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were happening in the three for the money universe
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Which I'll touch on here lately later But but
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yes a lot of things have happened Since our our
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last interactions with with our thousands and
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millions of fans the millions Millions of fans
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but but yeah like The Pacers ended up losing.
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We'll touch on that here shortly. The NHL draft
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happened. The NBA draft happened. I don't have
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anything to say on that. Apparently, NBA free
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agency was either today or last week. I don't
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know. And then NHL free agency happened. So we
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have some things to talk about. But first, I
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mean, I got to throw it to Chris here. I mean,
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the reason that that we weren't able to record
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last week was Chris was like, oh, going on vacation.
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I was like, all right, going on vacation. I knew
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what it was about. Chris, how about you fill
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in the millions and millions of fans on your
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vacation? Happy to. We'll start out at the very
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beginning of the story. The night before we left
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on vacation, the Pacers lost game seven of the
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NBA Finals and quite possibly the most heartbreaking
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fashion imaginable. But we'll get into that.
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So then a few hours later, got up and drove down
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to Florida for a vacation with my lovely at the
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time girlfriend. And now a few days later, yeah,
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pop the question. We are now engaged to be married.
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So let's go. Yeah, let's go, bro. Join the crowd.
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Yeah, about a lot of there are some people saying
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about time and I didn't appreciate those snarky
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little comments, even though they may be kind
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of correct. But it's what it was. It call not
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gonna dock someone. Give one name, full address.
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I don't know. I have to go back through the Instagram
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comments for that. But yeah, so yeah, that it
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wasn't It wasn't all bad. Um, but that was, that
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was big. That was the reason we did not record
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last week. Um, so sorry about that, but yeah.
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Shout out to Chris. Yeah. Shout out to me. I'll
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take it. Yeah. Things going pretty well over
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here. I'm not, I'm not going to lie. So Sean,
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how are we doing? Uh, I'm great, but I really
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want to get into the story of the night you got
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engaged. Um, Will and I were chilling downstairs,
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watching TV. Uh, Chris replies or sends a message
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in our like friend group chat and just says,
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did it with a picture of him proposing. And Will
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and I had this debate for maybe 10 minutes and
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please will go into what you wanted to say. So
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First there was a look I looked at Sean and we
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were like, oh he did it and then there was the
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look like You know what we want to do here. You
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know, what do we say? And I was like dude he
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just said did it period did I I feel like I gotta
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say cool and that's it and just keep it at that
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and then I was like, dude, I can't do that. That
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was just like it. I, I really wanted to say it,
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but it felt like a dick move, but also it would
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have been on brand, but I didn't want anyone
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to call me out. I would have thought it was very
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funny. Like if I saw that, if that was, especially
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if it was like the very first one, just cool.
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I would have thought that was very funny. And
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that's totally, you're gone for, but like, like
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people were just firing off, like so fast. Like
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I've never seen people reply to that tech, that
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group chat faster. Honestly, I was pretty surprised.
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Honestly, I was like, half these people probably
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have this thing muted because we never really
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use it that much. Yeah. So yeah. When everyone
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started replying, it's like, Oh shit. Okay. Yeah.
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And then it was just off to the races. And then
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it just like, Will and I, he was like, should
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I say it? Should I say it? And I was like, You
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should say it and then it was like he was like
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typing I was like now don't say it don't say
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it because like it just kept going it people
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just kept congratulating you and I was like This
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makes you look like a dick like yeah a little
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bit to others, but I think Chris would think
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this is funny I would have thought it was hilarious.
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Yeah, yeah If you would have shown you're not
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even like that would have If you would have shown
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your bride to be that I don't I don't know if
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she would have taken too kindly. I don't know
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what I was thinking about. So, uh, I, I, I proposed,
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uh, neat. Just, just a quick neat. Neat exclamation
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point. Yeah. Question mark. Not everything's
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about you, man. So engaged over a year. Yeah
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Now everyone's doing it Trend Center Trend Center
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shout out the Trend Center But Chris I do want
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to ask this might lead to nothing but It does
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kind of look like in the picture. You have this
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face like like like perhaps there's maybe a story.
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Yeah, okay. There doesn't have to be doesn't
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have to be lovey dovey gushy, but it's really
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it's not really. So I knew it. I knew. Yeah.
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So we got there Monday, Monday morning, or mid
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day or mid morning, whatever. And that night,
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she was like, let's go walk on the beach, like
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sunset and all that. Like, okay, I wasn't planning
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on doing it this night was gonna be like a It
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was a couple days later, but like, okay, cool.
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We go walking. We see two and what could have
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been a third proposal. The third one could have
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been, it was, it looked like it was happening
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further away. There was two literally within
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50 yards of this. What, where did you guys go?
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Um, it was like right next to Panama city beach.
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My, um, and uncle have a house down there. So
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38 around there. Yeah. Okay. Um, but, um, So
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yeah, two proposals just right off the bat. And
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I was like, man, that's kind of annoying, but
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whatever. And then after what looked like the
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third one was happening, I was like, all right,
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let's go. I can't do this anymore. So we're walking
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back and we're walking down the walkway between
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the beach and the street. And one of the guys,
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I don't know which one, had set up these note
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card sign things, like, to my darling, whoever
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the hell. and all this lovey dovey shit. And
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then I was like, man, fuck this guy. Right. Like
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before, I was just a little annoyed. And then
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I was like, man, this guy's taking the piss out
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of it. So a couple more days go by and we go
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out to eat. I was like, OK, today's we're going
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to do it this day. We got to eat. And then we're.
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I was wanting to do it on the beach at sunset
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because that's romantic and shit. We're leaving
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the restaurant. She's like, hey, I want to stop
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off for a wine slushy. I was like, what? And
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she was like, yeah, well, there's one like there's
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a place that has them like right over here. It'll
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take like five minutes. Fine. Whatever. Getting
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into this parking lot of this place was a nightmare.
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There's just people crossing the street just
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at will. No regard for anybody else. So it took.
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a long time to get this damn wine slushy. So
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then I'm booking it back to the house to actually
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get out to the beach. I was so stressed out getting
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there, getting out to the beach. I was like,
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shit, how do we really know what I'm going to
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say? I hadn't really thought about that. I was
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like, I'm just worried about getting here. So
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I go to - Never thought it would get this far.
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Yeah, it really does. One of her friends happened
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to be like on vacation with her family like 30
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minutes away so she came over and she was one
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of those taking pictures and she was like hey
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let me get a picture and I was like okay doing
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it now. We took a picture and I looked at her.
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She was like, Hey, how many proposals do you
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think we're going to see tonight? And she was
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like, what? And I started to pull it out of my
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pocket. And then in typical Chris fashion, I
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couldn't get the fucking thing out of my pocket.
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So I was like struggling for a little bit. She
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thought I was joking. She was like, no, no, you're
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dumb. You're dumb. We're not doing this. She
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started to walk away. I was like, no, like what
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for real? She was like, no, you're dumb. I was
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like, no, this is real. Just, so I got it out
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and got down the knee and asked her and everything.
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And she just kept going like, wait, what, what,
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how, what? And then eventually I was like, I'm
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going to need like an answer here. She was like,
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Oh yeah. And I think that was the, the moment
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that was captured in the picture was maybe like,
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Well, like, OK, that makes sense now. Yeah. It
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was a very stressful, like 30, 30, 45 minutes
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getting out there. But yes, it was fun. Hell,
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yeah. Hell, yeah. All right. Well, bro, at least
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someone got a ring. Am I right? Yeah, I didn't
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get one. Patrons to get one. I didn't get one,
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but yeah. She got one. So guess that's all that
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matters. Yeah. In the grand silver lining, but
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the okay. So the context for the did it message
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that I sent when we were walking to the beach,
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my phone kept going off. I was like, what the
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fuck is going on now? And I look, and it's like
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my family group chat was just my mom and my sisters.
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My dad's not in it for whatever reason, but,
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um, not be bothered. No. can't he probably honestly
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would never respond to anything in it anyway
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so but um so that they knew i was doing it that
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night and they were like like we're waiting like
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come on and i was like fucking two seconds but
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i didn't i didn't want to like say anything so
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while like they were like Kelsey and her friend
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were like, oh, he did it, yay. I just quickly
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fired off a text that was like, did it. No picture
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or anything with that, just did it. Oh, no picture.
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Yeah. And they were like, well, like, come on.
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I was like, fucking chill. So that was like the,
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I was like, oh, that was actually kind of funny.
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So that's when I sent to the group, the group
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message with the actual picture. I just did it.
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That's very Chris fashion. You know, yeah, it's
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very you to just like when I got that I was like,
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yeah That's hell. Yeah, I can't regret dudes
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I contemplating just not saying anything and
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then like next time we all hung out like oh,
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yeah, by the way She's engaged We're engaged
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but Hey that lady over there. She's um, she's
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engaged To me to me Chris All right, there's
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that. Enough of that lovey -dovey shit. Well,
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Chris, now you don't have to accidentally send
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PS5s to our house before you get engaged. We
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all know that was a farce. It's okay. Hey, I
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haven't bought anything off eBay since I lived
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at the house. That part was true. That was not
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true. That first part was true, but the other
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part was like, she's going to flip out if she
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just sees that sitting on our doorstep before
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I get it. When you drop it off kid, when they
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drop it off, can you just bring it inside? Yeah,
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bud. We got you. You know, we had your back though.
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Oh, I knew it. I knew it. Yeah, but yeah, but
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could let her see my You don't have to you don't
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have to lie to us. You don't have to lie to us
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about it Well, I had this I had to believe it
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myself. So is the more time sure say it Sure.
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Yes It also that is a paper trail. So exactly
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can't leave any evidence. We can't we can't be
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Ronald Reagan and just leave you know bodies
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bodies and physical evidence and I don't know
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how Watergate really worked. That was Nixon,
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by the way. That was Nixon. My bad. Whatever.
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All right. Well, now is the goodest time as ever
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to give Chris's end of season Pacers breakdown.
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Hopefully he doesn't break down. I mean, that
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was... Quite that is like the worst way to watch
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your team lose. Thank you Sean. Oh No, it was
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a stupid joke, sorry, I got it. Yeah. No. Oh
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No, I got it But yeah, that was probably the
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most painful loss I've really I Don't say most
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painful talk two, three most painful loss I've
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ever experienced as a sports fan. That was just,
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I would have rather lost on just like a buzzer
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beater, but to lose because your best player
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snaps his Achilles after hitting three threes.
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So like he was clearly like, he was feeling it.
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This was shaping up to be like an all time game
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seven. And then it was just gone in the blink
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of an eye. And then it was like, we were up at
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half to like, Hey, you know, maybe they were
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saying like on the panels, like if there's any
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team who could pull this off, it is the Pacers.
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And I was like, shit, it's possible. And then
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the second half happened and it was just like,
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okay, the thunder, they reset and they're like,
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okay, we're just going to dog walk these guys.
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And it was pretty much anytime TJ McConnell touched
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the ball, just swarm him because nobody else
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is moving when he has the ball. That was fucking
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infuriating. Whenever TJ McConnell would drive
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the lane, everybody would just stand there. Like,
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all right, well, he's going to do something awesome.
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And then it was just like four guys would just
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crash in on him and then he couldn't do anything.
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So he turned the ball over like five times, but
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it was. It was very depressing. And then next
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season's gone, too. So. Why is next season gone?
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Because I mean, toward Achilles, he's not going
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to play. Oh, yeah, I guess a shorter offseason.
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Yeah. I mean, even if he, even if he taught it
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at the end of the regular season, I mean, that's
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like a year recovery. And then miles Turner walked
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in free agency today. So I don't know, I guess
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you could spins on that. Say it clears up some
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cap space because he signed a hundred million
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dollar deal. So there's a cap space making, they
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can get someone to like be competitive this season
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and then can be like a. Batman and Robin with
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Halliburton when he comes back, but yeah, that
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was It was just soul -crushing Mm -hmm. Yeah
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Yeah, that was a that was a rough one man. Like
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It was they were neck and neck pretty much like
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I mean the injury happened like like halfway
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through the first quarter or yeah It was it was
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like yeah five minutes left in the first quarter.
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So yeah, it was pretty much halfway Yeah, and
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like they kind of were still neck and neck with
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them in the second quarter they had the lead
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at halftime yeah and uh it just i mean i don't
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want to say they couldn't do it i mean just because
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like i mean they can't do it with without tyrese
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you can't win a game like that without your best
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player unless like unless someone had just stepped
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like c ockham or like anybody else had just stepped
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up and got nuclear which is very hard to do against
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a team as good defensively as Oklahoma city.
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But yeah, you just can't win a game seven like
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that without your star player, especially when
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he gets like a, or not a season and ending injury,
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obviously season ending at that point, but a
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very bad injury right at the beginning of the
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game, it just takes the air out of the whole
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stadium or at the arena. So it was just, it was
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awful. And I'm just texting with my dad the whole
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time. This sucks Like nothing to really be it's
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like you can't be mad at anyone You're just mad
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and sad and you don't have anywhere to direct
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it and you're just like this fucking sucks, man
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Yeah, it's it's nothing you can really get mad
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about it's it's just like You're sad about it
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you can be sad about it it's there's no one really
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to to blame here But yeah, that was heartbreaking.
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Um, and I believe this past year was like the,
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the, had the most Achilles tears in the NBA and
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like, which was insane. I mean, Tatum tore his
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in the second round. Yeah. Like it's just like,
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why, why is this happening? Why is this? Coincidence?
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I don't know. It's kind of a lot for a coincidence.
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I think they're going to shorten the season at
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some point to like 68 games or maybe even even
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70. I don't know. But that's what a lot of people
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were set like on Twitter. We're saying in like
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this, like, well, Halliburton tore his Um, Tatum
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Torres is like, just shorten the dams. We don't
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need ADT. Like 70 would be fine. And I'm, I'm
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no like NBA junkie. So I'm like, yeah, sure.
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It is going to prevent my favorite player from
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sharing his Achilles in game seven of the NBA
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finals. I'm all for shortening this season. Yes,
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for sure. Um, cool. I mean, like that's, I mean,
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that's all I got with NBA. I mean, I know free
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agency was today, but, um, did you see, um, Hold
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on. Let me get the name right. I'm pretty sure
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it was Malik Beasley Is being investigated for
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gambling like oh, yeah, I did see yeah and Look
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at some of these videos Look at some of these
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videos It's kind of damning evidence I Didn't
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I didn't do a deep dive but what? I'll send,
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I saw, I'll send it here in a second. I saw a
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thing on Instagram. It was like a kind of a compilation
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of it. There is one, he was playing the Pacers
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and he was defending. I don't remember who it
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was, the point guard, whoever it was, and just
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let him blow right. Not even tried to play defense.
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It was like when the point guard went by him,
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he wasn't even looking at the player. Like he
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was still looking forward. So it was that. There
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was a potential game winner he could have had
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with the Pistons. I think it was in the playoffs
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this year. Yeah, it had been this year. He was
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wide open to get the shot. It was a perfect pass.
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Just bounced off his hands out of bounds. There
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was another one where he was playing for Minnesota.
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I think it was 21. They were down. Whoever they
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were playing were shooting free throws. made
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them both to go up by nine. Line was eight and
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a half, Timberwolves plus eight and a half. He
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got the ball and just sprinted down the court
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and laid it in. And you kind of see that in college.
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I don't know if you see that a whole lot in the
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NBA. Again, I don't gamble on it a ton, so I
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don't really know, but I don't feel like you
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don't really. And especially like... Again, it
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could just be knowing, like looking at through
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this lens of he's being investigated. They showed
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him like on the law, like on the, um, what the
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free throw lane, uh, when he was like right before
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the guy shot it and he had like a look at determination,
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like I'm getting this and I'm sprinting that
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way and laying this in this game. Yeah. I mean,
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never want anyone to be like banned for life
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from their profession, but They look good. Yeah.
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That's tough. I did see Damien Lillard today
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is getting weight. He's getting cut, waved something
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like that. Yeah. They, um, the Pacers like waved
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them. And I think he had correct me if I'm, yeah,
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I know it's with the bucks, but correct me if
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I'm wrong. I think he had like some generational
23:09
buyout, like they're going to be paying him for
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a long time. Yeah. I know. I think, I think that
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ESPN said he had like 113 million dollars left
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or something yeah yeah yeah that was a i think
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win horse that's well yeah why that's beyond
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me that's i that doesn't i i mean i don't know
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with the nba i mean it's like it's a salary cap
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but like kind of not really and it's i don't
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know Maybe it's because when you win a championship
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you're kind of I Could be talking out of my ass
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here, but when you win a championship, you know
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kind of you want to keep up Perspective I guess
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and When you have a player that isn't that great
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I mean the Bucks didn't make the playoffs today
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They got bounced in the first round by the eventual
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conference champions, Indiana Pacers Okay um
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yeah and so it's it's you feel like you can afford
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the luxury tax because you are you know when
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you win a championship and it's like all right
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you are you know not to say they're all they're
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one of like like a big market uh to say but maybe
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you act like maybe start acting like it i don't
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know who's to say they also i mean This is like
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the time like what are they gonna do with the
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honest like? It's like what I said makes sense.
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Oh, no it did. Okay. I agree with what you said
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about was also just adding on to that like the
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honest is like He might walk like so it's like
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yeah, they kind of need the money now but You're
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fucked long term if you sign him to it would
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be in sane deal. But if you sign him to that,
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you just gave Turner, because Miles Turner signed
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with them for $107 million over four years, and
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you're gonna have to pay him for God knows how
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long, Damian Lillard that being. That's, you're
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kind of fucked. Like, if you have Yannis, like,
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if you do re -sign Yannis, who's your number
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two? Is it Myles Turner? They don't really have
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anyone else. Do they still have Chris Middleton?
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No, they traded him to the Wizards last year?
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I had no idea. Yeah. He's playing, well, he was
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playing with the Wizards this season. I don't
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know if, I don't know his contract, I don't know
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if he's a free agent right now or what, but yeah.
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So it's pretty much Yannis, if they bring him
25:58
back, it's Yannis, Myles Turner, and who the
26:02
hell? I don't know who else they'll... have or
26:05
will be able to get mm -hmm right yeah that's
26:09
uh that's tough i did see that um jaron jackson
26:15
jr i think he's starting like he's there they're
26:19
getting ready to assign him to a supermax he
26:21
got a big old deal um yeah i don't remember exactly
26:23
how much i think i saw the notification while
26:27
i was driving and i think it was like 240 million
26:31
yeah and it's like five five years, uh, 240 million.
26:36
Yeah. I think that's the, the super max. I think
26:39
so. Yeah. That's, that's kind of, I mean, he's
26:43
very good player, but it's kind of surprising.
26:46
Like he would get a super max. Yeah. I think
26:50
because, uh, you can't lose him and they, I can't
26:55
remember when they resigned jaw, but jaw doesn't
26:58
have a super max, which is good, you know, for
27:02
them. Um, And they traded they traded bane so
27:08
right I guess you kind of had You had to give
27:11
them that Which I feel like they traded bane
27:14
knowing they were going to do that. So Right.
27:17
I don't know if bane was up for an extension
27:20
Who's to say no way of knowing Sorry, I was I'm
27:28
looking at how this dame or yeah, Dame Contract
27:32
Works. They're going to be paying out his contract
27:36
113 million dollars over the next five years.
27:41
But that's a, if my math is right, that's like
27:45
22 and a half mil a year. That's some scratch,
27:52
dude. Yeah. That's like, you might as well, I
27:57
mean, I also saw that he also tore his Achilles.
28:00
the second round of the playoffs this year. Damien
28:06
has no. Oh, yeah, I forgot because he was hurt
28:09
and then he. Yeah, he got he did that. So, yeah,
28:14
I totally forgot about that. But yeah, it's.
28:17
I mean, he's getting a shit ton of money, so
28:19
I guess. But yeah, I mean, he's he's 34, I think.
28:26
Yeah, he's up there. He's up there. He was on
28:30
Portland person that dude's all the shit as a
28:34
31 year old I Couldn't play professional basketball
28:41
right now. Just just saying right I'm trying
28:49
to think of other NBA things. It's um, well,
28:52
it's just ironic that the Damien Lula thing it's
28:57
I mean this kind of like Deferred payment kind
29:00
of stuff happens all the time, but it's just
29:01
to happen on today, July 1st, which is Bobby
29:05
Bonilla day He gets his annual one point one
29:09
nine million dollars from the New York Mets Despite
29:11
not having played for them for about 30 years
29:14
at this point Shout out Legend of the game ultimate
29:19
bag chaser dude 62 years old still getting checks
29:22
from an MOET for being a player You should get
29:28
an award. I mean, it's all every July 1st. It's
29:32
a holiday. I guess that is his award. Is that
29:36
when like the cap resets for the MLB? I think
29:40
so. How does that work? I don't know exactly
29:43
why it's on this day, but I think all of these
29:46
kind of payments happen because I saw something
29:48
Max Scherzer got paid. I forget how much it was,
29:52
but pretty good chunk of change from the Nationals
29:55
today and he hasn't played there and. Many years,
29:59
so I think it with the MLB. It must be the end
30:02
of the fiscal calendar. Maybe But yeah, I sense
30:07
That makes sense. I do want to briefly touch
30:11
on another NBA thing that I heard about that
30:14
was really funny after After Durant got traded
30:18
to the to the Rockets I Believe it was a manual
30:24
at show tweeted out just something that really
30:31
doesn't even matter. It's like the the legacy
30:35
formula calculator thing and it's like championships
30:43
divided by teams played for and it's like and
30:49
you know the higher your score obviously the
30:52
bigger the legacy or something and like Kevin
30:56
Durant's score quotations is like he's played
30:59
for like five teams now with the Rockets that
31:03
makes five and he's got two championships and
31:05
it's like that's that's not even that's not even
31:09
a legacy score of one so that's kind of funny
31:14
and then like Kevin Durant clapped back at him
31:17
I don't remember what exactly what he said I
31:20
pulled it up what you're saying because I wanted
31:22
to find it exactly and he replied to Emanuel
31:25
Ocho's breakdown on whatever show he's on now
31:29
but it says quote according to the Kevin Durant's
31:32
legacy formula that was created by the best labs
31:34
at MIT Emanuel is the worst linebacker of all
31:37
time you're sure you want to listen to this guy
31:39
about greatness yeah it's just like one of those
31:44
things where it's like he really got nothing
31:45
else better to do Ever since Kevin Durant just
31:51
stopped being a burner guy, an incredible Twitter
31:55
follow. Yeah. Um, godly. People were just tearing
32:04
into Emanuel Ocho because he's stupid. It was,
32:10
you know, it's fun. I'm not, you know, I'm not
32:12
saying I'm not defending the guy. I just think
32:14
it's genuinely funny. Anytime he has a take on
32:17
something usually people come out of the woodwork
32:19
to be like who the fuck is this guy? Like you're
32:23
on like the fourth best show at Fox like stop
32:26
talking Yeah, I don't know we're slowly getting
32:32
into the sports talk Where they make shit up.
32:37
Oh There was a great one on get up The day after
32:41
the NBA draft, or the first round of it at least,
32:44
it is, are the Mavericks now the Thunder's biggest
32:48
contender to come out of the West? They just
32:51
had the number one overall draft pick. I know
32:54
Cooper Flag could be amazing, but they're like,
32:56
Cooper Flag, Anthony Davis, Gary Irving, you
32:59
never know. One of those is 19 years old. One
33:04
of them is chronically injured. The other one
33:06
is 30 years old and tore his ACL last year. They're
33:11
going to win 40 games, max. When you hear the
33:15
names. Oh, yeah. Sounds enticing. It sounds like
33:20
a not terrible take if you don't think about
33:22
it whatsoever. That's all they know, though.
33:27
Yeah. It's the name. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we
33:32
are. We are getting into the like, hey, I got
33:35
something to say. Why not say it season? of the
33:38
sports calendar. Oh, July. Maybe don't say it.
33:43
Hey, we got NFL ball this month. Technically.
33:51
We do. Yeah, we do. All fame game is the 31st.
33:56
31st, yep. All right. The Lions and the Chargers.
34:04
Lions are one and a half point favorites. What's
34:07
the total? I don't know. It's probably like 38.
34:13
I think that might be high. I usually bet the
34:18
under last year it went over. We're we're getting
34:21
there. It's the point. Oh, no, you can. It's
34:25
getting to the point where over the year where
34:28
it's like, at least for me, have a few drinks,
34:31
watch some college football highlights at like
34:34
10 o 'clock at night. kind of season. Yeah, my,
34:38
my TikTok knows that I I miss just football.
34:43
So it's been showing me a lot of like football
34:46
highlights and guess who this player is. And
34:49
it's like that super distorted, like, you know,
34:53
quarterback, I don't know, it's always fucking
34:55
Joe burrow for some reason. It just is. But yeah,
35:02
my, my algorithm knows that I do miss just football
35:07
in general. I do love those TikToks I get with
35:12
it's like guess this offense and it's and it's
35:15
like everyone kind of lined up but it's like
35:17
they're all they're like college teams and like
35:21
I really enjoy those. Those are cool. I think
35:24
about those a lot. A Titans one popped up on
35:27
my feed the other day because it had like Maryland
35:30
tight end Alabama receiver And I was like, wait
35:35
a minute. I think this is the Titans. Cause like
35:37
I can, there are a few Maryland Titans, but I
35:39
can't name that many. I was like, chig really.
35:41
And then, um, I forget there's another, it wasn't
35:44
like quarterback. Um, shit, what, who was it?
35:49
Oh, I think they had Burks as wide receiver three.
35:52
Cause it was Arkansas. And I was like, that's
35:54
wrong, but I think that's true. Yeah. I mean,
35:58
they're not wrong, but they're wrong. Um, Yeah,
36:03
you know, I mean, I guess technically he's. Yeah.
36:06
Maybe what? Yeah, yeah. Whatever. But made the
36:12
puzzle easier. I I did have one of those pop
36:15
up and I knew it was the Titans immediately with.
36:20
Texas A &M at quarterback, I was like, oh, that's
36:23
fucking Brian Tannehill. You know, it was like
36:25
a 2019 season and I was like, wow, that was like
36:29
the easiest thing I've ever seen. But OK. uh
36:33
moving on um the nhl draft happened and i have
36:38
some things to say uh it happened over the weekend
36:42
and this is going to be incredibly niche uh but
36:45
i am going to say it uh much like my my college
36:48
hockey picks takes whatever um but uh the national
36:54
predators uh they picked number five overall
36:59
and This was the highest draft pick that we have
37:04
had in 10 years. And this was a real shot at
37:09
getting a top line center, top line center, top
37:14
line player, what have you. Someone to just fucking
37:19
help this godforsaken team. And we had the number
37:26
five world pick, we were slated to take James
37:30
Hagens, who Went to BC last year was a point
37:34
-per -game player But we didn't Because he was
37:40
supposed to have more of a breakout year This
37:44
past college hockey season and he didn't and
37:48
he's also like 510 So it he they decided not
37:54
to take him even though Previous to this year's
37:59
college hockey season, he was slated to be the
38:02
number one pick. And there he was at five and
38:05
we didn't pick him and we picked Brady Martin.
38:10
I am trying really hard to love this pick. I
38:13
like the pick, but I don't love it. And I'm really
38:18
trying to love it. I don't know how much you
38:23
gents have have looked into this at all or Very
38:29
little. I just know the guy was on his farm when
38:32
we drafted him and I was like, hey, that's pretty
38:33
cool. Which I thought was cool. Oh, I thought
38:36
it was awesome. I knew nothing about this kid.
38:39
Like he could have been a scrub for all I knew.
38:41
But then I saw people in the comments pretty
38:43
much saying what Will was saying. I was like,
38:45
oh, do we not like this guy? I saw that he was
38:51
projected between the low single digits and the
38:56
middle teens. Like yeah, so taking him at five
39:01
was a surprise Yes, that was a bit of a surprise
39:06
It it kind of this is kind of my take on it,
39:11
but we At that when you're that high in the draft,
39:15
there's not really a clear cut like number one
39:20
pick like I don't think Like if the Islanders
39:24
didn't really need a defenseman, they probably
39:26
wouldn't have taken Matthew Schaefer first overall
39:29
but So this kind of this draft is a little bit
39:35
different than the other drafts it's deep but
39:38
it's not like Generational I guess it would be
39:44
the word so It felt like all right, we're not
39:51
gonna take this James Hagan's kid because he
39:54
could have done better his This this past season
39:57
and he didn't and he's 510 and he's going to
40:00
be a little bit more of a project Or we take
40:03
this brady martin kid Who's a center? Or we take
40:08
porter martone who's a winger? But he is more
40:13
like a power forward But scores goals in like
40:18
a lot scores a lot of goals this past season
40:22
he had And it was either it was it to my in my
40:26
head. It kind of came down to a tiebreaker to
40:29
Barry trots, which was Center or winger because
40:34
we're kind of getting the same player just a
40:36
different position and We well, I mean we we
40:40
fucking need a center. So let's well, let's let's
40:43
take the center and Yeah So I'm conflicted, but
40:52
he's a good player. Do you, I want to say you
40:56
dislike him, but you're not completely sold on
40:58
him because he's not the guy you thought we would
41:01
get or just because of who he is as a player.
41:04
I'm not completely sold because he is a Barry
41:09
trots guy. Okay. And you know exactly what I
41:13
mean. But when I say that, but for the folks
41:15
at home, That kind of means his compete level
41:19
is very very high, which is good. You definitely
41:21
want that But when it comes to skill It's he
41:28
has I mean it's fifth over fifth overall pick
41:30
like really I'm like like anywhere in the top
41:32
seven like that's you're you're gonna get a fantastic
41:35
player and Brady Martin is fantastic player like
41:38
he does Almost everything truthfully It's just
41:45
his skill level at almost everything is less
41:51
than just his general skill. If, if that, if
41:54
that makes sense. Um, I know exactly what you
41:58
mean. Like when you say, I mean, when you said
42:00
Barry Trost, guys like, okay, he's a, he's a
42:02
gritty guy. He's not, I mean, obviously fifth
42:04
overall, he's fantastic hockey player, but he's
42:07
not like going to blow you away with his skill.
42:10
He's just more of a, he's going to compete his
42:13
balls off every single day. Kind of guy more
42:16
so an amazing on ice talent, which He's gonna
42:20
be theoretically. He would be very good, but
42:23
he's just more of a compete guy right and I mean
42:28
dude, he scored 72 points in like 30 something
42:31
games like that's that's incredible and You know,
42:37
I keep seeing these things online that like,
42:39
you know, he was like he was on the sue st. Marie
42:41
Greyhounds and like the rest of their team was
42:45
not that great. And he was able to have over
42:49
two points per game a season. And so it's kind
42:54
of like, well, it's good, you know. That's that's
43:00
definitely something that you want. I mean, he's
43:03
a great player. Obviously, he's a great player.
43:05
It's just like, is he the right player? And then
43:09
if we're talking like, who else could we have
43:12
taken? That's a center. Roger McQueen was also
43:16
there. Anaheim took him at seven, eight, nine,
43:20
somewhere on there. Did you see his number for
43:24
the ducks that he chose? He chose 95. Yeah, yeah,
43:28
yeah, yeah. For Lightning McQueen. Fantastic.
43:32
That's just like... I love this kid. I fucking
43:37
love this kid. Yeah, I know. If we would have
43:42
gotten him, I would have bought that jersey just
43:44
for that reason. A thousand percent. Right. He
43:48
knew what he was doing and I respect it. But.
43:51
But Roger McQueen had a back injury. So and it's
43:59
kind of like I was listening to the radio. couple
44:04
like a day or two before the draft and I'm not
44:07
gonna shout out the the radio guy because we
44:09
don't like him he's kind of stupid but he did
44:14
make an excellent point when he said have you
44:17
ever met anyone that used to have a bad back
44:21
I think he said I mean it's fantastic point but
44:25
I think he said the same thing when we draft
44:26
when the Titans drafted Caleb Farley and wow
44:30
Yeah, because I was, I didn't hear his quote,
44:34
his quote on this, but I was going to say that,
44:36
like, have you ever met like, you, you never
44:39
say, Oh, I used to have a bad back. Nobody said
44:42
that nobody in the history of time has ever said
44:45
that even people that have had back surgeries,
44:48
never say so. So it's kind of like, that's more
44:54
of a gamble, even though he's a great player.
44:58
So It's it It's like if we would have gotten
45:05
Hagan's it would have been like alright. This
45:07
is our fucking guy it might take him a little
45:11
bit to make the team, but he's a skill player
45:16
and Dude name a skill player That has worked
45:23
that we have drafted that has worked out. You
45:25
can't do it because we haven't drafted We haven't
45:28
drafted a forward that has scored over 65 points
45:31
in the NHL Which is a depressing stat to hear
45:37
out loud. It's really bad. I don't know if you
45:39
guys knew David Legwand Didn't score over 65
45:44
points Rip. Okay. I mean that makes sense. He
45:49
was on some really shitty teams I know but I
45:51
thought like just the longevity aspect. I thought
45:54
yeah get one I get it but yeah, man He was on
45:58
some shitty teams. No, I, yeah, no, he was. But
46:02
I just thought whenever like something like that,
46:06
you go with the OG. Yeah, of course. But that's
46:10
that. I mean, that's why. When you think about
46:12
it, it's not shocking, but it's it's depressing.
46:16
Right. One. Brady Martin does have a legitimate
46:21
shot of making the team out of camp. I will say
46:24
that he is probably one of the more one of the
46:28
most ready NHL players. If he doesn't make the
46:32
team this year, he'll play one year max on the
46:38
Greyhounds again, and then probably play with
46:41
us, which is great, fast turnaround. Do you think
46:46
it's more likely that he'll play with the ads
46:50
to get called up this year? In my brain? When
46:58
I think about that, he wouldn't play with the
47:01
ads. They don't allow 18 -year -olds to play.
47:05
Oh, okay. They don't? No. The AHL doesn't allow...
47:10
I think it's under 20, actually. Why? Whoa. Because,
47:16
well, I mean... Is it just for the sake of juniors?
47:20
You just want that to kind of... I'm gonna say
47:24
stay alive because they would have no like it's
47:27
doing fine, but You know to I know exactly But
47:32
to my understanding is the AHL for a long time
47:36
Not so much in the past tennis years But for
47:40
a long time like the NA the the AHL was like
47:43
a fucking bruiser league like it wasn't for Development,
47:49
you know it it wasn't Fourth, it was like, dude,
47:53
you better. It was like last chance kind of thing.
47:57
Yeah. I would say last chance, but like, yeah.
48:01
You're seeing Goon. Yeah. Fantastic film. Probably,
48:05
probably like that. It was more like Goon than,
48:09
yeah, um, than it, than it has been. Um, but
48:12
they haven't, I don't think, I, I think it's
48:15
under 20. I know that they definitely don't allow
48:17
18 year olds. Um, so. But but now it's more of
48:22
a development league, but so I don't I don't
48:24
even yeah, he would go back to the Sioux but
48:27
I do he is built like a brick shithouse. I don't
48:31
know if you guys saw that he is He he is a farm
48:34
boy through and through Like like I think I've
48:54
only seen him wear cutoffs and He's looks at
48:58
just incredibly strong. He's he reminds me so
49:01
much of just like a letter Kenny character exactly
49:05
exactly and For that I love I love us. Yeah,
49:12
I do love that but you see his headshot and you're
49:15
like There's no way this guy has anything in
49:19
his head This guy probably has rocks for brains
49:22
So as long as he as long as he knows puck, that's
49:26
all it matters If he's got on if he's got on
49:30
ice IQ, that's what I care about if you can't
49:32
read I don't care Right. What do you need to
49:36
read for? If you're a professional hockey player,
49:38
do you know X do you know? Oh? There we go. Yeah,
49:43
I was like, you know X was like Yeah, he's gonna
49:47
give it to you. I was like, what are you talking
49:49
about? Sorry, but I'll I didn't know where you're
49:53
going with that I'll uh, I'll end the Brady Martin
49:58
chat with this this this reddit post I found
50:01
Brady Martin leads draft eligible eligible chl
50:05
forwards in stuff metrics aka How many trackable
50:11
events a player is involved in? And so it's kind
50:15
of like, when I zoom in, it's like, you know,
50:18
it's like an average of a lot of different metrics.
50:23
And it's like, shots blocked, drawn penalties,
50:27
penalties as well. Takeaways, hits, puck touches,
50:32
puck battles won, transitions, passes and shots.
50:37
And those are like each like an average. Gay
50:42
average per game and he leads the NHL the CHL
50:46
in that in the stuff metrics Which is you know,
50:52
Barry trots was Loving that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
50:57
very trots love stuff. He he does love he does
51:01
Yeah, I'll um, I will say a Couple more things
51:07
about the draft pred set three first round picks
51:10
The next first round pick that we had, we took
51:14
Cam Reid, a defenseman from the Kitchener Rangers.
51:18
Very good, very, very good defenseman prospect.
51:22
The problem is, he is left -handed. Right now,
51:29
actually, at the time, we have Roman Yossi, Brady
51:33
Shea, and I guess Jeremy Lazon on the left, and
51:37
it's like, our left side. It's fantastic. And
51:43
then we drafted this Kam Reid guy. He's left
51:48
-handed. We don't need a left -handed defenseman.
51:51
Also, not to mention, we have Tanner Mollendike
51:55
in the system. Probably might make the NHL team
51:59
after training camp. He's been in the CHL for
52:05
two or three years now, and he's... He's one
52:08
of the best defensemen in the league, also left
52:12
handed. And so it's like, what do we what do
52:16
we do in here? And so that one left me a little
52:22
bit puzzled. And I was like, Okay, we're fine.
52:26
We're going to draft another player in a couple
52:30
more picks. And that player will be a right handed
52:34
defenseman, preferably. I had my eye on this
52:37
guy, Chris. This guy, if we would have drafted
52:42
him, would have been the first NHL player, if
52:49
he would have made it to the team. First NHL
52:51
player from Nashville. Oh, fuck, that'd be awesome.
52:57
You're not going to believe who it is. Born in
53:00
Nashville, son of Vernon Fiddler. Blake fiddler
53:08
Pred's legend verne fiddler. Yes. I mean legend
53:14
verne. He is a he is kind of a legend Hey, you
53:16
scored that goal in the playoffs. Not even joking.
53:19
Not even joking. Yes, no for but yeah, obviously
53:23
legend like Trox coached his daddy Yeah, and
53:28
we didn't get him that would have been awesome.
53:31
It would have been awesome and also we need right
53:36
-handed defensemen. We need them. We drafted
53:42
this, I already forgot, Riker Lee, a left -winger
53:48
from the U .S. shell. He's pretty good. That
53:52
one's more of a project, I would say, but he
53:57
does have that high -end skill, which is cool,
54:00
but it'll be a while before he makes the team.
54:04
That was the first round. And then, um, one last
54:10
thing, uh, I was paying attention to the second
54:13
round because I knew we had two second round
54:14
picks and I was like, yo, Blake Fiddler is still
54:18
on the board. The predators pick was up. We had
54:21
like the third pick of the, the, the second day
54:23
of the draft. I was like, Blake Fiddler is on
54:26
the board. He's six, four. He's a right -handed
54:28
defenseman. He's he's a great player. You've
54:33
got to be gritty as hell. He seemed like his
54:35
dad. He's more of a shut down guy, which I mean,
54:41
fuck, we need it. We need we need a good player.
54:44
We need a lot of things. We need a good player,
54:49
OK? But then we drafted another left handed defenseman.
54:57
So where are we going to put them all? I don't
55:01
know. Just don't even line up at right. It's
55:06
just too left. Is there a rule against that?
55:09
Right side's weak, left side strong. Yeah. And
55:14
so the draft left me underwhelmed, I would say.
55:22
It's kind of like... Well, it's a draft. It's
55:26
a draft and these guys are 18 years old. Maybe
55:31
none of them will work out. I hope not. But,
55:35
um, that's the spirit. I mean, dude, it's, it's
55:40
so much different than like, like the NHL where
55:43
you're drafting 18 year old kids. You really
55:47
don't know if they're going to work out. Like
55:49
it's the, and the draft, like a draft at any
55:54
sport has always kind of been like that. But
55:56
like with, with the NHL, like, yo, they're so
55:59
young. Like it's yeah, it's NHL and MLB are both
56:04
like you're drafting children and you're like,
56:07
we're not, we may not hear from our first round
56:10
draft pick for another three years. Right. And
56:13
then baseball, it's kind of like, if you're lucky.
56:16
Right. So the draft left me puzzled and I was
56:20
like, okay, um, moving off the draft, I was like,
56:25
all right, we're going to get down to free agency.
56:27
There's probably not. We're I mean, we're probably
56:30
not gonna make it another big splash again but
56:33
do something And then a couple of days ago. That
56:39
was actually yesterday The Nashville Predators
56:44
traded away Colton Sissons and Jeremy las on
56:46
for Nick Hague on Vegas And Nick Hague is a good
56:50
player we resigned him to a to a deal Chris do
56:55
you care to guess? the handedness and position
57:00
of Nick Hague. I would assume that he is a left
57:05
-handed defenseman. He is. He is a left -handed
57:07
defenseman. Let's go. So, I have no earthly idea
57:14
what Barry Trotz is doing. Do we have a right
57:19
-handed defenseman on the team? We have borderline
57:23
AHLers. As as our right as our right side on
57:27
defense and it's I don't know what we're gonna
57:30
do I don't this makes zero sense to me. We trade
57:33
away Colton Sissons who's been the backbone of
57:35
our penalty kill for So fucking long and we just
57:39
trade it was just give them away. Well, we didn't
57:41
give them away. We got a good we got a good player
57:43
Yeah, there's not this Don't get it twisted.
57:46
We got Nick Higgs a great player But like and
57:50
we need a good player We need a good player but
57:54
like At the right spots brother. Well, I mean
57:59
What what do you think about Roman Yossi's like
58:04
injury his diagnosis What it what I can't remember
58:08
what it was called. It's called pots. Yeah pots
58:12
Essentially it's like a Kind of in simpler terms
58:20
they get when they stand up or move a lot to
58:25
get really lightheaded. I get that like every
58:28
day. Good thing you don't do that a lot in hockey.
58:30
Yeah. And so, um, but - Two funny jokes I said
58:36
at the same time. Upon a kind of, I know someone
58:43
with pots and kind of what she went through and
58:47
what I kind of looked up. It's kind of like,
58:50
if you manage it well, if you take your medication,
58:52
if you eat right, if you, you know, exercise,
58:55
it's not too much of a big deal. Um, but I will
59:01
say, you know, he's not getting any younger.
59:04
Uh, and that's definitely going to make things
59:05
harder. So, I mean, and he always plays like
59:10
a ton of minutes. So that could be, that could
59:16
be kind of why. We got Hague maybe just roll
59:22
Roll three pairs a little bit more rather than
59:26
having Yossi do everything. So that's um, that's
59:30
that's a That's good. That's a good point John
59:33
But the Nashville Predators did sign Nick Pervix
59:38
today Did see that? Right -handed defenseman.
59:44
There we go. He's a Here we come, Stanley Cup.
59:49
He's a good player. He's a fine player. Yes,
59:54
he's good and fine. He's fine. So he's competent.
1:00:02
So that's really all we can ask for right now,
1:00:04
which is a sad thing to say. But yeah, that's
1:00:09
Nashville Predator's talk. Another weird thing
1:00:14
about the draft. And then we'll move off from
1:00:17
the draft. I was, I watched pretty much the whole
1:00:20
first round. Um, and the, the first pick happened,
1:00:24
the Islanders pick Schaefer and Schaefer, like
1:00:26
he, um, his mom had a battle with cancer and
1:00:30
she passed. And then like, they, they were like,
1:00:34
they, they picked him and then they had a special
1:00:36
Jersey for him with the cancer ribbon on it.
1:00:38
And then they, they brought him over to like
1:00:40
a zoom call thing. Uh, and he had like a zoom.
1:00:46
impromptu kind of chat with the the Islanders
1:00:49
front office and It was like super nice super
1:00:53
heartwarming super great And then they just like
1:00:57
kept doing it with each and every pick so That
1:01:02
got really weird and the rat the first round
1:01:06
took like five hours It didn't take five hours.
1:01:09
It took like four, but it was it was dragging
1:01:13
it was It was it was rough like the four pick
1:01:18
goes and It's the the Utah The Utah Mammoth they
1:01:25
pick their team. They pick their player They
1:01:28
do the the zoom thing and I'm like I and I'm
1:01:31
like I'm just I'm clamoring to see who were about
1:01:34
to pick and then we picked the farm kid who's
1:01:36
not even there ESPN or whatever fucking channel
1:01:41
it was on didn't even show a single highlight
1:01:46
Like fair weather NHL fans like Like like if
1:01:50
you're a national predators fan, you're like,
1:01:51
hey, what are we gonna pick? And then we picked
1:01:53
this kid is like, oh, okay. Well What show me
1:01:57
some highlights didn't show a single highlight
1:01:59
much like cam ward got overshadowed by the trade
1:02:03
with Jacksonville Jaguars to get that second
1:02:06
pick And they were just talking about that the
1:02:09
whole time they they were just talking about
1:02:11
how Brady Martin was on the farm and that No,
1:02:14
no no highlights, no nothing. I was like, what
1:02:17
the fuck is this? And he doesn't he doesn't get
1:02:19
a zoom call with the with Barry. And I'm like,
1:02:25
what is what is happening right now? They're
1:02:30
storing to do. Yeah. It was like right after
1:02:39
Brady Martin gets gets drafted. It's like a tweet
1:02:42
and it's like just the clip of Wayne from letter
1:02:47
candy goes, well, back to charring. And assuming
1:02:52
that's kind of just what happened, which is funny
1:02:56
and kind of cool. But also I want to see my players
1:02:59
highlights when they get trapped. I want to know,
1:03:03
show me something cool. Show me why should I
1:03:07
be excited? I don't live on a farm. I don't care
1:03:12
about that shit. So, um, sorry, I'll, uh, I'll
1:03:16
shut up. Excuse me. I have a hockey question.
1:03:22
Okay. Um, what are the odds that David gets traded
1:03:25
this year? Uh, slim to none. Maybe it depends
1:03:34
on. I, I don't, I don't really see him moving,
1:03:37
but I mean, If anything's possible, I guess he's
1:03:42
not if he's not going to resign, which I mean,
1:03:46
why wouldn't you just went back to back cup finals
1:03:49
like it? Yeah, he's a free agent after this year.
1:03:57
So there's two I've heard people talking about
1:04:01
this. There's two kind of things to to think
1:04:05
about. when you're talking about McDavid possibly
1:04:07
moving. And that's, you know, one, when you're
1:04:15
trying to show him, like, hey, you need to stay,
1:04:19
like, you know, by signing free agents. And then
1:04:23
a lot of people are saying, well, like, you don't
1:04:25
have to kind of blow your wad here. You can make
1:04:30
a trade at the trade deadline, get more value
1:04:33
out of it, get a player that You know already
1:04:36
has term where you don't have to pay to overpay
1:04:40
someone uh for for what they um For what they
1:04:43
do And so it's like okay. There's a little more
1:04:46
Kind of value when you do it that way. You could
1:04:48
probably get a better deal um by trading something
1:04:52
rather than uh, just throwing throwing a money
1:04:55
bag at someone so there was that and then Another
1:05:02
kind of thing to think about is mcdavid's not
1:05:05
gonna get really a better shot anywhere else
1:05:11
like when you think about who he's currently
1:05:13
playing with and in leon it's like okay you're
1:05:18
only really getting an upgrade if you go to colorado
1:05:24
or like toronto essentially if you ring chase
1:05:28
right and with what you're getting paid that's
1:05:32
just not gonna happen. That's just that's not
1:05:33
how the NHL works. And so it's kind of like,
1:05:38
yeah, he could leave, but why would you, you
1:05:41
know, it's you've already, they've already established
1:05:44
something like, they have have, they have great,
1:05:47
they have really good players, like, they traded
1:05:50
away Corey Perry. So now if they go to the final
1:05:52
again, they won't win. Right. They won't lose.
1:06:00
They will. They trade him away. I thought he
1:06:03
I thought he was a free agent. I thought he resigned
1:06:05
or I thought he signed somewhere else today.
1:06:08
He did. He signed with L .A. All right. L .A.
1:06:11
to trade away. Let me bet that real quick. Did
1:06:14
I say traded? I thought so. I think he did. I
1:06:17
don't know. But he's no longer on the team. Yeah,
1:06:19
he's not anymore. OK, that's the important thing.
1:06:22
So right now. And so. It is kind of like a why
1:06:29
would you what you can't really get get on a
1:06:33
better team like With like so they've they already
1:06:39
have they have Leon they have I mean if Zach
1:06:41
Hyman was still on the team like was it didn't
1:06:44
get injured there's a possibility that they could
1:06:47
have won like Like he's he's such a driver on
1:06:51
that on that line on that first line. So it's
1:06:54
it's incredibly like Like difficult to say but
1:07:00
also at the same time like do you why would you
1:07:03
leave like? It's like with the cap going up as
1:07:08
well. It's like Dude, they're on the bag, you
1:07:12
know Another bag I guess or maybe try and talk
1:07:15
to him be like hey if you take you know Maybe
1:07:18
just like a little bit more instead of like a
1:07:21
lot more we can like get More players that are
1:07:27
good. So I feel like if I'm the GM or I'm just
1:07:32
like, if we need like if we want to keep him
1:07:36
here, we got to get a fucking goalie. Oh, yeah.
1:07:40
Yeah. Like that's got to be step one. I feel
1:07:43
like because I was listening to Ryan Whitney's
1:07:48
interview on a PMT today and he was saying this
1:07:51
is the second year in a row. The other starting
1:07:54
goaltender has been benched in the playoffs.
1:07:58
multiple times. You don't win cups with that.
1:08:04
So it's like you got to get like a like a cup
1:08:07
winning caliber at least goalie. I feel like
1:08:11
that has to be stepped like even if like it wasn't
1:08:15
a contract here for McDavid you should be doing
1:08:17
that. Right. It did kind of seem like they're
1:08:22
kind of doing things on the fly. when they were
1:08:25
building the team, at least over the past couple
1:08:27
of years. So, um, and, uh, it's, it's also like
1:08:33
incredibly tough to predict how goalies are going
1:08:36
to play. I mean, like you'll get Connor Hellebuck,
1:08:38
like he's amazing in the regular season, but
1:08:41
he takes a shit in his pants in the playoffs.
1:08:43
Go get Bennington. I mean, just, and don't play
1:08:45
him until the playoffs. Right. And so it's, it's
1:08:51
like hockey players will talk like, you know,
1:08:53
The postseason is almost a Totally different
1:08:57
season like you can read a different animal.
1:08:59
Yeah, you can rewrite your regular season by
1:09:04
dad like just doing the like showing up in the
1:09:07
playoffs like it's It's there's a lot of fans
1:09:11
and butts so Who's to say? Yeah, but I mean,
1:09:18
but I did not know Corey Perry signed with the
1:09:21
Kings today, so I will be putting half a unit
1:09:24
on them at plus a thousand to win the West next
1:09:26
season. Jesus Christ. That seems like a waste
1:09:31
of money, honestly. That seems like a great investment.
1:09:37
All he does is win conference championships.
1:09:41
He signs with good teams and then makes it. the
1:09:46
canadians i don't know if you could call them
1:09:48
uh okay he got lucky he got lucky with the canadians
1:09:51
in that bubble he got lucky with the canadians
1:09:54
but with the stars and the lightning correct
1:10:00
yes yeah yeah because i didn't want it that year
1:10:05
yeah and then wait i saw this area hold on Okay,
1:10:13
we got it. Two seasons of the Oilers, the Stars,
1:10:20
the... We're running out of time here. Okay,
1:10:23
two seasons of the Oilers, Lightning, Canadians,
1:10:27
Stars. Five years in a row. Kings are next up.
1:10:34
That seems like a great investment. He didn't
1:10:36
have a Stanley Cup final appearance from 2020.
1:10:42
to 2000 from 2007 to 2020. Okay. I got to ride
1:10:48
the hot hand though, man. I don't know. I feel
1:10:52
like, I feel like five is a good number to end
1:10:56
on. It's a great middle of the pack number where
1:10:59
it's not going to happen again, but just think,
1:11:02
just think we're here. I'm thinking correctly.
1:11:06
We're here. We're here a year from now. the Los
1:11:10
Angeles Kings are in lose the state and loosen
1:11:13
in seven in the cup final and we're sitting here
1:11:17
not betting it like Motherfucker all right right
1:11:20
there Chris if this if the Kings make the Stanley
1:11:24
Cup finals and lose I Will do something that
1:11:29
you want me to do? right now I Have to pick right
1:11:34
now. Yeah, you would no no, but I'm saying Whatever
1:11:38
you want me to do if you want to spend 24 hours
1:11:41
at a Waffle House or do some type of punishment
1:11:44
I will do that All right, I'm very confident
1:11:47
that this stick that the Kings will not make
1:11:50
the Stanley Cup Finals I'll take that bet. I'm
1:11:53
also gonna put half a unit to do it. They're
1:11:56
not that they are fifth in the odd and to win
1:12:01
the to win the West on Fandel Behind a good team
1:12:07
behind the stars as Oilers and Golden Knights.
1:12:12
Those are four better. Those are four far better
1:12:16
teams. There is a steep drop off from four to
1:12:19
five. Don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying
1:12:22
plus a thousand to make it six in a row. This
1:12:26
will be like this will be one bet where I'm like,
1:12:29
I won't even sweat it. I feel like I mean, just
1:12:33
for the parody of it, I got for half a unit on
1:12:35
it. Sure. Okay. Well, we'll think of some sort
1:12:39
of punishment. When the time comes. We'll pick
1:12:45
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1:12:49
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