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cup is going on and, uh, it's, it's going and
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going and it's not gone yet. It's still here.
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Um, but, uh, a lot of other things that are actually
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happening quite a bit actually around the, uh,
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the sports world. Um, but we will, uh, we'll,
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we'll, we'll get into that here. Uh, your momentarily,
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uh, before we dive right in head first, let's
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say hello to the gents. Chris, how are you? Doing
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good. Uh, yeah, kind of a. entertaining week
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of sports for surprisingly this time of year.
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Yeah, a lot of trades going on in various leagues,
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NBA draft going on as we speak. Got it going
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on over here. Yeah, USA group, whatever the hell
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we're in, champs. Onto the knockout stage and
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then you know what? When the whole damn thing,
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but take game by game. But yeah, doing well.
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How is everyone else doing Sean? Doing well.
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Got something in my throat, but other than that,
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we're all good over here. As always, I look forward
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to this time of week when I can just talk ball
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with the Phillips. So, Will, how are you doing?
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I'm okay. Admittedly, I'm very tired. My wife
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had foot surgery. yesterday and so admittedly
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I've spent kind of the whole week really just
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prepping for that haven't watched any FIFA whatsoever
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and it's um that does she we had to get up at
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4 a .m. yesterday to get to be there by 6 and
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then she didn't get into surgery they didn't
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start until 8 and so Yeah Very tired very sleepy
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Haven't haven't watched any sports really. I've
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really just seen shit on Twitter But you know
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what that's okay Because it's not always about
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being right It's always about being Good vibes
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or something. I don't know where we want to start
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talking about first I mean, we can just start
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with the latest breaking news. AJ Devansa from
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BYU, number one overall pick to the Washington
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Wizards literally just happened. So you heard
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it here, first folks. As first reported on Three
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for the Money. On Thursday. Right. Is that a
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shock, Chris? No, not really. I don't personally
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think he's the best player in the draft. But
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I mean, he's the best for that team. It's a very
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guard heavy draft. And the Wizards just signed
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Trey Young to like a $200 million extension.
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So they don't need a guard right now. So yeah,
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the Bantso is probably the best for them. He's
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fine. And he's very raw. He's got great athletic
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ability, but he He struggles at times to create
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his own shot. He can be a little wild at times.
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He doesn't really pass the ball all that well,
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so I'm sure Trey Young will love that. Yeah,
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we'll see. I mean, it's the Wizard, so who knows.
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What position does he play? He's like a forward,
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I guess. He's a big, lanky guy. Yeah, he has
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listed as forward. I mean, today's basketball,
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he can just play wherever. He's a big boy, height
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-wise. All right. There it is. I mean, was BYU
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good this year? They were pretty good. They were
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probably one of the best in the Big 12, and then
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one of their second -best player, either towards
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ACL, towards Achilles, something that missed
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the latter half of the season. Once that happened,
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their season was pretty much done. But he was
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really good. He put up a lot of numbers. But
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I mean, he's sort of a SGA, I want to say foul
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merchant, but he takes a lot of free throws.
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So we'll see if he's going to get those calls
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in Washington. Free throws, the most exciting
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part about basketball. Sometimes. I mean, sometimes
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it is. I mean, yeah, occasionally, but very seldom.
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When you need the over to hit. Yeah. Very important.
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Yeah, I mean, I was scrolling ESPN right before
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this and I was like, oh, the NBA draft is going
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on. If only I knew a single name of anyone in
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this draft. I could provide some any insight
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on this whatsoever. But hey. Who's to say? Well.
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I didn't know the NBA draft was going on until
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Chris literally said it. So. Don't feel too bad.
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Do you know anyone's name? No, OK, well, we're
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yeah, we're this. We're two. We are the same.
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Yeah, two guys in a boat in the same boat. I
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mean, I know I knew it was this week. I had no
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idea it was tonight until like this morning.
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I saw it on tour. I was like, Oh, shit, cool.
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Something to watch tonight. Yeah, probably how
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people feel when we just go rambling on about
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the NHL. Yeah. And I mean, talk about the NHL
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draft is, is this week as well. It's on Thursday,
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that's the first round. And then the rest is
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Friday, I believe. And like, I, you know, I,
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I pretty sure I said that I was going to do research.
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I didn't do research. But you know, the national
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predators have the 10th overall pick. The NHL
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draft is it has constantly been something where
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nobody can really predict except for like the
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first couple of picks. And then everything after
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that is like, essentially free game. And it's
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it's so weird when you compare it to like the
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The NFL drafter like the NBA draft Just because
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like these these are 18 year old kids and some
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of them are 17 getting drafted and so like Everyone's
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kind of talent evaluation is a little bit different
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Everyone's in like a different league and so
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you have to take their numbers with it within
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reference to the the competition in that league
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and it's I mean basketball it's kind of the same
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way in that regard. I'd say it's more akin to
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baseball than uh because that yeah I mean baseball
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I would I don't have the numbers in front of
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me but there's probably a decent amount of the
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guys that your team drafts will never play for
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your team. Right and like it's there's a pretty
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steep drop off after the first round that it's
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it's like hey It could happen. Probably won't.
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But you know, that's the way the cookie crumbles
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or something. You said it right. Yeah. Gavin
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McKenna. Gavin McKenna should go first overall.
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After that. Who's to say? Yeah, I was gonna say.
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Oh, sorry. Good. I mean, that was about it. I
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mean, yeah, I was gonna ask if there's a clear
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number two. So I figured, yeah, I knew McKenna
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is pro it's like the guy, but I didn't know if
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there was like a one a and maybe one B or what,
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what have you. So yes and no. Um, it's so it's
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either one like after McKenna, it's either going
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to be chase Reed, who is a defenseman. Um, We
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play at Sault Ste. Marie, who is very, very good.
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Um, and then, uh, Ivar Stenberg from the SHL
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who he's a, he's like, he's more of like a complete
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player. And like, when you play in the, in the,
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uh, the Swedish hockey league, it's, um, you're
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playing against like grown men, like, like 30
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year old men. Like not not not like college where
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it's like yeah, you're playing against grown
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men like, you know 22 year old dudes that are
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big No, this guy like when you when you play
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in that league, it's it's everyone. It's it's
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all it's basically all ages Well, I actually
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I think it's like 17 and up is the SHL and then
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they have I think there's some junior leagues
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Maybe I don't know I could be wrong. I don't
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the NHL is weird how they do their Shit, but
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hey Who's to say? But but yeah, that's um That's
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that's literally all I got I mean I was looking
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at a bunch of mock drafts for who the Predators
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might pick We might pick What the fuck what is
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his name? It might not even matter Tynan Lawrence
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Center for Boston University who had an okay
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had an okay year And essentially like everyone
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that i've that i've seen in these mock traps
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that that people have the predators taking like
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it's It's like past the first like five picks
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it's like yeah, they did. All right, you know
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everyone else past five it's like all right they
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There's always a but Not a not an and and it's
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whoever they are Whoever they are. They sound
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like a national predator already Yeah That's
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what I'm just All I'm hoping is we avoid what
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happened last year which was When we drafted
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Brady Martin at number four that we actually
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see some highlights of of him on the TV Because
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what happened last year if you guys don't remember
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is we drafted him and they were like he's on
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the farm and then they showed a video of him
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on the farm, uh, Chorin. And, and then like at
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night, they had a big old party and had a projector
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and watched the draft and watched them get draft
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drafted at fourth overall. And that was it. Didn't
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see, didn't see any, uh, any sort of highlights
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or nothing. Uh, kind of like when we drafted
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Cam Ward, there's sense to be a bit of a pattern
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here. Um, Nobody gives a shit about our team
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so they don't Let's just get it over with on
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to the next floor or their sleeper agents It
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could be it. Let's let's let's choose that. Yeah,
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I'm choosing I'm choosing the second. Yeah, they're
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sleepers sleeper at number one overall They don't
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want to show you how good they are. Yeah. They
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they want you to be in the dark about it, because
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they want you to feel like that you discovered
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them on your own. I did it me. No one ever heard
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of cam ward until nobody. But yeah, I mean, there's
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a there's been a bunch of noise in the NHL. I
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mean, do we want to do FIFA last? I mean, I guess
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we're already on the NHL. I mean, I have nothing
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to say about FIFA. I don't know. Just go USA.
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Are we just flying by the seat of our our pants
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right now? I am a little bit. Okay. I can look
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up some stuff. I mean, yeah, it's just like,
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there's some stuff to have on FIFA, like all
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the stars are like, pretty much dominating, but
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there's nothing. Yeah. We'll get into it. Yeah,
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we're into it. So I do want to talk about this
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Yesterday Monday Brady Kachuk was traded to the
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Florida Panthers Instant reaction father's day
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What it was father's day was Sunday. I was with
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my dad when it happened. What did oh no, what
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did Rick think? He was like, oh damn Not joking.
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Oh damn. But then later he was like, that's got
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to be at like two first round picks, right? And
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I was like, it was three. It was three. One conditional,
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but still a first round pick. That's a lot. He
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got his make -a -wish for sure. Yeah. Like when
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that happened I was like, oh man Yeah, oh man
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Well is my my instant reaction to the news Was
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that the two diamond defending Stanley Cup champions
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missed the playoffs? They got to do something
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That was a big that was a big move. So it kind
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of made sense Right and like they had a bunch
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of injuries and that was kind of the main thing
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Stop them from the playoffs, but I do agree with
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with what you're saying that They had they definitely
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had to do something and like I Mean the we didn't
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even talk about the Rams getting Myles Garrett
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and Like everyone saying like F dim picks. It's
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like a man F dim picks, you know It but that
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kind of seems to be the trend now because there
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are a lot of trades going down that involve a
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lot of first round picks. Or at least some. Yeah.
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Yeah, there is. Oh, and I think there was today
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that Jordan Cairo got traded. And I think they
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traded two firsts for him. Let me pull it up.
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Where are you, Elliot? Elliott Friedman. Shout
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out. Oh, man. I'm not going to find this. Does
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Florida have anybody else from Team USA on the
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roster? I don't believe so. It was one first
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round pick and two prospects for Jordan and Kyrie.
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Oh. Whoops. I mean, it's still a first round
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pick. It's number 16 so Damn there's been a lot
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of trades actually. Yeah, if you just go to like
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the NHL Instagram, it'll just tell you but One
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of the more surprising ones was William Uckland
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like getting traded to Ottawa I Mean for the
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ninth overall pick which is oh shit. Yeah Damn
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That's for the ninth pick Yeah, and like three
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other or like two other prospects or players.
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I can't tell but yeah Wow, San Jose has two picks
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in the top ten of the draft That's crazy. Sounds
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about right. I feel like they've been kind of
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been living there That's like four years Well,
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they will I mean at the end of the season it
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was kind of like yo this the sharks Barely missed
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the playoffs And like, I think they went from
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nine to like four, maybe? It was top five, because
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I remember us complaining about it, because it
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was just like, of course, the Sharks get the
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top five pick. Wasn't it two? I think it was
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pretty damn high. It is two. I think it was two.
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Yeah, it's two. Yeah, they went from nine to
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two, I think. Man. I mean, they did make the
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playoffs and Before that they were complete dogshit.
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So I Mean is That that that comes with the territory
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and I mean we were dogshit two years ago and
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So we got the fourth pick So I mean it makes
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sense. So now we're slightly less talk shit.
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Yeah now we're slightly less talk shit, you know,
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we almost made With this new GM I'm liking it.
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I'm liking him so far uploading yeah he's i think
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it's we've talked about this a a number of times
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if the the national predator should should rebuild
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and like i think i might have said this before
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but we have like yo like yosi like he's He's
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a little bit past his prime, but like he's still
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fucking awesome player like year and year out
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He is the second best defenseman in the league
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Philip Forsberg. I mean he scored over 40 goals
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last year and then like he's done that a couple
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of times and like Stephen Samcoe's finally like
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Learned how to relearned how to score goals.
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So it's like that's great. Soros is good sometimes
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not in the first part of the season and so like
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With with all that going for us. It's kind of
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it's kind of hard to be like, yeah, we need to
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rebuild like, you know, and so like I feel like
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I Feel like you give this guy a little little
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time like a year or so. I Feel like we can put
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together a pretty good squad. I Don't know. It
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also feels like we've been drafting well but
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also We'll see So, you know, what do you think
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of the Burnett extension? Or not really an extension,
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but he said he's staying. For this season, upcoming
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season, I think. I think man. I'm I'm 5050. I
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gotta be real like I I think he is a good coach.
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He's a good coach. And it. It's like you can.
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You can think about the good shit that he's done
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like. like make like when we made the playoffs
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and we you know, we lost to Vancouver but like
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You know that was that that Vegas year I believe
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where they cut they they got rid of the Vegas
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strip and we went on a heater To make the playoffs
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and it's like that was that was great. I mean
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that was that was part of his decisions and like
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Yeah, I honestly I really hate it when people
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talk about it. But at the same time like it is
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great it is great that that happened and he's
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He got them To fucking like make it click in
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their head. They're like, hey guys, we're a good
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team You just guys are playing like shit play
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better No Vegas. Yeah No, we're not going out.
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No And so like that part hey man, you you gotta
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you gotta kind of like that in your coach you
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gotta you gotta like You have to enjoy the fact
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that he can throw down the hammer and say, I
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will not stand for this. Um, so I like that.
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Um, I think, I think this past year did a lot
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for him with how, how much better we did perform
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as the season went on. Um, I think I'd be a lot
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more for him if we made the playoffs, but you
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know, it's, uh, anything can happen in the playoffs,
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but at the same time, like, you know, I mean,
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nothing was going to happen, but you know, still
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like, make the playoffs. That is, I mean, that's
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not the mark of success, but it but it is. And
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so like, I'm but at the same time, it's like
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two years ago, we were complete dogshit. But
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also, like, Barry got Stamco's Marsh associate
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and completely revamped our roster. And so like,
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he's going into this, we're like, like some of
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our top guys have no familiarity with, with with
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our team. And so it's like, okay. really good
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coaches just tend to find the players and and
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you know know what to do with them and then go
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from there and so like that I put that against
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him but also at the same time I feel like we
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hadn't really been drafting that well not as
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of like two -ish years ago but before that and
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so like keeping the the covered stock has been
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Kind of a bit lackluster. So there's a lot of
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factors, but I think I all in all I'd say I'm
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I'm okay with it. I don't know. What do you think?
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Yeah, I mean I'm fine with it. I guess they mean
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it makes sense to me It's like I don't think
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you really want to find a new coach right now
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while you're also trying to revamp like the entire
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like front office as well Like, you know, he
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does well if you're the guy that can get him
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like the pieces that he needs or Suggests adjustments,
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then I think you should follow through with Barry's
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decision in the higher and hiring him in the
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first place So but I mean if he sucks next year
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Yeah Yeah, for sure. Goodbye. Totally. But yeah,
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I don't think we're gonna win a cup with him
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or anything. But I think he's, he's getting us
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where we need to go for the time being. It's,
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it's really weird. We've been in this no man's
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land for a couple years. Well, I guess not two
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years ago, we were just bad. But around that
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year, We've kind of been in this this weird kind
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of limbo where we're not good. We're not bad
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What do we need to what do we need to do here?
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And so it's It's a lot And you know what you
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that's the number one place you don't want to
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be Because I mean if you're if you're dog shit,
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then it's like, okay Well, you know you can get
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a good pick and it might turn out to be Pretty
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great. Yeah I feel like they are either really
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hot or like really fucking cold like all the
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time there's like no like oh they won two yesterday
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they lost one last night or like whatever in
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the past three they're two and one it doesn't
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feel like that it feels like in their last five
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they're one and four and then like it feels like
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that constantly but they'll go he'll also go
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on like seven game point heaters or like 10 point
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heaters or and it's just like who i don't even
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think you know who you are like as a coach yeah
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sometimes it does feel like we don't really have
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an identity um yeah so i i'm hoping his his third
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his next year he can actually find himself and
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like what he likes Cause he is a first time NHL
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head coach, right? I mean, so it was like an
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interim with Florida for an extended interim,
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wasn't he? Yeah. Um, so he was, he was the interim
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head coach, um, after Joel Quinville left because
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of the Kyle beach stuff with the Chicago blackhawks.
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Um, I don't remember what part of the year that
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happened. Um, but they ended up winning the president's
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trophy. Yeah. I thought it was pretty early in
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the season. And then, yeah, they went on to win
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the president's trophy and they, I don't remember
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how far they went in the playoffs that year,
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but it was like, holy shit, this guy might be
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amazing. They didn't win it that year. That might've
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been, that might've been, they might've met Tampa
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in the playoffs. And that might have been that
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might have been the year That the Tampa and Florida
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Rivalry, I don't know if it started but it it
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kicked off I guess And so I feel like that might
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have been that year. I don't know but so he's
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been an interim head coach, but he he hasn't
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been a Head coach, so it's I don't know But yeah,
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so you're right Yeah, full -fledged head coach
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full -fledged HC, yes Speaking of head coaches
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for the NHL Mike Babcock got hired by the Oilers
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today Yeah, after he was found to not have violated
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any sort of like NHL what is it it's like the
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uh i know what you're looking for but i don't
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know how to say it code of conduct yeah it's
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like a weird it's something that's like not kind
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of not chill but like yeah like chris were you
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aware on on why mike batcock is a piece of shit
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i remember there is controversy, but I don't
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remember what he did. I was just about to Google
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it while you were talking. He's done a he's done
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kind of a number of things. Yeah, which is like,
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he just doesn't seem like a really good guy.
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Yeah, like he when he was the Red Wings coach.
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There was this guy that he tormented every day.
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Yeah, I thought I remembered something about
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when he was in Detroit. He was like a like a
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jackass, but like a A bad jacket. Is it Johan
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Franzen? Franzen? Oh, I think it is. Franzen
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revealed in interviews that he suffered from
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PTSD caused by bad cause for relentless berating,
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mind games, and verbal abuse on the bench. Yeah.
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Listen, there's a difference between being a
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tough coach and being an asshole. Like yeah,
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he's just kind of an asshole. Yeah, and it's
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it's also weird Because like he Like I don't
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I I can't even I Don't even know if he's this
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guy's a good coach or not To be quite honest
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with you Like he's won Stanley Cups But like
29:13
I mean he was on like the late 2000s redwings
29:18
when when they had like nine Hall of Famers.
29:21
Well, actually, this was like five Hall of Famers.
29:24
But still, but like like that team was that's
29:28
enough. Yeah. The team was fucking incredible.
29:31
And like he was I think he was the head coach
29:33
when Canada last won their gold medal. And it's
29:38
like, how much credit can you really give like
29:42
that? That was a legit super team. Everyone on
29:46
that team was a Hall of Famer. Like maybe I haven't
29:51
looked at the roster, but it's probably true.
29:53
This says in 2023, um, he resigned after just
29:58
78 days in Columbus, after asking players to
30:01
scroll through their personal photos and one
30:03
-on -one meetings, just many players feeling
30:06
uncomfortable. Yeah. He would ask them to, um,
30:10
like he would ask them to like cast their phone
30:14
to like his TV in his office. so they could look
30:18
at it like together while the player like scroll
30:20
through it. You know, fucking weird. Was there
30:24
like any sort of like, did he ever say like,
30:27
hey, my goal was to do this by doing this very
30:31
odd exercise? I think all right. Good. I think
30:39
his cop out answer was I want to get to know
30:41
my players, but I believe the real reason was
30:44
he wants to make sure they're locked in on the
30:46
game. um maybe i mean he's just a fucking he's
30:54
an asshole yeah it's like i kind of get that
30:58
mentality or at least that reasoning but like
31:01
he's a grown ass man they're making a shit ton
31:05
of money that should be enough like hey yeah
31:08
i'm locked in man this ain't high school yeah
31:13
and like he's never i mean I'm sure he coached
31:16
high school in his very, very, very early years.
31:20
Um, but like, like it gives me, it gives me,
31:26
uh, who's the fucking, who was the Ohio state
31:28
coach that went to Jacksonville? Urban Meyer.
31:31
It gave me urban Va urban Meyer vibes. Like there
31:36
were stories about urban Meyer, like going, going
31:39
up to players would be like, yeah, I called your
31:41
parents and called my parents. Oh yeah. He's
31:46
like, he needs to control every single aspect
31:51
of the team, which I mean, as I guess he could
31:55
argue is a reason why his teams were so great,
31:58
but can't do that in the press. Kind of making
32:01
a lot more money than you, Bob. Right. And so
32:05
it's, um, but the word on the street is that
32:13
the Oilers players were like we they had a long
32:18
discussion because they they fired their coach
32:21
at the end of the offseason and they they were
32:26
like what what do we need like a players only
32:29
meeting in the offseason if they can even do
32:31
that or at least the leaders did and I believe
32:36
they they chose Babcock because I'm not sure
32:41
that they've had an asshole behind the coach,
32:43
behind the bench. And, um, you know, this might
32:47
be, uh, this might be what they need. You know,
32:52
it's weird. I mean, I, I, before you were talking
32:57
about him, I was like, Hey, I mean, there is
32:59
an asshole coach out there who has Stanley cup
33:03
final experience. Right. There is. Just saying,
33:08
maybe ride the hot hand, bring in the mercenary.
33:15
That might be the emergency button. I might,
33:20
if I were a player on that team, when we went
33:23
from Babcock to Tortorello in the same season,
33:25
I'm like, you know what? I think I might just
33:27
quit this whole hockey thing. This ain't worth
33:31
it. Yeah, really. Let me think. While you think
33:37
about it, I was like reading stuff like about
33:40
his other like player Controversy things and
33:46
he some of this stuff just seems like vindictive
33:50
Like it's benching Jason Spetsa at in his Toronto
33:55
homecoming like opener That's crazy He's he scratched
34:03
a Hall of Famer Mike Modano for multiple games
34:08
down the stretch denying denying him the opportunity
34:10
to play his 1500th NHL game. Yep. That's that's
34:16
just like downright. That's just like downright
34:19
vindictive. That's just like I don't like you.
34:24
Fuck you. Yeah, that's well. That's crazy. That's
34:33
that's the biggest Kind of like you're an asshole.
34:37
Maybe not the biggest he didn't get he didn't
34:39
give Mike Madonna PTSD that I know of but I Mean,
34:45
I guess the Johan Fronson thing would be probably
34:48
the most asshole thing But uh What I was thinking
34:53
about before When you before you talked about
34:57
that was if I'm remembering correctly I believe
35:01
the Columbus Blue Jackets fired torts in the
35:04
offseason after his last season, and then they
35:08
hired Babcock. Timeline does add up. Yeah. I
35:14
think I think that's that's how I think that's
35:17
how it worked out, which oh, geez. Talk about
35:23
stress. And then they revolted after 78 days.
35:29
Like this guy sucks. It's not even good. This
35:36
guy's a fraud. Um, I don't know. Um, it's to
35:44
go back to your point, Chris, there's an asshole
35:48
mercenary coach out there. I think I think it
35:51
might Think his role in the hockey sphere from
35:55
now on might be break glass in case of emergency
35:58
From now on which I don't think is a bad gig.
36:02
I think it's an amazing gig I think we kind of
36:05
joked about it after Like he got hired or at
36:10
some point we talked about is like, I mean honestly,
36:12
yeah, I'd fucking take that and heartbeat Yeah,
36:16
we Nashville Predators 15 games away from making
36:22
the playoffs. They need, they need to go on a
36:25
heater in order to win. Andrew Burnett out. John
36:28
Tortorella. I'd be like, you know what? We got
36:38
nothing to lose. Yeah. At that point, it's like,
36:42
whatever. But like, I think I might've heard
36:46
him talk like he's like, I've kind of calmed
36:48
down these past couple of years. Yeah, you're
36:54
not playing 82 games, yelling your lungs out
36:58
every night, yelling at the refs and your players.
37:02
Yeah, he's also like a million years old. Teams
37:09
are just going to hire him at the end of the
37:10
season just to squeeze every last bit of juice
37:12
he's been saving like all year long. If it works,
37:17
it works. Great. It almost worked. It almost
37:21
worked two games away, but yeah, almost worked.
37:25
Almost. Um, that's funny. But yeah, Mike Babcock
37:32
could be, uh, could be it. I think, I mean, I
37:36
don't know. I mean, yeah, I guess I'm the oilers
37:39
guy on the podcast since I bet on them every
37:42
year, but, um, I don't know if their past couple
37:45
coaches, if they've all been like player guys
37:49
or I'm not your friend guys. And maybe maybe
37:54
the Oilers need a I'm not your friend guy. I
37:58
am your enemy. I hate you. Go play a game for
38:08
money. Who knows? I mean, I thought it was interesting.
38:14
It was just so quick to like after he was, you
38:17
know. convicted falsely or like, not convicted,
38:21
I guess, acquitted, acquitted. Sure. It was like,
38:26
boom, oilers. Apparently, they probably had it
38:29
in a couple weeks. Yeah. But I think they had
38:33
to go through this in order to hire him. Is is
38:37
I think it was like when he was fired, or when
38:43
he left or resigned or whatever. I think that
38:47
was just kind of left out open. And he was like,
38:50
Oh, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna coach no more.
38:55
That's my Mike Babcock compression. Spot on.
38:58
It's actually pretty good. I don't know if you've
39:01
heard of that guy talk. I don't recall. You can't
39:05
talk. Okay. I coached the Toronto May police
39:11
with Mitch Marner and Austin Matthews. Made Mitch
39:15
Marner rank his teammates as a rookie. Oh shit.
39:19
He did do that This dude's a bad guy It's not
39:27
a cool guy. Okay. Yes, Mike Babcock bad guy You
39:33
know, I This isn't gonna flow into the next thing
39:39
but Going back to the the Brady Kachuk trade.
39:46
I don't know if your guys feed is as tailored
39:49
as mine, but I got a lot of videos on like these,
39:59
these like dudes in Canada that talk about hockey,
40:01
you know, like TSN and others. They're like,
40:07
they're so like the agenda right now is that
40:11
since Brady Kachuk was traded like American captains
40:16
in Canadian franchises, they're like No, this
40:20
cannot happen ever again. Austin Matthews count
40:23
your days and On all of the the tik -toks and
40:29
Instagram reels I saw I immediately commented
40:31
you're just so butthurt about Canada losing in
40:36
the gold medal game you hate America so much
40:39
and so that's really what i've been doing um
40:44
a lot of whatever i my free time i like to online
40:48
bully canadians yeah because they're they're
40:53
they're salty i mean yeah i was doing that a
40:57
lot when we won the gold medal i spent a good
41:00
few hours after that game just spam commenting
41:04
the same shit on every angry canada fan they're
41:09
like American captains for these Canadian franchises
41:11
cannot happen and like They're they're like fucking
41:16
fine. You don't want a gold medalist on your
41:21
hockey team Yeah, sounds like a sound strategy
41:27
Yeah, really Baby shit soft you have to be Yeah,
41:39
it's a It's pretty funny They're like Austin
41:45
Mount Matthews count your days. He's gonna be
41:47
gone soon Fuckin look at Quinn Hughes. He he
41:51
was a captain he left and it's like he doesn't
41:55
want to fucking be there like Vancouver sucks
41:57
an organization is terrible. Yeah and like I
42:05
there's like other captains that are doing the
42:07
same thing like Like fucking like Dylan Larkin,
42:10
I don't know if you saw he wanted out he requested
42:13
a trade and so like All this is happening and
42:18
all Canadians can focus on is like these Americans
42:20
It's like hey, man The the league is mostly Canadians
42:27
it's like 40 something percent Canadians and
42:31
then it's everyone else and it's like a buddy
42:34
like calm down There's there's a ton of y 'all
42:39
that wanted out of where they were. So shut the
42:42
hell up. I don't know if you guys know that.
42:44
I haven't. I hope the Leafs trade off to Matthews.
42:47
I hate them and I don't want them to be good
42:49
anymore. So that'd be I would love that. Yes.
42:54
I hate. I don't know where I want him to go.
42:59
Nashville. Well, yeah, but let's just get it.
43:04
Why not? Hey, no state tax. He'd probably take
43:09
a little bit less. Hopefully, I hope. We've got
43:13
a lot of cap space. Yeah. And we have a lot of
43:17
draft capital. Let's go get them. I mean, we
43:21
could we could go real estate like we could do
43:23
it. It'd be a lot. Yeah. Who cares? Everybody's
43:33
doing it now. Everybody's trading away their
43:34
picks. So no, Eventually nobody's gonna have
43:37
any picks so it's not even gonna matter There
43:42
was this one time I watched this dude on YouTube
43:45
play play NHL 26 and He he took the Tampa Bay
43:51
Lightning and used them to get every single first
43:56
round pick It's pretty wild What do you mean
44:02
like every single first round pick like Like
44:04
already picked, like he got every, he got every
44:10
team's first round pick. Yes. He got every team's
44:12
first round pick. I did a really bad job explaining
44:14
that. I was like, he's, he's gotten, he's got,
44:17
he got every first round pick ever. Like he got
44:20
like Connor McDavid and like, no, no, he got
44:24
like, he did like a, I acquired the physical
44:29
pick. Yes. Yes. Of the 20, 26 draft. Yeah. Okay.
44:35
I was like, this is pretty funny. Cause it's
44:40
like, someone's got to hit 30 of these things.
44:46
One of them's bound to be good. Yeah. It's like,
44:50
dude, you can trade Kucherov for like three,
44:52
four, three, four first round picks. And if they're
44:54
like the same, this is just the first round pick
44:58
for like that, that specific year. And so he
45:01
would like, take the, the first round picks from,
45:04
from the following year and use them to get the
45:07
first round picks for this year. And then like
45:10
throw in like a, you know, seventh or something,
45:14
you know, just to add a little more value. And
45:16
then like, he did the same thing with like Jake
45:19
Gensel and then like Andre Vasquez, Victor Headman,
45:24
you know, all the good players, Braden point,
45:27
they have a lot of good players and they, and
45:29
then he did it. It was wild. um anyway um i guess
45:36
one last thing about hockey um it was recently
45:39
announced the uh the inductees for for this year's
45:43
nhl hall of fame and uh surprise pecarini will
45:49
be a hall of famer um who's surprised i was surprised
45:54
i'm kind of surprised i don't i was gonna say
45:58
haters are surprised but Well, I'll just say
46:01
hand up. I don't know exactly know like the threshold
46:03
for the hockey hall of fame. Like I know baseball
46:06
is insanely hard to get into. Football is incredibly
46:09
easy comparatively. Basketball is kind of somewhere
46:12
in the middle. So I didn't know if hockey was
46:14
like, if hockey, it was more towards the baseball
46:16
level. It'd be like, yeah, pick it. No, but if
46:21
it's more so in the middle or wherever it is,
46:25
then it's like, okay, I get it. but it just doesn't
46:28
exactly have like the hardware or some of the
46:30
other like when I think of like a Hall of Famer.
46:35
Yeah I mean it's I think it's a little bit in
46:38
the middle like there's definitely there in the
46:41
years past has been players that uh were snubbed
46:45
for for quite some time for whatever reason like
46:48
I think it was like a year or two ago um Alex
46:52
McGilney finally got into the uh the NHL Hall
46:55
of Fame which I mean, he was a player in like
46:57
the 80s, 90s, maybe, I don't know. But he was
47:01
a he was a great fucking player. And like he,
47:05
maybe the 70s, he like escaped Russia, wherever
47:08
that time period was, where, like the players
47:11
that could be any decades, it's still be happening.
47:16
Probably the 80s, but maybe maybe it wasn't maybe
47:21
it wasn't Russia. Maybe it was maybe he was Czech.
47:23
I don't remember. But anyway, So I get it been
47:26
a long time since Like his playing days like
47:30
he was fantastic player, but never never made
47:33
I think until like a couple of years ago and
47:36
so like when I hear people talk about like Snubs,
47:39
it's like there's honestly like after this year
47:43
It's there's not gonna be too many in my opinion
47:48
like the big one was Keith Kachuck and He's he's
47:55
going in this year. And so it's it's like oh,
47:58
hey All right. Well, well there it is and so
48:04
There's always I mean, there's always gonna be
48:06
like a couple that are not in there that should
48:11
have been But it just it takes like a couple
48:15
of years sometimes they can't fit everyone in
48:18
And I don't know. I don't know if there's like
48:20
a there has to be like five years between their
48:23
last game versus when they can get in. I don't
48:26
know the rules. But the surprising part with
48:30
Pekka was like, yeah, he won a Vesna trophy and
48:32
a president's trophy and that's kind of it. I
48:37
mean, I think his, but also I think his career
48:40
save percentage is like in the nine thirties
48:44
maybe, or like nine, like a high 29 or like a
48:47
high 20, high nine twenties. It's, it's pretty,
48:49
it's pretty up there. Yeah. I mean he's the best
48:54
Nashville Predator for sure. Yes, for sure. So.
49:00
And he. He has like three. I think it's 369 wins.
49:06
Nice, nice, nice. Which in the grand scheme of
49:11
things isn't a lot, but I because he started
49:15
so late he became a starter like I think at like
49:17
27 pretty late in his career. but also they might
49:23
have got it brought up the fact that He's like
49:28
he was an eighth round pick like he that like
49:31
he was a pick in the draft where the round doesn't
49:35
exist in you and So which is great, which is
49:38
a great story and they might have factored that
49:43
one in but Other than that, I mean, I think I
49:48
think it was a bit of a surprise to me, at least.
49:53
But hey, I'm not gonna complain. I think I think
49:59
it's it's us as like, I feel like we're we're
50:02
real fans where we I don't know, we judge things
50:07
not by they're going to be awesome, but how they're
50:12
going to be terrible. And that's just because
50:14
we're Jay, we're jaded sports fans. That's what
50:15
it is. That's that's the that's the phrase. And
50:17
so like, I never thought that that would happen.
50:23
Just because I don't think good things happen
50:26
to our teams or our players, except when they
50:30
leave. Most of the time. So this was a shock.
50:36
What a good shock. I don't know. What was your
50:39
reaction, Chris? Pretty much the same thing.
50:41
Like, Oh, cool. I didn't see that coming. Like,
50:46
like, yeah, I was very happy for him. That was
50:49
like, Oh, wow. Okay. That's awesome. Something
50:52
good happened in one of my teams, every one of
50:54
my favorite players. That doesn't happen a lot.
50:57
Let's go. Pretty much the exact same as you honestly.
51:02
Well, I mean, I, I guess I was surprised at the
51:10
fact that it was so early. Yes, I thought that
51:15
he was going to the hall. it'd be like, minimum
51:20
five years from now. Like, it Yeah, I at least
51:25
always hoped that he would get in. But I don't
51:30
know, like the minimum, like you need to be retired
51:34
or whatever. But I feel like he hit the minimum,
51:39
which is kind of crazy. But I for sure. Always
51:46
thought he would Get in eventually Because I
51:52
mean like watching him play like as a kid. It
51:56
was just like this guy's unbelievable He doesn't
51:59
let anything through Mm -hmm, and he would do
52:03
these crazy ass saves like all the time Like
52:08
he would make a show out of his saves like every
52:11
night It's like what we paid to go see almost
52:16
It's like, oh, Peck is going to do something
52:18
crazy tonight. And it is also like the epitome
52:24
of being like a Nashville sports fan, where it's
52:26
just like, it's like, oh, we don't, our best
52:31
player is the goaltender, which is a very important
52:33
position. Don't get me wrong, but it's not like
52:36
flashy, you know, but Peck made it flashy. He
52:41
made it fun to watch him save pucks. So that's
52:46
what I'll say, but Oh, yeah It was like right
52:51
after he retired our friend Ryan. He like asked
52:53
me he was like this Pekka Hall of Famer and I'm
52:56
like I Don't know in my heart. Yes. Yeah Yes,
53:03
definitely. I also think he might be he might
53:07
be number one for finish goaltender wins I might
53:12
have to look that would that would make sense.
53:14
Yeah He was number it was either wins or like
53:17
safe percentage or something like that. I remember
53:19
them saying something it was towards the end
53:21
of his career. Well, latter half, at least when
53:24
he broke whatever record that was. Yeah. Who
53:30
had it before? I mean, there was Mika Kiprsov.
53:33
I was like Kiprsov is the only Finnish great
53:36
Finnish goalie that comes to mind off the top
53:38
of my head. Yeah. I have to look at the numbers.
53:42
Winning his Finnish gold tender in NHL regular
53:46
season history. Hell yeah. So he's won the most
53:52
games out of any Finnish. But there's only been
53:56
two Finnish Stanley Cup goalies. Is it him and
54:00
Tuuka? It's a Tuuka. Tuuka Rask and Antti Nimen.
54:10
Niemie. Yeah. Who is he with? Hawks. Yeah. Okay.
54:14
I was like, that name sounds so familiar. Yes.
54:18
I felt, I had like a bad gut reaction. I was
54:22
like, I feel like I don't like that guy. It was
54:24
like Chicago. That makes sense. Yeah. Always
54:31
in our hearts. That's why we built the statue.
54:34
That's right. Um, I think it might be all I got.
54:40
Um, That's all right. We've been on an NHL for
54:44
a minute. Yeah, I don't really know anything
54:48
else after that Chris if you want to talk FIFA,
54:52
I know you've been gambling like an sob Well
54:56
before we get into that if we'd be crazy not
54:59
to talk the honest trade That went down. Oh,
55:03
yeah, actually went down. Yeah, I woke I woke
55:06
up to that I think I was like, huh Yeah, he finally
55:10
after years of will he won't he he was finally
55:14
I had the details pull up Yeah, here we go Traded
55:17
to Miami him and Bobby Portis to Miami for Tyler
55:20
Harrow Khalil where homie Hawkins? Casper us
55:24
yakin yaka Yaka Jonas three first round picks
55:28
one pick swap and a second rounder Good for the
55:35
heat I don't know if Yonis is on a better team
55:41
now than he was yesterday, though. The Miami
55:46
Heat, I mean, they traded all, and like, you're
55:49
gonna have to trade good players to get a great
55:50
one, but they traded most of their good players
55:54
to get him. Like, now it's him, bam. Andrew Wiggins
56:00
is fine, decent shooter, great defender for forward
56:03
especially. Norman Powell was an all -star. But
56:06
they can't afford him now. So when horse said
56:10
that they have heart, like I know in the, in
56:13
the NBA, the cap is kind of like whatever, but
56:15
they're, he said, no, they have a hard 18 million
56:18
cap space left. And in the NBA, that is chump
56:22
change. Like vet men is like 4 million. So like
56:29
you're going to be getting in just a bunch of
56:33
guys going on vet men's like that's not. Ideal
56:37
especially when you just traded for a superstar
56:40
who's not exactly in his prime at the moment.
56:43
He's 31 He's still yeah, I just oh he's still
56:49
very good But and you but you have to build a
56:52
team around him and they can't really do that
56:55
right now yeah, I personally feel like he kind
56:59
of fell off a like he just kind of exists in
57:03
the void now I don't hear about Yanis like at
57:08
all. Well, when you play for a small market team,
57:10
especially the NBA, you have to be like MVP caliber
57:13
for people to really talk about you. It's like,
57:14
yeah, he's still a superstar. But yeah, he's
57:17
not the same as I mean, yeah, he hasn't really
57:20
been. He's not. He's not the same as when he
57:22
won MVP. No, he hasn't really. I was going to
57:25
say he hasn't really been in the MVP discussion
57:26
the last few years, to my knowledge, at least.
57:30
Yeah, it's like I feel like he's a ghost. This
57:33
is like as a non NBA fan. This is very much things.
57:37
Yeah. Like I was surprised it happened at least
57:40
to the heat. This is very much like win now move.
57:45
Usually don't see teams who haven't won a playoff
57:48
series in three years make a win now move. You're
57:52
usually kind of like, okay, let's focus on the
57:53
future. And they just mortgage their future for
57:56
a 31 year old big man, which yes, he's still
58:00
great, but he don't really win with big men like
58:05
this isn't the nineties. You need guards who
58:08
can shoot and you traded all the ones you have
58:11
that can shoot. Andrew Wiggins is fine, but he's
58:13
not going to win you him and Andrew Wiggins and
58:16
Giannis aren't going to win you a title. So,
58:18
I mean, he are a very, very smart organization.
58:22
Pat Riley is a great basketball mind. So I'm
58:24
sure they have something up their sleeve, but
58:26
it may be a couple of years, which if that's
58:28
their plan, fine, but. He'll be 33, 34 at that
58:32
point. So you're definitely going to have to
58:34
win in the next few years. Did you did you mention
58:39
the years on those picks? I mean, one tonight.
58:46
I assume I assumed it was the next three. I do
58:49
know, you know, not what oh, God, what is it?
58:52
Oh, the NBA always does it like weird. The heat
58:55
are sending to Milwaukee unprotected first rounders
58:58
in twenty thirty one. And 2033 along with the
59:04
number 13, a pick swap in 2030 and a 2033 second
59:10
rounder. Ah, that's okay. So maybe they'll be
59:14
fine then if they're going to maybe it'll just
59:16
take a year or two, but maybe they'll be fine.
59:19
Yeah. Um, that's a, that's a weird one. That's
59:24
a, um, I, I don't, I don't think that anyone
59:30
Anyone else in sports has traded a, a first -round
59:34
pick in 2030. Yeah, that's, that's, uh, very
59:39
much the John Mulaney thing. Like that's not
59:41
a real year. Right. Decent chance. He's not playing
59:47
anymore. When that, for when that comes. Yeah.
59:52
That's five years from now. I'm not saying he,
59:56
he'll be 30. Yeah. He'll be 36 and it's like.
59:59
I'm not saying he can't be playing at 36, but
1:00:02
when you're that big, usually guys that, that
1:00:06
size don't play well into their thirties. It's
1:00:09
hard. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's not their fault.
1:00:14
Look at him. You're not. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
1:00:16
he is literally a freak of nature. It's his name.
1:00:20
The Greek freak. So yeah, it's like bodies of
1:00:25
freaks don't hold up. Get out of here. Break
1:00:32
your break. But yeah, I was just, uh, when I
1:00:35
saw like all the P all the players, they traded
1:00:37
for you. I was like, who the hell is that hat?
1:00:41
And they traded Tyler hero. And I was like, last
1:00:44
time I checked that guy was a good player. Yeah.
1:00:47
Like, I don't know. Like I said, you got to trade
1:00:49
good players to get a grip, to get a superstar,
1:00:51
but like I don't trade them all. Right. Yeah.
1:00:58
They're going to be a hell of a defensive team
1:01:00
now. So there's something that's supposed to
1:01:04
be a great coach. So we'll see. I'm just waiting
1:01:07
for someone in the NBA to, for a team to just
1:01:11
start beating other teams up with their fists.
1:01:16
I mean, it might be this scene. You're honest.
1:01:21
I can't even understand you. What the hell are
1:01:23
you saying? Bam. What the hell was that last
1:01:29
name? Yeah, yeah, at a bio and into Tecumbo on
1:01:33
the same team. I mean, BAM's American, but still.
1:01:38
Right. Yeah, and that trade is going to go through
1:01:42
in July. Oh, yeah, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever
1:01:48
the legal stipulations on that are. Yeah, I tried
1:01:51
looking up on Instagram and I couldn't find it
1:01:55
because it's not. It hasn't happened yet. It's
1:01:59
not like I guess technically. Yeah It's set I
1:02:04
think if this is a handshake agreement Most likely
1:02:07
is the most it can be at this point Yeah, so
1:02:10
I mean, I mean, yeah, they could back out of
1:02:12
it if they want. Well, maybe not. I think they
1:02:13
just Know walking might be. Oh, no, you said
1:02:19
is one of those picks tonight Yes, I believe
1:02:24
it was the 13th or 19th Okay 13th If it doesn't
1:02:31
go through till July, how would they I think
1:02:34
Milwaukee will have it will have the rights to
1:02:37
the said player and then once they could just
1:02:40
pick up fucking bum I Think if they they do pick
1:02:46
a bum they can probably walk out Maybe yeah,
1:02:50
I mean it does not say yeah, I mean You have
1:02:54
to pick a guy from like DePaul. Yeah, but they'll
1:02:57
probably be like, hey No Who's this guy you drafted
1:03:04
Dougie buckets Cream Abdul Jabbar I'm st. Louis.
1:03:11
I didn't even declare for the draft. I Wanted
1:03:16
to sell insurance or cars That's funny I'd buy
1:03:23
a car from cream Abdul Jabbar. He'd probably
1:03:28
get me in a nice sedan. That's affordable midsize.
1:03:35
He looks like that type. It'll get you where
1:03:37
you're going. Yeah. Well, all right. Now, do
1:03:45
we want to talk FIFA now? Or do you want to talk
1:03:47
FIFA, Chris? Yeah, we can talk some foot. Yeah,
1:03:51
it's called soccer now. Yeah, and you didn't
1:03:54
know on this soil. It's soccer. So also Celsius
1:03:58
is an energy drink, not a temperature. Just saying
1:04:04
Celsius is here. Fahrenheit is perfect. 100 degrees
1:04:11
makes sense. 100 degrees Celsius is like a billion
1:04:20
degrees Fahrenheit. That doesn't make any sense.
1:04:23
Doesn't make any sense. Stupid Europe. But yeah,
1:04:28
footy's been good. Yesterday was wildly entertaining.
1:04:31
Messy and Bape and Hollins all score two goals.
1:04:36
That was pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, Messy became
1:04:42
the all -time World Cup leader in goals. Yeah,
1:04:51
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he, he did. So yeah,
1:04:53
that was, that was pretty cool to see. And he
1:04:55
had it. He had a penalty kick like very early
1:04:59
in the game and missed it. And people were like,
1:05:01
Oh, messy. Like, what the hell are you doing?
1:05:02
And then he scored on like a sick. He's like,
1:05:05
he had a sick goal later to actually break it.
1:05:07
Like, okay. Very, very good that he broke it
1:05:10
on that and not as dumb ass penalty kick. Yeah.
1:05:17
And then England today had their annual FIFA
1:05:21
shit down our pants game where they tied Ghana,
1:05:24
nil nil. Um, they look just bored the entire,
1:05:29
they had one quality scoring attempt that set
1:05:32
on ESPN. That game sucked, especially because
1:05:35
I had decent amount of money on England to do
1:05:39
things. And they did not. Not just item score.
1:05:44
Because 365 had a super boost, scoring both halves,
1:05:48
they didn't score neither. And then I had one
1:05:51
of their guys to score or assist and then DraftKings
1:05:55
had a goal boost. So I took him to score, to
1:05:59
score or assist and to score. He got subbed out
1:06:03
in like the 75th minute or something like that.
1:06:08
I didn't give it out because I saw it late, but
1:06:10
had over six and a half corners. That was it.
1:06:13
So that was fun. Are corners just when they they
1:06:19
start from the corner? Yeah. So it's like when
1:06:21
the ball goes like past like the out of bounds
1:06:26
off the goal line off like that defending team.
1:06:30
So like if the ball went out off behind like
1:06:33
Ghana's out of bounds behind Ghana's goal line
1:06:36
off of Ghana player England gets a corner. And
1:06:39
yeah, you kick it from the corner into the box
1:06:41
and you try to score from there. Okay. That makes
1:06:44
sense. Yes. Are corners electric? They can be.
1:06:48
They're kind of, they're kind of electric. Yeah.
1:06:50
Yeah. There's some really cool plays that develop
1:06:53
off of corners. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes go get
1:06:57
some sick ones. Sometimes I'll just kind of like,
1:06:59
like barely kick it in and then just set up a
1:07:02
normal play. And it's like, Oh, that wasn't fun.
1:07:05
I want, I want it to be entertained. Yeah. Well
1:07:10
that's soccer. That's either like. See, it's
1:07:13
either one way or the other, to be honest. Like
1:07:16
that's just the whole game. Yeah. Yesterday was
1:07:21
really entertaining in terms of just like there
1:07:23
was a shit ton of goals. And then today, I mean,
1:07:28
Portugal beat the shit out of use Becca Stan,
1:07:31
but, Oh yeah. Ronaldo scored a couple. Uh, but,
1:07:35
um, I think we're in all though. I did see that
1:07:37
he scored. He's the first player to score in
1:07:40
four different world cups. Yeah. I do them playing
1:07:44
forever. Yeah. It's only like, that's only like
1:07:48
16 years, but I mean, that's still, it's still
1:07:51
pretty, it's still really impressive. Yeah. To
1:07:54
be one of the best play and especially the best
1:07:57
player in your country. Maybe not the whole 16
1:08:01
years, but for almost all of them is very impressive.
1:08:05
Well, I don't know when he was like 18, if he
1:08:07
was the best player, but He probably was. Maybe
1:08:09
was. I don't know. I didn't really, I barely
1:08:12
give a shit about soccer now. So I definitely
1:08:13
didn't do the give a shit. I know that Ronaldo
1:08:19
is basically a God. Yeah. Pretty much. I didn't
1:08:24
like him. Portugal. Portugal. Chris, I don't
1:08:29
know if you're as tuned in. You're just locked
1:08:31
in with soccer at the moment. But I did hear
1:08:35
some noise that Ronaldo might be a little washed.
1:08:38
I don't know. Anything about this? Yeah, a lot
1:08:43
of talk was coming off last week when he didn't
1:08:47
score. I don't think the team as a whole scored
1:08:49
against, I forget who they're playing, some inferior
1:08:53
opponent. And then, yeah, that kind of got put
1:08:56
to bed, I guess a little bit today. But yeah,
1:09:01
I mean, I don't personally, I mean, I don't.
1:09:03
care either way really, but I personally don't
1:09:05
care for the guy. He seems kind of like a prick,
1:09:08
but I'm definitely more of a messy in my very,
1:09:13
very, very, very casual observance. I lean more
1:09:17
towards team messy. Yeah. I've, uh, the, the,
1:09:22
what I've seen, it seems that, uh, the con the
1:09:27
general consensus is that messy is the goat,
1:09:30
which. Yeah. It's kind of cool that like we're
1:09:34
living in the the goat sort of era of soccer,
1:09:38
you know, I have enough goats I've lived through
1:09:42
enough goats Yeah, and the fact that he could
1:09:46
just come to the mls and dominate makes me mad
1:09:49
I mean it's the mls I know but like you're the
1:09:54
best player in the entire fucking world and you
1:09:56
come to like the least respected league football.
1:10:04
Rack up some more hardware. Yeah, I don't know.
1:10:08
Whatever. But hey, these guys will pay me. Yeah,
1:10:13
that that cereal. Yeah. Well, I think he gets
1:10:16
a cut of like the because they're on Apple TV.
1:10:19
He gets a cut of like Apple money. Oh, I'm sure
1:10:23
they had to do some ridiculous negotiations to
1:10:27
get him. I believe they he also has like a percentage,
1:10:31
a very small percentage of ownership of the team
1:10:33
as well. That could be wrong. I don't know. Make
1:10:37
him mayor while we're at it. Who cares? Whatever.
1:10:43
One thing, Renato will always beat Messi at is
1:10:46
he has the best like bust. Have you seen his
1:10:51
like, Oh, the walkie eye. Really bad one. Yeah.
1:10:55
The really bad one. That shit makes me laugh
1:10:58
so hard. What is that for again is it like Some
1:11:02
sort of Hall of Fame or is it just like a statue
1:11:04
or I think it's some sort of Hall of Fame. That's
1:11:08
so yeah, that's a All -timer that's so funny.
1:11:15
It's for Last year the year before where there
1:11:23
were a bunch of NBA players that got statues
1:11:26
like Allen Iverson and Dwayne Wade And like the
1:11:29
Allen Iverson one is like really, really small.
1:11:34
Apparently that's like a thing. They have like
1:11:36
a area. I do remember him being clowned for that,
1:11:39
but I remember like they six or five, I think
1:11:42
it's like, no, this is like our, I want to say
1:11:45
like statue garden for lack of a better term.
1:11:49
And there's like 10 of them there that are all
1:11:50
that size. But yeah, when it first came out,
1:11:52
I was like a little mean to make one of the smallest
1:11:55
like players, at least elite players in NBA history.
1:12:00
A very teeny statue. Right. He got this bust
1:12:06
because Portugal renamed their airport after
1:12:11
him. The Ronaldo airport. So they put a really
1:12:17
bad bust in the airport. It is to say though
1:12:25
that they did redo that bust because it looks
1:12:27
like shit hours But it will forever live on Through
1:12:36
the internet. Oh Yes until the dark days come
1:12:40
it won't die I Did see I did see a video about
1:12:47
I think it was like between games at during one
1:12:52
of these days and uh someone asked uh Zlatan
1:12:58
Zlatan do you think that the US can win the World
1:13:01
Cup and he said I do Zlatan has spoken Zlatan
1:13:09
with the confusing ass last name Ibrahimovic
1:13:14
Ibrahimovic has spoken Zlatan has spoken I mean
1:13:20
I think they could make a run If they can win,
1:13:23
get the best day, if they can win two knockout
1:13:26
games, I'll be very, very happy. I'm not expecting
1:13:30
anything more than that. I've seen, I have seen
1:13:34
like a decent amount of people online, like people
1:13:37
on like networks that do not talk about soccer.
1:13:41
And I'm not claiming to be an expert in anything
1:13:43
being like, Hey, like, can we actually do this?
1:13:45
And other people are like, Oh yeah, maybe it's
1:13:48
like, no, we can't. We're not beating Argentina.
1:13:52
France, fuck even Norway. Like, we're just not.
1:13:56
Those guys have freaks of nature on their team.
1:14:00
Yeah. This is like, Oh, it's I'm not. I mean,
1:14:04
if we get that far, I'm like, yeah, fuck these
1:14:07
guys. Who cares? But no. Right. I think. Sorry.
1:14:16
No, go ahead. I have another thought. It's completely
1:14:18
different from this, but OK. Yeah, I mean I'm
1:14:25
very much like we'll see, you know I've shit
1:14:29
I haven't even watched a USA game But I'm gonna
1:14:33
on Thursday I will make a point to it to do that
1:14:38
shit on Thursday the meaningless game, but So
1:14:46
so if we lose nothing happens now we've already
1:14:49
won it yeah, oh we're still in group play yeah
1:14:52
this is the last game of group play for us at
1:14:55
least on friday i thought that some teams still
1:14:58
have one more game including us but nothing's
1:15:02
like super set yet only then only like a few
1:15:07
people have won only a few countries have won
1:15:08
their group there's still like a shit ton that
1:15:12
could happen with just like one game left which
1:15:16
is kind of exciting We will play a third place
1:15:19
team because I think every group winner plays
1:15:21
at third place team, but yeah, we don't know
1:15:23
who yet. That's not last mock. I think I said
1:15:25
this whenever last mock tournament I saw it was,
1:15:30
um, Bosnia, which I think we can be boss. Yeah,
1:15:36
we can do it. Um, side note, I love all the foreigners
1:15:43
trying ranch. Yes, dude. Yes, they're like, what
1:15:49
is this? They don't have it They don't have ranch
1:15:54
where they're from. I saw a video that Hidden
1:15:57
Valley did that was like hey, you can you can
1:16:00
fill up your Your little bottles of your you
1:16:04
know, your tiny shampoo that you take, you know
1:16:06
What you hear your travel size and just fill
1:16:08
it with ranch and then take it back And I was
1:16:12
like, you know what? that tsa picture of all
1:16:17
the confiscated ranch what no yes all right so
1:16:24
like foreigners are like trying to take their
1:16:27
like ranch you know back home and so they're
1:16:32
like stock they're like kind of stockpiling it
1:16:35
um but you can't take and they're just they're
1:16:39
not checking their bags like they're just putting
1:16:41
it in their carry -ons so they're just like getting
1:16:45
off this branch confiscated or like people are
1:16:50
like leaving them at like the You know the TSA
1:16:54
pre -check like just in the line or like in the
1:16:58
trash can or whatever But it's so funny that
1:17:01
like people are just trying to bring back branch
1:17:04
They don't have it like how do you not have ranch
1:17:10
like I didn't We're talking about this like I
1:17:15
mean most Europeans like dressings are like Vinegar
1:17:19
based they're not they're not dairy based terrible
1:17:22
Yeah, they're like A very like a ball is good.
1:17:28
Yeah, they're like vinaigrette's and balsamic
1:17:30
vinegar and like all that Stuff you you put on
1:17:33
a salad to be healthy You put ranch because you
1:17:39
want to eat it yeah I want things to taste good
1:17:45
now. I want to eat things that taste good. Well,
1:17:52
I feel like hidden Valley, hidden Valley maybe
1:17:56
has like a golden opportunity now. Like, Hey,
1:17:58
we got to expand to Europe. Yeah. They'll lap
1:18:01
it up like dogs. It's, it's a pretty, right.
1:18:06
Just eat pretty easy to make. Like if you just
1:18:10
like. look at the recipe on the back of a ranch
1:18:13
packet. The ranch that you make will be better
1:18:16
than the ranch in the Hidden Valley bottle. No
1:18:21
shade on Hidden Valley. They've been there for
1:18:24
me a numerous amount of times. During my darkest
1:18:28
days. Nothing but Hidden Valley and sweet baby
1:18:33
rays. So I just happen to have a bottle of ranch
1:18:38
dressing within reaching distance. You do? Yeah,
1:18:44
I was eating dinner and then brought this over.
1:18:48
Soybean oil, buttermilk, water, egg, sugar, salt,
1:18:52
sour cream powder, and then a bunch of other
1:18:54
like chemicals that are hard to pronounce. So
1:19:00
it's like, if you just really just use like five
1:19:03
things, you can pick, rant, stretch it. Yeah,
1:19:06
it's, I believe it's sour cream, buttermilk,
1:19:09
by the way, no, it's It's mayo buttermilk to
1:19:13
make buttermilk ranch if you just want regular
1:19:15
ranch then it's just milk and then um and then
1:19:18
seasonings Which is like dill garlic onion Salt
1:19:23
make it I think the closest that like Europe
1:19:28
has to ranch is like the The Greeks like they
1:19:34
they do their their sauce. That's like the sauce
1:19:38
tzatziki Yeah, like she's good Fucking good Yeah,
1:19:44
that's that's about as close as I think you can
1:19:46
get maybe I don't know I haven't traveled around
1:19:48
the world so wouldn't know right What was your
1:19:52
thing that you wanted to say Sean? Oh We got
1:19:55
um It's okay. Yeah it I think there was a Golden
1:20:04
missed opportunity in hindsight that the US is
1:20:09
playing on the West Coast Because if they were
1:20:12
played if they were in a different group They'd
1:20:13
be playing on the East Coast and there's a possibility
1:20:16
that they could have played England in Philadelphia
1:20:20
on July 4th I Think it's pretty crazy that Philadelphia
1:20:28
has a fourth of July game to begin with Do we
1:20:32
know who's playing on 4th of July in Philadelphia?
1:20:34
We do not. We do not. But it could be England.
1:20:39
Oh, they're going to be the heels in that one.
1:20:44
Yeah, that'll be it. I know there's going to
1:20:47
be a lot of English fans around that neck of
1:20:51
the woods if they make it that far. If you're
1:20:55
in Phil, maybe stay inside for your own safety.
1:20:59
Yeah, maybe just. Capture the vibes from the
1:21:03
safety of your hotel or Airbnb. This whole fun
1:21:07
-loving, oh, America, it's so entertaining and
1:21:10
silly. That's going to go away real quick on
1:21:13
the fourth in Philly if you're British. Where
1:21:16
our country was founded. You will get assaulted
1:21:20
physically. That's a borderline guarantee. Just
1:21:27
don't go around talking that wet. Just don't
1:21:29
do it. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you do, then maybe
1:21:33
worse than getting roughed up. Any other day,
1:21:38
sing your songs. I love the chants. I love the
1:21:42
songs. Lizzie is dead. Lizzie is dead. Lily's
1:21:47
in a box when Queen Elizabeth died. That shit
1:21:49
was so funny. Well, that's not exactly English.
1:21:52
That's not a pro -England chant. Oh, yeah. That's
1:21:56
just a chant that I know off the top of my head.
1:21:59
Lizzy's in a box. Lizzy's in a box. Hey ho. Lizzy's
1:22:04
in a box. I think that was Scotland, maybe. I
1:22:07
think it was Scotland or Ireland or something.
1:22:09
Yeah. Yeah, one of those countries they oppressed.
1:22:13
Despise the British, yeah. Arrgh. Well, anyway.
1:22:20
Do you want to call it? Yeah, we can call it.
1:22:23
I got some fun baseball facts for you. Hold on.
1:22:26
Give me to stall for a couple of seconds while
1:22:29
I pull them up. I saved it on Instagram. Did
1:22:32
we say that this was going to be a weekly thing?
1:22:35
Baseball facts? Yeah. Oh, I think I think I said
1:22:39
I could do it weekly. I don't know if we officially
1:22:41
established it. Where are you? Here we go. All
1:22:44
right. So this is Barry Bond stats that sound
1:22:47
fake, but are true. But do they count? That depends
1:22:53
on your personal beliefs. Okay. 53 % of all runners
1:23:01
driven in, in 2001s or in 2001 were driven in
1:23:05
by Barry Bonds. Whoa. Over half fake over half
1:23:10
of the RBIs in the MLB in 2001 were from Barry
1:23:14
Bonds. Barry Bonds has more intentional walks
1:23:18
than the Miami Marlins franchise. Yeah. If you
1:23:28
turned every home run, Barry bonds ever hit into
1:23:31
an out his career on base percentage would be
1:23:34
384 the same as Alex Rodriguez. It will be hall
1:23:37
of Famer Alex Rodriguez. If he never hit a home
1:23:41
run, which he, that was kind of his thing. Wow.
1:23:47
Chris, that, that sounds fake. Oh, but it's true.
1:23:52
it's damn every fact check these or i mean no
1:23:57
but computer are you gonna argue with it um very
1:24:01
bonds has more mvp awards than any two combined
1:24:05
hall of favors how many does he have uh a lot
1:24:13
let me pull up like nine oh it might be Cause
1:24:20
he was really good before he started doing steroids.
1:24:24
Wow. That's a lot of MVPs. Seven. Damn. Seven
1:24:30
time MVP, 12 times silver slugger, two time NL
1:24:35
baddie champion, two time NL home run leader.
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Yeah. Really fucking good. Wow. Hey, good for
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that guy. And then there was There are a few
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more, but they're kind of technical. But then
1:24:49
there's another thing that was just MLB facts
1:24:54
in general that sound fake, but are true. So
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the entire history of Coors Field in Colorado,
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there have been 11 games that end 1 -0. That's
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a lot. Is that a lot or a little? That's very
1:25:10
little. Oh, OK. Because it's elevation, so people
1:25:14
hit a shit ton of homing. Oh, yeah. You're right.
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Yeah. Isn't that the, the park that has the most
1:25:19
home runs too, because of the thin air? Probably.
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I don't know if there's like, if they have like
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the most average because they're relatively new
1:25:27
franchise, but. Maybe like season average. I
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thought there were more fun ones. I thought I
1:25:37
did see something about Coors Field being. They
1:25:40
probably do. I just don't know. It's probably
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up there. Yeah, that was there aren't there weren't
1:25:49
too many fun ones in there. That was a lot of
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technical statistical stuff. A few pitches and
1:25:57
a complete game shutout was 58. That's fun. That
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was probably back in like the 20s. But all right.
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So there you have it. There's there's Chris's
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fun. fact or fun baseball fact MLB I saved those
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like I saved the thing on Instagram like a while
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ago and I was just like scrolling through my
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saves last week it's like hey I can use this
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let's go I'll find some more for next week excellent
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it has now been established Chris's MLB fun fact
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session of the week There it is. It is established.
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