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Terminello's Take on Thibs' Firing and Stanley Cup NBA Finals 2025 Previews 6-5-25 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Dearren.
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Speaker 2: While everyone's talking about the big beautiful Bill Trump Musk fiasco,
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Speaker 2: I want to focus on the local sports scene with
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Speaker 2: our favorite sports guest, lou Terminella, for Turmela's sake, Hey, Lou,
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Speaker 2: amidst all the craziness in DC. Here in NYC, we
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Speaker 2: have a lot to talk about.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Alex, how are you?
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Speaker 2: It's a different day in New York because I don't
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Speaker 2: think anybody expected the news of Tom Thibodeaux being fired
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Speaker 2: just a few days after being eliminated. I thought they
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Speaker 2: were giving them a little more leeway after this year.
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Speaker 2: But you had texted me privately you might believe this
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Speaker 2: was a pre planned thing here.
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Speaker 1: Well, it just seems to me. It's hard to believe
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Speaker 1: that seventy two hours after the Knicks war eliminade by
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Speaker 1: the Pacers, they made that decision in those two and
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Speaker 1: a half days to get rid of coach Tippeaux, especially
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Speaker 1: that they gave him a three year extension that hasn't
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Speaker 1: kicked in. Well, start was going to kick in with
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Speaker 1: the twenty five to twenty six season. Now, we all
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Speaker 1: would like to get a severance package of thirty million
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Speaker 1: when we get fired. But I watched you know, nothing
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Speaker 1: shocks me in sports, but this one. This one did
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Speaker 1: shock me. This one did shock me. I did not
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Speaker 1: anticipate it. I have a feeling it was in the
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Speaker 1: works before this series was over. You know, you hear
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Speaker 1: all kinds of stories about that it came from directly
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Speaker 1: from management and not really James Dolan. I know all
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Speaker 1: of the critics are company on Dolan, putting a blame
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Speaker 1: on him, and but you know, Leondro says it came
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Speaker 1: from directly from him, and as the head of basketball operations,
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Speaker 1: I guess he would have to make that decision and
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Speaker 1: get approval from from Dolan.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I also hear from a lot of people that worldwide,
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Speaker 1: Wes William Wesley, who's really connected and you know he
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Speaker 1: works with the Knicks, did not like Tom Tibodeaux. Tom
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Speaker 1: Timmineau did not like him and that could have led
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Speaker 1: to his dismissal. I don't know what.
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Speaker 2: It looks like. It wasn't a singular player that did this,
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Speaker 2: because all of them had DIBs back. I mean from
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Speaker 2: what we could hear in the press conference with Jalen
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Speaker 2: and what not, they all had to his bat I.
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Speaker 1: Don't think it came from any of the players. I
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Speaker 1: really don't. I mean, obviously Carl Anthony Towns who went
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Speaker 1: to Kentucky and Leon Rose and Worldwide West had Kentucky ties,
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Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't think it came from from
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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns being benched in in game what was
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Speaker 1: that in Game two down the stretch because he was
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Speaker 1: playing for defense. I don't know. I mean, and now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: who's going to be the next coach. It's a there's
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Speaker 1: a wide open for this job. It's still a good job.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Knicks had a good season. Let's face it, Alex.
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Speaker 1: The regular season for the Knicks was whole hum really
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Speaker 1: when you look at it, I don't know what management
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Speaker 1: expectations for the twenty four twenty five Knicks really were.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard to gather analysis during the regular season
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Speaker 1: of an NBA season because these teams just played differently
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Speaker 1: during the regular season than they do during the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: And Knicks really just home home home. The regular season.
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Speaker 1: They were locked in that three spot most of the year.
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Speaker 1: They didn't move from it. But you know, let's face it,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks warren't as a team warren't as athletic or
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Speaker 1: as deep as Indiana. I mean, you saw as they
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Speaker 1: were getting run out of the building in the second half,
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Speaker 1: all the Knick fans who know basketball and they know
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Speaker 1: that the team wasn't athletic, seeing Obi Toppin, who is athletic,
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Speaker 1: run the court, getting layups and dunking on the Knicks
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Speaker 1: and knicks what the Knicks gave him away for a
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Speaker 1: number two second round draft pick, which most of the
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Speaker 1: time means nothing in the NBA a second round draft pick.
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Speaker 1: But they did it, and you know, we'll see what
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Speaker 1: happens going forward. I don't know what they're gonna do.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have all this crazy talk about who's
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Speaker 1: coming here, Jannie. They'll trade the honest, they'll trade for
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, but they didn't have to give up assets.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to get Kevin Durant for a second
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Speaker 1: round draft pick. And Michel Bridges is eligible for a
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Speaker 1: four year, one hundred and fifty six million dollar contract extension.
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Speaker 1: You know, Brunson is still going to be Brunson. He
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Speaker 1: dominates the ball as great as he is, and he's
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Speaker 1: an offensive superstar, but there's no ball movement. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if this roster is good enough to advance deep
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and by deep I mean going to
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Speaker 1: the finals and being competitive in the finals with the
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Speaker 1: style of play that they currently have. Little new coach
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Speaker 1: changed their style of play. That could be.
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Speaker 2: But you think there's like a bigger thing afoot here
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Speaker 2: where they're going to really try and make a play,
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Speaker 2: want different coaches there for him. It's like there's something
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Speaker 2: tied to that.
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Speaker 1: Alex, you broke up there for a second. Can you
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Speaker 1: repeat that.
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Speaker 2: I feel like a bigger thing here where they might
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Speaker 2: actually believe they're in plate for Giannis and they want
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Speaker 2: the right coach in there. Maybe that's what they're thinking.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know. I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: hear that John Johnny Bryant, uh, you know, is one
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Speaker 1: of the guys that they were talking about as a coach.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of and he was he
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Speaker 1: was an assistant with the Knicks last year. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was in clevelandhen he was. He was one of
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Speaker 1: the guys who was in uh the running for the
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Speaker 1: Phoenix job, which was taken today by another Cavalier assistant coach,
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Speaker 1: Jordan Ott. So again, I don't know where they're gonna go.
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Speaker 1: You hear Jay Wright. I don't know if Jay Wright
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Speaker 1: wants to coach in the NBA. I really don't, you
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Speaker 1: hear Mark Jackson, Mark Jackson makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Home. If Jay Wright uh was able to, you know,
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Speaker 2: wanted the jobs, that would be very interesting if you
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Speaker 2: got the job.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I would be shocking. And now,
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Speaker 1: of course they don't have to pay him a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. I just I just don't think that he
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Speaker 1: wants to get involved in the NC in the NBA
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Speaker 1: game unless Bridges who played for him, Brunton, who played frohim,
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Speaker 1: Hard who played for him, really put this, you know,
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Speaker 1: put the squeeze on him to uh uh, to say hey,
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Speaker 1: we want you, we want you, we want you. That's
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Speaker 1: the only way I could see him coming. But he
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Speaker 1: has a cushy job, you know, doing CBS and uh
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Speaker 1: that day Wright would surprise me.
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Speaker 2: What do you think Leon Road is going to look for?
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Speaker 2: Is it gonna be a guy who can match up
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Speaker 2: in coaches out with Brunson or is it a what
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Speaker 2: are they going to look for?
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Speaker 1: Well, again, a coach is going to uh uh look
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Speaker 1: at the roster that he's got, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be many major changes on this roster. So
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Speaker 1: he either has to find a way to have more ball,
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Speaker 1: better ball movement, better shot selection, a better inside game,
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Speaker 1: get Towns down on the block more you know that
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Speaker 1: type of situation. If he changes the offense, more ball movement,
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Speaker 1: better shot selection, Uh, that could work. Uh, But again,
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Speaker 1: a coach is going to have to take that talent
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Speaker 1: and make it work. And I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: if that's possible. I don't know if, if, how far
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Speaker 1: the Knicks can go. Now, there's a couple of pluses
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Speaker 1: for the Knicks, Alex. The Eastern Conferences is not gonna
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Speaker 1: be strong next year. Gaming Lillard is gonna be out
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Speaker 1: for the year. Giannis may not be on the Bucks
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Speaker 1: next year. Paydum is probably gonna miss the entire season
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Speaker 1: next year. So those are two teams, Milwaukee and the
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Speaker 1: Boston that are not gonna be the Milwaukee and Boston
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Speaker 1: that we normally thought they'd be. Philadelphia, well, that that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: They lost more games than the Brooklyn Nets did this year.
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Speaker 1: Is embiid, I'm gonna play seventy games. You and I
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Speaker 1: can make that bet right now. No, So that's the
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Speaker 1: plus side for the Knicks. Competition isn't going to be
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Speaker 1: that difficult unless they have injuries. I mean, if gofa
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Speaker 1: brid brunts in the first month of the season, you know,
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Speaker 1: tears are tears his knee or as acl or his achilles,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks are done. But uh, you know, we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens. You got teams up and coming like Detroit
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Speaker 1: and uh, Orlando, and you have Cleveland, which is going
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Speaker 1: to learn from this experience of really this is the
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Speaker 1: first time they were looked at as a as a contender.
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Speaker 2: So you're telling me you don't think Boston and Milwaukee
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Speaker 2: you're gonna be where they're at right now?
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Speaker 1: No, no dominant then, no way. I think I think
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Speaker 1: Boston's in a lot of trouble. I really do. I
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Speaker 1: think Boston's in a lot of trouble. I know that
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Speaker 1: sounds hard to believe, and I don't mean they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be in trouble for the next five years. They're going
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Speaker 1: to be in trouble next year. I mean, maybe Tatum
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Speaker 1: comes back in February or March, he's probably gona miss
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Speaker 1: the whole season. Same thing with Lillard. They both got
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Speaker 1: hurt in the playoffs, and if Janns gets traded, the
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Speaker 1: Bucks are nowhere. And if JANNYT gets traded, I don't
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Speaker 1: think they're gonna trade into an Eastern conference contending things.
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Speaker 2: No, And that would be like hey, Kat going over
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Speaker 2: to the East instead of staying in the West. So
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Speaker 2: I could see what you're saying there. It'll be a
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Speaker 2: fun summer though, and a lot of moves. But I
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Speaker 2: do want to focus on tonight because obviously, and I
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Speaker 2: said this, I'm gonna be label the point I said
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Speaker 2: a year ago, can Connor McDavid get back here? He's
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Speaker 2: back here. He's in the Stanley Cup again a year later,
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Speaker 2: and that was a bit of a surprising run for
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Speaker 2: the Whilers. I did not expect them to get to here,
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Speaker 2: but here we are, and I think they take They
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Speaker 2: come in with some momentum, a little more than last year.
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Speaker 1: Actually, Alex, I agree with you. They lost their first
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Speaker 1: two games to the Kings in Los Angeles, and I,
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Speaker 1: as I said last week, I thought the Kings were
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Speaker 1: gonna win the series after they went up to ZIP,
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Speaker 1: But since then they've only lost two games, and ironically,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a rematch, and it's only the
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Speaker 1: twelfth rematch in the Stanley Cup Final in league history,
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Speaker 1: So it makes for a very interesting final. I mean,
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Speaker 1: both teams are at the top of their game. Florida
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Speaker 1: might be a little bit more worn out because they've
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Speaker 1: had to play this is their third straight he came
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Speaker 1: to the final and these extra rounds to weigh you down.
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Speaker 1: But Florida again, as we saw in the Carolina series,
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Speaker 1: they're relentless. They give their opponents now open ice, they
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Speaker 1: give them no room. They wear you out. They are fit, physical,
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Speaker 1: u and they have the better goaltending. You know, they
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Speaker 1: for check you the death, and that's going to be
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Speaker 1: a key to the game the series. How the Edmonton
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Speaker 1: d men are able to get that puck out of
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Speaker 1: their own zone and get it to McDavid and Dry,
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Speaker 1: Sidle and Evander Kaine and Corey Perry and the Ryan
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Speaker 1: Newton Hopkins. But again, Oiler's have much more defensive structure
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Speaker 1: than they've had in the past. They have much more
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Speaker 1: defensive responsibility and they have the two best players on
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Speaker 1: the ice in Conor McDavid and Leon Dry style. So
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Speaker 1: the key matchup and I don't know how you know,
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Speaker 1: I know Edmonton, and this year Edmonton has the home ice.
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Speaker 1: Last year Florida had the home ice, So the first
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Speaker 1: two games are going to be being Edmonton. Key matchup
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Speaker 1: is going to be the great Alexander Barkov, who just
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Speaker 1: won his third Selfie Award was announced. Yes, they've versus McDavid.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, alex how much they're gonna match up
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Speaker 1: against each other. I assume they'll be on the ice
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Speaker 1: a lot against each other, as the coaches could set
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Speaker 1: that up. But Edmonton learned a lot playing in the
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Speaker 1: final last year, and I think that Beck is an advantage.
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Speaker 1: Their power play isn't as good as it was last
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Speaker 1: year in the playoffs, and their penalty kill, which was
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Speaker 1: phenomenal in the playoffs last year, is not as good
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Speaker 1: as it was. They're gonna miss Zach Hymen. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he had one hundred and eleven hits and he is
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Speaker 1: a goalscorer. Alex I just feel this is Edmondson's time.
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Speaker 1: I really do.
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Speaker 2: I even think Skinners improved from last year. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what changed, but he seems to be on the
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Speaker 2: point this year.
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Speaker 1: Well, he has the experience of another year and of
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Speaker 1: going deep into the playoffs. He's getting less high, high
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Speaker 1: pressure shots against him. And this is Chris nablocks first
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Speaker 1: full year as coach of the of the Oilers training
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Speaker 1: camp and the whole season, and again his year. The
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Speaker 1: Oilers got off to a slow start, but.
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Speaker 2: They in some ways we keep talking about Knoblock. In
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Speaker 2: some ways, the Rangers would have won this Cup if
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Speaker 2: it happens because he's a New York prodigy right there.
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Speaker 1: Well again that has he could be a New York prodigy.
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Speaker 1: But this really has nothing to do with the Rangers,
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Speaker 1: who blew it by not giving a kno Block the
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Speaker 1: head coaching job. In my opinion, I mean, this guy
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Speaker 1: obviously has earned it. I would it surprised me if
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Speaker 1: for Florida one Alex it would not. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: did a great job at the trade deadline getting Brad
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Speaker 1: mar Shaan and Seth Jones, whose career looked like it
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Speaker 1: was in mud. He is he was a big time,
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Speaker 1: big time draft pick, and it looked.
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Speaker 2: Like by the way, come up back to back. Yep,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, no, no, go ahead, but you were about
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Speaker 2: no you talk about back to back, by the way,
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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about this. Then you finish your thought
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Speaker 2: that the dynastic eras of hockey seem to be so
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Speaker 2: difficult to attain. Now it was easier for somehow with
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Speaker 2: Bowman and the Red Wings and then you know it
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Speaker 2: just I don't see those dynastic teams. Maybe the Panders will.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that's because of the salary cap, and
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Speaker 1: you can't keep sometimes you can't keep a player that
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Speaker 1: you want to keep. If there was no salary cap,
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Speaker 1: I think you can. I mean as recently at sixteen seventeen,
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Speaker 1: the Penguins won the championship, they won the cup. The
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay did it, you know, in twenty and twenty one,
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Speaker 1: so I think it's I mean, I think it's still there.
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Speaker 1: Are you going to see somebody when eight Cups in
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Speaker 1: ten years, I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: Canadians were just out of this world and that record
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Speaker 2: idly will ever be matched by any bait. But about
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Speaker 2: defending champions I remember a back to back Stanley Cup
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Speaker 2: in a while, so it'll be interesting to see if that.
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Speaker 2: I gotta say. Dave German has invited us to an
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Speaker 2: event with Jim Lampley, so we're probably gonna go on
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Speaker 2: Monday night. How cool is that?
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Speaker 1: Well, he's A. He's a very proud University of North
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Speaker 1: Carolina alum. And Jim Lampley, you know, obviously he's a
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Speaker 1: broadcasting great, you know, sideline reporter in college football, obviously boxing,
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Speaker 1: I think he's he's got to be in the Boxing
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And he was one of the first
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Speaker 1: voices on w f A N. And even though he
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Speaker 1: was doing the show, I believe he was doing the
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Speaker 1: show from Los Angeles, even though he was talking sports
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Speaker 1: on wf A N. And the original, the original lineup
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Speaker 1: before they went they got away from some of those
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Speaker 1: national type of broadcasters. Brian Thumbel was the original morning
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Speaker 1: man and so again, No, Lampley's had a fantastic career.
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Speaker 2: I know about fan these all these outlets are going
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Speaker 2: crazy over this. Any word of a mister media maven
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Speaker 2: yourself to those that are getting worked up over cat
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Speaker 2: over thieves, I mean, everybody's got to calm down and
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Speaker 2: let everything play out. That's just how I feel about it.
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Speaker 1: They have to, they have to calm down and uh
18:19
Speaker 1: but again, Alex, it makes it makes for reaction. Some
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Speaker 1: of these people on talk shows nationwide, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know if they believe what they say. They might just
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Speaker 1: they they might say uh stuff that they really don't believe,
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Speaker 1: but it'll get a reaction from the callers. They'll get
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Speaker 1: more calls. So but yeah, everybody's got to calm everybody's
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Speaker 1: got to calm down. I don't like this what the
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Speaker 1: Knicks did, but it's not the first time it's happened.
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Speaker 1: We've seen it in all sports. Again, the Knicks have
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Speaker 1: to improved their team.
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Speaker 2: I think the other worry is we've been we were
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Speaker 2: through for twenty five years except for the times. I
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Speaker 2: guess twenty years we were through coach after coach and
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Speaker 2: nothing worked. I think there's a bit of a trouble
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Speaker 2: trying out coach after coach here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, and you've seen that, h You've seen that
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Speaker 1: from the both both massive square garden teams. That's what
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Speaker 1: that seems to be their management style. So you know,
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Speaker 1: a lack of lack of continuity.
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Speaker 2: Now you know, you know the Nets can still be
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Speaker 2: still be the uh lost team to reach the in
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Speaker 2: the Tri States Fires, You're going to have that still
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Speaker 2: going for that. You were the last team to Yeah, hope, no,
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Speaker 2: I hope I realized they clinched the last one home.
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Speaker 1: Oh I remember that that night vividly against the against
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Speaker 1: Detroit Saturday night, and they destroyed them in the second half.
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Speaker 1: Our team coached by Rick Carlisle. Uh, the Detroit Pistons
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Speaker 1: were coached by Carlisle and then that's beat them for
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Speaker 1: fourth straight. We won ten playoff games in a row
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Speaker 1: going into that final, and then we lost to this
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Speaker 1: first four games too. You know, talking about keeping coaches,
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Speaker 1: I see that new Islander general manager Matthew dark is
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Speaker 1: keeping Patrick Wah, and I wasn't sure what was going
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Speaker 1: to happen there. But apparently, even though they didn't know
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Speaker 1: each other previously, they spoke and they both I guess
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Speaker 1: I believe in the same type of more open type
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Speaker 1: of offense of system than the Islands that's shown in
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Speaker 1: the past. And I guess mister Lamorello and Patrick Watt
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Speaker 1: disagreed on how on how the team should be structured.
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Speaker 1: But Patrick Wah and Matthew darsh both believe in more
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Speaker 1: or more offensive, wide open game with defensive responsibility of course.
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Speaker 1: And and I know that Patrick Wah believes in the
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Speaker 1: five man rotation. You know, five men on the ice.
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Speaker 1: That's the that's the Russian style, the Russian five like
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Speaker 1: that they had when the Red Wings were winning their
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Speaker 1: championships in the late nineties, and then you know in
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Speaker 1: the in the first part of the two thousands, and
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Speaker 1: they're also they also say they're going to keep their
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Speaker 1: number one pick, which I assume it's going to be
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Speaker 1: the defenseman Matthew Schneider, who's only seventeen, and he's not
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Speaker 1: he won't be in the NHL next year or the
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Speaker 1: year after, but he seems to be the consensus number
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Speaker 1: one pick. If they don't pick him, there's there's there's
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Speaker 1: other guys available, Michael Missa, who's an offensive player, he's
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Speaker 1: a forward. So James Hagen's who's from Long Island played
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Speaker 1: for Boston College but also Seattle has contacted the Islanders
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Speaker 1: about the number one excuse me, the Sharks San Jose
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Speaker 1: has contacted the Islanders about if they had any in
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Speaker 1: trading number one pick, and Matthew Darr said they don't.
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Speaker 1: So they did resign Kyle Palmry for a two year
22:09
Speaker 1: deal at four point seven million. And I just wonder
22:13
Speaker 1: if any of the main stage that we've gotten so
22:16
Speaker 1: used to could be traded, like like a Matthew Barzel.
22:22
Speaker 1: No adopts, and do they sign him to a long
22:23
Speaker 1: term deal or do they put him in the trade.
22:27
Speaker 1: Do they put a hot bo Horvat in the trade
22:31
Speaker 1: even though he's got six years left on his I
22:34
Speaker 1: think six years left on his deal, and he's played
22:35
Speaker 1: very well for the Islands, I don't know what the
22:38
Speaker 1: roster is going to look like. And Alex. On July first,
22:43
Speaker 1: free agency starts, and you got guys like Sam Benda
22:46
Speaker 1: of the Florida Panthers, And of course the number one
22:50
Speaker 1: free agent is Mitch Marner, and both the Islanders and
22:56
Speaker 1: the New Jersey Devils should be looking at a guy
22:59
Speaker 1: like Mitch Marner. So it's gonna be an interesting off
23:02
Speaker 1: season for both the NHL and the NBA around here,
23:06
Speaker 1: at least with the local teams.
23:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then nationally where you might see the last
23:11
Speaker 2: year of OV. I don't know how true that is
23:13
Speaker 2: that email leak was kind of a big deal, but
23:16
Speaker 2: you know, we'll have to see.
23:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's too early to tell
23:20
Speaker 1: if this is last year or not. I mean, Alex,
23:24
Speaker 1: he's gonna score forty goals this year, so if he
23:26
Speaker 1: gets up to like nine to forty three, you mean
23:30
Speaker 1: he's not gonna stick around and try to get a thousand.
23:33
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. I think if he
23:37
Speaker 1: gets if he gets to a thousand, it's remarkable.
23:42
Speaker 2: It would be unheard of. Really. Ever, now we'll not
23:47
Speaker 2: sorry we didn't get a touch to touch on with
23:49
Speaker 2: this nick playoff from is the disaster at UNC speaking
23:53
Speaker 2: of coaches, and it's not really gossip. It's just that
23:56
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick is not off to a great start at
23:59
Speaker 2: you and see. I mean, have you been following this story?
24:02
Speaker 2: Is chaos? What the great Patriot coaches landed into with
24:07
Speaker 2: with this girl. I don't know. It's very strange. What's
24:09
Speaker 2: going on.
24:10
Speaker 1: That's his business, that's his personal business. Do I think
24:14
Speaker 1: she's too much out in the open, She's gotten too
24:16
Speaker 1: much play? I do, Uh, just like Taylor Swift with Kelsey,
24:20
Speaker 1: with Travis Kelsey, I mean all of them. But I
24:23
Speaker 1: do think knowing how Belichick is, uh, come college football season,
24:31
Speaker 1: he's gonna have he's gonna have University of North Carolina
24:33
Speaker 1: ready to play football. I would be surprised if they
24:37
Speaker 1: look disorganized. I would be surprised if you don't see
24:46
Speaker 1: a major upgrade.
24:47
Speaker 2: I don't buy that she's running practice. That doesn't make
24:50
Speaker 2: sense to me.
24:50
Speaker 1: She's not. Don't believe that, Alex, do not believe that.
24:54
Speaker 2: Do not.
24:54
Speaker 1: That's that's corsecraft. Don't don't believe that.
24:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't believe that for a second. But uh,
25:02
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta say. It makes for interesting off
25:05
Speaker 2: season drama. And I think it's Cousin's belichick that it's
25:08
Speaker 2: off season dramas.
25:09
Speaker 1: So yeah, so it absolutely does, and we are in
25:12
Speaker 1: it's more than just sports more than ever. It's that
25:16
Speaker 1: who's their famous uh wife or girlfriend? It really and
25:21
Speaker 1: it gets annoying after a while. The only thing I
25:23
Speaker 1: care about is the teams I root for. I want
25:26
Speaker 1: to see that. I want to see them, see them win.
25:28
Speaker 1: I don't care who they're dating, who theyre who they're
25:32
Speaker 1: married to, who they're sleeping with. I really don't care.
25:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna go there. But as
25:39
Speaker 2: long as Piazza was hitting homeers, you didn't care who
25:41
Speaker 2: he was with, right, Remember that rumor mill back in the.
25:43
Speaker 1: Day that was kind of of course, of course that
25:46
Speaker 1: was and you know that that was that that was debunked.
25:49
Speaker 2: But uh, and he's you know, he's been around the
25:52
Speaker 2: Mets a little more. He seemed to diss himself a bit,
25:55
Speaker 2: But I feel like he's back in the Ford with
25:57
Speaker 2: the Mets, which is good to see him.
25:58
Speaker 1: Well, I think he I think he spends half of
26:02
Speaker 1: his time living in Italy.
26:05
Speaker 2: And I'm sure he'll be there for the right retirement. Well,
26:07
Speaker 2: and we're all hoping to get to that one, so
26:09
Speaker 2: we'll see. Hey, Lou. Speaking of the Mets, you know,
26:14
Speaker 2: if they win the season series against the Dodgers, Met
26:17
Speaker 2: fans will not let the Yankees hear the end of it,
26:19
Speaker 2: because they'd have won the series in the series and
26:21
Speaker 2: the Yankees would have lost two out of three in
26:23
Speaker 2: embarrassing fashion. I mean, it is wild that the trajectory
26:27
Speaker 2: of both teams here. When it comes to the Dodgers,
26:29
Speaker 2: It's like the Mets were so pissed up about being
26:32
Speaker 2: two games away and eliminated by the Dodgers. They're having
26:36
Speaker 2: a bit of a revenge tour against La right now.
26:38
Speaker 1: I have to say, well, it doesn't matter what the
26:42
Speaker 1: Mets did against against the Dodgers, what the Yankees do
26:45
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers, it doesn't it doesn't matter. That's a
26:49
Speaker 1: fans thing. I'm a Mets fan, I don't look at
26:51
Speaker 1: it that way. The Mets have won all five games
26:55
Speaker 1: that they played the Dodge this year. They should go
26:57
Speaker 1: on that Friday night, the first game at City Field,
27:00
Speaker 1: and they had. They should have won that one, and
27:02
Speaker 1: they could have really won last night. The bullpen was
27:04
Speaker 1: a little strapped, and last that was frustrating. But you know,
27:12
Speaker 1: Nimo lost lost the fly ball, he lost the trajectory
27:16
Speaker 1: and a fly ball, a ball that an outfielder of
27:19
Speaker 1: his caliber catches ninety nine and nine tenths. At the time,
27:23
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, that would have been But they
27:25
Speaker 1: really should have won all five games. But again, even
27:29
Speaker 1: if I'll always go back to nineteen eighty eight when
27:32
Speaker 1: the Mets played the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
27:36
Speaker 1: They played them eleven times, the Mets won ten, the
27:40
Speaker 1: Dodgers won one, and the Dodgers, who were nowhere near
27:44
Speaker 1: as good as the Mets, the Mets roster was three
27:46
Speaker 1: times better, but they had Hersheiser, who the Mets did
27:49
Speaker 1: beat in Game one were the three run ninth inning,
27:52
Speaker 1: a three to two. But the Dodgers won the series
27:57
Speaker 1: in seven, and then they were heavily underdoor up to
28:00
Speaker 1: an Oakland team that was much better than them, and
28:03
Speaker 1: they beat them in five. So you don't know. So
28:06
Speaker 1: what happens in June means nothing. Well, this series means nothing.
28:10
Speaker 1: If the Mets win the next two games, it means nothing.
28:13
Speaker 1: If the Dodgers win the next two games, means nothing.
28:16
Speaker 1: The Mets have a good team. The Yankees have a
28:18
Speaker 1: good team. The Yankees have no worries. The American League
28:22
Speaker 1: East is pathetic.
28:23
Speaker 2: So you know, you don't think the Weaver injury is
28:27
Speaker 2: going to impact them severely. See four to six weeks.
28:29
Speaker 1: The only thing that could could affect them on Maybe
28:33
Speaker 1: they won't get the best record, which I think they
28:36
Speaker 1: will when the season comes to an end, but it's
28:38
Speaker 1: not gonna threaten them in any way. They're not losing
28:41
Speaker 1: the American League East. Who's gonna threaten them? Not Boston,
28:45
Speaker 1: not Toronto, not Baltimore. Who has been the biggest disappointment
28:50
Speaker 1: in Major League baseball? Talk about a team that's regressed
28:53
Speaker 1: from all those youthful stars that all these.
28:59
Speaker 2: Are one plus wins a couple of years ago alone
29:02
Speaker 2: with the same stars as this year.
29:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so they are. They had the biggest disappointment
29:08
Speaker 1: in baseball, and Alex thumbs up kudos to the Milwaukee Brewers,
29:13
Speaker 1: who had a horrible first month of the season. There's
29:16
Speaker 1: I think there's six games over. There're thirty four and
29:18
Speaker 1: twenty eight or thirty four and twenty nine. I mean,
29:21
Speaker 1: they've turned this season.
29:22
Speaker 2: And kudos to the Rockies for winning their first series
29:24
Speaker 2: of twenty five as they did come back.
29:27
Speaker 1: They swept. They swept the Marlins all three games they
29:31
Speaker 1: won today. So yeah, Colorado. I first of all, I
29:35
Speaker 1: knew Colorado wasn't going to be good. I didn't think
29:38
Speaker 1: they were going to be this bad.
29:40
Speaker 2: I do feel bad for about Black, he got the
29:42
Speaker 2: brunt of that whole thing. But let me let me
29:44
Speaker 2: let me shift gears for a second. Saying in baseball,
29:48
Speaker 2: because you talk about a guy that should be on
29:50
Speaker 2: another team, and it's probably still kicking himself for signing
29:54
Speaker 2: that deal with the Angels. But Mike shots back. He's
29:57
Speaker 2: got another ten plus home run. I mean, the guy
30:01
Speaker 2: keeps hitting, and I just he's a guy I want
30:04
Speaker 2: to get a ring. But because he locked himself into
30:06
Speaker 2: the Angels, it may never happen.
30:08
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is the only way that he can
30:11
Speaker 1: unlock himself from the Los Angeles Angels. Is if the
30:16
Speaker 1: Angels take back a lot of money, uh and on
30:21
Speaker 1: the contract, keep up a lot of money, retain a
30:23
Speaker 1: lot of money on his contract, and trade him to
30:26
Speaker 1: a Phillies or to a Mets or to a Yankees,
30:28
Speaker 1: and give up. By by them retaining their money, they'll
30:32
Speaker 1: get bet they'll get better prospects. I would take him
30:36
Speaker 1: on the Mets. I would. I mean, I don't think
30:38
Speaker 1: he's shot. He's obviously no.
30:40
Speaker 2: He's proving he's not shot. And I think and that
30:44
Speaker 2: fan base, I mean, you look at a fan base
30:47
Speaker 2: that's just been tortured. You had Otani, you had trout
30:50
Speaker 2: you had even Render. You know, you have these guys
30:53
Speaker 2: that have been stars and Moreno has ran them terribly.
30:57
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say that it's not been good he has.
31:00
Speaker 1: And you know what, the most amazing thing is they
31:03
Speaker 1: probably have the most unknown and underrated fan base as
31:07
Speaker 1: far as the loyalty factor. They draw over three million
31:11
Speaker 1: fans every year and the team thinks, I mean, it's
31:15
Speaker 1: it's a it's amazing. So uh yeah, I feel bad
31:20
Speaker 1: for Trouty. He had some horrible injuries. He was gonna
31:23
Speaker 1: be an old timer all all old timer. Uh, just
31:27
Speaker 1: a fantastic He is a still fantastic player. The fact
31:29
Speaker 1: he had ten home runs and he missed like five
31:32
Speaker 1: weeks is.
31:34
Speaker 2: And I'm mentioning him here because I feel like he's
31:35
Speaker 2: not getting much love anywhere else. I mean, we gotta
31:37
Speaker 2: shout him out here. He's not getting much love anywhere
31:39
Speaker 2: else right now.
31:40
Speaker 1: He doesn't get he he doesn't get the love that
31:43
Speaker 1: he did is when he first came up. I mean,
31:45
Speaker 1: the guy either finished first in the MVP or finished second.
31:49
Speaker 1: And and ase years he finished second, he uh should
31:55
Speaker 1: have or could have finished first. So so that's the
31:59
Speaker 1: way goes.
32:01
Speaker 2: That's why baseball is all right. Well, I'm kind of
32:03
Speaker 2: excited to get this weekend over because you're gonna have
32:06
Speaker 2: the final most likely unless they're doing it through twenty six,
32:09
Speaker 2: but hopefully you might have the last Belmont Stakes in Saratoga.
32:13
Speaker 2: I'm hoping it comes back next year. I miss it.
32:16
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever been there, but I
32:17
Speaker 2: love the Belmont Stakes. It's one of my favorite race days,
32:20
Speaker 2: my dad's favorite race day. So hopefully it comes back
32:22
Speaker 2: to Belmont sooner.
32:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know where the construction.
32:28
Speaker 2: Is.
32:29
Speaker 1: I don't know if they think they'll have it ready
32:31
Speaker 1: for next June. But obviously this race it's all about
32:35
Speaker 1: journalism versus sovereignty, you know. And the big controversy is
32:42
Speaker 1: because Sovereignty didn't run in the Preakness after winning the Derby.
32:46
Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to watching the race on Saturday
32:49
Speaker 1: around seven o'clock.
32:51
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that keep tradition alive, you know.
32:53
Speaker 2: And I can't believe we're in June already. And one
32:56
Speaker 2: last note before we go it is was lou gerrig
33:01
Speaker 2: Day this past week on June second past. Yeah, he's
33:05
Speaker 2: on him last night. I mean, obviously you didn't grow
33:08
Speaker 2: up watching him play, But but you're a history guy,
33:10
Speaker 2: so in your reason of lou gereg anything stayed out
33:13
Speaker 2: to you. I mean, the fact that he played with
33:14
Speaker 2: Als for that last year was really amazing to me.
33:20
Speaker 1: Alex. You know, you do a lot of research on
33:21
Speaker 1: lou Gerek. You know, he never missed the game. He
33:24
Speaker 1: was not only an outstanding baseball player, was outstanding a
33:29
Speaker 1: football player if he if he had stayed in if
33:32
Speaker 1: he didn't concentrate on baseball. But you read about now
33:37
Speaker 1: Als comes from head trauma most of the time, a
33:43
Speaker 1: lot of the time. I mean, I know I had
33:45
Speaker 1: a friend who had it and has passed away from
33:49
Speaker 1: als and and died died quickly. But we see Steve,
33:52
Speaker 1: Steve Gleason of the New Orleans Saints, who's had it
33:55
Speaker 1: for about twelve years. His claim to fame, obviously was
34:00
Speaker 1: the first game back in the super Dome f the Katrina,
34:03
Speaker 1: when he blocked a punt against the Falcons for the
34:05
Speaker 1: winning score. But if you read about Lou Garrick, many
34:10
Speaker 1: times he got hit in the head. There's no helmets.
34:12
Speaker 1: He got hit in the head at the plate, he
34:14
Speaker 1: got hit on throws from second base trying to break
34:16
Speaker 1: up double plays. He got knead in the head. And
34:20
Speaker 1: when they probably gave him was two aspirins. They knew
34:22
Speaker 1: nothing about concussions, they knew nothing about head trauma, and
34:25
Speaker 1: he stayed out there. So that build up of blows
34:30
Speaker 1: to the head just like just like Muhammad Ali getting Parkinson's.
34:34
Speaker 1: I mean Muhammad Ali, I mean he was probably boxing
34:39
Speaker 1: since the age of eleven or twelve, and all those
34:43
Speaker 1: shots to the head, those remember als a neurological disease.
34:47
Speaker 1: Parkinson's a neurological disease. These guys who were able to
34:51
Speaker 1: perform and like you said, Derek had it at the
34:56
Speaker 1: end of his career and was still able to perform
34:58
Speaker 1: at a level at is remarkable. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable.
35:06
Speaker 1: And I mean the guy was an all time great. Obviously,
35:11
Speaker 1: he he just the one who don't want to come
35:16
Speaker 1: out of the game and he just didn't and that
35:20
Speaker 1: probably cost him his life. But what he did was remarkable.
35:27
Speaker 1: I mean he added clean up behind Babe Bruce, the
35:30
Speaker 1: greatest team player in my opinion, in the history of
35:34
Speaker 1: American sports. Babe Bruce set the table for team sports
35:41
Speaker 1: and the popularity of sports in America. Of team sports
35:44
Speaker 1: in America, remember up to that time, you know, boxing
35:47
Speaker 1: was and horse racing were as popular. And what Babe
35:54
Speaker 1: Bruce did, especially coming after the black Sax scandal of
35:57
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, lou Gerrick Back a fourth for the Yankees.
36:01
Speaker 1: He would That's how the Yankees started using numbers. They
36:05
Speaker 1: were one of the first teams to use numbers. Everybody
36:06
Speaker 1: thinks they were the first team. I believe they were
36:08
Speaker 1: the second. I think the Cleveland Indians were technically the
36:12
Speaker 1: first team and they assign the numbers by way they
36:17
Speaker 1: batted in the lineup. It's not like nowadays, Alex. Those
36:19
Speaker 1: guys batted cleanup or third or seventh. Really the whole year,
36:25
Speaker 1: there was little change in the lineup most of the time.
36:28
Speaker 1: And Louke Gerrick bad clean up number four. He bat
36:31
Speaker 1: behind the great Babe Ruth, the greatest team player in
36:40
Speaker 1: sports history. He made team sports what it is today.
36:47
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. I know it's ninety years
36:49
Speaker 1: since he played, but the influence of Babe Ruth on
36:53
Speaker 1: American sport cannot be understated. He's the greatest athlete in
37:00
Speaker 1: American history.
37:03
Speaker 2: And he was a big athlete. That's what also made
37:04
Speaker 2: him stand out, that's for sure. And man, oh man,
37:08
Speaker 2: what an athlete, what a although I heard he ran
37:11
Speaker 2: pretty good for a guy who was a bit.
37:13
Speaker 1: Bigger, Yes he did. And again he won ninety four
37:16
Speaker 1: games for like almost forty years. He had for over
37:20
Speaker 1: forty years, he had to record for most consecutive shoutout
37:24
Speaker 1: innings in World Series play until Whitey Ford broke it
37:29
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty one. So he was, he was. He
37:35
Speaker 1: was unbelievable.
37:36
Speaker 2: All right. One, we'll get to the French Open later
37:40
Speaker 2: because I see there are still some Americans in there,
37:41
Speaker 2: which is great. But one thing before we go, everybody's saying, well,
37:47
Speaker 2: because New York teams and you know, out of market
37:50
Speaker 2: teams is gonna be a snoozefest, nobody's gonna watch. You
37:54
Speaker 2: don't believe all that. Right, people are gonna watch these
37:56
Speaker 2: two NBA final and Stanley Cup final, right, I mean
37:59
Speaker 2: they're gonna.
37:59
Speaker 1: Watch Alex Nothing. Okay, So people say they're not going
38:08
Speaker 1: to watch, like say, last year, the Celtics are in it. Oh,
38:12
Speaker 1: Lebron's in it again, you know, so they say it's boring,
38:17
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron's always in it, nothing new about it. Well,
38:21
Speaker 1: this year we're gonna get the seventh straight new champion
38:24
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And why wouldn't why wouldn't you watch
38:30
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City in Indiana? If some Knick fans don't want
38:34
Speaker 1: to watch because they think they should be there, well
38:36
Speaker 1: that's stuff on them. Indiana was a better team, they
38:39
Speaker 1: were better coached. And we talked about Carlisle having a
38:42
Speaker 1: little bit of an edge on Thibodeau, and I think
38:44
Speaker 1: he'd proved that in this series. Now, I think I
38:47
Speaker 1: think Oklahoma City's gonna win. I think they could win
38:50
Speaker 1: in five. I hope it could be two to two
38:55
Speaker 1: at the end of four games, just for interest's sake.
38:58
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if the ratings are
39:02
Speaker 1: twenty million or five million. Yes, it matters for the advertisers.
39:08
Speaker 1: But let's face it, I think we're past the ratings
39:11
Speaker 1: game because there's so much money to be made in
39:15
Speaker 1: the NBA in so many different ways. And if that's
39:17
Speaker 1: the case, then just have a big market league. That's it.
39:21
Speaker 1: Just have a big market league, you know, get no,
39:25
Speaker 1: don't have a team in Oklahoma City with Sacramento or
39:28
Speaker 1: Portland or New Orleans.
39:31
Speaker 2: Very good point. By the way Oklahoma City brought so
39:33
Speaker 2: much to that city, I mean, and the way they've
39:36
Speaker 2: been winning these games. And actually Indiana one kind of similarly,
39:41
Speaker 2: not not against the Knicks so much as these other guys.
39:43
Speaker 2: I mean, look, they blew through the Cabs, so that
39:45
Speaker 2: told me they were serious contenders for this and people
39:50
Speaker 2: who thought that, we all thought the Knicks had have
39:52
Speaker 2: been an edge. But you know, that means we didn't
39:54
Speaker 2: watch the Cabs series as closely as I should have, because.
39:57
Speaker 1: That's right, You're Alex, you make a great point. Look
40:01
Speaker 1: could they beat They beat Milwaukee with Giannis and even
40:07
Speaker 1: Lillard played the first game before or two before he
40:11
Speaker 1: blew out his achilles. They beat the Cavaliers, they beat
40:13
Speaker 1: the Knicks. I mean, what what more? What what you
40:19
Speaker 1: want them to do? And they're young Indiana and so
40:22
Speaker 1: is Oklahoma City And isn't that what we want?
40:26
Speaker 2: And on the other side, I think the NHL is
40:28
Speaker 2: very fortunate to have Connor back because I think having
40:31
Speaker 2: McDavid back in the Cup just means something a little
40:34
Speaker 2: more than the average player here.
40:37
Speaker 1: Well, obviously having the best player in the world, uh
40:41
Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup Final is in creb Lassett. I
40:45
Speaker 1: just wish the game was over the era and not
40:47
Speaker 1: on TNT, which was on ABC like it was last year.
40:51
Speaker 1: And you know, Game seven did verya Remember the.
40:53
Speaker 2: Years where they were on like the Outdoors Network. I'm like, yeah,
40:58
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
41:00
Speaker 1: Yep, I do, But that's when you know, you.
41:03
Speaker 2: Know what that means. It means we're gonna get there.
41:04
Speaker 2: Hear our friend Kenny Albert. So there's that.
41:06
Speaker 1: Plus, no, I wish Kenny Albert to be doing games
41:09
Speaker 1: on ABC. I wish I just wish it was over.
41:13
Speaker 1: I don't think being on cable helps any of these sports.
41:19
Speaker 1: When it comes to these big, big events, you still
41:21
Speaker 1: have to be you still. I know it's different. I
41:24
Speaker 1: know everybody has streaming. I know a lot of people
41:27
Speaker 1: cut the cord, but they could still get TNT through
41:30
Speaker 1: various ways. But it's still different than when you're being
41:34
Speaker 1: over the air TV. And I heard the difference when
41:36
Speaker 1: TNT won the package from NBC. Wasn't that much money.
41:40
Speaker 1: Sometimes these leagues got to take a little less money
41:43
Speaker 1: for the benefit of the fans who watched the sport.
41:46
Speaker 1: That's just my opinion.
41:49
Speaker 2: And by the way, in the pre show, you're going
41:50
Speaker 2: to see the man who was a net eleven eleven
41:53
Speaker 2: years ago. Tonight, the Rangers were back in the Stanley
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Speaker 2: Cup for Game one against the Kings. I I will
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Speaker 2: never forget that pass by Girardi that was intercepted for
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Speaker 2: that guy. It sticks in my brain. But I remember
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Speaker 2: how excited the city was because it was twenty years
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Speaker 2: since the Rangers had been in the Cup.
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Speaker 1: At that point. Well and the Rangers. The Rangers lost
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Speaker 1: four games to one, but Alex but they played. They
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Speaker 1: they had a chance to win every one of those games.
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Speaker 2: They were in it the whole way and that was
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Speaker 2: a you know, a big credit because it wasn't Vigno
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Speaker 2: the coach at that point. Yes, yeah, that was big
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Speaker 2: credit to Vignolle, and I love Vino. It was such
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Speaker 2: a great that was it was one of the best
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Speaker 2: coaches in my lifetime with the Rangers. But you know,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna see it, and that reminds me. Both teams
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Speaker 2: are gonna have new coaches in in the fall, so
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Speaker 2: that should be interesting to watch.
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Speaker 1: Alex, it should be very interesting.
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Speaker 2: I can't say much more than that because we don't
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Speaker 2: know who the next coach is. And Mike Sulliman, we
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Speaker 2: gotta let him play out as a Ranger d coach.
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Speaker 2: I hate the speculation. We just gotta let him play out.
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Speaker 1: Louis absolutely, it's gonna be interesting in seat. Who is
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Speaker 1: no longer on this roster for the Rangers. No Crider.
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Speaker 1: I mean I would say that Sullivan becoming the Rangers
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Speaker 1: coach since they have that BBC connection, I think that
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Speaker 1: helps criyder. But the Rangers got improved. You know, we
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Speaker 1: know what the Range got. They got improved their team.
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Speaker 1: They obviously they got the goaltending, but they The fact
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Speaker 1: that the Rangers only finished a couple of points ahead
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Speaker 1: the Islands this year is just remarkable to me to
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Speaker 1: show you what a bad year that they had. But
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Speaker 1: that's all in the past. I look forward to twenty
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Speaker 1: five six.
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Speaker 2: And say, cool, it's finally warm out, so it's gonna
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Speaker 2: be a nice summer in the city and in New
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Speaker 2: Jersey where you're at. And we'll have another Terminila's take
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Speaker 2: next week for sure.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Alex. Always a pleasure being with you.
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Speaker 2: And always gonna have new on the one like up Network.
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Speaker 2: Lou Terminello