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Okay. All right Cool. Well, um while I do this,
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what do we uh, what do we what do we want to
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speak about first Jen's? Do we want to? Do we
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know what open with something light? Do we want
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to do when we get into the mud with? With with
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Tennessee do we do I want to do some draft stuff?
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What are we thinking? I think we should lead
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off with Monumental news Kim Ward's a Titan Wow,
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what happened? Did you not see his fortnight
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stream last night? No, I did not. Oh, he he's
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a Titan They asked him his top four receivers
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in the league I think he said one and two were
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like Jamar chase Justin Jefferson and then three
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and four were Calvin Ridley and trail on Berks
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He said AJ Brown is a dog, but he's no Calvin
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Ridley. He said Brian Callahan was the best coach
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in the league I believe and that Tony Pollard
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Someone asked him, it's top four running backs.
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He said, uh, Tony Pollard, Taj Spears. He's a
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Titan and I'm over the moon. Pretty hilarious.
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I was like, I love it. Bert's top four in the
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league. He's like a top four in the team, but
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we'll take it. That's man's a Titan. That's QB1.
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that's qb1 right there if he had pulled mason
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kenzie oh my god i'd buy a custom -made jersey
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tonight what if he was like man that guy nwi
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whatever team that he's on if he'd have been
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like man they were they really messed up letting
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nwi walk out of it you know what not only is
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he just tight and he also just knows ball so
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Is that what you put in the gambling chat? I
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said something about that. One of our other buddies
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posted something about just saying, essentially,
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so Cam's a Titan now, but I posted something.
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This was from the Sleeper Titan's Twitter account
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that we hosted a meeting with Cam Scataboo today,
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Arizona State running back. a dog. I would love.
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I mean, he's a bowling ball. I want him. I need
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him in Nashville. This guy. This guy is amazing.
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So if we can just stack the team with guys I
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bet on when they were in college, even if we
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suck, I'll be happy. It'll remind me of the good
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times. Yeah. That's funny. OK, well, that's that's
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your Titans draft news. it's it's kind of weird
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because it's like I mean we have the first pick
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like unless we trade it which is still possible
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but it's just kind of like yeah we're probably
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gonna draft cam ward and that's you know it ought
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to be a dick move not to draft him at this point
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he's just glazing us on his twitch streams dude
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if uh you know if you can um get a leg up dude
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do it I love that guy hell yeah He'd be one damn
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straight. He's got to be so Chris I'm gonna let
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you take the lead on this. Yes speaking of QB
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ones. Yes What what's what's going on with with
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with Nico? Give us the rundown Do you want the
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full rundown from like the beginning of the story
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or the news that we got? Today as a recording
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like right before we started recording. I mean,
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it's essentially been You know since last pod
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with that everything has happened. So if you
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could just Okay, you give the whole recap a recap.
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So I think it was last Thursday. So yeah when
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the pod camp last week's pod came out Rumors
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were circulating that Nico was in talks with
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the Tennessee Athletic the NIL fund whoever gives
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him money that he wants a pay raise from 2 million
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a year, a little more than 2 million a year to
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4 million a year. And so rumors were flying about
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that. People on Twitter, including Nico's dad,
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who was essentially his agent, were like, this
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is bullshit. None of this is true. The next day,
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he sits at a practice, like doesn't even show
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up. Day after that, spring game. Obviously doesn't
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play. And it was announced that he's off the
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team. So that was fun. And then it was like,
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essentially, he was holding up the NIL fund or
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whoever for more money. And Tennessee was like,
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no. Who do you think you are? You played very
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mediocre in SEC play. You don't deserve $4 million
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a year. And then he's just before Like an hour
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before we started recording, it was announced
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that he is transferring to UCLA. So that's the
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the essentially the Cliff Notes version of the
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entire song. And honestly, Goodrins, this guy,
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he was not good. If it wasn't Kent State fucking
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Vande, like the scrubs and Vanderbilt, he was
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terrible. So honestly, like more power to you.
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Get your bag UCLA. You're going to suck. because
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UCLA is not a good football team. So I'm, I'm
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over the moon that he's on the team anymore.
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Okay. What, uh, what's Tennessee going to do
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at quarterback? Um, transfer portal for the,
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or the spring transfer portal just opened. So
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I don't believe we've made a move yet. Um, if
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not, let's let Merklinger go out there and sling
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it. build up the team around him. And we also
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have the number one QB, number one QB in the
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following class coming in next or two seasons
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from now. So we've got the future set up. We
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just need the present. So if we can get like
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a stop gap, maybe Haynes King from Georgia Tech.
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I mean, the way this news like breaks, something
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had happened. Like the whole team could look
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different by the time this drops. So I'm hoping
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for Georgia Tech. transfer Haynes King. If not,
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someone else or let Merklinger just sit back
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there and let it rip because he's he's electric.
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He's not he's not very good, but he is electric.
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So honestly, anyone other than Nico, I'm very
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happy with at this point. Okay. All right. It's
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a it's weird me and Sean were kind of talk about
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this at the bar last night. And from my sort
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of perspective, It just kind of felt like everything
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was like blown out of proportion From I mean
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the beginning when it's like hey he asked for
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more money and then numbers started being thrown
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out and it's like First of all, I mean vaultwitters
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It's one of the most toxic places on the internet
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if we're being quite honest like the amount of
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bandwagonship and just lies Just are just born
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out of nothing It's not something you can base
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facts off of um, which I kept that in mind and
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to me in my head i'm just like this is This is
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it just feels like he probably asked for more
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money, but like You know, I didn't think it would
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be You know a lot more money, but I didn't You
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know, I thought that was all hearsay but um How
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do you think? How do you think? Um This this
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affects nil chris um I think it's good, honestly,
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because a program like a, like a powerful program
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refused to just bend the knee to a mediocre quarterback.
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So if I think if they would have caved and just
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be like, yeah, have whatever you want, just because
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you have tremendous upside, that would have not
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only just fucked the team just fucked like the
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whole system, because then everybody would be
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asking for more money. Everyone on the team would
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be asking for more money. And then just mediocre
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quarterbacks across the country. Wait a minute,
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Nico just got this. He granted he was the quarterback
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of a team was in the playoff. That is good, but
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he did not play well the entire season and in
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that game. So like if this guy with I have better
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numbers at like more school, why should I not
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be getting more money, not four million, but
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why should I not be getting more money? So that,
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that would have just created a whole, whole nother
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can of worms. So yeah, I think it was great for
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Tennessee just to be like, you know, no, we're
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not going to, we're not going to give you more
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money for doing, for not living. Like if he would
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have, if he would have beat Ohio state, honestly,
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I think he could have, he could have got more
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money from us, but he didn't. And I think the
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sport is better off for it okay all right it
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just uh it just kind of feels like once they
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made an il a thing now it's just kind of like
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this like it just so happens to be the vols that
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have the first like guy who tries to hold out
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and you know well the vols were one of the first
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big programs to give a guy like that kind of
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like he got eight million dollars for however
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long he like that was his initial deal was eight
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million so that was like the first really big
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like contract i shouldn't put quotes it was a
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contract um that was given out so for him to
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be the first holdout i guess it kind of makes
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sense but i guess you should also say like if
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you got that kind of money you should not have
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to hold you should just be good enough to earn
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your money Yeah, like it's uh, it's just like
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I I mean it's tough to say that anyone could
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foresee this people did but It's just kind of
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like as soon as not not this specific scenario
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But just like the slippery slope that NIL is
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becoming. Well, I mean the NCAA just putting
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no regulations on it whatsoever is Like the main
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culprit of this They're just like, fine, you
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want to pay players? Just fucking pay them whatever
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you want. I don't care. That's essentially what
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they did. And now it's like, OK, well, hold on.
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Like, that's fine and all. But we need some sort
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of like structure to where it's not what it is
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now, which is open free agency for 100 plus team
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league every season. Yeah, that's. It's just
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so weird to manage. and like it's it's just like
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it's it's fucked that's I mean it's fucked like
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it's it's just like it this is why my my march
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madness betting system didn't work it's all ni
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else fault that's a fact it's not my fault I
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mean more or less yeah like if you want to just
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get down to like that is the main reason yeah
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yeah because I mean Now any player that shows
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a lick of talent somebody's throwing You know,
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whatever amounts of money at him to get him to
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just ride the bench, you know And it's just like
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taking away taking away talent, you know, it's
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It's weird, but I don't know. How do you how
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do you feel Chris coming out of this? You feel
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okay? I feel great I mean the Tennessee might
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not be as good next season, but it's it's worth
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not like It's worth it to, I don't want to say
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set a precedent, but just to not cave in to his
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demands. And let me be perfectly clear. I don't
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think Nico himself was barging into Hypal's office
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or whoever being like, I need more money. It's
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his dad from all accounts is the one pulling
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the strings. So it can't be like when the news
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first broke, everyone on vault Twitter reacted.
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Very rationally obviously as they do Just calling
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Nico an asshole and like there's a traitor and
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stuff like that and Rightfully so I guess but
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also as more facts come out. It's like oh his
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dad's the asshole Nico's just kind of a he's
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kind of a dumbass if I'm being perfectly honest
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like Yeah, it's like his dad is the one pulling
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the strings, but you have final say So you are
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the player. Yeah, if you want to play for two
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and a half mil, which is I feel like a fair amount
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of money. But that's just me. If and be on a
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successful program, like you just went to the
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college football playoff, you are in a position
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to do that again, this coming season. If you
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wanted to stay in this current situation, you
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had the power to know I want to stay. But he's
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letting his dad do all this stuff. And I saw
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a tweet. today, it was someone talking about
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his dad, his dad is Levar Ball without the charisma.
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So he's just a dick. Levar Ball has that that
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silly kind of confidence. Yeah, it's like he's
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very confident. But he's like, yeah, he's silly.
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So it's like, okay, we can forgive you kind of
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being like, like an asshole. Because of that,
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because you're entertaining. Nico's dad is a
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prick is from from what I have heard from all
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accounts that have either dealt with him or have
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talked to people who have dealt with him. Yeah.
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So Nico is not 100 % at fault. It's mainly his
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dad, but at the end of the day it's the player's
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call. So I don't necessarily feel sorry for him
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whatsoever, but he's not the main bad guy is
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my point. Okay. All right. I mean, any closing
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thoughts on that segment? I mean, it seems pretty
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cut and dry and pretty fast for a week, essentially.
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Yeah. It went from Thursday being like, hey,
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this could be happening to Wednesday being like,
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yeah, he's gone. Wild. Yeah. NIL's Wild Wild
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West. It is. And honestly, I don't think, like,
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if you look at their schedule, I mean, Bama,
19:26
Georgia, again, like Florida is going to be toss
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up because it's, it's always, but Bama, Georgia
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probably losses with or without eco every other,
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as long as the team is like solid and healthy
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should be able to win the, the other games. So
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I don't think this, I don't think the wind loss
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record would look too much different with or
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without them. So I guess we'll see, but no, I
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don't, I'm not. crying whatsoever because he's
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gone. Okay. All right. Moving on. That's your
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Cheez -Its bowl MVP though. Yeah. I mean, that's
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his greatest accomplishment. I know. Because
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he beat the hell out of Iowa in the Cheez -Its.
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I mean, then he balled out against Kent State.
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Cool. Right. Nico, I'm a leaving. I love, like
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that was a grade A graphic. The on threes, I'm
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going to shout out their Twitter. It's some great
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graphics. Cause I had the, I'm a leaving. And
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then there was reports coming out that, um, multiple
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teams were interested in Nico, but they wanted
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his like asking price to drop. So they had a
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picture of him. It was like a stock market crash
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graphic behind it was just like a red arrow just
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going straight down. So whoever's running graphics
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at on three. More like you deserve a race. You're
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batting a thousand for this old saga. Oh, yeah,
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I Saw the guy at the spring game that had I'm
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a bitch. Oh That yeah, but he'd taped bitch over
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like Yeah, that was the last part of his name.
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Yeah, I'm a bitch. Yes Top -notch All right,
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moving on. Chris, I noticed something in the
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group chat that you posted that after looking
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at it, I now got the context, but I think it's
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hilarious. So I'm going to defer to you. Did
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you or did you not say, I will no longer be betting
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on baseball? Oh, yeah, I said that. It was obviously
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not true. But I said that because I was getting
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kicked in the teeth that day. I think I was like
21:56
one in four, one in five or something at that
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point. Then I rebounded with a couple of late
22:01
night wins, one being a Padres run line, which
22:04
was like plus one fifty. So I was like, you know,
22:06
it wasn't as bad. So then the following day I
22:11
was like, all right, I'm just going to do like
22:13
four, but like four, like three or four bets.
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And I had a positive record. I was like, you
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know what? Let's just keep with it And then obviously
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I knew what much gonna not bet for the entire
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summer Yeah, that's what I was thinking when
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you said that I was like that was you know, that's
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a lie when he says he says that all the time
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I I mean over set the over under how many times
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I can I'm gonna say that this season Hmm, we're
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already at one. So yeah, I put it at nine and
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a half. Oh Wow, that's high You're probably not
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far off. I'm probably not From now to the end
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of the calendar year or the end of the summer?
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To the end of baseball season. Okay. Three and
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a half. Okay. Cause you already got one. Yeah.
23:02
Baseball ends in the fall, right? Yeah. It ends
23:05
in October, but football also starts like well
23:09
before then. So I pretty much don't bet it until
23:12
the playoffs. And even then, who knows? Right.
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I probably have to say six. Six is the line for
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me, because it's going to be a long summer. Yeah,
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he says these things, though, and then he returns
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in a blaze of glory and says, like, hey, look,
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I won this bet from a lunchtime Swedish women's
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basketball game. That's what I was referring
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to. I thought you were saying a joke because
23:45
you won that bet. and you're like i will be specifically
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only betting the swedish women's basketball league
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okay no no that was that's another thing i've
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been doing one of our uh buddies who's not in
23:59
our group chat he's in um i knew him from high
24:01
school he turned me on to this thing it's like
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um this is as bad as degenerate as it comes and
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i fully acknowledge that but in these like european
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women's basketball leagues there's not a lot
24:13
of parity so it's like the the favorite almost
24:18
always wins. So you can just wait until they're
24:21
like down by like five or six in the early on
24:24
and get like a much favorable number. And then
24:27
you bet. So instead of like a minus nine and
24:29
a half, you can get like a minus three and a
24:30
half and bet that. So yeah, hand up. I have been
24:35
live betting, um, various European women's basketball
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leagues. Good God. There's just something to
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do, you know, during the daytime. Yeah, I get
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it. Nobody has jobs. Yeah. So I was like, yeah,
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I'm sitting on my couch like I got some downtime.
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Let's see what's going on in like in Sweden or
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Iceland or something like that. That's funny.
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That's what that's what I thought. I thought
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that I will no longer be betting on baseball
25:08
was a joke because you found your calling. with
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European women's basketball. That golf tournament
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futures and the UFL that would get me through
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the summer if I stopped betting on baseball.
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Right. Has UFL started? Yeah, it has. I haven't
25:27
been betting on it because I haven't paid attention.
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I might get into it kind of in the coming weeks
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when we get into like the dog days, but I haven't
25:35
yet. Okay. All right, moving on. What do I mean?
25:41
What do we talk about next? I mean, we already
25:42
talked about the draft. We already talked about
25:44
the Vols. I mean, that's kind of. That's kind
25:48
of it. I mean, the NBA and NHL playoffs are about
25:52
to kick off. My oilers future is not looking
25:58
good. They're probably not going to win. Why
26:03
do you say tonight? Because at home is going
26:07
to be out for the first. series which means he
26:11
probably has a serious injury that he just needs
26:13
to take a little bit of time off of in order
26:15
to get back full -time and oilers are banged
26:19
up and they're probably I mean they'll they'll
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be lucky to get out of the first round I mean
26:25
the Kings are really good so I don't know whatever
26:30
if they get out of the first round and I can
26:32
somehow make my my bet back I just might catch
26:36
out Because it's it's not gonna fucking happen
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There there's so fucking banged up Never know
26:44
That's very true. You never know. Um Speaking
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of the NHL playoffs. I do have Something I'm
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gonna float by y 'all Ottawa Senators plus 145
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To beat the Maple Leafs in the first round Loki.
26:58
Love it. Yeah, so like it's it's it's like kind
27:04
of perfect because the Leafs are coming in hot
27:07
and they're healthy and like hockey Twitter just
27:11
like this is the Leafs year no it's not it'll
27:14
never be the Leafs year and this is just like
27:18
it's either like gonna go to seven and then the
27:22
Leafs are gonna move on or Ottawa's going to
27:25
beat the shit out of them because that's what
27:28
happens when like these newer teams who haven't
27:31
been to the playoffs in a while like build Like
27:36
they just they just win I mean and I know that
27:38
because we're fucking Nashville Predators fans
27:41
and like The Hurricanes were fine before we lost
27:47
to them in the bubble and not not the bubble
27:49
year, but the the kovat year I mean we lost to
27:53
the coyotes We we almost lost to the avalanche
27:57
the year that we won the president's trophy that
27:59
was their jumping -off point And we lost to the
28:02
Stars the year after that and they just became
28:06
fucking hell to deal with and they've been to
28:08
the Stanley Cup since then so it's kind of like
28:12
but before all those teams made the playoffs
28:14
they they were shit they were not good and so
28:20
low -key I love it I know nothing about the centers
28:25
but I think I saw something on Twitter today
28:27
like call up some Russian kid or is that someone
28:31
else that was Believe that was the Canadians
28:35
Canadians, okay? Which they're gonna make the
28:38
playoffs too. I don't know how far they're go,
28:40
but Do they have their matchup set yet? No, they
28:43
haven't clinched yet. They have to win the night
28:46
And I bet on them yes to win Last game tonight,
28:55
so they have to win it in and then they'll play
28:59
Washington play the caps So you said either the
29:07
senators win or it goes to seven most likely
29:09
in the in the lethal win You get on DraftKings
29:14
you could get cinders plus one and a half in
29:17
the series at minus 140 I know it's a little
29:19
juicy, but a lot of value there I Think all right
29:27
that guarantees though that it goes to seven
29:30
Probably I mean it would have to Right. Yeah.
29:34
Yeah, it would Okay, just making sure my math
29:38
is right So I think I'm gonna spring. I'm gonna
29:41
maybe go half unit Sins to win full unit maybe
29:45
a little bit more unit like 1 .2 1 .3 units on
29:49
the plus one and a half. Mm -hmm. I'm uh, I think
29:53
the first year I Tried betting on every single
29:58
playoff series. I Didn't win any I think I won
30:02
one And that was the year that Columbus upset
30:06
Tampa and I was like This this shit sucks. I
30:11
did the only the only bet that year I did win
30:14
was Toronto losing to to the Bruins, which I
30:18
mean Who could have seen that coming? me will
30:23
I Don't know. I don't get a lot of weight a lot
30:26
of wins, but when I do I remember them Shit but
30:32
I mean other than that Mean I think I Think the
30:40
Avs can probably do it again But yeah, I think
30:47
I think the East is just a gonna be a rock fight
30:50
and they're gonna beat the shit out of each other
30:53
and The ads like that. Yeah And the Avs are just
31:00
such a fucking awesome team and they they got
31:04
land a scog back after being away for three years
31:07
not playing hockey yeah i heard about that um
31:11
i didn't like i thought he just retired i didn't
31:15
know he was just on this like hiatus yeah like
31:20
what happened was the year that the avs won the
31:26
stanley cup he got injured during it but because
31:29
he's a hockey player he played through it and
31:32
Like, you know after after they won he like had
31:36
surgery or whatever and then he was back on the
31:39
ice and just like kept having like the same nagging
31:43
injury and then like It just kind of led to like
31:47
a whirlwind of like nobody knows what it is Why
31:52
or why this is happening like he can't skate
31:55
at all because it's in his leg and then Was like
32:00
three years ago and then now he's apparently
32:05
gotten some surgery and He he played a conditioning
32:10
stint with their AHL team and now they're bringing
32:12
him up for the playoffs Little cap circumvention
32:18
there so It's just like If they got him back
32:26
and he's half of the the player that he was They're
32:30
gonna win again like Like that's kind of it.
32:36
Yeah But uh, yeah, would you think aves minus
32:40
115 to beat the stars on the first round is a
32:42
sound investment? Yes, I do because the stars
32:49
are also very very good but they don't have Hayskinen
32:52
they don't have their number 1d and so it's like
32:56
They've never They've never been in this spot.
33:01
So that's a big old big old loss. And so I think
33:05
the abs are gonna win definitely but You know
33:09
to each his own For the cup right now, I'd probably
33:16
bet the avalanche I was looking at the odds and
33:25
I saw the outside like a favorable number. I
33:27
was like, yeah, I just don't really Want them
33:29
to win? Yeah, I'm looking at the odds and it
33:33
does make sense be given like the President's
33:37
trophy like curse but like the Jets are like
33:41
the bottom five of the favorites Yeah, they're
33:45
plus 1100. They just won the damn President's
33:47
trophy Yeah, it's the best regular season team.
33:52
Sorry, but it's cuz like they're they're just
33:55
so deep kind of like when we Sort of won the
33:58
president's trophy like yeah, we had like Phil
34:01
score 30 goals, but like other than that Like
34:04
it's all from up and down the lineup So it's
34:09
kind of like, you know, they don't have like
34:11
a superstar like they have good players but and
34:14
they have a really they have Probably the guy
34:18
who's gonna win the Vesna this year In net so
34:22
it's kind of like I don't know. Doesn't he have
34:25
a streaky playoff? Record or not streaky, but
34:29
like spotty I should say I Don't know I don't
34:34
know those kind of one of the knocks on him was
34:36
like he's always kind of underperformed when
34:39
the lights are bright I Mean yes, and no, I mean
34:43
they beat us whenever I mean that president's
34:47
trophy team that we had That was the best team
34:50
we've ever had On paper and on the ice and so
34:55
it's He beat us and I mean, they lost in five
35:01
to Vegas, but Vegas was a team of destiny, even
35:04
though they ended up losing to the Capitals that
35:06
year. But it's just like, eh, it's it's weird.
35:11
I don't know. I don't know if you can say that
35:13
a goalie isn't streaky if they just haven't won
35:16
the Stanley Cup. So. I don't know. OK, I was
35:22
just wondering. If maybe because I saw they play
35:25
the Blues. first round, correct? Yeah, their
35:29
blues are plus 155 to win the series. So I didn't
35:32
know if I don't want to get tied my bankroll
35:35
and all these series feature props. But I don't
35:41
really know what to think about that one. It's
35:42
like the blues were out of a playoff spot. And
35:45
then they won a bunch of games at the end of
35:48
the year. Don't they have that like that troll
35:52
thing like statue whatever in their locker room
35:54
that they worship? Isn't that a thing? Yeah.
35:57
They have this fucking idol. Yeah. From major
36:00
league. Yeah. I think that's, that gives off
36:04
some destiny vibes. If I'm being perfectly honest,
36:06
I I've seen this story before and I don't like
36:09
it. Don't like it or like it. Why do you like
36:16
it so cold? So I like this time, this time I,
36:19
I I'm gonna much less prefer it because there
36:22
isn't a dying kid with cancer. It's some creepy
36:25
-ass idol Just hangs out in their locker room.
36:29
Oh I can respect that more than using a kid with
36:34
cancer as your Face of your team Yeah, I don't
36:41
know I don't know what to to make of The the
36:51
Jets Blues because I I don't know if the Blues
36:53
could win but they are they're just so hot right
36:54
now and Bennington is a psycho psycho so Any
37:01
anything could happen in that series and I mean
37:03
it is they did win the president's trophy the
37:06
Jets did so it's kind of like They're destined
37:09
to not win So yeah, that's uh, it's Will's take
37:19
But but yeah, I need to look at the standings
37:23
see if I have any other any other takes boop
37:27
-a -doo No, nothing really piques my interest.
37:32
I mean Let's see who do the wild play I mean
37:42
the wild to probably play the leader of the West
37:49
Think it's Vegas Yeah, they'll play they'll play
37:52
Vegas and I Don't know really what to think of
37:57
that. I mean Minnesota isn't banged up, but they're
38:00
not a pushover and I did Vegas could easily win
38:05
the cup again just because they're just always
38:07
great unfortunately, but I Don't know that's
38:13
that's kind of it. I think whoever wins the cups
38:16
coming out of the West Other than that, that's
38:21
all I got. But what did you want to discuss,
38:25
Sean? Yeah, we're going to take it back to college
38:28
football for a sec. OK, sorry. You're good. I'm
38:35
sure, I don't know if you've seen this, Will,
38:37
but I know Chris has seen it, that Colorado is
38:41
retiring numbers 2 and 12 this Saturday. Yeah,
38:45
you told me about that yesterday. Yeah, yeah,
38:47
OK. That's ridiculous. That's crazy. That's absolutely
38:52
bananas. I get, you know, you're Heisman. You're
38:57
a Heisman. Travis Hunter's a Heisman winner.
39:00
Get that. But your quarterback, that led you
39:04
to 13 wins and 12 losses. Yeah, he deserves his
39:08
number retired. For sure. After two years. Yeah,
39:14
I mean, it's... Ridiculous. Travis Hunter, Heisman
39:18
winner. Yeah, he gets it. But Shador is, that's
39:22
insane. Dude, the city of Boulder is nothing
39:30
but Dion glazers. I swear to God. That whole
39:34
Sanders family, they're just glazing him, bro,
39:37
like a donut. He is covered in glaze. It's ridiculous.
39:46
Yeah. I mean, I guess they're saying it's like,
39:49
oh, he helped drag the team or the program like
39:52
out of the depths of hell. But I mean, yeah,
39:55
it's, I guess, I mean, they're going to build
39:58
a statue for him next. Probably. They're gonna,
40:02
they're gonna do it. Just retire Shiloh's number
40:05
two while we're at it, because the only reason
40:07
Shador is getting his retired is cause he's daddy's
40:10
kid or Deon's kid. So like, Do the other one
40:14
while we're at it. Why not? I don't really have
40:20
like too much to go in on this. I just think
40:23
it's it's worth talking about and mentioning
40:25
how ridiculous it is. Yes, it's a bit silly.
40:30
I think everyone can agree that this is a crazy
40:34
move. Like no one's like really, oh, for sure
40:40
retirement numbers. You know what I mean? Like.
40:43
I think everyone, I haven't really even seen
40:46
anyone defend it. Yeah, exactly. Not even like
40:50
a Colorado fan account. I'm sure they're out
40:54
there. I just haven't seen it. Everybody I've
40:58
seen has been universally shitting on this. And
41:01
it's pretty hilarious, honestly. But yeah, I
41:04
mean, it makes no sense whatsoever to retire
41:07
Sanders number. Yeah. Would you prefer Like That
41:16
was a dumb question I was thinking you didn't
41:18
even ask I know it was a dumb question Would
41:22
you would you rather would you rather be like
41:25
the the Alan Iverson statue? Like a really really
41:29
small statue instead Well like the Dwayne Wade
41:34
really bad statue I mean I don't know, if I were
41:43
Shador, I would love to have my number retired.
41:46
But if you look at it as how stupid it is, yeah,
41:52
it'd be better to just have a statue, like a
41:54
really bad statue. It's more fitting, I should
41:58
say. It's not better. It's more fitting. I mean,
42:01
either way, you're immortalizing these players.
42:07
And having your number retired is... to me, a
42:10
bigger deal than a statue because like no one
42:15
can ever wear that number again. You can always
42:18
put up more statues and you could take them down.
42:23
But. Having your number retired is kind of like.
42:28
I don't know, I mean, I don't. Trying to word
42:32
this in a way, I mean, I kind of think the opposite
42:36
just because I feel like a statue is like the
42:39
the greatest honor of all time honestly like
42:43
like you probably have your number retire already
42:45
and like yeah nobody will ever wear that number
42:51
but um like a statue like that's that's a lot
42:55
more than just like a banner like it to me it's
42:59
just like this this guy that is a statue is a
43:03
pinnacle of this sports franchise i think i don't
43:07
know your number being retired is like the highest
43:11
honor a team can give you. It's like, yeah, statues
43:13
are awesome. But I think saying that no one will
43:16
ever wear your number again is it is like the
43:20
highest honor a team can bestow upon an individual
43:23
player. Yeah. And usually, I mean, you're right.
43:27
The statue comes later. Like after the numbers,
43:31
it should. But I mean. God, they have a statue.
43:35
The Philly is a statue of fucking Nick Foles.
43:38
I get Doug Peterson. Yeah, I get that too. But
43:41
Doug Peterson, Nick Foles, he he's he earned
43:45
it. Yeah. I mean, that Philly is just riddled
43:52
with statues, though, so they've got plenty of
43:54
them. Yeah, well, good for them. Yeah, whatever.
43:59
I mean, that's just I just think that's kind
44:01
of. Everyone agrees it's ridiculous. It's silly.
44:06
It's something to get headlines after they're
44:09
gone. The Travis Hunter, like again, I get that.
44:12
But when you look at Colorado had another Heisman
44:15
winner, Rashaan Salam, back in 94, 93, 94, he
44:20
didn't get his number retired until 2017. It's
44:28
just ridiculous. Yeah, whatever. He's getting
44:30
retired, but just to do it the next Like not
44:34
even the next season in the offseason after he
44:38
after he leaves and it took you Was a 24 years
44:44
to do your other Heisman winners. It's a little
44:48
messed up interesting I That that makes me think
44:54
that like Like be having your number retired
45:00
is a was a bigger deal back then Because it was
45:06
so infrequent But now it feels like I Don't know.
45:11
It should be frequent. It should be in Frank
45:13
like Handed these out. Also should or like sure
45:18
is getting his instead of Cordell Stewart who
45:21
was quarterback of them in 90 Shit, what year
45:23
is that early 90s? I got them to 11 and one record
45:28
number three. I think it was 91, 95, something
45:31
like that. It really 90s. He's like, if we're
45:35
just talking quarterback comparisons, just miles
45:39
better than she do or Sanders, but he doesn't
45:42
get anything. Like maybe he has a statue there
45:45
that I obviously I don't know what the statue
45:47
situation looks like outside of, or outside of
45:50
their stadium. But like, it's just absurd. It's
45:53
just a slap in the face to everyone. And who
45:55
is like, in the previous years of that program.
46:01
Yeah, that's a weird one. I don't know. I don't
46:03
know how to, uh, to write that wrong. But, um,
46:08
I mean, you can't, you can't go back on it. Right.
46:12
Even if you like, go ahead and like retire Stewart's
46:15
number after night. Now it's like, okay, well,
46:17
you're only doing it because everyone's getting
46:19
pissy about should doors. So you can't. right
46:24
it i guess like there's no one doing it cool
46:31
i mean do we have anything else we really wanna
46:33
talk about i mean it's it's a weird time right
46:37
now in in the sports calendar like things are
46:40
going on but also kind of not i mean uh... i
46:44
don't i really don't have my finger on the pulse
46:46
of uh... of the nl these days i really watched
46:49
a ton of it because the predators tank It's it's
46:53
hard to care But and the frozen four was a disaster.
46:58
We don't have to talk about it, but But yeah,
47:02
that's uh That's uh, that's I mean that's shit.
47:06
What else do we have? I don't know what's new
47:08
in baseball or I mean the Braves are terrible.
47:13
That's something I guess who like Nobody saw
47:17
coming. I think they've won three games. They
47:19
lost today because Go Blue Jays. But yeah, I
47:23
mean, they, they just can't, they can't do anything
47:26
offensively. It's wild. Interesting. Have they,
47:31
um, have they done anything with the bats? Oh,
47:35
the torpedo bats? Yes. That's kind of settled
47:38
down. Um, I assume the player probably even more
47:42
players are using them now. I assume pitchers
47:43
just kind of caught onto it. It's like, Oh, we
47:46
can probably cause It's all about like, they
47:50
beef up like the middle of the bat. So it's like,
47:52
okay, if we just like pitch in a certain spot,
47:55
we can probably avoid, avoid guys getting that
47:58
part of the bat on it. Um, yeah, cause like the
48:00
Yankees very much came back there. They're so
48:03
good, but they came back to earth after they
48:05
destroyed, I think it was the Brewers in that
48:08
series when they first started using them. So
48:10
yeah, I think it's, it's, it's evened out. Nope.
48:15
They didn't get banned or anything. Good, okay
48:20
They should Does they make baseball fun? Yeah,
48:26
I mean, that's what baseball's missing is fun
48:29
Not can play about more runs unless it's the
48:32
Yankees I'll complain about that bring back Royds
48:36
Bring him back That's we all want him. Everybody
48:40
wants him everybody I think I can't remember
48:42
if I said that on the show or some just in normal
48:45
conversation, but I saw a tweet When the torpedo
48:48
bats were taking off, people were like, oh, back
48:50
in my day, people just did anabolic steroids,
48:53
like men. And then two days later, a guy for
48:56
the Braves got popped for PETs. Bro, I mean,
49:02
if you want kidney failure and you want to go
49:05
on dialysis for the rest of your life, but you
49:09
get bigger arms, you hit dingers at the park,
49:11
more power to you, bro. That's what I think.
49:15
That is your right. Speaking of some like Dominican
49:19
guy that came here to play baseball, but you
49:21
know, like I Mean it is this right? I guess yeah,
49:28
one of the great one of the reasons he came to
49:31
this great country Make that decision. I want
49:35
to do steroids Fuck yeah No, man, that needs
49:42
to come back for real. We don't Nobody's gonna
49:47
complain about it. If everybody can do them.
49:50
Nobody's gonna complain about it Just have a
49:52
separate league where they can all do a steroid
49:56
league That'd be awesome. Wasn't there some billionaire
50:01
one to do like the steroid Olympics? I Heard
50:05
that was like a rumor going around during what
50:08
during what are the last summer Olympics? I wanted
50:12
to do that I'd watch oh yeah it's like see what
50:18
the human body is is physically capable of maybe
50:23
a couple guys will just drop dead but i mean
50:25
you know that's the risk you take it's not me
50:30
who cares um i mean i have some silly things
50:39
i could talk about katy perry went to space oh
50:44
good for her Is she though? I mean, I guess technically.
50:49
But. What? If you look at the footage and the
50:55
shadows, they don't a lot. No, I'm joking. I'm
50:59
joking. But Katy Perry is a lying whore. I did.
51:05
I mean, I brought that up as a joke, but I saw
51:06
a funny tweet today. It was like she did some
51:10
interview or something where she was like, oh,
51:12
yeah, me. Well, me going to space or whatever,
51:15
like unified the country or something. And Frank,
51:17
the tank was like, she's right. Republicans,
51:21
Democrats, rich, poor, we're all gathering together
51:24
to tell you that was stupid. I saw a tweet from
51:33
Wendy's about Katy Perry going to space. And
51:38
I love when like corporate accounts get in like
51:41
on this type of stuff. Because it's like she
51:44
like kissed the ground when she came back down
51:47
to earth and They just said I kissed the ground
51:51
and I liked it and I was like Damn Wendy's you
51:54
got a good. It's a good one. I gave that shit
51:57
a like Wendy's has always had pretty good social
52:01
media at least on Twitter Yeah, they've been
52:05
Arby's good for a fast food chains not terrible
52:08
Twitter followers not terrible No, all right
52:14
Chris, what's your silly stuff? Well? No free
52:19
shout out, but I went to my bookie to look at
52:22
some lines For for WrestleMania or a predetermined
52:29
sport Chris who do you do you think is gonna
52:35
win the Intercontinental Championship? This is
52:41
Bron, Finn, Dominic and who else? And Penta.
52:46
Penta. Probably Penta, I'd have to say. What
52:54
are the odds on these? Penta is plus 200. Oh,
52:58
shit. What's everyone else? Bron Breaker is plus
53:02
350. Yeah. Finn Baylor is plus 800. Jeez. Oh,
53:09
my God. What's Dominic then? Minus 200. Oh my
53:14
God. Fuck, dude. Fuck. Fuck that guy. Dude, I
53:21
think he's going to win, bro. I think I think
53:23
he's finally going to get like a belt and. Be
53:27
even more hated. I wouldn't trash. I like it.
53:33
I like it. He's a dirtbag. I like it, but I think
53:37
Penta might be good value there, but. Again,
53:40
this is so stupid. Right. Yeah, it's stupid.
53:44
Well, Chris, you would have nailed that John
53:45
Cena Royal Rumble line. He didn't win. No, but
53:51
you you guessed his. Oh, yeah. His number. You're
53:55
right. You guessed when he was coming out. Shit,
53:58
I would have. All right. Well, you said 27. I
54:03
did. Maybe I do need to load up the my book again.
54:10
Total attitude adjustments performed by John
54:13
Cena over under three and a half over that's
54:17
got to be juice to hell like just in like doesn't
54:20
have to be on Cody just on anyone. It said undisputed
54:25
WWE Championship match total attitude adjustments
54:29
before my John Cena and over three and a half
54:33
attitude adjustments is minus 160. Yeah, I would.
54:38
I would hammer that responsibly, but that's,
54:43
but I wouldn't, I think you get, you get at least
54:46
two just like right off the rip because it's
54:48
like, that's just how it is now. And like, like
54:52
no, no, like nobody has won just off one finisher
54:56
in like a huge match, like in years, like 20
55:00
years. So I think you get two guaranteed and
55:05
three most likely. So if you get like a fourth
55:08
one in there to, I mean, hell, it could just
55:10
be someone like interfering. I don't know who
55:13
would, but yeah, I would, I would hammer the
55:16
over. And, uh, there's one more. It's like, well,
55:21
the United States championship match, Jacob fought
55:25
two or LA night. Oh, I mean, it's fought to like
55:28
minus 200. I know he's minus five 50. Yeah. Sounds
55:33
about right. That's going to be wild. That should
55:37
be a good one. They only have like eight of these
55:42
these prop bets which could be fun. I mean if
55:46
you're into that. Is there a prop that Stone
55:50
Cold will show up? Not the one not that I saw.
55:55
I'll check later though. I am now that Sean said
56:02
I'm retroactively mad that I didn't put money
56:07
on him to come out 27. Now that we're talking
56:12
about, I remember like while we're watching you,
56:13
like when 27 was coming up, it's like, this is
56:15
the one that is music. And then we all got quiet
56:19
and then the music started. And it was just like,
56:21
oh, we went ape shit. We did go ape shit. That
56:27
was hilarious. That's kind of all I got. All
56:38
right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The NBA playoffs start
56:45
tonight. Well, the play in play in. Excuse me.
56:49
Sorry. Well, I would say the plan continues.
56:51
It's like the plan is so stupid. Yeah. They're
56:57
like the only league that does this, right? As
57:00
far as maybe some. European soccer league does
57:03
it too, but as far as American sports. Does the
57:07
MLB still do those best of threes? It's still
57:17
like a it's a best of three, but it's still like
57:20
the wild card round. So they used to do like
57:23
a one game and it was still considered like it
57:27
was like the wild card round, but like nobody
57:29
really viewed it like that because it was a one
57:31
game. But now it's three, which I still don't
57:34
love, but it's better, I guess. It makes it a
57:37
series. It makes it something to fight for. Yeah.
57:42
No, the playing is so stupid. I saw someone on
57:44
Twitter was like, they should expand the play
57:46
-in tournament to every team and make it 82 games
57:49
long. It'd be wild if they experimented with
57:54
something like that. This is how far behind I
57:59
am on basketball. Do they still do that in season
58:01
champion? Yeah, they do. Who won this year? God.
58:07
They do that out of like the beginning of the
58:09
season, I think. Yeah, they do it towards the
58:11
beginning. I think it was the Bucs. Let me look
58:13
it up. I know the Lakers won it last year. That
58:15
shit is stupid. Talk about stupid. I get that
58:20
is just a purely like we want more eyes on the
58:23
sport in the beginning of the season. Yeah. And
58:25
it's like I I get it. If that is your goal and
58:29
they're being transparent about it, I get it.
58:30
But the playing term is like, the 10th best team
58:34
in the league does not deserve to make the playoffs.
58:39
Like what the magic won their division and they
58:42
had to play in the fucking playing tournament.
58:45
See, that's just not right. Granted divisions
58:47
in the NBA are useless, but it's still like you
58:52
have them. So I think winning winning it should
58:55
mean something. But what do I know? Yeah, you're
59:04
not adding silver, so. Not very tall and bald.
59:12
Because so bald. Yeah, he's bald. All right,
59:15
I'm going to I'm going to wrap this up because
59:18
I think we're out of things to talk about. OK.
59:21
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59:52
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59:57
Yep. I hope you got your taxes done, Chris. You
1:00:03
know the old saying, whoops. Whoops. My god.
1:00:08
I'm just kidding. No, I got my taxes. Just thought
1:00:13
that'd be a nice little bench for the fellas.
1:00:15
That shit's hilarious. I was genuinely worried.
1:00:19
I was like, uh, that was yesterday, bud. Alright,
1:00:24
we'll see you next week. I hope you don't go
1:00:27
to jail for tax evasion. I did my taxes. Hell
1:00:32
yeah. Hell yeah, WrestleMania, this weekend.
1:00:36
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