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NBA/NHL Playoffs continue, John Bohnenkamp talks Hawkeyes & the weird Bill Belichick relationship · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, Good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon on
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a Wednesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller talking sports for the next couple of
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hours and thanks you for starting your afternoon with us.
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Wherever you're listing in the state of Iowa, we're certainly
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glad that you are. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. At the bottom of the hour we
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will talk some Hawks with our friend John Bowen Camp who
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covers Iowa. They'll do some baseball
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conversation with that baseball team.
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That's off to a terrific start. We'll do that and other Hawkeye
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topics. Kirk Ferrets, Phil Parker got a
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new toy yesterday, I guess you'd call it that.
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We'll see three-year player, three-year safety from Purdue,
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three years to play. So we'll talk about that,
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etcetera with John Bowencamp at the bottom of the hour.
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Hour number two, we'll start things off with our buddy David
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Kaplan. Cappy will join us ensuring
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Stone of Iowa sponsors. Cappy Flexen has moved on up
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from the AAA Iowa. He was not on the 40 man,
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correct? Yes, So they'll have to make it
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a corresponding move there. But look forward to talking to
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Cappy about Chicago sports and recapping the draft with cap
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etcetera. He'll join us at one O 2.
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He did put out there on his either his YouTube or his
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Twitter yesterday that he's been speaking with some of them cub
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higher ups and they are now under the assumption that they
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are willing to wade in the deep waters.
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That will be Kyle Tucker's next contract.
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So we'll talk to cap about that. And then a guy I've never had on
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the radio, Trenton. He's been doing this for a long
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time in the state of Iowa. Mark Woodley, multi time
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broadcaster of the year here in the state of Iowa.
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The reason why a couple of reasons AII follow him on
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Twitter now that he joined one of our contests.
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Didn't know much about him before, but this is the guy that
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the pinch hit I guess when there was a Blizzard and did the
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weather report and went viral around the world.
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And Speaking of around the world, this cat goes around the
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world a lot. He is a fan of Wrexham.
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Wrexham Athletic Football Club, there's an A in there associated
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football Wrexham and this is the team that Ryan Reynolds owns and
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he bought for a song, not a song to you and I, but a $2,000,000.
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I think investment in this team and this team just keeps moving
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up the ladder. Like I'm all way over the tips
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of my skis when it comes to the different levels of play and
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soccer. But I want to pick his brain on
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on what it's like to be there because seeing some of the
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photos and some of the people that he's met, we know it's a
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passionate group that that watch soccer slash football over in
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the UK. And and he was there this past
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weekend when they won a big game to advance and thought, you know
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what, here we are, April, May, June, time to do some of these
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stories because I am not going to talk about the grill.
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If if it happens, I'm going to quit.
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I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to hear about it.
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I miss Mount Rushmore's. OK, do those.
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You're done with Gorilla versus 1000.
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Oh my God, I'm so grateful we never touched on it because it's
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around the country. Yes, it is.
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God, you can't log on Twitter enough.
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Go find something else to talk about.
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But we'll talk soccer in our kind of segment at 1:30, and I
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look forward to it. Wrexham.
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Rex, do you know anything about him?
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Association football club? Well, you mentioned Ryan
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Reynolds and Ryan Reynolds is fine, but it's.
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He's married to. She's a real head.
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Case, I think Blake Lively. Blake Lively.
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Yeah, there's there's stuff going on.
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Yeah, yeah. But one of my favorite shows of
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all time, one of my favorite comedies is It's Always Sunny in
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Philadelphia. And Ron Mcaleny, who is the
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other owner. Yes, the other guy.
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That's why Now I've never watched the show.
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I've heard nothing but great things about the documentary
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about them following them around.
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All of the show, I thought you. No don't.
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That is one of my favorites. I've never watched it year miss
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it out. Am I?
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Yeah. I don't know if that would hit
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your funny bone. No, it wouldn't probably.
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What are your favorite comedies like sitcoms, Cheers.
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I liked Cheers. I liked Seinfeld.
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OK. I liked back in the day All in
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the Family, hate to admit it now.
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Because Oh my God, yeah. Maybe that's about it.
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I. Think maybe that that might be.
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A definite maybe? If you've seen All the Swamp
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People, you're looking for something on a on a July night
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where there's just nothing on, maybe I'll send you an episode
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of It's Always Sunny for you to flip on and see if it if it gets
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your funny bone. Well, we'll, we'll have to give
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it a whirl, but we're going to talk Wrexham.
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Is it football or soccer? Well.
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That'll be a question for Woodley, right?
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The Wrexham Association football club.
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So they're playing football over there.
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That's the AFC that you see. And they're, they've been around
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for 1864, so 150 years, almost more than that, more than that.
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Jeez, pretty cool story. And, and he was there this past
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weekend. And I, I know he goes quite a
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bit, yes, quite a bit. And that can't be cheap.
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No, not at all. Maybe pays well to work in
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Waterloo. I guess good for him.
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Yes, no doubt. But he seems seemingly a good
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guy, Family Guy, so we'll talk to him about that and introduce
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him because we are statewide after all.
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That right? So Mark Woodley going to join us
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here coming up. So I guess the story that is
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going to maybe dominate at some point for at least for the for
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the time being, the talk shows throughout that is obviously
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Giannis and Tyrese Halliburton's father and what transpired after
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the game after the Bucks went down in flames.
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And it's disappointing for a couple of reasons a that event.
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But you know, more so to the people of Milwaukee and the fans
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of the Bucks boy, it sure seems like it's over, doesn't it?
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As far as Giannis staying in Milwaukee, it almost seems like
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it's a foregone conclusion that he's going to be playing
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somewhere else next year. And you get a mega star in a
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quote, small market. I get it.
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Milwaukee's, you know, bigger than where we sit.
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But still, when it comes to the NBA, it's, you know, one of the
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smaller markets and a guy you'd like to, you know, you had him
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the whole time he won a championship.
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You hope he can keep him. But man, it seems like that's
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going to be tough. You went all in to bring in
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Dame, right? Yeah.
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And it was kind of that last effort.
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Can we, can we do this? Can we keep it together?
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We need another start. This is the direction that we're
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going to go. But you look at the rest of the
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pieces of that. Gary Trent, Junior, he's your
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second best player. Trent, how about the end of the
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game for? Him between the legs.
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I mean, everybody in basketball game, right?
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Analysis. Good God.
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Never heard it like that. That's a good one.
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I mean, went right through his legs, through the wickets and I.
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Turn over and here comes Tyrese to win it.
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And then it hit the fan. Now John Hell Burton needs to
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stay out of the way like. Yes, get calm down.
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Down. And finally he did.
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He said that afterwards. Well, what are we doing here?
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I know I'm with you. I understand basketball.
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He got people right on the floor.
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Their feet are on the floor. We see John.
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Moran's old man doing that all the time and it's like.
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And he's a dud. Yeah, he really is.
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He's. Bothersome.
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He is, and Halliburton's old man was.
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I get it, it's your son. It happened right in front of
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you, scored the game-winning basket.
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But at the same time. Well, and there's a lot more to
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it, I believe, because you. Don't think this was the first
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and only occurrence. No, not that.
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Think of what we heard well recently, just a series most
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overrated player in the NBA, the overrated chance.
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What has been the biggest knock against Tyrese Halliburton was
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moments like last night when the going got tough, when they
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needed their start to step up. Tyrese Halliburton would be over
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in the corner or would be passing up that big shot that
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was the knock. Fair or unfair, that's what an
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NBA circles. That's what people talked about
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with Tyrese Halliburton. And when your son's going
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through that, you know he is one of the best 2015 players, 12
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plus whatever it is the Olympic team in the league right now.
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He is that talented. But yet there's all this
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negative energy surrounding your son and finally you win a big
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playoff series. You do it with him hitting a big
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bucket. You're having seven with 40
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seconds left. All these things together, you
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could understand it. He still can't do it.
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He still can't do can't do it. So there was more than just Dad
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being a knucklehead. Yeah, there it was.
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The whole stuff about about his son, Yeah.
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I think there all the build up that led to that moment, that's
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fair is understandable. More than John Maria's death,
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right? So just a knucklehead all the
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time. So every time, Yeah, every,
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Every game, yes, but. But look at again.
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For the second time in this series, Tyrese Halliburton came
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to the microphone and said the right things.
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You know, he said the right thing when Miller got hurt, he
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did He said the right thing. And it's tough to blame your
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parents, right? I mean, I would have to think,
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you know, as as as egregious as mom or dad crossed the line,
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you're gonna sit there and and not throw him under the bus.
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But then he didn't, he did it in a in a way that in a loving way,
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in a lot of ways, but he understood that, you know, my
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dad messed up, my dad messed up. And I'm going to talk to him
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about it and I'm going to talk to Yanis about it.
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But be that as it may, it's over for the bucks.
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It's probably over for their superstar being there.
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We just taped our Mediacom show on Dellera on MC22, our weekly
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show. You found some odds, I'm
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guessing from faraway places as to what his next team is going
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to be. And, you know, positive.
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The only thing the 'cause I didn't like the list, 'cause I
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want him to stay there. Sure, sure.
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But I didn't see the Lakers on the list.
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And you know what? I'm happy.
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Yeah, that's good. Put him down there that that
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they were way down the list Good.
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So the betting favourites Brooklyn that it's because they
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have the flexibility to make it happen, but I think they're the
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favorite. They've been talked about a lot.
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The next. What do you mean when you say
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that? You mean picks and cap space?
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Yes. They have the flexibility to
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make that happen, so. The Timberwolves, who I'd love
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to see get. They were like the last.
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Choice. They have to be because they've
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got they've got no draft. Picks, they were like 66 to 1.
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I think was there was maybe two other teams that were lower and
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that was it. I think also the Lakers were 66
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to 1, so way down the list, if memory serves.
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But the next two on this list for Giannis's next team are
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incredibly intriguing. The Houston Rockets down 31.
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So they're the number two seed. Yeah, an incredibly young team.
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What looks like to be a bright future?
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Without a. Doubt.
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You look at a couple of those guys and you can see, yeah,
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there's something here. And I'm not talking about Steven
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Adams. Yeah, we're not talking about 50
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year old Steven Adams. I'm talking about a man,
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Thompson and guys like that. And then Oklahoma City, they're
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the third choice at 5:00 to 1:00.
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The one and two seeds in the West.
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You think of the assets that OKC has, but who was it?
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Was it Sloan that said somebody last week mentioned OK CS
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reserves would probably win that series?
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That's wild. Take the starters away and they
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probably win their opening rounds.
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That's how deep this OK CT, but that means they has assets and
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on top of it they have a gazillion picks to go along.
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You put Yanis with whole grin up front, you put them together
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with just the different kind of maturations that you can put
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with that line up and obviously SGA.
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That's incredibly intriguing and I think scary for the West.
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But maybe the one that I like the most and they weren't listed
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in the top ten teams. I think that I wrote down for
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us. What about him going to the
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Spurs? Him going to the Spurs, Wimby
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likes to fade outside a little bit.
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More fair to say, yeah, not Giannis.
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Giannis needs to be inside a little bit more.
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That's. For sure.
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Put those twin towers together, much like Robinson and Duncan I
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was. Going to say, but did the when
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you think back on it, did the NBA enjoy that time?
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Meaning, I mean, it's a big city, but it's not New York.
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It's not. Right.
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It's not Chicago, Charles. Barkley don't like going there.
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No Galveston. God, those guys are so good.
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You're right. He did not like going there.
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Well, we'll see, but it seems like it's inevitable as the
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Bucks will sadly be in re in reload rebuild a season next
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year. Hockey from last night.
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I'll just keep it. There's quote, somewhat local
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boy, the Minnesota Wild. I mean, they were offside by a
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millimetre maybe. And this is not why.
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It's like baseball and replay, right?
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When you go back and the guy lifts up a finger that he's off
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the base for like 1/10 of a second.
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And the camera's so good that you can identify that's not why
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it was put in place, but that's what it's come to.
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And the offside camera, one of the Wild players went offside
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#41 but maybe a hair, maybe 2 hairs, but not much more than
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that. And what would have been the
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game-winning goal? Because it was, they would have
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put them up 3/2 with like a minute left in the game.
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Yeah. Could the Wild, I mean, could
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the Vegas Golden Knights have pulled their goalie in and got
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the equalizer? Of course.
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But you like the Wild's chances? Of course, they overturn it.
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The. The goal comes back, it's 22
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again, off to overtime. They will, they go.
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And then just inexplicably, one of the Golden Knights was left.
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It kind of reminded me of McDavid at the three at the what
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was it? The Four Nations, the Four
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Nations in the gold medal game. When you're gonna leave this cat
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all loaded in front of the net, please.
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And and this what happened last night game back of the net and
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off they go. 3 two VGK up 32. But the Wilder played them
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incredibly tough. Listening to a little bit of the
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post game and Boldy who had that great goal to give them the
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lead. And where did he start his
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professional media tour, Trent? Do you remember right here in
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these studios? I had now heard across the Iowa
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Sports Radio Network. He was here with us.
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So Boldy's up because of that guy that hey, I know that guy.
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He's. A hell of a player, it's.
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That goal was beautiful, but him saying afterwards, he said you
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can't be deflated. It's a series.
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Hearing him, Marc, Andre Fleury, he was talking a little bit.
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I saw his post game just says it's not over.
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I know it's the temperament of hockey players in general is
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usually the best of any major sport.
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Just whatever reason they're wired in a way that they get it.
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But listening to the Wild players, they still believe.
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They still believe they could win these last two.
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They can take these series. Do they play tomorrow or Friday?
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I think they play tomorrow. Let me look.
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They do they play tomorrow, 6:30.
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Awesome. You know what, Wild fans, you
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deserve that. Yeah.
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After 10:00 was that game one? I think it was either it was
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either game one or Game 2 and then 8:50 last night and then go
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into overtime. So what game?
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I didn't see the end of the game.
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What time did it end? It's a good.
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Question. It was, was it before midnight,
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maybe? No, it was after midnight, Yeah.
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Because I didn't got a lot going on right now.
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You told me your night. You going to Polk County?
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I club tonight, Trenton. No, I got ninja camp.
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Yeah, we little ninjas. Little ninjas.
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Before that we got pitching camp.
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Ella's going to her pitching lesson.
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Then we have her rec softball practice, then we have
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tournament softball practice after that.
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So we got a quadruple header of sports action coming up this
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afternoon. With the cello lessons.
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That is tomorrow. Oh, gotcha, yes, that's
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tomorrow. She needs to get a little piano
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time in. Sean Roberts, hope you're
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listening. This is what's coming, Mr.
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Roberts. What's coming?
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Just wait. Yeah.
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And wouldn't trade it for anything.
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No, I know you wouldn't, and neither will Sean.
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Good for them. All right?
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Baseball from last night, the Cubs just blew out the Pirates.
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Maybe the story and I and I don't think that there's
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anything there. But, you know, we kind of
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thought the same thing with Justin Steele.
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Everything was positive after he pitched.
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And of course, we found out that he's out for the year and Minaga
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left the game. They're saying it was cramps in
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his leg, leg cramps, leg cramps. So that that's fine.
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I, I hope that's the case because if you lose and I, I
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mean, maybe I'm just, you know, yelling fire in a crowd to
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theatre here because I do think it's OK.
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But man oh man, if if indeed it goes that way.
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Look out below. Completely changes the equation
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of this team. 5 minutes to midnight apparently. 5 minutes
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to midnight, that's what it ended.
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Not too shabby. Pecro Armstrong just I I don't
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like the guy, but he is a hell of a ball player.
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He's going to be a superstar. He's he is everything and Carson
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Kelly once he gets you. Know what, Trent?
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Where did this come from? Right.
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Now he's apparently been a hat starter in his.
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Past has he? I remember reading that I think
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like 2 weeks into the season that this is a this.
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Has seen this before but then talk to me in June.
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Absolutely right. This is different.
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Seems like it. He's 30, well, he's not going to
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put together this type of season all year long, but if he can be
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even well that an above average hitter.
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Right. And that that duel, I mean
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between him and Amaya and look what's going on down here.
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I know he's not ready to catch in the big leagues, but by
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esteros I mean what's his hitting streak up to now?
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Like 1514 something. Like that.
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And it's not that he's slapping singles to right now.
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This guy is. Driver right counsel was asked
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about him. In fact, I mean, this is how
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good he's been. Great counsel before either last
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night recently was asked was asked about this kid hitting the
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ball the way he is down in AAA Iowa.
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What is it? Can he play third?
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Well, I don't know. He'd probably get ADH.
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Yeah. Can he play third?
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I mean, it wouldn't take much. I think you could play third for
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that, for that franchise. Birdie.
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And just one afternoon. Bruhan.
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What's the good's name? Gabe Workman.
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That is now a White Sox that they signed to Rule 5 and had to
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find a place for him. But you know what?
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We're only going to offer Alex Bregman one year.
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What are you thinking? So I got 1 baseball note for you
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and you wonder about the the down nature of me with the Twins
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last night, lock off loss, the Guardians and how I just it's so
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inexplicable how this team outside of Jose Ramirez, they
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change all the parts. I have no idea how they're doing
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it every. Single year, these are guys that
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are not top 100. Prospects.
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But Bieber is coming back, right?
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Doesn't matter, they'll find a way.
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Fair, fair question. Found a way without them before.
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The reason though. Walk off loss to Cleveland for
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the Twins last year. Three times they were walked off
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by Cleveland 2022 they were walked off 3 times by Cleveland
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2021. Two more times, The Guardians
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just have their number and late. Twins won one game one of the
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four-game series, right? Or is it a three-game or 4 game
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series? This time they won game one of
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the. Series they did.
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I'm just saying no, I know the way that they lose them, the way
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that they lose them. It is soul crushing and after
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another great. Of that franchise, yes, in that
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division, although I still think, well, maybe I'm wrong.
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I I'm still waiting for the Royals to start moving up the
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standings. They're playing better.
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I agree with you. The Tigers, maybe they're legit.
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Don't they have the best wreck in the American League?
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They're tied with the Yankees. They're tied with the and
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Seattle's 1/2 game behind them as we go into the last day of
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April. That means get your bets in most
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wins in May, yeah? I love that at Circa I.
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Brought a couple of times. We talked about it last summer,
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so it's as simple as that. Who has the most wins in the
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month? I'm betting the Rangers again.
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I bet them back at the beginning, well, I guess it was,
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but what did you get him? Before the IT was. +2650.
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So they're down there. You only get him at in May at 22
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to. 122 to one the Rangers played though the second most
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difficult schedule in all baseball behind only.
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The Chicago Cubs. The Chicago.
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Cubs in the opening month, so I love the talent of the team.
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They're healthy. Young's back out there playing
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third base for him as as long as Graham is upright.
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He was yesterday. I'm going to take a stab at them
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22 to one. I'm going right back to the well
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with the Rangers. Well, you got to do a little
19:59
homework. If you're going to play this
20:00
bad. Obviously you have to take a
20:03
look at the schedule. Who plays the most games in the
20:05
month of May? I think most of the teams over
20:07
half of the games have 28 games. There's a handful with 27, and I
20:11
think 3 have 26 games. Then you have to look at who
20:15
they're playing. Obviously, you want to find a
20:17
A-Team that's got a a whole lot of Rockies, whole lot of White
20:20
Sox, whole lot of. The Marlins, a whole lot of the
20:24
Blue Jays, you know, some of the some of the Drake boy, I was
20:28
wrong with the Jays by the way, some of the drags of Major
20:31
League Baseball and then kind of match it up and or just fire
20:35
blindly like you are taking the taking the Rangers 'cause I
20:37
agree with you. I think they're a good team.
20:39
I think the someone's obviously going to win that division.
20:44
I believe it'll be them or Seattle.
20:46
So why not? Let's get Mike in Waterloo, then
20:48
we'll talk to John Bowen Camp. We'll get Bill Seals in here
20:52
tomorrow for your Cyclone fans wondering where your Cyclone
20:55
content is Thursday. We'll be here before we know it.
20:58
What's going on, Mike? Doing pretty good, you know.
21:01
What's the chances of three Iowa State receivers being on the
21:05
same team in Houston? Slim and Nun.
21:08
Slim and Nun. I don't think Hutchinson's going
21:10
to make it through camp if I had the best.
21:13
I think he's not. Don't think he's done in the
21:14
league. He just you just look at that
21:17
rot, you look at the returning talent on the roster and and and
21:21
he didn't, I mean, he was OK last.
21:23
Year, but Nico Collins is there. Nico Collins is there.
21:25
Right now, those two guys, both. Higgins and Noel are going to
21:27
make the team, absolutely. So for that reason, hold off on
21:30
buying a Hutchinson jersey. Go ahead.
21:33
You guys were talking to Paul Allen yesterday.
21:36
I disagree with you. I think Troy's Chicago Bears,
21:40
Chris, Chicago Bears are going to pass up the Vikings.
21:43
I think the Vikings will end up in last place.
21:45
You do, because I watch AJ McCarthy all through his
21:48
Michigan career and he doesn't stand out.
21:51
I think it's an average quarterback.
21:54
And you said yesterday, you know, a couple weeks ago I
21:57
called up about Rocco going, going in the drafting, didn't
22:01
you say? It I just got no chance.
22:03
Yeah, it was in the first round. I saw that, yes.
22:05
That was a mock draft though. That wasn't the real 1 yet.
22:08
Yeah, but you know what? He's getting all the best
22:10
training. His dad knows all the top
22:12
quarterbacks training Rocco. I worry about his height.
22:16
I hope he's. Do you think he's 6/1?
22:18
Says he is, but you know what they fudge that.
22:20
I mean, he'll get if he gets to Indianapolis, to the combine.
22:23
That's when the real number will come out.
22:25
But look, I hope he makes it Mike.
22:27
I do. I think he's I.
22:30
Come from behind victories last year.
22:32
And one more thing. My sister's been to two of the
22:36
the hockey games up in Minnesota.
22:38
She says that's the greatest thing she's ever been to.
22:41
But what do you think of that offside penalty?
22:43
I hated. Against Vegas, I was watching
22:46
that when they scored in overtime, did you think they
22:50
took it away from them? And I'll hang up and listen.
22:52
Yeah. Thank you, Mike.
22:53
I appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean, I hate that it
22:55
was. It was.
22:56
There's a hair. But by the rule of the law,
23:01
it's. The unintended consequences.
23:03
That's the reason I absolutely despise steel second base.
23:06
Yes, your finger comes off. For a millisecond, right?
23:09
Yeah. No, that's not why the rule was
23:12
put into place. Same thing here.
23:13
But it is the rule. Yeah, that's what we get.
23:15
Remember, Mitch Leidner was a projected first round NFL draft
23:18
pick. Yeah, Mitch Leiner was not
23:20
drafted. No, Now I Rocco Beck is a lot
23:23
better player than absolutely, but.
23:24
Nobody else. He is.
23:25
He's a hell of a kid, yes. Great person.
23:28
Great person. Yes, really, really cool story
23:33
him what he did with the at Greeley, Mary Greeley Hospital
23:38
with the Playstations or Xbox or whatever they were, but bringing
23:41
a whole bunch of them well done. And that's not the first thing
23:43
he's done. So way to go Rock.
23:46
Go back. I hope you're an NFL draft pick.
23:48
We will take a time out. We'll be joined by John
23:51
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller, David David Kaplan will join us and I
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25:05
Wales watching his squad. Wrexham John Bowencamp joins his
25:10
talk to the Little Hawks right now there is some news when it
25:12
comes to some of the entities that cover both I when I was
25:16
state. Hello, John, good to talk to
25:18
you. But I'm good.
25:19
How you doing? I'm well, I want to put this out
25:22
there because this is a pretty cool story.
25:23
The cat that founded Rivals guy by the name of Terry Shannon.
25:28
He then sold it for 100 million. Well done.
25:31
Yes, to Yahoo Sports. Yahoo just sold Rivals to on
25:37
three, which is Tom Cacard, who used to work for Rivals.
25:40
You follow him? Yeah.
25:42
It's. I mean, this Terry Shannon guy,
25:45
he's loaded. Yes.
25:48
Good for. Him sounds like a sounds like a
25:49
pretty good deal, you know, yeah, I, I just, I've been
25:53
messaging with Tom and and, you know, there's some things they
25:56
all have to work out, but it's an interesting time in this
26:00
business, I tell you. No, it really is.
26:03
You, you never know what's coming and you know, it's,
26:07
that's why I, there's some things I just do myself and if
26:11
it makes me money, great. If not, whatever.
26:13
You know, but. It is what it is.
26:16
You get in, you see the event, you eat the media grub.
26:19
Exactly. And and and write about it.
26:22
Yeah. You know, and so you know, like
26:25
I said, it's, it's an interesting time in this
26:28
business and it's and it's only going to get more.
26:30
Interesting. I think no doubt.
26:31
Are you going to be at Carver on on Sunday watching the Indiana
26:36
Fever? That's going to be quite an
26:38
event. I mean, I don't know how much
26:39
she's going to play. Of course we're talking about
26:41
Caitlin Clark and her team coming.
26:43
Not sure how much she's going to play, but what do you expect to
26:46
see, John? Well, first of all, I expect
26:48
this all to be dying from heat because there is no air
26:51
conditioning in Carver and it's supposed to be 75° and 15,000
26:55
people there that said no. I think it's going to be a lot
26:59
of fun. And I think that, you know, I
27:02
it'll be curious to see. I mean, obviously it's a sellout
27:05
obvious, you know, it's going to be a big party.
27:08
I think it's a cool thing for Caitlin, I think to come back
27:12
with and for her teammates to kind of see this.
27:16
You know, I mean, they saw it last year, obviously in where
27:18
they went, but to come back and to see where she was and to see
27:22
this crowd sport, I think gives me a lot of fun.
27:24
I think it's been a lot of fun for everybody.
27:26
So yes, I will be there for The Associated Press, so I'm looking
27:29
forward to it, so. It'll be a great kick off to the
27:32
season, kind of get us back our sea legs back for basketball
27:34
after a little bit of time off, obviously from the college game
27:37
and with the NBA playoffs going on, spring football wraps up now
27:42
we don't get a game. We haven't had a game for
27:43
basically 20 years anyway under Kurt.
27:45
That's something very quickly he move to the side, but we get
27:48
that open practice, which was good.
27:51
You go to those open practices, you see a few guys that can pop.
27:54
But more than anything, my take away was the ability just to
27:58
take shots down the field, the passing game without your
28:01
starting quarterback looking like a 21st century passing
28:05
game. I know we're not.
28:07
We're not exactly splitting the atom here.
28:09
We're talking about throwing the football down the field.
28:11
But it does look a whole lot different to me, John.
28:14
Yeah. Well, and it's, and part of that
28:16
was and, and it was something that Tim Lester talked about
28:19
when we had him last Wednesday. And he has been able to because
28:24
he wasn't out on the road recruiting or doing anything
28:27
during the spring, Sir, or you know, in the winter and in the
28:29
spring time. So he was working with those
28:31
quarterbacks every day, going over Phil and just talking with
28:35
them. And I think that has and, and
28:39
plus that room is just better. I think now, you know, with what
28:43
they have, even with Mark Gronowski hurt, that's still a
28:46
better room than what it was a year ago, what it was especially
28:49
two years ago. And so I, I think that that they
28:52
have, they know what he wants, he knows what they can do.
28:57
And I think that's what you have, what you saw and what
29:00
you're going to see. I think when we get into the
29:02
ball is that this is this, this team can throw the ball and he's
29:07
got the guys that throw the ball and he's got guys below the
29:10
starting quarterback who can throw the ball.
29:13
And so I think that's that's a good sign for this offense
29:17
moving forward. Now it's the second year in it,
29:19
he's worked with these guys, he's got the quarterbacks he
29:22
wants and now we're going to see what they can do.
29:25
And I and I think they can do a lot of good things.
29:27
What did you think of Hank Brown, the assumed backup
29:30
quarterback this year? I mean, I, I think he is, I, I
29:35
said this to you guys, I think the last time I was on that,
29:38
that I really hope that 2026 starting quarterback is in the
29:42
room now. And I think it's him and I, and
29:45
I just think, I just think that that his experience, what he's
29:49
been able to do, but I also think there's some competition
29:52
behind him. And so I, I think that will kind
29:56
of kind of sort itself out as the season goes on.
29:59
Who does become the heir apparent, you know, next year?
30:02
Because like I said, you just can't keep going in the portal
30:04
every year and find it guys. You've got to develop somebody.
30:07
And so I think he's more than capable.
30:10
If something would happen if stepping in and running that
30:13
offense with the ability he has, the experience he has in another
30:17
conference, it just just just overall what he can do.
30:21
I think he is. He is a very good second option
30:24
for them right now. I would defensively took a step
30:27
back last year. Now there were still 11th in the
30:29
country and scoring defense, which shows you kind of maybe
30:32
where kind of our thoughts are with this team and and what it
30:34
is. Spoiled, huh?
30:36
You lost a lot of fifth year guys and even a couple of six
30:38
year guys off of that defense a year ago.
30:40
Or is it Big 10 offenses figuring things out?
30:43
Was it guys maybe just sticking around a year too long?
30:46
Do you have any theory of why they did take that step back
30:49
with all the experience that they returned a year ago?
30:51
You know, that's a good question because I, I don't, I, I don't
30:54
think it was, it was so much because they did have the
30:57
experience there. I just think there were just
31:00
those little mistakes that they haven't made in the past that
31:04
cost them some big plays. And so Barker even said that
31:07
last Wednesday, and he said they let way too many of these
31:11
explosive plays happen that they didn't do.
31:14
I think that was probably a point of emphasis in the
31:17
springtime that it's like just be fundamentally sound.
31:20
And and what's really going to be interesting to see how that
31:23
defense kind of fits next year or next season.
31:26
You know, when you when you see you know, who's going to be at
31:30
linebacker, who's going to play that spot, who's going to play
31:33
at the back end and you know, is there going to be an alpha
31:36
cornerback, you know, back there that star that that he's had in
31:40
the past and that may have been a problem last year too.
31:42
So there's going to be a lot of that I think go on.
31:46
There's going to be a lot of that chemistry that's going to
31:48
have to be developed this summer in this and in the August
31:51
because this defense cannot make they made they're making little
31:55
mistakes such as they haven't made in the past.
31:58
You've got to clean that up. Could part of the problem be the
32:01
quarterback had all day to throw?
32:03
That too, you know, and I mean, you're going to you got to
32:05
figure out some things and then he knows Phil, you know,
32:08
obviously Phil Parker is, is, is one of the best at at what he
32:11
does. And so they'll figure that out.
32:14
I mean, I think he I think he, I don't think he, you know, he
32:17
even though he kind of brought up the stat, you know, like,
32:20
like he just did, when you talk about the scoring defense, you
32:22
can still tell that he knew that this wasn't acceptable what
32:25
happened last year. And I think he's going to do
32:28
what he can to correct that. Ben McCollum now basically a
32:31
month into the job, still working that portal, still
32:34
trying to find another guy that can handle the ball a little bit
32:37
and help out that part of it, looking for a rim protector.
32:40
But a month in, how would you grade the initial just jumping
32:45
into things with Ben McCollum from the opening press
32:48
conference to what he's done recruiting wise?
32:50
How do you think of it's not the first 100 days, but the first 30
32:53
days of Ben McCollum? I'm going to go A+ because
32:57
because I think he, I think he said, I think he said all the
33:00
right things at the press conference, but he's backed that
33:03
up. You know, I mean, I think he's
33:05
put together a very good roster and it's a very underrated
33:08
roster. You know, in a lot of people's
33:10
minds that you've been seeing that in some of the portal
33:12
ranking that have been coming out nationally, that this was a
33:16
really good, you know, really good pickups for him.
33:19
And he had a lot of work to do. I mean, obviously you only had
33:22
one guy coming back, but he's built a foundation with the
33:25
Drake guys and Cooper Koch, he went out and got some some
33:29
outside talent that can play well.
33:31
Like you said, I think he's got maybe 2 positions left he wants
33:34
to fill. There's still a lot of guys in
33:36
the portal. I'm not going to be worried.
33:38
Their numbers, whoever that he might pick up may not be good,
33:41
but these guys might be really good players.
33:43
I really like what he's the impression he's made on the
33:47
community and, and you know, and on the fan base.
33:50
I think this has been. I don't think they could have
33:53
asked for anything better. Did you guys hear what he did
33:56
last night after the Carroll I club poke, the Carroll I club
34:00
meeting? So apparently Jan Jensen, Kirk
34:02
Ference, and this isn't a this isn't a knock at them by any
34:05
means. And Ben McCollum were there and
34:08
and Jensen and Ference were leaving after the event to go
34:11
back to Iowa City. Ben McCollum apparently was
34:13
staying last night in Des Moines.
34:14
So not the big rush to to leave there was it was a pretty good
34:18
turn out. Hundreds of people there, big
34:20
room. He stuck around and put the
34:22
tables and chairs away with the volunteers.
34:24
How far does that go? How far does that?
34:27
Go that that goes along and and I mean, you know, I when when
34:31
they used to have Iclub events here, which they don't anymore
34:34
for whatever reason, which that was a complaint by the way I was
34:38
making. But but but, but the guy that
34:42
ran it said that Kirk would always stay and he said a lot of
34:45
times Kirk walked out with that. That goes along, you know, and
34:51
it's like I saw Alford spinning out of that parking lot that
34:54
Escalade quite a few times. But but you know, Kurt always
34:59
was there and they kind of ended it, you know, about midway
35:04
through France, like maybe 2015, 2006.
35:07
But a couple times Fran was here, he didn't stay after to
35:09
sign autograph, but to do something like that.
35:13
Again, I go back to that's why I rated an A+ because he's doing
35:16
stuff like that. And again, people remember.
35:18
That without a doubt, Yeah, without a doubt.
35:21
Good stuff. I want to ask you a baseball
35:22
question. This isn't true.
35:23
To twist the knife. It's not because I'm a Glass Now
35:26
fan. I love watching him pitch.
35:27
And sadly, he's going to be, he's going to miss some time.
35:31
Like, like, unfortunately, a lot of Dodger pitchers are having to
35:35
encounter right now. But is Glass Now what?
35:37
I guess what's the what's the prognosis on him?
35:40
He's not going to be out for the year, is he?
35:43
No, I don't think so, but they've got to figure out what
35:45
it is. It's because I mean, he had
35:47
crams one game general. They said he had general body
35:50
soreness, which I have that you know, but it's but it's but
35:55
yeah, it's something weird. They're begin.
35:58
They'll just you know, Tony Ganson starts today.
36:01
We're a couple wakes a week. Clay Kershaw, you know, it's
36:05
we're fine. You know they've won 2/3 of
36:08
their games with and they haven't played nearly their best
36:10
baseball yet, so be afraid. And if it gets worse, comes to
36:13
worse, Hernandez can throw right?
36:14
Like he did. Last night, yeah, they'll be
36:16
fine. They will be.
36:18
When's Otani going to pitch? Any idea?
36:20
And that's the other thing they they're kind of easing him along
36:24
a little bit. I really think they're thinking
36:26
of him post all. Star Yeah, yeah, that would make
36:30
sense. John Bowen Camp will have the
36:33
Indiana Fever pre season game covered for you for
36:37
associatedpressimsure@iowacollegehoops.com as well.
36:41
John Bowencamp joins us Talk Hawks, etcetera.
36:43
John, thanks for doing this brother.
36:45
Appreciate it. Talk to you in the weeks ahead.
36:46
See you buddy. Have a good one.
36:48
Thank you. John Bowencamp checking in on
36:51
the Hawks. Yeah, I thought that was really
36:52
cool out of McCollum, right. I mean, just goes to show you
36:54
must be a pretty good egg. All the volunteers putting the
36:58
the banquet tables away and the chairs.
37:01
And there's the newly minted Hawkeye basketball coach.
37:05
Court before 1. Miller and Condon back to wrap
37:07
up our number one. David Kaplan kicks off our two,
37:10
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37:19
I'm Miller Condon, welcome back. Iowa Sports Radio Network with
37:23
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37:25
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And then throughout the afternoon on the drive.
37:37
All right, you were right. I was wrong.
37:40
Trending in that direction. You like these kick it off this
37:45
segment, right? I thought Bill Belichick was a
37:48
home run hire. I did.
37:50
I couldn't wait to see what what North Carolina was going to be
37:53
like. Who wouldn't want to send their
37:54
kid there to play for maybe the greatest coach?
37:57
Not named the guy that named the trophy after right in Lombardi.
38:01
But all the extracurricular stuff that comes along with
38:06
having is he's 2427, whatever, a young girlfriend and and that's
38:11
not part of my Mia culpa. Do what you want to do in your
38:15
life, your live your life. It's weird.
38:17
It's really weird. And then when she the when you
38:20
are getting kind of a look at the influence not only that she
38:23
may have on the program itself, but she certainly has on her
38:27
boyfriend quote. I'm not so sure that they're
38:31
going to make the season, let alone play a game or coach a
38:34
game. More realistic that he doesn't
38:38
know coach a game or this turns out well.
38:41
I'm I'm going the other way. I'm on your team.
38:43
Yes. And this was not a big reason
38:47
for why I don't think this was going to go well.
38:49
It was odd and it's become more odd, but this thing just keeps
38:52
deeper and deeper and you, you hear Belichick talk.
38:56
This guy was as controlled of every single aspect of his
39:03
organization, and now he's letting his girlfriend right
39:07
dictate questions walk out on the.
39:09
Practice field in high heels or pumps or whatever you call them.
39:13
Doing what they're doing on the football side of things and and
39:16
even if it was just the interview, even if it was just
39:18
that the 60 minutes interview and but.
39:20
It's more it's Hard Knocks or behind the scenes of getting
39:22
that cancelled. Hard Knocks wanted to do a
39:24
college version and North Carolina.
39:26
I'm thinking the publicity that would have befallen on that
39:29
program. Think of us as fans being able
39:31
to finally see behind the Kirk. Couldn't wait.
39:33
Honest to God, I was excited for.
39:35
Him. We're not going to get that when
39:37
it's the football part of it that she is involved in.
39:40
Come on. Right?
39:42
And it wouldn't matter if this was a 24 year old that was a
39:47
scout, was a coach, went through everything.
39:50
It is. The influence she has on the
39:53
head coach is is way over the top way.
39:58
I mean should be calling plays. Would she be able to get in his
40:02
ear in the middle of a game it? Feels like we're trending that.
40:04
Direction it does. Will she be on the sideline?
40:06
Yeah, absolutely. She'll be shoulder to shoulder
40:08
with him. It's it's just unheard of.
40:11
Yes, it truly is. And and again, I was I was on
40:15
the on the side of all right, let's give this a whirl.
40:17
This could be really good. This is the NF LS most decorated
40:20
head coach. Let's see if at his age he can
40:24
switch up entirely what he has to do because now he got to
40:26
recruit and all the things that come around with being a college
40:29
football, football coach. I'm in, I'm all in.
40:32
I think it's going to work. He was, on the other hand,
40:34
thought there's no way in hell. I think that's probably it's
40:38
going to turn out in your favor on this one.
40:40
Jordan Hudson, That's her name, Jordan Hudson.
40:42
And when the question was asked, how did you meet her shutting
40:45
that down? Yeah, What's behind that?
40:47
That leads to a lot more speculation.
40:48
It does. The websites that are out there,
40:50
yes, the gold digging websites and they're specifically made
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for that, right? Young women to find an old man
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that's got money. Is that where it is?
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Well, that's where my speculation went.
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It's just speculation. Because the the original story I
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heard was oh they met on an airplane, they got seated side
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by beside Nisha. Sure they did.
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Then why didn't she want to talk about it?
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Right. We'll see where it goes, but I
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can't take my eyes off it. That's right, Hour 2 coming up,
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David Kaplan, centuries Stone of Iowa, sponsors Cappy.
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He'll kick off the hour Mark. Woodley on Wrexham stuff
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Football hour 2 next Miller and Condon.