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Wolves drilled again, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good. Afternoon.
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Welcome to Miller and Condon on a getaway Friday.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon and Ken Miller are here for the next two hours to
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talk sports with you. Thanks for starting your
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afternoon here with us. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. We will start with our friend
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Tom Cacert. Hawks.
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Well, the baseball team took one on the chin last night and
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absolutely nothing tomorrow. It's all about tomorrow.
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So we'll talk to Tom about Hawkeye related topics coming up
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here in 25 minutes. After that, we'll give 4 of you
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an opportunity. If if you have not participated
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in the Chicken Chicken Coop contest in the last 30 days,
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you'll have that opportunity to do so at about 1/4 before one.
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O'clock 12:45 Somewhere in there, we'll give you 4
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questions. You give us 4 answers.
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You get the most right. You'll get a $50.00 gift
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certificate from one of the three chicken coops, 12725
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Meredith just South of D Mac on oral labor in Ankeny and 60th
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and Ashworth in West Des Moines. Chicken coop giveaway coming up
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here. At about 12:45 we'll head to Las
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Vegas. We'll catch up with our friend
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Mike Palm. They made some news yesterday.
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Circa contests have all been announced unless we'll talk to
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Mike about that NHLNBAMLB etcetera with Mike Palm as we
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catch up with the VP of Operations at Circus Sports at
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1:02. And then Eugene Repay on Iowa
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State. We'll talk clones with Eugene
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coming up here at about 1:30. Trent will make his picks of the
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day. Circus Sports also sponsor those
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those about 10 minutes before 2 and we will turn things over to
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the drive with Lucas and and. Not sure today, I haven't seen
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Lucas. Yet to be.
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Determined, but he'll have somebody with him from 2:00
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until 5:00 as Heather did the morning show with Sean taking a
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couple of days off here, extending his long weekend and
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well done. He certainly deserves it.
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All right, so a lot of ground to cover from last night.
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It certainly seems like maybe we got some clarity and not the
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clarity I was looking for because I want there to be some
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drama in. Man, oh man, oh man.
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I just don't get the sense that that there's going to be much.
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In fact, if I had to guess right now, I'd say we, both of their
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respective champions, played and won their games last night.
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Oklahoma City looks like a wagon.
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So do the Florida Panthers and all we go to tonight's action as
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the East in the NBA gets back to business and the West in the NHL
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gets back to business. But that doesn't matter.
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I think you have it right that we saw the 2 champions win last
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night, yet the series that we get that play tonight are
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probably our best chances of having good series.
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Yes, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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I think Starzoiler still is going to be a tremendous series.
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I do too. And I think Pacers, Knicks is
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going to give us the intrigue. And by the time we get to the
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Finals, I don't know, but the Thunder and the Panthers might
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be so far away that our Finals are going to be disappointing.
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So what I'm getting to is enjoy tonight.
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Yeah, Enjoy the series that we're doing today.
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Yes, Those are going to be the ones that we should have circled
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and keeping our eyes on because the Timberwolves.
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Oh, no answers. They're dead.
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They look like it. They look like it.
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They're frustrated. SGA, he's he's in their head.
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I get it. I hate the way he plays.
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Nothing new. If you listen to this program,
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Trent feels the same way. And we thought maybe that the
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the referees would catch on to his antics and maybe not give
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him the benefit of the doubt, just go along with the games
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that he's playing. But they wouldn't.
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And they called it too close again last night for my for my
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money. And the Timberwolves have no
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answer. Now, look, Oklahoma City's just
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a better team. Yeah.
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The bottom line, this isn't just a bitch about SGA.
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Sounds like one. Yeah, that's a big part of it.
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It's a big part of it. But at the end of the day,
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they're just better. They're better.
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They're deeper, deeper. They just have an answer for
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everything. Yeah.
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And when they're allowed to play defense like they do.
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Oh my God. And when they is.
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Caruso, he's the watchman. Another.
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World. Oh my God.
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That guy's able to do. That good?
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At six foot four can guard everything.
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Doesn't matter what size they are.
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You know, you hear that a lot. Oh, he can guard all 5
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positions. No they can't.
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That's a lie. This one this this might be the
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exception. This is the guy that actually
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can guard all five position and do it for a long stretch.
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Not on a switch, no. Do it all the time.
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It's ridiculous. And he's like their 7th best
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player. It's wild.
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It's just wild. We're talking about a Unicorn
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here defensively that is 7th, 8th best player on the team.
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That's what we're dealing with with this behemoth, and it's
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not, it's not enjoyable. I don't know what it is about
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the Thunder. Maybe I should like this team
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more than I do. I like the way the fans look in
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the building with all the well done.
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Yep, they put on the T-shirts, whatever ones on there, they're
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they're good there, but just overall I it's not pleasing to
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watch if they were more. Of a brand would they be?
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Maybe and maybe that's just a me problem, but I enjoyed watching
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the Thunder of 12 years ago. I like it yeah I so it's not AI
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hate Oklahoma stuff like that. I hate OKC, they're new for no
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and it it's just this collection doesn't has never clicked with.
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Me. And the short price that we
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talked about all the time with them, maybe that was a reason
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to, well, I'm never going to bet that this is still a young team
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and that could be a reason that is behind it.
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But yeah, overall, and it's disappointing because the
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Timberwolves get to this level after what they had a year ago
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and seeing is there going to be a little bit more is at least a
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push. Here and they got going.
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They didn't have the best of regular seasons, at least to
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begin with. Got things going Here they are
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back in the West and I gave them a chance.
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I mean I wanted to see Nixon T wolves.
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A lot of people did, but it's just not going to happen.
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It mean and one for three from or one for 9 from three Nas
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again couldn't buy a three pointer last night.
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Alexander Walker was good. Randall was not.
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This was not his night, and you know what?
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That's kind of unfair to him because he's carried this team
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in a lot of ways. He really has.
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It felt like they found something there in the fourth
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quarter, at least for a stretch when they got it back to single
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digits. With Alexander Walker.
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And it was Alexander Walker was hot.
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Reid was in the game, but he was going to the rim more, as was
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Ant. But you're not winning four out
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of five trying to do that. I mean, that was a specific
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moment and a specific time when the Thunder were playing with a
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15 point lead. I talk about grassmen for
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straws. That's all this is.
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It's over. They're done.
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Trent, you know how I hate to bet a short price?
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I swallowed hard and took my medicine last night with the
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Thunder. I put the Thunder and the
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Panthers together, put them together.
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I just put them together. It seems like it's free money
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and it's plus $1.84 and that's not me, right?
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You know I'm 2530 to one. OK, now I'm interested but the
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But it just seems like it's. I kind of hope I lose my bet.
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I do. Just because there'll be
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something different. So you had to fill me in because
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I was called baseball, had the T Wolves game on, but was that
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watching any hockey last night? And then when I saw the score, I
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knew I wasn't watching any hockey.
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It's just that dominating. And, and, and Carolina's the
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best home team in the NHL and they got crushed and
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back-to-back games crushed. Now the series shifts to
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Florida. Good luck.
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I mean, this one looks like it's ticketed for four.
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Maybe that maybe they'll win a game, but boy, I don't.
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I mean, Freddie Anderson again, was awful, got pulled.
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Did he? I don't, you know, if he did, I
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was on the NBA at that point. If he did get pulled, Fox.
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Score said. Yeah, Who's that?
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Katchikov. Katchikov.
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Poiter. Yeah, I don't know.
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Poiter. Katchikov.
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Yeah, they put him in I'm. Really good at rushing as you
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can tell. So I, I'll, I'll take your word
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for it, but they're just, there's just no answers.
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Florida's so good. And look, I, I, I'm really want,
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obviously I want Edmonton to beat Dallas.
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I'm not sure that they will, but I'm not sure it matters who wins
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the West. They just this Florida team,
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just look, they're bigger, they're stronger, they're faster
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and they're deeper than most teams.
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And they got good goaltending. They've got a terrific head
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coach. There's no weakness.
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There's no weakness. What they did at the trade
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deadline, bringing Seth Jones over, the defenseman from the
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Blackhawks, Brad Marshawn, the pest from the Boston Bruins,
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he's now added to that group. They just looked so dominant and
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so are the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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And away we'll go. I want to go to A to a place
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where I've never gone before because I've never seen her,
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Caitlin Clark do this. And I saw it with my own two
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eyes last night. If you were, if you were
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watching any part of the game and I thought it was on prime,
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WI carried the game. Back on number. 5 back on
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Channel 5 S Does that mean they're going to carry most of
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them? Everything that is on a local
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affiliate in Indianapolis, yes, they're picking up like they did
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last. Year.
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That's awesome because I was prepared to turn to prime and I
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actually tuned. To the the.
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Channel Guide because I wanted to see what time the basketball
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game started because I thought I mean the the NBA started because
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I thought that's what they were. And to my surprise, there were
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the fever. I watched Caitlin Clark shoot an
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air ball. I've never seen her not hit
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anything and she struggled last night in a big way.
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Now I got to give Atlanta a ton of credit because they made it
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tough on her last night. It kind of reminded me of the
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pre Olympic game when the the All Stars against the Olympians.
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Do you remember that when they picked Caitlin up, you know, 94
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feet and we're going to guard her the entire way?
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That's what they did and she was O for five.
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This has to be the first game in the in the West that she's not
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made a three pointer. There can't have been very many
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O. For.
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Five, including an air ball a Vadnais not tipped to did her
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thing. You know, a little step back and
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I don't know, I mean, she didn't have a good game.
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And yet they won. And yet they won.
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And there was no way that was happening last year.
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No, no, they're deeper. They're they're this Natasha
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Howard is a terrific piece to that team.
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And Caitlin was off the floor when they needed to go heavy on
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defense, which probably is going to be Stephanie White's modus
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operandus now going forward. Didn't have a chance to see it
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last night and I had a question though looking through the box.
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And Caitlin was in foul trouble, OK, She was in foul trouble.
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So what are the big acquisitions of the offseason is bringing
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Dwana Bonner? And Bonner is an all timer, an
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all time elite player. She's also 37, and last night
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she had a point game before she didn't score, if memory serves,
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on Tuesday night. No, that's right.
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Yeah, that's right. Saturday she set the record or
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moving into third place rather. Yeah, she knows she's on the
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floor for she's she's a tough toughness and.
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She's going to get boards and she's smart.
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And a good. Defender, a really good
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defender, really good defender and she was asked to go up
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against Britney Griner last night when she was on the floor
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a lot of times. So when you have that, I think
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maybe my thoughts on Bonner were a little bit different that she
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was going to still that she still had a little bit left.
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Yeah, there's going to be games where since you asking me at
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WNBA self, that's that's where we and me having answers, yes,
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and that's where we are, which is absolutely incredible.
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But for you, I think that's one that I got to adjust my kind of
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thinking with Donner. Yeah, I think she's third all
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time. Yes she is yeah, she she W that
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milestone on on Saturday from the free throw line.
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Sophie Cunningham was great. That was her first game as a
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member of the Fever. Lexi Hulls, not only is she a
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great defender, she she chips in offensively, but it's Natasha
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Howard. I think Trench, that the real,
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the real addition to this team that and you know what, and
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Cunningham too, because she's going to be a factor.
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But they're better. But you know what?
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Atlanta's a good team. Atlanta's really good.
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And now Saturday, tomorrow afternoon, CBS has the defending
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champs, the Liberty of New York against the Indiana Fever.
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It's a noon tip off way before any NBA.
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When way before any NHL. So CBS Channel 8 here.
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I come at noon tomorrow for that one and it will be, by the way,
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part of the chicken coop giveaway as the Liberty are
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favored in that game by 2 1/2. And I believe there is a game
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later on the season that's going to be a night game on big CBS,
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something that they've never done.
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What I think of Saturday night programming on CBS, I think of
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old people shows. There's been old people when I.
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When you say older, give me an idea.
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Like older than you. 70s, yeah. Yes, yeah.
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Growing up, that was the place where TV went to die.
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Saturday nights on CBS, they had there was a sitcom that Burt
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Reynolds was on. That was the only thing that I
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come. With Burt, yes.
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With Lonnie Anderson. Maybe.
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What was that? I I, I mean years are turning.
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I have no idea what the name it was, but I remember that.
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Shady acres? No, not shady.
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Acres. That's Green Acres and they were
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not in that I've. Completed a couple of different
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things but to think that CBS that has been dramas Saturday
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night programming for old people.
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They can put a WNBA game on who would.
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Have thought that's going to be really.
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So will the NBA be over at that point?
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I don't remember what I just. Heard we'll be we'll be kind of
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in the Death Valley of sports where we've got baseball and
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countdown to football because if that's the case, they'll do a
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massive. Number.
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Oh, absolutely. As long as the feet well, it
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doesn't matter if the fever good or not, we.
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Found out last year, yeah, we found out that was the case of
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season ago, but that's coming up later in the year.
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And this will be a good test with the Liberty.
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I want to see them for the first time this year.
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It's still. Empty nest apparently.
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Empty. No empty nest was.
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I don't know. I don't know, I'm just getting
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texted. I'm just Nope, that was NBC, but
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I I still got that one. Burt Reynolds.
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Now we'll figure it. Out Burt Reynolds and Lonnie
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Anderson and they became a couple in real life.
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I think yes. I don't know I'm.
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Evening shade. There it.
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Is evening shade. There you go.
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I think of Burt Reynolds and Smokey in a bag.
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Oh. Absolutely.
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That was my. Favorite as longest yard?
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Wasn't he in the longest? Was yes, even Lee Corso,
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teammates at Florida State. Yeah, yeah.
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All right, good stuff 12. 15 We boy, that we've never.
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Moved in a lot of places here here this morning.
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Welcome to summer. Yeah, welcome to summer indeed.
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All right, so baseball for the weekend.
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We were taking a look before we went on the air, just kind of BS
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and asking where your twins were, etcetera.
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There's some pretty good series this weekend.
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Really are ones that you don't start with the Cubs, all right,
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They go to Cincinnati. Cincinnati has had a very
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inconsistent year. No, but it's a big year for the
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a big. Series for the Reds.
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If the Reds, though, you can't get swept here.
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If you're the Reds, right, you're not getting correct. 8
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1/2 out on Memorial Day, no trouble.
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Yeah. Yes, it can happen.
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Yes, there's a lot of baseball, but you're talking about digging
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yourself a pretty massive hole because I still think the Reds
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are the team, the only team in this division that can push.
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So you expect the Cardinals to come back to the Power
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Cardinals, by the way, this weekend they've got a big one
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and they get Arizona. I talked to two more Cardinals
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fans this week. Did you ask them the same thing?
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They can't explain it. Yeah.
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When I've gone through this many people that watched it this many
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times, looked at so many different things, and there's
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just nothing. There's nothing I can see that's
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going to continue throughout the course there.
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Yeah. This team's going to play 600
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baseball the rest of the way and win 89 games.
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Do you remember what their pre season win total was?
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77 1/2 was it that? I thought it might even be a tad
15:21
lower, maybe 70. 5 1/2 maybe? Isn't that range though?
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It looks like they're going to exceed that number.
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I mean, that's not what it's all about, but.
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But I think Cincinnati, they get Hunter Green back tonight.
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That's Part 1 when you have that guy.
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I like the rest of that rotation.
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I really do. Those young guys, that guys like
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Martinez and Abbot, I got a veteran and singer.
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There's enough in that rotation that I look at and say, yeah,
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they can be good throughout the course of the year.
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And you get to watch Ellie de la Cruz.
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Is Bug Shami going to be there? I don't know.
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I'm worried about this dude. I know you are.
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He's. Happy he told you not to worry.
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Did he say that? Yes, said he's his wife's
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pregnant. It's fine.
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Boo Shamby. Yes, that's what he told us on
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Wednesday. Were you listening?
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I never asked him. Yes, you did.
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No, that was Dansby Swanson. He's the shortstop, not the
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playback play guy. That was Dansby.
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That was Dansby. Yeah.
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Don't think Shamby's married. There's something wrong with.
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I like that. I liked listening to him.
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But you hated him in the beginning.
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Hated. I don't recall hating.
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No, I was disappointed. Bring up the clip.
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I like Len. I like Len.
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Casper. I did.
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You love? I did.
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I like that. And then you're all mad.
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Yeah, just like you get mad when they have to wear a jacket.
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You, I, I and I did, Yeah. I thought that was cruel.
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You look an illusual punishment. Speaking of that, you look
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pretty good in your jacket a couple weeks ago.
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I don't pray. Yeah.
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But I had jeans on. That made it OK that did.
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You would rather wear jeans over slacks?
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Hell yes you're nuts. Jeans suck.
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No, no. Yes.
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It's a good looking older gentleman.
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What's more comfortable, a pair of pants or jeans?
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Was it the track? You wear jeans to the track, but
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you're wearing a jacket. That's because you're supposed
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to. OK.
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I think I don't know. So, Boog, you've gone to the
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deepest, darkest corners of the Internet.
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He's. He's missed the essentially the
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entire month. Now I don't listen to baseball
17:19
on the radio. And he's the ESPN Sunday night
17:22
broadcaster, right? Has he been doing Sunday nights?
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I don't know. I find it hard to believe he is.
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I mean he's missing game. Series after series at this.
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Point and and Boog. Is married, by the way.
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Boog is married. According to AI on Google.
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All right. That's what it says.
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Yes, that he is married, but Alex Cohen, take this
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opportunity and run. And he is and he is.
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I've never been a big a fan of his home run call and I've said
17:51
that when he was here. So this is me waiting for he got
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gets out of town in case it might get back to him.
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I don't like papay, Papay. I don't like papay.
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So I know I'm picking it nits and it's wonderful that kid gets
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an opportunity to, you know, see his dream come true, which
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obviously it was and it is. And he's with a great franchise
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and he was with one down here and he got the opportunity and
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it seems as though he, like you said, he's taking this
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opportunity. He's running with it.
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But I'm worried about my guy Bug Shambi.
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Not only is he good at with the Cubs, your guy, I think he's
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great in college hoops. Yes.
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I mean, him and Fran are fantastic on the Big 12.
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I don't have an answer for you. Gonna have to keep there's
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nothing deep dark. Corners of the Internet.
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Trust me, I've been looking. The black web Have you got on
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the black? Web, then I've been looking.
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Well, is that Twitter? The dark web, the dark web, the
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dark web, have you got there? No, I don't know how to find.
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Well, Twitter turned into that. Yeah, Yeah, it has in a lot of
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ways. But I've checked, I've, I've
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done my share, looking on Twitter, trying to find what's
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going on with them. I'm just concerned anyways.
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All right, so let's get back to some of the bigger series of the
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weekend. I think the Dodgers and the Mets
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is a big series. Mets are not playing well,
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right? Now, no, they're not.
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Dodgers are not playing well right now.
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And oh, by the way, you know who starts for the Dodgers tonight?
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That's as soon as he hangs them up.
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Wait for the the clock to the Hall of Fame clock to expire,
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and right into the Hall of Fame goes Clayton Kershaw.
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Pretty good, yes. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
19:18
Kansas City and Minnesota important and very important to
19:22
trying to at least hold, hold their place with Detroit.
19:26
Where's Detroit, by the way? Did they have a tough?
19:28
Series they have. Cleveland in town?
19:30
Oh, that's right, that started last night.
19:31
Yesterday. Yep.
19:31
Who won last? Night Guardians dominate.
19:33
Did nothing. Yeah, good start out of them and
19:37
Job will get the ball tonight for the Tigers in that one.
19:40
There's a lot of good series. This is a good weekend a
19:41
baseball. In Seattle, Houston, Arizona,
19:44
Saint Louis. As we're kind of disappointed in
19:45
the NBA and what we got in the Western Conference finals and
19:48
what we're getting East in the NHL, maybe baseball will get a.
19:50
So the chicken coop baseball question that I put in this
19:53
weekend. The Yankees play the Rockies in
19:56
Denver. Will they sweep them?
20:02
3 Gamer. 3 Gamer. Now the betting would say yes.
20:06
Yeah, what would you have to lay for a series sweep?
20:11
Oh, it wouldn't. Be as big as you would normally
20:14
think. -175. It's not, it's not -2 dollars.
20:17
You're not laying 2. Dollars, I think you're.
20:19
Right, it's not that big. Dodgers, Mets, that's -115 on
20:25
both sides getting down there. Here it is.
20:28
This is just to win the series. Yankees are -525?
20:33
South to win twice. The Rockies to get two wins plus
20:36
370. There's no shot, no shot.
20:38
They've got eight wins. They're 8 and 42.
20:41
Yuck. It's brutal.
20:43
And people show up. I know it got to give them
20:46
credit. What's this?
20:48
Hang on a second here. Oh, Aaron Judge's first road
20:53
trip to Coors Field. Thank you.
20:54
Lucas Strayton. Yeah, there'll be a lot of
20:57
folks. On 586.
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Feet. Yeah, You wonder, right?
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Miller Condon, welcome back 12:30 on a Friday.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller with you and we're with you until
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2:00. Rob Donaldson's going to join
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Lucas Strain coming up today. That is the drive.
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Rob is a, according to his Twitter is a professional sports
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better. So he will join, I believe it's
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from Iowa as well. He will join Lucas coming up
22:12
here at 2:00 this afternoon. They take you until 5I call her
22:18
during the break. Said first time Caitlin been
22:21
blanked as far as a three pointer in a game since way back
22:25
against Purdue in 2022. So that's a lot of games.
22:29
But I didn't have time to go back and listen to Rhonda's
22:32
report, but I'll take the caller's word for it.
22:34
Tom Caker joins us hawkeyereport.com part of on
22:38
three slash, I guess rivals. What are we calling this
22:41
endeavour now, Tom? I, I, I have no idea.
22:45
We're going to we're because rivals are still going to exist
22:49
and three still going to exist. But yeah, I I don't know.
22:56
Tom Kagan will just call you. Our regular Friday guest covers
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the. Hawk, just how about just like
23:02
Hawkeye report there, you have to stick with that and that.
23:05
Covers all the bases no doubt. Nobody can get mad at me.
23:08
Yeah, Yeah, that's what you want.
23:10
Let's let's start with Caitlin Clark.
23:12
I saw something last night I never seen before.
23:13
Tom, you covered most of her games at home going back to when
23:17
she got there. I I saw her.
23:18
She actually had shot an air ball last night.
23:21
She missed from three. Never seen that before.
23:24
I mean missed everything, never seen it.
23:27
Yeah, she didn't. The scoring wasn't there, but I
23:32
think she'll be pretty happy with the the win.
23:35
Absolutely. I thought she was getting into
23:37
it with, what was it, Howard? It was Howard.
23:41
Yeah, yeah, she's getting into it with her.
23:44
Maybe that got her off, off, killed her a little bit.
23:47
But yeah, this, you know. She's still really good.
23:52
Yeah, I'll say. Yeah, no doubt.
23:54
I mean, it's just weird right when she has one because we're
23:56
just used to her filling it up in a double, double machine.
23:59
But they got the win. She had six assists, including a
24:02
couple of those ones to just make you go, Oh my God, she's so
24:05
good. I, I, I said this, I said this
24:07
to a friend of mine the other day.
24:09
Do is it? I wonder if we can get somebody
24:12
to put up a number on Will Caitlin Clark average double
24:16
figures and assists this year, because I think she might.
24:21
Wow, what would that? Any idea?
24:25
2:00 to 1:00. Oh boy.
24:28
Plus 250. Maybe, well, Trent's got some
24:30
connections, maybe he can do some asking around and see if he
24:33
can get that done. Tom, baseball, let's start
24:35
there. Obviously, last night was
24:37
meaningless. Yeah, yeah.
24:39
But it's certainly not tomorrow. So what has to happen here?
24:42
Best case scenario, how can you get Iowa into the into the
24:46
dance? Boy, they're going to get some
24:50
work to do. And they have to win it all.
24:54
I think so. I really do.
24:56
I was looking, I'd do 1 baseball and they still have them kind of
24:59
like in the, I don't know, like next 7 out or something.
25:04
So I was looking at their, their, their thing.
25:08
I was looking at Rocco Miller has a thing and he he had them
25:14
in the, the kind of that next group out.
25:16
So I think they've probably got to be ECLA and you know, maybe
25:23
Penn State's going on another miracle run here, Who knows?
25:26
But Oregon's got to play Nebraska for for the right to
25:32
advance. So maybe something blows up on
25:35
that other side of the bracket. And you, you feel good now for
25:39
Iowa. And in some sense, because you
25:42
did a bullpen game yesterday. And so you just you've got
25:47
you've got your aces ready to go.
25:48
You're 22 tough guys ready to go for this next game.
25:52
So, and it's must win against a really good UCLA team.
25:57
So we'll we'll see what they can they can do.
26:00
But yeah, tomorrow night's going to be huge because you get you
26:05
got to get to to get to the finals, you got to win the semi
26:07
finals. So that's the next task.
26:09
So obviously a quick hook on Savory is he'll get the start
26:13
and then right away to Buter. Or knowing that you have to win
26:16
too. I mean, how do you play this?
26:18
Obviously you want to get as much out of your number 2 as
26:20
possible, but how do you think that Coach Heller is going to be
26:23
coaching this one knowing that one wins not enough that you got
26:26
to win a championship as well as it pertains to the pitching
26:29
staff? I, I think he, he's probably
26:33
going to go with, with, with the resputor.
26:38
I think right on the gate if he can, if he has any struggles or
26:44
if there's any struggles. I, I think that's what they're
26:47
just going to do is they're both guys are going to be available,
26:51
both the starters and and then you worry about we're about
26:54
Sunday on Sunday because you got to win Saturday to get the
26:57
Sunday. So that's kind of what I think
27:00
they're going to do, is just just go with their aces.
27:02
Well, any idea when the game would be on Sunday?
27:06
Should they should? Should Saturday go their way?
27:09
I don't even know. I think it's 2.
27:10
O'clock is it middle of the? Afternoon.
27:13
When will we see or when could we see Ober Miller again?
27:16
I, I can't tell you, I'm impressed with what was it?
27:19
Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Tuesday night.
27:21
Wednesday. Wednesday night, right?
27:22
Today's Friday. Yeah, Tom.
27:26
And he gambled on himself. I asked Trent this yesterday
27:28
because I I figured he did when I saw where he was drafted.
27:31
And then I saw him pitch on on Wednesday and I'm thinking to
27:34
myself, how was this kid not, you know, working his way
27:37
through somebody's farm system? Obermueller was fantastic.
27:41
Gambled on himself, struck out 10, walked one left-handed
27:44
pitcher. Looks like he's got a chance,
27:46
Tom, to see that gamble pay off at some point.
27:49
Yeah. And I was just looking at The
27:52
Athletic had their baseball rankings up for the top 100 and
27:56
I think it was 93 and their list of guys.
28:00
And late in the season, he was struggling a little bit with
28:04
some of the issues that he had last year where it was just
28:09
walking guys and you know, where you get to, you know, 3rd, 4th
28:14
inning and then they just kind of lose it and end up three free
28:19
bases and all of a sudden you're in trouble.
28:22
He has not done that most of this year, but he did blast two
28:26
starts probably. But I think he that was that was
28:31
a dynamite performance the other night.
28:33
Boy, he was just he was spotting the ball where he wanted it and
28:37
big pitches when he needed it. Then I don't know what his
28:42
availability would be Sunday, but I will guarantee you he'd
28:45
probably say coach, I can give you an inning or two if you need
28:48
it. You know, I, I think that's
28:52
probably a fair estimate that if they needed something, he'd go
28:57
to the hill and maybe even just be a stardom.
29:00
And you see, hey, we, you can give us 2 innings.
29:04
It might be your bullpen day usually.
29:05
So maybe give us 2 innings and get out of that.
29:08
And that's just that's two less innings you got to find somebody
29:12
for if you have to. I think that makes a lot of
29:14
sense. I agree.
29:15
Over to a little basketball with you, Tom.
29:17
And Ashton Williamson makes his commitment.
29:19
A guy that had visited a few weeks back kind of on a holding
29:22
pattern, him and Kisa, and we're kind of waiting and waiting and
29:25
waiting now. Sturtz is there.
29:27
Sturtz is going to play a ton. What kind of role do you see for
29:30
Ashton Williamson? Or is this more of a
29:32
developmental play for McCollum? I think it's they wanted to get
29:37
a backup point guard, you know, I think that was going to be a
29:41
goal for them to, to find a guy that, and the bonus is he's a
29:46
guy that you can also develop. He, you know, was a freshman
29:49
last year, so he's going to get an opportunity to develop, learn
29:54
from Bennett Sturtz. And he may not be the guy moving
29:57
forward, you don't know, but you'll at least get a full year
30:00
working with the kid and finding out A, yeah, he he's going to be
30:05
our guy or B, we're going to have to go to the portal and try
30:09
and find a point guard next year that that feel comfortable with
30:12
or you find some somebody in the prep ranks that they feel really
30:17
comfortable handing the keys to moving forward.
30:19
So they'll have options. But I think it's he's a guy that
30:23
can give them, you know, 10 minutes a game maybe.
30:27
And it's Bear Bennett, Sturtz, but you know, Sturtz was
30:30
playing, what, 3839 minutes a game?
30:32
So he just doesn't come out. But will that, will that be able
30:36
to be the case in the Big 10? I think we're going to we'll
30:38
find that out if he can continue to be an Iron Man like that.
30:42
Yeah, couldn't agree more on that, that point.
30:45
When do they begin their summer practices?
30:47
I mean, I know I would say it's like June 15th, 16th.
30:50
I was same timeline. I actually ran into Coach
30:56
McCollum in Council Bluffs last weekend and at at the the AU
31:03
event I was at and and he said June 2nd they're starting
31:07
practice. Really.
31:08
Wow. Right off the bat next week.
31:09
Yeah, well, following. Week.
31:10
Yeah, yeah. And I actually did a podcast
31:14
with David Kerr, the the player development guy and the, the
31:20
Fogaris kid is, is from Robert Morris is already on campus.
31:24
So he's already been working him out and just, you know, enjoys
31:29
being around that kid and just, it's really super hard working
31:33
and, and putting him a lot of work.
31:35
And he shared with me that he's going to miss him, but he's
31:39
going to be gone for part of the summer too, because got some
31:43
obligations with the Spanish national team that he's going to
31:47
be working with. So I I think that made it even
31:51
more important that he get on campus and get some work in with
31:54
the coaches. A week ago we asked you, are
31:58
they done? Do you get that feeling now with
32:00
Williamson on tap it? Unless something kind of comes
32:03
out of nowhere that they're finished up with recruiting?
32:06
Yeah, unless they could find a big, I think they're probably
32:10
done and the price tag for some of these guys, I mean, he's a
32:15
kid was asking for 1.5 or something or just something
32:19
ridiculous. And I saw he was at Seton Hall
32:23
the other day and I've been, you know, everything I've heard of
32:26
Seton Hall's broke. So I don't know where they're
32:28
going to get that kind of money, but maybe they're using some of
32:31
their house money to get him. I don't know.
32:33
But if if he even ends up going there.
32:35
But yeah, I think the price tags are just so high for bigs and
32:41
point guards right now and shooting, you name it, just
32:45
it's. All expensive.
32:47
It's expensive shopping right now and and good luck with that
32:51
salary cap. Everybody in the college sports,
32:55
I'm sure that's just going to work out.
32:57
Yeah, when they get finished with that, go ahead and put this
32:59
toothpaste back in this. Yeah.
33:01
Not going to happen. So you were in Council Bluffs
33:03
last weekend watching some basketball over there, snapping
33:07
pictures of McCullum, and a couple seats down there was
33:09
Fran, which was a great snapshot that you had.
33:14
One guy that intrigues me, though, is Isaiah Oliver.
33:16
Walkie. Northwest kid is dad.
33:18
Dean Oliver, of course. Hawkeye great a run in the prep
33:20
program down in Norwalk. Isaiah Oliver, not a high D1
33:25
basketball player, but a football player.
33:27
He's getting a ton of interest. He is yoked in.
33:29
He's a lot stronger. His dad ever was, certainly.
33:31
He had a chance to talk to Isaiah.
33:33
What can he do? Fill us in on the details of his
33:35
recruitment. Yeah, he's, he's an interesting
33:39
football prospect. You know, he's did well on track
33:42
this year, qualified for state. I know he's been doing that this
33:47
week, but football seems to be the the option for him and he's
33:51
been to a lot of Iowa games. He's got all the really good FCS
33:56
offers from North Dakota State, South Dakota State, South
33:59
Dakota, North Dakota, you and I have all offered him.
34:02
But he's going to camp at Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Illinois
34:06
in June. And I think he's probably like
34:10
just the way he's built and the way he moves.
34:13
I could see him being a really good cash in Iowa system.
34:18
But he played wide receiver, had, you know, 36 catches for
34:23
430 yards last year. I think he wants to be a wide
34:27
receiver, but I think his future is that like cash or safety.
34:31
And I think he's an intriguing guy.
34:34
But I the big thing I'm looking for is, is he going to get those
34:39
offers? And that's he feels like doing
34:43
track this year, which is something he hadn't really done
34:45
in the past, just helped him with his speed and his
34:48
athleticism and he thinks that's going to help him at those
34:50
camps. Tom Cacard hawkeyereport.com
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hawkeyereport.com for Tom Tommy, have a good weekend, bud.
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Appreciate what you do for us every single Friday, and we'll
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talk to you in seven days. OK.
35:03
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Towns, Dalen, Brunson. Total points tonight combined.
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Just their points combined closest without going over.
36:30
Hello Taylor, how are you? Doing great.
36:33
How are you guys? Doing fine.
36:35
The Colorado Rockies, by the way, we're starting the Force 50
36:38
game start since 1895, so they stink.
36:42
The Yankees are in town. Will the Yankees sweep the
36:45
Rockies this weekend? Scheduled for three games, but
36:48
if there's two because of weather, we'll just make it a
36:51
two game series. Do the Yankees sweep the
36:53
Rockies? They do not.
36:55
All right, Liberty tomorrow, the defending champion New York
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Liberty, a 2 1/2 point favorite at Indiana in the WNBA.
37:04
I'm taking Indiana. Dallas hosts Edmonton tonight,
37:07
their game two in the Stanley Cup Western Conference final.
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Who do you want, Dallas or Edmonton?
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I will take Dallas. The Knicks are a 6 1/2 point
37:17
favorite over the Pacers tonight.
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I will take the Knicks. Tiebreaker Cat Brunson total
37:26
points closest without going over Taylor, OH.
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Cat's tough. I'm going to go, I'm going to go
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40. 40 it is. Taylor, you have a good weekend.
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You too. Thanks, guys.
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Thank you. Troy is with Miller and Condon.
37:39
Hi, Troy. Hey, how's it going?
37:41
Good. Will the Yankees sweep the
37:44
Rockies? Yes.
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Liberty, 2 1/2 point favorite over Indiana.
37:48
In Indiana tomorrow, I'll take Indiana.
37:52
All right, Stars. Oilers Game 2 tonight.
37:56
Oilers. Nick's a 6 1/2 point favorite
37:59
over the Pacers. I'll take the Pacers.
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The tiebreakers. Cat and Brunson total points
38:05
closest without going over 4141. Troy, have a good weekend.
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You guys, too. Thanks.
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Thank you. Jeremiah is next.
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Hi, Jeremiah. Hey, how are you doing, buddy?
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Good. Yankees sweep the Rockies?
38:21
Yes. Liberty 2 1/2 at the Fever.
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Liberty Stars or Oilers in Game 2 tonight in Dallas.
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Oilers and Oilers for the Cup too.
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Oh, you're preaching to the choir, my friend.
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Knicks -6 1/2 over the Pacers Pace show.
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All right, Kat Brunson combine How many points tonight?
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47. Thanks, Jeremiah.
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Have a good weekend. Thanks buddy.
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Did he have their Knicks? Pacers.
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Pacers. OK, Pacers.
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Tim is next. Hi, Tim.
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How are you? Good.
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How are you doing? Good.
38:58
Yankees sweep the Rockies. Yeah.
39:01
Liberty 2 1/2 at the Fever tomorrow.
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Indiana Stars Oilers tonight. Game 2 in Dallas.
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Oilers for sure. Knicks -6 1/2 versus the Pacers.
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Let's go next. All right, Cat Brunson, total
39:16
points closest without going over 42.
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Thanks, Tim. Have a good weekend.
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39:29
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week. Trent Condon.
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Oh, no. The league is so funny that you
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know, there's Winnipeg's got their bye week.
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Week, week one. Yeah, because they're odd.
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They have an odd number of teams.
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So stupid Mike Palm and. Yeah, you'll put it in the
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Our two next.