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Lou Terminello's Take on 4 Nations Cup with OneLegUpAlex 2-22-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Deary.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it's gonna be a new month soon, so
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  Speaker 2: why not a new open, A little bit of the
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  Speaker 2: so why not. I'm more upbeat open and I heard
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  Speaker 2: that riff and I said this would be a great show.
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  Speaker 2: Open once again on Terminello's take with lou Terminello. You
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  Speaker 2: like the new setup, the new microphone, the new system.
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  Speaker 2: This is great here the.
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  Speaker 1: System sounds great, Alex, thank you for having.
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  Speaker 2: Me, Thanks for making all this ask but what a
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's the gift? Gotta say? Anyway, I'm rocking the facial
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  Speaker 2: hair because facial hair is back for the Yankee. Although
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  Speaker 2: someone say it is back, I mean there were other
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  Speaker 2: Yankees over the years that rocked it. They just kind
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  Speaker 2: of diet away with the beard part. I mean, maddingly
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  Speaker 2: to me is one of the most famous Yankees had
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  Speaker 2: a mustache when he played ball, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Now, I didn't realize it was forty years. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was from day one and this is what
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  Speaker 1: the team in seventy three, But it was actually he
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  Speaker 1: actually instituted the facial hair band band in seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, Alex, it's no big deal. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. It was a little strange that he's
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  Speaker 1: held a press conference for the new facial hair rule,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever, it's you know, it's opening day of spring training,
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  Speaker 1: and why not, it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: We got bigger fish for Fridaday because what happened on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night. According to Sports Business Journal, the most was
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  Speaker 2: NHL or hockey event since nineteen ninety four, which I
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  Speaker 2: have to believe is the state only Cup, you know
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  Speaker 2: games the Arrangers won the Stanley Cup that since ninety four,
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  Speaker 2: So nine point three million viewers watched the Four Nations title.
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  Speaker 2: I thought hockey was not a popular sport here, though
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  Speaker 2: the numbers are are the debunking that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know how much of a hockey fan I am.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are. I know Dabby is.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I told you that I was gonna watch the entire tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I watched every game with the exception of the third
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  Speaker 1: period of Sweden and Finland and the over the hockey
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  Speaker 1: was riveting. Uh. These players put their bodies on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and there's been injuries in this tournament that that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: hurt their their individual team teams the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie McAvoy getting an infection in his shoulder, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how that happens. Some equipment scratched
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  Speaker 1: him or something and some bacteria got got into a
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  Speaker 1: into a should. It looks like he might missed the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the season, and he was instrumental United States.
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  Speaker 1: It's three to one victory last Saturday night in Montreal,
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  Speaker 1: which was an incredible game. The intensity in that first period.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, as you know, I'm not a guy who
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  Speaker 1: promotes fights, but that definitely juiced up everybody. Everybody's in
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  Speaker 1: the stand.
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  Speaker 2: Read about seconds means every three seconds to start the
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  Speaker 2: period the game, there was a fight that's unbelievable, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, it was. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was intense and I haven't respect for the Brothers
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  Speaker 2: now more than I did before. By the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah know they any any team, any club team would
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  Speaker 1: like to have either Brady Kuchuk or or Matthew Kuchuk.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, let's face it, Matthew Kachuk showed his
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  Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup UH final last year playing with
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  Speaker 1: a broken stern. Who does that a great tournament. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make a couple of statements here as I'm
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  Speaker 1: a hockey fan all my life. I love hockey. But
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  Speaker 1: we always hear, not just the other night, we always
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  Speaker 1: hear that it's going to bring more eyeballs to to hockey. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it will, but is it going to make the jump
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  Speaker 1: that hockey is going to move up a notch in
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  Speaker 1: the North American sporting UH leaders. It's gonna be football,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be baseball, it's gonna be basketball,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be hockey. Hockey's inn sport. Baseball is becoming
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  Speaker 1: an itch sport. But UH, as great as the hockey was,
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  Speaker 1: And you gotta give it to these guys, Alex, they
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  Speaker 1: put in their life and and they played life and death.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't like this was that, this wasn't the ice
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  Speaker 1: to pads like you might see in an a three
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  Speaker 1: on three All star game. They played for pride, and
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  Speaker 1: they played, they played for their country and they're professionals
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  Speaker 1: and they're not making seventy million dollars a year like
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  Speaker 1: some other athletes.
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  Speaker 2: And they played full strength for the overtime and that
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  Speaker 2: was huge because, as you know, in the NHL, it's
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  Speaker 2: three on three, which I just after watching on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: To move it back to full all, full strength, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a better thing for the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when it comes to a championship game like that,
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  Speaker 1: I was so glad that it was five on five
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  Speaker 1: and one thing in the in the championship game in
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  Speaker 1: overtime when the United States was peppering Jordan Bittington, and boy,
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  Speaker 1: every Canadian fan was saying, he's our Week Link. Why
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  Speaker 1: did they pick him? Why did they pick him? He's
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  Speaker 1: he's our week week length. Well, he certainly wasn't Week Lincoln.
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  Speaker 1: In that overtime period, I mean stoning Austin Matthews three times,
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous glove save on Brady Kuchuk, and then that
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  Speaker 1: icing call which led to the eventual winning goal. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: has shown that icing again, Alex. That looked like it
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  Speaker 1: should have been play on. It was so close, and
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  Speaker 1: they called offside against the and they called icing against
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  Speaker 1: the United States. But it looked like both players were
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  Speaker 1: neck and neck, but that they then they want to
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  Speaker 1: face off. They wander the around. They got to a
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  Speaker 1: wide open Conor McDavid. I don't know how he could
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  Speaker 1: be that wide open, and he put it past a
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  Speaker 1: Hella Buck and that was it. Game over, but a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous game. I love these international events. I've seen everyone best.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Lou, I've been saying everywhere my podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Twitter or wherever, you want to see an American event,
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  Speaker 2: you want to see Americans at their best. Go to
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  Speaker 2: a sporting event, not an organized protest because of the
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  Speaker 2: sporting event USA. That is real. That is America right there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're correct, So great events. Nine point three. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's tremendous, a tremendous viewing audience. If the game was
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  Speaker 1: on ABC, I think they would have gotten gotten it
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  Speaker 1: up around eleven twelve instead of cable. But it strengthened.
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  Speaker 2: How was that because because remember the nineteen eighty Miracle
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  Speaker 2: on ice was was on broadcast television. This was not
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  Speaker 2: on any of the two or seven. Very strange to
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  Speaker 2: me because you would think that should have been on
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  Speaker 2: the channel seven at least.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the game on Saturday night was on ABC. And
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  Speaker 1: I think if they I think if they knew how
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  Speaker 1: important this was and not how important the potential audience
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  Speaker 1: who got involved with this, they might have they might
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  Speaker 1: have bene on on ABC. I'm gonna give you a
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  Speaker 1: little historical fact BacT the Miracle on ice in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty, everybody, a lot of people forget that
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  Speaker 1: when the United States beat the Soviet Union on that
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  Speaker 1: Friday night and that true miracle amateurs against professionals. That
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  Speaker 1: game was on tape delay. It was five. It was
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  Speaker 1: a five o'clock start in Lake Class ABC in those days,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like now, where do you have Olympic twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to seven on so many channels, uh networks. ABC
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  Speaker 1: was asked, asked to move the game to eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: The Olympic Committee said no. The Olympic Committee said, show
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  Speaker 1: the game live at five o'clock. But in those days
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  Speaker 1: that never happened. Either cut into the news. I remember
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  Speaker 1: there was no there was no old news channels at
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 2: Primetime was much more valuable spot.
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  Speaker 1: Than absolutely so, so UH that game was on tape delay.
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  Speaker 1: That the most amazing event of that Olympics, of maybe
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  Speaker 1: any Olympics was on tape delay. Then on Sunday morning
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  Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock they showed the gold medal game against
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  Speaker 1: Finland live, which the United States was trailing two to
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  Speaker 1: one going into the third period. So just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a little bit of history.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no. And I found that I found that the
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  Speaker 2: most interesting part of the miracle on ice because tape
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  Speaker 2: delay normally means there like in Greece or Italy, you know, correct, not,
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  Speaker 2: this was upstate New York, and it was. It just
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  Speaker 2: it is funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably the biggest blunder in televised sports history. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the top five for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Heidi bowls up there, as you know, well the.
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  Speaker 1: High Bowl is up there, but this, this was worse.
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  Speaker 1: But if you lived in the up on the border
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  Speaker 1: of Vermont and Canada, or New Hampshire in Canada, or
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo in Canada, Detroit and Canada, they were able to
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  Speaker 1: see it live because it was on Canadian television.
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  Speaker 2: ERUSI only walking out in the good Droe, Jersey. Did
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  Speaker 2: that make your tear up a little bitter?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: That was an emotional definitely an emotional thing to uh
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  Speaker 1: that I really thought it was going to carry the
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  Speaker 1: Americans through. I really thought once the Americans took the lead,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna win. And when I was
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  Speaker 1: watching in overtime and I saw that, and I saw
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  Speaker 1: Matthews take in close, and you see, here's a guy
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  Speaker 1: who scored sixty nine goals last season. You figure he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get one of them. And Benington did the job. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they gave the star of the game, the player at
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  Speaker 1: the game, to Conom McDavid, who did not have a
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  Speaker 1: great game. And I know usually in Stanley Cup final,
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  Speaker 1: in Stanley Cup playoffs and in big games that overtime,
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  Speaker 1: but in this case, the start, the first star was
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Bennington.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the guy was on his head and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he had me eating crow because remember
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  Speaker 2: I probably was on the show saying, you know, Jordan's
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  Speaker 2: a little older now and he's it, but look at
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  Speaker 2: he went back to his twenties to win that that
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  Speaker 2: Four Nations Cup.
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  Speaker 1: For that No, he was a difference. I mean, Con
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  Speaker 1: McDavid doesn't get a chance to score that goal if
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  Speaker 1: Bennington didn't stop Matthews three times and that incredible glove
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  Speaker 1: save on Brady Pachuk and you know.
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  Speaker 2: What, because the Rangers may not have a chance this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's not gonna want me to hear that say this,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks like they may not have a chance
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  Speaker 2: this year. Just get Let just McDavid's just gotta win
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  Speaker 2: the Cup. Complete it, Okay, complete it when your Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup and then we can all move on from that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's going to going into the postseason. That's going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the main storylines. Can conn mc
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  Speaker 1: david when his first coup. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you know, there are three rivalries I
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  Speaker 2: now want to see because I was alive in twenty
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  Speaker 2: ten when they lost to Canada, So that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the top three rivalries. I want to see the US win.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see the Yankees beat the Astros in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason. And I want to see the Chiefs beat
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  Speaker 2: the Bills. Can I see any of that in my lifetime?
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  Speaker 2: LOUI is that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably you could see that in your lifetime. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say something about the second line. You want to
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  Speaker 1: see the Yankees beat the Astros. I'm not so short
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  Speaker 1: the act are going to make the playoffs the way
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  Speaker 1: they they.
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  Speaker 2: Just seem totally dismantled. I don't know what's going on there, but.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. So you might not have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: And whenever you say about twenty seventeen, they had a
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  Speaker 2: corps and that core has literally broken up this offseason long.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it is. I don't understand it. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what can I say?
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  Speaker 2: Well that there's that. And I wanted to say one
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  Speaker 2: more thing comparing NBA and NHL. So last Saturday it
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  Speaker 2: was the Dunk Contest versus USA versus Canada, and I
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  Speaker 2: truly believe more people watch US a vers Canada, and
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  Speaker 2: I think you're gonna see more that carry over into
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  Speaker 2: the into the regular season part two, right, and also
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  Speaker 2: in the postseason only because you're looking at the NBA sports.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it before. Who's gonna watch one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty to one hundred and twenty seven game that's
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  Speaker 2: not watchable anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Loop, No, it isn't. And I'm going to And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have been a big critic and I was in
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  Speaker 1: the you know, in the league for almost thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a big critic of the state of play
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. But I'm gonna give them a little
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  Speaker 1: break on people comparing the All Star Weekend, which I
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  Speaker 1: did not watch one second, Alex, I don't watch one second,
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  Speaker 1: to the four Nations. Let's face it. Last year the
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  Speaker 1: NHL had a similar thing, that dumb three on three,
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  Speaker 1: the metropol Division versus the Atlantic Division, the Pacific versus
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  Speaker 1: the Central you know, those those not so attractive skilled competitions.
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  Speaker 1: Yet you know, so it's it's it's that's unfair to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. But as as Suban said the other night,
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  Speaker 1: these guys gave their heart and soul in the tournament well.
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  Speaker 2: Because it was more than just East and West.
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  Speaker 1: It was six seven times more money. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you can get NBA players to do that, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think West it was literally country verse country, That's
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  Speaker 2: what it was.
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  Speaker 1: You heard what Brendan Hagel said. I'm doing this for
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  Speaker 1: my I'm doing this for my flag.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. What was Icier? The US A chance, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: No, obviously I want to see the USA win and
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  Speaker 1: another thing that might help. And I know we hate
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  Speaker 1: to say this, but it's it's a fact of life.
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  Speaker 1: The USA Canada the game on Thursday night was the
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  Speaker 1: most heavily bet game by all the sports book of
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  Speaker 1: any any hockey game in history. And again I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. This betting is scary and it's gonna blow
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  Speaker 1: up someday and it's not gonna be good. But that
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  Speaker 1: does show you the interesting in the event, and it
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  Speaker 1: all show shows you how betting, uh affects people's interest
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  Speaker 1: in the sport. Alex we said a thousand times. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the NFL. I know, it's a once a week thing,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different. But between betting and
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  Speaker 1: fantasy football, that really helps the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And I we always know that there's concerns of
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  Speaker 2: these players, reps whatever now an umpire who get mixed
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  Speaker 2: up in this craft. Ye, there's that concern too, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I wanted to give a shout at
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  Speaker 2: the brock Nelson Rep Team USA and also the Islanders.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was about the four Rangers, but there
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  Speaker 2: there was an Islander on Team USA this week as well.
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  Speaker 1: And he hit the post the other night in the
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  Speaker 1: second period. So the game that close, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a post shot make all the difference in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And on Monday night, the game was meaningless, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of intensity in the swing and USA game.
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  Speaker 1: They hit the USA hit the post five times.
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  Speaker 2: Now right now. The other thing about these players individually
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  Speaker 2: is you go back to your respective teams, win or lose.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're a little more fired up heading to
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  Speaker 2: the second part of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Right I would say, so, Now again, the season resume.
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  Speaker 1: When the season resumes, it's going to resume today. And
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how many players who played in the tournament
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  Speaker 1: are not playing today to rest up.
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  Speaker 2: That would hurt the Rangers in the sense because they
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  Speaker 2: have a game today, and you know they I think
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  Speaker 2: they have a game today, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know they're playing Buffalo today.
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  Speaker 2: Brighter trocheck. They're the they're kind of the soul of
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  Speaker 2: that team right now.
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  Speaker 1: So and t Truck I think hurt his finger, you
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  Speaker 1: know in the championship game.
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  Speaker 2: Is oh yeah, there were there were injuries, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. So we'll have to see anyway, lou So
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  Speaker 2: that we're past this now and now I was watching
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic qualifiers because now we're into that already.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the time's flying your loop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I think about the World Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Classic I don't think much of it.
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  Speaker 2: So, by the way, I just was thinking about that,
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  Speaker 2: that's another rivalry. I want to see what because the
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  Speaker 2: USA has lost to Japan now multiple World Baseball Classics
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  Speaker 2: in a row. Maybe that can change one year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know they could, and you know, probably if
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  Speaker 1: they can move it from March where we really don't
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  Speaker 1: care for two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, that's true, crute. And how cool would it be
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  Speaker 2: that have a home run derby? You have like the
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  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic and even they do a derby before that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, something fun like.
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  Speaker 1: That, Alex. How about the Major League Baseball ESPN divorce
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  Speaker 1: after thirty six seasons?
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  Speaker 2: I want, you know, godress Joe Morgan soul. I think
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  Speaker 2: John Miller is still around.
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  Speaker 1: I know, yes he is. He's still doing games for the.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'd want him on to talk about that because
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  Speaker 2: he was. He and Joe were the voice of that
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  Speaker 2: ESPN's Only Night for many years.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I actually love.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to the call, especially when he's like Carlos about job.
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  Speaker 2: I love that line. But you know it was a
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  Speaker 2: part of our Sunday nights right it is. Now. I
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  Speaker 2: think what's happened is I'm actually surprised ESPN wants to
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  Speaker 2: go away. I don't know why, but it's a little surprising.
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  Speaker 1: Money. They don't want to pay five hundred and fifty
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: million a year for the last three years of the deal.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. I don't know where what
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Major Leaue Baseball is gonna do going forward, obviously some
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I just hope they don't sell it all to streaming again,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I just hope they don't sell it all stream well.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: And you see, I don't know if this rumor is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: true or not, but Netflix wants either the Fox Sunday
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: package or the CBS Sunday pack. I mean, they're getting.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: What's gonna happen, h it's one of the streaming services
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: is probably gonna gonna get it in the next in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the next round of talks with the NFL, they want
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a Sunday package.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And you and I can watch Netflix. I just think
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: it's a pain in the ass to do that because
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I'm I love the two and four, two and five, Yeah, dynamic.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And if they're gonna do that, let's hope and I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: assume that the technology will get better so we can
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: channel surf and make it easy. The channel serve from
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: streaming to over their regular television.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Now, if they want to take over Sunday NFL ticket,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: go ahead. I don't care about that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Don't care about there's so many games, there's so many
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: games on these networks. You you only need Sunday ticket
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: if you're a jetua. No, if you're a fan of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a team and you're you're moving from your hometown. If
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you're an Eagles fan and you move into Phoenix, h
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: then you need Sunday ticket. If you're a Jet fan
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: moving to Fort Myers, Florida, you need Sunday take now.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Teams made up mind this because it could eliminate the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: whole You need to sell out your stadium if you
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: want to be not blacked out in your market. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's going to be playing in.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I think the blackout rule alex is dead forever because
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: with the money that they're getting, if me and you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: were sitting in met Life Stadium and we were the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: only two, they would still be making money.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: That's so true. That's so true. Well, who knows, maybe
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: they'll be the Jets case. Because the Jets, I don't
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: know where they're going to go this year, but we'll
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: happen to see. But those those Netflix things are going
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to happen this year, right, that's a little down the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: road here, a.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Little down the road. But they're they're they're alive. It's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: more than just it's not a rumor. But hell, you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: want to hear you know, you want to talk about rumors.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I was talking to one of my friends, one of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: my contacts who works for the Jump Possibility, and the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: only thing he said to me, he said, there is
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: some smoke to that fire.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Now, saying because your internet broke up, that say that
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: rumor rum more time.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. I was talking to one of my friends who
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: went in contacts at the Giants, and I asked him
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: about matt to Matthew Stafford to the Giants rumor, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he said, there's there is some smoke to the fire.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: How much smoked to the fire, he couldn't tell me,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: but yes, there is some smoke to that fire. Now.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: That would that surprises me from two angles. I don't
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: know why the Giants brought Matthew Stafford, and I don't
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: know why the Rams are so close to winning the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl again. Would give up Matthew Stafford? I mean,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I know he wants forty million.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: But so there's the way they way, the way they
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: dismantled Monday Night Football, you know that that wild card game.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I thought we were under estimating them the way they
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: knocked out it was now but you know, to Evan's on,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I thought that, wow, we were under messing in the
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Rams the whole time. They were actually really leader in
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the West. So they still got it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Stafford was a great coach and they got great young talent.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: They drafted well the last couple of years. So I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: surprised that that it looks like they can to move
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: on from Matthew Stafford. I mean, it is just just
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: very very strange.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: To me, very odd. But as we said, with the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Astros corps breakup, and you know, everything that breaks up eventually,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: So there's that. Because Cooper Cup might be out the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: door too.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: So I think that's one of the things that is
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: upsetting him because the Stafford family and the Cooper Cup
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: family are very close friends, and I think he's upset
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: over that. But that's the business of NFL football.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, one of the thing I want to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: talk about this week is spring training started, and I
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: was I was thinking they'd read the Red Carpet Persto.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: It was sort of a I didn't notice all the cover.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It didn't seem like it's hyped up Sodos coming to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you know, camp, but he's there. Yeah, I know, Blane
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: got hit with a ball. But what's your early impression
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of spring training. I know there's very early on.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean really, I guess the biggest the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: biggest story of the week was that Soto bought a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: ninety two thousand dollars tahoe for Brett forgiving him the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: twenty two. So that that shows you how little information
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is coming out of Port Saint Lucy. But there was
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the Frankie Montos is gonna be out there.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: That's a story. I mean, that's a storyline because that
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: we've talked about before. We're pitching to the Mets have
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: right now and they still haven't signed Quintana. I think
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: they should go out and try and sign him. I mean,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: he was a boog part of that rotation.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Litch Well. Again, it was a guy. He's a guy
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you can rely on. He's not a hard thrower. He
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a bit from any team yet, which is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: really strange. And apparently the Mets haven't talked to him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So again now and I trust on this one, Apparently
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Corman Burns is still a free agent. I didn't know
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: that was no, no, no.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: He saw him with he signed with the Diamondbacks.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Well that was recent thing, because I saw that he
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: was on the market a couple of days ago.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So now he Uh, who's gonna be very good? Alex.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: When you look at the Mets, you know, all right,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: they got sorrow they resigned Alonzo. But are they better
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: in the Phillies? I don't think so. The Phillies have
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a great starting pitching staff and they have a they
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: have an incredible lineup. Are they better than the Braves?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Braves lost freed a Cone is not going
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to be ready for opening day. It's Spencer Strider going
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to be ready for opening day. Now. The Braves have
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: they such a tremendous organization. But again, the Bits may
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: not at the playoffs. Think about that. I mean, let's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: look at the contenders right now in the Phillies, Braves, Mets, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Padres.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: That's only that's only in the the East and the West, right,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and then you have in the Central. I think the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Central Division is bad, but you have you have a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: team like like Chicago who might be able to go
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: eighty four and seventy eight and finish first. And now
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I'll knock out one of the wildcard teams. So this
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: is this is no sure thing, my friend. Yeah, it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: great they got Soto and all that stuff, but there's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: still work to do.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: There's still a ton of work to do because the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: pitching is just not there yet one hundred percent. Now
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: on the other side, the Yanks have the pitching. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: think they're still going to try and get another infielder
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: will have I keep talking about, we have to see,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: but they bolstered their pitching and that's gonna be huge.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think they have a tremendous starting pitching staff for
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five baseball. I think that's the starting pitching
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is outstanding.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: All right, now, this will be a little fun. Have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: you ever rocked the beard? Because I've always seen you
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: clean shaven, Louis. I've never seen you anything else except
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the hair and the clean face. I have never rocked
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the beard in your lifetime.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I never rocked a beard in my lifetime. There was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: one time I thought about it in my early twenties,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: but facial hair wasn't as it wasn't as sophisticated as
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it is now. Now you have these beards where they're
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: nice slice and shaved down, really looking good. If I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: did that now, Alex, my beer would have six collars,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: maybe six different collars. So but I briefly thought about it,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: like in my maybe mid twenties.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But nah, who do you think he talked to. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: feel like he would have talked to Johnny, Damon or
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know who else. Although Damon's about against this
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: whole band, which is so interesting lifting in the band,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: by the way.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah that that that that is. I didn't see that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: So Damon is it was against lifting the band?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was because he's this tradition. He was, you know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: he had to cut his hair and everything after the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: four World Series because uh, you know, the boss paid him,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: so he wanted to honor that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Now now he's against the band. It's so lifting in
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the band.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But I think Cincinnati Reds also, I don't know, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: think they also had it for many years of facial
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: hair band.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Well, that big red machine. They all look pretty clean
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: shaven to me, so yeah, all right, but who do
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you think he talked to? Like just speculation. I feel
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: like he might have talked to a Labor Torres is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: now on Detroit rocking and beer. I don't know, but
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: he seems to talk to people all over.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I heard this morning. I said, I get
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: that Glabor has a beer. I don't know who he
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: talked to. I really, I mean, I have no idea,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but uh, I guess. Like I said, it was a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: good story on a Friday during spring training to to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: uh get some people's reactions.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So well, I'll tell you one thing. Tom Coughlin relaxes
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: coaching style to let these guys play, and they won
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: two Super Bolt under his leadership.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: That is correct.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You let these guys be who they are and not
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: restrict their facial hair. You never know. They could lead
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: into two or three World Series here in the next year.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: It could, And I think the Yankees are the best
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: team in the American lead. I have no idea who
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: could challenge them here at this stage, So we'll see.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I think the Red Sox will be interesting to watch
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: now at pregnant, they have a bit of it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I think the Red Sox is gonna be a little interesting.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna be able to match
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the Yankees.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: A different kind of chance here, so we'll have to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: about that, all right, lou Well, that was anything else
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: on your im for Terminal's take this week?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: No, No, that that's it. I think we covered everything,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, now we'll be getting into March
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: madness and the conference tournaments and Saint Johns's looking good.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I know, I know I've seeing the red storm rising.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: There's a whole thing on Vice Sports. I gotta check
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: it out. But Patino has been firing up his guys
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: every game. The Providence game, I remember that when they
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: were down to the half, they come back and beat Providence.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Now we know why because he had that fiery locker
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: room speech. So you know he is. He's a legendary
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: head coach. And I know he had some issues in Louisville,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: but I think he's gonna be a Hall of Famer coachy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: He is and he is a Hall of Famer. And
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: tomorrow's a big game obviously at the Garden, and R J.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Lewis needs to be healthy, and we'll just wrap it
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: up here. You know, I don't think and I could
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: be wrong. We're not going to see a lot of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: those thrilling mid major upsets in the in the tournament.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And I'm using R. J. Lewis as an example. He's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a great player. Now, he's got a lot of talent.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I think he's a possible NBA player, no doubt about it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: He was playing for the University of Massachusetts. So he
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: goes to a mid major and then Saint John's offers
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: him some nil money transfers to Saint John's. So those
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: mid majors are losing all their guys. Drake lost that
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: kid to Freeze to West Virginia. His father was the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: coach at Drake. He went to West Virginia, but then
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the Freeze broke his hand and he's out for the year.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But that's they're gonna the mid I don't think we're
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: gonna see that many upsets, those great twelve five upsets
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that we always see, you know, twelve Sea beating the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: five seats. So that's it. But I'm looking forward. I'm
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: looking forward to the upcoming tournament.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: And am as you remind you when it comes to
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the Big East, uh of how successful John Bent has become.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, this guy is all over the place. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: kudos to them going from Seaton Hall to National in
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: a New York minute.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Here, Lou, it wasn't a New York minute because we
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: heard him when he was a and he's really worked
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: hard in his craft. And congratulations, he's going to be
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a star. There's no doubt about it. His star is
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: rising fast.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: All right, well, I'll let him know you said that, Lou.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he remembers you as well. So Lou, great
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to talk with. He was always on Terminila's Take, and
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: we'll do it again. That February is almost over, we're
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: getting into March now. I just you know, it's great.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Well looking forward when I'm in DC next week, any
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: anybody try to catch a Capitol games? You know, Evetskin's
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: getting there, right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting there. I mean, I know they have
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: two home games this weekend, so I don't know what
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: their schedule is like next weekend, but it's always good
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to go to see the great Alexander Ovenchkin is going
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to go over to nine hundred goals, well over nine
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: hundred goals before he retires.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: All right, Terminel, thanks for joining me on Terminilo's Take today.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: My pleasure