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I'm Mac McGrath, CEO of National Streaming Sports, and I'm
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excited to tell you about our Roku Sports channel already has
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national Streaming Sport. And here we are, Jack.
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It's a mid week. It's hump day.
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And boy, the hits keep coming here on National Streaming
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Sports Roku channel. We're also on YouTube and we'll
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be on a lot of different sports today.
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Thank you all for tuning in as you always do on our show, Jack.
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A lot of things, a lot of news in the NFL and it always is.
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And there was a heck of a firestorm on our on our channel
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yesterday. I mean, the dust has settled.
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There was a lot with the Philadelphia, Atlanta game.
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And I can't let this go because I want to get my $0.02.
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And I imagine you want to get your two cents in on this too.
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So the Eagles ended up losing to the Atlanta Falcons.
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Falcons on on Monday night. Now some blamed Barkley with
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dropping the ball he should have caught which would have been a
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first down and the game would have been over.
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The play calling of why they went for it twice on 4th down
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and didn't make it. Why throw the ball in that spot
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at all and kick the field goal when they could have ran the
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ball? Minnesota had one time out left,
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ran the ball even if he doesn't make the first down.
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Vikings call a timeout, run the ball again.
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Atlanta. Atlanta.
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Atlanta. At the end of the game, I'm
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talking about right now. So if Atlanta, if, if the
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Philadelphia Eagles run the ball again after they call a timeout,
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now here you are, Minnesota, you have about 30 seconds left, 39
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seconds left and you got to you've got to drive the length
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of the field. Even if the Philadelphia Eagles
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didn't pick up the first down, that's worst case scenario.
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Best case, Barkley picks up the first down.
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Game over, scores a touchdown, game over.
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They didn't do it. They kicked the field goal after
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not making the third down play. They kick off and Minnesota gets
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the ball back with a minute 39 left.
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So again, defensive they calling comes into question because they
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put no pressure on Kirk Cousins at all in a mobile quarterback
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and he drives the ball down the field against the soft bone
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called the prevent defense and he drives them down and he
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scores with like, I don't know what was it, Jack 10 seconds
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left 20. Seconds.
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No, they're like 34 seconds left.
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No, the timeline is a little if they were to have had they run
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the ball, they would have had a little more time.
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I I'm not sure how much Falcons had a time out.
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I don't want to say the exact timeline, but I do know that
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they had third and three, basically the Eagles OK, and
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they threw the, you know, short past the Barkley.
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Had he caught it, he would have gotten the first down.
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Game would have been over, but he dropped the ball.
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But people are willing to give Barclay a pass because it was
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just one play. He played a good game.
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On balance, these things happen. You do drop balls.
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It's unfortunate, you know, people upset about it, but they
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don't want to blame him directly.
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So they blame Nick Siriani, the coach Mack.
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But let's look at it this way. Let's make believe Nick Siriani
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ran the ball. He has two chances to make a
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first down with a third and three.
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Falcons are the plate against the run.
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Let's say the Falcons stop them. They go put on 3rd down and
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let's say now it's fourth and one and the Falcons stop them.
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Falcons would still have time to get into field goal range.
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We're living in an era at a lawn tickets and the Eagles were
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three points ahead at that, .3 points ahead and had the Falcons
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tied the game up, had the Eagles hypothetically not gotten the
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first down? Let's be honest, it's third and
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three and if you hand the ball off twice, we don't know whether
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they get the first down or not. Good morning.
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Well, good, good stuff Sonia, but that's it.
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Brought back memories, Mac and myself going back and forth and,
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you know, in an NFL game. And ironically, the Eagles would
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go on to win the Super Bowl, so it was all irrelevant there.
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When Mack mentioned Minnesota a couple of times, I corrected
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them once. I didn't a second time.
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I was probably thinking because he was referring to Kirk
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Cousins, he was conditioned in his head, understandably so.
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Have Kirk Cousins been a Viking quarterback, not a Falcon
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quarterback? And, you know, where we had our
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discussions back and forth, that was like a theory talk, whether
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they should have gone for this, gone for that.
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But as a thing, as things turned out, the year didn't go too well
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for the Falcons. And obviously, it went great for
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the Eagles, you know, going on to win the Super Bowl.
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And Saquon Barkley, even if he retired hypothetically, which
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he's not going to do, of course, just this one season at
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Philadelphia, you know, he'd be an Eagle, if not legend, you
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know, one of their more legacy players because he, you know,
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did help deliver them in large part of Super Bowl.
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And good morning, Jack. I got kicked out right there as
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the video was ending. And good morning to everyone.
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Welcome to the Mack and Jack show.
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Good morning to you, Brett. And of course, we are continuing
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to honor Mack, the creator and producer extraordinaire of this
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great network, National Streaming Sports, formerly
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Northeast Professional Sports. We did a whole show yesterday.
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You guys checked that out on socials continue to support us.
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The show will go on with our heavily host in the sky there,
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Mac, unfortunately, you know, transitioning, but we are
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continuing to honor him and we will continue to do so.
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I like what Byron Williams said yesterday, Jack, on our show,
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it's Mac day, Mac week. And I like to think it's Mac
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month. I mean, this is the month of
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May. So all those, so we're going to
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continue to honor him not just this month, but always.
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Well, I'm not going to be stubborn talking about Mac.
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I'm going to joke around the bottom to the point where some
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people might even think, you know, how can he say that?
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You know, it's disrespectful. No, it's not disrespectful.
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Mac is probably laughing about it now.
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On tonight's show, I do a boxing show from 7:00 to 8:00 PM
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Eastern Time on this network with Franklin Terzo called Glove
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Fist. And whenever we started the
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show, it's around because I have on the Rocky shirt.
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I don't know whether you remember the movie Rocky one day
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interviewed Rocky Challenger and the Meat Factory, and Paulie's
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trying to get his face in the background.
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That was Mac. Always in the beginning of the
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show, we've seen Mac in the back and someone say, who's that guy
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in the back? Quickly, you know, like Mac
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would be there and I would joke about Mac, you know, getting on
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camera and all and but you know, we had to have to talk about
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sports here. You know, as much as everyone
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loves Mack, if we talked about him the full show.
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Now to the average viewer who isn't familiar with Mack at all
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and is tuning into this show, all of a sudden they say all
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condolences and then they change the channel.
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They are here to talk about sports.
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I, I enjoy referring to Mack once in a while in different
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ways, cuz Mack would sometimes drive me crazy things not to
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mean that he was wrong and I was right, but some of the theories,
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some of the discussions, you know, Matt called me a bit of
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an, an instigate and he's correct.
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I am one. But Matt could be one himself.
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You know, he tried to ride me to try to get certain reactions,
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you know, so we'd have a lot of, we'd have a lot of fun with
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that. But the fondness always
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remained. The bond always remained, and if
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we ever did have like a disagreement, we'd ever be angry
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with one another. By the next morning when we did
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the show, that would be past history.
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It would be as if you know that type of negativity never
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existed. Yeah, we got a couple comments,
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of course, CJ, we did a a video clip yesterday and actually had
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you on one of them, he said even though they had created
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differences. Good morning panel.
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His heartfelt condolences to Mac and his family and basically
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he's grateful for the opportunity to be on the
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network. He said Matt with a class act
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always brought balance to network.
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Thoughts and prayers go out to Jack as I know this is difficult
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for him and his family. So definitely prayers to you.
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And Richard said that Max coaching experience showed up in
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that clip. So good morning to both of you
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guys. Got a little bit of time for.
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Linda is Linda would have produced the Linda McGrath along
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with Max. I mean, you know, prayers for
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Linda there. Yeah.
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From my end, Mac lives on OK 'cause Mac, you know, always
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going to be a presence. You know my life, especially
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whenever I do this show. And thank heavens we have like
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YouTube. I have so much footage of Mac
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and myself and go to and I think it's a continuation with Mac.
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It to me, it's not, it's not like he's gone.
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It's. A comma.
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It's not a period. Yeah, that's what I like too,
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Jack. All right, let's talk some NBA
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news. Of course, the Houston, Houston
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Rockets, the Warriors, all these NBA player and games going on
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right now. Golden State defeated the
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Rockets in Game 7A thriller Sunday night to advance to the
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second round where they will face the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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This is a very notable 6 versus #7 seed matchup.
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Jack, what were your thoughts? Oh, absolutely.
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You know, before last night's game, it's a Game 7.
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Golden State was extremely, extremely calm.
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The attitude, we've been here before.
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We know what it takes. We're not worried.
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And the Houston Rockets hadn't been in that situation, even
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though they were #2 seed, you know, in a way, it was good that
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they got it to a Game 7. And being on their homecourt,
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too, I'm sure they had expectations that they would get
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over the top against Golden State.
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But Golden State, I mean, was in command all the way.
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And I learned a little bit of a lesson here.
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I I'm quick to dismiss the experience fact that come to
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playoffs because you're playing the whole regular season, you're
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playing against other teams. But Golden State had this quiet
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confidence about them as if they like knew they were going to win
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the game. They knew what it took.
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And the Houston Rockets looked like they were been on the
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nervous side right off the end. And you knew Houston was in
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trouble by, you know, half time when they were down like 1012
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points. I forgot.
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And Steph Curry, his only points he scored was a three-point
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there right before half time. Steph Curry hadn't even gotten
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started yet and Houston is down double digits at the half.
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You kind of knew Houston wasn't coming back because Steph Curry
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was going to start taking it to another level, which he did.
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I think he had 22. Buddy Hield was really
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outstanding the first half, you know, he scored over 20 points
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and and Golden State got it done.
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They were never threatened, never threatened in this game.
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They just took command from the outset.
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They kept it and kept their focus and now they advance and
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play the Timberwolves and what a terrific series.
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I mean. Anthony Edwards is going to
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bring a ton of energy. You know, you talk about
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Draymond Green off the board, so you got Rudy Gobert there.
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Does Anthony Edwards cancel out Steph Curry?
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In a way? I think he does.
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I mean, I think Anthony Edwards could step up.
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Now you've got Julius Randall. Does he cancel out Jimmy Butler?
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I mean, it's a very intriguing series.
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I don't think the experience factor is going to play in it
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all the way it did against Houston.
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You got the feeling Houston maybe was a little uptight, in
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awe. The Timberwolves are the most
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carefree team in the NFL. They went in very boldly against
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the Lakers. It's, it's, it's, it's like
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they're willing to roll the dice.
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They'll run from the roulette, the roulette, you know, area the
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casino to the blackjack area back and forth and have fun
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with, you know, bundle of money. And the Timberwolves last year
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got eliminated, you know, in the conference, the West conference
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finals against the Dallas maps. So it's not like they haven't
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been there. They've been on the brink of
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getting to the finals. Not Julius Randle, who came open
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the trade for Karl Anthony Towns.
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So we'll see. It's a terrific series.
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And then the other series, too, Denver and OK C, whoever wins
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the Denver OKC series, you don't know whether they're going to be
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favored, you know, against the Timberwolves, the Golden State
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or whatever. But OKC is the favorite at this
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moment. But it's a question of OKC
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having to prove themselves in the playoffs for the first time.
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And they're not going to have an easy ride getting into the
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Finals by any means, because they're going to have a very
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tough Denver Nugget team who I think they should beat.
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I I get the feeling Denver with the coaching change they got by
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the Clippers, but in large part the Nuggets beat the Clippers
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Sonia, because the Clippers blue game one of that series to the
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Nuggets after leading the whole way and letting that game get
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away. And I said that's going to come
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back to haunt them and that I think the Nuggets could win this
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now in seven games because the Clippers open the door for them.
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Yeah, it's funny you mentioned that.
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Of course, the Timberwolves Golden State game coming up,
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it's going to be a very notable #6 verse #7 seed matchup.
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Wow. I mean, talk about winning to
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stay in umm. I want to put a pin there real
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quick because I want to also talk about the fact that it was
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that coaching change with Denver.
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And so a lot of people predicted that that was going to get them
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basically eliminate right away. But like you said, the Clippers
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giving up that first game was the momentum that the Nuggets
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needed to stay in. And so they are still in it.
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And before the coaching change, they were projected to go very
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deep into the playoffs chat. No, I yes and no.
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It's far as being projected to go deep in the playoffs because
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Denver had been floundering somewhat with Mark Malone.
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He and the GM supposedly reportedly won much different
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pages. That be a lot of tension within
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the organization. And they got by.
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They got by an LA Clipper team. Let's, let's face it, it's a
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little dysfunctional. I have to stop the thought to
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see what Linda McGrath did. Yeah.
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Good morning, Miss. Whenever.
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Linda talks I regarded like an important bulletin that that is
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newsworthy always. Will be.
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The banter will always be classic.
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Much love to everyone who will continue to keep Max Stream
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alive. Thanks a lot, Linda.
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And and this shows you how much this network meant to the
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McGrath that Linda is in listening this morning.
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I mean, we didn't know that. And here she is tuning into the
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show and we always think, you know, Linda, you and Mac and and
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I'm going to continue to joke about Mac back and forth.
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Mac would have loved it like you say.
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OK And I know Mac is giving it back to me because when I kind
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of flop on something I hear Mac just laughing but not but in a
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fun way where I could laugh along with him.
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We just, I really, I really wanted to speak to Miss Linda,
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too. Thank you so much, Miss Linda,
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for chiming in this morning. Hope you caught a little
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flashback from the past that we started to show with.
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I'm continuing to pray for you as always, and so grateful for
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the opportunity to know you. And Matt, we love you and we
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just will continue to do exactly what we're supposed to do.
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Yeah, Jack, so definitely, you know, like you said, you don't.
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Yes and no. You know, about the Denver
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Nuggets going deeply into the playoffs now with the coaching
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change. What were your thoughts on that?
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Yeah, they let's see what they do against OKC.
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If they get eliminated in let's say 5 or 6 games against OKC,
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what good was the coaching change?
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I mean, this isn't the objective.
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They won one series. They won one series, so I don't
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want to hear about the coaching change helping.
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In other words, Sonia, it's like the jury still out on the Denver
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Nuggets. We have to see what they do
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going forward. Something about this Clipper
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team, You know, I just didn't like to have a really good
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coach, the Clippers and Tyron Lou, Kawhi Leonard didn't take
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it up another level. He played OK against Denver.
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He was OK. But for someone who's
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potentially A superstar, you wonder about Kawhi Leonard.
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Is he, has he been a disappointment?
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That's a good debate question. I got to write these debate
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questions down. You know, we have a Saturday
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show and whenever I think of something really good, I'm
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walking outside and I don't have a pen and pad.
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I'm talking to you. I'm not going to stop and get a
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pen and pad and write it down and then you can get it later.
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But that's a great question. Because Kawhi Leonard was
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regarded in some circles at some point as one of the future
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greats in the NBA. In fact, Max Kellerman, you
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know, I haven't spoken to Max for a while, but he was a friend
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when he used to do the show on first take.
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He even raided at one point. Listen to this Kawhi Leonard,
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the head of Kobe Bryant, he thought he has to.
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Now it seems far fetched. It it's really far fetched.
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At the time he said it, I didn't agree with it, but it didn't
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come under the classification of being ridiculous.
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I didn't think you could just dismiss it, Say I get out of
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here, you're out of your mind. I I'm not even going to dignify
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it. It was worth dignifying and
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talking about. It had some merit as far as
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being a discussion. Because keep in mind, Kawhi
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Leonard, remember the San Antonio Spurs win the NBA
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championship. Kawhi Leonard, it's one year
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with the Toronto Raptors wins the NBA championship.
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So he was trending on an an amazing career.
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But with the Clippers, he hasn't played like a superstar.
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He's played like a very, very good player, extremely good
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player. But we were more out of them and
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he didn't supply it in that series.
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Maybe he deferred to James Harden a little more than he
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should have, but I don't regard Harden as a selfish player.
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He because he distributes the ball, you know, so much.
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But let's see what Denver does against OKC.
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Yeah, Speaking of distributing so much, Miss Linda coming back
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saying I'm always, I'll always be with, I'm always be here with
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all of you as you are with us. So we appreciate you, Miss
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Linda. And I'll be joking with Mac.
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Yeah. You know, stuff like he's
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staying and so on. And, you know, I one thing I'll
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never have an answer to. I'll never have an answer to
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this. I don't think even Linda knows
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the answer. Who drove who more crazy did I
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drive? Mack more crazier than he drives
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me more crazy in our discussions.
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I don't know whether I'll ever have a true answer to that.
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I suppose. Yeah, I, I could have
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potentially driven him more crazy, but Mack had thicker skin
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than me, so he just, you know, fluffed off my nonsense.
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But when Mac would come up with some sports theme that I thought
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was way off base, I would go on a real tangent about it.
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So I guess the answer is he throw me a lot more crazy
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because he had a better personality than I have a
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stronger foundation. Yeah, and good morning to you
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Bryant aren't B Strilla from the 1A cheat three Toes podcast.
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He says good morning Jack and Sonya, of course we continue to
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sprinkle Mac in. This is how we continue to live
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the legacy because he's always no job I'm.
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Cutting in. Except don't forget the thought
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You and Miss Strilla did an amazing job for that production
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for Mac. For people who haven't seen it,
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they tell them how they could go to YouTube to try to catch that
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one. One particular show for those
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you know who know Mac or want to know about him.
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Yeah, So thank you so much for that, Jack.
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Yesterday, I actually got the idea.
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Once we learned of Mac's transition on Saturday, it was
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Jack, myself and Jay Train wrapped up the debate show that
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we were talking about on Saturday morning.
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As we were sitting backstage, literally like moments after the
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show, Miss Linda calls and gives Jack the the unfortunate news.
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And so we got off the off the air.
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I thought about it for a little bit and I wanted to put together
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something where people could pay tribute to Mac.
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So I got a lot of video clips together.
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I didn't know how to merge them for presentation purposes, so I
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reached out to Bistrilla and he and I literally stayed up all
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night or most of the night Saturday night getting these
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clips together. And yesterday's show, we did
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clips of Mac, some of his greatest moments with a lot of
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the network past and present. And I reached out to all the
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contacts I had known through Mac and let them know what we were
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doing. And everybody came on the show
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yesterday, offered words of support to Miss Linda, of
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course, share their fondest memories of Mac.
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And all of us vowed to continue to live Mac's legacy and to
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continue with the humor that he would want us to have.
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There were some tears, but All in all, we did it Max style so
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you could go on our network. Of course, National Streaming
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Sports, we're on Roku that was aired on there.
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I will replay it again once there's another plug.
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It's usually going to be later in the evening.
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It also ran again yesterday at 4:00 PM.
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It's also on the National Streaming Sports YouTube page.
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All you need to do is go to the episode for yesterday, May 4th,
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2025. The show is one hour and 16
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minutes, but it is extremely profound and it was definitely
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an honor to do something so great for such a great man.
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You know, it's funny. I'm thinking of some of the
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shows we did where we had some laughs, where I reflect back and
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one of them, we had one episode when we were talking about Jim
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Jeff called former two time Super Bowl champion with the
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Dallas Cowboys, 107 sacks in his NFL career.
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Played 15 years, 12 for Dallas, 3 for Buffalo, Mayhem and Mac.
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With debating, I brought this question up whether a woman
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would ever play in the NFL. And I always like, I always like
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to look at the path for something.
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And you're never going to get a woman as a wide receiver,
25:19
running back. I got to be honest, the
25:21
quarterback. But I thought, you know, women's
25:24
soccer, you have some awesome women's soccer players.
25:28
I can maybe see a field goal kicker.
25:31
Maybe the men could kick the ball, you know, a little
25:35
further. But if you get a woman who's
25:38
amazingly accurate from within 50 yards, I, I think the women
25:42
out there would be kick football up to 50 yards, I would guess.
25:45
And if you have one with amazing accuracy, there's always a
25:49
chance a team picks her up. That was my way of thinking.
25:54
So it would be so we would go back and put Jim Jeffcoat, who
25:58
has, you know, a daughter who plays sports, says, yeah, I
26:02
think someday they'll be a woman in the NFL.
26:05
You know, maybe it's a kick or whatever.
26:07
And I said, yeah, I think some way it'll be some way somehow
26:12
you get a woman. You know, in the NFL, it's a
26:15
kick at some point, a soccer player.
26:18
And Mac said, get out of here. You're too out of your mind.
26:22
That's never going to happen. You know, he like, he kind of
26:25
laughed at the two of us. It was kind of funny in a way.
26:28
But the truth of the matter is a reflection, no offense on your
26:32
Mac is right. You're not going to have a woman
26:34
in the NFL yet. Maybe you want to debate if you
26:38
get a phenomenal woman basketball player, can she hold
26:44
a place on the bench, never play on the man's team, be like a 12,
26:50
no pun intended, 12 man, 12 woman, whatever you want to call
26:53
her. Can she have barely make the
26:56
roster, never play at the end of the bench?
27:00
And I'm, and I'm talking in terms of if it's a superstar
27:04
women's basketball player superstar a lot better than the
27:09
Caitlin Clarkson, Angel Reese's better than that.
27:12
They they wouldn't be good enough to, you know, you know,
27:16
come anywhere close to holding an NBA roster spot.
27:20
But if you get a Michael Jordan woman, that's what I mean, a
27:24
Michael Jordan LeBron James woman type who totally dominates
27:29
the WNBA, maybe can they get a roster?
27:33
You know, you debate that, but I don't mean to debate it on this
27:36
show. But it's funny, the way Mack
27:39
dismissed it, you know, like just blew us away.
27:44
Like, never. Oh, you're out of your mind,
27:46
Jack, you know. We were being politically
27:49
correct and Jeff Code and myself and Mack was telling it like it
27:54
was basically, you know, and I kind of have some memories in
27:58
that. Yeah, Miss Linda comes back and
28:00
says she thinks it's equal, that you guys both got on each
28:03
other's nerves. She came back and said that, and
28:05
Beastrilla said to tell you thank you.
28:07
He said you're far too kind for the compliments.
28:11
Well, you guys did a phenomenal job in the tribute.
28:14
I when you first I saw your e-mail about the tribute, I
28:20
wasn't crazy about the way it was going to be held.
28:22
And then later when I saw the way you 2 did it, I I I was a
28:26
little internally embarrassed that I would be annoyed at the
28:31
setup. The setup was so great, so
28:34
perfect, so wonderful. You could get CBSNBCABC.
28:39
They would have had those producers would have had nothing
28:42
on the way you and Priscilla, you know, into production.
28:46
Yeah. That means a lot, Jack.
28:48
Oh my gosh. Because I know.
28:50
You. Yeah.
28:52
You going to give me? Let's talk about the.
28:55
Let's talk about the East. Thank you, Jack.
28:57
So the second round action continued on Monday with game
29:01
one matchups. Boston Celtics versus the New
29:04
York Knicks are going to be held today.
29:06
Of course, we talk about the OKC game.
29:08
What are your thoughts on the Celtics and the Knicks?
29:11
I think the Knicks are going to give them a series.
29:14
I don't understand. I hear everyone saying, well, if
29:17
the Knicks win one game, it's good.
29:20
I think I had Brian win her her say the Knicks win one game,
29:24
it's good. If they win two games, they
29:27
should have a celebration. I think they are going to win a
29:30
couple of games. Come on then.
29:32
No moral victories. Yeah, I'm going to be honest
29:35
about it. If the Knicks lose a tough seven
29:38
game series and they take the Celtics down to the wire, it's
29:42
going to be a disappointment. At some point, the Knicks have
29:48
to take the next step and take a run at winning the NBA
29:52
championship. It can't be this way.
29:54
Year after year, you get in the playoffs, you win one series,
29:58
you lose the next one. I know it's to the Celtics and I
30:02
know the Knicks fan base isn't going to be that upset.
30:07
If the Knicks, you know, losing 5-6 games, they're going to say,
30:11
well, the Celtics are just better.
30:13
But at what point are the Knicks going to become a serious
30:16
championship contenders if they're not doing it now?
30:20
They made the big deal. They got Karl Anthony Towns,
30:24
They got McHale Bridges this year, they put themselves in
30:28
position to take a serious run at the Celtics.
30:32
The Celtics have had their number winning all three games
30:35
during the regular season. But now's the time that up the
30:40
Celtics can actually be had. They're not invincible.
30:44
I mean, I mean, the Celtics have coasted a good part of the year.
30:48
You know, it's the number two seed.
30:50
They had a solid year. But I don't want to hear about
30:54
moral victories with the Knicks. I don't think they're going to
30:56
win. I think they'll lose in sixth
30:58
games. I think I actually think going
31:02
back to Boston after four games, it's going to be two games
31:05
apiece. I think the Knicks are going to
31:07
grab one of these first two games in Boston.
31:10
I think they'll split in the Garden and then Boston will win
31:13
games. 5:00 and 6:00 if you want a prediction of trend, how the
31:17
series is going to go. But I'm tired of these moral
31:20
victories. Moral victories Sonia Only good
31:23
when the team comes out of nowhere.
31:25
Yeah, literally they. Exceed expectations.
31:29
I I can understand that, but it's so hard in sports to get
31:35
back to where you were before. Look, the Washington Commanders
31:38
exceeded everyone's expectations in the NFL.
31:41
They went to the NFC Championship, getting lost to
31:44
the Eagles. But after the game, I, I would
31:47
be upset if I would command a fan.
31:49
I would be proud of the year they had.
31:51
But it's so close. It's so hard.
31:54
I mean, to get back to the point that you were at sometimes
31:59
everyone has the attitude. Oh, well, we'll get it done next
32:02
year. We got here this year.
32:04
We'll take an extra step next year.
32:06
It doesn't work that way. It's hard to get back to where
32:10
you were. You have to start all over.
32:14
No one's handing you anything at all.
32:17
You know, like, I sometimes think about the Olympics and you
32:21
hear one competitor who's favored to win the event, oh,
32:25
they lost the gold medal. They didn't lose the gold medal.
32:28
They never had the dog gold medal in the medal.
32:32
They have to earn that. It's so hard to get back to a
32:36
certain spot sometimes. And for the Knicks, if they get
32:40
eliminated by Boston, it's a do over again.
32:44
What makes you think it's going to be much different next year?
32:48
Unless the Knicks could somehow work out a deal where they get
32:53
Giannis, change the whole face of the team and they'd have to
32:57
give up a lot. Be honest, I'm not sure exactly
33:00
who they wouldn't. You know, I could speculate, say
33:04
Bridges would be part of the deal with Karl Anthony Towns, be
33:08
part of the deal or whatever. You're giving up chips to get a
33:13
big chip. But if the Knicks come back with
33:16
the same team next year, which they probably will, they can't
33:20
get it done now. What makes you think they're
33:22
going to get it done next year? Yeah, it's so hard to get back.
33:27
I mean, just in anything. And because you have to account
33:30
for so many factors other than just having the same players,
33:33
you have to account for opposing teams, you have to account for
33:36
possible injuries, even climate change.
33:39
Anything that goes on, just life lifing can actually throw your
33:44
trajectory. Like you may mentally say, OK,
33:46
we'll be back. It's it's very difficult to do
33:49
that in anything in life, not just sports.
33:51
Let's talk about the. You made a remark I might not
33:56
let you live it down for a climate change and I understand
34:00
high altitude. So I mean, yeah, like, like
34:03
weather, like the weather. It could be a bad storm and you
34:06
may have to move your game to somewhere else to play it like,
34:09
you know, Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I know.
34:13
I hear what you think. That's a lot of different
34:15
factors, especially first and foremost when you mentioned the
34:19
injury factor when when you can people forget that a few years
34:25
ago when the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA title, the Nets could
34:29
have very easily won at Kevin Durant's 3 point shot as
34:33
footballs on the line. Nets win that.
34:36
They could have gone on like Milwaukee did and won the NBA
34:39
championship and a whole narrative of the Nets and Kevin
34:44
Durant would have been so much different that he delivered the
34:48
Brooklyn Nets and NBA championship.
34:52
OK, so I can finish now. Yeah, yeah.
34:55
You can never finish with me. I know it's OK.
34:58
See, I've learned that. Mac is putting up to this, you
35:02
know. Yes, yes, yes.
35:03
So. With a smile on your face.
35:06
Mac didn't smile at me the same way.
35:08
Sometimes I don't Jack. Yes.
35:13
So let's talk about the Pacers game.
35:15
They grabbed a nine point win Sunday night to take home corn
35:17
advantage from the top team in the Eastern Conference.
35:22
Tyra 3 Halliburton, of course, hang on late in the in the last
35:26
part of the game to knock off the Cavaliers in the first match
35:30
up. What are your thoughts on that?
35:32
Because the Pacers nearly blew a double digit halftime lead at
35:37
Rocket Arena on Sunday and they ended up winning A1, 21112 win
35:44
over the Cleveland Cavaliers then, and that gave them the
35:47
edge to basically take that one O lead in the Eastern Conference
35:51
semifinal. Yeah, I mean, like I said, the
35:54
Pacers could get off to The Big Lead, and they're holding the
35:57
lead all game. And then Cleveland finally kind
36:01
of catches up, you know, late in the game and in the second-half.
36:05
And then predictably, they did. But, you know, the Pacers held
36:11
firm. And Jared Allen, I was a little
36:14
disappointed. He's normally extremely
36:17
reliable. One of my favorite players just
36:20
wasn't grabbing rebounds and at the end of the game, I mean,
36:24
Pacers would seem to get so many offensive rebounds there.
36:28
And it was just the disappointing outing, You know,
36:31
for the Cavaliers. It happens one game and I want
36:35
to hear stuff. Well, homecourt advantage, the
36:37
Pacers won the game up 1, nothing.
36:40
But with that said, Game 2 is super crucial for Cleveland
36:44
because you fall down to nothing to play the next two games in,
36:49
you know, Indianapolis. And even though the Cavaliers
36:52
are capable of winning two games, their chances are that
36:56
they don't. And they write them maybe going
36:58
back to Cleveland, down three games to 1, you know, and that's
37:02
very precarious if it happened. But I expect the Cavaliers to
37:07
restore in Game 2, you know, win that and they're the better
37:11
team. The Cavaliers are the better
37:13
team and they should ultimately prevail.
37:16
I think for the most part they just had North game and and
37:21
they're gonna correct that. Yeah, this is the first time
37:24
Cleveland has been upset like that in a postgame matchup here
37:29
in this series. But I do want to give kudos to
37:31
one of the Cleveland Cavalier players.
37:33
That would be Donovan Mitchell, who actually put up his eighth
37:37
straight series opener of 30 plus points, which broke the
37:40
record of the great Michael Jordan 7 game.
37:43
Mark. Jordan has scored 30 plus points
37:46
in a series opener and two different 7 game streaks while
37:50
the leading the Chicago Bulls to 6 championships between 1991 and
37:54
1998. Mitchell finished the night with
37:57
33 points but Indiana of course won the series so
38:01
congratulations to Donovan Mitchell.
38:03
Did you know that Jack I? Didn't know that exacts that,
38:06
but I'm going to tell you what the Cavaliers, this is more
38:09
important that they win this series than the Pacers winning
38:12
it. One thing, if the Cavaliers
38:15
advance for the Eastern Finals and they lose a tough six or
38:20
seven game series for the Boston Celtics, it's understood because
38:24
they're playing a team as good as they are, not a little
38:27
better. A team with a major pedigree, I
38:30
should say, in the Celtics. But to lose to the Indiana
38:34
Pacers and come on. And I know the Pacers got to the
38:38
conference finals last year, but for the most part, they're
38:43
they're no more than just a good team.
38:45
There's nothing really exceptional about them.
38:48
You know, they're well coached, play well together, but the
38:51
Cavaliers absolutely have to beat this type of team.
38:55
And after that 64 win season the Cavaliers had, you mean to tell
39:00
me they're going to lose the best four out of seven series to
39:04
the Indiana Pacers? I mean, that would be one of the
39:08
big disappointments of the year when that would be a bigger
39:11
disappointment for Cavalier Nation than it would for the
39:15
Lakers losing to the Timberwolves.
39:17
Well, The thing is Jack, they have their All Star point guard
39:21
Darius Garland, who's missed three games now he's going to he
39:25
set out last night's game as well, game one in the Eastern
39:28
Conference. He's missed 3 consecutive
39:30
playoff games because he has a spring left big toe.
39:35
I mean, people don't realize that the importance of those big
39:38
toes, they literally balance everything.
39:40
He was also idle in games three and four, the first round when
39:43
the Cavs swept the Heat. I mean, how big of a factor is
39:46
he going to be in this matchup? Well, everything's a big BAFTA,
39:51
but it's just readjusting. I mean, the cat, like I said a
39:56
little while ago, the Cavaliers problem was, you know, on the
39:59
boards. I mean, they just didn't rebound
40:02
the way they normally did yesterday.
40:04
What's frustrating at the end of the game?
40:07
When you saw the door maybe opening for Cleveland to maybe
40:11
come back and they play good defense on the Pacers, Pacers
40:16
would miss a shot, but the Pacers would get their own
40:18
offensive rebound. It was so, so frustrating there,
40:22
you know, for the Cavaliers and you know, it's important, but I
40:28
expect Jared Allen to step up. Mobley, I think at 10 rebounds
40:32
yesterday, he's going to be consistent.
40:35
And Donovan Mitchell, you know, they can't afford him to take a
40:39
little step back, have a so, so game now and then.
40:43
Donovan Mitchell, you know, you're waiting for him to
40:47
establish himself as one of the superstars in the league.
40:51
When we talk about the superstars of the league, his
40:55
name never comes up. Like if we took a poll of 10
40:59
basketball experts and have them all write down who are the top
41:04
five players in the NBA, certain of the names would be the same.
41:10
Like Joke, if she'd be on everyone's list, you know, of
41:13
course, but some of the names would be on there, like Anthony
41:16
Edwards top five. Maybe some people wouldn't have
41:21
Anthony Edwards top five, but I wonder when anyone at all have,
41:25
you know, Donovan Mitchell in their top five.
41:28
Something about Donovan Mitchell.
41:30
When we talk about the great players, you know we talk about
41:33
Giannis now, Anthony Edwards, Steph Curry.
41:37
No one quite mentions Donovan Mitchell, even though he's very
41:41
well known. Right, I mean he was mentioned
41:44
for a while, but you know, it's ebbs and flows, Jack.
41:47
Sometimes players names are up here, sometimes they're down
41:51
here, sometimes they're in between.
41:53
I just think it's one of those kind of in between weird spots
41:56
that you know he's there, but is he as relevant?
41:59
You know, with all the surrounding talent that's that's
42:02
around him? Basically, as we we have about
42:05
13 minutes left. Let's switch topics tonight.
42:08
You could be doing your boxing show glove fits with Frank
42:11
Lortierzo. I'm great show everybody make
42:13
you check it out at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time right
42:16
here. Same station.
42:18
Canelo Alvarez is remaining undisputed after defeating
42:21
William Skulljack. Yeah, yeah.
42:25
That was a big weekend in boxing, actually.
42:27
I'll review the whole thing now. It started Friday night.
42:31
They had a show at Times Square. Yeah, it was exciting that Time
42:37
Square had an activity, but the promotion was a bit of a fiasco,
42:42
you know, All in all. But Ryan Garcia got upset by
42:46
Riley Romero. That was a bit of a shock.
42:49
Romero is kind of like he's an ordinary fighter and he's a good
42:53
fighter, but there's nothing special about Riley Romero yet.
42:58
He beat Ryan Garcia. Garcia has been coming off the
43:01
one year suspension for PD used it, just didn't have it.
43:07
He got knocked out in the second round and there was never any
43:11
urgency. He never stepped up and you
43:15
know, threw the type of punches laid in the fight that could
43:17
turn the fight around and he was out appointed in his fight.
43:21
Devin Haney had his first fight in one year Devin Haney won a
43:26
decision over Jose Luis Ramirez. Haney fought like he was scared
43:29
the whole fight, you know, but he did what he had to do to win.
43:34
He didn't create any excitement in the slightest here.
43:37
Female Lopez look really, really good.
43:41
He was the one fighter who looked really, really good on
43:44
the show by beating Arnold Barbosa.
43:46
Barbosa was an unbeaten fighter. It went the distance in large
43:50
part because Barbosa is a good fighter.
43:52
He didn't take the extra chances even though Bob blows and move
43:56
forward. And I can't blame him.
43:58
Once you feel Tia female's power, but Tia female box really
44:03
well. Then Saturday, OK.
44:05
I mean, the big fight there, like you say, was Canelo Alvarez
44:09
and Canelo Alvarez fought this unbeaten Cuban, Williams, Skull.
44:14
Alvarez won a decision. I thought he won comfortably.
44:18
One of the judges had it close. One of the judges had it laps
44:22
died and I had something in between.
44:24
Alvarez, you know, couldn't come off the ring.
44:27
Williams, Scott ran around the ring literally the whole fight.
44:32
And I had Alvarez winning 9 rounds to three.
44:35
But there was it was boring. It was boring.
44:38
And I think Nello, I think Canelo has gotten to the point
44:43
and I felt this way 3-4 years ago that he was a fighter was
44:48
declining, but because he's so dedicated, he held that off to
44:53
an extent, you know, up to the naked eye how much he was
44:57
declining. But he's been in with mediocre
45:01
opponents who at times could make him look good and mask the
45:06
deficiencies he has. And now and it's going to be on
45:10
deterrence. Crawford September 12th in the
45:13
Las Vegas Raiders stadium, right?
45:19
I would venture to guess the Raiders don't have a game the
45:24
next day because you're going to have to turn it from a, you
45:28
know, you can get rid of quickly into the football field.
45:32
That would be my guess. And it's running over really
45:36
quickly though, Jack. I mean, I've seen them have
45:38
events here in Atlanta where they have a concert or something
45:43
like that. And then the next day there's a
45:45
Falcon game. And it's, it's amazing how they
45:47
get to work. They literally work from the
45:49
time like it's, it's really quick.
45:51
And it's amazing to see how quick they turn it back over.
45:54
Yeah, OK, that, that is amazing. And kudos to the workers.
45:59
We're able to get something like that done.
46:02
But you know, the commentator, Claudia Tree host, you know, I
46:06
have to drop a line. I don't know what, but she's a
46:08
Facebook friend of mine. Yeah, I, I understand she's not
46:13
a boxing expert. I, I, I do understand that.
46:16
And I, I give people slack. I, I really do.
46:20
Unless they're asking something that's downright ridiculous,
46:24
they've got to get called out and it.
46:26
She's interviewing Crawford, she says.
46:29
Do you think this is the biggest fight in boxing history?
46:33
I think she's ridiculous, Crawford and Canelo.
46:37
Really big to say that it's. Absurd.
46:39
It's absurd. It's like it's like someone's
46:44
having to before the Super Bowl, before the Eagles play, the
46:47
Chiefs saying, do you think this is the biggest event in sports
46:51
history today? Even Crawford through his
46:57
credits, that I wouldn't say that.
46:59
I'll say it's the biggest fight in the last 12 years.
47:03
Now that's highly debatable. It's highly debatable, but at
47:07
least it's arguable. You know, there's a difference
47:10
between certain things being arguable and that.
47:13
And for Hunt to even suggest that that was remotely in the
47:19
same league as the first Ali Frazier fighting some others as
47:23
well is crazy. It's crazy.
47:28
And I felt like dropping a line, but I don't really know a thing.
47:31
Please don't embarrass yourself. You know what I mean?
47:36
She embarrassed herself. I mean, she show you don't want
47:40
some. Listen, I fake it at times and
47:44
things. I don't know, you could start
47:45
talking to me about golf and I'm going to I I don't know much
47:49
about golf. I'm not the biggest fan but I
47:51
could they get to a degree. Right, you can stay relevant in
47:55
the conversation. Right, I'm not going to get, you
47:57
know, pick some golfer who won the latest tournament, you know,
48:03
and say, do you think he's the greatest golfer in the history
48:07
of the sport? You know, just throw it out, but
48:10
whatever, but whatever. But Canelo and Crawford,
48:13
September 12th in Las Vegas. To me, it's a fight that the the
48:19
expiration date, if it hasn't passed, it's still it's still
48:25
edible, but past the expiration date.
48:28
That's what I compared to. You look at the label and it
48:32
said use by and it passed that date.
48:36
Crawford is 37 years old. He's not the fighter he was.
48:42
He's still very, very good. Don't get me wrong, he's still
48:45
very good, but he's not the fighter he was.
48:49
He he's been inactive. He his last fight against Israel
48:54
Magramov, he looks ordinary in that fight.
48:57
Canelo has been declining. They're not the fight as they
49:01
were. But let me tell you Sonia, in
49:05
boxing, it's about the brand. That's what attracts people.
49:10
You don't have to be exciting, but they'll TuneIn to see.
49:14
Look, Floyd Mayweather created a brand.
49:17
Mayweather was a boring fight on balance.
49:20
He was a boring fighter. He would turn in some less than
49:27
exciting performances. Maybe exciting isn't the word.
49:30
Less than sterling performances later.
49:33
Yeah, he wasn't looking that good yet.
49:37
People would hear Mayweather. They'll see him again.
49:39
You know, Mayweather, for Manny Pacquiao, The fight was five
49:43
years too late. They were still good fighters.
49:46
They just weren't great, great fighters, like all time great
49:50
fighters. If you felt they were that, they
49:53
were kind of past that, but they were still good.
49:57
Mayweather beats Pacquiao by a decision.
49:59
The fight comes on at 1:00 in the morning Eastern Time.
50:02
Imagine that one in the morning. Eastern Time, No?
50:05
No type of promotion for folks really at all.
50:10
But it was like the Super Bowl of boxing because a lot of
50:13
people would tell me who weren't boxing fans, they would have
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parties over people's homes, get the fight, Mayweather, Pacquiao.
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And then and then they were complaining what a boring fight
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it was, what a boring fight it was.
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But guess what? If they had a rematch, those
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same people would be back and spend the pay-per-view for the
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rematch. I got to tell you what I did
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quickly. I know I'm cutting in.
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Well, yeah, because I'm going to talk to you about Canelo as
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well. I want to get Mayweather,
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Pacquiao. What I did, I never got the
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pay-per-view fight. I listen to this.
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I thought it was a ripple. They were charging 9999 a 100
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bucks one year before Pacquiao fought Mayweather.
50:54
This is a a true story. I had presented Mayweather the
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fighter of the year award. I presented him the award and
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last eight at the at The MGM hotel.
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Now one year later fighting Pacquiao and I'm watching the
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fight in the basement of my home.
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I refused, wasn't going to go to Las Vegas because the media
51:18
crush was such. I'd be, maybe we put in the
51:22
boondocks, you know, one of the last rows in Texas here and, or
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maybe even in the conference room, who knows.
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So I took $99 Sonya and went to a flea market and I, I, I bought
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items for $99.00 and I wrote a story how the money could be
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better spent. I won an award for the story.
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I I totally believe that. So people that don't know Jack
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is a former writer of the boss of one of the boxing, the
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boxing. Yeah.
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So so thanks Jack. So I was going to you talking
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about how, you know, he's been lackluster on the decline.
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I mean, Canelo, Haney and Garcia basically have a milking boxing
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fan drive. He went to Saudi Arabia, Canelo
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did, and basically people weren't even cheering.
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People were just sitting there scrolling their phones, no
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chanting, not even a big crowd at all.
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Just bunch of VIP oil people, you know, people that got oil on
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business, billionaires, nobody saying anything when if he was
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in his prime and in his heyday, as my grandmother used to say,
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he should have been in Vegas or in Mexico.
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So we're packing out a a audience and slamming people's
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heads. I mean, Jack you, you hit the,
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the hit the head on the with the nail.
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Like you hit the nail on the head because, you know, he was
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in Times Square. People were basically trying to
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keep themselves awake watching Devin Haney shadow box.
52:57
He shadow box for 12 rounds. Garcia, basically the the selfie
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king floated around and throwing arm punches like he was trying
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to break a nail, trying not to break his fingernail rather.
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And then his dad on the sidelines, Devin Haney's dad,
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was there basically acting like his son was doing way more than
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what he was just reacting to every little thing.
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No, Devin Haney's dad, Bill Haney, his conduct is sometimes
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very, extremely embarrassing. Let's you know, leave the you
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know, he's not the only dad you know, we see a patent in sports.
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Sonia. This is a topic for another
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time. Dads who on embarrassment to
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their son, I mean, these dads couldn't make it themselves as
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athletes. So don't get me wrong, they've
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been an asset to their son a lot of times by helping them, you
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know, as fathers. But Bill Haney, if you ever
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heard him talk, he's vulgar, you know, very embarrassing.
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I mean, Ryan Bushey is that sometimes it's the same way, the
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way he acts and but sometimes it's image to Tia FEMA.
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Lopez's father came off that way as really someone you couldn't
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stand, couldn't like. In addition to Tia FEMA Lopez
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junior, let me tell you behind the scenes, they're sweethearts.
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They're two of my favorite people, Tia FEMA junior and
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senior. They're such good, good guys,
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you know, behind the scenes. So but but you're right, you're
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you're right. You you pointed out good
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atmosphere in Saudi Arabia. Why was he fighting there?
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You know, the stories are putting up the money.
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They wanted it in their host country.
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Why not? You know, the sorties got so
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much money to burn. So yeah, it's not like a normal.
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One of them I just need some of the money.
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They're willing to lose a few million on the show, it seems.
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OK, we lose it, we'll make it back.
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We they weren't. Even paying attention, they were
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just sitting there like it looked, I don't even know how to
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describe it. It was, it was very unsettling.
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And you're talking about, you know, look at Tyrese real quick.
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You talk about bad dads, or lack of.
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The dads, no, the well, dads weren't embarrassing to their
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sons. Yeah.
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OK. And sometimes these sons have to
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keep them under control. I mean, you know, and if it's a
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good dad, he'll back off. I mean, look at the dads.
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What was it, the ball brothers in the NBA?
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The father tried to bring attention to himself the whole
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time, you know, and that there'd be a couple of others and it's
55:47
not about them. They should be in the
55:48
background, but it's what is. But back to atmosphere, people
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don't realize when Busted Douglas upset Mike Tyson, the
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fight was in Tokyo. It was held in the morning in
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Tokyo and it was like the crowd didn't go crazy when Douglas,
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not Tyson. Now there's like they were in,
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you know, doing their morning thing, having their morning
56:13
coffee, watching the fight, right, have that dramatic
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effect. Yeah, I mean, not the dramatic
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effect at all, but like you said, when people have money to
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just throw things away, throw money away.
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I mean, weak as Americans and we as some of us, the way we live
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frugally, Jack, I'm sure you can definitely respect that.
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We are not going to pay money to go somewhere and sit and just be
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on our phones literally and just scroll like there was.
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They weren't even looking at what was going on around them.
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Yeah, I mean, but but the purpose of the promotion with
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the stories, they're they're kind of looking at the big
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picture. I think they want to take over
56:56
boxing completely and then they'll make their money back.
56:59
They got Dana White now involved, supposedly he's going
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to start a boxing league and eventually the fighters are not
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going to get paid nearly the amount they are now unless the
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other independent promoters stay in the business, provide
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competition and we'll see how it unfolds.
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But for the time being, there's a lot, a lot of, you know, good
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fights being made by the Saudis. So I want to give, you know, His
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Excellency, the guy in charge a lot, a lot of credit for
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providing past fights. Yeah, and hello, Scott.
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He said sorry he hadn't been around.
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Condolences to the whole network, of course, to miss
57:37
Linda. Thoughts and prayers.
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Hey, Scott, thank you so much for joining.
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Morning, Jonathan. Stan, good morning as well.
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Uh, yeah. So listen, Jack just gave you
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guys a great preview of what's to come tonight at 7:00 PM on
57:51
GLOVE. Fits him and frankly, Lord
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Tierzo. Great show.
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We can't wait to have you on. We have shows throughout the
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rest of this morning, Jack, always a great time with you.
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I'm of course Mac. We did this one for you and we
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will beat you guys. A good day.