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Mike Palm from Circa Sports, Scott Reister on "Baseball Spy" & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Our number 2 welcome back, It's Miller and Condon on the Iowa
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Sports Radio Network. Load everybody out there,
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flagship one O 6.3 KX&O along with our stations in Sioux City,
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the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
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Hello to all of you. Joined today by David Eichel,
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hawkeyeinsider.com. Got some more things coming up
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later on this hour. We'll be joined by Scott Reister
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and talk a little bit about him, some of the comings and goings
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along with a book signing with his book that's been out
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favorite of my youngster at home as we read through that one last
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summer. He'll join us here at about 1:25
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and then my pics of the day presented by Circa Sports.
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Speaking of Circa, right now we go to Las Vegas.
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He is the VP of operations. He is Mike Palm and Iowa native.
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And Mike, my cohort. Not today, David I Colt, my
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normal one. Ken Miller.
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He's hanging out in Dubuque this weekend and going over to Galena
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and doing some antiquing. Sounds like a perfect weekend
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for Ken Miller. Yeah, the antiquing sounds just
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really exciting. Galena's a nice little town, so
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maybe Ken Ken can step up and visit my mom in Dubuque.
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That would be good. Yeah.
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They're staying in Dubuque, making the drive over every day,
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though to Galena. He seemed really excited when he
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was leaving, I'll tell you that yesterday afternoon.
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But if if you got any maybe ideas for him in Dubuque,
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though, maybe shoot him a text and get him up to date on some
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of the fun things over there on the river.
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Well, Mike, we get a game seven in the NBA and as we go through
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last night, it was a great start by the Thunder and then very
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quickly the Pacers gained control.
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In a game like that, that gets so big of a blowout, that means
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a huge muddy line for in game betting.
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In an NBA game like that, do you see the volume go down
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significantly or people looking for that big price, do they just
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start firing on the muddy line and saying that's the NBA, maybe
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there can be a comeback? What did you guys see last night
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in terms of live betting? The live betting was mostly on
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OKC. It it it was as people thought
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that they would still come back and win the game and obviously
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could get them at reduced point spread and then you could start
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getting a plus points and he started getting plus double
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digit points. So really though, we've seen
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most of the the pregame action on Indiana in this series.
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So it did balance it out a little bit because we were a
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decent loser to the to the side last night.
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Is that line what I thought was going to go up to seven,
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actually got that down to 5 1/2? Yeah, there was a lot of steam
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that seemed like it was coming in yesterday on the Pacers,
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which was surprising. And well, here we go.
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We get a game 7/7 and 1/2 the number.
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It's been fluctuating a couple of different places out there.
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Where are you guys currently at circa in terms of the point
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spread for Game 7? We opened at 8:00 last night and
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it's down to seven right now. Wow, I was going to say too,
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man. I mean, looking at this series
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too, I know a couple people that have some futures on the Pacers
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and I'm talking they had it before the playoffs.
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So that's going to be a really nice payday.
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So between the futures are potentially on the Pacers versus
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Thunder, I guess what does, what does Circa want to happen?
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What would they prefer to happen?
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But I'm kind of curious what the kind of risk reward factor is
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with all the Pacers potential futures on it.
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Yeah, We have a few tickets out there.
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We have 1 ticket got about $100 at 130 to 1.
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I think that was back in late February.
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So the big tickets are out there.
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Not many people bet futures on OKC because the price got so
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drastic with their margins of victory early in the year.
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They dropped really quickly. So for the future book we
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definitely need. OK, See, I have a friend that
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has $50 at 100 to one on the Pacers and he says how do I
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hedge it? Do I have to bet OKC money line
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because I lay 7? I can lose both ways.
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I said I would just bet SGA -190 for MVP because if I think with
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the game Jalen Williams had last night, the -40 yeah, Finals
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performance A+ minus since they tracked this in 1994, something
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I think I was reading. I don't think he could win it.
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So I I think a cleaner way is just to lay the 190 with SGA to
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hedge your pacer ticket. So let's say Indiana pulls off
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the shocker instead of you wanting them to just bet him on
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the money line and getting what, around 2:00 to 1:00?
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Siakam News I I see around 4:00 to 1:00 at a couple of different
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shops out there. Halliburton at 11 to 1.
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Is there anybody else You could even make a case on the Pacers
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if if they have a ridiculous game seven that can maybe steal
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the MVP award? So JBT Jonathan von Tobel, who I
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do just on his show with Stormy, actually just this morning laid
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190 on SGA and took 370 on Siaka because he doesn't believe
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anybody else can get win the award.
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And it's, you know, Siaka won the Eastern Conference and he's
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played much better in this series than he did in the in the
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finals, than he did in the Eastern Conference finals.
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So he said he'd be really. He thinks it's A and our bet
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that you can't lose, really. Yeah, I kind of like that theory
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behind it. I.
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Was really hoping TJ could find a way to do it.
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It would remind me so much of like Andre Iguodala back when
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you the Warriors, when when Iggy got that one.
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He's I see one shop has about 100 to 1.
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Can you? You can't come up with a
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situation though where? If he drops 40 in a game,
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winner. Man, it would probably take that
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though when it might I. Mean 101, Yeah.
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Yeah, it might take more than that.
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That's that's where we are. So NH LS in the books, You're a
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big hockey guy. The better team won, no doubt
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about it. Watching that series with the
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Panthers, I was surprised because I heard heard about some
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salary cap issues next season for the Edmonton Oilers.
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Yes, McDavid and Dry Saddle are going to be back, but I don't
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think there's any way they're going to be able to fix that
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goalkeeping that they're the betting favorite a lot of places
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looking next year for hockey. Who did you like?
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So, you know, I really don't make Stanley Cup bets at this
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point. I'm more honed in on to make
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playoffs and I'll wait, I'll wait for the draft as well.
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I, you know, I've talked to Ken for a few years about Ottawa and
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we finally got there this year to make the playoffs, I think.
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And the price is going to be reduced because once Quinnville
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signed, but I've been watching the Ducks and I think the ducks
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are really a team on the on the come up.
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And so I'll probably my my preseason bet will be a yes,
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Ducks playoff ticket rather than, you know, I think it's
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impossible to bet these teams at 7-8 and nine to why win the
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Stanley Cup even even when you're heading to the playoffs?
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I mean, I just I just don't think that makes any sense.
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We opened Colorado and Florida as Co favorites with Edmonton
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and Carolina. I think 8 to one in Edmonton and
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Carolina, 9 to one. Those were sort of the four
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short shots. I'd I'd have to look a little
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deeper into people's contract situations before I got too
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involved in the markets, but just Anaheim's my team for right
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now. Interesting.
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Well, that's the one that you told us before the year I jumped
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aboard. So I'm going to jump aboard with
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you again and I'll be playing the Ducks again coming up next
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season. All right, Mike, want to talk
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some baseball with you. But before that one on the WNBA
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last night, just a dreadful performance in the second-half
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and really starting in the second quarter out of the fever.
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My question is, I jumped in the Caitlin Clark MVP market when
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she was injured. I got her a + 290 at Circa and
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then and I think it went even a little bit higher than that
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before she came back. I think it peaked at 3:15.
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Collier's banged up. She's the betting favorite.
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Is there anybody else anything that you can make a case in that
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market for WNBA and VP? No, Collier's the best player,
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but the injury situation is going to be a factor with her.
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Obviously I don't, you know, if Collier plays, you know, 34 plus
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games or 32 plus games, she's probably going to win it.
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I understand taking a shot with Caitlin at around 3:00 to 1:00
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because, you know, however you want to define MVP, I mean,
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there's a lot of other levels that she's very valuable on in
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terms of the marketing of the league, obviously, and the
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growth of the league that you could take into that, into that
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conversation if you still wanted to.
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I tell you what my impression of the season has been, is, is that
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this Atlanta Dream team is for real.
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Yep, They're vastly improved. I got, I got them at -170 to
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make the playoffs after five games.
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Now they're like -3 dollars something.
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But I think, I think the Atlanta Dream might be the third best
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team in the league, behind it the Liberty and the Links.
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Yeah, I was going to say the dream.
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I know a lot of people are down on them.
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I I got a fever future to win it all.
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I I thought it was good hedging material.
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I got plus 1300. That's a good.
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I mean I have good value on it, but you know going from W MB I
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want to localize it a little bit because I'm very curious what
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the way Vegas is looking at this Iowa team because before you
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know they got Mark Granowski and all the other transfer portal
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editions. I originally thought the over
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under for wins Trent you know I was much more down on them.
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I thought it was going to be like 5 1/2.
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I was surprised to open at 7:00 half, but but now I kind of see
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things unfold. I see the vision.
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So I'm just curious the way kind of your your books looking right
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now as far as Iowa regular season wins over under 7 1/2.
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Because the closer it seems like it's getting the season, the
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more people are kind of hopping aboard that, you know, this is a
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team that can win 8 or 9 games. Well, I would be surprised if
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they won eight or nine games. We were at 7 1/2 as well.
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We haven't seen a lot of action on college football win totals.
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It's more been on teams to win national championship.
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We just had a guy come in and and bet four different teams for
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six figures this week. I got to pull up this ticket
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because I I thought it was very the bet the the bet was very
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interesting to me. He bet was three teams.
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I'm sorry, he bet Texas plus 550, Penn State plus $7.00 and
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Clemson plus $12.00, all for six figures.
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So that obviously will move those prices.
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Now. And that Clemson ticket, he
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could have got that a while back at a lot better price than it is
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currently. Definitely the hey, I had one
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for you. I know you guys see a lot there
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in Vegas on USCI. Looked through their schedule.
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They have two kind of tricky spots, but with bye weeks in
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front of it, they have to go to Oregon, they have to go to Notre
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Dame. It's a difficult schedule, but
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just looking at them to make the playoffs, I think I saw
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yesterday a number at like plus 550.
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I think there's a path as long as they pull off one of those
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big Rd. upsets that even 9 and three, they might be in the
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conversation. Have you guys seen anything at
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all on USC? We get USC is one of the popular
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teams here, so we always take action.
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There's one guy that always comes in and that's USC win
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totals over. He bets like 2530 thousand.
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He bets their win total over win conference and make playoffs
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every year. So we always get, you know, some
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of that kind of localized because LA is sort of a local
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market for us. But outside of that, I haven't
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seen much sharp action on USC. One more college football 1 for
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me and it deals with the Big 12 as we saw a year ago, pick
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glass, Arizona State, nobody wanted them.
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They win the conference and do it convincingly of what they
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were able to do. It feels like at least
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initially, this is going to be a conference where it's going to
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be topsy turvy who can win the close games, those kind of
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things. If any sharks started to fire at
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the Big 12, any big bets that have come in to win the
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conference championship this year?
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Because if you're looking deep down, I mean you're looking at
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prices and without the heavy heads that you have in the SEC
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in the Big 10, boy, it feels like there's big opportunity in
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the Big 12 to get a couple of nice tickets in your back, back
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pocket. And while I looked it up, I have
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to tell you a story, Trent. We had a conversation with Dan
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Mullen last night. He stopped down to Circa and of
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course, Derek's one of the sponsors of UNLV.
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So he came down and talked about and his GM was this young lady
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that used to work for Nick Saban.
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They came down and sort of laid out their game plan and what
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they're looking to do and it's kind of a six year plan.
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But I asked him, I said, you know, it's really hard to leave
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it ATV gig. I mean, you look at a guy like
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Chris Peterson, he's had a lot of offers.
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He said I probably had a dozen offers over the last two years.
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It had to be a really exceptional 1.
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And why it was for me, for you and I'll be because this team
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will be in the Big 12. And I think that's a conference
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that, you know, in three years I could get this program to win
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the Big 12 and be in the playoffs.
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And so I think there's a big opportunity going to the Big 12
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that you could take a team and make a run, he said.
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You know, before, before Coach Odom went to Purdue, Purdue
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called me and I said, hi, I can't get a team to the playoffs
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at Purdue because I'm going to have to compete against Ohio
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State in the Big 10 every year in Oregon.
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And that's just an impossible situation.
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But the Big 12 is a more wide open field.
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It's an interesting theory. So maybe he's got a little more
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info than we do. That would be good.
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What UNLV Speaking of that sound like they were going to join up
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with a go with a bunch of different ways, but then Reno
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was kind of no matter, Reno was kind of holding them up.
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Is it a late legislative thing out there in Nevada that's kind
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of holding up a possible move with UNLV?
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UNLV is, is tied to the Mountain West and, and, and certain deal
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points that they have with the conference.
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And I think they're negotiating some trying to get more
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championship games held in Las Vegas.
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That would be better revenue opportunities for the community
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is I think what's holding it up a little bit.
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But I think it's going to be inevitable that at some point
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they're going to make the move and that they're going to need
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to make the move to bring the program to national prominence.
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The most action we've had on the Big 12 is on Kansas State so
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far, and we've had a little bit on Texas Tech.
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Texas Tech with that big payroll I.
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Was going to save 55,000,000 across everything apparently.
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You think it would go? Allegedly.
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We'll see. How that one goes.
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Hey, wrap it up with this. A baseball.
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You guys were of course in Omaha last week.
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I just recap a little bit one final time.
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We talked to you when you were at Rocco's a week ago.
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Just overall your guys's trip to Omaha for the College World
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Series. Omaha was an unbelievable
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experience. What a great atmosphere there.
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All the fan bases get along very well.
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The town really comes to life for that 10 days or so.
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I have to tell you, though, I'm a little disappointed in the
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product of college baseball watching these games, The lack
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of fundamentals defensively, not hitting a cut off man.
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They're not tracking the fly balls very well.
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The simple layers by the infield.
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I don't. It's not that the kids can't
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bump if they don't know how to react to a bunch.
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I mean, they don't know who's charging.
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I don't know how many butts for sacrifices that kids have made
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in this World Series that have gone for base hits because the
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defense wasn't ready on how to move around.
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So that's the only disappointing thing to me.
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Maybe it's because I watch too much Major League Baseball and I
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expect all these things to just be routine, But the games have
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certainly been exciting. There's been a lot of drama, a
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lot of comebacks, and almost every games been a close game.
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I think there's only been two blowouts the whole time, and so
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should be a heck of a final series.
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Here's a team, Coastal Carolina. They've won 26 consecutive
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baseball games and they're an underdog.
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Seems impossible. That it does LSU Coastal
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Carolina to wrap things up and we wrap it up with you.
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Mike Palm is always appreciate your time and counting down the
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days. We'll be there in a month for
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Big 10 football media days and I'm going to show David Eichold
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circa. We're going to hang out on that
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Tuesday night. Looking forward to it and
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looking forward to seeing you again soon, Mike.
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Yeah, I look forward to see you guys too.
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Have a great weekend. You too, Mike.
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Mike Palm, VP of Operations at Circa Sports, joining us as he
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does basically each and every Friday look in the markets.
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And David, the one thing you asked about Game 7, interesting,
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they got a couple of those big Pacer tickets that are there.
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They're Pacer fans on Sunday night.
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I mean, it's going to be really, I really hope this lives up to
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the hype, but I will say I'm happy that this playoff series
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has been so I had Thunder and six before the before it
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started, I thought the Pacers were playing really well.
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And again, I think they're the most connected team in
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basketball. I don't think you can argue it.
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I love the Thunder. I think the Thunder the deepest
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team. But that 3 point shot ain't
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falling. And Chet Holmgren puts up
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another stinker. It's going to be tough for them
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to win. Man it, it really, really is.
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But really quick, man. I got to say, I tell everybody,
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I don't care if you don't care about college baseball.
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I don't care if you don't like any team that's in the College
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World Series. You got to go at least once.
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It's been 20 years since I've been.
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It is so so so fun. How old were you 20 years ago?
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Do we have to talk about that? I was 9.
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I turned 13 under a month trend. Good.
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No. Then he can become an old man.
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No. Yes, that's the cut off.
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No. Yep.
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Just you gotta accept that there's nothing you can do.
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Well, obviously, but like not looking forward to it.
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You can still have fun when you're old.
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That's not I mean. I like that fun. 8.
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It's all. Right.
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Don't, don't make me, don't make me overthink all of this on the
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air. Trent Condon, not ready for it.
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But yes, go, go to the College World Series, go to Omaha.
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It's a perfect city for what the event is, and it's perfectly
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laid out for it too. Coming up next, we got Scott
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Reister. He's going to join us.
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We're going to talk about a book signing coming up for him and a
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few other insurance and outs happening on the local scene
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here in the state of Iowa. Scott Reister, sports anchor
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here in central Iowa. He'll join us next.
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Plus, my picks of the day Coming up at the end of the show.
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David Eichelt hanging out with me.
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Today, It's Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Making our way through a Friday, Miller and Connor continues on
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the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Ken Miller antiquing in Galena.
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No, I'm not joking. David Icolt in for Ken today.
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Now you haven't had to worry about antiquing.
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I'll tell you what, to each their own.
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Yeah, I I respect it, and if it brings some joy, I fully support
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it. I guess since you called me an
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old man last segment because I turned 30, maybe I'll have a
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different perspective in about a month.
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You'll get there, you'll get there.
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I don't think it's at the top of Ken's list, either.
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See, He's filling up that bucket, though, with his wife.
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Because football season is right.
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Around yeah, that's that's probably a smart thing as well.
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But I mean, Trent, I was going to say you've known me long
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enough. Like, do you really think that
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that would be in my wheelhouse of interest?
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Well. Maybe a change evolve, you get
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old. Scott Reister knows what.
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An introduction who joins us here from Central Iowa sports
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anchor. Mr. Reister, good to talk to you
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today. And and you said before we came
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on the air, you're doing yard work today.
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Goodness gracious. It was, it rained this morning.
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It was nice. It was cool.
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Yeah. You got to get it done, you
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know, got to look good. You remind me I need to get the
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lawn mowed myself this evening because I guess softball
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tournament coming up this weekend.
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And that sags into the other thing that you do.
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You are an author and baseball spy, Something that I read with
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my daughter last summer. A great read for for youngsters
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out there, just for baseball fans.
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We've talked to you before about it, but for people maybe hearing
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about the book for the first time, take us a little bit into
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the background of you being a sports anchor here in central
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Iowa. What made you become an author?
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Yeah, and hello Eiko. Long time no see.
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Been a. Busy week, man.
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Yeah, it's been fun. Yeah.
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So this has been a dream come true for me.
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Growing up in Dallas, TX, I used to have this fantasy when I was
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playing outfield. Like if we lost the game,
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somebody would blow everybody up and we'd all die.
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So it was like, this Little League is life or death.
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That's where my Daydream went. And so like, I always wanted to
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write that book. And like 10 years, maybe nine
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years ago, I really got after it and learned how to write just a
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little bit each day and got a got a draft done, made it
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better, got a literary agent, got a book deal.
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And like 8 years later I had this book out and it was the
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number one new released on Amazon last summer.
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It was like just a total dream come true.
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It's about a little leaguer who finds out one of his teammates
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is actually an evil cyber spy. He's got to figure out who on
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his teammate is trying to download these secrets to get
19:57
everybody killed. And then he's got to find this
19:59
device, find a spy, keep winning in order to survive.
20:02
And so it's sort of launched this whole summer book tour last
20:04
summer. It kind of going into this
20:06
summer. Also, it's a three book deal.
20:08
Football Spy is coming out hopefully November.
20:10
It's all done on my end. So yeah, it's been it's been
20:14
awesome. It's been super, super fun to to
20:16
just see all the things happening and taking off.
20:18
And you have an event coming up here in a couple of weeks,
20:20
Saturday, July 25th over at the Field of Dreams.
20:24
How awesome is that, Scott? Yes, it's unbelievable.
20:26
Yes, Saturday, July 5th. So in just two weeks from
20:29
Saturday, and this is a perfect time to come on yourself, show
20:32
and tell our listeners about it. Because if you're looking for
20:34
something awesome to do on the day after 4th of July and you
20:38
were just talking about College World Series, something you got
20:40
to go do. Well, Field of Dreams sitting
20:42
right over there in northeast Iowa, about a three hour drive
20:45
from Des Moines. Yeah.
20:46
The Dyersville Public Library, the James Kennedy Library called
20:50
me up and they asked me to come to an event.
20:52
And we partnered that with Steal the Dreams.
20:55
And so they're doing a ghost game at 1:00.
20:57
And it's exactly what you think it is.
20:59
You know, just like in the movie, the, the ghost players
21:01
come out of the corn and they play a game and it's high jinx.
21:04
And then that's that's an hour from 1:00 to 2:00.
21:07
It's totally free. Just bring a blanket.
21:09
And then at 2:30, Yeah, we're doing a book talk.
21:11
I'll, you know, teach all the kids about baseball spy.
21:14
We're going to play some games, teach them some fun creative
21:16
writing stuff for all ages. It's totally free, so if you're
21:19
looking for an excuse to go check out Field of Dreams, check
21:21
that out. Your bucket list Saturday, July
21:23
5th. Yeah, the ghost game is at one O
21:26
clock and then we've got the book signing at 2:30, so it's
21:28
going to be unbelievable. It's been super fun going to
21:31
different Little leagues and libraries and schools, but to be
21:33
able to take the take the show out to feel the dreams is
21:37
really, really fun. You are wise to schedule it for
21:39
the early afternoon Scott, for the day after the 4th of July,
21:43
so kudos to you and the guys over there for doing that.
21:47
Yes, yes, some people enjoy the 4th a lot.
21:51
And yes, depending whether you're 20 or 30 or 40.
21:55
But yeah, it's going to be awesome.
21:58
Yeah, we'll, we'll wake up in the morning, get down there.
22:00
My mom will be in town, I'll bring my kids and it'll be
22:02
awesome. So come on out.
22:04
So I grew up in North Iowa. I've been to Field of Dreams
22:08
countless times. It's incredible if you've never
22:10
been there before. So you're from Texas, you've
22:14
been here in Des Moines for a long time.
22:16
Have you been to the Field of Dreams often?
22:18
Have you been? This is going to be your first
22:19
trip. Tell us about your experience as
22:21
an outsider going to the field. Yeah, so I was, I was fortunate
22:25
enough to go cover those two Major League Baseball field
22:28
games, and those are the first times I've been out there.
22:30
So the first time I had ever seen it was when we had Yankees
22:33
White Sox three years ago. And then I got to go back again
22:37
for Cubs rides a few years later.
22:38
And I mean, it absolutely blew me away the way they set that
22:41
up. Absolute heartbreaker.
22:42
They didn't do it again this past summer and this summer.
22:46
So hopefully we can get that back.
22:47
But yeah, being out there, I mean, it is everything you can
22:50
dream of times 10, you know, And of course, I always watch, I
22:54
watched the movie right before I went and it's been a few years
22:56
before my kids watch the movie. So we're going to, our plan is
22:58
to watch the movie, you know, together again.
23:00
And they they have not been out there.
23:02
So what's going to be neat for me is bringing my sons out there
23:05
for the first time and they can see what I got to see when I
23:08
went there a couple years ago and, you know, play catch.
23:12
You know, we're already practicing in the backyard to
23:14
have our our game to catch on the field dream.
23:16
So it's it's really going to be neat.
23:17
I was going to say too. So I for the record, I don't
23:19
think I've ever been to the field.
23:21
This dream. What?
23:21
Yeah. Remember I I wasn't raised.
23:23
I know, I know. I was born in the state, yeah.
23:25
Got to get you. I do need to do it, but I'll
23:29
tell you, man, like that that that's really I selfishly, I do
23:31
wish they would bring it back another game there at the same
23:35
one time. The memory, especially of that
23:37
first one, the nostalgia, the build up, the theatrics of it.
23:42
It was perfect. And it was one of those things
23:43
to where, I hate to say it, Trent Scott, I don't know if you
23:46
guys agree. You almost can't replicate it.
23:49
You just kind of lose a little bit of that magic.
23:51
And I think that's the real difficulty of having an event
23:54
like that because it went so well.
23:55
You want to bring it back, but the downside of it, it's like
23:59
it's like Toy Story 5 being released.
24:00
Like what are we doing? It's.
24:04
Right. Yeah, it comes right.
24:06
The next year was really fun. But you're right, it was it was
24:08
kind of still a hangover from the year before.
24:10
I remember the column that Randy Peterson had on the register the
24:13
day after that White Sox, Yankees game saying out of all
24:16
the incredible events he had covered in the last 30 years,
24:18
his career like this is the top. I mean, how do you cover just
24:21
the the nostalgia, the emotion everybody had of, you know,
24:24
fathers and sons and, you know, parents and kids and then coming
24:28
out there and having an instant classic where the Yankees and
24:30
White Sox went back and forth and then, you know, the home run
24:33
swine out of the corner back and forth and the 9th fireworks
24:35
going off. Connor was there.
24:37
I mean it, it was just over the top.
24:38
Unbelievable stuff. You know, the only thing that
24:41
could potentially top it would be a Sky Rifter book signing on
24:43
Saturday, July 5th. This is why you're one of the
24:46
best in the businessman. Slide that in there.
24:49
Absolutely. One final time, Scott for
24:51
people, the book Baseball Spy again, I I said it many times.
24:55
My daughter enjoyed it so much as she was getting into softball
24:58
at the time, and now she's deep into it.
25:00
Really enjoyed the book people, both for the book and for the
25:03
event coming up on July 5th. Yeah, absolutely.
25:06
Books Baseball Spy. I think there's a sale right now
25:08
on Amazon for like $7.00 total steal to page Turner.
25:11
And there's an audio book also if you guys want something to
25:13
listen to when you're driving out to Field of Dreams.
25:15
But Saturday, July 5th, free event, 1:00 is the ghost game,
25:19
2:30 is the book signing out there, autographed copies of
25:23
Baseball Spy. So if you're looking for
25:24
something awesome, you cannot go wrong with Field of Dreams.
25:27
And I hope to see a lot of you guys out there.
25:29
Thank you, Scott. Good talking to you again.
25:31
Yeah, you guys rock. Thanks so much.
25:32
Thanks, Scott. Scott Reister, a anchor here in
25:36
central Iowa. Baseball Spy is his book and it
25:41
is really entertaining, does a great job and looking forward
25:44
already to Football Spy hopefully by November, Scott
25:47
says for that one. Now a question for you.
25:50
My New Year's resolution, OK, was to read more, read more
25:53
books. Oh boy, I used to read.
25:55
You used to. Put me on the You're about to
25:56
put me in a I'll put you spins out.
25:58
Yep. All right.
25:59
So I haven't done great. I've got through a couple.
26:02
Reread the Chris St. book that Rick Brown did.
26:06
Read it when it came out. Read it one more time.
26:09
Read a coaching book, kind of an entertaining look at coaching
26:13
youth sports as I'm going through right now and I've had a
26:16
couple of others. David Halberstein's book Breaks
26:19
of the Game, you've I'm sure heard of that one at minimum.
26:22
But that's it. We've started a few, haven't got
26:24
all the way through a kids life work, all that stuff starts to
26:28
get in the way a little bit. When's the last time you read a
26:31
book? In the midst of reading 3 right?
26:34
Now you're in the middle of three.
26:36
Books, I mean, little pieces here and there.
26:38
I've read a couple last month, but I got a book in the mail a
26:42
couple days ago. This is free publicity for it.
26:44
Christine Brennan shot me a copy of on her game, the Caitlin
26:48
Clark book. I'm about halfway through it.
26:51
Trent, it's getting pissed off a lot of people.
26:53
Oh, really? I mean, I'm talking people in
26:55
the WNBA media space. The WNBAI have a lot of respect
26:59
for her because she held nothing back.
27:01
And there's a lot of journalists in the WNBA that are incredibly
27:06
unprofessional, unknowledgeable and complete stands of the sport
27:11
instead of actual reporting on it, that she's going at
27:15
everybody. And there's a lot of drama
27:17
behind the scenes. It's, I mean, you know, I've
27:22
covered Caitlin Clark probably as close to to anyone since
27:25
prior high school year, high school years.
27:27
There's some stuff in there that I will admit I did not know
27:31
about as far as some of the behind the scenes when the
27:34
professional realm of things hit.
27:35
So I know she's got has her own Iowa tour.
27:38
I'm sure she loved to, you know, be on KX now.
27:40
I'm sure she will be when the book gets closer.
27:42
But that's going to be really intriguing.
27:44
The other two books. I just want to throw them in.
27:46
David Nurse's recent book really dives into a lot of leadership
27:49
teachings and stuff like that. And then Jordan Montgomery, who
27:52
is a big Iowa basketball supporter, motivational speaker,
27:56
keynote speaker, he released a book just a few months ago too.
27:59
And I'm, I'm kind of rereading that one too, so.
28:00
Look at you, a vociferous. Reader Well, I'm I'm trying to
28:03
grow my in leadership and you know, believe it or not, Trent,
28:08
I do try to grow as a person and I'm just not this guy who walks
28:12
on the radio I and talk sports a.
28:14
Lot. You kind of sound like an old
28:15
guy when you're speaking like that.
28:17
There's another Caitlin. I knew you were going to say
28:19
that, which is why I debate on getting into this.
28:21
There's another Caitlin Clark look coming out, Becoming
28:24
Caitlin Clark by Howard Megal. I I want to read that one too.
28:29
So you had to see Howard around, right?
28:31
Yeah, because he was around her freshman year.
28:34
Yep. Which is weird.
28:36
So he's started a website years ago dedicated solely to women's
28:40
basketball, and they cover it with the WNBA.
28:43
They call it cover it incredibly well at college.
28:46
I heard an interview he was on with Richard Deutsch on his
28:48
podcast, I think last week, and just talking about the
28:51
background and being there, you know, for those games like you
28:54
were when there was 200 people in the stands at Carver Hawkeye
28:57
in the beginning of her career. Watched her hype up.
28:59
I watched Caitlin hype up her dog.
29:01
The cardboard cut out after the after the hit against when she
29:04
had the game winner against Iowa State.
29:06
Their first eight games that year were all BT and Plus games.
29:09
Something like that. I.
29:11
Mean that I will say this, this is my hot take, Trent.
29:13
Believe it or not, I have a couple of those time to time.
29:15
Caitlin Clark wins National Player of the Year if she's on
29:17
national TV her freshman year because every statistical
29:22
category she was better than Page Becker's.
29:24
And we all know how I felt about the sophomore year snub.
29:27
I I I digress. I just want to throw that in
29:29
there. I do want to read that book too,
29:31
because I bet that's going to be absolutely, again, that's
29:34
another guy knows the grindstone that I have tremendous amounts
29:37
of respect for. No doubt about it.
29:40
He's one of the best. Yes, Guy that knows the women's
29:43
game incredibly well. And look at that, a book corner.
29:47
I'll tell you, if Ken's here, that's probably not an angle we
29:50
get into. I don't think Ken real deep into
29:52
the books anymore. It's all about the games.
29:54
I'm and he watches more games than anybody.
29:56
I'm really not either. I hate to say it, but like,
29:59
don't you? Feel good though, when you're
30:00
reading. I do, but the other part is
30:02
like, I'm genuinely interested in of, you know, being up close
30:05
and first hand for like the Caitlin Clark saga and
30:07
everything like that. It's still, it's still really
30:09
fun to kind of learn new information Cause again,
30:11
remember the, I'm so upset I can't remember his name.
30:13
The big ESPN article that came out.
30:15
Oh yeah, absolutely. He's one of the best.
30:17
I, I really hate myself for not remembering his name.
30:20
That was like. Hunter S Thompson, Yeah, no.
30:25
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
30:26
I can see him when I can hear his.
30:27
Southern Draw I'm I'm a This is going to bother me the rest of
30:32
the scene. Hunter.
30:34
Is it Hunter? No, no.
30:37
Wright, Thompson. Wright Thompson See Hunter S
30:40
Thompson also a different kind. A lot of drugs.
30:43
Yeah, yeah, that's like a 30 minute leave from the one that
30:46
came out and that was awesome, yeah.
30:48
Absolutely. How great the access he got was
30:49
and he's that's a guy that writes like one article a month.
30:53
Oh my God, it is so good. Well, my picks have not been
30:57
very good here this week, but I. Haven't either.
31:00
That's OK, because guess what? You're due.
31:03
They're going to be singing the national anthem somewhere and
31:06
I'll be fired away. My picks of the day coming up
31:08
next. We got some few other odds and
31:10
ends that we're going to wrap up here.
31:12
David Eichold hanging out with us as we take you up until 2.
31:15
Miller and Connor continues on the Iowa sport.
31:23
Wrapping things up with some more Dua Lipa, David Icolt
31:28
bobbing his head, singing along. Not singing into the microphone
31:31
though. Nobody wants to hear that.
31:34
No, I went to a performing arts high school for three years, but
31:36
I'm way out of Rust right now, dude.
31:38
So you got to help me out. You get your front row tickets.
31:41
I do. You're tall?
31:44
Yeah, a robust 6 foot 3. Wrong, but I'll take it.
31:48
That's that's the most you've ever given me credit first, so
31:50
I'll take it. Much taller than I am, doesn't
31:53
take much. What do you?
31:56
I don't care who's behind me. I paid money for the tickets.
31:58
I I don't care if it's AI, don't care if it's a nine year old
32:01
girl. She can get on her dad's
32:03
shoulders or mom's shoulders. That's not my problem.
32:06
Didn't want it. Should have got in the front row
32:08
before me. What do you act like at a
32:11
concert like this? Like is is it dancing?
32:14
No dude, I've not been to. Just trying to lock guys.
32:16
I do it the whole time. Probably that that's what it is.
32:18
OK. No, I mean really though, I have
32:20
not been to a concert like anything like this.
32:23
I think the first concert I ever went to, ironically, which would
32:26
be the closest thing to this, was Hilary Duff.
32:30
When I was like when I was like 10 and I was in love with her, I
32:34
saw her in Vegas. That caught me off guard.
32:36
It's so funny too, because I listen to such hardcore rap
32:38
music and you know that I have a couple tattoo, like rapper
32:42
inspired tattoos and I'm like, I'm going to do Libra show that
32:46
is. She does have a song with Pop
32:47
Smoke though, so it's fine. She's not going to perform it.
32:50
It'd be awesome. I love it anyway, I dagger.
32:53
I have no idea how I'm going to act, but there, there will be
32:56
some beverages involved. I mean, I'm sure I will have a
32:58
good time. Yes, well.
33:00
Flying to Dallas for it, that's awesome.
33:01
So I mean, I kind of have to. Great arena it is.
33:04
There a couple years ago, that final four.
33:06
Yeah, it was. It's such a perfect area.
33:09
You would think it'd be really difficult to get in and out.
33:12
No. It's I, I love Dallas.
33:15
I really do. I think it's one of the most fun
33:16
and it's one of the most versatile cities.
33:18
That's the same thing about Nashville.
33:20
You can get whatever kind of vibe or entertainment you're
33:22
looking for. So I've been informed that we're
33:24
a potentially going to watch cover band tonight, so that's
33:27
OK. See, when do you become actually
33:29
old? Not making fun of you old?
33:32
That's the next step. Because all the bands that I
33:34
like, for the most part, they're dead.
33:37
Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Blind Melon, Elite Singer's all dead
33:42
and they're still around in some fashion outside of Pearl Jam.
33:45
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
33:47
Foo Fighters got to see Foo Fighters and hopefully there's
33:50
been some are. You you're a big 80's rock guy
33:52
though. 90s, you're nineties. 90s, yeah.
33:55
I was a big 80's rock guy. My my brother.
33:57
My brother. Mötley Crüe, Guns and Roses.
33:59
Roses, Yeah. I mean, I saw Journey live, OK
34:02
about 8-9 years ago and that was one.
34:03
I wish I saw it with the original singer.
34:05
I get it. But they, you know, the guy they
34:07
have now is fantastic. Saw Creedence Clearwater
34:09
Revival. Yes, they're my dad.
34:11
Yeah, I mean, I saw Beach Boys. Yeah, we talked about that.
34:13
I got like, yeah, I got some versatility to me.
34:15
That is an eclectic. Mix I, I also just say that
34:18
because it gives me a little bit more like leave the way when it
34:20
comes to Dua Lipa. So it's fine, yeah.
34:22
Absolutely. Well as we wrap things up, I got
34:25
my pics coming up here, but one topic we didn't get into and
34:27
maybe David's going to be back with me on Monday.
34:30
So big recruiting weekend for Iowa and there's been some
34:34
conversation should they be changing their calendar because.
34:38
It sucks. Normally there is between what,
34:41
8 to 12 guys, uncommitted guys coming in this weekend along
34:44
with the guys that are committed and they're trying to put a bow
34:46
on it, right? Yep.
34:47
I remember two years ago, as you know, my connection with Brevin
34:50
Dahl grew up with his parents and he was over there.
34:54
He was not committed, I don't believe at the time if memory.
34:57
Served. I don't think so, but I have to
34:59
let me. But it was the, IT wasn't just
35:02
the guys getting to know each other.
35:03
It was also the families coming together in that part.
35:06
And in this new recruiting world, do you think it's?
35:09
Time he was committed. He was committed mid-april.
35:12
So he he was a guy though that was trying to sway those final
35:15
guys in. Gavin Hoffman was one that he
35:17
talked about who has now has left the program.
35:19
But is it time for Iowa football to let's, let's put it this way,
35:24
if this weekend doesn't go well, do you think they're going to go
35:27
back to the drawing board and kind of rewrite their summer
35:29
schedule? I think it's going to be very
35:31
interesting. I I don't see them doing that
35:34
because honestly, you got to look at the last few years when
35:36
it comes to this weekend, man. A lot of they, they have a
35:39
outstanding hit rate still. Yeah.
35:41
I think they they do run the risk of, I want to say being
35:44
irrelevant because that's the wrong word, but like they're,
35:47
they host the last weekend. It's difficult to get guys in
35:51
today's era to go through all their visits.
35:54
So even if they plan the visit for that weekend, you know, if
35:57
they have four other visits before and somebody knocks it
35:59
out of the park, they're going to commit and not visit.
36:01
We've seen we've seen that happen a handful of times as
36:04
well. I think they're going to stick
36:05
with what works. I think it makes sense.
36:07
But at the same time, I think Iowa has to have more backup
36:10
plans now than ever, especially when it think about the transfer
36:14
portal. And I think Kirk and the staff
36:15
have really kind of shut everybody up as far as they will
36:18
utilize it. I think they're going to be a
36:20
prominent player moving forward because, you know, this is just
36:23
my opinion. You can't bank on flat out
36:26
development anymore just because guys don't want to stick around
36:29
to be developed. But I do think the one thing you
36:32
need to give Kirk, Tyler Barnes and everybody else credit for,
36:36
they, they still, their retention rate's so high still
36:39
compared to everyone else. They still get guys in the
36:41
program that makes sense for them.
36:45
You know, yeah, they might lose 5 or 6 guys a year, but Trent, I
36:48
mean, who's holding on to everybody on the roster frame?
36:51
It's it's not realistic at this point.
36:54
But I also think with NIL and everything, the way it's going,
36:58
I think Iowa's much quicker to move on from targets because
37:01
let's say hypothetically, like they ask their crew, what's
37:03
what's important to you? One development, Great.
37:05
Two, culture, OK. Three, NIL, I want to make sure
37:08
my family and I are taken care of.
37:09
Well, is that really going to be an Iowa fit if NIL is one or
37:12
two? I don't think so.
37:14
Yeah, they're going to take care of them regardless because
37:17
that's just the world we live in now.
37:19
But again, Iowa believes in its products so much.
37:22
They're not going to get in a bidding war.
37:23
And I I don't see that as being a problem until it is because
37:27
again, you can make up a lack of high school recruiting with
37:30
hitting the portal for guys that can be there for a year or two
37:32
and play really, really well. Visits this weekend.
37:35
What do they got? 4 uncommitted guys coming in.
37:37
Uncommitted. Remember Dallas Jones?
37:40
Yes. Yep, Yep, Yep.
37:41
His brother, Yes. From from Nebraska.
37:44
But he has another brother there that's at Nebraska currently,
37:46
right? Yes, correct.
37:47
Yeah. But it's it's really, it's
37:49
really cool to kind of watch Dallas and his family kind of go
37:51
through the recruiting process of this.
37:52
Cason Thomas, he's a Sioux City kid.
37:54
For our listeners up there in Sioux City, IA state and no
37:58
heavily involved. Nebraska's still involved with
37:59
him. I believe so.
38:02
My brain's honestly kind of mush right now when it comes to this.
38:04
I Julian, I leave, I leave a lot of it to to Sean.
38:08
I I would be very I'm very interested to see if Julian
38:11
Manson pulls the trigger this weekend.
38:12
I think he's going to, but that's just pure.
38:14
I've nothing I've heard. That's just solely my opinion.
38:17
And then CJ Hester, four-star cornerback from Florida, making
38:22
the long trip up that would be that would change the equation
38:25
this week if they could get CJ Hester aboard.
38:28
I need to make sure that that one's still happening.
38:31
Interesting. Well, while you check on that,
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I'm going to check on my picks. I got three of them for tonight.
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I got 2 in the WNBA, 1 baseball play.
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I'm fading my Twins again tonight, even though it's Joe
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Ryan on the bump. A Mizarowski, the young pitcher
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for the Brewers. He's making his second start and
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he is dying. Dynamic.
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Not sure about where the ball's going, but when it is, he's
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really good. Going to grab the Brewers plus
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136 tonight. Going to take your Connecticut
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Sun plus 4 1/2 against Dallas this evening in Connecticut at
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Mohegan Sun. And going to lay the 8 1/2 with
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Atlanta the Dream tonight at home against Washington.
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So 3 picks, Dream, Sun, Brewers for me.
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What do you got for us, David? Sorry, I was still I, I totally
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zoned. Look at that, Hester.
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I I, yeah, I, I believe he is visiting.
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I was thinking of somebody else earlier in the week that already
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cancelled, so I'm sorry. I, I, I believe so.
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But again, I'm I'm still looking.
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Gotcha. No problem at all.
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Well, we are out of show for today.
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The drive is coming up next. It's Lucas, it's Sean today.
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The boys are hanging out this afternoon.
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Sean Roberts. That's right, the boys are going
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to be hanging. That's coming away from 2:00
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until 5:00, then overtime. Do it.
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Yeah, I got you. We'll see you at 2:00.
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We'll see you on Monday. David Eichold will be back with
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us and then Ken back in studio on Tuesday.
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Have a great weekend. We will talk to you on Monday.
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