
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  is not there. No, that's what we talk about
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  college athletics and we're talking about the pros.
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  This is a completely different. So you have to have butts in the
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  seats. The season ticket base I know is
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  incredibly important. My wife's uncle is a season
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  ticket holder up in Sioux City for what are Musketeers.
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  Maybe that sounds right. Yes.
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  He is a season ticket holder though and and they do
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  everything to keep them year after year after year because
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  you want to have that guaranteed money that you know for 30,
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  whatever dates it is throughout the course of the season that
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  that ticket is paid for. If you can ever if you're in the
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  business where you're looking to hire salespeople, that's a tough
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  sell. And if they've done it for any
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  length of time, that would be the person that guy or gal that
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  I would be interviewing. Let's move on.
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  I want to talk about the real quick.
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  It was to Rachel 2001. Thank you Jeff Holder.
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  That took the roof off and was the beginning of the end for
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  that facility. The NA, the NFL schedule
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  apparently is coming out on Wednesday or Thursday of next
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  week. And the reason apparently for
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  the delay is do you remember that we were in the, we were
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  going to get double headers on Monday night, like 4 of them.
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  And then all of a sudden those double headers went away.
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  That the, that the league or ESPN and the league decided not
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  we were just going to go back to a stand alone game on Monday
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  night. Apparently that's not the case.
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  Those four games that we were going to have one on ABC are
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  ESPN and then the four nights with they would be on ABC.
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  The second game they're going to be sold to a Netflix or one of
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  the streaming companies that wants to have this.
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  So it does sound as though when the when the schedule comes out
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  next week, we're going to have 4:00 Monday nights with two
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  games, one of them on TV, the other one on the streaming
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  service. And I don't like the two games.
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  It's not my favorite. If they could do it in a way,
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  and I know that this is asking a lot, especially for the East
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  Coast, to start a game at 10:00 Eastern.
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  Yeah, that's it's a big ask, right?
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  But on the other hand, you start a game Pacific Time at 5:00 when
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  you're stuck in traffic. Yep, I don't think there is a a
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  right answer for this. I personally, I'm fine with the
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  late game as people, our listeners know my schedule and
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  yes, late, it's not a problem for me.
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  What I really didn't like is when they were like stacked on
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  top of each other, right? It was like an hour.
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  Six o'clock 7:00. Well, and now you're combining
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  it and we go back to old man radio switching.
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  Uh huh. It's on a streamer.
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  So then you got to hit the input button and you get back to the
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  home screen and then you're going here.
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  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then you're buffering if the
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  internet's not good. Let's if we're going to do this,
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  they have to be separated. I would.
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  Think. TV executives would know better.
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  Ray Cole would know better than certainly us.
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  Why can't you start that first game though?
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  I know West Coast that's going to impact it.
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  But if it is Jets, Patriots start that game. 6:00 Eastern,
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  five o'clock. 3:00 Pacific. I don't know what the TV
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  numbers, how it dictates it, but could you get, get, get away
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  with something like that, stagger it in that fashion and
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  go that direction where everything starts at six, 5:00
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  for us, Perfect. 3:00 Pacific. I get it.
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  But and then today's environment, I mean, what
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  percentage of people now work from home, work remotely?
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  It's obviously 2020 changed all of that.
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  And the way things are done, we see that just the way that
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  people consume things has changed.
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  How many games I watch on my phone these days, it's
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  incredible in comparison, because until we get the kids to
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  bed, that's a big part of if I'm going to see anything, that's
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  the way that I have to do it, and I'm going to guess that I'm
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  not. Alone.
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  No, no, no, no, no. No, you have ATV set in your
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  pocket. You do.
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  If you want it and you can go that direction.
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  Too, So I don't like it, but it's there.
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  All right, we'll get Brian Walt momentarily.
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  Corey's Corey joins the program. Corey, what's on your mind?
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  Got a question, looking for a little advice.
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  Well, you've come to the right place.
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  You're looking for. I thought so.
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  I don't know. If you guys are familiar with
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  DraftKings running their Grand Slam promotion right now Very
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  much. Well, yesterday there was at 1.5
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  million and and it hit and I happened to be one of the
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  winners that got that. Nice.
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  Well done. First of all, so I don't know
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  what I don't know the promotion, but it you're not.
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  Sharing it, right? Yes.
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  Remember that promotion that I won?
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  Yes, a couple years ago and I won, I think it was six $300
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  free bets. I think that.
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  Remember that, yes. So that's when I hit that.
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  And I'm gonna guess who was your Grand Slam winner?
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  Who did you have last night? CJ Abrams with the Nationals.
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  So I'm going to guess not a whole lot of people had that.
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  What kind of bonus bets are you looking at?
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  We it was 2025 dollars. So just a single one or can you
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  cut it? Off No they they paid it out in
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  $4050 bets. 40 and what, how how long do you have to use those
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  bets, Corey? Two weeks I got to have it spent
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  by a week or two weeks from the day get busy.
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  So. What do you think is the best
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  way of to get a little strategy for risk?
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  Well, I would, I would buy futures going out to as many as
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  I possibly could on the NFL. Hell, you could tie.
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  It's, it's, it's house money. Tie up everybody.
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  Half the Super Bowl winner, right?
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  So you got $4050 bets? Yeah, I would identify a handful
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  of teams in the NFL you really like, and Ken and I talk about
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  you want to take that lottery ticket that you've already hit
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  and you want to take it a step further.
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  Take the Dodgers, Take OK C take four or five NFL teams under
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  that. Stack them together like that.
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  Build that championship parlay and.
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  Throw the fever in at a couple of them.
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  Though at $50 bet suddenly you are looking at a real lottery
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  ticket. Absolutely.
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  And then I would also do a, you know, I would take OK C on the
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  money line just to turned it over, right, just let the back
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  end to get something back. I'm immediate cat.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Ohh, Corey, that's a, that's a
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  huge hit. Well done.
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  Monster. Well done, Corey.
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  Yeah. Yeah, the the best part was is
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  they let you do it and up to three people in a parlay and you
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  had your qualifying bet token. Well, I I put it with three guys
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  and I hit my three man parlay with Pete Alonzo and Brandon
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  Love. So to that, pay it out.
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  A nice bet too. That's awesome.
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  Yeah, I I did that last night as.
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  Well, thanks for listening. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah. Thank you.
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  I my 3:00 that I chose, I had Okamoto, you know, didn't hold
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  her. No.
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  Oh, Tony didn't hold her. They scored twelve runs, yeah,
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  against Houston and Mike Trout, no Homer.
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  So the promo was you bet on, you can do up to a three person
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  parlay, home run prop or just bet a guy individual.
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  It has to be a minimum of $5 that you put in there.
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  So of course I bet $5 on that one.
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  And if your guy not only hits a home run, hits a Grand Slam the
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  first one, you are the winner. Then it cuts up between them.
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  And when you got somebody like Abrams, right?
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  That's where I wonder. Why he took him I should have.
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  Asked Yeah, $4050 free bets. That's going to be fun to play
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  around. Dude, all right, Saint Louis
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  Cardinal conversation coming up. We're going to line up Brian
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  Walton. Trent's doing that as we speak.
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  We'll get Brian Walton from thecardinalnation.com.
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  One of the good stories. I don't know if they're going to
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  hang around or not, but my gosh, here we are approaching the
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  what? What's the date today, 7th of
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  May, and they're well above 500. They're 21 up and 15 down, good
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  enough for second place in the Central Division of the National
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  League. Cubs obviously red hot and
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  leading the way after they've won eight straight.
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  Brewers, I think, are playing a little bit better baseball.
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  I watched Paul Skeens last night pitch against.
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  I didn't watch every pitch, but I watched enough of including
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  his final inning last night. He pitched.
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  I pinched against Arizona and they took him out.
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  They pulled him after the 8th inning, I want to say struck out
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  the side the 8th. He was unbelievable just
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  watching him pitch, you know, you're watching one of the best
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  in the game and I truly hope that that he's able to stay
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  healthy. You know, Scubal obviously going
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  with these going through now the best in the American League.
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  But skeins, he's just on a different level.
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  Here's Brian Walton, he covers the Cardinals
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  thecardinalnation.com. Did you happen to see any of
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  skeins last night, Brian, before we get into the Cardinals and,
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  and do you believe that he truly is, as I do at this point,
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  established himself as the among the elite pitchers in all the
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  baseball? Yes, I agree with you, Ken, and
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  I have to say that fortunately I don't have my blinders on
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  because if I only watch skis when he pitched against the
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  Cardinals. He had good point.
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  Kryptonite. Yes, he's like oh, and five in
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  his career against, he's like Joe Journeyman.
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  Yeah, 2019. Now he looks like the multiple
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  Sai Young Award winner he's going to beat.
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  So is there anything to that or is that just a complete anomaly,
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  do you think? Obviously, I mean, they got a
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  good game plan where they're going up to the batter's box 1
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  would assume or is it an anomaly?
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  What do you make of that, Brian? What's behind it, do you think?
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  There are guys we've seen in the history of baseball and the
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  history of any sport that another team seems to have their
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  number. And I have no, no reason why.
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  If I did, I'd help the Cardinals, you know, win every
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  game all year long. But you know, you get up now to
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  567 career start and the outcome is similar every time.
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  You got to think they're sports with it.
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  Brian, I'm going to shoot you a call back.
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  Your phone line just a little bit fuzzy here.
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  We're going to give you a call back here real quickly and and
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  get you back aboard and talk a little more Cardinals because
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  can you set it? This is one of the stories
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  certainly of the National League and this is what we felt felt we
• 17:55
  had the most, right. We kind of like the Reds.
• 17:57
  We kind of like the Pirates coming into the year, obviously.
• 17:59
  Come forward to finish last, Trent.
• 18:01
  And here we are. Yeah.
• 18:03
  Well, we reconnect with Brian Walton.
• 18:04
  It wasn't the best of best of connections even this all of
• 18:08
  those years later, right, Cell phones have been out now
• 18:10
  forever. We still can't get these damn
• 18:12
  things to be as as as good as you would think a landline would
• 18:17
  be. But we'll reconnect with Brian.
• 18:19
  We'll pick his brain on going forward with this Cardinal team.
• 18:23
  I think that they're I I think management might be in a tough
• 18:26
  spot 'cause this is quote, although they didn't wouldn't
• 18:28
  say as much. We think it's kind of in that,
• 18:30
  you know, that rebuild. But what if they do hang around?
• 18:34
  What if they do? The plan does get escalated and
• 18:37
  certainly more than they would think.
• 18:38
  If they're in it, will they be willing to do something or do
• 18:41
  they do like we've seen other teams in the past?
• 18:43
  Just kind of, you know, admit that, yeah, we're having a good
• 18:47
  year, but we don't feel like we're ready to take that next
• 18:50
  step. We shall see.
• 18:51
  All right, Brian Walton back with us.
• 18:53
  Brian, we're having trouble phone line wise.
• 18:55
  So we'll we'll make the best of it.
• 18:56
  But, you know, we're just kind of we're join this run.
• 18:59
  We really are. It's it's seemingly came out of
• 19:02
  nowhere. At least we thought this was
• 19:03
  going to be a building year. Cardinal fans were going to, you
• 19:06
  know, make their make their feelings heard by not showing up
• 19:11
  at Busch Stadium. Crowds maybe haven't been as
• 19:13
  what they've been, but they're better than what we thought, at
• 19:15
  least so far. What's behind this, this great
• 19:19
  start that they've put together, Brian?
• 19:22
  I have to agree, Ken. I mean, on the I think it was
• 19:24
  the 19th or so, they came off a series which they swept and then
• 19:29
  they promptly went to Miami and lost two straight and got beat
• 19:32
  three straight at home by Seattle.
• 19:33
  And it was sort of like, OK, here we go again.
• 19:36
  Then they go to Pittsburgh, which is obviously a much
• 19:38
  improved team, and they swept them fourth straight, including
• 19:41
  their victory over skiing. And then they played the
• 19:43
  Dodgers. Tough one to you know.
• 19:45
  So, you know, the Cardinals are playing well.
• 19:47
  They're starting pitching. That's been healthy and it's
• 19:50
  been good. Better than expected, not
• 19:53
  exceptional, but in their offense, of course, led by
• 19:57
  Jordan Walker, JJ Weatherholt, who might be, you know, one of
• 20:00
  the certainly one of the leading candidates for rookie of the
• 20:03
  year, Yvonne Herrera continue to show growth.
• 20:06
  So they've got and Burleson is good.
• 20:08
  So they've got this young corps of hitters that are starting to
• 20:11
  play together really well, and they find, hey, maybe we don't
• 20:13
  need the Goldschmidt, the Arnottos in the Contras to win.
• 20:18
  Mason Wynn is a guy that's been fun to watch his last couple
• 20:20
  years. He's still only 24 years old
• 20:22
  going into his third full season with the Cardinals.
• 20:25
  Is there another tier to him offensively?
• 20:27
  Another tier that he can get to going from a good solid contact
• 20:31
  guy, a little bit of pop in the bat.
• 20:32
  Is there a next level for Mason Wynn?
• 20:35
  Yeah, I just think that the risk trick with Mason Wynn is that if
• 20:39
  he if he decides he wants to try to start to hit for power and
• 20:42
  sell out, he's going to lose his effectiveness.
• 20:46
  You know, has an OB right around 3:50, which is great.
• 20:49
  And I frankly thought that they were going to put him in the
• 20:51
  lead off spot this year. As it's turned out, Weatherholt
• 20:54
  has done very well there. But I think Wynn has the
• 20:57
  capability not only to be a top of the order guide, but if he
• 21:00
  can ever stay healthy, can steal a lot more bases than he has.
• 21:03
  And Wynn has had a variety of nagging injuries going back to
• 21:07
  last year. But again, as you said, he's
• 21:09
  only 24, Walker's only 24. So these these guys that are in
• 21:14
  the core of their lineup are still very, very young, still
• 21:16
  meaning experiences for us. The pitching was going to be
• 21:19
  somewhat of a question mark going into it starting wise, but
• 21:22
  I'll tell you guys that I've really I've really come to enjoy
• 21:25
  watching him pitch and that's Michael Mcgreevy.
• 21:28
  And then on top of her really good interview with Rosenthal, I
• 21:30
  think it was Saturday night of the Dodgers game.
• 21:34
  Mcgreevy started in that game. We went, I want to say 6
• 21:36
  innings. But Michael Mcgreevy, what's his
• 21:38
  ceiling? Brian Walton, he looks as
• 21:40
  though, you know, the Cardinals might have something here in
• 21:43
  Mcgreevy. What's his ceiling?
• 21:45
  Maybe he has always guy who is just irritated the heck out of
• 21:50
  him to walk a batter. He battles, he gets in the
• 21:54
  background, he doesn't strike out a ton of guys.
• 21:56
  His strikeout rate is like 6, little less than six per nine
• 22:00
  innings. So he's not your prototypical
• 22:02
  ace, But if you want a guy that's going to go out there and
• 22:04
  give you 180 innings, give you a 3 ERA, you know, that's the kind
• 22:09
  of guy that Michael Brevi looks like he could beat for a long,
• 22:11
  long time. The other thing he does is he
• 22:13
  keeps the ball in the park well, so, you know, there's a lot to
• 22:16
  be said. You know, he's not blowing them
• 22:18
  away with 100 mile an hour fastball.
• 22:20
  But the guy knows how to pitch. And I know that's a cliche, but
• 22:23
  again, we're talking about the youngest man in the Cardinals
• 22:25
  rotation, also just 25 years old, Michael Mcgree.
• 22:29
  He is gone now. Mazelik obviously has departed
• 22:32
  as the front office head, but you look through a lot of these
• 22:36
  guys came in under his tutelage and that's kind of the reality
• 22:40
  of it. Is there at least a little bit
• 22:42
  of parting shot and a good one for John Mazelik on his way out
• 22:45
  the door after he departed and and what he has been able to do
• 22:47
  kind of build this young core that they have currently?
• 22:51
  Well, I think that there's we're Saint Louis now aren't on prime
• 22:56
  blooms watch, but I will say that Daylock engineered a
• 23:00
  strategy that was to spend money on high-priced stars to try to
• 23:06
  buoy the lineup enough that they could commit and compete in the
• 23:09
  playoffs. And that strategy didn't work.
• 23:11
  And so the key for the Cardinals wasn't additions.
• 23:14
  It was really subtraction of money, but also opening up lanes
• 23:18
  for young players to play. So Xerox record speaks for
• 23:21
  itself. And yeah, the last few years
• 23:23
  were tough, but you can see that the championships, the division
• 23:27
  titles, the success that Cardinals had for many, many,
• 23:29
  many years. Brian, we'll get you out of here
• 23:31
  on this. Brian Walton,
• 23:32
  thecardinalnation.com. Let's let's play.
• 23:34
  What if, let's get crazy that this team is still right there.
• 23:38
  They're chasing the Cubs. Reds are falling off a little
• 23:41
  bit. The Brewers are kind of a 500
• 23:43
  team. The Cardinals are the closest
• 23:44
  pursuer to we'll say Chicago at this point.
• 23:47
  This was supposed to be, quote, a rebuilding year.
• 23:50
  At least that was kind of the consensus.
• 23:51
  They would never admit to that because they wanted the fans to
• 23:54
  show up, obviously, but what what would they do if they get
• 23:58
  to the trade deadline or it's approaching?
• 24:00
  They're still in the hunt. Do you think that they would be
• 24:02
  almost forced to do something, Brian, or would they say status
• 24:05
  quo? What's your thoughts there?
• 24:08
  Well, I think they're in a great position, Ken.
• 24:10
  And what I mean is that the biggest weakness on this team,
• 24:13
  no doubt clear, is their bullpen, 27th in the major
• 24:18
  leagues in ERA. Beyond the two guys at the top
• 24:21
  of the bullpen, O'Brien and JoJo Romero, it's not in good shape.
• 24:26
  What's the easiest thing to pick up at the trade deadline?
• 24:29
  A reliever on a expiring contract To pick them up
• 24:32
  cheaply, you don't have to give up a top 10 prospect.
• 24:34
  The Cardinals went out. If they were in contention in
• 24:36
  July, They go out and pick up two or three veteran relievers.
• 24:39
  And that might be enough to push them forward, assuming that they
• 24:42
  stay healthy because behind the guys are playing now, there's
• 24:45
  not a lot of depth, Very, very weak.
• 24:48
  They don't have a lot of talent at AAA, But if they can stay
• 24:50
  healthy, they can compete. Fun story so far, 21 up, 15 down
• 24:55
  on May the 7th. Good stuff.
• 24:56
  Brian, Walt, thecardinalnation.com.
• 24:58
  We'll talk to you in the weeks ahead.
• 24:59
  Thanks Brian. Appreciate you jumping on.
• 25:03
  Thank you. Bye.
• 25:03
  Bye. Yeah, good to talk to you, Brian
• 25:04
  Walton, as we check in on the red birds at 21 and 15.
• 25:08
  Our little WNBA preview next with Scott Agnes, who covers the
• 25:12
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• 25:17
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 25:19
  Miller, Condon, welcome back just past 130 on a Thursday.
• 25:23
  Transplays of the day still to come soon Trent will be
• 25:27
  including some WNBA plays as the season gets underway this week.
• 25:32
  This weekend, Indiana host Dallas on Saturday, that is an
• 25:37
  ABC affair. Noon central here in the state
• 25:41
  of Iowa. Let's get to Scott Agnes.
• 25:43
  He covers them at Fieldhouse Files at Fieldhouse Files or
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  Scott on Twitter at Scott Agnes and where he's got over 32,000
• 25:51
  followers living and dying on his every word when it comes to
• 25:55
  the fever. Scott Trenton, Ken, thanks for
• 25:57
  coming on. It's great to talk to you.
• 25:58
  How are you? Appreciate it.
• 26:01
  Just looking forward to getting this season going man.
• 26:03
  I tell you what, Caitlin is giddy about getting back to
• 26:07
  business. Yeah, absolutely in the league,
• 26:10
  Mr. And we missed her here in the state of Iowa.
• 26:13
  You know, fringe WNBA fans or fans are only watching these,
• 26:17
  watching it because of #22 So you're around every day, you're
• 26:21
  at all the press conferences, et cetera.
• 26:22
  Have you seen, do you notice a difference in here?
• 26:25
  Just maybe more hunger. What do you notice this
• 26:28
  different about Caitlin this year?
• 26:30
  She gets set for, I guess an abbreviated year #3 at least to
• 26:34
  start after missing most of last year.
• 26:36
  What do you notice different, if anything?
• 26:38
  Yeah. I would say more than anything,
• 26:40
  it's just how she's carrying herself both confidently and
• 26:43
  having fun. Their smiles is joy with her
• 26:46
  teammates seems less stressed out and more about knowing, hey,
• 26:50
  I can just focus on the basketball again.
• 26:52
  Because last year it was borderline miserable for her,
• 26:55
  both from a inability to play on the court, which also meant an
• 26:59
  ability to contribute on the court.
• 27:00
  And it's so isolating to to be and so helpless to be on the
• 27:05
  outside or be there on the bench.
• 27:06
  She attended every game but one last year, home and road to be
• 27:11
  there for her teammates and to be there for her fans, signing
• 27:13
  autographs before each game. So I think just on the court,
• 27:18
  she just is free because she's she's back to feeling like
• 27:21
  herself. I think guys, it was so
• 27:23
  important for her to do that USA Basketball because then the last
• 27:26
  couple of months we're about this season, we're about
• 27:29
  preparing for this rather than about rehab.
• 27:32
  And then how do I feel what what happens when I plant with this
• 27:35
  leg, etcetera. So I think she's in a very good
• 27:38
  spot. Seeing her physically, the way
• 27:40
  that her body changed, I definitely showed up last year.
• 27:42
  You saw that going from her rookie year where she didn't
• 27:45
  have an offseason, went right from the college season into the
• 27:47
  WAWNBA, her rookie year. A Physically, just what you're
• 27:51
  seeing for her developmentally and and how does she want to
• 27:54
  kind of build herself, build her body into a player now playing
• 27:57
  in this level? I thought it was interesting
• 27:59
  this time last year, what was everybody talking about?
• 28:01
  It's get all the muscles she gained, added and gained.
• 28:04
  And there's been none of that talk right now.
• 28:07
  And so it almost makes me wonder if her body was just comfortable
• 28:10
  at a certain weight at a certain level because that is what has
• 28:13
  been essentially most of her Iowa career and went outside the
• 28:17
  normal little bit perhaps. And you never know what little
• 28:20
  things can be big changes for these athletes were just
• 28:24
  everything is minimal. That's the amount of the number
• 28:29
  of changes that you do or do not want to make with everything.
• 28:31
  So I think she's in a good spot. Obviously a lot of attention's
• 28:34
  been given the last week when she started wearing a left leg
• 28:38
  sleeve on her left leg. But you look around practice and
• 28:41
  more than half the roster is it's almost become a funny
• 28:45
  moment. I think everyone, especially
• 28:46
  Kate Caitlin, like Caitlin laughed at the question because
• 28:49
  she's like, look, I'm not the only one here.
• 28:51
  Half my team is including most of the starters.
• 28:53
  So she that's just another example guys of her being the
• 28:57
  needle. If she's wearing a headband,
• 28:58
  that's something if she's wearing a leg sleeve, it's
• 29:00
  something because people want to know why and maybe others will
• 29:03
  like I'm I will not be surprised if this upcoming winner, if she
• 29:07
  continues on. If that you know, you go to AAU
• 29:10
  match game and and all of a sudden girls are wearing less
• 29:13
  leg sleeves. Why?
• 29:15
  Because Caitlyn's doing. It yeah, without without a doubt
• 29:17
  that absolutely is going to happen.
• 29:19
  I I agree with you. What how about the team overall?
• 29:23
  Is this team better than a healthy team like going into
• 29:27
  last year? Do you think that this team,
• 29:29
  obviously Liberty in New York, the Aces, Minnesota, the Lynx
• 29:33
  have a decent team as well. Do you think that this is an
• 29:36
  upper echelon team in the WNBA? I guess can they win it all,
• 29:39
  Scott? Yeah, I, I do think they can.
• 29:42
  I would probably put them around 3rd right now just because the
• 29:46
  biggest uncertainty comes with the four spot at the power
• 29:49
  forward you had incoming last year was Dwana Bonner and that
• 29:53
  obviously did not pan out well. She wanted to leave after a
• 29:56
  couple of weeks and so that was really a non factor.
• 29:59
  Then after that what you did have was a player, Natasha
• 30:01
  Howard, who's won multiple championships, who is a true
• 30:04
  veteran on the on this team and was actually MVP of the
• 30:08
  Commissioner Cup championship. So she was impactful, but I
• 30:11
  think what they wanted to do was get a little bit younger someone
• 30:14
  who knew exactly in her role. And I think they saw up close
• 30:18
  and personal Amber Cox, the general manager, Stephanie
• 30:21
  Wyden, assistant coach with USA Basketball, is they saw Caitlin
• 30:25
  work with Monique Billings and obviously Kelsey can do the same
• 30:28
  in a pick and roll. We know the chemistry that Clark
• 30:31
  and Mitchell already have with Aliyah Boston on the interior.
• 30:34
  The biggest question mark league wide to me is just what every
• 30:38
  other team looks like because I've never seen a league have
• 30:40
  so, so many substantial changes, right?
• 30:43
  So much turnover because of the CBA and how players
• 30:46
  strategically had designed their contracts to come up so they
• 30:50
  could get new ones here. And so a lot of wild cards
• 30:53
  there. I think they're right there
• 30:55
  though, with Las Vegas and New York and and maybe LA will get a
• 30:58
  good look at that in about a week.
• 31:00
  Get them healthy and yeah, that could definitely be a program
• 31:03
  changer after all their. Injuries Was hurt most of the
• 31:05
  year. Absolutely.
• 31:06
  So Kate Martin got cut today and I think you have learned the way
• 31:10
  that as I was like to make those connections.
• 31:13
  And obviously the friendship and the relationship that those two
• 31:15
  had during their playing careers.
• 31:17
  Is a roster set for the Fever. Or even if it's not Kate Martin,
• 31:21
  is there still more tweaking that could happen here in the
• 31:23
  early moments of the season? Yeah, they'll at least make one
• 31:26
  more move here and that would be with their new player
• 31:28
  development spot. They already signed their second
• 31:31
  round pick, Justine Passat to one of the two and there will be
• 31:34
  another one to come here in the formality.
• 31:37
  First of All in all this is that any player they wave, which they
• 31:40
  did yesterday, you have to wait 48 hours for them to clear
• 31:43
  waivers. If they do, then you can bring a
• 31:46
  player back and there's several good options from camp.
• 31:49
  I think someone like Kate Martin could fit that bill.
• 31:51
  She has a couple years of experience in the in the league
• 31:54
  and on top on top of that, she knows Caitlin probably better
• 31:57
  than anyone. As you guys saw up close and
• 31:59
  personal. I was one of those that during
• 32:01
  that draft, I said, hey, look, if you're going to take a flyer,
• 32:04
  you might as well draft someone that can play alongside
• 32:08
  alongside Caitlin and make her happy and be that friend in a
• 32:11
  new league, right? And they ended up, if I remember
• 32:14
  right, they waved that player, whoever they drafted like 2
• 32:17
  spots later. But the other thing here is I'm
• 32:21
  considering other options as well.
• 32:23
  I especially at that forward spot.
• 32:25
  We'll see what Monique Billings ankle injury if it'll keep her
• 32:28
  out or make her limited Already they were a smaller bunch, so
• 32:32
  there has been some more curiosity about adding a little
• 32:36
  bit more size rather than a six foot point guard combo guard.
• 32:41
  Realistically I think she would be a good fit but unclear if
• 32:46
  they'll go that route. And again, because she was just
• 32:48
  waved, she would have to wait 48 hours to clear waivers to go
• 32:51
  somewhere else. Scott Agnes is our guest at
• 32:53
  Fieldhouse Files on X. You can follow Scott on X as
• 32:57
  well. I want to ask you this Scott
• 32:59
  Raven Johnson. I I forgot all about this.
• 33:01
  I remembered it, you know, when I didn't know it was her.
• 33:03
  But when you go back to the semifinal of the first of the
• 33:06
  back-to-back final four appearances or championship
• 33:09
  appearances for for Iowa when they played South Carolina,
• 33:15
  there was a part of the game where Caitlin just kind of we
• 33:18
  don't have to guard you. And that player turned it out to
• 33:21
  be the first round pick of the Fever this year.
• 33:24
  Raven Johnson. What's that dynamic?
• 33:27
  Did they have to talk it out or was it Was it ever awkward at
• 33:30
  all between Caitlin and Raven? Or is that a long time ago where
• 33:34
  teammates now let's move forward.
• 33:36
  Yeah, I think it's exactly that last point.
• 33:38
  For one, I had forgotten about that moment until someone
• 33:41
  reminded me both about Caitlin's gesture and and who it was
• 33:44
  again. So it feels like a lifetime ago.
• 33:47
  And for Caitlin, who dealt with all the injuries she did last
• 33:49
  year, probably feels like even longer.
• 33:51
  But no, those two seem to be on an incredible wavelength.
• 33:54
  I think Raven understands. Look, she's a rookie.
• 33:57
  She's fresh out of the Final Four, fresh from being drafted.
• 34:00
  She has so much to learn about this league.
• 34:02
  And so she's been a sponge in practice.
• 34:04
  Players have said she's been just just pestering them in a
• 34:07
  good way with questions, trying to learn.
• 34:09
  And, and the number one person there is Caitlin in that
• 34:12
  position. And I think they complement each
• 34:14
  other so well, especially because, you know, Raven's
• 34:17
  specialty is defense, Caitlin's specialty is offense.
• 34:20
  So Raven can really help offset some of the ball handling
• 34:24
  responsibilities, like when you're trying to get Caitlin
• 34:28
  some breather here. Here's how I see it playing out
• 34:30
  is Caitlin will start, she'll be the primary scorer with that
• 34:33
  first group. Then you saw you could sub her
• 34:36
  out for a get a quick minute blow.
• 34:38
  And during that stretch, then Kelsey becomes the the primary
• 34:41
  scorer offensively. And Raven, though, is the one
• 34:44
  organizing it, is running the running point, shouldering the
• 34:48
  ball, handling, and then also picking things up defensively.
• 34:51
  And so there's a lot of different things.
• 34:53
  This is the thing I also try to remind people is last year, I
• 34:56
  think we only saw a minimal amount of true coaching and, and
• 35:00
  what they could really get into due to the frequent changes, the
• 35:03
  key players that were out. So I think you're going to see a
• 35:05
  lot more creativity in this coaching staff in Year 2 use,
• 35:10
  you know, the full extent of their playbook, things that they
• 35:12
  just weren't able to get to even in camp last year because there
• 35:15
  were about 3 injuries back then. You cover this team, but also
• 35:21
  this sport. We joke from time to time here
• 35:23
  about Cy Hawk, Twitter, Iowa State fans going back and forth
• 35:27
  at each other. I know it can be toxic in many
• 35:29
  different realms of sports. Phantom, the WNBA.
• 35:33
  To me though, it feels like it's a different level.
• 35:36
  What is it like covering a sport that at times can feel
• 35:39
  incredibly toxic from a bunch of different dynamics?
• 35:42
  What is it like when you're writing something annoying?
• 35:45
  You know what? This is probably going to create
• 35:47
  a crap storm. Yeah, one of the one of the
• 35:50
  things I laugh at is people like to create rivalries when there's
• 35:53
  nothing there. For example, that was something
• 35:57
  like with the Chicago Sky there. The people have never had a
• 36:00
  rivalry with them, certainly. And I've covered the team for
• 36:04
  quite a while, more than a decade.
• 36:05
  If anything, I would throw in people.
• 36:07
  Your audience may not even remember this.
• 36:08
  This is so long ago. If you want to throw in a feeble
• 36:11
  rivalry, I might go with the Detroit Shock back in the early
• 36:15
  2000s there with Bill Lambier coach team.
• 36:18
  But nonetheless, yeah, whether I don't know whether it's
• 36:20
  rivalries or pitting players against one another, I think a
• 36:25
  lot of. It is is.
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  New fans to the WNBA, they they're learning what it's like,
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  you know, and how how teams operate and and that sort of
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  thing. And then I also hope with all
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  this you just got to wonder. Like there's the assumption and
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  I get it's fandom that right? But like, writing about one
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  player does not mean you hate the other or asking about one
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  player does not mean you dislike like another.
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  And I think there's a lot of that unhealthy banter on there.
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  And so if coach talks or highlights one player, it
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  doesn't mean she doesn't want to highlight Caitlin or doesn't
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  want to highlight Kelsey Mitchell.
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  It's what they are being asked. And those are the little things
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  that just are complete poor reads of the entire situation.
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  But I do appreciate the love and, and and support all these
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  new fans of coming of age have felt.
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  But I think there's a steep, there's been a learning curve
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  for some of them about all this. And I think that's why it's
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  great to see so many former players on these TV broadcasts
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  that they can really help set the table for what things can be
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  about. That's an excellent point.
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  Where can people find your work at Fieldhouse Files?
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  Is that the best place, Scott? I want to make sure that people
• 37:31
  can find you. Yeah, primarily Fieldhouse
• 37:34
  files.com with my newsletter and stories, and then a big audience
• 37:37
  over on YouTube as well, where I post daily recaps and full
• 37:40
  interviews. Good stuff, Scott.
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  Thanks for jumping on giving us a preview of 2026.
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  Appreciate. We'll talk to you down the road.
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  Thank you, Scott. Yeah, let's do it.
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  Absolutely good to talk to you Scott, Agnes as we check in on
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  the Fever and the WNBA as they get set to and no surprise, I
• 37:55
  mean TV execs got it right. Bring Paige in there and as he
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  fund and have a go against Caitlin and the company ABC
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  noontime on Saturday, I bet they do a good number.
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  I'm sure they we will has has it faded though.
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  I won. That's what I'm wondering.
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  I I can't wait to I'm. Going to be very interested
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  because what do we? NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, OK,
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  yeah, we know that. What else is?
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  We got Braves, Dodgers. But baseball we know is more of
• 38:21
  a regional thing. I don't think it's late enough
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  in the season that a series like that really is going to matter.
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  What else is happening this weekend?
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  It's Mother's Day weekend, but that's Sunday.
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  What else is happening this weekend?
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  There's not a ton. Well, there is live racing in
• 38:37
  Prairie Friday. And Saturday, you got that?
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  Absolutely. ABC will have it.
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  What'd you say? Noon tip, noon tip, noon tip.
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  This will be 1 to keep an eye. PGA is next weekend.
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  Yep. So there's no golf to get in the
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  way. Well, it's an elevated event
• 38:50
  with the Truest this weekend. And it was delayed yesterday,
• 38:53
  right? Did I see that?
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  So there's that. I think it'll do a good number.
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  I think it will. All right.
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  Trent's plays of the day, they're next.
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  Good day yesterday. Did you?
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  Yes. I'll take your word for it.
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  I wasn't here. We weren't here.
• 39:07
  Did you do? We went, let me pull it back up.
• 39:09
  We went four and one. That is a good day.
• 39:11
  We will definitely take that. We hit both of our props.
• 39:14
  Skeens 7 plus strikeouts at plus. 131 of ALDI over 5 1/2 at
• 39:19
  plus. One, you know when he got to
• 39:21
  seven, his final inning. I was watching.
• 39:23
  I was because it was on MLB Network.
• 39:25
  So we have. Oh, is that where it was?
• 39:27
  We hit the over the first quarter of the Knicks Sixers
• 39:30
  game hit the Sixers and I told you I was looking at the T
• 39:32
  Wolves game one of two ways. It's either going to be a 30
• 39:35
  point blowout or the T Wolves were going to play tough.
• 39:37
  They did not. No, I took the wrong side of
• 39:39
  that one. That was the one else, so we'll
• 39:40
  try to stack it up. OK, I like it.
• 39:43
  That's next. Can we go?
• 39:44
  Back-to-back hot days. It's a rare.
• 39:47
  I'd like to see it, I really. Would well, hopefully sometime
• 39:50
  before your retirement it happens.
• 39:51
  I got six weeks. You do, by the way, Circa
• 39:54
  Sports. Join us tomorrow when Mike Palm
• 39:56
  comes on with Trent and I tomorrow at 12:30.
• 39:59
  Circa and Cakes don't have an. A pretty exciting announcement
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  that we're going to share with you.
• 40:04
  That's tomorrow at 12:30. We will get to that when Mike
• 40:07
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  and Condon. It's Des Moines sports station,
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  106 point. Hi Miller and Condon, final
• 40:16
  couple of minutes on a Thursday. The we're starting to get, and
• 40:22
  we will in the days ahead, start to get some little Nuggets on
• 40:24
  the NFL schedule. Take them kind of with a grain
• 40:28
  of salt, some of them. You've learned I have you used
• 40:30
  to take those things hook, line and take.
• 40:32
  Absolutely. I I love it.
• 40:35
  It's one of my favorite times of the year when the NFL schedule
• 40:38
  comes out, one of my favorite radio days the next day.
• 40:40
  But apparently Netflix is going to have the game in in
• 40:43
  Australia. OK, the it's Rams, Niners.
• 40:46
  Right, Rams. Niners, that game is going to be
• 40:49
  a Netflix affair, so that's where we will find that one and
• 40:54
  we'll get more little trinkets in the day slash weeks ahead.
• 40:57
  All right Trent, let's put them back-to-back.
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  Who do you like? Let's kick it off.
• 41:01
  It's all NBA today. All NBA we're going to play over
• 41:05
  to 11 in the Lakers. OK C tonight going to jump
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  aboard with the Pistons laying 3 1/2 and then two prop bets for
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  this evening. LeBron under 6 1/2 rebounds prop
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  O undouced dot bet for that one. And then I found one that it's
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  an alt point total. James Harden goes off tonight.
• 41:34
  He does. If he does.
• 41:35
  OK. And goes over 34 and a half 35
• 41:38
  plus points 15 to 1. The unjust app says that there
• 41:44
  is good expected value on that one it.
• 41:48
  Should be hard. 35 or more. Just put a half unit on it, but
• 41:52
  15 to one, if that hits that, that's gonna change the way that
• 41:56
  the week looks and maybe the month looks.
• 41:57
  What's the What's his playoff average so far?
• 42:01
  Has he? But has he had a big, big night
• 42:02
  like this or no? Not even sure I have not been
• 42:05
  tuned into the series involved. I hate James Harden.
• 42:08
  Watching James Harden play basketball.
• 42:10
  I shouldn't say I hate James Harden.
• 42:11
  That's not right, that's not fair.
• 42:13
  I don't hate him as a person. I didn't have ever done anything
• 42:16
  to you. No, no, no.
• 42:18
  Maybe missed a shot or something when there was a.
• 42:20
  His style of basketball bothered me before it was in vogue.
• 42:25
  That bothered everybody. I felt like I was at the
• 42:27
  forefront of that. And now, boy, that OK.
• 42:29
  It could have been back in the now.
• 42:30
  They're pretty good now, yes. Yeah, it's.
• 42:32
  Worked out OK, yeah. Absolutely.
• 42:34
  All right, good to be back. We'll do it again tomorrow.
• 42:36
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• 42:38
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