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  Military broadcast radio, the station that's giving veterans a
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  voice. Find us on the web at MB Radio
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  dot US. Think of all that time, every
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  wait in the winter, all those all actors, no one else, every
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  Sprint in the summer. Think of every Sanford Dice.
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  Early mornings on the levee, late nights in the film room,
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  bus rides to playoff games, every bump in the road, every
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  moment of ecstasy, every moment of doubt.
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  Years wondering is it all worth it?
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  It's all led to this. Man, I got this.
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  It's a 60 minute drive for a 60 minute game.
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  After all the miles we've traveled, we're almost there.
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  After all the hours we've worked, one more can make us
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  legends after all that time. This.
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  Is our time. He seems like no nonsense guy
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  like reemphasize that for the Saints fans out there on TikTok
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  caveman. What did you just say?
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  The rebuild starts right now. Marshall Lattimore is gone.
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  So the defense like we're not we're not getting any better.
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  Looking to get into Smith. What a pass that.
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  Game with the. Game winner, all right, goodness
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  and. a career year like you have one
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  of you're having you have the best quarterback in the league.
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  So that's wide receiver in the league and you've got the best
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  edge rusher in terms of total sacks this season in your four
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  and seven and your playoff chances are hanging on by it.
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  Let's make it interesting we're. Making it interesting come.
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  On Who the heck is that guy? Deflect a good health defense
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  from the Warriors. Oh, in the past and.
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  Kamika throws it. Down what chance?
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  This could be the pass of the year so.
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  Far you might watch every game the rest of the season in the
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  NBA start announcer game, so don't you go saying that you're
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  never. Going to see that.
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  You're such a hater. The station where our veterans
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  voices are heard. MBR talk.
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  radio dot you are looking live at till the final whistle.
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  Everybody live on NB radio station that is letting our
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  veterans voices be heard. What's going on this morning?
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  A lot of playoff action. Shout out Doctor Pepper, man,
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  they shout. Out Doctor Pepper as well and
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  Celsius so good. My boy HG has not slept yet.
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  He's been all up all night working.
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  That's the night shifts bro. Actually didn't work last night.
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  I just don't the the days I have off.
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  I still sleep during the day and stay up at night so.
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  Did he get on that sleep schedule?
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  Are you? Are you like back?
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  Yeah, well, I got sick one time and, you know, went to sleep
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  again at night instead of during the day.
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  And I'm trying to go back to work.
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  I was it, it messed me up. So I got I got to keep it
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  consistent where things are going to get scary.
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  If it gets you get off kilter one or two days, your sleep
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  schedule gets messed up. I know that feeling.
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  It's absolutely wicked. You know who is losing sleep,
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  though? Golden Knights fans Because
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  going in that one seed. And falling in five games in a
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  pretty rough style. They they gave it a good a good
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  defensive effort to close out their their series and
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  ultimately ended up falling one to nothing in overtime.
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  Kind of a a boring game that ended up closing out this series
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  here for the Oilers. It was like you could just tell,
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  like both sides were like really, I wouldn't say nervous,
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  but like it was like like antsy, like everyone was just like like
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  way too amped and like maybe like there was too much emotion
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  in it. You know, where everyone looked
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  the real like just real eager and too eager to make some
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  plays. Didn't always look great but you
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  know for the Oilers, you you'll take it.
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  Not looking great to but you coming away with a win, you'll
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  take that. Percy Kapin buried the lone goal
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  late into overtime. 719 left in the first overtime period to to
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  end the game and the Golden Knights season.
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  Good run out of the Knights. Aidan Hill.
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  He put up a good good defensive effort in his last game. 33
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  shots allowed. Just that one one late in
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  overtime. Man didn't get a ton of help out
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  of his his offensive guys. Jack Eichel looked like he kind
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  of struggled a bit. How then was, you know, real
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  quiet Barba Chef Wasn't a great game out of him.
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  Tough way for the Knights to go out.
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  And Edmonton moving on to the West finals where they will be
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  playing the Dallas Stars. We go over to the Winnipeg and
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  Dallas series. That 1 ended in six, a little
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  bit more competitive. Bit more competitive, yeah.
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  But this kind of sets up a really good Western Conference
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  finals and again, we got Edmonton in there.
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  Edmonton. Yep.
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  Could be the lone Canadian team that tries to stick it out again
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  in this playoffs. They are the last Canadian team
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  left, that's for for sure. It's Carolina and Florida moving
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  on, other two teams representing the east.
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  So Edmonton, the only squad from the from north of the border
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  that is remaining here and we go to this Dallas, Winnipeg series.
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  This is AI. Got to say it though, this is a
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  Western Conference finals at the the ABS could very well be in.
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  Should have been that. First round series just slipped
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  away from us. Yep, a lot of the things that
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  Dallas did, I thought you know, Colorado would have been down
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  really well against Winnipeg. The Jets 2 lone wins both were 4
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  nothing victories at home, but they also dropped game one at
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  home given the start Stars got that 132 and then pretty big
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  goal disparities in the other games.
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  You know, 5 to 2 victory for the Stars 31V and then here the
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  final 121 ending in overtime. Yeah.
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  Closest games really being that that opener and this elimination
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  game. Exactly.
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  Yeah, the this Winnipeg Stars series is going to be a brawl.
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  I think you're going to likely see this one.
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  I could see going to seven. I would be kind of surprised if
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  it doesn't go to seven. You know, Edmonton, they've got
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  McDavid, they've got what? It's a dry cycle, Sam, that I'm
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  not saying that he's somewhere else, but you know, just there's
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  a lot of star power in both of these teams, Miko Ransom and
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  Wyatt Johnston. Stewart Skinner having himself
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  pretty good playoffs, honestly, in those games that really
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  matter. I think, you know, he's kind of
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  been the the saving grace for for Edmonton and they get in
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  those defensive games and they can't really get their offense
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  going. He goes and gets 100% in the
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  saves in that game five against the Golden Knights.
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  But I mean like you're saying star power everywhere on both of
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  these rosters, Like guaranteeing Game 7 almost.
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  And it's good. Yeah, it's going to go down to
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  the wire and you've got great, just great goalies.
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  You were mentioning Skinner, but then Jake Ottinger for the
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  Dallas Stars. Man, he's been fantastic.
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  He's been I in my mind, he's been the best goalie this post
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  season. He's just again and again with
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  some incredible saves in this game, you know, 23 shot attempts
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  on them, only letting in one goal, just really locked down
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  and you've got so he's going to be really tested though on this
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  game against some fantastic players on Edmonton.
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  But I'm I'm excited for this one.
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  I do feel like the winner that comes out of this one, out of
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  the West, I think will likely win the Cup.
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  I don't want to sleep on the floor.
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  That just, yeah, we'll we'll get to them in just a second.
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  Talk a little bit about their opponent, the Keynes, who ended
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  up closing out the Washington Capitals in five.
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  Another one really surprising here that this one goes all the
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  way out like short series for Washington.
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  Like you got the record-breaking player on your team.
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  I felt, I felt like they would have, you know, more of a, more
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  of a leeway in this like. I think they took like Ovechkin
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  was pretty quiet in this series for the most part of that.
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  I don't think he his impact just didn't feel that.
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  Made some. On this one, yeah.
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  Good strategy for the Hurricanes.
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  Obviously zero goals for Avi in this one as well.
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  I guess like McMichael, Ryan Leonard also just struggling in
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  this one. Beauviller giving him a lone
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  goal for the Capitals. This is a defense here, one from
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  Frederick Anderson. He did great, you know, 18 of 19
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  on on save attempts, but you only have 19 shots on you.
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  Makes your life so easy as a goalie in that Carolina defense.
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  And in in some ways their offense too, because they were
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  just very, they did a great job on offense.
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  They didn't give the puck away a ton and they kept it on, you
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  know, Washington side of the ice to close this one out.
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  Got them into an empty net situation there too pretty, you
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  know, pretty late in the game and took it full advantage of
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  that to pretty much bury any hope that Washington had of a
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  comeback. The team I don't know, I don't
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  think a lot of people saw coming out of the East here.
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  See look at their side of the the bracket.
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  I would have I certainly didn't have them going too far.
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  I think we were both, we were both kind of rooting for the
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  Devils, for Frank the Tank, but. Yeah, we kind of were one the
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  upset right there. And that was, that was one that,
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  yeah, could have got 5050. But I don't really, I didn't
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  really see them getting past Washington, not as easily as
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  they did too, especially. That was what really surprised
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  me. They just they dispatched the
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  capitals pretty easily Still, you know still game one on the
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  road you when they come the series comes back to Carolina,
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  you know 4 nothing victory, a 52V.
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  Then you go back and close them out on the road of all places
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  too. Super, super impressive.
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  Their opponent, on the other hand, kind of coming off as a
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  little bit of a heater after winning that Game 7 against the
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  Maple Leaves. Six to one.
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  Yeah, Florida already leads the series one to zero against
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  Keynes. And for the. 5 Two win.
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  In game one, looking super good. They they could very well be
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  back in the Cup. And that's where I'm like, you
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  know, I feel like the two teams left in the West are the best 2
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  left in the playoffs. But four of those were really,
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  really good too. Yeah.
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  And they they could very well go back-to-back.
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  Yeah, going to this Game 7 was kind of a difference maker.
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  Because they just got that. They locked in.
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  Like that killer instinct, they're just looking at
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  championship instincts. Here it's like 14 shots, 34 to
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  20 on that stat line right there in that Game 7, and they kind of
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  just came out and just leaned on them right here.
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  Well, I want it was everybody was eaten in that Game 7.
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  So yeah. Defenseman Seth Jones, he got a
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  goal. Sam Reinhardt, he had a goal.
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  Anton London, he gets a goal. Lustrenia, he gets a goal.
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  Brown Machan, he gets a goal. Jonathan or Jonah Gajovic, he's
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  he gets a goal. Barkov, 2 assists.
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  Yeah, to Chuck, honestly, kind of a quiet game from him, too.
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  And they still won in a very dominated fashion.
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  Other goalie, Bob Roski, who I think all that's your best
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  goalie so far this postseason. But Bob Roski's a close second
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  for me there for sure. And he was really, you know, 19
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  to 20 on his save attempts here. And Joseph Wool just on the the
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  flip side, Guy had a tough time against the Panthers this
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  series. 33 shot at the time. See, he had to try to defend in
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  this one. Not the first time the Panthers
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  scored six goals in this series. They've you know, they scored
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  four in game 1/3 in game 25IN game 32IN game 46IN Game 5.
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  Did you show them out in game six and then 6IN Game 7 So.
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  My goodness. He had a pretty, he had a tough
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  series. Yeah, he was just under under
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  siege from this Florida offense. I mean, it kind of set you up
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  for a great match up. We were talking about the Canes
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  defense and how how little you know, how much they were
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  limiting OV in that series against the Capitals and coming
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  out easily and just taking them out in 5.
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  Games, I think it's going to be a good match up.
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  A lot tougher for the Canes to do that against the Panthers
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  here. I I think Washington, they got
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  into that series and it kind of turned out that they weren't as
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  deep as we might have thought or that, you know, and like some of
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  these guys weren't ready to step up and meet the moment like
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  these. This Panthers team looks real
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  ready at the moment. Yeah.
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  And again, a road victory in game one in a pretty convincing
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  fashion here against Carolina. Yeah. 5:00 to 2:00. 5 to 2 and
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  again it's every like it's just different people getting in on
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  the auction this time. AJ Greer joins the scoring along
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  with Sam Bennett. Loose Strenian gets another goal
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  in this one. Carter Vahagi Vahagi rather he
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  gets a goal on this one as well. Aaron Eckbeld Ecklatt is getting
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  goals in this one as well. And Bob Roski 31 of 33 on save
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  attempts in this game. A lot of shots on goal didn't
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  let a lot up in it. And like the Carolina's defense
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  was pretty good in this, you know, they they have the puck
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  and away from their goal a lot. Only 20 shot attempts on goal
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  for the Panthers, but they just were getting that was The thing
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  is when they got a play, they got a look or some motion that
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  they were looking for. They converted it at a very high
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  clip. They were, you know, like they
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  just made the most of all of their opportunities.
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  Oh yeah. I mean, honestly, you could kind
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  of put Bob Rofsky as like competitor for that, that goalie
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  of the year at the end of the season.
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  This is 3319 in the regular season, like 1200 saves.
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  He's already almost got 300 this post season and he's nine and
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  four in their games. I mean, 90% of save percentages
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  in the postseason. I mean this guy you got you got
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  a good case here, definitely in your top top goalies of this
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  postseason for sure. I mean very good reason for it
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  in the Eastern Conference finals and they're already up one game
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  on the cane. So they're in a pretty good spot
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  with this dude all. Right.
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  Well, caveman, we got game one for the Oilers and Stars
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  tonight. Give me your predictions there.
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  That game in Dallas. In Dallas, you know, that's a
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  that's a crazy place to play. Dude, that that building's been
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  hop popping off like they get pretty it's you know, Texas
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  Texans get pretty crazy for their hockey down there.
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  They got a very loyal fan base. I mean when I mean it's it's the
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  stars are bust for them right now.
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  You know what, what Nikka did, the Luca and the Mavs
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  organization of the yacht build out that number one pick.
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  You know, the Cowboys or the Cowboys a joke in the postseason
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  and the Rangers had that World Series a couple years ago, but
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  not looking. You know that they weren't
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  looking super strong again and looks like it's going to be
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  tough for them to get back there.
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  I mean, it's really you. You're rooting on these stars,
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  man. They're their best top right now
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  and. This is a crazy stat line for
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  the series. We got McDavid dry salt, dry
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  salt and we got ranting in the series.
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  Top three scorers. There's three of the top scorers
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  in NHL playoff history right here.
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  But for this game one, honestly, I'm going to go and say it might
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  be a tough place to play, but this is going to be a big one to
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  steal on the road for Edmonton and I think they're going to
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  take game one here, get the road victory.
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  Steal. Steal, steal that home ice
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  advantage from Dallas because I think Dallas might come back and
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  get one on the road too. I think they're they're probably
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  going to split some of these if if it's going to go to Game 7,
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  they're probably going to have to.
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  So I think Edmonton gets the first one right here.
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  They draw they. Draw blood first on the road in
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  Dallas. See, I see Edmonton winning Game
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  2 here. I think Dallas edges out here in
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  game one and it's I think it's going to be a high scoring game.
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  Give me like a six to five game here, right?
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  Like definitely overtime got a lot, got a lot of firepower
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  offensively. And you know, we're going to see
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  I think as a series progresses, we're going to see the defense
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  tighten and like we're going to see less and less goals.
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  But these first couple games, I think we're really going to see
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  it's just they're just going to rely on the stars to fly around
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  and make plays, score a lot of goals, score a lot of points.
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  And then as they start to figure each other out and that that
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  that chess matchup goes on, it's the defense is going to tighten
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  up. And then these last few games
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  are going to be some grinded out, you know, games with only
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  two, three goals score total. But I'm going to take Dallas
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  taking game on. I'm going with the Stars in
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  seven here. What about you, Kate man?
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  I want to keep going. I want to keep rooting for
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  Edmonton here and go with them in seven.
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  You know what, just just so we have a little bit of difference
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  here. Parody.
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  We won't we won't be going with the same the same picks.
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  I'm going Oilers in seven, all right.
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  I want to see McDavid try to get his shot back there.
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  Now we got the the Canes and the Panthers.
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  Here we are the East Florida already with the one nothing
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  lead. What's your predictions for this
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  one? Who wins it and how many games?
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  Caveman? I my prediction just because I
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  want kind of some of the most action-packed playoffs of all
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  time. I kind of just want the pan the
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  Hurricanes come back and maybe win it in seven.
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  I realistically feel like Florida could take this series
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  in six games and easily be in the in the Stanley Cup.
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  But I don't want I feel like the Canes might come back, come back
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  and steal it from them. Them take on from the Eastern
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  Conference. Kind of Ryan, you're saying all
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  year Canes and seven. I don't got, I'm like, I'm not
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  giving the canes that much credit.
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  This might seem crazy to me, but I think Panthers in five.
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  That's fair, that's fair. Honestly, that's really.
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  Fair. I think Carolina's going to very
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  quickly realize or get overmatched very quickly.
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  The Panthers, they've, I mean, they, they did this whole thing
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  last year and they again have so much star power on their team as
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  well, so much talent there. I think they're going to likely
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  roll through Carolina here and go back to the Stanley Cup
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  Finals for a match up with the Stars.
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  I think regardless of who wins the regardless of who wins the
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  the West, the best match up in my opinion is going to be if we
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  can also get Florida in there. There's just going to be a lot,
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  a lot of action with Florida in the in the final, the Stanley
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  Cup Final. And I'm, I'm honestly all about
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  it. They're one of the best teams
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  right now. I'm excited for really any
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  playoff hockey though, because this is really one that's your
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  competition's getting the most ramped.
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  Up we're coming, coming down to the end of the season here, it's
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  it's getting ramped up, but we still got a lot of good hockey
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  left. Now Panthers stars we probably
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  probably the most entertaining Oilers Canes.
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  I feel like that one's probably we would we would see another
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  championship go go to Canada finally.
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  Yeah, Oilers would, I think would would run through.
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  That would that would break the streak right there.
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  If Dallas goes plays Panthers, though in the Stanley Cup Final,
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  who do you got in that match of HD?
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  Because I kind of feel, I'm kind of feeling the stars.
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  I would be going off the Stars too.
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  They look going into this post season, obviously I was rooting
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  for my ABS, but I felt like whoever came out of that Stars
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  Avalanche series was going to win the whole thing.
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  Before I even knew that the ABS were going to play the Stars.
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  They were kind of my pick for the for the Cup and I'm sticking
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  with them. I still think they're going to,
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  they're going to be the team to come out on top and host, hoist
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  that Stanley Cup. Game one of the Western
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  Conference Finals, Oilers coming to Dallas, 6:00 PM tonight.
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  What would be an intriguing storyline is if the Canes played
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  the stars because didn't wasn't it ranting in that they got from
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  Carolina? I believe so, yeah.
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  This year. I think so.
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  I hope I'm not remembering that wrong, but yeah, that what that
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  would be kind of an intriguing storyline.
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  Like they trade him away and still end up in OK.
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  So. In the in the finals together,
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  that would be just crazy. I don't remember how long ago
• 26:35
  that was. Somebody wants to Fact Check me
• 26:39
  on that, feel free to, but that would be an intriguing storyline
• 26:42
  if I'm remembering everything corrected.
• 26:45
  OK, man's checking that out. Our sound guy is off doing a
• 26:51
  side quest. We will skip over normal break.
• 26:55
  We take around 8:30 and we'll just jump right into the NBA
• 27:00
  playoffs. Going.
• 27:01
  We'll keep it going. The Nuggets.
• 27:04
  Yeah, I'm. Just huge fight.
• 27:06
  Went to Game 7 and we got beat by 40 points.
• 27:09
  Gotta just, I gotta just jump in here and we gotta just talk
• 27:12
  about this, this game, which maybe I'm biased, but like, holy
• 27:19
  crap, that just felt like the level of physicality allowed to
• 27:24
  the Thunder versus what was allowed to the Nuggets was.
• 27:27
  I mean just looking at game one of the.
• 27:29
  Completely. Different yeah just looking at
• 27:31
  game one of the Western Conference finals we'll get to
• 27:33
  that in a second but like contact it's the play offs man
• 27:38
  we got to allow a little bit of contact I get I get through the
• 27:41
  star players but we. Got I felt like it was pretty
• 27:44
  evenly called through the first four, yeah, first five games
• 27:51
  rather. And then game six and seven man,
• 27:54
  just felt like a different story in game game six, honestly, I
• 28:02
  would even say like it was almost like it was more
• 28:04
  favorite, favorable towards something.
• 28:06
  I'll get something to just flip-flopped back in Carolina
• 28:09
  where they're like they were because they were getting real
• 28:11
  physical with us in game six. They was getting called a lot
• 28:17
  and we weren't really that physical with them.
• 28:20
  And but like, yeah, game game six, they were just getting real
• 28:23
  physical and then it was getting called and then it just but I
• 28:28
  don't feel like they're being too physical, if that makes
• 28:30
  sense. And it was getting called a
• 28:32
  little too much. And then they just Game 6 or
• 28:35
  Game 7, same same amount of physicality and just it just
• 28:40
  wasn't getting called Apple. So it just felt very
• 28:44
  inconsistent in the the officiating department.
• 28:48
  But yeah, you can boohoo all about about the refs all you
• 28:52
  want, but at the end of the day, it was still lost by what, 32?
• 28:56
  The quick math is right like that.
• 28:59
  It just became very apparent that once Jokic gets the ball,
• 29:05
  just four guys can just converge on him and, you know, just trap
• 29:11
  him and hack him because nobody else is going to burn you.
• 29:16
  Mike Porter, junior, he wasn't doing anything.
• 29:19
  Jamal, very pretty bad performance.
• 29:24
  Playoff mole Where? Where were you?
• 29:28
  Where were. You.
• 29:29
  I mean, let's. Our guys are shooting tour
• 29:31
  dates. Look at some, look at some of
• 29:34
  these for shooting tour dates. Yeah, so tour dates for us,
• 29:40
  Nugget for the the Nuggets next year.
• 29:43
  Yeah, we got to 243-8596. Sixteen, 7/14.
• 29:53
  Come check us out. Come check, come check them out.
• 29:55
  Come check them out guys, you'll see them.
• 29:57
  The plus minus for everybody in this game, Just horrible.
• 30:00
  Russell Westbrook. It could have been so epic if he
• 30:04
  had a great game to close out and eliminate his former team on
• 30:09
  his way to his first championship, but instead he's
• 30:13
  going to come out there and go 2O7, have 4 turnovers and a game
• 30:20
  worst -34 in the box plus minus. Minus. 34 -, 34 Look, I'm just
• 30:30
  proud that the Nuggets took this to seven and all things, all
• 30:33
  things considered, the Thunder could have honestly, gentlemen
• 30:35
  swept us. They have such a good team.
• 30:39
  They're so deep, those. First four games they honestly
• 30:42
  outplayed us. When you got two guys coming off
• 30:45
  your bench that they're plus 38 and plus 40, yeah, like, that's,
• 30:50
  that's insane. Case and Wallace Caruso, the
• 30:54
  other Jalen Williams, like all those dudes I could.
• 30:58
  Aaron Wiggins, let's not forget about him.
• 31:00
  All those dudes you put like those guys on teams like the the
• 31:04
  Wizards, the Hornets, the started level, the Jazz.
• 31:10
  Oh yeah, like that. Those guys are like third,
• 31:13
  second or third best player minimum.
• 31:15
  Yeah, maybe the best on like the Wizards and maybe I don't know
• 31:21
  if any of them are are best player caliber, but they would
• 31:24
  still be like second, third option like in the definitely
• 31:29
  starting line up. That's for.
• 31:30
  Sure. I did find it though.
• 31:32
  So we got Dallas Stars got Miko ranted in from the Hurricanes in
• 31:38
  exchange for Logan Stankovin conditional 2026 first round
• 31:43
  pick. Funky that would that would be
• 31:46
  kind of an intriguing match if just like how they see teams
• 31:50
  made this train and it it clearly was mutually beneficial
• 31:54
  for both sides because here they are, they worked.
• 31:56
  Out for him. Facing off and it's like the
• 31:58
  guys that got swapped going out, who would have the bigger impact
• 32:04
  that. I'm honestly kind of rooting for
• 32:06
  that now, which is sad because I don't think it's going to
• 32:08
  happen, but that would be the most that.
• 32:10
  Would be cool. Storyline you could have for the
• 32:13
  the Stanley Cup Finals. Give us stars Canes.
• 32:17
  Come on now. Come on now, stars Keynes.
• 32:20
  That'll be cool. Back to the Thunders demolition
• 32:25
  of the Nuggets. AI mean SGA.
• 32:31
  They're going to probably give him the MVPI.
• 32:34
  Don't know why he it hasn't been announced yet.
• 32:37
  It's never taken him this long to do it.
• 32:39
  Yeah. And it's pretty cut right out
• 32:43
  there in front of our faces. 35 here.
• 32:46
  Yeah, that he was great. He was great in this game.
• 32:50
  He was pretty great all series. He made a lot of big shots, got
• 32:57
  some, you know, I still think he got some generous foul calls in
• 33:00
  this, but what are you going to do?
• 33:01
  That's he's one of the top players in the league.
• 33:04
  That just happens for for top guys.
• 33:06
  Alex Caruso, though, absolutely. The difference maker, the
• 33:11
  Thunders GM getting executive of the year and it's removed like
• 33:14
  this. I mean Caruso.
• 33:17
  It was a splash trade. They only trade Giddy.
• 33:20
  That was such a. Good trade, 11 points, 3
• 33:22
  assists, 3 steals. Modest stat lines, but like he
• 33:26
  was the most impactful player on the floor that.
• 33:29
  He was garti Yokich pretty. Much.
• 33:30
  And that's that's what you like about plus minuses because
• 33:33
  that's where that reflects on how valuable he actually was,
• 33:36
  the highest plus minus of any player out there on the floor he
• 33:42
  was. Yeah.
• 33:43
  I mean, he just paid dividends for them there.
• 33:47
  Yeah. Denver, you know what?
• 33:52
  I I deluded myself into thinking that the Nuggets could win the
• 33:55
  title. And I obviously when they're
• 33:58
  there with Yokich out there, I always think they have a chance.
• 34:01
  And they they do, Honestly, yeah.
• 34:03
  They do. If you are the I'm trying to
• 34:06
  look at this from like a perspective of like a knot fan
• 34:09
  or, you know, like a just a. Basketball fan just a.
• 34:11
  Basketball fan and not like a Nuggets fan and things
• 34:15
  considered with the limited amount of moves that they made
• 34:19
  for depth this season and. See why they didn't?
• 34:24
  Win. The firing of our coach, the
• 34:27
  fact that we took it to seven in the semis is pretty impressive.
• 34:31
  Surprising. They like a long grueling play
• 34:34
  offs for a team that did not have a deep rotation 14 games.
• 34:39
  With that day I mean between the.
• 34:41
  Guys, crap. We, I think we've like including
• 34:44
  game one of the West finals last night, we still have played more
• 34:48
  games than the T Wolves because they won both of their series in
• 34:53
  five. So that's 10 + G out.
• 34:56
  So we've played three more games than a team that's advanced
• 35:00
  further than us. That's that's tough to do,
• 35:04
  especially when you have like most of the time a 7-8 man
• 35:09
  rotation and you know your top guys are playing like 45 minutes
• 35:14
  a game, 4445 minutes a game. Yeah, like Timberwolves are
• 35:20
  pretty well rested, got 22 Gentlemen sweep series and then
• 35:26
  they had some time to wait for the Thunder and we'll get into
• 35:29
  that game one here in a second. This one just burns because
• 35:33
  it's. That's our squad and Nuggets,
• 35:36
  dude. And I mean Yokich had whether he
• 35:39
  wins the MVP or not, this will be go down as a historical
• 35:42
  season. One of the best the things he
• 35:44
  did 1 of what the the third player average a triple double
• 35:49
  in the season. Unreal numbers.
• 35:52
  Getting the 1st, 1st, 30/20/20. Yep, largest 60 point triple
• 36:00
  double or the the highest 60 plus point trip triple double in
• 36:05
  to be a history like. 30/20/20 Game he got the fastest triple
• 36:11
  double as well. By the time it was halftime he
• 36:14
  already had 1010 and 10 anyway. Second-half just doubled it.
• 36:20
  Yeah. So yeah, yeah, he based 2 halves
• 36:23
  where he had two, two triple double S per half, which is
• 36:27
  insane. And what what sucks about this
• 36:30
  is that yeah, the the lack of moves from the front office is
• 36:36
  this is how this historic season's going to end, is going
• 36:39
  to blow out in the Game 7. So big moves need to be made is
• 36:44
  it's pretty clear that I mean, I hate to say it, but might be
• 36:51
  time to to move on from as MPJ. He gone.
• 36:56
  I I almost hate if you know better.
• 36:58
  I hate to say this, but I might even shop Jamal Murray a little
• 37:03
  bit. It's kind of.
• 37:04
  That's fair enough. Thunder flopping and
• 37:07
  inconsistent rafting made this series hard to watch.
• 37:09
  I I agree with you. Yeah, they I mean, there was the
• 37:13
  the refereeing on this one was was kind of wonky.
• 37:17
  I would I'll say like I think the Nuggets benefited from some
• 37:21
  favorable calling too in this series.
• 37:23
  Like I'm trying to be neutral about this.
• 37:25
  Like it just didn't. It just felt like there were too
• 37:29
  many moments in the series too, where the refs had too much of A
• 37:32
  too big of an impact. That's that's my biggest gripe
• 37:35
  with the NBA. Like it's been some fantastic.
• 37:38
  I mean, one of the best post seasons in memory.
• 37:41
  Super close series or just like games that are have been super
• 37:45
  close. We're seeing stars show out and
• 37:48
  show off. I just wish that.
• 37:52
  But again, the reffing is just never, never that good.
• 37:57
  I wish, I wish it was just a little bit less favored.
• 38:01
  The whistle was just. I feel like whoever's home core
• 38:04
  that is, it sometimes has a big. Huge.
• 38:07
  Impact a fact on that, yeah, like.
• 38:12
  Game game three of that, that series, you know, Shay, they go
• 38:17
  down to one of the Nuggets. Shay's walking off the court
• 38:20
  smiling. Now, I'm pretty sure that game
• 38:22
  he had a very low free throw total and the Nuggets had like.
• 38:28
  I, I will say this series really hurts the the Shay free throw
• 38:32
  merchant slander that I personally I like to partake in,
• 38:38
  but he really didn't chew a ton of free throws in the series and
• 38:43
  he still put up big numbers. He's just good, man.
• 38:47
  He's just, he's just really good.
• 38:49
  Game three, he shot 5 and then total free throws was 22.
• 38:55
  Nugget shot 24 total. And then we got Murray had eight
• 39:01
  free throws and Jokic had 4. But I mean, honestly, pretty
• 39:05
  that's pretty evenly called game if you just look at the box
• 39:07
  score right there and not really see like the impact of the calls
• 39:11
  really. Sir.
• 39:13
  Well, we'll get to the West Finals here in just a second.
• 39:17
  Let's talk about the Timberwolves closing out the
• 39:19
  Golden State Warriors, though, in five.
• 39:23
  Losing Curry? Really.
• 39:24
  Killed him. This would have been the very
• 39:25
  different series I think I got. I mean, give some credit to some
• 39:29
  of these guys that really, they really gave it an incredible
• 39:34
  effort. I think Jonathan Kaminga, has
• 39:37
  this guy finally, like, started to reach his potential?
• 39:42
  You know, like, will the Bleacher Report finally stop?
• 39:47
  Every year man, they post that he's a breakout player.
• 39:49
  Bleacher Report loves that man. Jonathan I, I think he was
• 39:53
  really good this year. He's 26 in the close out game
• 39:56
  pro he. Actually got minutes for some
• 39:59
  reason. He didn't play at all against
• 40:00
  the Rockets for no reason. No minutes.
• 40:05
  Brandon Pozemski was the Warriors leading scorer in this
• 40:08
  final. This final game here, he had 28.
• 40:12
  Jimmy Butler solid 17. I guess 6:00 and 6:00 on the
• 40:17
  rebounds and assists. He kind of looked like he got
• 40:20
  tired out from this series, man. I got to give it to him though.
• 40:25
  Man, Julius Randall def for this playoffs, for this playoff
• 40:30
  performance alone that is throughout all the all their
• 40:33
  games. Definitely one of the top five
• 40:36
  players in this postseason. Dude definitely like just side
• 40:39
  through consistency. This guy plays.
• 40:42
  Great he is really changing the but there this around 10 man.
• 40:46
  I like New York Fancy like you asked him, not truly strange.
• 40:49
  Those they hate him because he like would bomb for them.
• 40:54
  The postseason he had some pretty bad performances, but he
• 40:56
  has really locked it in here. And he was very, very big, very
• 41:02
  wildly known for getting ejected and getting a lot of technicals.
• 41:07
  When he played in New York, he had a he had a big issue with
• 41:11
  getting sent out of games and giving other teams technical
• 41:14
  free throws. He was getting in trouble.
• 41:16
  And the soda has rehabbed Julius Randall's Randall a little bit
• 41:20
  here. It's a it's definitely going to
• 41:23
  be a lot more relaxing of a town.
• 41:26
  You go from New York, the Big Apple going over to small
• 41:30
  Minnesota's calm in. Minnesota's a pretty big.
• 41:33
  City he caught. He got calm, cool and collected
• 41:36
  out there on the lake town and now he's doing well.
• 41:39
  So yeah, I don't know what it is.
• 41:42
  Something about that Minnesota Air just just relaxes people, I
• 41:46
  guess. Yeah, 29 points in this, 18
• 41:49
  rebounds, 5 assists. He was really good. 13 of 18,
• 41:53
  super efficient as well. Oh, Wolves team did really.
• 41:58
  Their starters all scored 14 and more.
• 42:00
  You had 14 from McDaniels. Rudy Gobert was 17, Conley was
• 42:05
  16, Ant with 22. Dante gave you 13 off the bench,
• 42:09
  Ant 12 assists. Man, he was dealing out there.
• 42:13
  One of his best games as a passer and three blocked shots
• 42:16
  too with a steal and seven rebounds.
• 42:21
  He was just all over the court, like didn't have to deal with
• 42:24
  ton of scoring because his teammates got that.
• 42:26
  So he just went off all of it and other ways got his team back
• 42:32
  to the West finals where I will be rooting for the Wolves just
• 42:37
  out of hatred for the fun there. Although I ain't really a big
• 42:40
  fan of either of these teams, I'm firmly I'm really hoping
• 42:46
  that the champion comes out of the East again this year.
• 42:50
  I kind of I honestly wanted to be the Pacers just because of
• 42:54
  the I love Pascal Siakam the most underrated.
• 42:58
  I'm glad that Gilbert Arenas said it.
• 43:01
  That dude is definitely the second option on that team.
• 43:04
  I don't want he should never be slept on and forgotten.
• 43:07
  He should have. He was going to be the number
• 43:09
  one option there. Really, if you think about it
• 43:12
  before Halliburton then got that offense really going like they I
• 43:18
  was really hoping that it's them because of those those anonymous
• 43:23
  player polls about Tyrese Howard and like they they deserve.
• 43:26
  It I'm seeing a Thunder Pacers series and I think that those
• 43:29
  are two teams that match up pretty well against each other.
• 43:33
  Two teams that teams are really wanted.
• 43:35
  It's that Thunder defense versus that Pacer offense, which is
• 43:38
  going to like that, that battle. Like what's going to give, you
• 43:41
  know, because like some like something's got to give him that
• 43:46
  match up there. Like I'll say Pacers maybe
• 43:50
  probably have the best offense in the league.
• 43:52
  So best offense versus best defense.
• 43:55
  Plenty of like the I think the the Pacers have the advantage in
• 44:00
  terms of bigs Like they're they're big men are just way
• 44:04
  better scoring options with Turner and Siakam both out
• 44:09
  there. Both of them shooters very
• 44:11
  consistent. A lot of good depth, a lot of
• 44:14
  good depth on the bench for each of these teams.
• 44:16
  That would be intriguing. Pace and space, that's how they
• 44:20
  play the game dude. They run the.
• 44:22
  Floor, their guys can shoot it up and they love the pass Pacers
• 44:28
  ball movement and honestly the Thunder ball movement.
• 44:31
  When the Thunder move the ball, they're probably one of the most
• 44:33
  unbeatable teams in the entire league.
• 44:37
  There's like this is going to be I hope, I'm hoping for Thunder
• 44:40
  Pacers. They're honestly Timberwolves,
• 44:43
  Pacers, any of the teams here that haven't won a ring yet is
• 44:47
  who I really want. Throw the Knicks in there, Joe.
• 44:50
  Knicks don't have a ring, do they?
• 44:52
  Not not in a very long time. Did they?
• 44:56
  Yeah, It's been a, it's been a fat minute for New York there,
• 44:59
  so. We got three teams in here that
• 45:02
  have no rings. Game one of these W Finals was
• 45:08
  some. It was interesting.
• 45:10
  The Wolves just kind of got overwhelmed again.
• 45:14
  It was weird, this level of physicality that the Thunder
• 45:18
  were kind of getting allowed here. 31 out of Shay, he was
• 45:24
  fantastic again. 14 free throws. I will point out that though, 9
• 45:29
  assists for him though as well. One of his Feather games is a
• 45:33
  passer. Where it's going to be tough for
• 45:36
  the Timberwolves is their their depth and their guys just aren't
• 45:41
  as consistent as the thunders second and third.
• 45:44
  You know, secondary options like Randall's.
• 45:48
  Randall, another great game for him. 28 points.
• 45:50
  Even Ant struggle in this one man 18 points.
• 45:55
  He was just five of 13 -, 23 in the box.
• 45:58
  So he was he was having a tough game.
• 46:02
  Randall was pretty much the the only guy that seemed to be in
• 46:06
  his his own, in his bag, get his offense flowing.
• 46:11
  They really got to find somebody that can just facilitate their
• 46:14
  offense here really because nobody over 5 assists.
• 46:18
  But you got plenty of guys that are getting pretty close to five
• 46:21
  turnovers. Julius Randall with five, Ant
• 46:24
  Man had four, Jaden Daniels, Jaden McDaniels had three.
• 46:29
  Then you got Nas Reed with three.
• 46:30
  I mean, he's he's a center. How do you have 3 turnovers as
• 46:33
  A7 footer? Like, I feel like you shouldn't
• 46:36
  really have the ball that low enough to have three turnovers.
• 46:39
  Nas Reed criminal shooting numbers 1 of 11 from the field O
• 46:45
  7 from deep. You know what, like at some, I
• 46:51
  kind of want to chalk it up to the shots just weren't falling.
• 46:54
  That happens sometimes. That is what it it feels like.
• 46:58
  But I mean, like, that's not something you can be doing
• 47:01
  against this Thunder team. That's where that's how they
• 47:05
  pull away. That's where the two bloods
• 47:07
  against the Nuggets with a lot of poor shooting and a lot of
• 47:12
  turning the ball over, 17 turnovers in this one.
• 47:15
  The Thunder are super. We're going to super capitalize
• 47:21
  on that and they're going to burn you.
• 47:24
  They even turn the ball over 12 times themselves.
• 47:27
  I mean, it's really like A5 turnover difference in that
• 47:30
  battle right there. I mean, the Timberwolves
• 47:33
  capitalize some of the guys if they're on this game's a lot
• 47:36
  closer, obviously, if people are making their shots, but they
• 47:40
  they were seeing here that they had opportunities to capitalize
• 47:43
  on too. It's just it's a steal, thumbry.
• 47:46
  So like, they're like they're not just turning the ball over
• 47:48
  all the bounce, which is still bad, but it's like they're
• 47:51
  letting the Thunder get steals. And that's where they generate
• 47:53
  these fast breaks and these transitions that, you know,
• 47:57
  suddenly Shay's getting downhill and that's how he gets to the
• 47:59
  line a lot. He like, he does lead the league
• 48:02
  and drives. You're going to get a lot of
• 48:03
  free throws when you drive a lot. 13 steals and it's all.
• 48:08
  It's literally the whole starting lineup.
• 48:11
  Casey Wallace got one and everyone else that got a steal
• 48:14
  as a starter. Jalen Williams had.
• 48:17
  The Five. J dub the the starter Jalen
• 48:20
  Williams. He had five steals and 19 points
• 48:24
  and eight rebounds and five assists.
• 48:27
  This guy was on. Yeah, he was great in this game.
• 48:30
  If Shay with three, Lou Dort had two.
• 48:34
  Man Lou Dort was pissing me off in that front, that nugget.
• 48:37
  Serious. He didn't want to miss against
• 48:39
  us, dude. And then he takes four shots in
• 48:42
  this game. You're like, what the heck?
• 48:43
  Did he want? Let him fill it up.
• 48:45
  He was Mr. Big Time Three against us.
• 48:48
  Dude. It was like just momentum
• 48:51
  killing or for the US or momentum building for the
• 48:55
  Thunder. When he had his threes, that
• 48:59
  was. Couldn't tell if it was Lou Dorr
• 49:01
  or for Steph Curry out there in that series against us.
• 49:04
  He was literally making everything that game one him and
• 49:09
  it was him and J Dub and Chet were the ones keeping them in it
• 49:13
  against us in game one. They could not miss and Caruso
• 49:17
  was just lighting it up against us at three that whole series.
• 49:22
  All right. Well, Kevin, shall we flip it
• 49:25
  over to the east? Let's hit it.
• 49:28
  We got Cavs, got cleaned up in 5.
• 49:31
  Yeah, wow, that was this was pretty surprising for me.
• 49:34
  The Cleveland 64 win team, they have a really great season and
• 49:41
  the Pacers just. Mopped.
• 49:45
  The four? Really coming away, closing out
• 49:49
  the series in five with a 114 to one O 5 win here in Game 5, and
• 49:56
  I believe we did touch on this one a little bit here too right,
• 50:00
  like Mitchell, just not not a whole lot of help for him.
• 50:04
  He had to just be super aggressive and attack and get
• 50:08
  downhill a lot get he got himself to the line a bunch of
• 50:12
  times and it was just yeah, a lot of drives to the basket in
• 50:17
  this series for him. He just couldn't really because
• 50:20
  that jump shot wasn't working the ton for him.
• 50:24
  Darius Garland was thing. We mentioned criminal numbers.
• 50:28
  He's got a tour. Tour de 8416.
• 50:32
  Be there. He's kind of had some rough
• 50:36
  rough few go go rounds in this past like 2-3 playoffs for him
• 50:41
  with the Cavs. This year I won't even really
• 50:44
  probably put it on him. Dude was super injured coming
• 50:48
  into the series. He was like I don't even think
• 50:51
  he played more. I only think he played like 3
• 50:54
  games in this series and the kind of same thing as this one
• 50:58
  already would play majority of the game and like not have too
• 51:01
  much of an impact because of that injury just bugging him
• 51:04
  right? Halliburton was fantastic in the
• 51:07
  close out. As we mentioned, 31 points, 6
• 51:10
  rebounds, 8 assists. Aaron D Smith with the 1313 game
• 51:17
  and 13 points, 13 rebounds. Well, there's the.
• 51:20
  Guard too, dude. Yeah, 13 boards.
• 51:23
  The Pacers, I mean, I thought the Thunder had a decently deep
• 51:26
  team, but the, the Pacers just, they've got depth and it's that
• 51:32
  kind of freestyle offense that they play with that makes them
• 51:35
  really hard 'cause you, you just, it's tough to like know
• 51:39
  what like you do you play man, do you play zone here?
• 51:44
  Like what it what is? What's the best way 'cause they
• 51:47
  they just can attack you in so many different ways.
• 51:51
  They got off the radar guys too, man.
• 51:53
  Like right, like when they do these screens like it's, it's
• 51:56
  tough to call like what call to make?
• 51:58
  Do you switch it? Do you try to work, you know,
• 52:01
  fight through it? It's they just, they put you in
• 52:05
  a lot of conflict and that's that's why I think they'll clean
• 52:10
  up against the Knicks. But New York not going out
• 52:14
  quietly, shocking the defending champs, stealing 2 games on the
• 52:20
  road after coming down from 20 back twice and then just blowing
• 52:26
  the doors off of an injured Boston Celtics team.
• 52:31
  The Knicks are headed to the Eastern Conference finals.
• 52:35
  Knicks Mania. Dude, that entire city.
• 52:40
  I think we might see the entire New York skyline just burning
• 52:44
  down if they. If they.
• 52:46
  Win or lose. Crazy that they Knicks and like
• 52:52
  it's it's insane Like I don't see the York really get any like
• 52:58
  I was fired up about any other team besides the Knicks like.
• 53:02
  They don't have much else to get hyped for, if anything about it.
• 53:05
  I mean Jets and Giants. They got the Yankees and the
• 53:08
  Mets like football's terrible, but like the Islanders, the
• 53:12
  Rangers, they're all pretty good.
• 53:14
  They. Got baseball, they got hockey.
• 53:18
  That's very true. They got a lot more love for
• 53:20
  their for their basketball out there.
• 53:22
  And they're like, but like the Mets don't have this type of
• 53:25
  like, like, like if you're in Brooklyn, I think you're a fan
• 53:28
  of the Nets. But even then, like, there's
• 53:30
  still so many Knicks fans from before the Nets move to
• 53:33
  Brooklyn. They're still Knicks fans.
• 53:36
  Like, it. They just, it's the basketball
• 53:39
  such a Mecca there that they just, yeah, they just go crazy
• 53:45
  for their Knicks. They were out in the streets
• 53:47
  partying. Guys were like climbed way up on
• 53:52
  the sides. You're like, how do they even
• 53:53
  get up there? Talking about Philly having the
• 53:57
  craziest fans, it's definitely these Knicks.
• 54:00
  Knicks fans been Eagles fans very.
• 54:05
  They're just a different breed. Lot to party about and celebrate
• 54:10
  in this game, man. 4 starters with 21 or more points.
• 54:14
  They were on fire. Bronson 23 OG 23.
• 54:19
  He OJ Anobi has like he brought like you.
• 54:23
  They brought him in for defense with his offense this post
• 54:26
  season making a world of difference.
• 54:30
  He's shooting the three ball pretty well.
• 54:31
  He wasn't great in this game but 7th of 18th overall from the
• 54:35
  field. 23 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks, 2 steals.
• 54:40
  Just a huge impact player. Mikhail Bridges was 22 points.
• 54:46
  Cat had 21 and 12 lot a lot to like out of the the next
• 54:52
  starters. My problem with them is when
• 54:55
  they run, you know when those guys are off the floor because
• 54:58
  those guys on the floor are so good together.
• 55:02
  But when they get off that's things get a little sketchy to
• 55:10
  to say the least. I do want to give Tom Thibodeau
• 55:14
  some credit, man, that this guy being the starting 5 Warrior
• 55:19
  where he just gives his start. They got, they blew him out
• 55:22
  here, which is kind of probably why.
• 55:23
  But they got a little bit of a deeper roster right here.
• 55:27
  Mitchell Robinson getting some time out there getting some
• 55:30
  boards. Deuce McBride and Campaign out
• 55:33
  there getting some minutes. Arquette legend Tyler Kollek
• 55:37
  finally getting on the four the. Yeah, yeah, let's go.
• 55:40
  PJ Tucker, the vet. Dude, he was pretty.
• 55:44
  What the heck, bro? I thought PJ Tucker retired.
• 55:48
  They got it assigned on like a 10 day for this game or
• 55:51
  something like hype up the boys because I'm.
• 55:54
  A vet minimum dude. I forgot this dude is still in
• 55:57
  the league too. But hey, the vet in the house. 4
• 56:00
  minutes. Well, let's see what he got.
• 56:02
  A personal foul. That's what he got in his four
• 56:04
  minutes. Let's go, PJ.
• 56:05
  Somehow he was +4 though. Let's go, let's go.
• 56:09
  PJ, Ma'am, was it? It was him that the Rockets had
• 56:13
  running sat there for the. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:17
  However many years ago that was or whatever, like bro.
• 56:20
  So they still had Harden over there like 6-5 PJ Tucker out
• 56:24
  there playing the summer. The spot was just.
• 56:27
  For a whole season they did that.
• 56:29
  For it was a sight to behold. Honestly they had a whole season
• 56:33
  where they were just small ball and a bunch of team started to
• 56:37
  try it. Honestly, I feel like that's why
• 56:39
  they found success because other teams started to try and do it
• 56:43
  and then I. Still.
• 56:44
  I. Still remember the Nuggets
• 56:46
  played them that season and it was like the tallest line up in
• 56:50
  the league versus like the shortest.
• 56:52
  Yeah, like Jokic, Jeremy Grant, I think, and PJ was out there.
• 56:56
  We still have Mason Plumley. Plumley was might be before and
• 57:00
  PJI think Millsap. No Millsap wasn't there.
• 57:02
  No, no, no, because it was Jeremy Grant.
• 57:05
  Like Jemichael Green. Yep, Yep.
• 57:09
  Oh dude, who else did we we had. I think we might have Bobo going
• 57:13
  out there too. Yeah, Bobo then too and we
• 57:17
  that's a bad night for PJ Tucker right there.
• 57:20
  And he was already like still tail end of his career then too.
• 57:24
  Like he was battling though for him.
• 57:27
  He battled, he put up a fight. Not like these Celtics, not much
• 57:34
  that they could do here. I think with Tayden being out,
• 57:38
  Jaylen Brown with 20 points and it was like a very underwhelming
• 57:44
  20 this game. Just it got away from Boston too
• 57:48
  quickly and they're just too on your man to get it back, which
• 57:54
  really goes to show how much Taylor means to that team
• 57:57
  because yeah, I think they got good depth players and good
• 58:01
  bench guys. But just when things get like
• 58:05
  crazy without his scoring out there, it's it's tough for him.
• 58:11
  I did like what they did have in Luke Cornett.
• 58:13
  Play or start at center. Just a tough time to have your
• 58:18
  first two starts. Is facing elimination in the
• 58:22
  play offs brutal ask? He didn't really.
• 58:26
  He didn't play too, too bad, honestly.
• 58:29
  I'll give it to him. All right, Kate, man, I think
• 58:33
  we're coming up on our first break, but before we do that,
• 58:36
  we'll we'll give a little playoff prediction or a little
• 58:40
  conference finals prediction. Here, let's do it.
• 58:43
  Start Let's Thunder got game one.
• 58:46
  What do we got here? Thunder Wolves?
• 58:48
  Who's winning this and how many? I'm hoping the Timberwolves can
• 58:51
  battle back, but I feel like this, the Thunder and Six here.
• 58:57
  Under and six. OK.
• 59:00
  They're just too, I feel like they're too defensive heavy
• 59:03
  against this team. And if we have multiple Knights
• 59:06
  or Julius Randall's the only one scoring, it'll be another.
• 59:09
  We'll have a quick series. I got to take Thunder and six
• 59:12
  here too. They just they're very deep team
• 59:17
  and I just don't know if the the Wolves, they've got some great,
• 59:23
  you know, they got some great stars, but it's like it's all
• 59:26
  about the depth of this post season.
• 59:28
  It's like which teams can't like, yeah, your your starters
• 59:32
  can your star players can go off and score 4050 points, but how's
• 59:37
  the rest of your team going to do?
• 59:38
  The team that has multiple, you know, like 5-6, seven guys
• 59:42
  scoring double digit. That's got, you know, a 20 point
• 59:46
  score, 15 point score, multiple guys getting, you know, close to
• 59:51
  10 rebounds, a lot of putting up assist and and getting steals
• 59:55
  and blocks. It's just teams with depth are
• 1:00:00
  are dominating right now. It's the air of depth right now
• 1:00:03
  in the the NBA. Oh yeah, you want to have that
• 1:00:06
  nine man rotation coming into the playoffs.
• 1:00:09
  And the Thunder got that they got honestly they still got like
• 1:00:12
  a 1011 deep rotation if they need it.
• 1:00:14
  Yeah, they could really. They could play around with
• 1:00:17
  lineups on you. Then the Pacers, Knicks, we got
• 1:00:23
  this one for me, same thing. I'm I'm going with the Pacers
• 1:00:27
  and six because the Knicks, same thing with the Timberwolves
• 1:00:32
  where they've got a really good like starting five that's going
• 1:00:36
  to just pop off at for a couple of games and and and steal a
• 1:00:42
  few. But ultimately, I think the
• 1:00:43
  Pacers just have too much depth here and too many guys that just
• 1:00:50
  that it's just going to be too much for, you know, those
• 1:00:53
  starters to to be able to weather that without, you know,
• 1:00:56
  back up from the bench and and big performances from role
• 1:01:00
  players, whether it be, you know, scoring or just doing like
• 1:01:03
  some some of the smaller things like rebounding, defending at a
• 1:01:07
  super high level. Pacers just got more of that in
• 1:01:11
  the bag. I'm liking Pacers and Six here
• 1:01:14
  as well. I just want to see one of these
• 1:01:17
  teams without a ring get one. Like at this point Nuggets are
• 1:01:21
  out so I can just watch these games as a basketball fan and
• 1:01:26
  just talk trash and have a good time doing it You.
• 1:01:30
  Know I will be hate watching which will that is a fun great
• 1:01:34
  way to watch basketball. Or any sport really, you know,
• 1:01:38
  and your you and your team is especially doing very poorly.
• 1:01:42
  Then it makes it even more fun 'cause you can become the
• 1:01:45
  biggest. Trolls, it feels better rooting
• 1:01:50
  on another team's failure than rooting on your own team's
• 1:01:53
  success. Yeah, that's very.
• 1:01:55
  That's a good point. That's a good way.
• 1:01:56
  To it's an unexplainable feeling.
• 1:01:59
  Well said. It's it's just something that
• 1:02:04
  you know, you're I think a lot like die hard sports fans know
• 1:02:07
  what we're talking about here. All right, well, do you have the
• 1:02:12
  the the stream yard on your laptop?
• 1:02:15
  I do not. Well, I guess we ain't taking
• 1:02:17
  out, we ain't taking the break. Yeah, I got signed out too.
• 1:02:20
  Sound guys is gone so. We and our thing here, I don't
• 1:02:23
  know what happened to. This other monitors is breaking
• 1:02:26
  apart. Is this because they were late
• 1:02:28
  paying the taxes or something? I just.
• 1:02:32
  Don't know what's going on. The government's shutting this
• 1:02:34
  down right now, just. Tech for troops.
• 1:02:39
  There we go. Yeah, I can't get this thing to
• 1:02:41
  freaking. Well, I guess, yeah.
• 1:02:43
  We're not going on break because we can't get it.
• 1:02:46
  There's it's a white screen with bits and pieces and it popping
• 1:02:50
  back in. Oh man.
• 1:02:51
  Well, I guess we could try to get the media assets.
• 1:02:54
  There we go. This operation, it's so crazy
• 1:02:58
  sometimes what is what is happening here?
• 1:03:00
  I wish you all could see this. We can't even screen share with
• 1:03:03
  you what's going on. Oh, it looks our camera's frozen
• 1:03:06
  over there too. I just realize it.
• 1:03:08
  Oh. Dude, boy, we really all right?
• 1:03:11
  OK, man, riff with the folks. I'm going to send this on break
• 1:03:14
  and we'll get these technical issues taken care of.
• 1:03:18
  And anyone on here, this is what I got to talk about.
• 1:03:21
  Actually, before we get the break going, head over to
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  Young, Baker Mayfield and Michael Panex Junior hanging out
• 1:03:39
  at the park. Him and his boys.
• 1:03:42
  We're excited for a very long season.
• 1:03:44
  We're going to get into the schedules later.
• 1:03:47
  But fun fact for anyone out there wondering, the Saints have
• 1:03:51
  zero prime time games, baby, you guys, we've been blessed.
• 1:03:55
  You guys don't have to watch the Saints in prime time this year.
• 1:04:00
  No more of it. We don't have to torture you
• 1:04:02
  guys. Let's go.
• 1:04:05
  It's going to be a long season for us though.
• 1:04:07
  We got Buffalo week 4IN Buffalo. I'm expecting like a massive
• 1:04:12
  blowout loss in that one. It's definitely Shuck.
• 1:04:16
  Might throw like 3-4 picks in that one too.
• 1:04:21
  I'm on the on the soundboard now, folks.
• 1:04:23
  I'll send this to break, look at this camera sorted out and when
• 1:04:27
  we come back, UFL weekday recap, WNBA seasons tipping off, MLB
• 1:04:33
  starting to ramp up a little bit, and NFL schedules are out.
• 1:04:37
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  Welcome back. We're about an hour away from
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  the final whistle and we're about two days away from Week 9
• 1:09:35
  on the UFL, so let's cover that week eight first match up of the
• 1:09:39
  week. Get into it was the two.
• 1:09:41
  Worst teams in the league battling it out.
• 1:09:44
  Memphis went to San Antonio in the Alamodome for a 24 to 22
• 1:09:49
  win. Pretty good game honestly.
• 1:09:52
  San Antonio, you look at they were in the 15 on 3rd down to
• 1:09:56
  Memphis being three of nine and still drop this one.
• 1:10:00
  Just a a real story of their season where even when they do a
• 1:10:04
  lot of things right, they just can't find a way to win.
• 1:10:10
  And same same situation here. They came up short.
• 1:10:15
  That just picks up its second win on the season.
• 1:10:18
  They needed it, yeah. Both teams have been eliminated
• 1:10:20
  from the playoffs. They're out, but you know,
• 1:10:23
  playing for pride. You hang something on your hat
• 1:10:26
  on, get a few wins at the end of the year.
• 1:10:28
  And both teams honestly gave us a pretty good ball game.
• 1:10:31
  There's a blocked punt in this one that ended up going for the
• 1:10:38
  the Brahmas that it just ended up being a missed field goal for
• 1:10:41
  him. Like another thing where it's
• 1:10:42
  like you get real good opportunity and you just blow
• 1:10:47
  it. This is like a game though that
• 1:10:51
  feels like the Brahmas should have won just looking at this.
• 1:10:55
  Passing stats here 5 for 1136 yards for Troy Williams and they
• 1:11:01
  were just doing it all over the ground.
• 1:11:04
  I mean at that point you might as well just all out blitz all
• 1:11:08
  11 players. On your deal they're.
• 1:11:10
  Just going to run all every. Fuck you.
• 1:11:15
  Please bless you. Excuse me, everyone.
• 1:11:17
  Yeah, Williams was, he was having a tough time in this.
• 1:11:21
  And I'm like you saying that, Tony, why do we not just sell
• 1:11:24
  out on the run here? Then you look on the flip side,
• 1:11:27
  they were also having a heck of a time on the ground.
• 1:11:30
  Yeah, John Jashawn Corbin, carrying the offense for the
• 1:11:36
  Brahmas, the workhorse 142 and a touchdown.
• 1:11:42
  He. Pretty much had all the attempts
• 1:11:44
  in this 12535. I'm not going crazy.
• 1:11:50
  The receivers in this game though, they, they were bored.
• 1:11:54
  JJ Wilson had one target. Jonathan Adams had three, Kwame
• 1:12:00
  Lassiter with three targets. I mean these guys were just out
• 1:12:03
  there and their receivers for next year there is going to be
• 1:12:09
  no way, no corners are going to be taking the edge and getting a
• 1:12:12
  tackle on the sideline against these receivers.
• 1:12:15
  Well, if they try to get some outside run going, these guys
• 1:12:18
  know how to block the in the run game for sure.
• 1:12:20
  Now, though, they got the scheme set up.
• 1:12:26
  Yeah, well, both teams eliminated, so we won't spend
• 1:12:30
  too much time on this one. But if you San Antonio, yeah,
• 1:12:36
  good game. Just playing for pride.
• 1:12:39
  This this one's got to be pretty demoralizing for San Antonio,
• 1:12:42
  though. They did a lot of things right
• 1:12:44
  and ultimately still fell short, which was tough one, tough one
• 1:12:50
  to swallow here and just been kind of the the epitome of their
• 1:12:56
  season. The next game up on our list
• 1:12:59
  here for the weekend. Thrilling games this weekend.
• 1:13:02
  This one was no different the Battlehawks and the Brahms my
• 1:13:07
  boy Max Dugan honestly still wasn't like that great.
• 1:13:12
  I the first I was actually about ready to text the group chat
• 1:13:16
  like close to halftime was like, oh yo, Max Dugan low key kind of
• 1:13:21
  nice in this game. And then he just fell off the
• 1:13:25
  air ball, the pink airmail that dude.
• 1:13:27
  It wasn't even close to a receiver.
• 1:13:29
  And then he finished the game 12 and 21 for 1:10.
• 1:13:32
  However, he had some big runs in this 1-2 touchdowns on the
• 1:13:36
  ground. So he was doing had a made a big
• 1:13:39
  impact with his leg Jacob sailors Hallelujah.
• 1:13:43
  He's finally like he's finally woken up.
• 1:13:47
  He runs with such power. I love watching them go 118 and
• 1:13:52
  a touchdown. In this one, Jamar Smith was low
• 1:13:56
  key kind of carving the sub duty.
• 1:13:57
  He was hitting some big shots on us, like we gave up some big TD
• 1:14:04
  plays in this game. You look at Dion Kane, he caught
• 1:14:08
  two of them. He had a 65 yarder and a 4550
• 1:14:14
  yarder. I don't remember the exact
• 1:14:15
  yardage. On the second one, Kay Johnson
• 1:14:18
  caught the other touchdown pass for 47 yards.
• 1:14:21
  So a lot of the yards came on those big shots and those big
• 1:14:25
  plays and you're like, oh man, the battle Hawks defense gave up
• 1:14:29
  a lot of points, but we still some we came out with a win.
• 1:14:32
  How did that happen? Well, a pick six first of all by
• 1:14:37
  the defense and they made some huge plays late in the game and
• 1:14:44
  they really tightened it up. You look at it the the the next
• 1:14:49
  big touchdown that came pretty early on there in the third and
• 1:14:56
  then there was a there was a late touchdown there in the 4th.
• 1:14:59
  So those big shots burned them. But honestly, besides that, they
• 1:15:05
  really did a good job of controlling the game.
• 1:15:09
  And like aside from the big play touchdown drives, there weren't
• 1:15:15
  like all of their touchdowns came off of those big plays.
• 1:15:18
  Every other drive ended in either turnover punk or field
• 1:15:20
  goal. So they they just minimize
• 1:15:25
  damage enough to not let those big plays hurt them.
• 1:15:28
  It was close. It was really close, but defense
• 1:15:32
  they locked in. They forced an interception
• 1:15:35
  fumble and then a game-winning fumble.
• 1:15:39
  Game ceiling fumble and this one as well.
• 1:15:42
  That's honestly what you need. They didn't really have any.
• 1:15:46
  Their drives were a lot longer. Seemed like they kind of pushed
• 1:15:50
  it down the field on those, on those play, on those drives
• 1:15:53
  where they had those big plays and it's like they only had a
• 1:15:57
  long drive because they're getting stopped anytime they
• 1:16:00
  tried to keep it, keep it in front of them.
• 1:16:03
  Didn't the Pick 6 was super timely because it was, you know,
• 1:16:08
  they had just scored and then we looked like our Dr. stalled out
• 1:16:14
  and you know, Duke Dugan looked looked bad.
• 1:16:19
  It looked like he was getting real.
• 1:16:21
  Just getting flustered. Flustered and it was like, oh
• 1:16:23
  God, and that like it like Bravo has opened the drive pretty
• 1:16:28
  well. They have a good first couple
• 1:16:29
  plays and you're like, oh God, now it looks like they're going
• 1:16:31
  to March down the field, punch for the same.
• 1:16:33
  They're going to be up to his scores or quarterbacks down on
• 1:16:35
  themselves. And then bam Callahan, O'Reilly
• 1:16:39
  one of the most Irish sounding names I've ever with the big six
• 1:16:44
  to suddenly tie the game back up, get the Battle Gnome back
• 1:16:48
  into it. It was huge and four sacks in
• 1:16:53
  this one as well. Travis Freeney was great, but
• 1:16:58
  PETA Tomapenu man, this guy is so elite off the edge.
• 1:17:04
  He like he was banged up early in the year, like now that he's
• 1:17:07
  been finally healthy, he's been a game wrecker the past few
• 1:17:12
  weeks and he actually forced the OR or recovered the fumble late
• 1:17:20
  in the game. There's Travis Freeney that
• 1:17:23
  forced both of the fumbles on his sack attempt.
• 1:17:26
  So that pass rush duo there boy bueno.
• 1:17:32
  So a big loss for for the Stallions.
• 1:17:39
  However, it didn't hurt them too much because the team that was
• 1:17:42
  hot on their tail, the Roughnecks, ended up dropping
• 1:17:48
  their game to the Panthers. Panthers with the most
• 1:17:50
  convincing win of the week. Got a 30 to 18V on the road man.
• 1:17:58
  Michigan dude, Michigan looks sick.
• 1:18:00
  You love to see it. Yeah.
• 1:18:01
  You guys took down the stallions for us, man, that I don't know
• 1:18:05
  if that moves us up. In the that does help you, you
• 1:18:07
  jump the Stallions. Let's go.
• 1:18:09
  And with this loss, the Stallions at least are safe from
• 1:18:12
  being knocked out of the playoffs.
• 1:18:13
  This loss eliminated the Roughnecks.
• 1:18:16
  But now they, you know, instead of potentially getting a whole
• 1:18:19
  playoff game, you're going to be looking at going on the road,
• 1:18:23
  going to Michigan, having to go to forward field.
• 1:18:27
  Forward field baby. I'll pick six in this game too
• 1:18:30
  for the Panthers defense. I don't quite recall who got it.
• 1:18:36
  And this is a Danny Edling LED game. 3 touchdowns, no
• 1:18:41
  interceptions, a clean one from the kid at first start from him
• 1:18:45
  in the year and he just comes out.
• 1:18:47
  I don't quite remember what was wrong with Bryce Perkins.
• 1:18:50
  Was he hurt? Just not good to go.
• 1:18:52
  Let me check this out really quickly because I thought that
• 1:18:55
  he was playing. Yeah, I thought he was going to
• 1:18:57
  be good to go, too. I was kind of surprised when he
• 1:18:59
  didn't come out there on the field.
• 1:19:01
  But yeah, Ettling, I mean, didn't even miss a beat.
• 1:19:05
  Didn't have to. He didn't push the ball down the
• 1:19:06
  field a whole lot. Didn't have to just want him on
• 1:19:10
  some long, you know, a couple of good long drives was just very
• 1:19:15
  efficient at converting. Toa Toa, Nate McRae, those guys
• 1:19:21
  all combined for a nice rushing effort.
• 1:19:25
  Then Jaylen McClellan was just slinging it all over the field.
• 1:19:30
  This is one of those things where you're like, man, like the
• 1:19:33
  Roughnecks, how do you lose by 12 when you out game the other
• 1:19:36
  team like so much? But the turnover bug was just
• 1:19:42
  bit down. That was really the two
• 1:19:44
  turnovers. They also went for a lot on 4th
• 1:19:50
  down and only converted to the 50% clip.
• 1:19:54
  They were 7 to 14 on 3rd down as well.
• 1:19:58
  Just the offense look good on 1st and 2nd, but there were some
• 1:20:03
  struggles on 3rd and 4th. Oh yeah, that did not help man.
• 1:20:09
  They didn't sack Danny at me once.
• 1:20:11
  That was pretty big for not interrupting the.
• 1:20:15
  The momentum in the drives that the Panthers had like they just
• 1:20:19
  like they even had three less possessions than than the
• 1:20:25
  Roughnecks. They just long drives.
• 1:20:29
  I mean we have an 11 play, 66 yard Dr. A7 play drive, 27 play
• 1:20:34
  drives, back-to-back a 12 play drive.
• 1:20:37
  They only went 48 yards with a burn like 7 minutes off the
• 1:20:41
  clock there. That was in the fourth quarter,
• 1:20:45
  just huge and yeah, massive game out of that, out of that
• 1:20:53
  Panthers defense coming up big Kendrick, Yeah, Kendrick
• 1:20:59
  Whitehead, Arnold Tarpley were all over the field in this. 113
• 1:21:04
  tackles for Tarpley. Whitehead with eight.
• 1:21:07
  Let's. See, yeah, it doesn't have like
• 1:21:12
  a injury thing on here so. Interesting.
• 1:21:15
  Yeah, one thing I don't like about the UF LS.
• 1:21:18
  You got to go through a rabbit hole to find the freaking stat
• 1:21:22
  line for somebody on some of these guys.
• 1:21:24
  Their website has definitely been updated a lot though, so I
• 1:21:27
  appreciate whoever they had doing that 'cause this they did
• 1:21:31
  not have this website up like it was last season though at least
• 1:21:35
  like. Then our final game of the week
• 1:21:40
  Panthers. Great win for them.
• 1:21:42
  We beat them down. We beat him down.
• 1:21:44
  We'll go get over that one quick because there was a lot of close
• 1:21:47
  games in this weekend and this Panthers clinching, though,
• 1:21:50
  yeah. So our our playoffs are set.
• 1:21:53
  We'll get to that in just a second, but we'll cover our last
• 1:21:56
  game here. The Defenders get the win at
• 1:21:59
  home, eliminate the Renegades from the postseason and the 33
• 1:22:03
  to 30 victory. Down to the wire here and it was
• 1:22:08
  really about a QB battle, man. Taiyamu and Perez were thrown
• 1:22:13
  all over the field. Perez 350 yards, 2 touchdowns.
• 1:22:17
  Pretty costly interception though.
• 1:22:19
  Taiyamu. Attempts.
• 1:22:22
  I can't say. I mean he was swinging it.
• 1:22:23
  Their run game was pretty non existent Day.
• 1:22:25
  Day Hunter was their leading guy averaging 4 yards a carry.
• 1:22:29
  He was 10 for 40 yards. He had Tony Jones a little
• 1:22:32
  better at six yards a carry, but only 6 attempts. 70% is pretty
• 1:22:38
  solid. The defenders went into their
• 1:22:41
  bag a little bit. Other man Chris Rowland.
• 1:22:43
  No, his hair is just tied back. Jimmy it It does look a lot
• 1:22:47
  shorter when it's tied back. Yeah, I came here straight from
• 1:22:51
  the gym, so I got my, I got my hair just tied up when I work
• 1:22:55
  out. How you doing, Jimmy?
• 1:22:57
  How are how are things in North Dakota?
• 1:22:59
  We miss having you on the show. You watching UFL?
• 1:23:02
  That's we're covering some Renegades offenders right now.
• 1:23:07
  Michigan Panthers, though, it's my, they're my squad.
• 1:23:10
  They just clinched. I want to talk about Cornell,
• 1:23:14
  pal. Bro's been balling.
• 1:23:16
  He had like 2 touchdowns last week and then he's got another
• 1:23:18
  two touchdowns this week. It break out bro.
• 1:23:21
  He has been on fire. That guy is that man can ball.
• 1:23:28
  Defenders getting their offense going six and two man they're
• 1:23:31
  they're definitely a scary team in this.
• 1:23:35
  For real. I think they man, I mean, that's
• 1:23:38
  that's who the the Battlehawks are going to have to be.
• 1:23:40
  We like either our defense is going to have to just put on an
• 1:23:46
  absolute stunning, which I'm not ruling out because they have
• 1:23:51
  been making some huge plays to make up for the lack of
• 1:23:56
  production from the quarterback position.
• 1:23:58
  But I would really just prefer if we had a more suitable
• 1:24:02
  quarterback going on. You know, man, we, we got the,
• 1:24:11
  we got the elite Jake Bates from the UFL.
• 1:24:14
  Yeah, all right. Hey, Rodrigo Blankenship, the
• 1:24:16
  Battle Hawks kicker, hasn't missed yet.
• 1:24:18
  This year? Come on.
• 1:24:19
  There's been some good, there's been some good games.
• 1:24:21
  I mean, it's nowhere near the NFLS level, but it's been some
• 1:24:25
  pretty fun competitive football. We got some, especially this
• 1:24:28
  week. This week was like there were
• 1:24:30
  some crazy games. Like we had, yeah, defensive
• 1:24:32
  touchdowns. I think this one had a was it a
• 1:24:36
  punt return or a fumble recovery?
• 1:24:38
  Trying to like it was a big return here that just that
• 1:24:42
  obviously got the the people going, got everyone fired up.
• 1:24:45
  I think it was a bit, yeah, big fumble recovery here we are to.
• 1:24:50
  Get into those NFL schedules. We have a trick pass touchdown.
• 1:24:54
  Yeah, it was it was fire. So the defenders, they take down
• 1:25:00
  the Renegades. They're they're locked in at in
• 1:25:04
  the playoffs with the Battlehawks in the XFL
• 1:25:06
  Conference. So now it's just a matter of
• 1:25:09
  seating who finishes. The Feathers have the tiebreaker
• 1:25:13
  right now over the Battlehawks. So would they would be hosting.
• 1:25:17
  And then in the USFL, it's going to be the Michigan Panthers and
• 1:25:20
  the Birmingham Stallions. Just a matter of seating at this
• 1:25:24
  point and who finishes with a better record than who gets to
• 1:25:27
  host that playoff game. They do have that tiebreaker
• 1:25:30
  game on us. From beaten us earlier in the
• 1:25:34
  season, so we just got to win out, really.
• 1:25:36
  Two games left, two games left. Hold out, hold out for the boys.
• 1:25:41
  Oh. My God, yeah, they're they're
• 1:25:44
  their website. I tried to open a thing for the
• 1:25:46
  stat leaders on this season and it's just like a Google Doc.
• 1:25:54
  UFL hire us man. Come on, we'll get you guys
• 1:25:57
  somebody on the your website is update your stacks section get.
• 1:26:03
  Me up on LinkedIn. WordPress come on like WordPress
• 1:26:06
  is pretty good. You you somebody on the on.
• 1:26:09
  The WordPress or something man. Get you some.
• 1:26:13
  Get them on something. You could get something better
• 1:26:16
  on Canva, let's be honest. All right.
• 1:26:19
  Well, real quickly here, let's jump in talk.
• 1:26:21
  Just a little update on what's going on in the MLB season.
• 1:26:26
  Skip the Rockies. Actually, let's talk about the
• 1:26:29
  Rockies because I mean, it's like.
• 1:26:32
  Actually got to find this. We should talk about them.
• 1:26:35
  Go. Ahead.
• 1:26:35
  It's kind of just hilarious, like it is.
• 1:26:41
  It's just like, I'm not even upset about it.
• 1:26:43
  Like it's just like they're so comically bad that like, I'm
• 1:26:47
  not, I can't even be upset about it.
• 1:26:49
  They're just that terrible. 8 and 40 and here we go.
• 1:26:53
  We actually have some of the most highest paid players.
• 1:26:58
  Really, we got just a list of our highest paid players.
• 1:27:03
  Our #127,000,000 likely for the year for Chris Bryant, and he is
• 1:27:10
  averaging a .154. That's his batting average this
• 1:27:15
  year and he's only played eleven games.
• 1:27:18
  Then we got Kyle Freeland, who's going to make 16,000,000, A6 ERA
• 1:27:24
  and he's O and six on the year. That's real.
• 1:27:27
  He's making 16,000,000. And we got Ryan McMahon, he's
• 1:27:31
  going to make 12 million. He's he's at a 2020 average .2 O
• 1:27:38
  6 Antonio Cenzotella one and seven, a 6.3 ERA.
• 1:27:44
  He's about to make $12 million this year.
• 1:27:48
  Jermaine Marquez $10 million one and six and this is insane here
• 1:27:53
  8.7 ERA. Dude, Oh my God, he's.
• 1:27:58
  Got to make $10 million to allow eight runs on his head.
• 1:28:02
  That is so bad. Or Austin.
• 1:28:05
  Austin Gombert, 6.3 million, Hasn't played a single second.
• 1:28:10
  We're still paying. Nolan Arenado $5,000,000.
• 1:28:13
  He's he's been off the team since 2020.
• 1:28:16
  We're still paying him. Saint Louis and he.
• 1:28:18
  He's been off the team since 20. 20 like the mismanagement buy
• 1:28:22
  that from office is insane. Colorado fans stop going to the
• 1:28:27
  Rockies games. I mean, we got to just stop.
• 1:28:30
  Like that's the only way they sell this team is if it stops
• 1:28:34
  like because it's still profitable for them somehow,
• 1:28:38
  because it's a great stadium, great location.
• 1:28:41
  And I mean like when the good, when the good team rolls in
• 1:28:44
  town, you know, it's a nice spot to watch a ball game.
• 1:28:47
  They're clearly making their money back.
• 1:28:49
  They're paying all these guys. Like, come on, Somehow like
• 1:28:54
  those games that we really got just absolutely beat down, that
• 1:28:58
  Padres, that we had a few. Weeks ago that Walt the Walton
• 1:29:02
  Investment Group that that got the Broncos sell the team to
• 1:29:06
  them coming. Come on, just imagine the flip.
• 1:29:09
  You know, all of a sudden the Rockies got Walmart money.
• 1:29:12
  Look out. I mean, that's wishful thinking.
• 1:29:14
  I'll I'll take dude, I'll take like that.
• 1:29:16
  I'll take a Trader Joe's CEO buying the team.
• 1:29:20
  Yeah, man, sprouts. Like what are we doing?
• 1:29:22
  Get something going out there. Yeah, See, I'm like, that's,
• 1:29:25
  that's the problem. Like that's where they get the
• 1:29:27
  money. Like it seemed like the Yankees,
• 1:29:29
  the Dodgers, you know, the Phillies, somebody that's really
• 1:29:32
  good roles in the town and the stadium just gets packed like
• 1:29:38
  the Red Sox. Like people only come see the
• 1:29:40
  Red Sox play too. Just it's just not.
• 1:29:45
  I mean, because if you had like, like that stadium would like be
• 1:29:48
  almost sold out every game. If you have the respectable ball
• 1:29:51
  team there, it really would like people in Colorado like
• 1:29:55
  baseball. They do it.
• 1:29:56
  They just don't have a good team to watch.
• 1:29:58
  They're not. We got the elevation factor
• 1:30:01
  where like everybody has just an increased level of pop here
• 1:30:04
  because of the elevation. It's a great place to watch a
• 1:30:07
  baseball game. I mean, come on, like you're you
• 1:30:10
  could be getting into a Home Run Derby just with it.
• 1:30:13
  You had the elevation and everything.
• 1:30:16
  There's get get some sluggers on the team, dude.
• 1:30:18
  But Nah, they. They're we're only gonna, we're
• 1:30:22
  gonna fire the only guy that wants to win.
• 1:30:24
  They find like some guys that like they, they've not really
• 1:30:28
  have a problem getting like sluggers in here.
• 1:30:31
  It's it's pitchers, yeah. Like they just.
• 1:30:34
  ERA rating on those guys is just awful.
• 1:30:37
  Just lobbing meatballs right over the center of the plate
• 1:30:41
  half the time. Like, it's like, what is it?
• 1:30:44
  What do they even call him? Like to throw?
• 1:30:47
  They're just like going out there and just like they don't
• 1:30:49
  even really have a game plan because there's a lot of footage
• 1:30:53
  on people in the MLB. The.
• 1:30:56
  Baseball has long seasons. OK, hold on a second.
• 1:31:00
  Here they know what they're prepping for.
• 1:31:04
  What's our run differential -150?
• 1:31:07
  Yeah, you want to know what the second worst one is?
• 1:31:09
  It's -89 we have a like that is miles ahead the worst run
• 1:31:15
  differential. They've given up 312 runs this
• 1:31:19
  season. That's terrible.
• 1:31:22
  Have we won five? Or at least we won more games at
• 1:31:25
  home? 5 though.
• 1:31:26
  Eight games, 312. I mean, that also is like the
• 1:31:31
  most by a large margin. And like they put like 159.
• 1:31:35
  That's better than, you know, a couple of teams at least, or
• 1:31:38
  it's not like it's not so far back from the next team.
• 1:31:44
  You know, they're, they're better than like, like they've
• 1:31:46
  got more runs than the the Pirates and they're just behind
• 1:31:52
  like the White Sox and like that's, or they're tied with the
• 1:31:55
  White Sox right there. You're like the defense is so
• 1:31:58
  bad that we kind of have to just score like this.
• 1:32:03
  I think it was the first game of the series against or second
• 1:32:06
  game of this Arizona series. May 17th we got, it was 14 to
• 1:32:15
  12. We won.
• 1:32:17
  I want to see, I got to check the innings here because I'm
• 1:32:19
  pretty sure we pulled the most insane comeback.
• 1:32:22
  Yeah. So it was it's 7 to it's 9:00 to
• 1:32:29
  7:00 at the top of the fifth, and then it's 10-7 and then we
• 1:32:34
  go and score 7 unanswered runs going into the 8th inning.
• 1:32:38
  That just happened so much. Back to his field.
• 1:32:41
  Dude, you start pitching bad. I mean, it's just it's just
• 1:32:46
  bombs flying all over the place. It's at the tail end of when
• 1:32:55
  they got like blown out 21 to nothing against the the Padres.
• 1:33:00
  That was that capped off of a four day stretch where they had
• 1:33:03
  allowed 50 two runs and that in a span of four days.
• 1:33:09
  How does that even happen? Yeah, they.
• 1:33:12
  I mean, I could see if this season continues on the pace
• 1:33:16
  that it's projected for. I mean, this might force the
• 1:33:21
  owners to sell the team because this is atrocious.
• 1:33:24
  Yeah, this is just terrible. I mean, forget like, like the
• 1:33:27
  White Sox get to wear the crown of worst season in modern
• 1:33:31
  baseball history for one season. The Rockies may take the crown
• 1:33:34
  for worst baseball season ever. That's held by like the
• 1:33:39
  Cleveland Spiders from like like 18, 1889.
• 1:33:43
  Like it's like 2 centuries ago since we've seen a team this
• 1:33:48
  bad, this terrible, a 19th century.
• 1:33:53
  For the last time a baseball team's been this terrible, I
• 1:33:57
  think. Though I got a recommendation
• 1:34:00
  though if you want to watch some good baseball.
• 1:34:02
  That is pretty, pretty underrated team.
• 1:34:05
  The Detroit Tigers are on the freaking heater this season.
• 1:34:09
  Man. The.
• 1:34:10
  Tigers are sick. 32 and 15 Scubal's Cy Young winners.
• 1:34:14
  Scubal's a dog, man. I love that you're not going to
• 1:34:17
  pitch. The lefty too, I mean, they're
• 1:34:20
  they're a killer team. They kind of, they were up and
• 1:34:23
  coming last year, one that I watched a lot of, they weren't
• 1:34:26
  able to like get over the hump, be a wild card team.
• 1:34:30
  But this year they are just running.
• 1:34:33
  They're running the show. Like, it's been a pretty
• 1:34:35
  competitive season. I mean, there isn't really any
• 1:34:40
  team that that's pulling away by like a wide margin.
• 1:34:44
  You know, like some of the best records are like the Phillies
• 1:34:46
  and Dodgers. They got thirty wins.
• 1:34:49
  The Tigers got 32 Yanks with 28. Like a lot of tight races needs
• 1:34:55
  division. So far I was Orioles are really
• 1:34:58
  struggling, which was surprised me.
• 1:35:00
  That's something that I was not. Expecting dead last in the AL
• 1:35:04
  East is insane. Having only 15 wins at this
• 1:35:07
  point from B, they were like a pretty high speed.
• 1:35:11
  And yeah, like they had a bad offseason, really bad offseason.
• 1:35:16
  Pirates. Like it's Paul Skeens is like
• 1:35:19
  that Bugatti at the trap house picture, you know?
• 1:35:22
  Yeah, he. Can't do anything but have him
• 1:35:24
  pitch. You know, they they've just got
• 1:35:27
  absolutely no offense to support him.
• 1:35:31
  It's it's honestly insane. And then, you know, obviously he
• 1:35:35
  can't pitch every day. And so they just get they like
• 1:35:39
  their I think their run differential would be a lot
• 1:35:41
  higher if he wasn't pitching for them as much as he was.
• 1:35:44
  Yeah, really. I mean.
• 1:35:45
  RoboCop arm and could pitch all nine innings of every game.
• 1:35:48
  It might be pretty solid. Like, will the Pirates and the
• 1:35:51
  White Sox, you know, And the Orioles get better enough to
• 1:35:56
  make the playoffs? Probably not.
• 1:35:58
  But really at right now at this point, like the Rockies are
• 1:36:01
  effectively eliminated. I mean there's they are so far
• 1:36:04
  back. I think after the first week.
• 1:36:08
  They were the the season started and they were eliminated.
• 1:36:10
  Yeah, yeah. But we'll some guys that are are
• 1:36:14
  tearing it up leading the way in stats.
• 1:36:16
  Aaron Judge still leading the way with batting average.
• 1:36:18
  Freddie Freeman, he's got a pretty good batting average.
• 1:36:21
  Judge batting 44-O3 That's really good.
• 1:36:25
  Freeman, 371. Freeman is just Mr. Consistency.
• 1:36:29
  That dude can. That dude Will Smith, man, this
• 1:36:32
  guy's been. I think he's really upped his
• 1:36:35
  his hitting this season. He's already one of the better
• 1:36:38
  catchers in the league and he's been.
• 1:36:40
  It was. I'm not in the fantasy baseball
• 1:36:42
  for that, that free league I joined.
• 1:36:44
  He's been putting off some numbers, man it.
• 1:36:46
  Was last year's playoffs. He had to be pretty clutch for
• 1:36:49
  him. He really did that world.
• 1:36:51
  Series Ron, dude, he, he stepped up his batting.
• 1:36:54
  I'm glad he continued to work on it in the offseason because
• 1:36:57
  they're really showing them the work is showing.
• 1:36:59
  Some some familiar faces in home run department Aaron judging
• 1:37:04
  with 16 Corbin Carroll 15 show Hey 17 Cal Schwarber 17 points
• 1:37:11
  there. That ain't bad.
• 1:37:13
  You like to see this top ERA guys.
• 1:37:18
  Max Freed, that's been big for the Yankees, man.
• 1:37:21
  He's been big, especially because they lost Garrett Cole.
• 1:37:25
  That was, I thought could be like, that was what I was kind
• 1:37:28
  of concerned with the Yankees, all my man who's going to, you
• 1:37:32
  know, step up and be that, you know #1 pitching option.
• 1:37:37
  That's really what they for. They they had it.
• 1:37:41
  They just didn't have the depth going into the playoffs.
• 1:37:43
  Kind of crazy like the disdain Yankees fans have for like 1.
• 1:37:48
  So the And he wasn't even there that long.
• 1:37:51
  No, he really wasn't. And like, you're like, you're
• 1:37:53
  like the guy. What was he one year like?
• 1:37:56
  One or two? One or two.
• 1:37:59
  Like, he played for you for that long and then you're like mad
• 1:38:02
  that he went to go take a $780 million contract.
• 1:38:06
  Like let's. It's not like it was all on him
• 1:38:10
  that they had a huge playoff debacle and like just choked
• 1:38:14
  away, choked away the series. That's pretty much lost.
• 1:38:18
  Let's be for real, the pitching strikeout leaders here,
• 1:38:23
  Mackenzie Gore leading the way from Washington, Zach Wheeler on
• 1:38:27
  the Phillies and then we got that guy Scoobles up there,
• 1:38:29
  Chris Sale, He's also, he's a monster.
• 1:38:32
  A couple of those Cy Young candidates.
• 1:38:35
  I get likely the both of those guys again and stolen bases.
• 1:38:42
  Who's leading the way in that? Ellie De La Cruz, He's obviously
• 1:38:45
  up there. He got a white sock man, Luis
• 1:38:48
  Robert, Bobby Witt, Junior Stella KC shortstop, O'Neil
• 1:38:53
  Cruz. So there's something from the
• 1:38:55
  from the for the Pirates. That's the that's what's going
• 1:38:59
  on here in the the MLB shifted over to a new league that just
• 1:39:07
  tipped off this year, the WNBA man.
• 1:39:11
  Oh yeah. Well, that they just got their
• 1:39:13
  season on their way. I mean, we we're already getting
• 1:39:17
  into the controversy too, honestly.
• 1:39:19
  I mean, you got to admit this, this league, this sports league
• 1:39:24
  has definitely, definitely made a bigger name for itself in
• 1:39:28
  time. And that's one thing I did want
• 1:39:31
  to start off with too, is like, you got to be ready for the, the
• 1:39:36
  criticism and the crazy out out of pocket takes from the, the,
• 1:39:41
  from people online and on some shows.
• 1:39:43
  Because like, that's what comes with your sports league, getting
• 1:39:47
  at on the level that they want it to be, where they can get
• 1:39:50
  paid more. Now you're going to have like
• 1:39:53
  Skip Bayless, Colin Cowherd, like takes for the league.
• 1:39:56
  That's just. It's going to happen now.
• 1:39:58
  Dude, team, I want to talk about the Sparks, LA Sparks.
• 1:40:03
  Waiting on Cameron Brink to get healthy.
• 1:40:06
  They got go and get Kelsey Plum in the offseason.
• 1:40:09
  First game of the season. She comes out, drops 37 points
• 1:40:13
  on the new Golden State Valkyries A.
• 1:40:16
  Good pick up for him. Man, Brink gets healthy and they
• 1:40:22
  they get that team like up to full strength.
• 1:40:24
  That's going to be a squad right there.
• 1:40:32
  This is Sims, Rekaya, Jackson, Danica, Hamby, Brink out there.
• 1:40:40
  Like that could be a that could be a squad right there.
• 1:40:43
  Watch out. So I'm saying Sparks put them on
• 1:40:46
  watch because especially when they get Brink out there, like
• 1:40:50
  her impact is a center on the floor is just unreal.
• 1:40:55
  And they were insanely injured all year where you'd see their
• 1:40:58
  their games to be like either Rikia Jackson or Hamby would
• 1:41:02
  have a crap ton of points and then no one else really was able
• 1:41:07
  to get it going. And then two or three ladies
• 1:41:10
  injured out there. Like it was just a tough season
• 1:41:14
  for him. Once they lost Brink, like they
• 1:41:16
  really, they kind of got the injury bug bad over there.
• 1:41:19
  I know we're all wondering like the number one overall pick,
• 1:41:23
  Paige Becker's, how did she do? Kind of struggled in their first
• 1:41:28
  game, only 10 points. The wings in general kind of
• 1:41:33
  struggled. It's like Packers is going to
• 1:41:38
  have a good season, I think, But I mean, they really only have a
• 1:41:42
  Arika Goomba Walleye is another option like as a as a number one
• 1:41:47
  option out there. I still think this team might
• 1:41:49
  have a little bit more. They have a ways to go.
• 1:41:51
  This kind of prove, you know, they run into the links to run
• 1:41:54
  their up last year. The fees of Collier and Courtney
• 1:41:58
  Williams just cook them. 34 for Collier, Courtney Williams 25
• 1:42:03
  and points 9 assists. That was the opening day action
• 1:42:09
  we also had going back to Saturday.
• 1:42:15
  Caitlin Clark entering year 2 and her fever just demolished
• 1:42:23
  the the sky. This this Angel Reese, Caitlin
• 1:42:26
  Clark rivalry starting to look more and more one sided because
• 1:42:29
  it's like, I don't know, like Reese's game.
• 1:42:33
  It doesn't feel like it's evolving that much.
• 1:42:35
  It's still just like put up shots and.
• 1:42:37
  Yeah, it's very, very similar where it's kind of still that
• 1:42:42
  that rebounder. Yeah, just a rebounding.
• 1:42:46
  Like she's great on the boards, but like her shooting and
• 1:42:49
  everything else is just not not on the level.
• 1:42:53
  She 17 boards in this game, 12 points, you know, 5 of 14.
• 1:43:01
  Meanwhile on the other side, you got Caitlin Clark dropping the
• 1:43:04
  2010 and 10 triple double Kelsey Mitchell looking good with 15.
• 1:43:10
  I'm a dude. It's starting to all come
• 1:43:12
  together for the FIFA. They at least early type of the
• 1:43:18
  early prognosis. Aaliyah Boston with 19, she was
• 1:43:21
  great. Natasha Howard gave some really
• 1:43:25
  solid minutes, scored 15, and then they got the newcomer off
• 1:43:29
  of Connecticut. Delwana Bonnie, I think really
• 1:43:33
  rounds out that starting lineup very, very well that.
• 1:43:36
  Was a good move. And she, you know, struggled in
• 1:43:40
  their first game, but we've seen she was a, you know, one of the
• 1:43:44
  best players in the the association last year.
• 1:43:47
  I think we'll be primed to see that continue over there came
• 1:43:55
  in. What are some other games from
• 1:43:58
  this opening weekend that jumped out to you that stood out and
• 1:44:02
  where you wanted to go? I I was really excited to see
• 1:44:06
  this first expansion team get a start in this league.
• 1:44:11
  I I feel like it's going to be a pretty slow start for them,
• 1:44:14
  honestly, just because you know, it's it's a new team in a league
• 1:44:20
  where you kind of already have the a little bit of a talent
• 1:44:24
  disparity on a few of the teams. So it's with more and more
• 1:44:28
  talent coming into the draft, though, I feel like they could
• 1:44:31
  be back back into it here pretty soon.
• 1:44:34
  But let's get it. Let's let's check out their
• 1:44:36
  first game here. Let me get it to.
• 1:44:38
  Yeah, they kind of got clobbered by.
• 1:44:41
  Clobbered. The Sparks, that was Kelsey
• 1:44:45
  Plum. They just had.
• 1:44:47
  They had no answer for her. Yeah, that was there there on
• 1:44:54
  the opening day. This again and these websites on
• 1:44:59
  here they need a freaking get these score get these score bugs
• 1:45:04
  updated yeah 8467 loss to the sparks and that was a home
• 1:45:10
  opener too right here. And they got to open the home
• 1:45:13
  and it didn't make a whole lot of difference for him the the
• 1:45:20
  New York Liberty. They begin their title defense
• 1:45:22
  with a strong win over the Aces. Little conference finals match
• 1:45:27
  up right there. The new edition of Natasha Cloud
• 1:45:33
  joining the team she LED, LED all or her team in scoring.
• 1:45:38
  Or actually she's behind Brianna Stewart.
• 1:45:40
  Beg your pardon, but Studio 25 Cloud with 22 John Quail Jones
• 1:45:46
  Finals MVP, which was a little random, but 17 Serena Ionescu
• 1:45:53
  continuing her cold stretch from that closeout game of the Finals
• 1:45:58
  3 to 12 O 5 from three says yeah, just right back on fire.
• 1:46:03
  It's back on track. Oh man.
• 1:46:07
  But I mean, you know, we saw a pretty slow start to the season
• 1:46:11
  for a lot of the a lot of NBA guys too this year.
• 1:46:14
  So we definitely could see something similar.
• 1:46:18
  Nothing similar here for some some ladies in the WNBA this
• 1:46:22
  opener, though, 91 and 90 finish for the dream and fever.
• 1:46:29
  This was probably one one of the crazier games that we got here
• 1:46:33
  one. I mean, Atlanta definitely want
• 1:46:35
  to watch out for them. They got Britney Griner now.
• 1:46:38
  Yeah, they need some good moves this offseason.
• 1:46:40
  The dream could be right out there.
• 1:46:42
  There were a lot of moves and stuff.
• 1:46:44
  So like, I think we're gonna see a very different postseason 2,
• 1:46:47
  which I kind of like, you know, that's what I like a little bit
• 1:46:49
  about the, the small, the small league here.
• 1:46:51
  Do you get we're gonna see they're moving around.
• 1:46:54
  Yeah. We're gonna see just some, some
• 1:46:55
  more parodies, more variety and everything there.
• 1:47:01
  And the others, it's certainly gonna just be, it's likely to be
• 1:47:05
  very similar to to last year's postseason.
• 1:47:08
  We'll definitely get some repeat teams, but some new faces up
• 1:47:10
  there that could make a run. And they're kind of making it
• 1:47:14
  work like they they're really given their Ryan Howard, who was
• 1:47:20
  rookie of the year 2022, now coming into her third season.
• 1:47:24
  I mean, they're kind of allowing her to be that number one
• 1:47:26
  scoring option. And.
• 1:47:28
  Kind of just letting her run the offense and.
• 1:47:30
  She's. It's fun.
• 1:47:32
  She's over and like she's going to be I think she's on like she
• 1:47:36
  could have a huge season. Probably not an MVP talks just
• 1:47:42
  because the the name the namesake of some of the players
• 1:47:48
  that I think are going to have a big season above here.
• 1:47:51
  I think breakout star. She's going to be one of the
• 1:47:53
  most underrated players this season though for sure.
• 1:47:56
  Definitely all all WNBA team potential All Star this season.
• 1:48:00
  I I watch out for that. Exactly the T on the pow pow
• 1:48:06
  getting out there. She, you know, she's a little
• 1:48:11
  shine in her first action, but grinder Ryan Howard, Alicia
• 1:48:18
  Gray, also another really solid player.
• 1:48:21
  Same with Brianna Jones. Yeah, and the coffee, kind of a
• 1:48:26
  weird. She's a a really good six woman
• 1:48:28
  too off the bench there. Clark, man, I mean, rookie of
• 1:48:34
  the year last year off to a really hot start this year.
• 1:48:40
  I wouldn't be shocked if I mean, I think she'll be in the MVP
• 1:48:44
  conversations unless we see about I mean, it's a long
• 1:48:47
  season. You don't know like how her
• 1:48:49
  productions, but just from the way she's starting.
• 1:48:51
  Yeah, we could definitely see. A triple double and then you
• 1:48:54
  know, a 2711 double double start.
• 1:48:57
  Like scoring, passing. She's already tied for a third
• 1:49:01
  most triple double S in WNBA history and she's only played 50
• 1:49:06
  games. That is just insane.
• 1:49:09
  That's why it's that's why you're really seeing the Caitlin
• 1:49:12
  Clark Angel Reese debate is really is really not too close
• 1:49:17
  anymore. Like the achievements of the two
• 1:49:21
  of them have gotten both teams missed the play offs last
• 1:49:24
  season. And but both of them I mean
• 1:49:28
  we're seeing one of them. This game is just still
• 1:49:32
  improving in all assets. And the team definitely improved
• 1:49:35
  for Chicago and for Indiana. I mean, they're kind of in
• 1:49:40
  really good situations as both of them to improve as players
• 1:49:44
  and like, become a become stars in the league.
• 1:49:47
  But yeah, Peyton's cooking, man. Long season, I could say that
• 1:49:53
  after a pretty exciting start so far.
• 1:49:55
  Speaking of seasons that are soon start, we got ways out, but
• 1:49:59
  the NFL season is right around the corner.
• 1:50:04
  Where shall we start? Whose schedule do we want to
• 1:50:08
  talk about first? I honestly kind of want to give
• 1:50:11
  it over to go to the Broncos first.
• 1:50:13
  You guys kind of have a tough schedule.
• 1:50:15
  Well, to go to my Broncos, yeah, we got an interesting 1 here.
• 1:50:21
  There we are. Jump onto the Denver Broncos
• 1:50:24
  page and let's yeah, let's go through.
• 1:50:26
  We'll we'll give our predictions here.
• 1:50:29
  So week one, man, we got the Titans in Denver, Cam Ward's
• 1:50:35
  first game as a as a rookie QB against that defense.
• 1:50:38
  I do think that's going to be. That's a good test for.
• 1:50:41
  Him that's going to be a dub there for sure.
• 1:50:45
  I I would say that's a dub there.
• 1:50:49
  So then Week 2 on the road at Indianapolis Lucas.
• 1:50:53
  Oil Stadium. I think they could come out and
• 1:50:56
  win that one there, too. Week 3 in Los Angeles to play
• 1:51:01
  the Chargers. This is going to be a close
• 1:51:06
  game. I think we're going to split
• 1:51:07
  with the Chargers this year. I'm inclined to say that LA
• 1:51:11
  wins, wins it at home. But then we come back, we got
• 1:51:17
  Monday Night Football. We're playing the Bengals.
• 1:51:19
  Week 4. Give, give me the Broncos, get
• 1:51:23
  their get back, go three and one.
• 1:51:25
  That's a tough one, though. I thought.
• 1:51:28
  I think we're going to be in for like another shootout.
• 1:51:31
  Like it's well, I like, you know, Baron's Jonny Baron might
• 1:51:35
  change. You know, how that game goes a
• 1:51:38
  little bit. It'll be interesting to see what
• 1:51:41
  adjustments Vance Joseph makes and how he approaches covering
• 1:51:45
  Jamar Chase differently. And, you know, who is going to
• 1:51:48
  take the task of trying to limit T Higgins Week 5?
• 1:51:52
  We got to go to Philly to play the Eagles.
• 1:51:56
  Yeah, unfortunately, I think that's that's a, that's a loss
• 1:52:00
  for us. Say there that's a that's a team
• 1:52:04
  that is poised to just go right back to the Super Bowl.
• 1:52:07
  I mean, Philly did a really great job of replacing that
• 1:52:12
  talent that they lost on the defensive line.
• 1:52:14
  They're all old line. They kept that intact.
• 1:52:17
  Saquon, A.J. Brown, Devonte Smith, and I
• 1:52:21
  think the most disrespected quarterback in the league, Jalen
• 1:52:24
  Hurts. I see all these lists and
• 1:52:26
  rankings that don't have him in the top five.
• 1:52:28
  The man's a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
• 1:52:30
  He's seen as a winning record that like every year he's been
• 1:52:34
  to another Super Bowl that he nearly won.
• 1:52:36
  Like you can't even put that loss on Jalen Hurts.
• 1:52:39
  You had a fantastic game. He threw like 4 touchdowns the
• 1:52:42
  first time they played the Chiefs.
• 1:52:45
  He's a great threat with his legs.
• 1:52:48
  Yeah, he's a top five quarterback in my like, I think
• 1:52:52
  you got to put him in there. I mean, until he proves this
• 1:52:54
  otherwise, he can say, ah, his team's good or whatever.
• 1:52:56
  But you know, it's a team sport. But the quarterback's the most
• 1:53:01
  important position. Doesn't matter how good your
• 1:53:02
  team is, you need it. Quarterback's the most important
• 1:53:05
  position. All right, Week 6 in London,
• 1:53:09
  we're playing The Jets. Give us another win there.
• 1:53:12
  So bang, we're going to go come back home Week 7 against the
• 1:53:17
  Giants, give me another win there, another win up to five
• 1:53:21
  and two on the season and then at home against the Dallas
• 1:53:26
  Cowboys. I'm intended on going to this
• 1:53:28
  game because I got a girlfriend that's Cowboys fan.
• 1:53:31
  So that's a good one. I'll be talking shit because the
• 1:53:34
  Broncos going to be winning that one too.
• 1:53:36
  Give me Adelvie there, LeBron. That's going to be a tough game
• 1:53:39
  though too. Tough one.
• 1:53:40
  I think I like the just the home crowd there.
• 1:53:44
  I got my thing is I got some questions that Dallas's defense
• 1:53:48
  and their their offensive line, how they're going to handle
• 1:53:51
  that. Brown goes pass rush and the run
• 1:53:54
  game. You know, I'm worried that what
• 1:53:57
  why I think what we can do is probably make them
• 1:54:00
  one-dimensional and go ahead and take him out that way.
• 1:54:05
  Then we're going to go into Houston to play the Texans and
• 1:54:08
  here I think unfortunately I've got us losing in heartbreaking
• 1:54:12
  fashion here. This is going to be really close
• 1:54:15
  game. I think there's going to be some
• 1:54:17
  mistakes that might happen on the road.
• 1:54:19
  The Texans are going to take this one and get the win here
• 1:54:22
  and then I'm actually going to shock you came in.
• 1:54:26
  I give a give me the Raiders surprising us in Denver.
• 1:54:30
  I think this is another get. I think we could we could split
• 1:54:34
  here. I think coming off of a short
• 1:54:35
  week that's true. LALA have the great I mean LA
• 1:54:40
  Las Vegas have the great offseason.
• 1:54:42
  That's a good team. I I think we could definitely,
• 1:54:46
  we'll drop one to them. We're going to rebound though at
• 1:54:48
  home against the Chiefs and finally beat those guys with
• 1:54:52
  their starters in to get up to seven and five.
• 1:54:55
  The AFC West. I wouldn't be shocked at every
• 1:54:58
  team split. It's the best division in
• 1:55:00
  football in my eyes, at least on paper.
• 1:55:02
  We'll see when the season starts.
• 1:55:04
  You know, all of our best they plans.
• 1:55:06
  Can those fall apart? Then we got to go to Washington
• 1:55:10
  to play the Commanders and this is where I think we drop another
• 1:55:14
  game. It's going to be a tough one in
• 1:55:17
  the nation's capital on Sunday Night Football.
• 1:55:21
  I'm going to go, I'm giving this one to Jane Daniels and the
• 1:55:23
  Commanders. This will be a little tough
• 1:55:26
  game, little rough stretch here for the Broncos.
• 1:55:28
  But then we're going to go get our get back on the Raiders, go
• 1:55:31
  up to 8 and five. Then we're going to have we're
• 1:55:34
  going to host the Packers. And I'm saying that, Jimmy,
• 1:55:36
  we're going to beat the Packers to go to 9:00 and 5:00 here.
• 1:55:40
  I don't care. We got we got we can go blow for
• 1:55:43
  blow with them. It's going to be a real, not a
• 1:55:45
  really back and forth game. Then we got the Jaguars, which I
• 1:55:49
  think, you know, they made a lot of good improvements, but I
• 1:55:52
  don't think they're really up there.
• 1:55:53
  Fun to see we'll be able on our level.
• 1:55:56
  Yeah, in. Town.
• 1:55:57
  That'll be sick. But unfortunately they're
• 1:56:00
  they're going to go down here. Then we got the Chiefs on
• 1:56:03
  Christmas. This is going to be, you know,
• 1:56:08
  Satan's powers on Christ's birthday are going to actually
• 1:56:12
  take us down. We're going to drop to 10:00 and
• 1:56:13
  6:00 here. Come here. close out the the
• 1:56:16
  season though, with AW over the Chargers to go 11 and six and
• 1:56:22
  likely snag maybe a wild card seed.
• 1:56:26
  But how competitive this division is potentially win it,
• 1:56:30
  potentially being played to win it here.
• 1:56:33
  We will. Time will tell.
• 1:56:36
  This is a tough schedule that we got.
• 1:56:38
  We got some good teams. There are games on here.
• 1:56:40
  I'm confident that I'm giving us the wins and that could very
• 1:56:43
  easily be losses. But also there are losses that
• 1:56:45
  they gave us. I could very easily be wins too.
• 1:56:49
  True. That's true.
• 1:56:51
  That's true. Got and again, it's good to good
• 1:56:55
  to be optimistic, but we'll you can just you never know until
• 1:56:59
  those you get to those Sundays and like get out there on the
• 1:57:02
  gridiron. With the final three minutes, I
• 1:57:04
  mean, we got it. We can do some of these games
• 1:57:07
  pretty quick here you. Wanna speed run the Saints?
• 1:57:10
  We got 2, two home games back-to-back to open it up.
• 1:57:13
  Cardinals and Niners I think, honestly, I think we would come
• 1:57:17
  out and beat the Cardinals. I like our chances right there.
• 1:57:21
  I think we come out hot with the home field advantage.
• 1:57:24
  Shuck will have a decent game and we could we could come out
• 1:57:28
  and win that one. I think their their defense did
• 1:57:31
  not really make too huge of improvements from last season.
• 1:57:34
  They kind of have the same same roster defensively.
• 1:57:37
  We could take that one. The Niners though?
• 1:57:40
  Sneaky will, I think. Think the Niners coming back
• 1:57:43
  healthy? CMC might be a big test to how
• 1:57:48
  how much our run game improved from last season, which as we
• 1:57:52
  know was very, very bad. So I think that one there see
• 1:57:56
  the Niners got us now week 3 going to Seattle and we got
• 1:58:02
  Darnold, we got cup. I think that could potentially
• 1:58:06
  be an offense to gash our young guys out there and gonna be,
• 1:58:11
  that could be a close game, honestly, but I don't think our
• 1:58:15
  offense really will be clicked by then.
• 1:58:17
  So I think Seattle Seahawks gonna get that one.
• 1:58:20
  And you got the bills. I'm just gonna.
• 1:58:22
  Get that's like what, 35 three? What do we call in score
• 1:58:25
  predictions? On that people young offense on
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  the road and the tough place to play like get like 30-4 the
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  three type ball game. We're gonna get killed.
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  Then the Giants. That's probably AWI.
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  I've given us that one at. Home at home.
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  We got that one. Against the Patriots, that was a
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  good team. Closer 'cause we got home field
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  advantage, but I think that one, they're gonna def it.
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  I think they could take that one on us and they've improved
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  immensely. They've gotten so much better,
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  have a new coach. The Bears here coming up next.
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  Insult. You know what?
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  Give us, give us the Doug right there.
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  Yeah, there we go. Paper bears, as Jimmy would say.
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  They always beat us at home, but we always split with every team
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  in the division. So they're going to beat,
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  they're going to get us the first time at home here and now
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  the Rams, they're going to absolutely just trounce us real
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  quickly. Nukua might have a career high
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  receiving yards against us, but they're going to beat us there.
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  Week 10 at Panthers. We're going to get that first
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  one going into our Week 12 after the bye where we beat the
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  Falcons the first time here Week 12 and then we go on a run and
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  we beat the Dolphins. That does end at Raymond James
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  Stadium where the Bucks, I think the Bucks are going to sweep us
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  this season. They're going to get us at home.
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  And then we got Week 15 Panthers.
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  This is where they split us right here.
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  And then we go take on The Jets the next week, week 16, and
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  that'll be a win. Titans.
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  I think Cam Ward will have it figured out by the end of the
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  season and they're going to get one at us right here.
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  And the Titans are going to get one big win at home for them,
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  for confidence. And to end it off, the Falcons
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  baby, we beat him the first time in the season.
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  So it's kind of a toss up here. I'm kind of, I'm kind of leaning
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  either way we do. Got the left halfway through
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  the. Show sound guy trying to cut us
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  off. We got to sign off here.
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  We'll see everybody next Wednesday till the final
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  whistle, everybody. The boys are out.
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