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Joba and the Mouth 6-2-25 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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That's it. Going to get him a significant.
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They're gonna have a ton of money to spend, why not?
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Putting in. One of the offensive players in
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the league. We're going to be looking at
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Aaron judge and saying that he can't win the big game.
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Michael Jordan said I played 82 games, you don't see the one
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doing this a game where you got to go before I told you.
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Let's do it. You are listening to Jabba and
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our website at www.world.com. It is summer, ladies and
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gentlemen, here on Long Island it's been crazy.
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The weather is up and down over the weekend, it was raining a
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little bit, then I got a little cloudy and now today, it was
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like, in at 70, we're hearing that it could hit about 85 on
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Wednesday. So it's been a crazy crazy time
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for New York and Specialty Long Island.
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As we all know New York, basketball is not something that
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we need to talk about. But we will, as the New York
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Knicks. I absolutely collapse in game
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number six. Embarrassing, as we all know,
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Karl Anthony towns, had nothing to say after the game but that's
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a whole nother story. I know Tyrese halburton couldn't
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shut up after the game, but that's just a whole, you know,
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whole segment that we're going to get into.
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But Jabba, how are you? Good.
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Good. I was golfing by the way, you
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were playing golf over the weekend.
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I was it was it was good. We played well, we kind of
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flight itself out. We shot a 58 so we we didn't
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play bad enough to get in the second flight and we were good
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enough to win the first flight but my son's team so that's all
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that matters. So that's that was the only
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thing going in and he slept through his alarm because he may
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have had a long night before I won't.
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I won't die in my own son out but hey, we're literally on the
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Range and I looked at his buddies and I was like I go, I
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text card. I see, he hasn't moved yet, like
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they're like, yeah, we tried to call him and he doesn't answer
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and then we're literally hitting balls and they're like, oh,
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Yeah, he just woke up said he slept through his alarm.
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And he just he went raw straight to the first team and so I'm
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like four holes passing on the thing and like how you doing he
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goes. I'm here.
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So it was no it was good. The weather was great.
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Great morning. It got some 91 here today so I
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don't I don't like the weather here.
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I don't like the Summers here because it's you too, humid.
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The bugs come out. You have all the mosquitoes that
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come out over here because we live, right by the water.
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And if you have a pool especially around six 6:30 at
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night, those mosquitoes come out and they live right next to the
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pools, they drop their eggs or whatever the hell they do.
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And then you have to deal with the spiders at night.
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They set up their webs, you can walk right into a spider web.
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I can't stand the worst feeling. Yeah.
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Walking into it. Yeah.
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Because you're trying to find the spider, you don't know where
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that. Yeah, cuz I, I actually in the
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summer time, I wear these hoodies, I wear like these half.
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Like half sleeve hoodies, and I'm going in the hoodie because
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I'm afraid it's hiding in the hood, or it's in my second, you
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know, second shirt under the hoodie, it's horrible.
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It's a horrible feeling in and you see these, these spiders,
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they get so big. They're humongous and I want to
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go, I want to go to Australia, but I've seen pictures of the
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size of spiders that are over there and I'm like I got a buddy
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that we went to college. He played basketball and Um I
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was just like dude I first of all, the flight sucks, it's
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long, you gain a day and lose a day back and forth.
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And I'm like, man. But you got some animals over
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there dog. That I don't know if I even want
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to come in. Have you ever checked out the
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spider crickets? There are some of the ugliest
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bugs you'll ever see what a spider cricket.
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Yes. It's it's shaped like a spider
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but it's a cricket, it jumps. It's ugly man.
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It's like a cricket but it's not a cricket.
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It's a spider. Looks like a spider and it hops
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and they're huge. They're ginormous.
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Yes. I if you're free.
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Yeah, they're they're really gross and they're they're
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embedded here in Long Island. They're all over the place if
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you have. Yeah, yes.
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If you have like a seller Cricket noise, oh yeah.
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They make a weirdo sound. And they like, they communicate
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in a different way. It's kind of like a click like a
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clicking sound. It's their ugly, ugly things.
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And this is the time of year when they come out and when it
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gets really warm and muggy out there even worse and if you get
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one in your house, they like I they double like in weeks so you
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got to make sure oh they buy two.
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Yes, absolutely. They do buy two and they're bad
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too. So you want to stay the hell
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away from spider crickets. And by the way, if you kill them
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it's like a green like stuff like that ooze that comes out of
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them. It's really is.
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Are they like to like where if you kill them, like sometimes
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they drop their eggs and that's how they like, Dude, they say
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sometimes, that's what happens. They're all Glee, ugly things,
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if you don't like crickets and you don't call them bricks
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sprickets, but they're called, they are, they're sprickets.
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They're spider crickets. And, and you see a lot of them
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here on Long Island. And like, I say they double up.
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So if you find wanting your house, that means you have about
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20 of them and Their audience somewhere.
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So if you have a spider cricket in your house, any long,
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Islanders or New Yorkers, you're probably have a bunch of them
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and they breed. So, do you spray for?
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That's what they say. I mean, I, I never had him in my
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place, but I've seen him before and like I said that, like I
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said, they, multiply no matter where you are and, and they do
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live outside, but they mainly live inside your house.
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So they like to be in Dark Places so you can't spot him.
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And at night time they usually sneak out, they're under your
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bed, or they're onto your chair. And, and dude, they're the
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ugliest things. They were really, really ugly.
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So, if you don't like spiders and you don't like crickets,
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you're not gonna like that. And They do bite.
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You're right. I've never been bitten by one of
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them. I know Kevin probably has, and
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I'm sure people that you've known probably have seen them
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and bit you before. But I, they're not the the
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nicest animal or whatever the hell, they are that insect and
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whatever they call them. Anyways, that's a whole nother
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story, a little bit later in the show for the first time on job
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of the mouth. We will be talking to 16 year
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NBA vet, and former Atlanta, Hawk Cavalier.
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He's played on multiple teams, all different teams.
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Yeah, Joe Smith will be joining us for the first time.
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Thank you to the old myth as our PR guy is doing his job.
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Getting us some new and great guests.
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Well looking forward to getting Joe Smith on the show.
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I know he's got some interesting stories with LeBron James as we
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call him. Oh, we call the NBA the LJ.
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So I think he's gonna like that. As he probably is very close
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with LeBron. A lot of his ex teammates love
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LeBron. I'm not a big fan of it.
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Speaking of not been a big fan of the New York Knicks were
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eliminated by the Pacers in game six, losing 125 to 108.
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Pascals. See I go was named Eastern
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Conference Finals, MVP, averaging 24.8 points per game.
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Five rebounds and three point, five assists as well in the
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series. When siakam was receiving, the
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award Tyrese Helper and approached the podium thinking
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he was going to get it. But they gave it to siakam.
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Instead in game six, the Pacers shot 51.5% from 3 out.
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Scored the next 23 to 6 on Fast Break points and forced 18
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turnovers by the Knicks. Scoring 34 points off those
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turnovers, the Pacers had seven different players, scored double
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digits in game number six, only two Nick starters, ogn and Obi
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and Jalen Bronson hit multiple three-pointers both shooting to
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for seven. The next shot, 28.1% from three
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and 65.4% from the free throw line.
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Jalen Bronson said he is proud of the team and says he is super
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confident, the Knicks will win a championship with this core of
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players. Now, first of all, I just want
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to give a shout out to Jalen Brunson.
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He's had a sensational season. He was really, he was
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everything. You want from a superstar he was
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a leader. He went out there and he played
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his guts off and there's nothing you could say bad about Jalen
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Bronson. The problem right now with this
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team doesn't lie on Jalen brunson's shoulders, what it
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really lies on with ownership and management?
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Because Karl Anthony towns is not the guy.
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I'm sorry, he's not the guy Karl Anthony Towns over the last
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couple of years. You saw him with the
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Timberwolves and now you got a chance to see him with the
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Knicks, he doesn't show up in the big game.
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Now, everybody's gonna say he didn't have such a bad game six.
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When you look at numbers, numbers are deceiving because
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call Anthony towns. Cannot hit free throws in the
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important parts of the game and he's had problems.
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So out, this series shooting up, threes, anything from 23 feet or
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further. He cannot hit a lick and it's
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been a big problem. This guy's one of the best
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shooting big men in the NBA and he had problems throughout this
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series hitting a three-point. I sit here today and I got, I
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got some things to say about Tyrese Halliburton and I'll say
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it very nicely in just a few moments.
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I look at this team. And if you're a New York Knick
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fan and you believe that this team is good enough to win a
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championship. You guys are blind, because
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there's a lot of problems with this bench, and it was a lot of
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problems with some of the starters that the Knicks have
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been starting all season long, Josh.
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Hart is a great player. He's not a starter.
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He's a Bonafide six man. Now throughout the regular
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season, he was great as a star, he really was, but that's
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because he is playing, you know, talent that is not as good as
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the talent that you play in the playoffs and when you play,
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which would you trade cat then? Or at least I think the open to
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it. I think the Nixon gonna have to
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look at it. I mean, obviously call Anthony
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towns is getting 50 million dollars a year, a little bit
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more than 50 million. Now, making that kind of money,
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the Knicks are gonna have to trade for a guy that's making
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somewhere around. Money or two guys that are
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making somewhere around that tier of money.
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Now, I do believe Karl, Anthony towns is a good player.
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I don't know if he's a playoff player and I don't know if he's
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a secondary player, when it comes to winning a championship,
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he's more like a third guy, he's a Kevin Love.
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A guy that can do all the things that you want a big man to do.
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Kevin Love was obviously one of the best rebounders in the
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league when he went over there to the Cavaliers.
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Remember when he played over there on the west coast side and
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remember when he came from UCLA, this guy was one of the best
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shooting big man that came out of college.
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Now, when he came into the NBA, he transitioned, when he played
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for Minnesota and then obviously when he went to the Cavaliers,
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he became one of those Elite two-way players that you want
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your big man to be call. Anthony towns is not a two-way
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player call Anthony towns, can't defense.
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And so when you have children Bronson on the court with
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calling Anthony towns, you have a lack of defense and it's been
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a big problem in this series and throughout the playoffs, you
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see? It when Karl, Anthony towns is
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playing with Jalen Brunson, they don't have that two-dimensional
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type of game where they're going to be able to compete with a
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Pacer team. That is going to have a starting
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five that are two-dimensional players.
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Now, you talk about Pascal siakam, he's a great player, he
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really is now is he a superstar player know, but what Pasco does
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is he's a great all-around player.
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He's really traditionally changed his game.
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He's become a better three-point shooter.
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Remember when he went to the Pacers, he wasn't a good
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three-point shooter with the Toronto Raptors as he's slowly
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over the last couple of years with the Pacers really developed
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a shot and he's become a better shooter in the NBA.
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Also a better free. Throw shooter in the NBA.
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When you have guys that are multifaceted when it comes to
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offensive style of games, you see teams like the Pacers really
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give problems to teams. Like the Knicks, the Knicks are
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dependent on guys, like, Karl Anthony towns and Like Bronson
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if they're not scoring an OG, anunoby is having a bad shooting
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game or Mikelle. Bridges is having a bad shooting
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game or Josh Hart's making many, many mistakes.
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And I know, a lot of people are gonna blame Josh Hart.
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This isn't all of Josh Hart. I know everybody wants to point
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their fingers. Oh, it's Josh Artful.
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He made so many mistakes. He made a lot of mistakes.
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I don't think he should be taking all of the, the bad
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credit. And I mean it's not even credit.
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Just the bad, you know, surplus of what happened in this series.
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What happened in this series, really?
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Stood right there smacking your face.
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It was coaching Rick, Carlisle is a better Coach than Tomb at
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all, and anybody that doesn't believe it.
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Well, just look at the transition of one half to the
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other. Rick Carlisle just plays a
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different style of offense and remember Rick Carla was a more
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of a defensive side and Coach. He's become more over the last
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couple of years as A two-dimensional Coach and he's
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really started. This high-paced offense that the
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NBA has not seen over the last couple of years.
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The last time I've seen this High Pace offense, it was the
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OKC Thunder with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James
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Harden and Serge Ibaka. The league really traditionally
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plays a half court game. When you watch this team play,
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they play full press offense, all game long, Tyrese halburton.
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And then you have all these other guy nests me.
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Any Smith? All these guys, they're all fast
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guys young guys that can go up and down the court, even their
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bigs up, is a fast guy that can go up and down the court.
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He's not very heavy, he's not drinking alone.
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Like Carl Anthony towns is and he's gonna be able to compete
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with all these guys that the Knicks out.
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Because look, oh no, he's a good.
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He's a good too, or he's a good three, whatever position he's
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going to play, depending on the team that he's playing against.
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He's not a fast guy. McHale Bridges is probably the
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most athletic three or two the Knicks have.
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But again there the Knicks or a complete mismatch to a team that
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had enough to beat them. Now Tyrese How burn I gotta say
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something about Tyrese Hopper. After the game.
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He said some derogatory things about the New York Knicks.
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First of all, he said, New York's his bitch and I, I
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understand he wants to be a villain.
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That's what he wants to be. He wants to be a bad guy.
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He wants Knick fans, not to like him.
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As we all know Trey young has done over the last couple of
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years and he's been one of those guys that New York Knicks
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couldn't stand. But when you go out there and
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you have your girlfriend, your fiance out there on social
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media, say go home, New York, go home and go New York, go New
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York home or whatever the hell he was.
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She was doing and that Tyrese, Howe Burton cracking jokes and
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saying that the Knicks are not as good as as good as, as good.
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A team as everybody thought they were going to be going into the
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series that they were the better team that the Knicks are so
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overrated. He said a lot of interesting
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things when he sat with Charles, and he sat with Kenny and he sat
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with Sheila O'Neill and Ernie Johnson.
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You, it was so disrespectful because he didn't say
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congratulations to a great season for the New York.
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Next, Jalen Bronson went out there he congratulating Indiana.
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You saw all the Nicks Josh Hart coming out and saying that they
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were the better team they deserve to win all the Nicks
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pretty much went out there and said what they they felt but
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Tyrese Helper and so unjust just a piece of garbage that he went
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out there and Whatever he could to throw the Knicks, under the
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bus, as a professional organization.
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And you really, really, before this series even came came up or
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even came to that point, that there were playing the New York
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Knicks. He said that the New York Knicks
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fans were crap. And he said, Madison Square
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Garden into one of the most overrated players places to play
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in all of the NBA. Meanwhile, you have there was a
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lot of players over the last couple of Winski.
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Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant LeBron James.
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All these guys, Tim Duncan all these Superstar players that
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have come out and said that Madison Square Garden is one of
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the best places to play. And all of sports.
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You have this guy who by the way, is one of the most
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overrated superstars in the NBA. I don't care what anybody says,
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you're going to look at his numbers.
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You want to say that in game four?
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I think it was where he put up those ridiculous, triple double
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numbers. And everybody says, who have we
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ever seen a player? Have no fouls and put up those
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kind of numbers 3011 and whatever it was. 15, whatever.
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The numbers were. He had Sensational numbers.
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The problem with Tyrese Halpern is not his game.
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It's the way he perceives his game to be.
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He is not Jalen Brunson, he's not shy Alexander.
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He is not as consistent as these players are offensively.
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He's either hot or he's not. What did he score in that final
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game against the Nixon game? Six, what was it?
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18? 20 points?
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I don't know the numbers right in front of me, but it was
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somewhere around those numbers. He didn't have one of his great
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gains, he didn't put up the ridiculous numbers.
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As a matter of fact, he scored eight points going into the
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fourth quarter. He's scored 10 points with the
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last eight minutes of the game against the New York Knicks.
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He didn't have one of those fabulous games, and I'm not
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surprised that Seiko wanted because he was the better
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two-way player in this series. But you go back and you wonder
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what recall is set over the last couple of weeks with the New
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York Knicks and saying that the next are flawed, they are flawed
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the new York Knicks are a floored offensive team, they
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depend too much on isolation basketball with Jalen Bronson
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and Karl Anthony towns. If these guys are not playing at
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the top of game, and by the way, I gotta give a shout out to the
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Pacers defense on Jalen Bronson and game six.
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They shut down Jalen Bronson, they played.
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So very well, they had two guys defend him throughout the game.
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They put a lot of pressure on him and that put Jalen Brunson
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in a bad position where he was forcing up shots, and giving the
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ball away, because there was no pick-and-roll at the top of the
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key because they were too, they were playing the Trap.
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They were two one-dimensional offensively, the New York
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Knicks. And once Rick Carlyle figured
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out how they were going to run their offense and how they were
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going to run their offense to Jalen Brunson, they shut down
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jail and Bronson and certain specific parts of the game where
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I put the Nicks in a position where they couldn't put the ball
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in the Nets. Carly even says in the comments
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section. The Nixa defense was battle
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game. Second half game 6.
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It was bad. All game Carl and That their
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defense has been horrible for the last two seasons been bad.
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But now just goes what she said. Arrow was like Rick.
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Carlisle saw, how they were gonna run it and he made the
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adjustments in game. It wasn't like they had a plan
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going into it. Okay?
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Well, now, we're going to kind of see how they are running
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things, I think. And you hit the nail on the
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head, it's the way that Rick Carlo.
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And you said in the coaching aspect of it is where he made
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the adjustment, seeing how they're going to do it.
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And you just gave credit to the defense is because they made the
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adjustments of what they're going to do.
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I mean he went for 18, he still scored, you know what was 21
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points Brunson or whatever. But you know between those three
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guys there's 18 shots for Brunson.
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It was 19 for cat and 18 for OG and but he knew it's like, okay,
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I'm gonna change our defensive schematic to be able to take
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that away. And in your right, you Rick
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Carlyle made the adjustments in the game.
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He's the better Coach. Yeah, that tips didn't do.
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Yeah, you're right. And I'm Know.
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And by the way, Tom Thibodeau should not have a job after this
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series. I don't care what anybody says.
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In a lot of Knick fans, say well have said, well, he deserves a
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second chance because he took them to the Eastern Conference
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Finals. I think this is the farthest,
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Tom Thibodeau was gonna take to New York.
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Next, I don't see him taking him any further than this.
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He took the Bulls as far as the Eastern Conference Finals.
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I just don't believe this team has enough to get over the Hop.
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They need more bench help and I just think Karl, Anthony towns
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isn't that secondary offensive player?
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That's gonna give you two dimensional basketball Yannis
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would be a perfect fit. I know a lot of people and there
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are stories coming out that yanis wants to come to a big
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Market. As a matter of fact, the New
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York Knicks will be probably one of the top three, favorites of
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Landing him in the off-season, but the Nixon gonna have to give
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up a significant amount. Maybe even Josh Hart or even
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Michelle Bridges in a trade with Karl Anthony towns and maybe
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McBride and maybe maybe a draft pick to get somebody like of
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that magnitude. But I again I think they need
22:49
more than just I think they're going to need at least another
22:52
bench help or another two bench. Help Off the Bench to Give Them
22:56
Enough consistency because it's been a problem and top tip but I
23:00
don't know if he's the guy because he really just ran nine
23:03
guys throughout this series. Finally, the last three games of
23:07
the series, he kind of transition and he started
23:09
playing different guys and added to the rotation.
23:12
It was a big problem throughout this series and I just he's not
23:16
the guy, they're gonna have to figure out is, is he the guy
23:20
that's gonna take him to the promised land or he has he taken
23:23
us as far as he can and maybe you move elsewhere, maybe you
23:26
look at somebody else so that went to the Cavaliers where
23:30
their defense has been as bad over the last couple of years
23:34
without him. Or do they bring in a guy that
23:36
like Malone that's been successful and won a
23:39
championship with the Nuggets or somebody else there a guy's out
23:42
there that are going to be available.
23:44
That'll probably better fit for this team.
23:47
And by the way, this rotation in the way he Runs his defense, it
23:51
doesn't work, and it's not going to work against a speedy, young
23:55
Pacer team and this Pacer team's gonna be here for a long, long
23:58
time. They don't even have another
24:00
Superstar. They're gonna have money to
24:02
spend if they could go after honest, even though after what
24:05
Mr. Halburton did to him. And what was it?
24:08
The first round? First round.
24:11
I don't know if he's going to wave his no trade clause to go
24:14
over there but Indiana's gonna have the money to go after
24:17
somebody like honest, maybe somebody else, maybe another
24:20
superstar that becomes available, but honest is the big
24:23
name that's gonna be the guy that's everybody.
24:25
Everybody's gonna be gone for. But there are stories coming out
24:28
and I saw, I saw two writers, beat writers, very well
24:32
respected in the game that said that the Knicks will definitely
24:35
be one of the top three locations that yanis will like
24:39
to play for going back to what I was saying about the defense
24:42
too. With that.
24:42
Carl was saying that Pacers had probably 60 to 65% of their
24:46
threes wide open. Like there wasn't even a
24:49
Defender like even Feet from them.
24:51
And that's I think the biggest issue in that game addition to
24:53
the transition defense that we were talking about like they're
24:55
not getting back on defense and that benefits for the Pacers and
24:58
what they like to do and then on the on the other end Jaylen
25:00
Brunson, I think what really hindered him was that kind of
25:04
half press. It wasn't, it wasn't a full
25:06
court press all the time. It was kind of a half press and
25:08
he got bracket. He got double team and I do
25:09
think we're Carlisle. Definitely deserves a lot of
25:12
credit for that because he really made him uncomfortable in
25:14
certain aspects and Jalen Brunson.
25:16
When he's not spacing the floor, the Nixon's isn't going to get
25:19
anywhere and OG and Mitchell Robinson were the only two
25:22
starters that played well, I agree with you on towns, even
25:24
though his stats look sexy on paper.
25:26
They're not he was very inefficient throughout the game
25:29
so this decision making with the threes where is if he is
25:32
defense, was horrible, all game. So and Josh Hart disappeared, he
25:36
said a lot of mistakes, Josh Hart made a tremendous amount of
25:39
mistakes. I'm willing to go after mikal
25:41
Bridges. Mikal bridges, chased,
25:43
Halliburton around around screen didn't come off the court for
25:48
I'm talking more on offense, not defense.
25:50
The thing is how are you supposed to be an offensive
25:53
threat when your job is to chase around?
25:55
Let's face it. He's talking the way that he's
25:58
playing. He's a top 10 player in the
26:00
world right now. I disagree resale but I
26:02
disagree. I don't and I think you have to
26:04
put them above Jalen right now because you just beat him twice.
26:07
So I would put Jalen right behind Halliburton, probably at
26:12
9 and 10 how Burton disappeared in certain games in this series?
26:17
Well, the reason why I Disappeared is Mikhail Bridge is
26:19
a pretty damn good football player.
26:21
Well, guess what bridge is was, basically is go his shadow and
26:26
in the second half they started taking Bridges out for shemet
26:29
and Shaman didn't work. And we could talk about Tibbs
26:31
rotations. But the thing that really
26:33
bothered me you know why they all so many others were open.
26:36
Well every time they were on Carl Anthony towns, that was a
26:39
wide open because Karl Anthony towns decided to go underneath
26:42
every single screen and not cover the guy and not even try
26:45
to fight it after getting fouls trying to fight over screams
26:48
early in the series. Because he's Slow footed and not
26:52
good at important parts of the game that are necessary to run a
26:56
tomb Thibodaux type of a team plus a huge Angus knee in the
26:59
second quarter. They still left him in the game.
27:01
I don't wanna, I don't wanna F in here about his knee.
27:03
Everyone's banged up this time of the Season.
27:05
It was not bad enough that he couldn't walk.
27:08
Wasn't that bad enough? That he couldn't run.
27:09
He just making a lot of faces out there.
27:11
And look, he makes interesting faces.
27:13
See lots face, interesting movements, he's a free
27:15
personality. We all know that about him but
27:17
on defense he killed the Knicks. And I am not willing to say
27:20
that. The Thibodaux scheme is bad
27:22
against the Pacers because in theory, it's the right type of
27:25
Defense to stop the Pacers. You're not fast enough to stay
27:27
with them running, you switch every single time.
27:30
And if you have guys, that can switch and can rotate, then you
27:34
don't have to catch up to these guys, running you off the court.
27:37
And it slows them, down power to Rick Carlisle for making
27:41
Bronson's life, a living hell, the entire Series Smart coach,
27:44
but the other guys have to step up.
27:46
They didn't on offense and that's Karl.
27:49
Anthony towns is the department. They didn't on defense, but
27:52
you're blaming this all on Karl, Anthony towns.
27:54
This is have to be, it's not just call Anthony Town, five
27:58
man, deep it's not. If your anchor is not rotating
28:01
and not stepping up. Its like, it doesn't even
28:04
matter. What the other guys are doing.
28:06
And a guy like Josh Hart, it seemed like he didn't know where
28:10
his help was. He didn't trust the guys next to
28:13
him and when you see heart going well, he knows where everyone's
28:15
gonna be on the court, he knows all those things.
28:18
I think he's this type of mind game.
28:19
I, I rather teams I think there's a lot of players that
28:22
are very selfish when they get the ball in their hands and you
28:25
can see that with the next, they take the ball down, they don't
28:28
pass the ball. How many passes that we saw
28:31
throughout this series? The Pacers were actually moving
28:34
the ball around the perimeter until they found the open guy or
28:36
the alley. Oops.
28:38
I mean Obi topping was all over the place with the alley.
28:40
Oops, you didn't see that enough with Mitchell Robinson.
28:42
He's so athletic, he finally got his feet under him why don't we
28:46
see more of that the alley? Oops.
28:47
Why didn't we see more of that with Karl Anthony towns?
28:50
He's athletic. He is an athletic big man and
28:53
he's not as athletic as Mitchell Robinson.
28:55
But he's athletic and Obey and Obey.
28:57
Oh, Jenny is a great donker. Why do we see more of ouchi and
29:01
Opie? He was hot and cold out this
29:03
series, he wasn't really in it offensively.
29:05
He played fantastic, defense, and some parts of the game and
29:09
then disappear. When he was on the court, this
29:11
guy, he had a tough assignment man.
29:13
Like that's an excuse, you keep making.
29:16
These excuses. No, I'm just gonna go out there
29:19
and play the game. Those two guys, the reason why
29:22
they got those two guys is there two of the best three in D Wing,
29:26
in all of the MBA because of their size and length.
29:29
And bridges ability to stay with a little bit faster.
29:31
Have you ever heard defense wins championships?
29:34
Well look if they they just didn't have like they had to put
29:37
OG on because they don't have a four because towns couldn't do
29:41
it when Robinson was out there and then they played the smaller
29:44
lineup where OG had to guard the four and oh Jesus three or two
29:48
and he can do it but not against every four and see him is a
29:52
great for Kauai to do it quite. We try to compare Ogden and Opie
29:57
306, that's fine. If he gets, I'm just saying when
29:59
Hawaii was the same age as Odin and Obey, he was defending a lot
30:03
of force. The best fours in the league,
30:05
and everybody wants to compare, oh, gonna be to Kauai Leonard.
30:09
Well, not quite. I'm just saying that's what
30:11
people want to do. So if you're gonna go out there
30:14
and say, well OG's, the new Kawhi Leonard, well, he's gonna
30:16
have to go out there and produce Seahawks are good player, but
30:19
he's not Tim donkin. He's not those kind of guys and
30:23
I've seen Kawhi Leonard when he left the Spurs at some points he
30:27
was defending him Dunkin. At some point, she was defending
30:30
some of the best athletic force in the league.
30:32
I see him Guardian. And Joel embiid, at some point,
30:37
a certain points. So that's that's an excuse OG.
30:40
And a newbie nobe needs to show up in the big games and play
30:43
shut down defense. No matter who it is.
30:46
Whoever's he faced is he's facing in front of him.
30:48
It's an excuse. And I'm going to tell you this
30:50
right now, Nick fans got to stop making excuses for this team.
30:54
This is not Josh Hart's fault. I know a lot of Knick fans on
30:57
social media wants to say, well Josh takes responsibility hits,
31:01
Josh is full. It's everybody's fault and
31:03
Jalen. Brunson's got to stop doing
31:05
certain things at the end of the game in the fourth quarter, when
31:08
you're trying to play, catch up. Why are you isolating yourself
31:11
over and over and over again? Use your teammates use mikal
31:15
Bridges, use ogun and Obey Karl Anthony towns or Mitchell
31:19
Robinson and by the way, Jalen Bronson and Karl, Anthony towns.
31:22
Cannot play on the same court together at the same time, if
31:25
that can't work, you have to trade one of them, and it's not
31:29
gonna be Jalen Bronson. It's gonna be calling Anthony
31:31
towns because he's getting paid 52 and a half.
31:34
Million dollars and he's getting overpaid because he's not a
31:38
winner, he's never gonna be a winner.
31:40
Knick fans got to understand that and for the fact that Jalen
31:44
Bronson came out and said that this roster can win a
31:47
championship, he's lying to you because there were stories
31:49
coming out that a lot of these players did not get along with
31:52
Karl, Anthony towns. Yeah.
31:54
I was gonna ask you job, but did you see that came out?
31:56
You know, almost immediately like it was like a canned story
32:00
just waiting for it to happen in the athletic and then they just
32:03
added a paragraph on like and then the next lost in game six,
32:07
like, they were ready to give the hit piece on towns.
32:10
You see any of that? Yeah, I I read in, and I've seen
32:14
scuttlebutt about it, obviously, you know, just on social, and
32:19
then obviously articles, but I think it It's a hundred percent,
32:23
right? Because they're there was kind
32:26
of a I don't know if it was a battle.
32:28
Like, who's the, the BMO C? The Big Man on Campus, you know
32:32
what I'm saying? You always have those type of
32:34
personalities, where sometimes it can work together.
32:37
Sometimes it doesn't, and I just think they're too completely.
32:42
Different stars in their capacity where sometimes those,
32:46
they just don't work, you know? And that's we kind of seen it.
32:49
And I I think that's a huge part of it too.
32:53
And especially, you know, if they're making a point to write
32:56
an article about it, there's obviously, you hear it once
32:59
you're like a And then you hear a couple times and then it keeps
33:03
going then you're like, Well, there must be some type of truth
33:05
to it. Obviously, we're not in the
33:07
locker room, we don't see it. But you can kind of see it out
33:10
on the court. Like, obviously they're both
33:12
still getting their shots. They're still, you know, doing
33:14
it that they, they have done in their career.
33:17
But I just think with what he does in in the type of team that
33:22
it is it, especially if the articles that were already
33:25
created and now they're continuing to get legs Shabba.
33:28
We said this before and, you know, I play, you played with
33:31
two players that were best friends in hate each other.
33:35
After one got traded over there and that's Alex Rodriguez and
33:38
Terry cheater. And there's no excuses because
33:40
they had to figure out how to play together.
33:42
Obviously, it wasn't as bad as everybody said it was.
33:46
I'm sure it wasn't. I'm sure it was it but when you
33:50
that's what happens when you get to like the Pinnacle and you
33:55
have all of these Alphas? And it's like okay I was just
33:59
now I'm just now. I'm a stud now I'm a stud and
34:01
you get all of them. It was that one point in I think
34:05
when Carrie Wood came over In 2010.
34:10
I think over half of our starting roster was first round
34:13
draft picks. So you got all these guys that
34:16
could create Created a great legacy for themselves, whether
34:21
individually whether Team all the other stuff.
34:25
And you get all of them. It's it's kind of it becomes a
34:28
pissing contest a little bit, you know, where it's like you're
34:31
going like okay, well if he did this I can do this and if they
34:35
did this, I can do this. And we've we've seen it on every
34:39
platform from basketball to football and whatever and it's
34:42
like, The ones that become very very successful and create
34:46
legacies is they figure out a way?
34:47
It's like I may not invite you to my son's birthday party.
34:51
But I damn sure once you next to me on the field or on the court
34:54
like you want to be cool with the guys.
34:56
Write 100%. That's the thing like you could
34:59
not trust a roommate, I don't roommates podcast about when
35:03
they had Julius Randle on and they seemed like they were
35:07
pretty chill with each other. Like it was, it was like a thing
35:10
where they didn't have any animosity.
35:11
Maybe they didn't play well, all that well together, but they had
35:14
the chemistry, there's no chemistry with Karl, Anthony
35:17
towns. You can see it, it doesn't work
35:20
and I think I hear him. Kyrie, Irving the trade, what?
35:25
Let's hear it. You want to hear it.
35:26
So I thought about this a lot. We talked about some of this the
35:29
other day, but yet you trading towns and you have to trade ogn
35:34
in OB with towns. It's going to be a lot of money
35:37
so you have to take back some shit contracts, but I think the
35:40
two of them together may be throwing a pick and you get
35:43
Giannis antetokounmpo and the two shittiest contracts on the
35:47
Bucks kuzma and Pat. Connaughton I like kuzma and
35:50
that's Kyle kuzma. Is a good player.
35:52
Nobody else in the league likes Christmas.
35:53
I don't know why he's a great rebounder.
35:56
He has one of the worst peers, he's still a good rebounder and
35:59
you're gonna need that against an athletic team like the
36:02
Pacers. I just making 22 million.
36:04
That's fine to be a bad year. Here's the problem, here's the
36:07
problem with a lot of people that watch Kyle kuzma and
36:09
they're going to not give him the credit that he deserves.
36:11
Remember he was drafted by the Nets, remember that he was
36:15
drafted by the Nets and then he moved around.
36:18
Yes he was with the Lakers. I only remember the lake.
36:21
He was drafted by the Nets. If I'm not mistaken, Speedy was
36:24
drafted by the Nets, right? It might be some draft, right
36:26
thing? No, it was Kyle who's me.
36:28
He was drafted by the Nets and then I'll check that out.
36:30
I know, Kyle kuzma was definitely drafted by the Nets,
36:33
and then he was a journeyman, but He went to the Lakers.
36:37
He really developed his game. You're right immediately traded
36:40
to the lake. Yes, in the legendary timofey.
36:43
Mozgov. Oh God.
36:44
Russell trade. That's right.
36:46
I have a lot of credit. I have a lot of respect for guys
36:49
like Kyle kuzma because he hasn't played on rosters and
36:52
teams that were really that good.
36:53
Even that Lakers team that he played with wasn't really that
36:56
good? Washington sucked everywhere.
36:59
He's gone the Nets. They all he wasn't there that
37:02
long, but you know what I'm saying, he's been on bad
37:04
rosters. He's never played on a good
37:07
roster, where he, he has a game where he could put his game and
37:10
and play his game on that roster.
37:11
I think he explained the bucks then like he's on the Bucks.
37:14
I'll tell you. First of all was the second, he
37:17
really didn't play until the second half of that season.
37:19
Anyways, so we didn't really have a lot of basketball time
37:22
over there with yanis and the Knicks get him in a deal like
37:25
that. I'd be.
37:26
I'd be stoked if he was just, you know, like how much was a
37:29
good rebounder for his size. He really is, I think you're
37:32
you're under rating, the type of player that I think 22.
37:36
Million a year for three. Three years of him is a little
37:39
steep and they're going to want to get off that contract though.
37:41
But I would say half that for him would probably be about,
37:44
right? I will say this, I will say this
37:46
for all unique fans and I know a lot of Knick fans are upset
37:49
about this. I I was wearing a Knicks hat and
37:52
a Knicks jersey the other day. All right, yesterday and I went,
37:55
I was telling fish and I was telling Speedy, how many people
37:58
came up to me and told tell me oh tough loss tough.
38:03
What do you think? And asking me a question?
38:04
I actually giving out show cards where some of these kids thought
38:08
I was like a celebrity or something like that.
38:09
Oh my god. Oh, are you gonna do?
38:12
Are you gonna are you? I was like what the hell's going
38:16
on with you you're gonna have a heart attack or but see these
38:19
kids don't understand that. They're just jail and Bronson
38:22
fans and and they're call Anthony towns fans and they
38:25
thought hey the Knicks choked and this and that the Knicks
38:28
didn't choke. They just they didn't play their
38:30
game and you lost you. They lost that Series in game.
38:33
Number one, letting this team come back up, 14 with two
38:37
minutes left, that was the choke that really cost him this
38:41
series. If they won that game, they
38:43
would have went up to, they would have went back home and it
38:47
would have been too Tuesday. Would have went back home.
38:49
One that game, they would have been up three, two lost in
38:51
Indiana, and then went home and possibly one in game seven, like
38:55
I predicted, but losing that first game cost the next the
38:58
series, and that was Mistakes by Josh hard that was Mistakes by
39:02
Karl. Anthony towns not hitting free
39:04
throws, and OJ and Obey missing free throws.
39:06
All these guys, couldn't hit a free throw if they're like that,
39:09
life depended on it in game. Number six, they how many call
39:13
Anthony. Talisman, he was horrible
39:16
terrible. You're you're a career 92% in
39:20
the playoffs free, throw shooter and you missed four free throws
39:24
in an important game six and yeah, it is knee was hurting.
39:28
Yeah, here's another thing, I want to give a shout out to our
39:32
boy over here and he's been speaking.
39:35
A lot Carl over here, saying that call Anthony towns was
39:38
getting fouled, a lot in his game and throughout this series
39:40
I've got news for you guys. The refs were not on the next
39:44
side in this series, and I'm not blaming the refs.
39:46
This isn't. This isn't the rest of the beef.
39:48
I'm not the wet for me. Okay, I hears the facts, here's
39:53
the facts. It didn't go the next way.
39:55
It doesn't matter if it was in Indiana or if it was a Madison
39:58
Square Garden, a lot of the calls and everybody's gonna say
40:00
well the Knicks had more free throws than the Pacers but the
40:04
Pacers got the important free. Throw chances at the end of
40:08
games that kept them in the game when they were down or up a
40:11
significant amount of points. So It was a big problem.
40:15
And I think again the NBA or the lja, need to figure out how I
40:20
think. There should be another Referee
40:22
on a court, it shouldn't be three, I think there should be
40:24
five referees on the court, seeing everything go on and you
40:28
should be up, be able to challenge at least three times
40:32
in a game. Three times, not, if you get one
40:34
call, you should be able to Challenge three times because
40:36
you saw in this series after you use your your two challenges
40:40
early in the game, you don't get one in the fourth and even if
40:43
you see it go off another team or another foot or another If
40:48
you know finger you can't get get a chance to call and the
40:51
referees, They Don't Really call a time out to look at every
40:54
single call at the end of the game, which could cause the team
40:56
a chance to get the ball back and tie the game.
40:59
It was a big problem in this series.
41:01
There are a lot of mistakes but Rick Carlisle is the better
41:04
Coach that is why the younger faster and more athletic Pacers
41:09
team beat a better. Nick team.
41:11
The Knicks were more talented I believe when it comes to one to
41:15
five but the Pacers what they did against the Knicks is they
41:19
shut down the offense of Jalen Bronson made the other guys try
41:23
to beat him and the other guys couldn't do it and they got
41:25
tired. If you saw in game five in game
41:28
six, the Knicks were much more tired.
41:30
And everybody's gonna say, well the next one by 16 or 15 in game
41:34
number five, the Pacers were not working really hard in the
41:38
fourth quarter, they let the Knicks run away because they
41:40
wanted to win in Indiana. And then, the next had a chance
41:43
to shut everybody up. I do, I take their ass in game
41:46
five. They were winning by double
41:47
dude. The Pacers look like they
41:49
stepped away in the fourth quarter and let the Knicks hit
41:52
shot. I think shot.
41:54
Open shot in Square Garden that Tyree Tyrese makes my pecker.
41:59
Is got to those guys because I think those guys can be Shook
42:03
and I don't really and we're going to talk about them going
42:05
into the next round in the next segment.
42:07
Yeah. Second.
42:07
But before we get off that, I wanted to tell you, you know
42:11
why, I think they should move OG because I don't think they
42:14
should move Mikhail. It's really one of those two
42:16
guys that would have to be included in a deal and Giannis.
42:19
Look the Spurs and the rockets have a lot more to offer the
42:23
Bucks than the next two. But the next might have the
42:27
advantages Giannis, might want to go to a place where there's
42:29
Greek people. I don't know if they're Greek
42:31
towns in San Antonio and Houston.
42:33
I know there are lots of Greek people in New York.
42:36
I know I was driving by a Greek. His brother played in New York,
42:39
his brother played in New York, that's one.
42:41
And number two, his brother has a condo still here in New York
42:45
so it's nothing that pushes its a tours it I'd love it.
42:49
So here's the reason why you use OG instead you use OG instead
42:53
because Michelle Bridges plays every single game in OG is
42:56
injury wrist like you wouldn't believe and you have to get rid
42:59
of the injury wrist if they're going to be around the same
43:01
price as Michelle's getting extension around the same price.
43:04
Now if they don't bite on that and yanis goes somewhere where
43:07
they can get bigger return for Milwaukee.
43:11
I can't believe, you know, we got a new intern Zach has been
43:13
reading my mind that's the second time Kevin Durant.
43:17
For cats straight up too much, actually, too much.
43:21
Yeah, I don't think so. It's too much a deal Durant only
43:24
has one year left after that. He's 38 years old or 37 years
43:28
old and listen, it's for one year, it's for one year, but you
43:32
get off of a contract that he towns is going to be making.
43:34
He has four years left, three plus a player option that last
43:38
year's 65 million. If you're paying towns in four
43:41
years with way, he is now defensively 65 million.
43:45
That is danger zone. Kenny Loggins type, shyt Arrow.
43:48
You've got to get off of that. Bringing this.
43:51
I love Kenny Loggins all his music.
43:56
I listen to every single one of his tracks.
43:58
I'm a big Kenny Loggins fan, I grew up listening to Kenny when
44:02
I was a kid, he's one of my favorite artists in the in the
44:06
early 90s. So I listened to every single
44:08
Kenny Loggins so I love, has anybody seen over the top with
44:13
Sylvester Stallone's arm wrestling movies?
44:15
Yes, that's a fantastic. He's got two hits songs from
44:19
that movie. Love that movie, by the way, I
44:21
Top Gun. Come on, who doesn't like
44:23
topcon? Dirty?
44:24
What was that Footloose Footloose, too?
44:26
I I love all the 80s and 90s movies.
44:29
Kenny Loggins was big in the 80s and again I just and theater and
44:36
my senior year of high school. Yeah, I love you play.
44:40
Um I was actually the dance coordinator for the most stop
44:43
it. I I definitely have to see Java
44:48
get down one of these days. It was it was fantastic other
44:52
than it was. It was the funny story though,
44:54
it was still on Broadway, hold it out of my ass.
44:57
We had to call New York to get actually the rights to actually
45:01
perform it. Wow, because it was still it was
45:03
still on Broadway when they were doing it.
45:05
There's one last thing I want to bring up and I wanted to ask
45:08
speedy this one. Speedy does Halliburton exceed
45:13
the hatred of Trey young now. No.
45:15
Yeah, not yet not yet. I mean he does.
45:18
I just trade young he did some interesting things after that
45:24
Series against the Hawks giving the Knick fans, the middle
45:27
finger. I mean he walked out and Trey
45:30
young as a piece of garbage. Yeah, I'm not saying that he's,
45:32
you know, we're leaving all of his sins or anything.
45:35
I mean, Halliburton, what kind of a douche?
45:39
Let's face it. We throw the Atlanta Hawks down
45:42
to mediocrity now, don't be surprised if Trey young gets
45:44
traded to India because, Trey young could be available in the
45:48
offseason. I can't believe how much I would
45:50
hate Indiana if Trey, young, and there.
45:52
I, I could see that happening. First of all, Trey, young and
45:56
Indiana would be a perfect. Fit.
45:57
He gives you that 3-point you know, specialist that they're
46:01
going is no defense, I don't know.
46:03
But they're everybody else plays defense.
46:05
So and Trey young, I mean, you probably put Naismith and maybe
46:09
somebody else in that trade, you get Trey young over there to
46:12
play with Halpern. Now, would be a really tough
46:15
offense to beat, and could you imagine those two guys in the
46:18
back court? Oh my God.
46:19
Those big mouths yelling at the Madison Madison Square Garden.
46:23
Fans all over the country, all over the stadium, 15,000, people
46:28
watching that game and just they're absolutely giving it,
46:31
you know, giving them all the business.
46:33
But speaking of the business, the Pacers will take on the
46:36
thunder in this year's NBA Finals.
46:39
A battle of two teams that have never won a championship.
46:43
That means one of them is gonna win, obviously it is the first
46:47
match up. At all of my first time.
46:49
Champions, we have seen since the heat in the Mavericks match
46:53
up in 2006. The Thunder are the fourth
46:56
youngest In NBA history, to reach an NBA Finals with, an
47:00
average age of 25.33 years of age shy Gilchrist.
47:06
Alexander has 10 games of over 30 points, five, assists, during
47:11
the playoffs tied second. Most in NBA history, the Pacers
47:15
have scored the most transition points per possession, in NBA
47:19
player, in the NBA playoffs at 8.5.
47:22
And have also allowed at least at 0.96.
47:26
The Pacers have seven different players.
47:29
Averaging 10 points, per game or more.
47:31
And free of those players are all averaging.
47:35
Three assists per game. This is the first time in the
47:38
NBA luxury tax era that both teams in the NBA finals were
47:43
under the luxury cap threshold. Well, ladies and gentlemen this
47:48
is going to be a series of Shai Alexander, you're going to get a
47:52
chance to see one of the best offensive players, one of the
47:55
prolific offensive players. We Seen in a very, very long
47:58
time. Go face to face with one of the
48:01
biggest mouths in right now, the NBA and Mr. You halburton who I
48:06
can't stand. What makes this series so fun to
48:09
watch is Cheyenne. Alexander doesn't really speak,
48:11
he doesn't really say much. He goes out there and lets his
48:14
game. Do the talking halburton.
48:16
Lets his mouth do the talking, and sometimes it's his game.
48:20
Actually works with, you know, with his mouth, the problem
48:23
right now in this series is pretty simple.
48:26
The OKC Thunder has better secondary offense than the
48:31
Pacers do. This is a young team.
48:33
This is a team that runs and guns just like they do.
48:35
This is a team that has a place two-dimensional basketball just
48:39
like the Pacers do. But their best player in Shai
48:42
Alexander is one of their best defenders and if he's sticking
48:46
how Burton or Naismith or any one of these guys at the
48:50
perimeter he's going to be able to shut these guys down the next
48:53
didn't have that. They really didn't even know you
48:55
had McKell Bridges and Which anunoby these are the guys that
48:59
don't rotate too chilled Alexander plays one-on-one
49:01
defense if he's if he's taking Halpert in the whole game.
49:04
That's who he's taking the whole game there you're not gonna see
49:07
him, you know, change up and and play like Tom Thibodeau plays.
49:11
This is a different kind of team and OKC is very fast.
49:15
They pass the ball, they share the ball, they all can shoot.
49:19
And when Williams is playing at the top of his game, they're
49:22
almost impossible to beat and they're the hardest team to beat
49:26
in, okay? See there.
49:27
Oklahoma is one of the hardest places to play in the NBA.
49:31
I think they've lost in two or three years.
49:33
I think it was like 15 games at all.
49:36
They only lost six games in the regular season, so far.
49:38
And I'm talking about unless we're here, right?
49:40
And last year last year, I think they only lost 10 in the regular
49:43
season all year. And then they've only lost once
49:45
in the playoffs that was game wanting against the Nuggets.
49:46
This is a team that has a very, it's very hard to beat them in.
49:53
Okay. See, so I Shai Alexander is a
49:56
great Player. He's going to go out there and
49:58
he's going to put up 30 points every single game.
50:01
It's gonna be hard to stop them. Like Jayla, you did with Jalen
50:05
Brunson because what Shai Alexander does, that Jalen
50:09
Brunson doesn't do, is he can play every style of game now,
50:13
he'll he'll go through the pick a, he'll go right through.
50:16
You Jalen Bronson this child Alexander's a lot bigger and a
50:19
lot stronger than Jalen Bronson gel and Bronson small.
50:22
He's six too. How burns like 6665 Cheyenne.
50:27
Alexander is like six six, so you're not gonna be able to push
50:29
this guy around. He can run through you.
50:31
He's very strong. His upper body strength is
50:34
unbelievable. He's one of the fastest guys in
50:37
the NBA to the basket. When he gets Elaine I he's very
50:41
hard to defend and they're going to have problems throughout this
50:43
series stopping him but the secondary scoring like I said it
50:47
just so fun to watch. I I'll say this.
50:50
I was not sure about this team but adding hornstein and
50:54
hornstein becoming fully healthy and a second After the season.
50:57
This is a completely different team.
50:59
When hartstein is on the court. He's a great defender, he's a
51:03
great rebounder and he's the enforcer on that Court.
51:05
He doesn't let anybody push Shai Alexander around, and he's gonna
51:08
go out there and he's gonna make sure that if Hal Burton pushes
51:11
him around, he's gonna be pushing halburton around.
51:13
So I think it's, this is a great matchup.
51:16
There are two of the more younger teams in the NBA.
51:20
I think obviously it's a mismatch because I think, okay,
51:24
see if they play at the top of their game and the Pacers can't
51:27
get in shy Alexander's head early in this series.
51:30
It's gonna be a long series for the Pacers, but this is going to
51:33
be a fun series. As much as everybody thinks,
51:35
this is going to be an absolute blowout.
51:36
I do not believe this is going to be a blowout.
51:39
This is gonna go five or six games, it will.
51:42
And I think they'll be some of these games will be a lot closer
51:45
than you think. But if okay see goes up to all,
51:49
which I think they could, because they have the home field
51:51
advantage, I don't know if the Patriots are going to be able to
51:53
play catch up against them like they did against the Knicks.
51:57
Is interesting with heart and sign the effect that he's had to
51:59
like defensively. They stay at home Defender and
52:01
Carl was asking in the chat too? If the Nixon in that series
52:04
maybe doing extent but again I think I don't like one player
52:07
would have changed the next was in game six but nevertheless
52:09
like you see if hornstein was there and he actually played I
52:13
think he's a better piece than Karl, Anthony towns.
52:15
Sure to find definitely yes, 100% agree with you all on that.
52:19
I'm going Speedy. Yeah, I was gonna say I was
52:21
gonna say they've gotten the version of the better version of
52:24
hartenstein from last year too. And he's also the veteran leader
52:26
that this team very young team needed to talk about the fourth
52:29
youngest team to be in the NBA Finals.
52:30
Hartenstein was with the clippers for a little while, and
52:32
then he obviously went to the Knicks was traded to the next,
52:35
so he has a lot of teams that have gone on, at least a win
52:38
playoff series, not to go to the NBA finals.
52:39
But have done well enough in that.
52:41
And that's what they needed. This.
52:42
The Next Step they needed. They lost last year to an
52:44
experience. Veteran Dallas Mavericks team
52:47
with two of the best, playoff players we've seen.
52:48
I was looking, we talked about that, he has all the time, and
52:51
then Kyrie Irving was a great playoff player too.
52:52
And they needed that kind of adversity.
52:55
They got that adversity, overcome with the nuggets and
52:57
I'm sure heart and sign in a big reason for that.
52:59
Now, what's interesting matchup wise is the OKC defense on the
53:03
wings, so because the Pacers have all this bench Wing depth
53:07
that can score. Hey, it's just offense is so
53:09
overrated. And, and again, you just
53:11
mentioned the wing Defenders that have Dave, Dort, they have
53:14
hornstein, they have Alex Caruso.
53:16
This is a good all around defense.
53:18
They're not going to get easy layups like they did against the
53:21
Knicks. They're going to make them work
53:23
for every single point they're going to get in this series and
53:26
they're going to get tired. By the way, they played a longer
53:29
Series against the Knicks and a more you know gut wrenching
53:32
game. The Knicks did not let them have
53:35
easy, you know, easy quarters. I mean these quarters were
53:39
grueling the next pushed them around in certain parts of the
53:41
game. Again, they cannot fall behind
53:44
against OKC. Because OKC will run away with
53:47
the game. They had more 100 110 or more
53:50
point games in the playoffs at any team in basketball, right?
53:53
They're the only team that broke 135 points in this in the
53:58
playoffs. I think they're the only, I
53:59
think they're the first team as well to have.
54:01
I think six wins by 30 or more points as well, because I kind
54:05
of the first round. They had the sweet too and then
54:06
they had all those ones in the Timberwolf Series, where they
54:09
were just blowing them. I didn't realize how important
54:10
Caruso was. I remember him playing for the
54:13
Lakers? And I remember when they OKC,
54:15
Thunder traded for him, from the Lakers, I think it was the late.
54:18
It was the Bulls. It was one in between they
54:21
traded. Josh Getty.
54:21
Remember, he was going through all that controversy and he was
54:24
supposed to be there. Other point guard at the time to
54:26
develop with shy and obviously, the off the field off court
54:29
issues, that one of the more underrated players, Alex Caruso.
54:32
But in all of the NBA and I think it was, you fish that look
54:35
when they made that trade, really liked it at the time
54:37
because it was like a missing piece for what they needed from
54:39
the veteran Off the Bench perspective and that kind of
54:43
thing is something that okay? See, I don't think had last
54:45
year, Either, I just want to respond to call comments as
54:48
well. This is not to mid-majors.
54:49
Why don't you breathe a little bit?
54:50
Because you don't breathe in. This is this is not too
54:53
mid-majors Carl. The Thunder are the best team in
54:55
the NBA all season long. There are 68 win team just
54:58
because they're small marker. Carl said in the comment, this
55:01
is like two mid-majors making the NCAA basketball final know,
55:03
it's not the case, Carl, the Thunder.
55:05
If it was, if it was a seven seed or so, like what I'm saying
55:08
is there a very young teams, that's what they are and, like
55:12
they said, the Thunder, what 25 or younger, their roster in the
55:17
Pacers are probably, like, 26 or younger, right?
55:19
They're, they're two of the youngest rosters in the NBA.
55:21
We might see this a lot in the next couple of years.
55:24
If Macaro Carl brings up a point too, for the game of basketball,
55:27
do you think that's good because he brought up a point too.
55:30
And the in the chat do you think that this is going to be watched
55:34
by a lot of people and and know like, not this year, not this
55:38
year, I'll tell you what, I'm not gonna get a lot of not this
55:40
year, but if if this is a good series, if this if this goes Six
55:46
or seven games and its back and forth.
55:47
Basketball, High Pace offense. Yeah, I think you, if it happens
55:52
next year, you see them play again in the next three years in
55:55
the finals. It'll be a very Watch series
55:57
because of what they did, but right now, I don't think it's
56:01
gonna get the Casual fan for what, like we obviously know
56:03
what? No, it's gonna be a little hard.
56:05
New York fans are not gonna watch this series because that
56:08
to me and if they do, they're only want to watch OKC.
56:10
Absolutely murder. Murder murder them, murder
56:13
murder. Murder murder.
56:13
Yes. Because you want to see him
56:15
like, like, Sonny on the causeway and Godfather one.
56:18
I can't wait to see Shea. And by the way, I keep looking
56:22
it up. We keep saying shy.
56:24
It's it's pronounced. Like, s h a y.
56:26
So, like Shea just saying, an idiot.
56:30
Zac says, a real basketball fans will watch and I disagree.
56:35
I disagree because real basketball fans like die hard.
56:38
Of course, that's think about the thing about the type of
56:41
game. This is going to be this is I
56:43
think a terrible matchup for him.
56:45
Friend. My friend is one of the biggest
56:47
basketball fans and all out of all the sports.
56:50
He's a big Yankee fan, he's a big Nick fan after the Knicks
56:53
lost against, obviously, the Indiana Pacers.
56:56
He says, I am not going to even put my eyes on that series
57:00
because he was so upset, he didn't like, the way he blamed
57:04
the referees, by the way, I'm not gonna mention because he
57:07
knows who I'm talking about. He blamed the referees a lot.
57:09
It was a little bit of the referees, but it really wasn't
57:13
Karl. Anthony towns was not good, even
57:15
though his numbers would tell you differently, he loves Karl,
57:18
Anthony towns, by the way. Colin Anthony towns, he's
57:21
terrible on these. Oh, he's an infant.
57:23
What do you mean? He can have hardened if Harden
57:25
steam hardest time was bet there on defense they win the series I
57:29
think they win the series would have been a lot closer.
57:30
I think I think they win the series.
57:32
I don't think they I don't think that they would have never lost
57:35
game one. They would have definitely never
57:37
lost game one. If you had him in Mitchell
57:39
Robinson in at the same time during the game with OJ and Obi
57:43
and Michelle bridge is and Miles McBride, the Knicks win that
57:47
game. There's no way there's no way
57:49
they call. Carlos has a shy that prolific
57:51
or he just gets to the line. It's on.
57:52
Now he is that prolific car. Like I know the Timberwolves
57:55
fans were chanting about the freaking free-throw merchants
57:57
and all that stuff. But he's electric dribbling the
57:59
ball and he's physical, he outplayed Anthony Edwards.
58:03
Everybody says that Anthony Edwards is a top three player,
58:06
really? For the last three years, Shai
58:08
Alexander was a top five player. Top six player over the last
58:12
three years, he became one of the top three offensive players
58:15
in the NBA this year. And that's why he won the MVP.
58:18
So yeah, he outplayed Anthony Edwards.
58:21
Who went out there before the series saying that I'm gonna I'm
58:24
the best player in this series and I'm going to show why I'm
58:27
the best player in this series boy.
58:28
Oh boy, did he not show? Did he was the best player in a
58:31
series and Jalen Brunson? I think he took a step back
58:34
because he knows how Bert and play better than him in certain
58:37
aspects of his game. And I think Jalen Bronson in the
58:40
offseason needs to lose a little bit of weight.
58:42
He looked at, I'm going to tell you this.
58:45
Throughout the season. He looked like he put on a
58:47
little bit of weight and he looked like he got slower he
58:51
looked like he got slower later in the season.
58:53
That's my theme is in speed, you know.
58:55
He has those hesitation moves, he likes to get guys on his hip
58:58
and then get the fouls. He wasn't getting the fouls in
59:01
any of these post-season series the way that he got him in the
59:05
regular season that's frustrating.
59:06
Because your game was built upon doing it that way all year.
59:10
And now, you're not getting those same calls, so I thought
59:12
some of that was frustrating to him.
59:14
He got a lot of foul calls called against him that maybe he
59:16
didn't get early in the year. I don't really know what it was.
59:19
He knows that he needs to be better than he was and I expect
59:22
him to come back guns. A blazing next year, that being
59:25
said, Sheila said, they'll just Alexander was a point guard who
59:29
shot, I think 52 and change percent from the field.
59:31
Nice cars don't break for think Bronson was the next closest at
59:36
like 49%. So as like a, like a ball,
59:40
dominant point guard, The Unbelievable shooting.
59:43
Percentage is from him, especially going to the Line Is
59:45
frequent as he does get. You can call him a free throw
59:48
merch and actually have a stat at our interns Zach gave me, you
59:53
know what? You know what, I I'm gonna do
59:55
these kids a favor. Why don't you put?
59:57
Why don't you put these guys in here?
59:59
I want to hear. I want to hear quickly.
1:00:02
Jake's Take. And then I want to hear what
1:00:05
Zach's take is. I mean, they've been back and
1:00:07
forth. They're big basketball fans.
1:00:09
Let's hear what these guys got to say.
1:00:10
If you want, you can come in on the road, you can just stay.
1:00:14
I'd like to first first Jake, I want to hear your take quickly
1:00:17
on this series. Okay.
1:00:20
See in the Pacers? Why you think this series is
1:00:23
going to be a very highly watched series?
1:00:28
Yeah, sure. Yeah.
1:00:29
I think it'll be pretty interesting for.
1:00:31
Like this means that we're going back for saying for basketball
1:00:34
fans, I think it's gonna be really respected and watch
1:00:38
because both these teams are relatively young.
1:00:40
They try really hard. They, you know, they are good
1:00:43
basketball towns. Like I think one of the things
1:00:45
that's been lost on it as well as if you look at the OKC
1:00:48
Thunder's fan Arena and they have all the fans in their
1:00:52
t-shirts and they love their team and the passion in the
1:00:55
stadium somewhere. As you're talking about arrow
1:00:57
with the Knicks, they love their basketball team.
1:00:59
So I think that that Steelers, what does that mean?
1:01:01
Stop. So, did the Steelers, that's
1:01:06
back-to-back due. So, the de stijl, I hear you but
1:01:09
I mean they haven't, okay? See, they haven't been to the
1:01:12
finals since I believe. 2012 and a KD Russ and and Hardin, they
1:01:16
were a young team and other young team as well.
1:01:18
She just won the MVP and, you know, Jalen Williams Chet
1:01:23
Holmgren. They've grown their team with
1:01:24
young homegrown Talent, they get to grow up with their team and
1:01:27
all their players and the pages as well.
1:01:29
Even though Tyreese Halliburton and Pascal siakam and Myles
1:01:32
Turner, a lot of their players are, you know, trades.
1:01:35
I think that they've build a young like a pretty decently
1:01:38
well established core and they love their team as well.
1:01:41
I was in Indiana for a long time, there was the curse, you
1:01:44
know, they could never really break through having to deal
1:01:47
with LeBron James a lot. And then, Paul George leaves.
1:01:49
It's actually this finals is both teams are really been, but
1:01:54
yeah, I think this series is going to be a lot of fun.
1:01:57
I think. Okay, she's gonna win and they
1:01:59
probably win will win pretty dominantly, but I think it will
1:02:02
be fun. Basketball matchup to Walk.
1:02:04
All right. Exactly.
1:02:05
Let's hear your take on this series.
1:02:08
I think it's gonna be a fun series.
1:02:10
I I think it's going to be well, watched with a bunch of NBA fans
1:02:14
because I don't see both of these teams as being that
1:02:17
one-on-one type of teams like they move the ball around.
1:02:20
They drive and kick. They move the ball around.
1:02:22
They pass a lot. It's not like you're watching
1:02:25
the Lakers with Luka Don. Everyone else just standing out
1:02:28
in the cold or out. On the perimeter, you have
1:02:30
people driving the ball. You say, you'll just added
1:02:33
driving the ball looking to pass.
1:02:34
If he doesn't score, if he doesn't get fat, obviously and
1:02:38
then on the office and you have the Pacers who are a fast-paced
1:02:41
team, they do the same thing. They don't have a player that
1:02:44
just one-on-one on top of the key.
1:02:46
They have players that are meant to pass and are meant to shoot
1:02:49
the ball when they're open. I think it's gonna be fun,
1:02:51
serious. I'm excited to watch.
1:02:52
Hi. It's, they're young.
1:02:54
And that's why a lot of young kids are going to be excited to
1:02:57
watch a bunch of young players. Go out with one another.
1:02:59
I do miss old man, LeBron they're all.
1:03:02
It's the lja and I just thinking about the organiz Chin, as a
1:03:08
whole. That's all I have to think
1:03:09
about. I don't want to see LeBron James
1:03:11
in another finals. Again, I do believe and I'll say
1:03:14
this again. I think that the Lakers going to
1:03:17
be much better next year. I think they're going to have a
1:03:19
chance to go after another Superstar to play with LeBron
1:03:22
James and the the group of craziness, but Luca, by the way,
1:03:27
did anybody check out Luka doncic?
1:03:29
How much weight he's lost already?
1:03:30
You know, this was coming after what they said about him, did
1:03:34
you see what he literally? Now it's just a bigger middle
1:03:38
finger to them be like yeah. If I wanted to do it, I can.
1:03:40
Yeah, he should have posted on social media Harrison he was at.
1:03:45
He didn't go to the Knicks series, but he was at the OKC
1:03:48
Thunder series against I think, oh, okay.
1:03:50
See play night, let's not get, it was a nuggets.
1:03:54
He was at that series. He was actually sitting in the
1:03:57
audience and they took video of him.
1:03:59
He looked like he lost 25 pounds.
1:04:01
Could you imagine he lost 25? Spent like a week in like
1:04:06
LeBron's, hyp. Barrack, red wine chamber.
1:04:10
I don't think anything to do with.
1:04:11
I think he really in the Blaze Pizza.
1:04:13
I think he realized that he has an opportunity to win a
1:04:16
championship with LeBron, James LeBron.
1:04:18
And by the way, for anybody that thought LeBron James wasn't
1:04:20
going to opt into that 52 million dollar contract.
1:04:23
Shame on you guys, he is absolutely and he's gonna opt
1:04:26
into the year after because he's got two years left on that damn
1:04:29
contract. The buy-ins.
1:04:31
Yeah, he's absolutely opting into those contracts anybody.
1:04:35
I thought that it was all she's gonna try and do it to the whole
1:04:39
family like keep his son even on the team.
1:04:43
Well, so hey Arrow. We got one more turn over here.
1:04:46
Let's hear what Aaron New Yorker.
1:04:49
That I want to hear from unmute yourself my friend.
1:04:52
There you go. Well, I mean, looking at the
1:04:54
series as a whole I do think it's gonna be an enjoyable
1:04:57
series. Now as a Nick fan I will only
1:05:00
watch if OKC absolutely destroys the Pacers.
1:05:04
That's the what I really want to see. but if you really look at a
1:05:08
stand-up point, The paint. Okay, see what the seven games
1:05:15
with the Nuggets. Passkey team.
1:05:16
The paces are pesky team. They really dig in on defense,
1:05:20
they they shoot a lot of Threes. So, if you're gonna compare
1:05:24
these two teams, I feel like if it goes more than five six,
1:05:28
seven games, there's gonna get a lot more views.
1:05:30
All right, I want to hear Scoops, deserves an opportunity,
1:05:34
I will like to hear. Let's get Tommy, I might as well
1:05:37
get everybody's thoughts in this.
1:05:38
The Hofstra connection coming up over here.
1:05:40
He's not he's not almost coming at you.
1:05:45
Live from the toilet reaction. I'm a tennis on so you can see
1:05:51
me a little better, my honest reaction.
1:05:53
This series is gonna be very now.
1:05:57
I don't know about. If it not being watched, it
1:05:59
might be very watched. Like you said, I'm gonna be
1:06:00
watching it for sure. This makes my pecker same
1:06:03
reason, is Aaron? Of course, I would love to see
1:06:04
the OKC dominate the Pacers, but that's the thing.
1:06:07
Everybody knows that it's going to be the Pacers dominating.
1:06:09
I'm sorry. The OKC dominating The Pacers
1:06:12
that is exactly the same reason. I'm gonna bring this up to only
1:06:15
for the fact of everybody, knew going into the World Series
1:06:19
going into the NBA Finals. Two seasons ago when we had the
1:06:22
nuggets and heat as soon as we saw the last game between the
1:06:25
between the Miami Heat and the Celtics, and the game 7 Series,
1:06:29
where we let the Celtics come back 300 when everything that
1:06:32
was really, the only highlight because we knew it was gonna be
1:06:34
Nicola yokich running away with it and stomping over Jimmy
1:06:36
Butler. So, for this exact same reason,
1:06:39
I don't have any reason why people are actually gonna be
1:06:42
excited for the Pacers nobody wanted to payers in the world.
1:06:45
And I keep seeing the World Series in the NBA Finals.
1:06:47
Nobody wanted them in the world in the NBA Finals.
1:06:49
So for that reason it's gonna be born, probably not.
1:06:52
Yeah well that and to go back at what all you guys are saying.
1:07:00
I know a lot of Knick fans, wanted to see the Knicks, go to
1:07:02
the finals against, okay? See they want, it didn't matter.
1:07:05
It didn't matter who the Knicks were going to play as long as it
1:07:08
was the next. Now everybody that can't stand
1:07:10
obviously. Burton and this Pacer team that
1:07:13
gave the Knicks. No respect after the game even
1:07:16
the only person Pasco siakam actually said some nice things
1:07:19
about the Knicks that we played a good team and all that up.
1:07:22
I gotta give him a lot of credit because at least he gave the
1:07:24
Knicks a little bit. He gave him a little bit of
1:07:27
credit but everybody else including albertan had nothing
1:07:31
good to say. And I got to give the pace your
1:07:33
fans a lot of credit because they stood behind their team
1:07:36
throughout this series. It didn't matter when the Knick
1:07:39
fans went out there in the first game.
1:07:41
I think it was what game three it came for when the next one in
1:07:44
Indiana? What they were screaming and all
1:07:46
that. The Knick fans were staying at
1:07:48
the end of the game and they were dealing with Barkley and
1:07:50
shocking. They were out there screaming
1:07:52
go, New York, going to New York going.
1:07:54
New York, go. And then all of a sudden we
1:07:57
watched with the Indiana fans did after the series and they
1:08:00
stuck it to the New York Knicks fans and I you got to give him
1:08:03
credit. They stood by I'll tell you one
1:08:05
up a bunch of fans out there that didn't really stand behind
1:08:08
their team. That is the 76ers the
1:08:11
Philadelphia. Of your 76ers did not stand
1:08:13
behind their team throughout that Series against the Knicks
1:08:16
last year. And even when the Knicks won
1:08:18
they didn't stand behind their team.
1:08:20
So it shows you the type of fans Philadelphia and the 76er fans
1:08:25
are over there for their teams and that's why Joel embiid could
1:08:28
be playing for another organization next year.
1:08:30
So by the way, upon us do. So the day to our friend, Austin
1:08:33
Krell, who said the Knicks would be out in the first round,
1:08:34
little hate to the Pacers before we finish this.
1:08:40
Why? Because I think they're going to
1:08:41
get swept know, like, he's for them getting swept.
1:08:44
I think they are worse at every position compared to the Thunder
1:08:49
at every single position. I think the Thunder have three
1:08:53
guards that they can throw at Halliburton in Shea in Caruso in
1:09:00
it. That's going to make him
1:09:02
miserable the entire series and who's going to create offense?
1:09:06
If it's not Halliburton, I didn't see much of that
1:09:09
whatsoever from the Pacers. It was Halliburton, High usage,
1:09:13
driving that. And that's not even all of their
1:09:15
Defenders. Think about what siakam was for
1:09:18
them? Well, comes going to give up
1:09:20
three inches to Chet Holmgren. Siakam.
1:09:23
Also, then if he gets into the hole, has hardened Stein, who's
1:09:25
one of the best health Defenders coming on over at the center
1:09:28
position? That's an and Myles.
1:09:31
Turner was garbage against the Knicks in my opinion.
1:09:33
I don't think he's very good and there's been the jury.
1:09:36
He's been an inconsistent player shoots too, many threes for a
1:09:39
big man. He's well when he's hitting
1:09:40
them, you know, he's a good player.
1:09:41
Yeah. But he shoots too many of
1:09:43
consistent, Mitch gave him all sorts of trouble.
1:09:45
So, I, I personally, Bagel, they're in a lot of trouble with
1:09:49
their matchups. I don't think they match up.
1:09:51
Well, whatsoever, Jalen Williams.
1:09:54
If he goes off on offense, he doesn't even really have much to
1:09:58
do defensively because nem hards not an offensive player.
1:10:01
Niece Smith gets hot, he's like a first of all Nim heart is it.
1:10:04
He's like a flea and what he did to jail in the Bronson.
1:10:08
Yes he is. Unbelievable defensively.
1:10:10
And by the way, he got under jail in Bronson's so much in
1:10:14
that game, he had bought him in the fourth quarter.
1:10:16
I mean who didn't see that? I was very surprised that wasn't
1:10:19
a flake green foul called on jail.
1:10:21
He didn't give him. Any space.
1:10:22
So he just went straight forward and he didn't move his head out
1:10:26
of the way Brunson. Look you said brunson's not
1:10:29
strong. I just agreed brunson's very
1:10:30
strong. He's like a bulldog out there
1:10:31
but he doesn't have like the length to affect people in the
1:10:36
same way that a guy like she is going to affect Halliburton,
1:10:39
Halliburton is not stronger than Brunson, but Howard is faster
1:10:42
and longer can get around Brunson and get a shot up over
1:10:44
Brunson and he's not gonna be able to do that again, show hot
1:10:48
lady and he's not gonna be able to do that.
1:10:52
Consistently in this series. And I think it's four or five
1:10:54
games. That's I'm putting you on a
1:10:56
leash now. I think they're minus 750 for
1:10:58
the series of Thunder for the record in Vegas.
1:11:02
Not going to be a lot closer than everybody thinks it's not
1:11:05
going to be a sweep. I think the Pacers will put
1:11:07
pressure on OKC, especially in Indiana.
1:11:10
I think they can win maybe one or two games in Indiana.
1:11:12
I think it's gonna be a hard take for OKC to go over there.
1:11:16
Okay. See and beat them in their home,
1:11:18
on their home court. They've been really, really
1:11:20
good. I think the Nuggets were the
1:11:21
only team that beat him. Yeah, that was the University.
1:11:24
They needed. That's have a series because
1:11:26
they just coasting and I'm gonna tell you this, Dort is as good
1:11:29
of a defensive Wing defender in the NBA that we've seen in a
1:11:34
very long time. So dortz gonna create a lot of
1:11:36
problems on the offensive, on the offensive side of the ball
1:11:40
for the Pacers because he he's a great rebounder too and he's
1:11:43
he's tough man, he's gonna push you around.
1:11:45
This is a very good all-around team.
1:11:48
And by the way, okay, see in the next three years have six first
1:11:52
round draft picks six, that's how good in young OKC is going
1:11:58
to be first, very long time. This isn't going to be the first
1:12:00
and it won't be the last time we see.
1:12:02
Casey the thunder in the Western Conference Finals before we get
1:12:07
to our guest. And he's waiting calmly and
1:12:10
carefully, we have our golf clap of the day.
1:12:12
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1:12:21
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Sports Madden NFL 26. As they choose saquon Barkley,
1:12:31
his reverse hurdle. Do we remember that?
1:12:34
That wonderful hurdle to be the front cover?
1:12:39
Of Madden NFL 26. I want to tell you some other
1:12:43
reenacted it. Yes, they it's unbelievable.
1:12:46
It's unbelievable. By the way.
1:12:47
Saquon Barkley is this isn't the first time and this won't be the
1:12:52
last time, I think we'll see saquon Barkley on a front cover
1:12:55
on a many, many different football games.
1:12:57
This is he there's two pictures that are going to be pressed for
1:13:02
Madden football and Madden NFL 26 for.
1:13:05
This is just one of them of Sake.
1:13:07
One Barkley. Congratulations, take one
1:13:09
Barkley. He's had a wonderful.
1:13:10
He had a wonderful season. What a broken?
1:13:13
Eric Dickerson's record if he really played the last, I would
1:13:17
really played the third and fourth quarter of that game.
1:13:19
I think he breaks so record. He's had a sensational year of
1:13:23
football and he's one of them more over over under achievers.
1:13:28
We've seen I say over under achievers because I don't I just
1:13:31
think that he would have been an overachiever.
1:13:33
If he stayed with the Giants, he's an underachiever because he
1:13:37
played for the Eagles. If that makes any Sense to you
1:13:39
guys. Because I think he will the
1:13:42
Eagles. Why would you say that?
1:13:43
Because I think so. That's what I think.
1:13:45
I'm an Eagles fan. Do you think there's the Madden
1:13:48
Curse that still? No, I don't, I don't believe in
1:13:50
that. He doesn't deserve that.
1:13:51
I know, I hope not. It is cool.
1:13:54
That it's, he's number 26. It's mad in 26.
1:13:56
The I don't believe in just kind of lines up, you know, he's an
1:14:00
over underachiever. If that makes any sense to you,
1:14:02
but I love take one Barkley. I love that he was wearing an
1:14:06
eagles Jersey this year and I love that.
1:14:08
He won a Super Bowl with the Eagles and not with the New York
1:14:10
Giants makes me very, very happy as I route the Eagles on.
1:14:15
Go we go. I'm not gonna sing, I don't want
1:14:19
to scare Joe Smith away. When we come back, ladies and
1:14:22
gentlemen, he's been waiting calmly and carefully.
1:14:25
I remember him when he played the one in played with the one
1:14:29
and only LeBron James, he also played on 12 different NBA
1:14:34
teams. I watched him play many, many
1:14:37
years. I remember him more as a If I'm
1:14:39
not mistaken a hawk, but there's like the Hawks for two years,
1:14:42
the Lakers the Nets. Like it was all.
1:14:44
I, I love this game. He was a great player and I'm
1:14:48
looking forward to interviewing. We will be talking to 16 year
1:14:51
vet NBA forward, Joe Smith, but our Sports minutes with Coach
1:14:56
fish or fishing official price or whatever the hell you call
1:14:59
him just call go to the sports. Is the job and the mouth
1:15:04
Sportsman is. All right guys, Aaron Fishman
1:15:08
here with your Sportsman and got a couple of stories here before
1:15:12
we get into the baseball scores. Tonight is everything else is
1:15:15
off. Number one, the Royals call up
1:15:18
top prospect Jack. Cogliano Sunday from Triple-A
1:15:22
actually known as dominated. The miners this season at age 22
1:15:24
hitting 15 home runs and 56 RBIs across only 50 games while
1:15:30
hitting 322 with a 389 on base and a 593 slugging that's
1:15:35
between double and triple A, he's six five two 50 plays
1:15:39
first, but these gonna start out in the Outfield, just been
1:15:42
working there and Triple-A starting them with this week.
1:15:45
He was a two-way player, pitcher, and hit her at the
1:15:48
University of Florida was the 8th and last year's draft, the
1:15:50
Royals have fallen back in the past, in the allay.
1:15:54
Central are now only 31 and 29 and 4 place after a hot start
1:15:58
looking for some juice from the miner's next story.
1:16:02
Going the other way. Unfortunately is Diamondback
1:16:05
star free agent acquisition starting pitcher Corbin Burnes.
1:16:09
He was pulled in the 5th inning with an apparent injury, to his
1:16:11
pitching elbow after the game Burns explained.
1:16:14
He felt tightness in his elbow earlier in the game and
1:16:16
explained his body told him not to push it.
1:16:19
Any further Burns will be sent for an MRI to determine the
1:16:22
damage. And what is a pivotal moment in
1:16:24
the Diamondback season as Burns, who signed a six-year?
1:16:27
210 million dollar deal in the offseason is their race.
1:16:30
And they've already lost Jordan Montgomery for the season at
1:16:33
wardrobe, Rodriguez's out with a bad shoulder and relief pitcher
1:16:36
age a, with a bad elbow. They've lost nine out of their
1:16:40
last, and games. And last story, Deion Sanders
1:16:44
came out today and commented about his son, shoulders, fifth
1:16:48
round, slide in the 2025 NFL draft, it did hurt, but the
1:16:52
Bible says, God uses the foolish things to confound the wise
1:16:55
there was some foolish stuff that went on, but that gave them
1:16:58
something that they needed. This is what Sanders said on the
1:17:01
most recent episode of the It needs to be said podcast hosted.
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By former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel like that edge that Tom
1:17:09
Brady had it gave them the edge that you had and gave them the
1:17:12
edge that I have. Folks said we weren't going to
1:17:14
be nothing but we had to prove that it gave them the edge.
1:17:16
They needed both of them. When you sit up there and say
1:17:19
something like, he went into meeting on prepared, like dude
1:17:22
shedeur Sanders who has had six different offensive
1:17:27
coordinators, who was still functioning and leveled up.
1:17:29
Every time we brought somebody new in and you're gonna tell me
1:17:32
he was unprepared, you're going to tell me.
1:17:34
He had on headphones. Anybody who knows my son
1:17:37
understands. He's a professional.
1:17:38
He's going to go into a meeting with headphones on yall.
1:17:41
Come on. Now coach Prime might be in
1:17:43
disbelief about the reports about his son but unfortunately
1:17:46
for him, the entire NFL, let him fall to pick one 44 because of
1:17:50
it, not at that top 10. Not at the first round.
1:17:53
Not the second day. Not even the top of the third
1:17:56
day, he thought the middle of the fit.
1:17:57
Well, I have no proof myself one way or another.
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So that's a whole another story. I don't want to get into that.
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John, I don't want to scare you away.
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There's a lot to get into know, I was there.
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So. Yeah, so let's get into your
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career first. And I know you play with LeBron
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James and he got a chance to get to know LeBron James on and off
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the court. What type of player is LeBron
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James? What type of person is LeBron
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James and what type of person off the court?
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When you get a chance to speak to kids that got a chance to
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he was like I mean, first of all, I mean LeBron I got a
1:22:06
chance to play with them two seasons with the Cavaliers, and
1:22:09
when I got there, you know, I played with a lot of guys.
1:22:12
Like I said, play with 12 teams. So I play with a lot of
1:22:15
different guys and a lot of guys in the NBA have this, you know,
1:22:19
selfies, the selfish qualities but LeBron is probably one of
1:22:23
the most unselfish guy that I played alongside of that's on
1:22:27
and off the court, I mean, on the court, you know, he always
1:22:31
catch a lot of flack about passing up, you know, certain
1:22:35
shots. So, you know, opportunities and
1:22:37
giving it to his teammate. But I mean that's just the way
1:22:40
he plays the game, that's how unselfish he plays the game.
1:22:42
So play alongside all my learned a lot about the game of
1:22:45
basketball. One of the smartest, guys.
1:22:48
All so I played with him at a young age.
1:22:50
So when we played a lot alongside each other, the most
1:22:54
surprising thing was how smart he was about the NBA game and
1:22:58
and knowing what defenses want to do to him nowhere.
1:23:02
Got his need to be on the floor in order for the team to be
1:23:04
successful before the offense to work defensively.
1:23:08
Probably one of the most active guys that I played alongside of
1:23:11
at his position. So I mean, I learned a lot, I
1:23:14
learned a lot from LeBron and it was a pleasure playing on
1:23:17
Saturday. She played with another guy that
1:23:19
was one of the most electric players in the game.
1:23:20
One of the most fun players to watch and that was Alan Iverson.
1:23:23
Always he like on off the court. Oh man, it was a joy plan with
1:23:27
AI because our story goes back, our story goes back to
1:23:30
Childhood. We're from the same area and
1:23:33
have the rose Virginia area and we played AAU basketball
1:23:36
together Growing Up. So for us to just have the
1:23:39
opportunity to be on the same team with something special, you
1:23:43
know, in the NBA at that level with some special and something
1:23:47
that we talked about during our AAU days.
1:23:49
So something that we always look forward to something that we all
1:23:54
wished would happen. So when it happened, man, it was
1:23:56
like, I'm almost a childhood dream come true to be playing
1:24:00
alongside somebody that you came up with somebody from the same
1:24:04
area somebody that, you know, the trials and tribulations,
1:24:07
that he went through, because you pretty much saw him up
1:24:10
close. So it was a pleasure to be a
1:24:12
long side of a man. Like you say one of the most
1:24:14
electrifying guys, for his size in the game.
1:24:19
Gel. Well, first of all, thanks for
1:24:20
joining us. It's our pleasure to have you
1:24:22
and thanks for taking the time with us.
1:24:23
But thanks for having me. I only played for 14 teams and I
1:24:27
think what a lot of people don't know and you can give them some
1:24:31
insight like we all have like a favorite team or whatever.
1:24:34
But like, people don't understand what goes into.
1:24:36
Okay, I'm here for two seasons now I'm going somewhere else
1:24:39
like give a little feedback into like as you bounce around and
1:24:43
try to continue, you know, your career and how you do it.
1:24:47
Give a little insight to people on how you know, not I shouldn't
1:24:51
say difficult because we're getting paid to do something.
1:24:53
We love right? What goes into it of like hey,
1:24:56
we gotta find a house, we got a, you know what my kids gonna do,
1:24:59
like what's this would be and you obviously playing for as
1:25:02
long as you did a 12 different teams, like give a little
1:25:04
insight on how that works. Um to think about it.
1:25:07
I mean it's like you said, like you said it's we don't want to
1:25:11
say it's difficult because we are getting paid but it's
1:25:13
difficult, it's difficult. I mean I remember the first time
1:25:19
I got traded I was with the Warriors and this was when I got
1:25:22
traded to Philadelphia to play alongside Alan and I'm we're
1:25:26
playing in Portland Oregon. We have the Trail Blazers that
1:25:29
night and I'm we have shoot around in the morning.
1:25:32
I go to shoot around that morning with the team with the
1:25:35
warriors with the team come back, eat my lunch, take my
1:25:38
napkin ready for the game and I wake up from my nap in the
1:25:41
bottom line of sports center. I see that Joe Smith has been
1:25:45
traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, you know.
1:25:47
So it's like it's like things like that.
1:25:51
To make it difficult. So now you have to pack up from
1:25:53
I'm in Portland, Oregon at the pack up real quick.
1:25:56
Get back to the Bay Area. To go to state where I have my
1:26:01
home was packed up some things, and less than 2448 hours.
1:26:06
And that I have to be back, be out and meet the team of
1:26:09
Philadelphia. So that means just things like
1:26:11
that that you have to continuously do a special when
1:26:14
you have a family, do they give you like a time frame of when
1:26:18
you get traded? You have up to 48 hours, okay?
1:26:22
Yeah, they have up to 48 hours to meet with the team, whether
1:26:25
they're on the road or whether they're at home.
1:26:28
Fortunately, when I first got traded Philadelphia was at home,
1:26:31
it wasn't like I had to meet him on the road and things would
1:26:35
have been a little more difficult to pick up, but we
1:26:37
were at home for a few days. So I was able to get a few
1:26:40
practices in but it could be tough man, especially being
1:26:43
traded, Midway through the season.
1:26:45
Being a free agent is a lot more easy as a little easier, little
1:26:50
easier process. But when you traded Midway
1:26:52
through the season, that's that's almost like you have to
1:26:54
change things and and pick up and go real quick.
1:26:57
Learning new system that you when you get to the new team and
1:27:01
that's something that's always can take some time you know
1:27:05
trying to pick up a new system, pick up playing alongside new
1:27:08
players, pick up what they like to do with different things like
1:27:11
that so they give you guys a moving.
1:27:13
Stipend know everything was yeah everything.
1:27:16
I wish I wish everything was on our own.
1:27:19
So Flights that we had to get from.
1:27:21
They did book the flight, they did book, the flight whichever
1:27:27
team you're getting traded to, they were booked a flight to
1:27:29
where they're located. But other than that, everything
1:27:32
else comes out of pocket. We are talking to 16 year, NBA
1:27:36
former basketball Superstar, I gotta give him a superstar, Joe,
1:27:41
the Beast Smith, I appreciate you are you are a good player
1:27:44
and you averaged 10 points a game as an NBA player and you
1:27:48
had a chance to play 16 years in the NBA.
1:27:50
That's a long time. So, if you last at 16, let's not
1:27:54
forget, he's the first overall pick.
1:27:55
Yes, you call what it is. Yeah, so you had a really good
1:27:59
college career and, and you were here, good player man, you're a
1:28:03
great player, so I want to get into Nicole yokich.
1:28:06
Now, you're six ten. This guy's one of the greatest
1:28:09
big man, we've seen in a very, very long time.
1:28:11
Everybody Compares. Like you look at all the great
1:28:14
players that we've seen over the last last century, I really let
1:28:18
a couple of decades. He talked about Tim donkin, call
1:28:21
Malone, all these other guys, what type of player you've
1:28:25
watched Nicola yokich grow into his, you know, his position as a
1:28:29
four and as a five what type of player would you say he kind of
1:28:34
reminds you of and do you think he could go down as the best big
1:28:37
man of all time? Um, most definitely most
1:28:41
definitely. I mean, and it's and the thing
1:28:43
about it, everyone wants to try to find a comparison.
1:28:45
But to him, I don't think there's no comparison.
1:28:48
I think that what he brings to the table is something different
1:28:51
that we've ever seen from any big man from it at his size that
1:28:56
we've ever seen in the NBA, his touch around the basket, his
1:28:59
passing is three-point shot, the way he initiates the offense at
1:29:04
times for the nuggets and I mean he's just all around player from
1:29:09
he's like a big point guard out there for him at times.
1:29:12
So I mean it's it's I can't see another big that's doing the
1:29:16
things that he's doing ever and the game of basketball.
1:29:18
And that's why, you know, arguably, he's one of the best
1:29:22
to ever do it and a lot of people, a lot of NBA, a lot of
1:29:27
NBA guys, you know what, a great that he's wanted the best ever
1:29:30
do it, because he brings so much different things to the table.
1:29:32
You look at Tim Duncan and obviously they're different
1:29:34
players because Tim Conley couldn't shoot like him but he
1:29:37
was Mr. Fundamental, so do you look at Nicole yolk and
1:29:42
fundamentally you would say that he kind of reminds you of a tent
1:29:46
on just the guy that can shoot Is that more of a comparison and
1:29:50
like a calm alone or some somebody of that magnitude.
1:29:55
Know. That's, I mean, if you want to
1:29:57
find a comparison tell me is Tim.
1:29:59
Duncan is one of probably the best comparison to find because
1:30:03
like you said, because of the fundamentals that they, that
1:30:05
they both played with the footwork that they both do, use
1:30:10
the way they use their body around the basket to find angles
1:30:14
and create angles to to get their shots off.
1:30:16
Like you said, yolk is he can stretch the floor off further
1:30:21
than tell me but they both know how to use their use, their use,
1:30:25
their use their body to to find the right angles.
1:30:28
Tell me, was longer and to me, you know, I was long arms a
1:30:32
little bit longer but neither one of them were very athletic.
1:30:39
So you played for a team that is in the NBA Finals in the OKC
1:30:42
Thunder. You actually play with I believe
1:30:43
in the first year, in Oklahoma City.
1:30:45
Yes. So what was that, basketball
1:30:47
culture? Like both on and off the court,
1:30:49
being a new team over there at the time and what are your
1:30:52
thoughts to the way she gives us?
1:30:53
Anders played all year, winning the MVP and having an
1:30:56
unbelievable playoffs. I mean, the excitement that they
1:30:59
have in Oklahoma city was there from day one.
1:31:02
When I got there from when they first, I sat there as a free
1:31:06
agent, the first year they left, they left Seattle.
1:31:09
So I was playing alongside Kevin Durant.
1:31:12
Was in his second year. Russell Westbrook was in his
1:31:14
first year. And, you know, we were, it was
1:31:17
a, it was a tough season kind of a building season.
1:31:20
But at the same time, man, that the crowd turned out the way
1:31:24
that the way you see it right now in the playoffs, they were
1:31:27
just as loud, you know what, whether we were winning or
1:31:29
losing, it was just allowed and they were excited about having
1:31:33
an NBA team down in Oklahoma City, and that environment
1:31:37
hasn't changed throughout the years.
1:31:38
I was there they have more to more to cheer for now but that
1:31:43
that environment has been there from day one and was she is
1:31:46
doing this is incredible, it's incredible.
1:31:49
I mean he's we talk about fundamentals, he's his
1:31:53
fundamentals. As a guard is is just pure the
1:31:58
Mid-range game is part of the game though, that's kind of lost
1:32:01
nowadays. And he takes advantage of.
1:32:03
He knows how to get to that marriage, you know how to create
1:32:05
a space. He knows how to knock those
1:32:07
shots down, whether a pressure is on him or not.
1:32:12
And and as far as getting to the basket and drawing files and
1:32:16
finishing around the basket. He's one of the best that's done
1:32:19
that I've seen. Do it in a few years and Joe, we
1:32:22
we all we all know this as athletes.
1:32:25
You have a place to play and everybody like we always get
1:32:27
this question. Where is it?
1:32:29
And I'm like I always look at it from like Four different
1:32:32
standpoints like the city, right?
1:32:35
A room Clubhouse food. And if I actually play good,
1:32:39
there. That's not all right.
1:32:43
And so of all your Years playing where was, where was one place
1:32:48
you balled out and where is the place that you love to play like
1:32:51
Anaheim for me, I loved it right but I gave up the booty there,
1:32:56
like I always gave up the booty but there was one.
1:33:00
What, what you gave up? What?
1:33:01
You gave up the booty? Yeah, I lost games there.
1:33:05
Oh, I was about to say. What the hell?
1:33:08
You what I meant? I got that your favorite places
1:33:23
to play. Because you succeeded.
1:33:25
But where was another one? Where it's, like, I love playing
1:33:28
there but I just, I just couldn't put it together.
1:33:31
Um, my favorite place was Minnesota.
1:33:34
A plan for the Timberwolves. I played there four and a half,
1:33:37
almost five years. Like, you said, it starts with
1:33:40
the city, the city supported us, the city was was there and
1:33:46
almost like an Oklahoma City type environment for our games.
1:33:51
Our team chemistry was great, the unity that we had on and off
1:33:56
the court myself, Kevin Garnett Terrell, Brandon Wiley Zuri and
1:34:03
we had it we got a crew that was that that played hard every
1:34:08
night. We went out and won 50 plus
1:34:10
games every year and it was it was a joy to play up there in
1:34:14
Minnesota every year we came back more confidence.
1:34:17
Feeling. I we had a shot at winning the
1:34:19
title because of what we've done throughout the off-season, but
1:34:22
it was just a lot of fun and a big pleasure to play in
1:34:27
Minnesota with alongside those guys um, another spot.
1:34:33
The other place I was say. Denver, when I played for the
1:34:38
nuggets. Yeah, when I played for the
1:34:40
Nuggets because I didn't get a lot of time, but it was just, it
1:34:43
was a situation to where I got traded their Midway through the
1:34:47
season. And we were heavy in the forward
1:34:50
position, they were already had a bunch of forwards on the team.
1:34:53
Kenyon, Martin Marcus Camby Nae Nae was on the team so they had
1:34:58
to rotation going already. So it was kind of tough.
1:35:01
I only had, you know, the second half of the season to finish out
1:35:04
with them so it was kind of tough and respond minutes for
1:35:08
me. So that's another.
1:35:08
That's the place I was saying. I thought I could have helped
1:35:12
the team but didn't get out the opportunity.
1:35:13
We are talking to 16 year. NBA forward, Joe Smith, the
1:35:18
Beast as they call him. You know, Joe you played at a
1:35:22
time where in 95, you played against Michael, Jordan, you
1:35:27
played against Kobe Bryant and you pay, you played against
1:35:30
LeBron James. So tell us what type of player
1:35:34
of all three. What type of player were all
1:35:36
three of those guys and who was the best player?
1:35:39
Athletically gifted, you know what?
1:35:42
The best player out of all those guys because they were all
1:35:45
Sensational. A lot of people compare.
1:35:47
These three guys is, the greatest athletic basketball
1:35:50
players of all time. You played against Michael, you
1:35:53
played against Kobe, you played against LeBron, who was better,
1:35:56
and why? Hahaha.
1:35:58
I'm trying to get this man in trouble.
1:36:00
I'm just asking you, he played against all three of them.
1:36:04
Oh my god. Um, Come on, you know, it's just
1:36:15
say it, say it, you know who it is.
1:36:20
I mean, I mean, you know, MJ is the greatest, you know, MJ's the
1:36:25
greatest George the greatest because Um, you know, a lot of
1:36:30
people think that, you know, if he wouldn't have walked away for
1:36:33
two years, that he would have won, they would have won eight
1:36:35
straight championships. Nine, that's what they would
1:36:40
have won in 99 two, in that short year, they would have won
1:36:43
nine champions in a row, 100. Yes.
1:36:46
So, I mean, you know, when, when you look at it and look at it
1:36:50
that way, I was saying Mike is the best, probably the most,
1:36:53
definitely the most athletic. LeBron is just a freight train
1:36:58
man. He's just, he's just a strong,
1:37:01
he's physical. He knows the game, he's athletic
1:37:05
and and It's just tough to say who's the best man, is it?
1:37:11
Oh, you just said it was said it was Michael Jordan, but who's
1:37:15
the second Deputy that plan with the 40?
1:37:19
You know, Planet 40 the way he's playing, man.
1:37:21
It's it's hard to say. I mean, MJ's definitely the best
1:37:25
but my I mean LeBron is right. It's like a close second.
1:37:28
Kobe. Is Kobe, man.
1:37:31
He was he was a monster out there on the floor.
1:37:34
Got it just would not be denied. One of those guys that you know
1:37:39
obviously you put the ball in his hands, he carry your team
1:37:42
anywhere and you know, he proved that year in and year out and we
1:37:48
know he had the same attitude and the same determination that
1:37:51
Jordan had. So um, you know, I think you got
1:37:57
a lot of it from, you know, watching MJ and learning from
1:37:59
MJ, but he definitely was an animal out there.
1:38:02
He was a mimic of Michael Jordan, he really was, he was
1:38:05
the exact mimic of Michael Jordan.
1:38:07
That's why they were closed. He looked up to Michael Jordan.
1:38:10
LeBron James, LeBron, could say whatever he wants, he wore
1:38:13
number 23, I, of course, Kobe Bryant said that when he was in
1:38:16
high school, we wore number 23. Why do you think he was wearing
1:38:19
up at 23? It was because Michael Jordan.
1:38:22
So there's no like to that. But first of all, I want to give
1:38:26
a shout out to Nathan because Nathan was the one that hooked
1:38:29
us up. With each other.
1:38:30
And if in is our PR manager, how did you meet Nathan, and what
1:38:35
type of guy did you like, what type of guy was nithin when you
1:38:39
met him? Uh we was at a fanatic space
1:38:43
fanatic, special last year up in New York, me and my business
1:38:49
partner Tommy and we walking around, you know, making them
1:38:53
with the crowd and Tommy actually got his opportunity
1:38:57
opportunity to meet him first. So I'm you know, talking to some
1:39:02
few people and what time we get opportunity to tell me that he,
1:39:05
you know, he wants me to meet him and so when I go meet him
1:39:10
you know I he's like a little balloon.
1:39:16
Oh, you can you can tell us how bad is outfit was though because
1:39:31
archives. There he is.
1:39:41
There he is. Joe, look at that.
1:39:43
Look at this. I'm putting you on a leash now
1:39:47
exactly. Hey, we got some drops for him.
1:39:49
Okay. You want to hear some of his
1:39:50
drops smell. My ass yeah, smell my ass.
1:39:54
A lot of hot ladies breaking news.
1:39:56
They call me the Ladies Man and Mr. Steal Your Girl.
1:39:59
I like anal. With that picture.
1:40:04
I like that is perfect. I got one.
1:40:17
I got one for you. Here, it is job.
1:40:19
I like my shrimp cocktail. He was giving up the booty.
1:40:26
What a threesome? Oh my God.
1:40:34
What you guys just put them in the studio.
1:40:37
Just let him go one day. Well I will say this, he's one
1:40:41
of the nicest kindest people you'll ever know but he's one of
1:40:44
the worst dressers I've ever seen and go into that.
1:40:47
He is horrible. I he wears the same blue blazer.
1:40:51
I told him, when you go to these events, you should have all
1:40:53
these athletes sign that blue blazer, once, it's all the way
1:40:57
signed frame it or something, because that thing that thing is
1:41:01
just like, I mean, it's like a rag dog, Ragdoll that look for
1:41:06
it. Oh man, it's the blue.
1:41:08
We call the Blue Blazer. I mean seriously, and by the
1:41:12
way, he wears these, like these Army, you know, pants.
1:41:15
And he tries to like he, it's so fun.
1:41:18
First of all, I love Nathan. I think he's such a kind soul,
1:41:22
but man, I gotta take him shopping or something.
1:41:24
Man, this guy. This guy needs to learn how to
1:41:28
you know color coordinator something man because he's all
1:41:30
over the place. Did you wore?
1:41:33
He wore the other day. He had a polo on with, with a
1:41:37
basketball shorts. Yes, he wasn't sure if he was
1:41:43
going to a meeting or to the basketball court.
1:41:45
All right, hold on, I think, hold on.
1:41:48
I think different wants to come in and defend himself.
1:41:50
Here we go. What's going on, bro?
1:41:56
Oh my God, but they over here you guys.
1:42:00
I'm sorry to say, oh but no, but the ladies love, my blue blazer
1:42:09
man. All the ladies, love my baby,
1:42:10
black memory eraser. Okay, that's why that's?
1:42:14
Why it's always hot lady. Okay.
1:42:18
Hey this is the best. Have you ever heard?
1:42:24
Anybody talk about putting a leash on a woman and taking her
1:42:27
out for a walk. Well, one of your job, I'm
1:42:34
putting you on a leash now. So we were in conversating on
1:42:42
this show and this crazy guy. I said, what is a crazy thing
1:42:46
you would do to a woman? And he told me he would, he
1:42:49
would put a leash on her and take her out for a walk.
1:42:52
Oh, That that guy's on trial right now.
1:43:08
Bagel. Joey Joey's on, he's on trial.
1:43:11
We called the trial Unleashed dildo.
1:43:22
You gotta keep them, you gotta keep them away from all the
1:43:26
women, man. If you have kids, you have a
1:43:29
daughter capable away. You guys, you guys going back to
1:43:36
Fanatics Fest. Yeah we go.
1:43:38
LeBron will be there this year. Yeah we went over to schedule
1:43:42
early today. Yeah, we'll be there gonna Go.
1:43:47
Yeah. Yeah we're planning on being
1:43:50
there again because I'm trying to bring in.
1:43:51
It's not we're trying to I'm working on bringing Johan Dotson
1:43:55
with me to the Fanatics Fest. Blow my back out.
1:43:59
Here. Oh, I've got one for you.
1:44:11
You're ready? Joe, this is a good one.
1:44:12
My dog wants your pussycat. Dude, this guy sound bites.
1:44:23
It just as good as speedies. Oh, way better than mine.
1:44:26
Hold on, hold, I got one for you.
1:44:27
This is speedy. This is him.
1:44:29
I not doing any freaking tag team crap.
1:44:31
Hold on, hold on. I've got one.
1:44:36
Hold on, I'm not licking anyone. What was that one?
1:44:41
Oh, that. And that licking anyone?
1:44:52
We're trying to see. Bring another player in there
1:44:54
for fanatically. Okay yeah that is no we got a
1:44:59
link up, link up again. Wow, just make sure you keep the
1:45:02
leashes away from this guy. All right, just keep the leashes
1:45:05
away this guy. So I'm gonna take the blue black
1:45:09
this time, guys. That's right.
1:45:10
Listen, I what I want you, what I want you to do.
1:45:13
Joe is when he's wearing that blue blazer, I want you to take
1:45:16
it off of them and I want you to get a picture and I want you to
1:45:19
take a picture of you holding it up in the air.
1:45:21
I want you to use it as a cape, you could do a superhero spoon.
1:45:30
Well, really well with it, though.
1:45:37
Flower wait, no speedy. Speedy won't fly away if he's
1:45:41
next to nothing, because he'll probably be tied to a leash.
1:45:44
Do you have to be where it's, you know, or you could be
1:45:49
Jupiter, Jupiter. Jupiter, this makes my pecker
1:46:01
hard. I've got good ones for Java.
1:46:08
Are you ready? I got it.
1:46:09
I got good ones for Java. Hold on, hold it out of my ass.
1:46:12
This makes my pecker hard. I've got one, you ready.
1:46:16
This is a good one. As long as she's using dude,
1:46:18
wipes and taking care of my two hole.
1:46:20
I'm good. The Show Goes Up.
1:46:31
Goes off the rails everywhere. So these are the bathroom with
1:46:35
you. Why you doing that?
1:46:36
Oh she's wiping his ass. She's taking care of what a pack
1:46:41
of do. White Spanky William.
1:46:49
I'm gonna lose myself, man. Oh, so those oh, we got a lot of
1:47:01
them. I mean, we got this one's good
1:47:02
for both, good for me and good for you.
1:47:04
I'll take you. Oh, hold on, hold on.
1:47:07
We got one right over here. We'll get one right here.
1:47:09
Spread his sheets. Hahaha.
1:47:11
Anyways, Joe. Before we let you go, and I know
1:47:19
you're a busy guy. And, you know, you could one of
1:47:22
these days, you're gonna have to take nithin out for an ice
1:47:24
cream. Just like I said, keep keep the
1:47:26
leashes away from. I got him at Fanatics that there
1:47:30
you go. Buy him.
1:47:32
A nice little Ralphie's. Hook me up with the LeBron.
1:47:35
You gotta, I got connect with LeBron.
1:47:37
Addicts. All right.
1:47:39
The bus to see you when when I catch up with him I guess.
1:47:42
What are you gonna do with LeBron?
1:47:44
Get a picture. You see for business
1:47:49
opportunity. Oh business opportunities.
1:47:51
Well, what you want to work with LeBron James?
1:47:53
Yeah, that's You know we got to do we got to get LeBron on this
1:48:02
show because LeBron on this. All right.
1:48:04
Listen, no chance. That'll never have that.
1:48:07
That's not true. Why wouldn't LeBron come on this
1:48:10
show? We'll have a lot of fun.
1:48:11
Yeah. But you don't know the power of
1:48:12
the blue blazer. Last week and I was with Alan
1:48:17
Iverson. Yes, stop Dynasty Sports.
1:48:20
We did a grand opening. And yeah, he tied him to a
1:48:22
leash. He tied him to a leash.
1:48:23
I'm putting you on a leash now. That was a Philadelphia.
1:48:30
Oh, okay. Nice, nice, nice.
1:48:32
Nice. Nice job.
1:48:33
I farted. Joe, by the way, we also we also
1:48:35
we are all I do an FM show and we had a former co-host, Eric
1:48:40
Coleman who exited f l player that said James Harden was
1:48:43
better than Alan Iver. Yeah, he's on drugs.
1:48:45
He's on what. Yeah, he literally said that no,
1:48:49
no, no, no, no, not even close. And I didn't know before we let
1:48:55
you go out like my son's, a sophomore in college, and he's
1:48:59
playing baseball. But I wanted to get your take
1:49:01
from from somebody's point of view that, you know, played a
1:49:05
long time and played around and with some of the greatest ever
1:49:08
do it. Do you think, like, kids now,
1:49:11
when they become so Sports specific, it either hurts them,
1:49:16
or do you think it helps to play multiple Sports to actually be
1:49:20
better at what your sport is? Because I see so many now, it's
1:49:23
like okay if they don't go to this camp and this Camp only in
1:49:26
this Sport and you multiple Sports, where it can help?
1:49:30
And You know footwork and you know just understanding do you
1:49:34
see that kind of like how it's turned?
1:49:37
From back in because we played everything back in the exactly.
1:49:40
Exactly. There's Sports specific.
1:49:42
So if you have, you seen that kind of change in the game a
1:49:44
little bit. I've seen a little bit of change
1:49:48
change with it, but I really encourage all parents the
1:49:52
parents because I have my Basketball Academy but I
1:49:54
encourage all parents to let their kids play multiple Sports.
1:49:58
I mean, I played football and basketball growing up and after
1:50:03
I got into the NBA, I wish I would have played more soccer
1:50:05
know. That's the place I'm Sakura as
1:50:07
well. So, I mean, it's for, like, you
1:50:09
say, for the footwork purposes, but I mean, I, I encourage all
1:50:12
parents that you play multiple Sports.
1:50:16
And and and kind of use those use those Sports to either
1:50:23
figure out which one you really love, or figure out or use those
1:50:26
Sports to get better. But the sport that you find in
1:50:29
the going to go for show, I like I got something for you to hear
1:50:33
breaking news. I got to go back off now.
1:50:38
He's gotta go back off. Now, you want to drink me off.
1:50:48
Breaking news, breaking news. You want to jerk me off.
1:51:02
Joe. Sorry if we started, you know,
1:51:07
really breaking news. Is she breaks it?
1:51:10
but, Butt plug yum, yum. Anyway, gin and tonic one.
1:51:22
I've gotta here's the genie tonic.
1:51:24
I need a tonic. I'm gonna have a heart attack
1:51:34
man. Oh good.
1:51:35
Anyways oh we got to get you on the show again we had a lot of
1:51:40
fun with you. I hope you had a really good
1:51:42
time and we like to have fun but before we let you go there your
1:51:46
agent is a big fan of job is, am I am I mistaken that?
1:51:49
Um yeah. So Joe Joe Tommy said he's a big
1:51:54
fan of job so he's when I told them that we're bringing you on
1:51:57
the show and I told him that Java works for the show, he's
1:52:00
got excited, he's a big Yankee fan and yeah, Tommy the big, how
1:52:04
about this, how about this? He told me he got he's a big job
1:52:08
of him. How about how he said for years?
1:52:12
How about this? Well we'll get something set up
1:52:14
and we'll have Java send you a signed jersey for your friend,
1:52:18
for your friends. I'll be awesome.
1:52:20
I appreciate that. He would love that.
1:52:23
Cool. Is that cool show?
1:52:25
You can send us a sign basketball and Java and we'll
1:52:29
get there. I got Jersey, I can send as
1:52:31
well. All right, there you go.
1:52:33
Shopping. That's a jersey.
1:52:33
Can you get this man? Look at this.
1:52:38
Yeah. He's always looking down.
1:52:43
He's always looking at what he was looking at.
1:52:47
That was young dumb and full of, I'm sure you.
1:52:51
Was looking for some shrimp cocktail.
1:52:53
Know, he was looking over. This, this makes my big job.
1:52:56
I did. Yeah, this makes my pecker hard.
1:53:04
You give it, you give a 19 year old million dollars, you can go
1:53:07
ahead and go do it. All right, all right.
1:53:14
So I don't want to scare you off any further.
1:53:16
We really fantastic. I mean, let me Let me see these
1:53:28
available its Army available. Do you think he's available?
1:53:30
He is available. Okay, it might be listening.
1:53:32
I don't know. Oh, Tommy Thomas so Thomas.
1:53:36
Come on. Oh, Thomas boy.
1:53:38
Hey, but Joe before, if we get him on like let us know what
1:53:41
you're doing and how we can, we can get involved or our
1:53:45
listeners can get involved in the stuff that you're doing.
1:53:46
Yeah. Oh yeah.
1:53:47
So right now, I have my Basketball Academy, Joe Smith,
1:53:50
Basketball Academy. And we're well, I'm doing I'm
1:53:54
right now in Norfolk Virginia area, but it's something that I
1:53:58
have been doing around the country.
1:53:59
As many places I can just filming mentoring training,
1:54:03
working with skills and development with our youth and
1:54:07
giving back to the community. That way, we talked about
1:54:10
fundamentals early here and nothing.
1:54:12
That's something that we're losing a lot of what the game of
1:54:15
basketball over here. So I'm kind of taking it back to
1:54:17
the fundamentals with the kid and really with the kids and
1:54:19
teaching them how to play the game the right way, mentoring
1:54:22
them on, what they need to do. And Um you know how, how to work
1:54:29
your ins and outs of life, you know, pretty much, you know some
1:54:32
of the stuff that I've been through um you know, just to
1:54:35
tell them the stories and trying to teach them the things, what
1:54:40
not to do, what to do and what not to do, Tommy's my business
1:54:43
partner, he has an IT company and, you know, we're business
1:54:48
partners. So we're bringing Sports and it
1:54:50
together for the community, he has a software development for
1:54:55
our company. You know, they do all types of
1:54:56
stuff with software development and things like that.
1:55:00
So we're bringing that's the kids that maybe interested in
1:55:06
sports but may not feel like they have the talent to actually
1:55:09
play but still want to be a part of it and still want to be
1:55:13
around Sports. So we're using that as well.
1:55:15
To teach them, how to be, broadcasters, how to be
1:55:19
commentators cameraman and women, how to do different
1:55:22
things around the sports. So we're we're trying to, we're
1:55:26
not trying to try, but we're bringing A total total project
1:55:31
together where for all of you and and and we're doing it right
1:55:37
here in Virginia right now. Have a cap coming up in July at
1:55:42
the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
1:55:43
I wanted you. Why don't you let us know?
1:55:45
Maybe we'll, we'll take a ride over there and we'll do
1:55:48
something live over there for you guys.
1:55:49
Um, and that'll be awesome. You have July 7th through the
1:55:52
11th, is the first session and then the second session is July
1:55:56
21st and 25th at Virginia Beach, Sports Center.
1:56:00
Virginia Beach is there Joe. Is there a website where they
1:56:03
can, they can look over people in the area, Joe Smith
1:56:06
basketball.com, and you get, if you all the information right
1:56:10
there where you can register, you can sign your kid up.
1:56:12
People looking to sponsor kids, you can sponsor kids right there
1:56:16
and we'll get kids out there to the camp.
1:56:19
Well something, yes, something in August, right?
1:56:23
August. We have the ACC Celebrity Golf
1:56:26
Tournament and we're also looking for sponsorships and
1:56:28
that we can partner with. For that is pretty much about
1:56:33
ACC Legends guys that played in the Atlantic Coast Conference,
1:56:36
we got guys from Maryland. We have guys from North
1:56:41
Carolina, Clemson, Virginia, Duke all-time from all different
1:56:45
schools that we're doing last year was just basketball this
1:56:49
year's basketball and football, but it's a celebrity golf
1:56:52
tournament and looking to raise money for good, for good call,
1:56:59
good thing. Yeah.
1:57:00
Yeah. Well, we really appreciate the
1:57:02
time Joe, and we'll definitely get you on again, reach out to
1:57:06
you. And we'll have some fun man.
1:57:07
We really appreciate all the time and again, anytime you want
1:57:12
to come on, you're more than welcome.
1:57:14
Oh man, I appreciate. Appreciate that fungus.
1:57:18
I got one more for you and then we're gonna let you go.
1:57:25
You ready? This is go.
1:57:26
This is a good one. I like analy.
1:57:33
Good night. Left them with the head
1:57:38
scratcher. Joe.
1:57:42
It's very nice. It's very nice talking to you
1:57:45
bud. That's all good talking to you
1:57:47
guys, so good you guys. So absolutely Joe Smith, ladies
1:57:52
and gentlemen golf club golf club for Mr. Joseph.
1:57:56
Joey. Joey Joe Buttons.
1:57:59
I love that, I love that track. By the way, I love Joe Buttons.
1:58:02
He's a little out there, but, you know, some people a little
1:58:04
lost like, the old Speedster. He's trying to figure out if
1:58:07
he's got his finger in his ass. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
1:58:11
we call this segment, save your tears mom.
1:58:14
What one thing that you can't talk to me about my sexual
1:58:19
fantasy. He's not ideal.
1:58:23
But if it's what it is, not ideal, but if she's not ideal,
1:58:27
but if it is, what me you It's time for save your tear.
1:58:41
Okay guys. Welcome back to your tears,
1:58:46
everyone's favorite tier bass Fantasy game.
1:58:50
So for this one, we're gonna try to get everybody on including
1:58:54
our interns. If they want to play you guys
1:58:56
ran. And play this game.
1:58:59
It's a very simple one. You see it on tiktok all over
1:59:02
place. You can get a 15 dollar salary
1:59:03
cap and you got to make your team.
1:59:05
Pick one player from each column today.
1:59:08
It's going to be a little bit different than we normally do it
1:59:11
though, guys. The big thing is We don't have
1:59:16
enough players to play it. If it was just basketball, you
1:59:19
need, 25, players, Duty and Dodger.
1:59:22
They're not going into 13, 12-man rotations.
1:59:25
So, we're gonna combine hockey and basketball into our savior
1:59:30
tears. So take a look at how it's going
1:59:33
to go today. A little bit different than
1:59:35
normal, here's your list and I'll read it off to people
1:59:39
listening just on the audio at. We're gonna have a really point
1:59:43
guard and shooting guard over here on the First Column, so
1:59:46
guards and basketball, Shea Gill just Alexander five dollar
1:59:49
player, Halliburton 4. Then we have lewd door at 3,
1:59:53
neb, hard at two. And TJ McConnell had a little
1:59:56
bit better stats than Caruso last series.
1:59:59
So, we put him in at 1, going to forwards.
2:00:03
Got sea Occam leading the way, followed by Jalen Williams.
2:00:06
And he got Chet Aaron Nesmith and Obi toppin.
2:00:10
Everyone's favorite one dollar pick at one dollar again and
2:00:13
then this is where it got weird. Only some centers, and there's
2:00:17
only so many goalies. So I put them together.
2:00:19
So let me just tell you how the goal for the hockey scoring goes
2:00:22
for goalies, you get five points for a win, you get Points, you
2:00:31
know what I covered up? You got a 5 points for a
2:00:33
shutout, you get, if you give up a goal, you lose three points,
2:00:36
but each save is 0.6 points. So lots of shots on gold benefit
2:00:41
you, if he's not giving a lot of them up and obviously a win is a
2:00:44
big deal. Not a lot of shutouts gonna
2:00:46
happen in this series probably but we have Bob Roski ahead of
2:00:49
Skinner because Florida Tech, you know, defending champs.
2:00:53
Then we have Myles Turner at Center Followed by Hardin Stein
2:00:56
and Thomas Bryant was probably the best center left after that.
2:00:59
Then we're going straight. Hockey defense, Evan Bouchard's,
2:01:03
five dollar player ekblad for four Seth Jones 3 at home for
2:01:07
two and Walman. Jake Walman for a buck and then
2:01:10
centers and wings Connor mcdavid's got to be the top guy,
2:01:13
followed by dry site title, Sam Bennett, Matt and Chuck, and bar
2:01:17
called round it out. So again, if any you guys want
2:01:21
to come in interns and play, you can't, if not that's fine too,
2:01:25
but we're going to get started. I'm going to shoot.
2:01:27
We're gonna pick our teams so Nathan, you're here.
2:01:32
Why don't you start thinking is bigger than yours?
2:01:36
oh, all right. Let's see.
2:01:44
Good point guard. I had to do pick somebody.
2:01:48
I'm gonna do. I'm going to give us a
2:01:54
Alexander, okay? For small for power or small
2:01:58
forward. Aaron A Smith.
2:02:04
Center. It's the center of goalie, you
2:02:08
know? We're going to do Matthew to
2:02:14
touch up. All right, Matthew, good job,
2:02:16
okay? Yes.
2:02:17
So you skipping goalie, you're going all the way to the end.
2:02:21
Yeah. Okay.
2:02:22
And now you have the two middle ones.
2:02:24
You have Center Center and go. So what does he have?
2:02:27
Four six bucks left. Yeah, and I'm going to do Myles
2:02:35
Turner. Okay. and then, So you can go
2:02:42
Seth Jones or any of the guys on their under him.
2:02:46
I'm gonna go set Joe. All right, so there it is.
2:02:51
You got Jones interesting. Show you the roster.
2:02:56
Nathan, are you a little lost with is that blue blazer getting
2:02:59
in getting in the way of that brainy us?
2:03:02
So nothing's got Shay Nesmith, Turner.
2:03:06
Seth Jones and Matt could chuck. All right, moving on.
2:03:10
Let's go to Tommy. all right, um, You see this list again?
2:03:20
An automatic is gonna have to be shaky, you'll just Alexander for
2:03:23
me, taking him as my point guard.
2:03:26
Then. Shut home, Grant.
2:03:31
I'm gonna have to go Jalen Williams.
2:03:33
For small for that. I'm going with heart and Stein.
2:03:40
Wollman and catch up. Make sure that math works.
2:03:45
Yeah speed. Yes, too woman.
2:03:50
You always have money left when you this time.
2:03:52
He's just saying rainy day, right?
2:03:54
Yeah, he saving. He saving too with that.
2:03:59
Interesting. Okay, let's move.
2:04:03
Let's show you your team right here.
2:04:05
We got Shae, Jalen Williams hardenstein woman and catch up.
2:04:10
All right, let's I'll go next. And let me just put it back up.
2:04:18
All right, I actually haven't thought about it whatsoever.
2:04:20
I am also gonna go with Shay in that column.
2:04:26
So I think it was prohibited favorite, so that's five.
2:04:30
I am going to go then with the top one.
2:04:39
Think I'm gonna go with Chet. At that point.
2:04:43
So that's eight. I'm gonna take hard and Stein.
2:04:55
So I got five left right Speedy? Yep, oh yes.
2:05:03
Okay. All right.
2:05:06
I'm gonna go a little different than everyone else just to be
2:05:08
different. I'm gonna take ekblad and I'm
2:05:10
gonna take bark off. Damn it.
2:05:16
All right, so let me show you my team.
2:05:20
So here it is. We got Shay, Shay, hard and
2:05:24
going heavy with the Thunder ekblad and bar.
2:05:26
Cause all right, boys. Moving on to Speedy.
2:05:30
All right, give me McDavid. Let's go.
2:05:34
Yeah. Um, I'm also gonna go chat as
2:05:39
that gives me eight. I will do.
2:05:45
Give me at home on defense is 10.
2:05:48
I'll do. Door and hearts Stein.
2:05:55
All right, door. So that's sick. 11.
2:06:03
Oh no, did I do that one? No I have two well right.
2:06:08
You good with that? Are you on now?
2:06:09
Wait, I think, I missed. Calculated know I can do three
2:06:13
with George six with Chet, two with heart.
2:06:16
So eight with hardest time at home is 10 and McDavid is five,
2:06:20
that's 15. Okay.
2:06:20
I had to do it right. Okay.
2:06:21
Yeah, you're good. All right, so just to show it to
2:06:24
everybody again, just like we said.
2:06:26
Dork chat Harden Stein at home and Connor, make David over to
2:06:31
job. I'm gonna go, Halliburton.
2:06:36
Screw that guy, I know. But It's gonna give me points.
2:06:40
I'm not, I'm not going off of head.
2:06:44
Then I'm gonna go. Nice myth.
2:06:50
I'm gonna go Skinner. Yeah, I was waiting for someone
2:06:54
to go goalie. Um, so that's 10.
2:06:59
Now, I'm gonna go. oh, so I got five left.
2:07:08
Yep. I'll leave it.
2:07:12
All comes down to this one shot. One chance.
2:07:15
We'll go dry sidel. And then I got to take Walnut.
2:07:22
All right, so dry. I like that take.
2:07:23
So we got Walman. And dry site Idol.
2:07:31
All right, let me show you. The deal here and there it is.
2:07:39
Albert in these Smith Skinner, Wollman and dry site.
2:07:43
All right, I think. Jake said he wanted to pop in.
2:07:45
So Jake's gonna get, give us his grouping before we go to URL.
2:07:49
Okay, right here, what do you got?
2:07:51
Jake, All right, so, starting off.
2:07:53
I'm gonna need a big guy team leader.
2:07:55
I'm gonna go with my Center. Go with the leader Connor
2:07:58
McDavid last year. Smythe later, despite being on
2:08:00
the losing team. He's out of blood going to be
2:08:02
all the revenge tour this year. So karmic David's gonna leave my
2:08:05
team. I'm going to try to bolt up my
2:08:07
defense here, so I'm gonna go Seth Jones and Isaiah
2:08:10
hartenstein. Some big guys who, you know,
2:08:12
maybe don't get as much of the shine, but they're gonna be
2:08:14
great and grind and, you know, give a lot of effort.
2:08:16
And then for my small forward, I'm gonna go rock with JW
2:08:20
Williams. He's gonna be my backup, help
2:08:23
for scoring, you know, and take that pressure off McDavid a
2:08:26
little bit and then around it down, someone who can handle the
2:08:30
ball, and pass the Rock and needed where it is.
2:08:32
Current India pastry, but Sixers Legend, TJ McConnell.
2:08:37
All right, don't hate. That was a very confident.
2:08:40
Confident pick by Jake. I like it.
2:08:42
We got TJ McConnell leading him off Jalen Williams, Isaiah
2:08:46
hardenstein Seth Jones, and Connor McDavid.
2:08:49
All right over to Arrow. Finally, for our last one.
2:08:54
All right, I'm gonna go, Tyrese Hallberg.
2:08:57
I'm gonna go check hungry Grimm. I'm going to go.
2:09:02
I'm gonna go Isaiah hardsteen. What do I got now?
2:09:07
That's nine. I'm going to go.
2:09:12
I'm gonna go Connor McDavid and I'm gonna go Jake.
2:09:16
What is it woman woman? There you go.
2:09:19
That's where I go. And woman.
2:09:22
Yes. All right and I'll just show it
2:09:25
to you before we finish up with the music.
2:09:27
That's right here. And there's your team,
2:09:30
Halliburton. Chet Hardin Stein, Wollman and
2:09:32
Connor make David. So, again, guys, if you haven't
2:09:35
played before the winner of this game receives the compliment
2:09:40
chorus from all the losers, it has to be at least 51%.
2:09:44
Honest compliments, my pinky is bigger than yours.
2:09:50
All right, at least 51% of time. Arrow gets to like, 27 28
2:09:54
percent on a good day, but he's won a lot recently.
2:09:57
So we'll see. If we, someone can knock him
2:10:00
off, guys. And if you lose and you can't
2:10:02
complain about it. You gotta save you, a tears.
2:10:06
You gotta save something. By the way, those missed said,
2:10:09
it was a pleasure and he enjoyed the interview.
2:10:11
Well, we had a lot of fun with him.
2:10:13
He was really, really cool, really, really nice.
2:10:16
And, you know, he had a lot of fun but it's could, you could
2:10:20
you imagine like All of our careers and like and what he got
2:10:25
to play with. Again with MJ LeBron.
2:10:28
Kobe like that was crazy. That's crazy.
2:10:32
He had a great career too. 16 years in the NBA is a great
2:10:35
career that's all and if your average in double digits over
2:10:39
your career I don't care if it's 10 20 30 like that's awesome and
2:10:43
and to go on the fact that you're the first overall pick
2:10:47
like they're there's some shit that comes with that.
2:10:49
Just speaking of nice garbage coming out of your ass the
2:10:54
Oilers and Panthers will face off in a Stanley Cup finals
2:10:59
rematch from last year a series the Panthers won in seven games,
2:11:04
it is the 12th time in NHL history that there is a Stanley
2:11:09
Cup Remax. And that the first time, since
2:11:12
2008 and 2009 when the Penguins faced off against the Red Wings,
2:11:17
placed in back-to-back years economic David leads, the NHL
2:11:21
playoffs with 26 points, six goals, 12 assists, including 9
2:11:24
points in five games and the Western Conference Finals, the
2:11:28
Oilers have seven different players with 10 or more points
2:11:31
in this postseason and nine different players who have
2:11:35
scored four or more goals. The Panthers have two players,
2:11:39
Alexander barkov and Sam Reinhart that have that are
2:11:45
selky Trophy finalists this year, the Panthers have the best
2:11:49
penalty kill in the playoffs at 87.9% and lead the team lead.
2:11:55
All teams in the playoffs with 812 hits over 100 more than the
2:12:02
Oilers have had the Oilers will have home ICE advantage in the
2:12:06
series and are the betting favorites at minus 1. 30 to win
2:12:11
the Stanley Cup. Obviously they're going to get
2:12:13
Edmonton the the little nuts because emit 10 last year, fell
2:12:18
short in seven games and you look at it I want to see
2:12:22
something about the Florida Panthers, their bills to win
2:12:25
championships. They added Brad Marchant at the
2:12:28
trade deadline. Now, you have a healthy Matthew
2:12:30
tkachuk, they have one of the best old older veteran
2:12:33
goaltenders in barbot, ski. I mean, this team is Belch, and
2:12:37
then you just mentioned, you have bark off and you have
2:12:40
Reinhardt Reinhardt, who was one of the best goal scorers last
2:12:42
year and was a really big time goal scorer this year and bark
2:12:45
off is the captain of the Florida Panthers and one of the
2:12:48
more underrated centers in all of hockey, this is a stack team
2:12:52
with the tremendous amount of talent and they have one of the
2:12:55
best defensive players and all of hockey.
2:12:57
So it's not like you sit here and you say, well, the Florida
2:13:00
Panthers, don't deserve to be here, they absolutely deserve to
2:13:03
be here but as good and as talented as the Florida Panthers
2:13:07
stand out to be the best player in the world is coming to make
2:13:11
David. It's not even an argument.
2:13:12
He's the fastest he's the strongest he's the more he's one
2:13:17
of the most talented players all around we see in the NHL reminds
2:13:21
me of a faster Mario. That's the type of player he is
2:13:26
Long upper body strength. Can put the puck in many
2:13:29
different ways in the net uses the speed to really block, you
2:13:33
know, block defense, man or block defensive offensive
2:13:36
players to get to the park. He's a sensational player, dry
2:13:40
Sidle I think is one of the top three top four players in all of
2:13:43
hockey as well. He's a sensational player and
2:13:46
obviously one of the best German players we've ever seen, come
2:13:49
out in NHL history, he is a sensational Talent.
2:13:52
The the team the Edmonton Oilers with with no black, is a young
2:13:57
coach in the league. He's been Sensational since he's
2:13:59
taking over for Edmonton, back to back championship games and
2:14:04
he was western conference championships and Stanley Cup
2:14:08
championships. And this team is so good up and
2:14:12
down offensively. And if skinners playing the way
2:14:15
he has been playing throughout the Dallas series, they're going
2:14:19
to be a hard get, I really think Emmit team's gonna play a lot
2:14:22
better than any delish and how could you play a lot better than
2:14:25
you did go into a 7, but I think Skinner was not as good last
2:14:30
year as he has been this year. He's been Sensational.
2:14:32
And I think the Florida Panthers are just loaded.
2:14:36
They're absolutely load even more loaded than they were last
2:14:38
year. Maybe a little bit less
2:14:40
defensively, but when you have bobrowski who's 100% healthy and
2:14:44
he's playing as well as he's played, especially against
2:14:47
Carolina. They're going to be a hard out
2:14:49
to. This is probably the last time
2:14:52
we're gonna see Edmonton and Florida here.
2:14:54
The reason why is there's gonna be a lot of panthers that are
2:14:57
going to be free agents at the end of the season and Edmonton
2:15:00
as good as they are talent wise. If they don't get over the hump
2:15:04
this time this year I could see dry side over one of these.
2:15:07
These other players not in the I think it's what was his mom
2:15:11
right here? Yes.
2:15:12
Who could be traded in the office season?
2:15:14
Quite a few players that could be moving to other teams and
2:15:17
other organizations. If they can't get out of the
2:15:19
hump, get over the hump this year.
2:15:20
So there could be a lot of movement for both of these
2:15:23
teams. And and again, Florida has a
2:15:25
tremendous Farm system as well as Edmonton.
2:15:28
So, both organizations are set up very, very good in the
2:15:31
future, but this might be the last time we see these two teams
2:15:34
faced off and probably the next five to 10 years.
2:15:37
Yeah, there was also a fatigue Factor that's gonna set in
2:15:39
Florida. Three straight comes Edmonton,
2:15:41
two straight cups, it'll eventually especially with the
2:15:43
veteran players wear them out. What's interesting with this
2:15:45
matchup, I think, I think Edmonton in terms of the depth
2:15:47
types that they have or built a lot differently than they have
2:15:50
been in years past. Now, a lot of the players are
2:15:52
the same, but they actually have their own physical Wingers of
2:15:54
their own, too, obviously of entertainment there a while, but
2:15:56
you have a guy like Victor Harvest and you like, Johnny was
2:15:59
mentioning last week, Corey Perry coming back to Corey
2:16:01
Perry's played in a lot of Stanley Cups recently,
2:16:02
including, including one with Tampa ended up winning, and to
2:16:07
keep his hands away from women. That's what he needs.
2:16:09
Yeah, Pro and I think that kind of Veteran leadership again, how
2:16:12
does he have another job? I was very surprised, any
2:16:15
organization, take them all. I don't think they were able to
2:16:17
find enough of the charges too. He's a crazy entertainment.
2:16:21
Yeah. He got involved on that whole
2:16:22
gambling Scandal. It was like 22.
2:16:24
Yeah. But he does on the ice and what
2:16:25
he Does off the right. He's crazy.
2:16:27
And it's interesting because I think that's the magic if you're
2:16:30
going to have to play against when you're playing against
2:16:31
these bigger Wingers with Florida too.
2:16:33
And they I'm curious to see with no block especially too if he's
2:16:36
gonna be able to rotate that the way he is because I think
2:16:40
Obviously McDavid and dry side are going to play a lot in terms
2:16:43
of that ice time. But rotating which Wings go on,
2:16:46
tkachuk is gonna be a very interesting matchup and marshan
2:16:48
as well because they could play physical in their own rights
2:16:50
too. And that's why I think this,
2:16:50
this Edmonton team is a little bit different than last year.
2:16:52
They're not as power play and finesse Reliant as they have to
2:16:55
be. And they still have really good
2:16:56
Center depth like you're saying when you Jen Hopkins and
2:16:58
defensive death too, is a lot better as well.
2:16:59
Darnell nurse is kind of a second pair defenseman now and I
2:17:03
was talking about a Coleman savior tears, too.
2:17:05
These are good depth pieces that I don't think they had as much
2:17:07
of last year to a higher level. So I think this is going to be a
2:17:09
very interesting series and the reason I didn't pick English and
2:17:12
yeah, last year was weird because it was Florida won the
2:17:14
first three that Edmonton won. The next Bob Rossi did not play
2:17:17
well in the finals last year. No.
2:17:19
And if he doesn't show up in the finals, this year, it could be a
2:17:22
long long series for the Florida Panthers have tremendous amount
2:17:24
of talent. They really do a Matthew could
2:17:26
chuck who's been up and down throughout the playoffs last
2:17:29
year, he was Sensational this year, he's been up and down.
2:17:32
He hasn't been as good. I think Matthew could chuck has
2:17:35
to show up in this series. He's gonna have to hit is gonna
2:17:37
have to put pressure on economic David and we saw what kind
2:17:40
McDavid did to Team USA in that Frozen Four or whatever.
2:17:43
The hell they played, four nations that they played.
2:17:46
He was upset our economic David scoring, the game-winning goal
2:17:49
against Teen USA and I think he's got a lot to prove right
2:17:52
now United States. Hockey is growing, as we've been
2:17:55
speaking about and economic David and Matthew Goode, Chuck,
2:17:58
you can argue the two best players from their Nation, so
2:18:01
it's gonna be fun to watch the other matchup that I think
2:18:03
Edmondson has to figure out is Zach, Hyman's injury obviously.
2:18:06
So who's gonna take over that? Kind of?
2:18:07
Well, I think he was second or third on the team in points.
2:18:10
This post season as well. So if they can if they can't get
2:18:13
that depth scoring, it'll be very easy for Florida to be able
2:18:16
to win this. But the second and third lines
2:18:17
are really gonna Define this game because Florida could play
2:18:19
many different combinations on the line and special with the
2:18:22
versatility too. With a lot of guys like to play
2:18:23
forward and center and Wing. So Edmonton has to get those
2:18:27
matchups to work but I think they have a much deeper belt
2:18:29
team. They're not finesse like a lot
2:18:32
like Tampa. Like Tampa used to be all
2:18:33
finesse and then it took a while to get those death pieces that
2:18:35
they got him. They want to cut and I think
2:18:36
Edmonton is in that same kind of boat.
2:18:39
Yeah, so Speedy, why don't you give yourself a breath, okay?
2:18:42
I don't know why you have to go with, like, a million words, a
2:18:45
minute. That's why you always lose
2:18:47
breath, because you're like, but they did it.
2:18:50
I'm sorry. God.
2:18:52
And that's, that's Speedy guys. Ladies and gentlemen, the one
2:18:57
and only, okay, I'm sorry, I just had to do that.
2:18:59
I had that God. Yet for like, guys, for me, the
2:19:06
depth of the Panthers. It might be better this year
2:19:09
than it was last year with Marsh and as a third line Winger you
2:19:13
realize that's what he is for them.
2:19:15
Like that's that's crazy and obviously a penalty killer,
2:19:19
their their defensive lines ekblad and forsling.
2:19:23
We don't talk about fours laying allies, not a big points
2:19:25
scattered necessarily but that guy is incredible.
2:19:28
He is great, on the puck, he's great moving the puck and then
2:19:33
you have these assassins on the other side, whoever they put
2:19:36
with them, whether it's even strength or the power play.
2:19:39
I'm really impressed with them defensively.
2:19:42
Now, the thing is you have the highest Elite Talent with David
2:19:47
and dry Sidle on the other side. And last year they didn't have
2:19:51
enough depth to stay with Florida.
2:19:53
I don't think they have enough depth this year.
2:19:55
I really don't without Hyman. I don't think they have enough
2:19:59
depth again. I think that's the problem.
2:20:01
They don't they can't unless they have, you know, McDavid and
2:20:05
dry cycle just take over. And Bob's Another Bad series.
2:20:10
I don't, I don't see it. I just don't, I think Florida is
2:20:14
the better team overall, but you never know when you have these
2:20:17
Superior. So, was Dallas, Dallas.
2:20:19
They do special things. Dallas had the, the best team
2:20:22
throughout the season. I besides Winnipeg with the
2:20:25
talent that they have from the first line to the fourth line.
2:20:28
I was shocked that Edmonton threw him around like a ragdoll.
2:20:32
It really kind of make David when he takes over games, it's
2:20:35
it doesn't matter how much more talented.
2:20:37
The other team is he stands out from everybody else.
2:20:41
And and that's the thing about Florida.
2:20:43
Florida has a tremendous amount of talent we forget about
2:20:45
Alexander barkov or Sam Reinhart.
2:20:48
These two guys are great, offensive, talented players, but
2:20:52
you forget Matthew Chucks there. Brad Marshawn.
2:20:54
Sarah, this is, this is a loaded loaded, hockey team, but that's
2:20:59
how much better kind of make David is to everybody else on
2:21:03
that team. And again, this is really I
2:21:06
think Matthew could chuck is going to be matched up against
2:21:09
Connor McDavid, and Going to see that a lot this matchup is going
2:21:12
to be connected because we saw that in the the Frozen, whatever
2:21:18
the hell, it is formation. I don't care about what it calls
2:21:20
it. I call it frozen four, it
2:21:22
doesn't really matter. The fact is, is that, Matthew
2:21:25
tkachuk really was upset about losing economic David and Team
2:21:29
Canada in the overtime. They were so close to winning
2:21:32
that game and they choked. And I think this is more
2:21:36
important than that. And we have the Olympics.
2:21:38
And what's your Olympics next year?
2:21:39
I think if, if Matthew could chuck wants to prove himself, he
2:21:42
comes out a winner and beats economic David out.
2:21:45
Please make Dave and takes Connor, McDavid out in some of
2:21:48
this series. If he does that kind of make
2:21:50
David showed you, while he's the best player in the world.
2:21:52
Dallas is a good defensive team. They have one of the best
2:21:54
goalies in a league and it guys scored six goals in that series.
2:21:57
If you let Connor McDavid, you know, sees that sees the series
2:22:02
and play as fast as he played against Dallas.
2:22:04
You don't stand a chance against Connie David and dry side
2:22:07
saddle, because dry side and kind of make David are two of
2:22:10
the best power players in the league.
2:22:12
So you said it right there, power play players, right?
2:22:15
And and that's going to be the story of this series can Florida
2:22:19
stay out of the box. If guys, that like to mix it up
2:22:21
like to go in the Box, we know that about him.
2:22:25
Are 87.9% throughout the playoffs.
2:22:27
So, Defensively. I know.
2:22:30
I know. Look, it's it's look.
2:22:34
They're two. Best teams, right?
2:22:35
This is what you want to see. This is gonna be good fireworks,
2:22:38
just like I thought it was last year.
2:22:40
I would have probably would have liked to see Dallas versus
2:22:43
Florida. I think Dallas has the talent
2:22:47
that can compete. I mean, Dallas has the talent
2:22:50
that can compete on all full lines against Florida.
2:22:52
I just think that you look at dry side only and McDavid, they
2:22:56
plan to separate lines. They only played together on a
2:22:59
power Place, sometimes they move them and they rotate them on on
2:23:02
the line if they're down by significant amount of points,
2:23:04
you'll see dry side title and make David played together very
2:23:08
rare on a five-on-five. But the problem with them is, is
2:23:12
their limited offensively after the first two lines.
2:23:15
If and they get tired, you see it later in the game economic
2:23:20
David. If you look at his scoring, he
2:23:21
scores in the first in a second, more than he does in the third,
2:23:24
because he's playing a lot of minutes on a minute.
2:23:27
Yeah, he's playing tons of tons of It and now you're playing
2:23:30
against Florida. They have guys that are going to
2:23:33
beat the hell out of you and you're gonna have to, you're
2:23:35
gonna have to withstand that beaten Brad Marchant.
2:23:38
He is a pain in the ass. He's like, a flea.
2:23:40
So, you know, he's gonna get under, their, their noses.
2:23:44
And I, I think it's gonna be a hard task to beat a Florida
2:23:47
panther team. That's better than they were
2:23:49
last year better. They're better than they were
2:23:52
last year and the thing that made them so good.
2:23:54
So last year they knocked the Rangers out on the way over to
2:23:58
the cup and they, the Rangers had a similar problem where
2:24:01
their first two lines were really good.
2:24:02
But then they had to face those third and fourth lines of
2:24:05
Florida and they got just destroyed by the depth of
2:24:08
Florida. And now Rangers are anywhere.
2:24:10
Close to what Edmonton is and there are so bad in five on
2:24:13
five, compared to the lake. Most other good teams.
2:24:15
We don't need to talk about other rangers made into one man.
2:24:17
Yeah, let's get off that. We got a lot more to get into.
2:24:20
I don't want to talk about this but that's what I'm saying is
2:24:22
that kind of grinded out with all four lines over seven games,
2:24:29
That's a lot to put up with if you're doing so many minutes
2:24:32
like McDavid and dry cycle are going to be doing.
2:24:34
It's it's just a lot. The two of them are going to be,
2:24:37
you know, double shifting all the time, just to be able to be
2:24:41
competent. And then we get laid in the
2:24:43
series, we're going to see them kind of fade and that's what
2:24:46
happened. And I think it's gonna happen.
2:24:48
I'm not gonna count out kind of make David, but I think Florida
2:24:51
is a heavy heavy. I think, six I think six.
2:24:54
I think you go seven. Again, I think it goes seven.
2:24:56
Again, I just think Florida has the more depth and I think it's
2:25:00
going to eventually catch up to kind of make David, but I'm not
2:25:04
gonna count on Connor McDavid and don't be surprised.
2:25:06
If dryside Will has a better series.
2:25:08
Thank Connie David. I wouldn't be 1990 last cup for
2:25:12
Edmonton Mark Messier. By the way, if you look at
2:25:15
Edmonton, you look at dryside, I'll try side.
2:25:17
I'll have more goals in the playoffs that any player in the
2:25:20
last six years. So that's all I'm gonna say
2:25:23
about that. And we haven't seen dry cider
2:25:25
yet exploding in the playoffs, lost his father, a couple weeks,
2:25:28
yes he did. Scored the game-winning goal
2:25:31
like that night. This one of the greatest players
2:25:33
in the world, I don't think enough people know about him
2:25:35
German and he's German, that's the crazy thing.
2:25:37
He's not even Canadian, he gets overshadowed a little bit
2:25:40
obviously with McDavid there. But I mean, he's, I mean, what
2:25:44
would you say top five? Oh, easy, top five.
2:25:46
Top three. You can argue top three, you can
2:25:49
argue top three you. So, you're, this is a team with
2:25:52
two. Like this is like back in the
2:25:54
day with Malkin and Crosby when they had two of the top, I think
2:25:57
I was arguing with Jeff today. The three best players in the
2:26:00
league right now, and you can argue it, it's kind of make
2:26:03
David Austin Matthews and then I would say dry title.
2:26:06
So I would say those are the three best players in the
2:26:10
league. Auston Matthews is special, so
2:26:12
big, strong fast, and you can argue, even though auston
2:26:16
Matthews was the captain of United States team, I think
2:26:20
Keith could chuck. I mean, Keith Richards, Matthew
2:26:22
could chuck is the the leader of that, you know, the United
2:26:24
States team, you can see that. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
2:26:27
we call the new segment. I mean, New segment.
2:26:30
Next segment. Tic-tac-toe.
2:26:32
Right? In the butt.
2:26:36
We got the prize is cheap because they stole.
2:26:43
No, no, no, no, here's your host.
2:26:49
This whereas penis Fish wears panties.
2:26:56
That's a good one. Not true.
2:26:59
But do you spell? That you sure boxer briefs every
2:27:03
time. You know, because Speedy caught
2:27:05
you wearing panties know. I did when we were out at, you
2:27:09
know, the Super Bowl. He's so excited, you fish.
2:27:11
I wouldn't stare at your that he did fall asleep.
2:27:17
Like Frank. I was about to say that she did.
2:27:20
So you saw him on dressing. Did you not?
2:27:22
So I was pennies. Oh, he didn't.
2:27:25
He was downstairs. Don't why?
2:27:27
You were looking for job? You were, you were annoyed that
2:27:29
the three of them were yapping all night.
2:27:31
First of all, I fell asleep before everybody because
2:27:34
everybody was just yapping. It wasn't me.
2:27:36
I wasn't there. You were downstairs where I was?
2:27:39
Yeah, I was that. I was in, I went to bed pretty
2:27:42
quick. I want to bed at like, I think
2:27:44
it was 11:00 because I was tired, because I did a lot of
2:27:47
the interviewing. And then I went to bed and then
2:27:49
you were downstage and I heard you was not talking really much.
2:27:52
You are you always Tommy, it's a good in Tommy, but Speedy was
2:27:58
involved in the conversation. Great conversations, you just
2:28:01
missed out on. No, I don't need to that Speedy
2:28:04
here. Let's take us on Tic Tac know
2:28:06
for a ride speedy. We have to defeat you once
2:28:11
again, but blow my back out tonight.
2:28:13
All right. So Speedy.
2:28:15
Well, we'll start in the NBA Finals.
2:28:16
Is that your cucumber? Or are you happy to see me?
2:28:19
So, the OKC Thunder are in the finals.
2:28:22
Obviously, going by a different name, the Seattle SuperSonics
2:28:24
back. Then in the 1970s they played
2:28:27
backed another team. Back to back in the NBA Finals
2:28:30
that also now has a different name in their current team.
2:28:34
So who did they play? Save the one more time.
2:28:37
So it's so it's another team that changed their name.
2:28:41
It was a different name when they played in the 70s and now
2:28:43
they go by it's the same city, different name.
2:28:46
The bullets. It is the boss.
2:28:48
That's correct. So they those are only two
2:28:51
championships for both teams. The bullets won the first round
2:28:54
in 1970. I think I was watching the, the
2:28:56
Celtic, the Celtic City and and that was brought up about nobody
2:29:02
even remembers who was in the finals.
2:29:04
Those those years, the Super Sonic in the bullets because
2:29:07
they were the NBA wasn't even that popular at that time.
2:29:11
So they didn't even are the finals.
2:29:14
Yes, like in so, like a few days later.
2:29:15
Yeah, I was watching. That's what I, that's what they
2:29:18
said. That's that's probably where you
2:29:19
got that. Didn't you coach fish?
2:29:21
Actually, no, I haven't watched it.
2:29:23
It's great this. I'm not done, I'm watching.
2:29:25
I'm in, I think I'm in episode 5.
2:29:28
It's really guy. I hate this Celtics, too, but
2:29:30
it's fantastic. It's really, really good.
2:29:32
So just let you guys know. All right, let's go to some
2:29:35
hockey. Well, I took the center.
2:29:36
Go ahead Speedy. Yep.
2:29:37
We'll go to some hockey. One of our interns was
2:29:39
mentioning Connor McDavid being a Conn Smythe winner on a losing
2:29:42
team. There's also been over the last
2:29:44
40 years two goaltender's that have been the cons myth winners
2:29:48
on losing teams named one of them.
2:29:51
One, guess right? Yep.
2:29:52
Yes, you eat can get two gases. All right.
2:29:57
So a golden, there were two goaltenders. was Dominic
2:30:02
haschak, one of them know, Brodeur, nope.
2:30:07
Grandview or nope. I don't even know any gold.
2:30:13
I got one. Yeah.
2:30:14
Patrick Wah know. I'm done.
2:30:18
How about? let's say something that's
2:30:26
Stupid. It's probably you're probably
2:30:28
not wrong fish. I know.
2:30:31
I've got one. I've got one, I'll say one
2:30:33
before you already said, I know. But after you guesses, I I'll
2:30:37
say it after you guys are gone and we lose Price.
2:30:41
Nope. Java.
2:30:43
I'm out. And you get it.
2:31:07
Marc Andre Fleury. Now, hold on, hold on, Eddie
2:31:10
Bell for now. Ah.
2:31:11
All right, so one of them, one of them was Ron Hextall in 1987
2:31:15
and the other one this was the more random one is for Anaheim.
2:31:18
John Sebastian, giguere. That's what I remember.
2:31:20
I remember him. He took them.
2:31:22
He took them to the finals. Yeah.
2:31:24
Doesn't three. They lost against Martin Brodeur
2:31:26
and the Devils. I remember that.
2:31:28
That's right. All right.
2:31:29
So Speedy you get this one. All right, let's go bottom left.
2:31:42
All right, next question. All right.
2:31:43
So you guys, I was just some football.
2:31:45
I guess we're talking about the golf club with the Madden and
2:31:48
seek on the cover, they had John Madden on the cover for the
2:31:51
first 10 years of that game or more, I don't know.
2:31:54
One was the first year they had a player on the cover, who was
2:31:57
it? Was it Eddie George?
2:32:00
It is Eddie George? Oh yeah.
2:32:02
All right, cool. That's right.
2:32:04
Oh fish is hot now. All right, play, what you see.
2:32:08
He's heating up play with yourself.
2:32:09
He's All right, my dog wants your pussycat.
2:32:22
All right, let's go. All right, so we'll shift to
2:32:26
some baseball now. So, Colorado is on a pace to hit
2:32:28
over 40, home runs on the season right now.
2:32:31
So it's the question is not who has the most for a guy that
2:32:35
played catcher, that's Salvador Perez, but he was mostly a DH
2:32:37
that year. So while playing the majority of
2:32:40
his games at catcher, who has the record doing it with 42?
2:32:44
Home runs in 2003. What?
2:32:50
22 home runs in 2003. Yes.
2:32:54
The way. What's what's the so we're
2:32:56
saying record for catch her home run for for catcher if you
2:33:00
played most of the year at catcher so like Perez didn't
2:33:03
press technically as the record but he played mostly as a DH
2:33:05
when he had 48 and 2021 3. Yes this guy did it in 2003
2:33:10
heading 42 um runs while playing the majority of games that
2:33:13
catcher I think. I'm gonna guess.
2:33:15
Yeah. Pudge Rodriguez.
2:33:18
Was Piazza done yet? No, he's still, you still
2:33:21
playing. He was still playing.
2:33:23
So I don't think this is the right year but didn't Todd
2:33:26
Hundley hit for 40 homers. He did.
2:33:29
It was not that year though. He had 41.
2:33:34
I'm just gonna say it might be a no, no.
2:33:39
It wasn't no job, it's Gotta Go. Um, 2003.
2:33:50
That's a year. Graduated high school.
2:33:58
Wasn't he? Was trying to think of power
2:34:03
hitting catchers in 20003. We did a 2003.
2:34:09
Everyone was on the yeah, on the banned substance list,
2:34:13
eventually, right? So could have been, anybody
2:34:16
really? What did have been?
2:34:24
I'm not brave. I think it's Harvey Lopez.
2:34:27
It's very good job. Yeah, I was like as your team,
2:34:33
your Braves fan I was singing. That's why it immediately came
2:34:37
to my head after like you said Buds and I was like, well, you
2:34:40
know what, there was a year where he had like 41 and he's
2:34:43
like 43 and 43 home runs, 109, RBIs hit 328 that are All right,
2:34:49
and we win with that clinching. Answer Java.
2:34:53
Great job. Java was trying to second guess
2:34:55
himself at the doctor. So 100% because I was like, okay
2:34:59
because if he still playing then Scoops did it.
2:35:02
I was like okay well that here like I remember towards the end
2:35:06
of hobbies career. He somehow.
2:35:11
Whether we know it or not. But I was like, man, I remember
2:35:14
he had a bunch of. I was like I freaking was just
2:35:16
talking about this the other day and I was like, I think I tried
2:35:19
to talk myself out of it though. You're right.
2:35:21
You were offly clubs like, is he gets his own team, you're brave
2:35:25
and like you're gonna second guess your own team.
2:35:27
All right, we called this a call to the pet.
2:35:30
It's dark. You can throw a strike on his
2:35:34
pitch. He's not gonna be much like
2:35:35
jello. Just get it over the plate.
2:35:37
I want him to swing. Last time I did that the guy
2:35:39
that hasn't landed for a call to the pain.
2:35:44
All right, so here we go with a call.
2:35:48
This is our game, not a game, but more like kind of a inside
2:35:54
baseball. As far as the experience of it,
2:35:57
you know, not very few people were lucky enough to play
2:36:01
professionally even fewer for the Yankees even fewer.
2:36:03
It's got to share the bullpen with mariana rivera, so Jabba.
2:36:07
I don't know how it hasn't come up yet.
2:36:08
But I've never asked you for any Mariano Rivera stories, and you
2:36:12
can also throw in some stories from other great relievers.
2:36:14
You've shared the pain with. Let's hear somebody oh, it was
2:36:19
Moe was just It was interesting because you seen up from afar.
2:36:24
And you know, we always as Yankees fans, we always knew
2:36:28
they would be like one stretch of the Season where he would
2:36:31
blow like one or two saves and everybody was like oh he's done
2:36:35
he's done, right? And I'll never forget because he
2:36:39
was a catch partner of mine as well. and, Playing catch, it
2:36:43
was, you know, hit you right in the chest to his fine like
2:36:46
nothing. And then I'll never forget heart
2:36:50
pulls me over and he's like, hey, stand in and heart was our
2:36:53
Bullpen coach at the time. And who's still there to this
2:36:56
day mind you he was supposed to be taking number one overall and
2:37:02
they took a dude named Ken Griffey Junior.
2:37:04
So I love you heart. But I think they made the right
2:37:08
decision. And so like I'm literally like
2:37:13
I'm standing in because Mo never threw like flat grounds when we
2:37:16
played catch. Usually we would spend some
2:37:18
stuff afterwards but Mo never did.
2:37:21
Because he didn't really spin anything.
2:37:23
And so I stood in one time and I finally realized like, People
2:37:29
don't understand, you see it on TV, but then when you're
2:37:32
actually staying in 60 feet, 6 from him.
2:37:35
Like the ball gets to you like this and then just goes.
2:37:41
Literally coming at you, right? And then it just makes like a
2:37:46
just a left hand and I stood in right-handed and left-handed.
2:37:50
And it just amazes me. I mean, the only dude that ever
2:37:54
owned Moe was Marco Scutaro. We all have that one, dude, and
2:37:58
Marco owned him. And so it, this was we were, it
2:38:04
was a tiger series and Victor Martinez took him deep and
2:38:09
Mickey, took him or Mickey took him deep and Victor took him
2:38:11
deep and he blew to saves in a row. and so everybody thought oh
2:38:16
he's done, he's done and then finally being able to just stand
2:38:19
in And see like how his ball moves when he does it.
2:38:26
I was like, I don't know. How he gives up a hit.
2:38:29
But now, I know because, you know, you get to see it from
2:38:32
afar and as a fan and now you're like, oh, this makes sense
2:38:36
because there's no chance and he would just it was, it was crazy
2:38:40
how he did it because it wasn't a huge workout guy.
2:38:43
What, you know, his workouts were like, basically his running
2:38:47
was BP catching fly balls. He loved to play Centerfield.
2:38:51
That's how he blew out his ACL and Kansas City.
2:38:54
And that's why he came back because he didn't want to go out
2:38:56
on that because he was going to go out that year.
2:38:59
And he was like, nope, I'm not gonna do it.
2:39:00
And, you know, it was funny too because Mo wasn't like the get
2:39:07
together pretty and me and Moe like there's a famous squabble
2:39:11
between us and that people went crazy about which is fine, I
2:39:15
don't care. Like, I'm always gonna be me.
2:39:17
I'm a grown ass man. Don't shush me.
2:39:20
As I'm talking to my family, don't do that.
2:39:23
I don't care if you're doing your farewell interview, I don't
2:39:25
care. Yeah, don't do it.
2:39:29
I'm just gonna tell you, and I was like, that's fine.
2:39:32
I was like, I just told Moe. This is exactly what was
2:39:35
happening afterwards. Everybody blew it up and it is
2:39:36
what it is because it happened in front of the media, which is
2:39:39
fine. I don't care.
2:39:41
But it was cool to like, towards the end.
2:39:45
Mo finally, like, He was like, hey let's get together and let's
2:39:50
let's do a dinner. First time he's ever done it
2:39:53
first time he's ever done. And I was like, all right?
2:39:56
Yeah. What do you want me to do?
2:40:00
And he was like well we'll get everybody together, I go.
2:40:02
No, that's your job. Like you're the leader of this
2:40:06
book and I go, I'm here. Just trying to get the ball to
2:40:11
you. That's what I'm doing.
2:40:13
And we'd had great guys with us, you know, we obviously had to
2:40:16
deenie himself and David Roberts in.
2:40:17
We had Carrie would come over with us. you know, so we hit we
2:40:22
had a lot of great guys and in the bullpen and Marte and We
2:40:28
even had Channel Park. It was one of the nasty, that'll
2:40:31
be my next one by the way. And so we're at the Western
2:40:37
Saint Francis in San Francisco. And I know most paying for it.
2:40:42
And so I'm like, perfect. So we get, we get in.
2:40:47
And the restaurants are, I think it's a Bobby Flay restaurant or
2:40:51
one of those famous chefs. And so we're sitting in there
2:40:54
and I'm like, all right, this is great.
2:40:56
Like this is awesome. I love this and It was like,
2:41:00
Japanese A5 wagyu or whatever it's called.
2:41:05
It was like 180 dollars an ounce.
2:41:07
I'm like, I'll have some of that bun.
2:41:10
Logan was on our team. I was in his wedding, shout out
2:41:13
to Boone. He's won my favorite teammates
2:41:15
I've ever had. and, we're like, Hey, we're not paying for it, so
2:41:22
we fired out. Eight ounces of Japanese A5,
2:41:25
wagyu. And mo was just like, here you
2:41:28
go. 185 dollars to Mariano Rivera.
2:41:31
I mean, 1,000 steak. Yeah.
2:41:33
That don't mean anything to him. The guy was making millions.
2:41:37
And millions. I mean, at one point Mariano's,
2:41:39
steaks thousand dollars steak. Hey, and then I became like the
2:41:45
old guy. And then it was like I took
2:41:48
everybody out. I think the biggest one I had
2:41:51
that I took out with our Bullpen guys.
2:41:55
It was in Arizona. and I think it was like, 9800 bucks.
2:42:04
Because they're just ordering whatever.
2:42:05
And at the same time you're the old guy, right?
2:42:07
Like you're the guy that's played for 10 years and you
2:42:10
know, I'd Fogo de Chao. They got me a couple times seven
2:42:13
in Minnesota. They got me a couple times.
2:42:15
But that's one thing, too. That like is is a rite of
2:42:21
passage in an honor. For us in the bullpen is to take
2:42:24
those guys out. and like hey Rob bought my first suits and then
2:42:29
when I would get young guys in the bullpen I'd be like, hey,
2:42:32
I'm gonna buy you your first two suits and it was just something
2:42:35
that was passed on. And it was something that I
2:42:38
loved about the game and how everybody asked me, do you miss
2:42:42
it? I go.
2:42:42
I don't miss the game per se, I don't miss the game.
2:42:47
I missed the camaraderie and the things that you do for one
2:42:50
another and being able to, you know, make a difference and know
2:42:55
that that means something to those kids and every every
2:42:59
former athlete that you hear that.
2:43:00
You know they all say I miss being in the locker room I miss
2:43:04
being with the guys. Yep it's not that I miss the
2:43:06
game like Tom Brady, even Tom Brady just famously goes you
2:43:10
know I just miss being around the guys when he talks about it
2:43:13
of course he probably could come back and still be better than
2:43:16
half of quarterbacks in the league stopped, you know, he's
2:43:18
stopped. Don't you think?
2:43:20
Don't you think? No I don't think he could come
2:43:22
back. No better than.
2:43:22
No. Not anymore.
2:43:24
When you step away from football for this amount of time, I don't
2:43:28
think you can come back and do. Well, I mean Michael Jordan used
2:43:31
to kill Michael Jordan. What is everybody keeps stop
2:43:35
comparing? Michael, Jordan, anybody, my
2:43:37
Michael Jordan is a different type of place.
2:43:41
The guy you would say for football, I just think
2:43:44
quarterback is different than playing the game of basketball
2:43:46
and Michael Jordan is a specific person player.
2:43:51
You know, that dominated his sport.
2:43:53
It's like saying, Muhammad Ali. If he remember when he left,
2:43:56
Michael Jordan. Play baseball, just remember
2:43:58
this. Muhammad Ali stepped away from
2:44:00
boxing for five years. Remember that he came back.
2:44:03
He wasn't the same boxer. He really was it he wasn't the
2:44:06
same. You've seen a lot of guys play
2:44:08
baseball that went to the military come back and still do
2:44:10
the same thing that they did. Well, I mean, I mean I it's I
2:44:16
mean you want to argue that we can argue that but I and I don't
2:44:19
think you're wrong. But I I just think when you look
2:44:21
at the fact of Michael Jordan and your comparing Michael
2:44:24
Jordan Torre, I would never do that.
2:44:26
And Tom, Brady, Tom Brady is also 40 something but how how
2:44:31
can you even compare that though?
2:44:32
Honestly Because they're too multifaceted sports, right?
2:44:36
And in different skill sets, that's the same reason.
2:44:40
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player but then you
2:44:43
put them on a baseball field. Look what happened. well, I I'm
2:44:49
sorry, we got Nick goody, just getting struggling to get in
2:44:52
with a little bit of connection. She's gonna be in here in a
2:44:54
second to comment back on it but Java quickly, you had something
2:44:58
about Shannon Holt Park. He wanted to get all this nasty
2:45:02
human being he would legitimately It was it was
2:45:09
gross, but great. Great teammate.
2:45:11
What did he eat his own? It's not or something.
2:45:12
I mean, I've heard know, he would literally, like so good.
2:45:16
He will know this, like in the back of like, in the back side
2:45:19
of our bullpen, in the new stadium, they would always stack
2:45:22
the Gatorade towels. And like the gum and all the
2:45:25
other stuff. Chan, ho would literally get in
2:45:29
there early would blow his nose. In a towel and wait for somebody
2:45:35
to like try and warm up and like grab a towel.
2:45:38
Oh that's and it would like it and he would do it.
2:45:41
He would not rocket it. That's how covid started.
2:45:44
Yeah. Korean not Chinese stupid.
2:45:50
Little different. and, then he would like he had this like it
2:45:56
was like, before Invisalign, but like this little Chomper that he
2:45:59
had and he would like Eat with it.
2:46:03
Then he would take it out. Then eat more and then put it
2:46:07
back in like didn't brush his teeth.
2:46:08
Didn't do anything. It'd be like in the pen and then
2:46:11
Roman are bullpen catcher. He's the best love him.
2:46:20
He's awesome. He's a scout now.
2:46:24
But literally chanho would throw he would not rocket on his hand
2:46:28
and rub up the baseball know, disgusting.
2:46:31
And then he would try to throw it to Roman and Roman just lean
2:46:34
out of the way. he'd be like, Need a new one.
2:46:38
Need a new one. He couldn't catch it can hold
2:46:41
was he was, he was a Like if you ever look up I don't ever want
2:46:46
to meet him or shake his hands cuz he probably, I hope no idea
2:46:49
is gonna be that discussing fish.
2:46:51
Look up like champ, this is chant.
2:46:54
Ho toy. Look up the interview of him at
2:46:58
Fenway. Why he?
2:47:02
Because he literally is doing an interview goes I have a lot of
2:47:05
diarrhea. And I am laughing in the
2:47:08
background. You see Moe's face in the
2:47:11
background laughing because he doesn't say it just one.
2:47:14
He says it like three times I am.
2:47:16
I'm the one in the back horse laughing and it is the funniest
2:47:20
I was like, did he just say that?
2:47:22
Like, he just said he had diarrhea three, like, and George
2:47:27
King who I love wrote for the most forever.
2:47:31
And was like, yeah, they said you had a stomach ache and he
2:47:35
had a lot of diarrhea. And I'm like did he just say
2:47:39
that? Hold on. and I'm like, three
2:47:42
lockers away and Fenway, let's just say Fenway, you're nuts to
2:47:48
The lockers are very small, they're very close.
2:47:49
So you're all right there it's gonna pull it out of my ass way.
2:47:53
And then he literally keeps. and, If you watch it on YouTube
2:47:59
it is. I Horseland in the background
2:48:02
and they're like, who is you give me your horse laugh?
2:48:05
Because I hear your horse laugh. Know you watch, you'll watch it
2:48:09
because it has to be updated. It can't be, it can't be.
2:48:12
This makes my pecker hard. But no it was great.
2:48:16
Other one I want to go before good he does that.
2:48:20
I have to give a shout out to of being one of the best I've ever
2:48:23
Woody is one carry wood and Joe Nathan.
2:48:26
Jonathan was very underappreciated for the run
2:48:29
that he had just because he was with the twins and he never beat
2:48:32
the Yankees. But if you look at a 10 year
2:48:34
round that Joe Nathan had compared to most.
2:48:37
It's a very very similar and he deserves to be and all Fame.
2:48:42
I don't know if he's gonna get in because he doesn't have
2:48:44
enough saves. But man, he's he's a Hall of
2:48:48
Famer to me and my family. and one of the best people that you
2:48:52
could ride or die with in every aspect, All right, so let's move
2:48:58
on. ER heard your coaching just made
2:49:04
my nipples right now. I just got my first my first
2:49:07
coaching win. Oh, first up as a coach 17
2:49:12
strikeouts for walks. What a 360.
2:49:16
Pretty good, pretty first. But before we get into it
2:49:20
though, how was how was vacation dog?
2:49:23
Awesome. I'm with didn't come back.
2:49:26
I farted, damn, these kids were out.
2:49:30
Yeah, yeah. And then, on my way back, my, my
2:49:33
boarding pass got flagged with like, four SS, which is like
2:49:37
selective security, search or something.
2:49:38
I was like, damn. I'm really not coming back,
2:49:42
smell my ass and then after the cavity search was all good.
2:49:46
They didn't find anything. I felt great after that.
2:49:48
Now I'm back home. Smell my ass.
2:49:50
Here we are they wrote, they rubber gloved you. but, I told
2:49:56
him no good. Bagel.
2:50:01
That's, that's wow, this guy might have happened on goody has
2:50:05
no goodies. Analytics.
2:50:08
Oh, I'm sure I missed it. I wasn't no sack.
2:50:12
So Good Eats it just call it a pain.
2:50:15
We're just gonna wrap it up with your story.
2:50:16
If you have any mariana rivera stories, we're gonna share some
2:50:20
of those or any other great relievers you shared the pain
2:50:24
with Sports tonight, I have no sack.
2:50:27
Yeah, that one. He was good. it was our Um yeah,
2:50:32
my first spring training with Mario.
2:50:34
Let's see. I was I just had gotten drafted.
2:50:38
I never went to Marley Camp, went straight to Major League
2:50:40
Camp. No, big?
2:50:43
Oh yeah, cuz they did that back. Then I didn't get to go.
2:50:47
They didn't do that. I was like the only guy to do
2:50:50
that in our draft class because I went, I jumped three levels in
2:50:53
like a month and the World Baseball Classic was happening
2:50:56
around that time. So a lot of our players went to
2:50:58
go playing it. so, I ended up Getting put on long story short
2:51:04
before like the first game, I get in a car accident, shred my
2:51:06
ankle up. This was a Mario on, it was
2:51:08
coming back from his knee injury.
2:51:09
So we spent a lot of time rehabbing together.
2:51:12
And got to know him pretty well. Awesome guy like two years
2:51:16
later. I was in double A.
2:51:20
He had already retired. And he came out to throw the
2:51:24
first pitch in Trenton. And I remember walking up to a
2:51:27
map like after the game or before the game or something and
2:51:31
I was like hey Moe. I was like I don't I don't know
2:51:34
if you remember me and he's like, oh Nick, what's up?
2:51:36
That goody yeah, he's like how's your ankle doing?
2:51:39
And I'm like dude what? And like, just left an
2:51:44
impression on me. I'm like, this guy's absolutely
2:51:46
Legend like just like I was some minor league guy who was
2:51:49
rehabbing in my ankle and he just happened to remember me two
2:51:53
years later when I hadn't seen him.
2:51:55
And I couldn't tell you how long Jeter was the same way though.
2:51:58
Jeter was the same way like they just knew guys and they like
2:52:01
they got it. They really did.
2:52:03
Who was the? Who was the first big leader to
2:52:05
say hi to you. That's a good question.
2:52:11
I don't remember. It was probably Jeter.
2:52:18
Mine was when I was when I was signing and it's not a super
2:52:22
popular name, by any means, but had a great career, Miguel
2:52:25
Cairo. Wow.
2:52:28
Okay. Yep.
2:52:29
It was the Mexican pitcher that pitched for the Yankees and for
2:52:33
Boston, Crazy, dude. You're telling crazy stories.
2:52:39
I can't remember his name. I gotta go back off now.
2:52:43
Alfredo sevens. I said, yeah, I remember that
2:52:46
name, bro. You are drinking.
2:52:48
I'm rehabbing my elbow. Nobody sweats.
2:52:50
More than that guy. It's one.
2:52:52
You would have it literally dripping.
2:52:55
It's unbelievable. Bartolo Bartolo had his pinky
2:53:01
nail? Yeah.
2:53:02
Well, Alfredo service. I remember They're like he was a
2:53:06
mercenary too by the way. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
2:53:09
Like he killed people for sure. Probably not.
2:53:11
Actually, I don't know if I can say, they're not don't know. but
2:53:14
whatever, but I remember coming in Spring training.
2:53:19
He was down there, either signing or rehabbing or doing
2:53:22
something. And I walk into the food room
2:53:24
and he's the only one in there and I'm like, like this is
2:53:29
questionable. so, I walk in Get my food, he's sitting there.
2:53:35
He has his cereal which is like those pops.
2:53:38
Those Pops Pops. You know, like nobody eats
2:53:42
those, they're disgusting. They're like just all filled
2:53:45
with all the bullshit and he's sitting there eating his pops
2:53:49
and he has a carton of egg whites, and he's jumping.
2:53:52
The egg whites into his pops and eating them like that.
2:53:55
Yeah, of course, poops would like that, because it's
2:53:58
whatever. But I'm like, dude, I'm like,
2:54:02
hey man. Those are pueblos.
2:54:06
He's like he just kind of like looks amazing.
2:54:09
He's like, Oh, this place guys. He was a he was a different
2:54:17
human. like, Oh, that's the kind of stories we learned.
2:54:21
I have business here and a call to the pain and another great
2:54:27
rendition, some inside baseball stores.
2:54:31
I like anal. oh, all right, let's go to a quick break.
2:54:37
When we come back we got a couple more segments.
2:54:40
We have sounded out. We're gonna get into the Yankees
2:54:42
and Dodgers rematch, which was back in where he wasn't.
2:54:45
I don't wasn't much of a series. I could say that Yankees
2:54:49
obviously won game three but it was just absolutely horrible
2:54:51
especially Saturday getting their butts reamed.
2:54:54
It was just happened but the return of DJ LMAO.
2:54:57
We actually showed up in a game so we'll get into that when we
2:55:00
come back. But first, our Sports minutes as
2:55:02
we always do. Three.
2:55:05
This is the Java and the mouth Sportsman is.
2:55:09
All right, guys. Aaron Fishman here.
2:55:12
Once again, with your sports minute, I'm going to go through
2:55:15
a few stories. Before we get into tonight's
2:55:17
scores, Ellie Dela, Cruz, played Sunday at his own insistence
2:55:22
after learning that his older sister tragically passed away.
2:55:26
When he played, he hit a 423 foot home run, he takes so much
2:55:32
pride in being available manager.
2:55:33
Terry Francona said, guys, like that Carlos Santana and
2:55:36
Cleveland was very similar and for a kid that that's that
2:55:39
young, that's an admirable trade.
2:55:42
The red sighted Dela Cruz is privacy for his lack of speaking
2:55:45
to reporters or giving up statement.
2:55:47
After the game Dela Cruz is one of baseball's brightest, young
2:55:49
Stars, sending thoughts and Chris's family from Mars here at
2:55:53
the show. Lyons four-time Pro Bowl Center.
2:55:56
Frank ragnow has informed the team that he is retiring these
2:56:01
past couple of months have been very trying as I consider
2:56:04
Realization that my football Journeys.
2:56:06
And I'm officially retiring from the NFL, which is an a post on
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Instagram. I've tried to convince myself
2:56:12
that I'm feeling good but I'm not and it's time to prioritize
2:56:15
my health and my family's future.
2:56:17
I give this team everything I have and I thought I had more to
2:56:19
give but the reality is I simply don't I have to listen to my
2:56:22
body. And this has been one of the
2:56:25
hardest decisions of my life. The Lions organization has been
2:56:27
absolutely incredible throughout this process and I can't
2:56:31
emphasize enough how grateful I am for the team and all the fans
2:56:35
was absolute honor going to battle for you.
2:56:38
All right now, who has been a second Team all pro for the last
2:56:41
two seasons and three out of the last four will be hard to
2:56:44
replace for the Lions who are currently playing rookie.
2:56:47
Second round, pick Tate ratledge at center after playing guard at
2:56:50
Georgia. The Lions who was identity has
2:56:54
been on the ground, we'll miss ragnow.
2:56:57
This year, a year where both of their coordinators became head
2:57:00
coaches, taking some staff with them, despite having a still
2:57:03
excellent roster and Coach, Dan Campbell's, gonna have his work
2:57:06
cut out for him in 2025. And finally, the Seattle
2:57:09
Mariners have decided to retire in new number twice.
2:57:12
Seattle announced. They're going to retire number
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51. Warren by both famous each hero
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Suzuki in Randy Johnson as Mariners the while each row will
2:57:21
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2:57:23
On August 9th and a ceremony. It was announced a separate
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2:57:31
I'm happy that my contributions over the 10 years that I was
2:57:35
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2:57:38
time, that's for sure. Always the happy camper, Randy
2:57:43
Johnson, the all-time leading, strikeout pitcher for
2:57:46
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We've been doing pretty well recently.
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I would say you're batting average in this.
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Is over 300. That's All-Star caliber.
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3:00:19
I think you went from a bowl of cereal, crushing food, a bowl of
3:00:23
cereal to what, what are you having over Laffy Taffy over
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there. One thing I didn't know in this
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league is there's no visitors club houses and there's no post
3:00:31
game spread so you know, clock from crushing up.
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wife's. Rice and sausage.
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It is good. Sausage Speedster.
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Best thing. Your wife cooks getting.
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Is she a baker or a cooker? Who she when I met her?
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She could do a mean Bowl cereal. Now she can whip up anything,
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bro. I mean I said like a Cajun is
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like occasion pop like a Cajun sausage pasta she does like
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chicken and like roasted vegetables, really really good
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like clean. She cooks clean.
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sticks to the baking site. Like oh so there's a couple
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things, it's okay. Got one.
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When I met her. She never had steak.
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Now she ate steak. Crazy, I know.
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How about that from? 5 minutes from my house.
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Oh, we're up. Eight minutes apart.
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Thank you. Never met before.
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There were high school sweethearts slapped out in the
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same Big Bear. Slap, that ass.
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Thank you. So we get we're gonna stay in
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this baseball. For sound that out.
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This is the one where we get some high disturbing person
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athletes names to Errol, and he's got a Sound of Music, a
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finger. Here we go.
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Ariel first one, we're staying baseball, the whole time.
3:02:03
Here we go. Sound Corey lubricity.
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That's really close loopy, loopy to give you credit for it.
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Lou Becky was more like what it is, but we'll give you Corey Lou
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backyard key one for one Arrow marks.
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Nice start. I think you're going to do well
3:02:33
on this one tonight. I don't know about, so we got
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them. All right, here we go.
3:02:38
Going on to our second one. See if you can keep the streak
3:02:41
alive. Sound it out.
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It's in a while. Just inducer.
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You do it. He's right to it in a row.
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Oh man. Do sure, not dushay.
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Do sure. Have you ever sniffed?
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I thought I thought you'd appreciate the way it's
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pronounced. Do you want to trim fish?
3:03:04
That's two for two Arrow. Oh man, I'm the best you've done
3:03:09
ever. Can you sweep?
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I sounded out for the first time ever.
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Here we go. I want to do all last one.
3:03:17
And it's this is one of my all-time favorites Arrow.
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He's a Kansas City, coach now sounded out.
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I was with him by the way, Rusty Kuntz.
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Hey, the Clean Sweep forever. Miracle, are you a meat Bender?
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Yes. Rusty Kuntz spelled slightly
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differently than how it sounds fold it out of my own gonna kick
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out of that. A perfect as long as she's using
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dude wipes and taking care of my two hole.
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I'm good. Hey guys, is is one of one of my
3:03:59
favorite coaches, Rusty was awesome, Rusty.
3:04:02
I saw him in the news. I know what you thought I was
3:04:05
gonna say ugly. I know what, you know, on his
3:04:08
way up So teaching them out field.
3:04:10
So guys that's been sounded out. Wow, three for three, I'm in
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that's the first time ever. I'm hitting, I'm hitting over a
3:04:17
thousand baby next week, will probably will.
3:04:20
Yeah, go over a thousand, a thousand, and one house that.
3:04:25
Anyways, speaking of not hitting over a thousand, the Dodgers
3:04:29
took two out of three games against the Yankees this
3:04:32
weekend, in their first series, since the World Series last
3:04:36
year, Aaron judge, hit his 21st home run of the Season Friday
3:04:41
night, ohtani hit two in that game to give him 22 for the
3:04:46
year. The Dodgers blew out the Yankees
3:04:48
18 to 2 on Saturdays game including two home runs and
3:04:53
seven RBIs by Mr. Maxx Muncie, the Yankees, avoided the suite
3:04:58
with a 7-3 win on Sundays game in Sunday's game, led by DJ
3:05:03
lamayo, who hit foreheads and two RBIs and the game Yankees
3:05:08
are one of Three teams along with the Reds in the Mets that
3:05:12
have been swept this season, both the Yankees and the
3:05:16
Dodgers. Now have 36 wins following this
3:05:20
series tied for the third best record in baseball.
3:05:24
First of all, the Yankees looked horrible.
3:05:29
In in game number two, against the Dodgers.
3:05:31
They were absolutely putrid. The pitching was horrible and
3:05:35
Max free had his first loss on Friday.
3:05:38
So it didn't look good. And I'm not taking shots at Matt
3:05:42
wasn't because he pitched bad? No, but he gave up six earned
3:05:46
runs in that game. So I again going back to looking
3:05:50
at what the Dodgers have done to the Yankees over the last two
3:05:53
years, it doesn't look good. Now hopefully if they meet up in
3:05:58
the World Series again, the Yankees will have a better
3:06:01
chance of winning Ron. Don is Ron, don't his played
3:06:03
fantastic all season, I think he's, he already is 2.67.
3:06:08
He's been since Sensational with Max freed with his era at one
3:06:11
point nine seven. I mean, they've been a good one
3:06:14
to punch. Could you imagine if Garrett,
3:06:16
Cole was a part of this rotation, this would be the best
3:06:19
rotation in Bates, Paul. You can't even argue that.
3:06:21
But the Yankees Aaron judge. If Aaron judge doesn't hit, this
3:06:25
team has had a lack of offense. Now, John Carlos Obviously
3:06:29
should this this team when he actually heats up?
3:06:33
And he gets fully back into this lineup but hopefully this lineup
3:06:36
looks a little bit better and Bellinger was on what a 1413
3:06:40
game hitting streak. Maybe he hid his back comes
3:06:43
alive, but Goldsmith has been Sensational but against the
3:06:47
Dodgers they've just they can't hit against them.
3:06:50
And again, you're going to have to show up against Yamamoto like
3:06:54
they did on Sunday, if they do that and Otani should be back on
3:06:58
the mound and the second half of the Season.
3:07:00
You're gonna have to contend with that as well.
3:07:02
So I do believe the Yankees are better than they were this past
3:07:07
weekend, but you don't you don't go out against the Dodgers and
3:07:10
give up 18 runs that was embarrassing.
3:07:12
I know it was in LA but it's embarrassing when you don't show
3:07:16
up in a game where and in a series that you expect the
3:07:19
Yankees to remember what happened last year, especially
3:07:22
in game one, when they were up six to five going into tonight
3:07:26
thinning and a bad blunder deciding to bring Ernesto
3:07:29
Cortez, which cost them really this series because maybe if the
3:07:32
Yankees win that game and they're up one nothing and they
3:07:35
win game two, they're up to nothing.
3:07:37
Maybe it's a different series, but the Dodgers are the best
3:07:40
all-around team in baseball. When healthy, they didn't have
3:07:42
Mookie Betts. When Mookie Betts gets healthy,
3:07:45
the Yankees are gonna have to contend with that, but the
3:07:48
Dodgers are going to pick up their pick up the slack.
3:07:50
They were never going to be as bad as they were in the
3:07:53
beginning of the season. This is too good of a lineup for
3:07:55
any free. Men is one of the best players
3:07:57
in baseball when he's 100% healthy and they have a
3:08:00
tremendous lineup, just think about this, they have three nvps
3:08:06
when healthy in their lineup, they have Mookie Betts They have
3:08:10
Friedman and they have ohtani. Just think about that.
3:08:14
The Yankees do too. If you really look at it, they
3:08:16
do do Goldschmidt Giancarlo and Aaron judge.
3:08:20
But I think, obviously the better three and the better duo
3:08:24
or the trio, I would go with the Dodgers because Mookie Betts,
3:08:28
you can argue is one of the top five best players in the league
3:08:31
Freeman. You can argue when healthy he's
3:08:33
a top 10 player and then no time in MVP.
3:08:36
Yeah, yes. But I also look at belligerent,
3:08:42
its consistency and Bellinger did win an MVP, but nobody even
3:08:45
remember is when I think all. So that I also look at the stats
3:08:49
too. Like if yellowish doesn't get
3:08:50
hurt he probably wins the heavy like I think he got hurt in the
3:08:53
last season, I just, I think obviously.
3:08:56
Yeah. I think obviously the Yankees
3:08:59
lineup is very important this year and they're going after
3:09:02
show up against these teams this week against the Dodgers.
3:09:05
If they expect to win, I think they have more depth.
3:09:07
Definitely losing one soda wants.
3:09:10
Doing nothing right now with the Mets.
3:09:11
I know everybody's gonna say, what do you mean?
3:09:12
He has 10 home runs but he's at batting 233.
3:09:15
I already entered a double play tonight.
3:09:16
Yeah, he's batting 233. The Yankees are missing and when
3:09:19
they added Max free, and they have gold Schmidt who's batting
3:09:22
344 340 right now. And then Bellinger you at one
3:09:26
point, you know, was batting 197 and now he's batting in the 250.
3:09:30
So I think if Bellinger brings up his batting average to 270,
3:09:34
this lineup could be very potent and we haven't seen this lineup
3:09:38
at a full strength. We have the jism man who hasn't
3:09:42
been 100% healthy. John Carlos has really not been
3:09:44
in this lineup. So we'll see what this lineup is
3:09:47
gonna be a full strength. And by the way the Yankees
3:09:49
Bullpen has been one of the more underrated bullpens in all of
3:09:52
baseball. And Devin Williams is actually
3:09:55
back, he's actually showing up over the last couple weeks and
3:09:58
Pitch very well in this in in this Bullpen.
3:10:01
So if Devin Williams is out full strength in this Bullpen plays
3:10:05
on all cylinders and obviously doesn't die down in the second
3:10:08
half, like we've seen many Any Aaron Boone ball pants have done
3:10:12
over the last couple of years. I think the Yankees could be a
3:10:16
very dangerous team in the playoffs.
3:10:17
Yeah, the difference. I think with this Bullpen
3:10:19
though, it's younger like a lot of the times.
3:10:21
It was the veterans that died out and they either got hurt or
3:10:23
they could just got two worn down.
3:10:24
But now, they have younger pictures, they can use in those
3:10:26
roles, too. Weaver's been unbelievable.
3:10:28
Yeah, we've ever been very good Clarke Schmidt when he's
3:10:31
healthy. He's been going out now.
3:10:32
Yeah, we heard about a month and a half.
3:10:33
Oh wow. Oh, that doesn't matter what we
3:10:36
need him for the playoffs, right, for the play, and that's
3:10:39
where it looks like the organizational depth, a little
3:10:40
better, we're fine. And I think the hitting wise
3:10:42
too, it's the same kind of thing.
3:10:43
Like the Yankees were always just considered top heavy.
3:10:45
Now they have the assets both with the veterans like he was
3:10:47
saying with Goldman and Bellinger and the youngster as
3:10:49
well as hitting a certain points been right to the beginning of
3:10:51
the season in a certain point. So it's just a different but the
3:10:54
daughter of the model right now and showing I think 11 pictures
3:10:56
heard and they're still not missing a Beat.
3:10:59
Can I give you some Dodgers injuries?
3:11:01
Because you're talking about the Yankees?
3:11:02
Not like I said, I think they have 11 pictures or something
3:11:05
like that. It's way worse for the Dodge.
3:11:07
I predicted this to happen. I predicted this to happen.
3:11:10
So mookie bed says, a broken, like, ringtone on his left foot,
3:11:13
so that it's just a pain tolerance and from all the
3:11:16
bowling he does. Well, whatever it is, is the tip
3:11:20
of his ringtone, so you can't do anything for that.
3:11:22
By the way, there's nothing you can do.
3:11:24
Besides you, just let it go. It just hurts and you just gotta
3:11:27
deal with it glazed. Now, as you and we all know he
3:11:30
was gonna be on and off the eel this year.
3:11:32
Blake Snell hasn't really done anything at this year.
3:11:35
He should he started to throw right now?
3:11:37
He had to set back. Not everybody remember is,
3:11:40
Michael kopech is on Hope, and he should be back this week.
3:11:46
So that's another guy that I've seen touched in the high 90s
3:11:49
that they'll get Kirby Yates should be back at the end of the
3:11:53
week as well. So that's another high-end
3:11:55
reliever they lost Sheehan. They lost some other guys, I
3:12:01
haven't really heard of obviously Roki Sasaki went down
3:12:05
and what he didn't pan out this year's probably not going to be
3:12:07
much of a thing for this year, trying to instill in their pain.
3:12:11
You know, he's starting up a progression.
3:12:13
They are gradual. He might come back later in this
3:12:17
like late season. These are names like real legit
3:12:22
names that they just aren't even playing yet, because they have
3:12:26
so much money and so Much Death because of the money.
3:12:29
They built a team to last. So even though these guys are
3:12:33
out, they're still the best team in the league.
3:12:35
I will say this, they are DJ lamayo, plays a big part in this
3:12:39
lineup for the Yankees. If he comes back, even half at
3:12:43
full strength and he plays and he's healthy.
3:12:46
He adds a third Base Glove, that the Yankees have been missing
3:12:49
and he gives you a switch hitting, you know, a guy that
3:12:53
on, as far as I'm concerned, could play a big part.
3:12:55
This is a guy that won a batting title in the National League in
3:12:59
the American League. How many players have done that
3:13:00
before? So this is a guy.
3:13:02
I'm not saying that we need the old DJ limit, that when's
3:13:05
batting titles. You just need him to be a 270
3:13:08
276 hitter, if he gives you that, I mean, the Yankee is
3:13:12
their lineup is potent. It could be really, really bone.
3:13:15
DJ Lamaya was lost a lost all season last year.
3:13:20
Technically up and down, and even in the playoffs.
3:13:23
It where was DJ Lemay it wasn't even, it didn't even play in the
3:13:25
playoffs. So they need diesel, I made you
3:13:28
to stay healthy if he could stay healthy this line up from top to
3:13:32
bottom top, are you been saying this over and over and over
3:13:34
again? Remember when we we started this
3:13:36
and we started doing like a little podcast show after, you
3:13:40
know, during the playoffs. What did we talk about?
3:13:41
The reason why the Yankees were going to have a problem was
3:13:44
winning against, you know, maybe the Dodgers or whoever comes out
3:13:47
of the, the national league is they don't have a potent lineup
3:13:51
from one to nine. Now, you you get rid of Soto and
3:13:53
you add Bellinger, you have a healthy diesel, you John Carlos
3:13:57
Stanton, and then you have gold Schmidt.
3:14:00
This is a potent for. This is a potent lineup from one
3:14:02
to nine. This is a different team than
3:14:04
the Yankees World last year. Yeah, I think it's it's
3:14:09
different in a way where there's a little bit more.
3:14:14
Diversity in the fact of they can do a lot of different
3:14:17
things. They're not going to rely on one
3:14:19
certain thing. Obviously we seen what stand can
3:14:21
do in the playoffs and you know and that's that's why I'm not
3:14:24
like too worried about him getting back anytime soon
3:14:27
because he's proven what he can do in the playoffs.
3:14:31
I think, with Leo. I think it's I think 100% we're
3:14:35
not going to get the batting title winner we're not and and
3:14:39
that's okay because Father Time wins everything as we said on
3:14:42
the show before, But if we can get half to three quarters, I
3:14:46
mean, he's still, he brings Great Value to what they are.
3:14:51
and what I love too about, Things that they have done and
3:14:56
and where I'm I don't like obviously.
3:14:59
They're you know, they're the same record as the Dodgers right
3:15:02
now and nobody would have thought the Tigers would have
3:15:05
the best record in baseball right now, but nobody would have
3:15:07
thought that here as we sit in the beginning of June, but being
3:15:12
able to have those guys and then bring them back at at some
3:15:16
point. It it's kind of like you get a
3:15:18
free agent. I would like them to see them do
3:15:22
something at the, the deadline, I don't know what they're going
3:15:26
to do, or what they're willing to give up.
3:15:27
We'll have to have you know, Brian come back on and give us a
3:15:32
little insight on that one. So we get closer to the deadline
3:15:34
but I think with this lineup, it It has guys that have one before
3:15:40
and know how to win. And they have made had off years
3:15:43
but they know how to win. They've been in the situation
3:15:46
before it and as you know, in a clubhouse You know, like when
3:15:52
guys don't panic because it's like, we're gonna go through a
3:15:56
bad stretch, Maybe. But if you have guys that know
3:15:58
how to win and know how to just like hey you know what, it's not
3:16:03
a Sprint. It's a marathon.
3:16:05
And I think that's really how this lineup.
3:16:08
Got even better mind you losing a soda is is you're losing your
3:16:12
subtle? Yeah.
3:16:13
You're looking at his ear and seeing what he said in, yes, but
3:16:16
it's still sucks to lose a cow Bellinger's.
3:16:18
Having a better year than soda is right now.
3:16:19
Oh, I know, I know. I'm not saying that.
3:16:22
Yeah, it's a bad thing that we have Kodi.
3:16:26
But it's also, you know, we do in.
3:16:28
We didn't lose anything from the maturation side.
3:16:31
Think about this. So has one two, as a young guy.
3:16:35
But still as belly, but belly also grew up around the game.
3:16:39
And knows what it takes and knows that there's no panic
3:16:42
because his dad played for the inky and I don't ever give cash
3:16:46
credit because I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire that's
3:16:50
a good line but but I think I think he did a great job of
3:16:55
bringing the right guys in that have them in mentality of how to
3:16:59
win and not panic. And not like, take it too much.
3:17:04
Into their own Dome like well, if we don't win, we don't win.
3:17:06
Well, no, we don't have to win right now.
3:17:09
Let's just be the last one standing.
3:17:11
And I think he brought really, really, really good guys in that
3:17:14
understand that mentality. Why I think this team is better
3:17:17
and even without our best picture.
3:17:19
But yes, did we bring in a guy? But have we seen what Max freed
3:17:23
has done in the playoffs too. So it's gonna be kind of Up For
3:17:26
Debate, but he's also, I love that.
3:17:28
He's also had problems against the Dodgers.
3:17:30
If you look at Max free is is record against the Dodgers.
3:17:34
It's not good. And he's actually the Dodgers
3:17:37
have been his Kryptonite so having the Phillies.
3:17:40
Yeah, he's been there his Kryptonite, so yeah.
3:17:45
Yeah, they do have a good, they have a good mix of veterans and
3:17:48
younger players. I'm just looking at their roster
3:17:50
crossbow. Veteran free veteran, Hamilton
3:17:53
probably in that. What three to four range?
3:17:56
Mark, leiter Jr. Veteran, why is he a veteran
3:17:58
veterans? Smitty, well we're on young guy,
3:18:01
Devin Williams. They brought him in veteran back
3:18:04
in to the pain. Obviously.
3:18:05
Struggled a lot this year, but it seemed to be have gotten
3:18:09
better. Up.
3:18:11
They're catching it worse? Yeah.
3:18:13
Well, yeah, I mean, well, geez, it always get worse.
3:18:16
I don't think so. I think his era was that nine
3:18:21
before he lost his job. It was bad.
3:18:22
That was 11 really. I thought, I thought it was it
3:18:27
not, so that's all samples. You only get in the first month
3:18:29
of the Season, Goldsmith veteran, Lemay.
3:18:32
You veteran Peraza young guy so it's got some time been rice,
3:18:36
young guy, orbit, Vivas young guy volpi.
3:18:40
Still young still trying to get his bearings in the big legs,
3:18:43
right? Bellinger veteran Dominguez,
3:18:46
young guy. It's a good mix, obviously,
3:18:48
judge veteran. If you have a very good mix and
3:18:52
I think the best teams in baseball the teams that can mix.
3:18:55
older guys, 30 year olds 33 year, olds guys, who are ancient
3:18:59
and pair them with younger guys that are coming up and it gives
3:19:03
a good I don't know, role model or It's a good visual to see as
3:19:10
you're saying Java. Like, all right, we just lost
3:19:12
the Series, we got swept, whatever, and you, you know,
3:19:15
some of the younger guys like, oh, am I gonna get sent out?
3:19:17
Am I going to get optioned out on?
3:19:18
You see the veterans just are even kill the entire time?
3:19:21
Because they know like, all right, we lost the Series.
3:19:24
So what we'll make it up on the back end and we'll pick it up
3:19:26
here and there and some of the best teams that I've been on
3:19:28
have been just like that and they're the most fun too because
3:19:31
you're rubbing elbows with guys who have been in the show for 8
3:19:35
to 10 years. You guys I grew up watching and
3:19:38
now I'm getting a watch them on the field and off the field and
3:19:42
calling my teammates and it's just it's just a really it's a
3:19:45
really good atmosphere and on the contrary you could be like
3:19:49
the Rockies and be what pain and 50 and they just they just got
3:19:53
the double digit wins. Dog passed the Broncos win
3:19:56
total, what a joke of an organization that my point being
3:20:00
there. Just all young so they don't
3:20:01
know how to handle failure or Now, with that being said, later
3:20:07
on in those crew and their careers, those guys and out and
3:20:10
have decent careers, they'll know how to handle failure.
3:20:12
So I don't know how many of those guys are panning out in
3:20:16
that Colorado team, but that's a whole nother.
3:20:18
How many first round draft picks do they have in that lineup?
3:20:21
I mean, seriously. It's, it's horrible to watch.
3:20:24
They're really, they're really, really good.
3:20:27
They were depending on like that, they thought were breaking
3:20:30
out this year, this Michael toglia, they had to send them
3:20:33
down the Triple A he was the first baseman didn't work, Ryan
3:20:37
McMahon supposed to be there all star.
3:20:38
He's still batting 200 doing nothing.
3:20:40
They've got nothing going on. Is it probably tovar's their
3:20:45
most consistent player? Shortstop right?
3:20:47
Yeah. Yeah.
3:20:48
Probably their most, consistent hitter.
3:20:50
What the same time, they spent they paid all that money for
3:20:52
Chris Brown. And I, it's sucks because I know
3:20:56
Chris isn't trying to be hurt and doing all that stuff.
3:20:58
But you know, you give him all that money and then it just I
3:21:02
mean he hasn't even played 100 games in the career that he's
3:21:04
been with the Rockies and it sucks because it it's not like
3:21:08
he's trying to get her it's not like he's and honestly I don't
3:21:11
know. Anthony Rendon and so I may be
3:21:14
Speaking out of my ass on this one but it just doesn't feel
3:21:17
like he wants it out. And I know Chris Brown's been
3:21:22
trying like you know he was rehabbing and Triple-A trying to
3:21:25
do all this stuff it just when you get to that point like as
3:21:28
good, he was saying those are the most fun teams because it's
3:21:31
like, yeah, I've been on teams that suck and I know how to
3:21:35
handle the failure and it makes it fun when you get to get some
3:21:38
older guys, in and You know, I remember when Ichiro came over
3:21:42
and I got to ask when I go I hated facing, you sucked, like
3:21:47
it was terrible because they don't strike out. it's gonna be
3:21:51
a long asset that I'm like okay, let me just throw the kitchen
3:21:54
sink at you. And so when you get those guys
3:21:57
like that and I think that's why are the Dodgers so great too in
3:22:01
the same aspect. They have a great manager first
3:22:04
and foremost. He knows how to manage the team
3:22:07
but he's also a player's manager.
3:22:10
He's so where he lets those guys man and his team.
3:22:14
I hate him. Oh God.
3:22:16
I absolutely despise him. I remember as a Boston Red Sox,
3:22:21
I remember he was the, he was the guy that stole that bass,
3:22:24
that really caused the Yankees that series.
3:22:27
I mean, he, I couldn't stand him as a player and I can't stand
3:22:31
him as a manager. So I I anybody can manage that
3:22:36
team, you can manage that team good.
3:22:39
He can manage that team Speedy can manage but he's holding out
3:22:42
for the Reds job. I mean, anything.
3:22:44
Listen, I I'm sorry and as much as everybody wants to give them
3:22:48
all the cabinet you're talking about.
3:22:50
Are you talking about managing the team as far as because they
3:22:53
have talent? Like there's more that goes into
3:22:56
managing. I'm sure a team that's just a
3:22:59
number. I'm sure, but you have the
3:23:00
executives, you have your you have, what do they call them?
3:23:03
The analytics department. They have all these guys that
3:23:09
are like, probably economic Majors.
3:23:11
That'll give you the mathematical equation or what,
3:23:13
what to throw it every single pitch and every single inning
3:23:17
all the MIT guys, according to fish, it's ridiculous.
3:23:19
It's absolutely ridiculous. Before we move on to dial.
3:23:23
Up it just occurred to me that Anthony Rendon is the real life,
3:23:28
Roger Dorne, love that movie. By the way, it was not want to
3:23:32
get himself. Heard, doesn't want to get dirty
3:23:34
anymore that had, you know, obviously in the movie comes
3:23:37
around to an extent, right? And then I realized, as I was
3:23:40
writing out, Roger Dorn on my paper that if you rearrange the
3:23:44
letters, you can spell Rendon with.
3:23:46
Yeah. From Roger, I will say this,
3:23:48
Roger dorne's wife in the movie, She's Got a mean by.
3:23:53
She's got a mean by movie man. One of the best she looks.
3:23:57
She looks good for revenge on Roger.
3:23:59
She look good in the 80s. That's all I'm gonna say about
3:24:01
that. That's anyways, holy shit door,
3:24:08
I know, could he can't say? But I know he's looking at us.
3:24:11
Anyways, we call this dial it up.
3:24:14
This regular, we got a big brother.
3:24:24
Hmm, welcome to dial it up, everybody.
3:24:27
This is our lightning round segment.
3:24:29
Where Arrow gets a bunch of stories?
3:24:31
He hasn't seen and has to do a lightning round.
3:24:34
Take on it tonight. We start with the final episode
3:24:38
of Inside the NBA on TNT. Yes, with the Knicks loss to the
3:24:44
Pacers. That is the last broadcast of
3:24:47
the year. And of all time for the TNT
3:24:50
version, at least of inside the MBA, if you don't know the show,
3:24:55
it's the one with Shaq. Charles Barkley.
3:24:57
Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson. Ernie Johnson's actually been
3:25:01
hosting the show since 1990, which is before these guys are
3:25:05
on it. Can you join the 98 Barkley?
3:25:07
In Shack more recently, still 14 years ago in 20 110 TNT gave up
3:25:13
the media rights to the NBA, which is why the show is, moving
3:25:16
ESPN is not stupid. They are going to try to
3:25:19
continue the show with the same for guys at least.
3:25:24
To start Arrow. Dial it up.
3:25:27
It's pretty fair. That these four guys are
3:25:29
Sensational together, but I expect Stephen A Smith to be a
3:25:32
part of this. I expect Kendrick Perkins to be
3:25:35
a part of it. I expect all those clowns to be
3:25:38
a part of this show. It's going to ruin the show.
3:25:40
They have a great Fabric of Talent on the show as a as it is
3:25:46
is there together for over all these years Shaquille, O'Neal?
3:25:50
Actually joined the show, but it was really Charles Barkley and
3:25:53
Kenny and Ernie Johnson. They were Sensational and it
3:25:57
shocked, the personality that he is, and, and what he brings to
3:26:00
the table, it just gives a different Dynamic to the show.
3:26:03
It's a shame that TNT cannot hold on to it.
3:26:06
And honestly, when you look at the game as a whole, and the NBA
3:26:09
and what TNT brings to the NBA, it's so much better than the
3:26:13
ESPN. Watching it on ESPN is pathetic
3:26:16
and I even watching on ABC, which is owned by ESPN, it's
3:26:19
horrible. I just why I like the way they
3:26:23
produce and they bring the product to the Forefront on TNT,
3:26:27
if it's horrible to, it's horrible that turn a TV, took it
3:26:30
away and I think turn a TV should have fixed this or and
3:26:33
try to renegotiate the deal but the NBA didn't not want to be on
3:26:38
TNT anymore. They wanted it all on ESPN it
3:26:41
figures. You know, the I'll be I'll say
3:26:43
this again. LeBron James Association has
3:26:46
been like this for a long, long time.
3:26:47
And now LeBron got what he wanted on ESPN, so good for him.
3:26:51
Congratulations, I'm 100% there on it.
3:26:54
Looking at this entire panel, this entire crew on for, as long
3:26:58
as I've been watching basketball for, there's nothing more
3:27:00
entertaining than watching these four honestly.
3:27:03
Not even barely talk about basketball, but when they
3:27:05
honestly did talk about basketball, very entertaining.
3:27:07
But ESPN, it will not be the same audience PN and not only
3:27:11
for that fact, but it's all everybody else looks at ESPN has
3:27:15
started a? Well, it is owned as a Disney
3:27:17
sort of owned piece of network. So it's honestly gonna be very
3:27:21
censored, very, I guess dumbed down in the sense that it's
3:27:23
definitely not gonna be the same.
3:27:24
So it's really the end of an era because it's definitely not
3:27:27
gonna be the same NBA on TNT or the Inside.
3:27:30
The NBA that I grew up watching, so it's pretty heartbreaking.
3:27:33
Does feel like it's the type of show ESPN's gonna screw up.
3:27:37
It feels like it's to me, but we'll see.
3:27:39
I hope it's still good as we move forwards with Those guys
3:27:43
Shaq was my all-time favorite non Nic.
3:27:45
Let's move on to the next one. We're gonna go to baseball and
3:27:49
Lou Gehrig's day is today. So during last night's game,
3:27:55
Carl ravitch who was calling the game for ESPN.
3:27:58
The back in the day did baseball tonight forever.
3:28:01
And now he's doing the play-by-play was calling the
3:28:03
game. Took a break from the action and
3:28:04
present. A video package about Lou
3:28:06
Gehrig. And also the disease more
3:28:08
commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
3:28:10
He has been played a short video package during the broadcast
3:28:13
featuring an AI voice of Sarah Lang's a long time, baseball
3:28:17
statistician and reporter was afflicted with ALS Lang's voice
3:28:21
has been significantly impacted by the Z's.
3:28:23
So the AI was really the first time, you know, we got into
3:28:27
here, her voice away, it was a long time including her.
3:28:31
She had a very touching, she was very touched on social media and
3:28:34
shared at everyone. She stays relevant to the game
3:28:37
that are continued contributions with some of the greatest stats.
3:28:40
Sometimes I take them, I know Java you reference some time as
3:28:43
well on social media while fighting, you know, literally
3:28:46
the most uphill battle that there is teams will wear to.
3:28:49
I mean they must have been wearing it all night tonight.
3:28:51
Red wristbands Say for ALS on them for support Errol dial it
3:28:57
up. Oh my God, it's this is a
3:29:00
horrible, horrible story but it also brings such a light to what
3:29:04
Lou Gehrig's disease is. It's a horrible disease, one of
3:29:07
the worst diseases you could ever imagine to have and it
3:29:11
pretty much kills you. It takes everything away and
3:29:13
it's a horrible story. But again, the what the MLB is
3:29:17
doing for this young lady and what AI could could really
3:29:21
change when it comes to the things that he can deliver in
3:29:24
many different ways to a lot of sickly people.
3:29:27
We've seen so many sick people over the last couple of years,
3:29:30
which so many different diseases and sicknesses and they can't
3:29:33
speak and now they have all different machines and things
3:29:35
that they can bring to the Forefront to help these sick you
3:29:39
know sick and obviously on unfamiliar unfamiliar diseases
3:29:44
to the Forefront is a sad story but Luke is one of the greatest
3:29:49
baseball players of all time and he could have had a longer
3:29:52
career I mean, he could have played another five, six, maybe
3:29:55
even seven years at the top of his game and probably would have
3:29:59
broke more records and it's a shame because this disease came
3:30:04
to the Forefront. And this guy, one of the one of
3:30:06
the most sad speeches, you'll ever see a New York Yankees?
3:30:10
Has anybody seen the movie The Lou Gehrig movie?
3:30:12
I've got what it was called. It's such a that movie.
3:30:15
And, and that speech was probably one of the greatest
3:30:18
speeches in sports television, you know, TV or movie history
3:30:22
and it really set a lot about who Lou Gehrig is and and really
3:30:27
how it really took his life. So it's a, it's a sad story, but
3:30:32
if it brings it to light and, you know, obviously what, you
3:30:35
know, baseball is trying to do with the Lou Garrett disease,
3:30:38
and try to help in many different ways.
3:30:40
It's a good story as well. So, Pride of the Yankees is the
3:30:45
movie from the Yankees already 1942, that movie came out.
3:30:48
Gary Cooper played. He looked just like Luke, Eric,
3:30:52
too. But by the way, look just like
3:30:54
look Eric. Yeah.
3:30:56
No, you know what? I got a shot out.
3:30:59
Sarah, she is an absolute monster.
3:31:02
One of the best in the business and shout out to you, Sarah, and
3:31:07
we've obviously had our anything that I need like when it comes
3:31:11
to like research or something. If I need to sign something or
3:31:14
figure something out. I hollered her and it'll be back
3:31:19
with me in a couple of minutes. And you know what she, she is a
3:31:23
great efficient Auto for this terrible disease.
3:31:27
But also in the way she looks at it and how she's approached it
3:31:30
and how she still stays relevant and just so proud of her and
3:31:35
always always thinking about her and the things that she is done
3:31:38
and you know, it is crazy, you know, became Lou Gehrig's, he's
3:31:42
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is what it really is and he asked
3:31:46
me to say you know, that's not gonna be good for me.
3:31:48
Yeah. Well and it's it's for me my
3:31:51
dad, you know, obviously, you know getting up to make a polio
3:31:54
like everything. Like all these things are very,
3:31:57
very important to me. And, you know, when you, when
3:32:01
you have these things and and you see what it is Lou Gehrig's,
3:32:05
dealing exception they've ever made in the Hall of Fame.
3:32:08
He didn't have to wait seven years because he wasn't going to
3:32:10
get the opportunity. Because it was they didn't they
3:32:14
didn't have what they have, right?
3:32:15
And so it's I actually have a buddy of mine.
3:32:20
He got he got it when he was 30 and you know he was my catch
3:32:26
partner when I was playing and shot out.
3:32:29
Scotty love you man. And so it's just it's
3:32:34
debilitating, it's crazy. But the one thing it doesn't get
3:32:38
you, it doesn't get their mind, it takes their body but it
3:32:41
doesn't get their mind. And that's a thing to be able to
3:32:45
have one of the greatest Minds in baseball is as what Sarah
3:32:48
does. And all the people, you know,
3:32:51
showing you know, therefore front of it.
3:32:54
And I just I just saw a tweet with Mark kotsay from the the
3:32:58
A's and how big zombie is bringing it to the Forefront.
3:33:03
And you know, it's it's named after baseball player.
3:33:06
There's a lot of people that deal with it and we've seen it
3:33:08
and In multiple facets of this Sports World of people that have
3:33:13
ALS and you know the more that we can get to know about it.
3:33:16
But at the same time they're still here, they're still doing
3:33:20
their thing. And and you know what?
3:33:22
I'm so damn proud to have Sarah as a colleague from the baseball
3:33:26
side of it and just for her to still be with us and, and share
3:33:30
the moments that she is going to share with us and tell the she's
3:33:35
gonna, she's gonna fight as hard as she can, and we know this, if
3:33:38
you know, Sarah. And so, it's just really cool to
3:33:41
see. Yeah.
3:33:43
So, you know, Just One Last Time, shout out to Sarah.
3:33:46
Lang's is in baseball. Just the best.
3:33:48
All right, moving on to the next one.
3:33:52
This is something arrow and I had a discussion about the other
3:33:56
night and we got to get into it. The NFL Hall of Fame debate in
3:34:02
2004 three, great. Quarterbacks came into the
3:34:04
league at the same draft and we know who they are.
3:34:08
It was Philip Rivers, Eli, Manning and big Ben
3:34:11
Roethlisberger. So all three of them came in
3:34:15
same year. They're all up for induction
3:34:17
this year. Eli was a last year as we know,
3:34:20
did not get inducted, even though he was a finalist.
3:34:23
And the question is are these other two going to get inducted
3:34:27
as first ballot? Are they going to get inducted
3:34:29
before Eli? Or at the same time Errol?
3:34:34
Dial it off. If you look at rivers, rivers
3:34:38
really has the best numbers out of both, quarterbacks, all three
3:34:42
quarterbacks now, Rivers, never won a championship, Eli want to
3:34:46
Ben Roethlisberger. Won two been won.
3:34:48
His first and he barely actually was even good.
3:34:51
Okay. Okay.
3:34:52
Now been actually has almost identical.
3:34:55
Numbers is Philip Rivers but out of all three quarterbacks Philip
3:34:59
Rivers has the best numbers and again I look at all three
3:35:03
quarterbacks, they're all Hall of Famers, Eli didn't go in as a
3:35:07
first ballot Hall of Famer. He'll go in this coming year.
3:35:09
He deserves it but I think Philip Rivers is absolutely a
3:35:12
first ballot Hall of Famer. Now you're gonna go back and
3:35:14
forth with me and I know what you're going to say fish.
3:35:17
He never won a championship and he played on great teams as
3:35:20
great as his teams were. None of those guys ever won a
3:35:23
championship. When they left the team
3:35:25
LaDainian. Tomlinson went to the Jets.
3:35:27
He sucked Gates was still there and Gates wouldn't have been the
3:35:30
same player he became. If it wasn't for Philip Rivers,
3:35:33
Philip Rivers never had a star wide receiver besides Antonio
3:35:37
Gates. If you go back and you look at
3:35:39
guys like Eli Manning, Eli, Manning had a pretty good
3:35:42
roster. I mean there were they were at
3:35:44
least the wide receivers over there were better than what
3:35:46
Philip Rivers had and again Ben Roethlisberger had Sensational
3:35:50
Hines Ward I could go up and down some of the good wide
3:35:54
receivers he had. I just think when you look at
3:35:56
statistically and you compare and contrast all three of these
3:36:00
quarterbacks, I, I fill up Rivers is the best one out of
3:36:03
all of them and the most accurate one out of all of them.
3:36:06
And that's honestly, it's by like 3% 3.
3:36:09
So see, I think he was career. 67% completion, percentage.
3:36:13
Eli Manning was like 62 and I was 60.3, Silver River is a
3:36:18
64.9. Yes, so and and Philip Rivers
3:36:21
was to me the most Accurate. Quote, about all three of.
3:36:26
Charges. And by the way, Eli Manning had
3:36:29
a great coach, Tom coughlin's, one of the most underrated
3:36:32
coaches of all time, very successful, then you go over Ben
3:36:35
Roethlisberger, coward is one of the more underrated coaches too.
3:36:39
Another great coach and then had Mike Tomlin a winning a winning
3:36:44
coach for his whole career over there in Pittsburgh.
3:36:46
Who did he have? Who did he have?
3:36:49
A Marty Schottenheimer. The guy was a loser.
3:36:52
Okay. Then you go over there to North
3:36:54
Turner horrible. I don't care how great of an
3:36:56
offensive coordinator. He was he wasn't a good coach.
3:36:59
He was horrible everywhere. He went so stop.
3:37:02
This guy is one of the most underrated quarterbacks and one
3:37:06
of the greatest quarterbacks. When you compare his numbers to
3:37:10
all the great ones top five and almost every single statistic he
3:37:13
is absolutely. And yes Steve White, eat your
3:37:17
heart because you can only a nice steak Hall of Famer.
3:37:20
He had Matthew Stafford over this guy.
3:37:22
What are you nuts? You're on drugs.
3:37:25
I don't want to hear about Matthew Stafford.
3:37:27
This guy had five thousand yards three times.
3:37:31
I think in his crib, I'm not mistaken, he's a sensational
3:37:34
quarterback. Take it away, baby.
3:37:36
That's all I'm gonna say. Are you done being wrong yet?
3:37:40
No, I'm not, because I know that's up here to back up my
3:37:43
point, you're wrong, which is very simple wrong, Eli Manning
3:37:47
was significantly. Need better than Philip Rivers
3:37:49
in the postseason. Why are you gonna look at the
3:37:52
two stops is just stop with the postseason.
3:37:53
Rivers, such a great completion of printage according to you,
3:37:57
actually only completed 59. Why are you looking at the
3:38:00
postseason? We're talking about the regular
3:38:03
matters. Hey really anything else?
3:38:04
Really Peyton Manning was horrible and you said hey man
3:38:08
he's one of the greatest stop. You said Peyton Manning is one
3:38:11
of the greatest look at he was horrible.
3:38:13
He was horrible stop with this garbage.
3:38:16
Yeah, my numbers are wrong. You're gonna tell me Philip
3:38:19
Rivers doesn't have better numbers than Eli Manning and Ben
3:38:21
Roethlisberger season. He does, he does stop with your
3:38:25
exact same numbers as Robles again and been played on a
3:38:29
better team. Well, you see him to forget a
3:38:32
lot about how great those teams work.
3:38:34
I didn't realize, Vince in the late.
3:38:36
Vincent Jackson was in an All-Pro receiver.
3:38:38
I didn't realize that Keenan Allen who's like 35 and still
3:38:41
playing wasn't an All-Pro. Receiver who made him an old
3:38:44
problem receiver, who made him an All-Pro receiver who made Him
3:38:48
an All-Pro receiver Harold. Who made him?
3:38:52
back when Jackson left when Jackson left.
3:38:57
What did he do? What did he do?
3:38:59
What did he do? What did he do?
3:39:01
Yeah, he went to Tamp. He was good.
3:39:03
No, he wasn't. He was the second year wide
3:39:05
receiver know. He wasn't stopped with this
3:39:07
garbage. You're gonna sit here and
3:39:09
honestly and argue with them. Stop Fish are so hot, you're not
3:39:13
obviously. Oh, I don't know how you can
3:39:15
write off. The fact that Rivers was bad in
3:39:17
the postseason. So is Peyton Manning bad, his
3:39:20
numbers. So it's been more.
3:39:21
Look at his quarterback rating, it drops 10, Ben Roethlisberger
3:39:25
wasn't really good points. Ben Roethlisberger was worse
3:39:29
than both of them in the playoffs.
3:39:31
If you look at the overall numbers, look at been 36
3:39:33
touchdowns 28 picks. He also was sacked twice as many
3:39:37
times as both Eli and rivers, but Eli case.
3:39:41
You don't remember. Kisses good for him to him.
3:39:45
Super Bowl MVPs. How many does?
3:39:47
And an elite defense. Philip Rivers never had in an
3:39:51
elite defense like that. Okay, give me a break.
3:39:53
Stop with this car. Giants were not Elite.
3:39:56
They were Elite. They were really fast rush.
3:39:59
But they were in ranked that high especially in 2011, in the
3:40:02
defense and the playoffs in the playoffs.
3:40:07
You're gonna tell me how to show you.
3:40:08
Tell me right now, you're gonna tell me right now.
3:40:11
Eli Manning was. The reason why they won the
3:40:13
Super Bowls, get off it in 2017. It was their defense in their
3:40:17
running game. It was their defense in their
3:40:19
running game. That's what it was.
3:40:20
It was no way. It was it.
3:40:22
No way. Eli was amazing.
3:40:23
Let me talk about the police. Percentage a little bit because
3:40:26
that is a misnomer as well. Eliza offense was a Kevin
3:40:30
gilbride offense and if you know a little about Kevin gilbride,
3:40:32
go back to the Tennessee, Titans Warren Moon and the run and
3:40:35
shoot offense, what Victor Cruz was doing in his routes is he's
3:40:38
looking at where the safety is in, Corners are positions
3:40:41
typically, take the top off of the defense, he's going on, 10
3:40:44
to 15 to 20 yard routes and Eliza not going to be set. 67%
3:40:49
when he's throwing it down like that Eli had way, more Airy
3:40:53
yards per passed and sidearm, throw and Philip Rivers.
3:40:55
Philip Rivers was didn't have to, because he had guys, he can
3:40:59
throw shorts with the best tight end and running back that
3:41:02
receiving running back out. So it's not like he didn't have
3:41:05
to do it. But Eli, his first completion,
3:41:07
percentage is down because that type of offense, doesn't lend
3:41:10
itself to a high completion. Percentage takes shots and the
3:41:13
Giants took lots of shots with Eli.
3:41:15
And so those last few years, all those guys last few years, roths
3:41:18
Burgers, probably the worst in the last few years of all three
3:41:21
Eli wasn't very good and rivers probably was better than the
3:41:24
other two. A couple years using the league,
3:41:26
but they all weren't great at the heights, though.
3:41:29
None of them were better than Eli.
3:41:31
You're out of your mind. You're know the fact that you're
3:41:33
coming out has stopped stopped with the Super Bowls.
3:41:36
It takes a team to win championships, stop with this
3:41:39
garbage in the regular season. 10, first of all, Philip Rivers
3:41:43
has better numbers than Eli Manning.
3:41:45
All together in their careers. I don't care about the Super
3:41:47
Bowl on this. Stop.
3:41:48
It was no play. No, it's again.
3:41:51
You're going to the playoffs in their full careers, I'm taking
3:41:55
Philip Rivers out of both of those quarterbacks.
3:41:57
And again you want to say that you want to go back into
3:42:00
playoffs and talk about what he wanted as an MVP, I'm not in MVP
3:42:04
of the playoffs again, Philip Rivers, when you look at what he
3:42:08
had, as a coach, and you look at both, guys, those guys have
3:42:12
powered could have probably won those probably three Super Bowls
3:42:15
with Ben Roethlisberger. And then you have a Tom
3:42:19
Coughlin. Tom Coughlin is the only one
3:42:21
that beat Bill, Belichick twice twice in the Super Bowl.
3:42:25
Stop with this garbage. If you told that to anybody, if
3:42:27
you sat down with people right now, he say out of all three
3:42:31
quarterbacks, who's the best one out of all of them?
3:42:33
If you look at straight up numbers throughout their career
3:42:36
regular season and even in a playoffs, Philip Rivers has the
3:42:39
best number's. I don't care what you say.
3:42:41
Well look, we'll see how they go in.
3:42:44
I would be shocked if Eli doesn't go in before both of
3:42:47
them because of the end altogether people care about
3:42:49
they should all go. They should all go
3:42:51
Roethlisberger. I think it's gonna get punished
3:42:53
for some of those extra curricular problems.
3:42:55
He was having on some college campuses with some females early
3:42:59
in his career. And I don't think they're going
3:43:01
to put them in as fast and rivers didn't win.
3:43:03
So, I think it's gonna have to wait as well.
3:43:05
It's just a lot of other quarterbacks like Drew Brees,
3:43:08
you know, other guys that you know, are above these guys that
3:43:12
are going to be talked about before and rivers probably
3:43:18
Rivers. Last, I bet Aaron Rodgers gets
3:43:20
in before Philip Rivers, you're out of your mind, you're out of
3:43:23
your mind. I think it's gonna take rivers
3:43:25
over five, you're out of your mind, your you've lost your mind
3:43:28
because he's got He's got better, he has but let's keep
3:43:32
dialing it up. This was a good one.
3:43:34
I think we're gonna revisit this at some point.
3:43:35
Next one, we're going to college baseball.
3:43:39
The top two seeds in College World, Series Vanderbilt and
3:43:44
Texas have been eliminated. A couple other high seas, all So
3:43:48
Gone. They were knocked out in their
3:43:50
Regional tournaments. This is the second time since
3:43:54
seating began in 1999 that the top two seats didn't make it
3:43:58
past regionals. In fact, Vandy didn't even make
3:44:01
it to their Regional final, they lost in the regional semi to a
3:44:04
team who then got blasted in the regional final.
3:44:07
So Vandy lost to Wright State and Texas lost in their Regional
3:44:12
final, the UTSA guys. I know you're not a big College.
3:44:17
College, baseball guy, ariel. No, I'm not, but I, but I'll
3:44:21
tell you what. When you see high seeds go down,
3:44:24
way ahead of time, it's not to be exciting.
3:44:28
So I want you to dial it all well, college baseball so
3:44:32
interesting. Because once the world series
3:44:35
comes around and College World Series, you're talking about all
3:44:38
these different teams. I remember a Stony Brook when
3:44:41
they went to the College World Series.
3:44:43
Everybody was talking about here was the biggest story.
3:44:46
They didn't care about the Jets, they didn't care about the
3:44:48
Giants or anything that happened through that season.
3:44:50
It was the Stony Brook went to the College World Series.
3:44:54
So I it's it's a cool story. I mean, I don't know much about
3:44:58
Vanderbilt. I don't know much about that
3:44:59
plays. I'm looking at RJ Hamilton and
3:45:02
Jayden Davis. I don't know anything about
3:45:04
these guys, so I'm not gonna tell you, I'm not gonna lie to
3:45:07
you on what? I know what, I don't know.
3:45:09
What I do know is this is a good time to watch, you know, who and
3:45:13
what type of players are going to go and be a draft, you know,
3:45:17
be a high draft pick. And where are they going to go
3:45:18
in the draft and and what type of players gonna show up in the
3:45:21
big game and in this, you know, in this College World Series.
3:45:25
So it's funny, I obviously found, I don't know, Know, I
3:45:28
think nothing about Vanderbilt baseball, but it's a cool story
3:45:31
that Vanderbilt is, is moving along.
3:45:33
So, good story. No, Vanderbilt got knocked out.
3:45:36
Well, I'm sorry. Got knocked out, but they made
3:45:39
it. They made it to the college
3:45:40
playoffs. So, whatever.
3:45:42
I, I don't know much about this stuff, so you're asking the
3:45:44
wrong guy when it comes the traditionally, very good
3:45:47
baseball. See, I don't know as every SEO.
3:45:50
I don't know why you would bring this up and ask me because you
3:45:52
should have told me fish. We were talking about it so I
3:45:54
can investigate right right, stay eliminates number one,
3:45:57
Vanderbilt, all right, UTSA eliminated number two texts.
3:46:02
Murray State upsets Ole Miss Oklahoma.
3:46:05
State eliminates, Georgia walk off home or Saint Mary's the
3:46:09
Beats Oregon State Mary's Basketball.
3:46:12
Yeah. Columbia.
3:46:14
I know that's Southern Miss Utah.
3:46:16
Valley eliminates, Oregon Eastern Carolina, rips.
3:46:20
North Florida, which I got what's up for that?
3:46:24
Cincinnati over Wake Forest. and right now, I don't know what the
3:46:28
score is for LSU, but They're down one so freaking A Little
3:46:36
Rock. The Tiger's going down.
3:46:38
Bow tie Goods. What do we doin'?
3:46:43
It to me, I was talking to somebody in the way home from
3:46:45
the game. It's like nil doesn't mean
3:46:48
anything. It doesn't mean anything because
3:46:50
if you can't get it, done in the postseason.
3:46:52
Yeah. You get paid all this money, but
3:46:53
if you can't win in the postseason, what is all that
3:46:55
money? Good for school's.
3:46:57
Not gonna get more money. School gets more money when they
3:46:59
win, so it's crazy. It's crazy seeing all these
3:47:02
teams just going on. Six five.
3:47:05
Do you think that's what the nil being being that baseball's?
3:47:09
Not the prominent score for a lot of those schools.
3:47:11
Maybe that's why it's not as big drastic.
3:47:13
Get like, you saw him. I just I think the world's
3:47:15
watching the playoffs if I'm gonna tune in, and when the
3:47:18
College World Series comes around, I want to see who's in
3:47:21
the game because some of these guys could be top, draft picks,
3:47:24
right? You're walking right now, like,
3:47:25
Mary stink. They might have maybe one or two
3:47:28
guys have to, I don't know, I haven't watched him.
3:47:30
Like, Texas is probably gonna have to team dropped it, so and
3:47:34
they just got eliminate it. So like you're gonna watch it.
3:47:37
Like that's why baseball is the greatest sport.
3:47:39
Because You can get a you can have upsets like this all the
3:47:44
time. It's when they want to hear,
3:47:46
he's 75 years old. Ladies and gentlemen.
3:47:51
He had to throw that out there. Baseball.
3:47:55
It's it is because it's like, it's literally, the picture can
3:47:59
go out and just have the game of his life like Dallas Braden like
3:48:02
alright. Perfect name.
3:48:03
Like, that's what he's known for and now he does commentates for
3:48:07
for the ace but it's like that's what he's known for.
3:48:10
But if you, if you look at his career he was trash.
3:48:12
That's well. It was he underperformed let's
3:48:16
just say that I like that but yes it's like it's something
3:48:21
like that. It's just at any given time.
3:48:22
It's not like you know like little Giants and they just show
3:48:26
up and anybody show up and went but that's a good college.
3:48:28
Baseball to me. So much fun to watch because of
3:48:32
stuff like this. Now I was a part of that LSU,
3:48:34
team that did lose the Sony Brooke that really sucked was
3:48:38
good time. Good time over here alone.
3:48:40
Did you ever, did you ever make the World Series?
3:48:42
Know, we lost his Tony broke. And, but my point, my point
3:48:48
being is, how many guys on Stony Brook.
3:48:50
We're in the big league, all right?
3:48:51
One actually, one more thing, guys, anyone a World Series
3:48:57
buddy? Anyone else there is no.
3:49:00
But how many guys were in the big?
3:49:02
I understand. I got it.
3:49:05
I've got it with eight guys. I got it.
3:49:08
So it's like that's okay. It's crazy.
3:49:10
You want to watch college baseball like regionals or time
3:49:12
to watch it super regionals college.
3:49:14
Baseball is epic. Yeah, absolutely epic wide
3:49:19
opening of Joe Nathan earlier though.
3:49:20
Stony Brook. I know Stony Brook from
3:49:23
Jonathan. Yeah, he built the field over
3:49:25
there, right? Beautiful, beautiful over there.
3:49:26
Last one boys went as a short stop.
3:49:30
Here it is, Zion Williamson accused of rape and other sexual
3:49:35
offenses. So, interesting Pelicans
3:49:37
forward, Zion Williamson's, accused of rape, sexual,
3:49:40
physical emotional, and financial abuse from 2018 to
3:49:44
2023. A woman identified as Jane Doe
3:49:48
is accusing Williamson of abusive controlling and
3:49:52
threatening behavior. Starting at Duke is freshman
3:49:55
year two instances of rape or part of the lawsuit.
3:49:58
Both in 2020 and the woman is seeking anywhere between 18 and
3:50:02
50 million dollars. Here's the quote, from the
3:50:06
lawyer, we take these allegations with the utmost
3:50:09
seriousness, and we unequivocally deny them as is
3:50:13
from his Attorneys at barrasso, who's in peppermint Freeman, and
3:50:17
Sarver LLC. The allegations contained in the
3:50:20
complaint are categorically false and Reckless, this appears
3:50:25
to be an attempt to exploit a professional athlete driven by a
3:50:28
financial motive rather than any legitimate grievance Errol.
3:50:35
Dial it all. It's definitely a financial
3:50:37
amount of I don't care what anybody says.
3:50:39
Now obviously you're asking for between 20 and 50 million
3:50:44
dollars, you're asking for a lot of money.
3:50:46
And I'm not saying that somebody like Williamson winning do this,
3:50:50
but there has to be physical proof If they don't have
3:50:53
physical proof. That's why it's, it's only a
3:50:56
civil case. It's not something that's going
3:50:57
to. If it was me and you or if it
3:50:59
was anybody else on this show me maybe not job or Nick but any
3:51:03
one of us we're going to jail for life, okay?
3:51:05
Because there's no way we're gonna be able to protect
3:51:07
ourselves. We're not in the public eye
3:51:10
where really not Superstar, big name players like Williamson,
3:51:14
and maybe we are. But the fact is, when you hear a
3:51:17
story like this, you know, it's money driven, it's always money
3:51:20
driven, and they're trying to, you know, take money from a
3:51:24
superstar player that has a ton of it.
3:51:26
Now, Williamson has been doing a lot of different things on the
3:51:29
basketball court and off the basketball court.
3:51:31
He's hanging out with pornos stars and all these different
3:51:34
things that you're Hearing stories over the last couple of
3:51:37
years. So we all know, Williamson likes
3:51:39
the sexy, you know, big boob, big ass type of girls, he goes
3:51:43
to a bunch of different places. I'm not going to mention off off
3:51:48
the basketball court, so we know Zion Williamson likes to party
3:51:51
but and by the way, he likes to do drugs, too, because their
3:51:54
stories about that as well, but I don't know if I think somebody
3:51:59
is trying to get some money from him and obviously being that he
3:52:02
is a name and he's got millions and millions of dollars and what
3:52:05
he has done off the court. Over the last couple of years,
3:52:07
they're trying now all of a sudden to drop something or try
3:52:11
to take something from him that they probably he probably hasn't
3:52:14
done. I don't believe this story and
3:52:16
less proving guilty and there's nothing that I have heard
3:52:20
through the story that they have any proof that he did any of
3:52:24
this. So this is just like somebody
3:52:26
from baseball that was accused of something and probably will
3:52:30
never play in the Major League again, Zion Williamson and the
3:52:33
NBA's different because guess what?
3:52:35
It's the LeBron James Association so they get away
3:52:38
with everything so but I I do not believe there's any truth to
3:52:43
these stories. Yeah.
3:52:44
It's a complex case from what it seems like I was so we know die
3:52:46
Wilson was dealing with in college as well and off the
3:52:49
court issues like outspoken stuff.
3:52:52
And like you're saying all the stuff.
3:52:53
There's no proof. Yeah, there's no right now.
3:52:55
It's very layer. Like, I mean, it's tough to tell
3:52:58
how much you're going to get the benefit of the Dallas says they
3:53:01
have Texas. And and Texas could be very
3:53:03
weird, you know, how you use your word so Texas don't sell
3:53:08
anything to the the judge and the jury.
3:53:11
So yeah. And if it was he'd be going to
3:53:13
go into jail for this, right? And that's what's difficult when
3:53:15
you're judging something like this.
3:53:16
Like how many different elements of what he's done?
3:53:19
Zion Williamson? I don't know if I necessarily
3:53:21
want to give that. But like you were talking about
3:53:24
the Trevor, Bauer case, Lindsay Hill.
3:53:26
And I think there were two others that didn't reveal their
3:53:27
names and process Texas. And it made it seem very vague
3:53:31
as them being the source of it. So that's what maybe he would,
3:53:35
give him a little bit of it, like her, not revealing her name
3:53:36
as it was, I don't really trust him that he wouldn't have made
3:53:39
that kind of decision, especially at that age in
3:53:41
college too playing for Duke. He has all this hype around him
3:53:44
probably outside of LeBron and Wendy, the most hype.
3:53:46
We've seen of a prospect, it's money driven.
3:53:48
This is, of course, everything is going to be Entertainment and
3:53:52
money, and all the stuff that he's done off with or
3:53:54
everything's going on right now with P Diddy and all these other
3:53:57
guys that are getting in trouble and and I'm P.
3:54:00
Diddy is a disgusting piece of crap, okay?
3:54:02
But Zion Williamson, there is more than enough proof and video
3:54:06
proof of what P Diddy did there is nothing.
3:54:09
Nothing no information. Besides a couple of texts that
3:54:14
have any thought or proof that Zion Williamson did any of these
3:54:18
things to this young lady. Now, I'm not saying she's lying,
3:54:21
but it's always money driven and I think it's despicable that
3:54:26
because they're athletes and they have a ton of money and
3:54:29
because of what he's done off the court, over the last couple
3:54:31
of years, they're trying to bring their story to the
3:54:34
Forefront and take money away from this kid.
3:54:37
So I don't know, I I think this is a bunch of crud and I think
3:54:40
he's gonna get off on it. Yeah, I can talk about it in the
3:54:43
NBA too, like they've been a lot more lenient with.
3:54:45
There's a whole situation with Miles Bridges, a while ago, and
3:54:48
I think he ended up getting to play again and domestic.
3:54:51
Violence. But there was proof with Myles.
3:54:53
Yeah, no, I understand. It was a lot more proof with
3:54:55
Miles Bridges. There is no proof with any of
3:54:59
this and what this story is coming out to the fourth front
3:55:01
and Duke. There's nothing.
3:55:03
There's no proof. So a couple of Texas.
3:55:06
Give me a break. Yeah.
3:55:08
And again, we've talked about with other athletic programs to
3:55:11
in college, like there. Those are the things that they
3:55:13
like to cover up, just to get those types of players as well,
3:55:15
in there and money, like you said, money driven, so money
3:55:18
paid under the table like yours. Duke.
3:55:21
He's gonna probably pay her off. She's not gonna get as much
3:55:24
money. He's just gonna pay her off and
3:55:26
move on and try to just completely wash this away,
3:55:29
right? But it's Gonna Hurt.
3:55:30
Zion Williamson's trade, you know, trade options, because,
3:55:34
nobody's gonna take on a guy, that is involved, with all these
3:55:38
extracurricular activities off the court, which is a lot, which
3:55:42
is already a lot of baggage as it was now.
3:55:44
I defended him a little bit when I think people were too
3:55:46
insulting of him with the whole wheat thing.
3:55:47
But everything else has been a lot of self-inflicted stuff with
3:55:50
him and some of the stuff he says, and obviously, he's just
3:55:52
think about it in the top, you have Williamson.
3:55:56
Jama, rant, and RJ, Barrett and RJ, Barrett is the only good one
3:56:01
out of both of that. I was RJ.
3:56:03
Barrett isn't about the one with all the distractions, either
3:56:05
John Morant, and Williamson all these stuff off the court.
3:56:08
It's terrible, it's terrible. And these guys are too
3:56:11
superstars in the league. It's a horrible story, friends,
3:56:13
ion and all that hype at the time soon, let it gets a minute,
3:56:16
just add it up for a while and I didn't realize it.
3:56:18
Was that extreme us to get Zion these days, guys, you don't want
3:56:22
them, I don't want them, you don't want him, I didn't want
3:56:24
him two years ago. Probably good price.
3:56:27
Probably wouldn't be that hard to get him right.
3:56:28
Well it was interesting because arrow and I were discussing
3:56:30
before I like two or three years ago before you guys joined us
3:56:33
like pairing with Zion Williamson at the time because
3:56:36
he wanted out of the Pelican. He wanted to play with our kids
3:56:39
that was before he signed that insane contract, he signed at
3:56:42
the time, I think it makes a lot of sense for the Raptors to go
3:56:44
after a guy like Williamson to play with RJ Barrett, they're
3:56:47
good friends. And I think that makes a lot of
3:56:49
sense. It would, it would make a lot of
3:56:51
sense and they don't have to give up much to get them.
3:56:52
So I could see something like that happening.
3:56:55
But the Knicks stay the hell away from Williamson.
3:56:58
You do not want Zion Williamson a part of this organization.
3:57:01
Madison Square Garden with the press and and all that garbage
3:57:05
that, you know, this job. But you know this goody in New
3:57:08
York. You don't not want to deal with
3:57:09
that press when you hear all these stories and the backlash,
3:57:13
over the last couple of years with Zion Williamson on and off
3:57:16
the court, not a good sign, not a good sign for the next to sign
3:57:19
or make a trade for. It's like, that's why you just
3:57:23
just hides under kind of like, the radar.
3:57:25
Like, obviously this came out, but even with him being hurt all
3:57:28
the time and and like, could you imagine if that did happen in
3:57:32
like the Media Markt of New York, like with the
3:57:36
expectations, like you guys said, like coming into it, like
3:57:39
one of the one of the most hyped guys, probably since LeBron.
3:57:42
Yeah that's right. Probably hit LeBron Wendy.
3:57:46
And then him just think about it.
3:57:47
The last time that something the Knicks brought in a player of
3:57:50
this magnitude, he's not even at this map.
3:57:52
Remember, Raymond, Felton with the gun charges that he had in
3:57:56
the offseason. I remember that.
3:57:58
That was that was horrible and the Knicks had to deal with it
3:58:00
because Raymond Felton was their one of their best players.
3:58:03
He really was the second best player on that roster.
3:58:06
Yeah. We call him fat and that's what
3:58:08
we call them. So because he was always fought,
3:58:10
you know? So but he played himself in the
3:58:13
shape though. Yeah, he's Raymond Felton was
3:58:16
he? I actually met Raymond Felton,
3:58:18
let that was a couple of years ago, he got so fat and I saw if
3:58:23
Ray I know you're probably not listening to the show, but
3:58:26
anybody that knows Raymond Felton.
3:58:27
He got really, really overweight.
3:58:29
He looks horrible right now. And unfortunately, I just
3:58:33
remember, you know, that the time he was always a ball hog
3:58:37
and he always went, he always went left on.
3:58:39
You never went, right? Always went left.
3:58:41
So I hate it. I hate it.
3:58:44
That's all I'm gonna say one of those guys.
3:58:45
Yeah I didn't like them. I never liked Raymond.
3:58:48
You don't know anything about that goody.
3:58:50
So You know. Let's go off.
3:58:54
I remember that trade when Raymond Felton Timothy mozgov
3:58:57
and all those guys went for, you know, Mr. Carmelo Anthony.
3:59:03
I remember that. It was, it was one of the
3:59:06
aerial. It was one of the worst trades,
3:59:09
I could remember the Knicks make and honestly came out to be not
3:59:13
that bad because they gave up six guys for one six guys, I
3:59:17
actually was mad at the time that they gave a Wilson Chandler
3:59:20
and that deal, which was, which was so funny thinking back on
3:59:24
it, he was good. Well, it's a challenge was the
3:59:26
next. He was fine.
3:59:27
It was good. I mean, he's not someone that
3:59:29
you don't give up in a deal, like, no Wilson channel.
3:59:31
Oh God. Oh my God, I remember when they
3:59:34
next, drafted him in a second round but the Knicks have always
3:59:37
been bad when it came when it comes to drafting people.
3:59:39
So I, I will say, Leon Rose has been pretty on top.
3:59:43
I mean, top has been a pretty good NBA player.
3:59:46
Quickly is a great NBA player. RJ Barrett's, a pretty fair,
3:59:49
good player. I mean McBride is a good NBA
3:59:53
player. I think colic is going to be a
3:59:55
good NBA player. So we've seen that.
3:59:57
It's been pretty good to watch. So, we'll see this coming
4:00:01
though. The Knicks don't have a first
4:00:02
round draft pick this year. They got two next year.
4:00:04
So, we'll see the next gonna probably trade those things off
4:00:07
in the offseason, if they expect to get a big name and add him to
4:00:11
add one, two of those picks into the draft next year.
4:00:14
So we'll see. Anyways, we call the next
4:00:17
segment in the final segment as we do this every single week.
4:00:20
What's that smell? Let's see that every day.
4:00:32
No, right. Ladies and gentlemen, we do this
4:00:34
every single week. It's pretty simple and it's
4:00:37
gonna be pretty quick. So it's it's definitely a
4:00:39
segment. You're probably going to love or
4:00:41
like if you never seen it, it's pretty simple.
4:00:44
We give you a story and we tell you what, it smells like.
4:00:46
So tonight, we're gonna do it this way.
4:00:48
We're gonna go Scoops, speedy, Fish goody Jabba me.
4:00:55
Here we go. All right, basically.
4:01:02
Everybody might know that I'm a pretty big WWE Fan.
4:01:04
Pretty big wrestling guy and I hate her over there.
4:01:08
But anyways um yesterday the rest of the world was kind of
4:01:13
hit with some big news that Ron the killings are truth.
4:01:18
Oh basically Ron killings his real name known as our truth.
4:01:23
Basically got an Elise got released from Tupac WWE,
4:01:27
friends, Tupac's old friend. He has a picture with him used
4:01:30
to be open or actually for him a couple of times and actually has
4:01:33
a pretty cool like and stuff like that.
4:01:35
He did. Yeah so he has a pretty cool
4:01:37
picture with him and everything. Basically 17 year veteran is
4:01:40
getting released from WWE and took the time to go on Twitter
4:01:43
to send a heartfelt message to not only the fans, but all the
4:01:46
WWE people that he's worked with and everybody that supported
4:01:49
him. So where I am honestly,
4:01:52
heartbroken for the fact that this dude growing up was such a
4:01:55
great guy. Everybody used to love singing
4:01:57
his theme song, what's up? But I'm if you know, you know,
4:02:00
basically a not only that but he was one of the most loved
4:02:04
persons in the backstage a couple years ago.
4:02:06
I remember when WWE Network became a thing it was a thing.
4:02:08
Where everybody remember watching him, it was his
4:02:12
birthday on one of the episodes and everybody came out saying
4:02:15
him, happy birthday. And the entire room came out,
4:02:17
whether they were healed. To do this.
4:02:19
So love backstage and I don't want to take shots because I
4:02:21
don't know what if you were so loved.
4:02:23
They would have given another contract.
4:02:24
I'm hearing that he doesn't want to have his contract, renewed.
4:02:27
That's that's the situation that's going on.
4:02:29
I'm sure that's what everybody wants.
4:02:30
I don't know I don't know what's happening between backstage or
4:02:33
whatnot. I'm not gonna get into two Nitty
4:02:35
Gritty or whatnot, but the sake of him leaving just smells like
4:02:39
the one and only the biggest ass and the WWE have Rikishi
4:02:45
stinkface after having a Mexican burrito.
4:02:48
So, yeah, sort of working. Oh, all right.
4:02:50
That's good. All right, so I'm gonna go to
4:02:54
the little hockey. So the capitals sent an email to
4:02:58
season ticket holders, that this would be Alex ovechkin's final
4:03:02
season and then it was revealed, I think it was on Friday, that,
4:03:05
that email was actually false. And also gotten said, he's just
4:03:08
returning next season. He did not say that would be his
4:03:10
final season, but the capital tried to make a serve it and
4:03:14
they said, the email was sent by accident.
4:03:15
So she'll like this one, there's a partly, there's a, there's a
4:03:19
crypt under the Capitol building.
4:03:21
So what does it smell like? It smells like a bunch of
4:03:23
mummies rising from the Capitol Building, lighting, Tom Wilson
4:03:27
and all the Blood Sweat and got set up from that.
4:03:31
I hope they killed. They take Tom Wilson, you Know,
4:03:36
I got one for you. I like Tom Wilson.
4:03:38
I don't know why you hate it. Why?
4:03:40
Because he, you know, he's the best part of hockey.
4:03:44
You have a villain of them, if he's not on your stop, I love
4:03:47
him and he's not a part of my team.
4:03:48
He's a villain. You like villain you like
4:03:50
bullies? That's what's great about when
4:03:53
you were, when you were younger, you beat up like a 11 year old
4:03:56
Sydney Crosby when you played again.
4:03:57
I first of all he was 12 yes. And I gave him a nice little
4:04:02
budge, you know, nudge did, you know boogies and stuff?
4:04:05
No against the ice know, I'll never forget.
4:04:08
I'll tell you guys quickly. I'll never forget when I hit him
4:04:11
in a tournament and he turned around, his father was standing
4:04:14
up right by the rafters calling me is son of a, you know what,
4:04:17
and all this other stuff and why I turned around, I got on the
4:04:20
bench, I gave him the two fingers, and I told him to kiss
4:04:22
my ass, I told his father to kiss my ass.
4:04:25
So true story on that. I taught him a lesson.
4:04:28
He was a shit talker then he's a shit talking now.
4:04:31
So He talked a lot of crap. Forgive those cheating.
4:04:37
Those cheating bastards in Houston for 2017.
4:04:41
So, when you see a story like their best play best hitter,
4:04:46
Being rushed back to soon before the Imaging revealed a broken
4:04:50
bone in his hand, it just warms my heart.
4:04:53
Yes, you're Don Alvarez the Karma.
4:04:55
Police have come for the Houston Astros.
4:04:58
He was missing time with hand inflammation, which is a very
4:05:01
irregular name for an injury. They thought he was coming back
4:05:05
any day now. And now that the swelling is
4:05:08
down, it reveals, he's got a broken band in his hand, they
4:05:13
thought it was just a muscle strain, he's out indefinitely.
4:05:15
We'll see when he can come back but usually hand injury, sat
4:05:19
power from Power hitters and he's their power hitter.
4:05:22
Couldn't happen to a better team.
4:05:23
It smells like rotten eggs all over the Astros faces.
4:05:28
I like rotten eggs. Nice.
4:05:31
Well, prior to yesterday's NCAA Tournament game.
4:05:35
This is coming from coach Kevin O'Sullivan, head coach of the
4:05:38
Florida Gators. This is his apology statement
4:05:41
prior to yesterday's NCAA Tournament game against Easter
4:05:44
Carolina. Let my emotions.
4:05:45
Get the best of me and channeled that energy in a way.
4:05:47
I should not have. I was sincerely apologize for my
4:05:50
actions Behavior to the entire NCAA Regional field of Coastal
4:05:53
Carolina on East Carolina and Fairfield the NCAA, including
4:05:57
the site Representatives Rick French.
4:05:58
And Mark Scott as well as all of Gator Nation.
4:06:02
I did not represent the University of Florida to
4:06:04
appropriate standard yesterday and take forward responsibility
4:06:07
for that and promised to learn from this experience and be
4:06:10
better moving forward. I appreciate all the tireless
4:06:12
effort on behalf of Post Coastal Carolina, their tournament
4:06:16
director, Brian, Stiles. And NCAA over the course, the
4:06:20
NCAA regionals. And I'm sorry for the allowing
4:06:22
this sense to get in the way of an otherwise, great weekend of
4:06:25
post-season baseball. You know, it sounds like It
4:06:28
sounds like catch coach. Kevin O'Sullivan was on chat GPT
4:06:33
till 10:00 last night after he got his ass whooped in the and
4:06:38
the regional. Asking them.
4:06:39
Hey I need an apology message for Eastern Carolina, Coastal
4:06:44
Carolina, all the site representatives and the entire
4:06:47
NCAA sent. Smells like bulshit.
4:06:54
I mean, the fingers were fingering right there goody I
4:06:59
need a magnetic buying glass. What he was doing.
4:07:04
Did he have a magnifying glass where he was on chat and It's, I
4:07:13
want this to sound good and sensitive.
4:07:15
I want them to understand, get to go through.
4:07:19
NCAA rules good. I showed up on your face.
4:07:24
It smells like chat GPT and grok were working extra hard last
4:07:28
night. How could you I'm gonna go.
4:07:34
Mine is, mine is gonna be with a WMA, the Katelyn Clark, shit
4:07:39
again, how wonderful and always good.
4:07:42
They were gonna play the Chicago side and it was gonna be at the
4:07:47
United Center. And I think it's it's come out
4:07:52
and we've all read that. the Indiana Fever are gonna protect
4:07:58
Caitlin Clark, If the WNBA doesn't And you know what else
4:08:02
happened? Those ticket prices went down
4:08:05
over 40%, because they knew Caitlin Clark wasn't playing.
4:08:10
So I don't care what Andrew says, nobody's watching her
4:08:15
play. And get her me bounce.
4:08:17
I'm I ordered a Mebane Shirt By the way.
4:08:19
I did, I did And see Java. There's like this.
4:08:24
This bedding website that sweets that like they're betting on her
4:08:28
missing her first shot. Oh yeah.
4:08:31
And it's seven games in a row that she's Mr. First shot and
4:08:35
there's been a bunch of people that have one big too.
4:08:39
She's shooting WNBA, I know, but at the same time, it's Clayton,
4:08:44
we can. So, okay, so Arrow calls it.
4:08:47
The LeBron James Association. So are we Mark Association?
4:08:51
Yeah. So is it, is it the CCA, not
4:08:54
yet? Not yet.
4:08:55
No good. It should be.
4:08:57
It should be. It is a lot.
4:08:59
I will, I will say it. Smells like absolute hot garbage
4:09:05
with three day for Monday. Cheese on your nutsack on a
4:09:08
hike. Know that's tasty.
4:09:11
The WNBA will not protect Caitlin Clark.
4:09:15
Thank you. All right.
4:09:19
The final follow that up, Arrow, follow that up the final.
4:09:22
What's that? Smell?
4:09:23
Goes to the San Francisco 49ers, as they make a trade yesterday,
4:09:27
Bryce Huff, is joining a new team for the second straight
4:09:31
year. The Philadelphia Eagles, have
4:09:33
traded Bryce Huff to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for
4:09:37
a 2026 mid round. Draft pick Penny pending
4:09:41
physical the physical on Monday. It seems like that's where Bryce
4:09:45
Huff is going. I will say this, the only reason
4:09:48
why he's going over there to the 49ers is because a Bambi, Bambi
4:09:52
coached him over there with the New York Jets, he had a pretty
4:09:54
good season before he decided to part.
4:09:57
Wait, well, the Jets started it decided to part ways with him.
4:10:00
He goes to free agency, he goes to Philadelphia, he plays one
4:10:05
year, he didn't work in FaZe, you know, I'm sorry angios
4:10:09
defense, it didn't work out over there.
4:10:11
As a matter of fact, he lost his job in the middle of this season
4:10:14
and now he had over there. San Francisco, it's not gonna
4:10:18
work. Out over there.
4:10:19
You know what? It smells like, it smells like,
4:10:21
yeah, Mike, Shanahan when he's jerking off and he sticks a
4:10:25
sausage up his ass so that's Mike, not Kyle.
4:10:28
So that's all I'm gonna say about that spicy or regular.
4:10:31
I have no idea. Speedy, what would you rather?
4:10:33
Why don't you ask? Oh, it it's a, that's his team.
4:10:37
I put bike chain and, you know, he's retired, he's like 80 years
4:10:40
old now. I mean that's older.
4:10:41
He probably can't have that kind of spice level these days.
4:10:44
All right, don't worry. What is what whatever does
4:10:49
happen with with ever, with ever Mike?
4:10:51
Shanahan does are we know, we know Robert solow.
4:10:53
We can keep her seats. Else.
4:10:55
I will say this Bryce off has been an absolute joke and I
4:10:59
think the Jets were very lucky not to give him an extended
4:11:02
contract because it hasn't worked out since he's left.
4:11:05
Now again, he's going to Robert solid and he's going to the
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49ers and he gets to play with Nick, bozos.
4:11:10
One of the more prolific off defensive lineman.
4:11:14
We've seen in a very long time, but I I just, I don't know how
4:11:17
how this is gonna work over there.
4:11:19
But I, I believe Kyle Shanahan will be fired at the end of this
4:11:22
year. Mark my words.
4:11:23
Remember I said, this band me take over as interchange.
4:11:26
They're gonna bring in a new coach.
4:11:29
Know, it would be. Him as the interim coach know.
4:11:32
I don't think he's gonna get fired.
4:11:33
I don't think he's gonna get fired in the middle of the
4:11:36
season. I think he'll be fired at the
4:11:37
end of this year. I think he'll he'll live out his
4:11:40
contract this year. I think his contract is up after
4:11:43
this year. I think he's done.
4:11:44
I think he's gone. I know.
4:11:46
And by the way, John Lynch is going to retire after this year
4:11:49
as far as what I've heard, this is his final year as the GM of
4:11:54
the 49ers. So it's all washed up.
4:11:56
So, thank you Owen for your 49ers garbage.
4:12:00
You're never gonna win a Super Bowl just like my New York Jets.
4:12:03
What a joke. Another organization has had
4:12:06
great teams. Couldn't get over the hump
4:12:08
because I'm Kyle friggin'. Shanahan horrible, horrible,
4:12:13
game winning coach, who can't find a way to win a game at the
4:12:17
end of a game. So, that's it.
4:12:19
That's all I'm gonna say, thank you to Joe Smith for joining us.
4:12:23
The Beast himself. It was fun.
4:12:25
It was great. So I was, it was really exciting
4:12:28
having him on. I'm sure he'll remember this
4:12:30
interview. You very very long time.
4:12:32
So thank you sound bites and if and of course, you know, giving
4:12:36
us and by the way, shout out to Nathan for getting us Joe Smith.
4:12:39
He's working so very hard. So thank you to Nathan.
4:12:42
I'd like to think all the fans that are following us on
4:12:45
obviously blue wire. We're not on blue wire yet guys.
4:12:48
So I know a lot of fans probably have gone on blue Iron, trying
4:12:52
to look for us blue wires, working on it.
4:12:54
I did speak to blue wire, they should be up and the next week
4:12:57
or so. It usually takes a little while
4:12:59
for it to go up on there, you know, on their website.
4:13:02
So just relax, it'll be up there again, thank you to all the fans
4:13:08
on all our social medias, from Spotify video Apple, Twitter,
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Tick, Tock, whatever the hell you call it X Instagram, all the
4:13:17
social media platforms. Thank you for all the fans
4:13:20
following us keep following us and again, our YouTube channel
4:13:23
growing as well. And and we're going to be
4:13:26
working on more of the YouTube channel over the next couple of
4:13:29
weeks. So thank you.
4:13:30
To all the fans. And by the way, who do we have
4:13:33
on on Thursday? All right, joining us so 9:15
4:13:35
Hall of Fame, safety, LeRoy Butler.
4:13:38
Also the guy who invented the Lambeau leap, he was a 2022 Hall
4:13:42
of Fame inductee. And yes, the guy who invented
4:13:45
the limbo leap in the late nineties, Super Bowl champion,
4:13:48
four-time Pro Bowl safety, and that was the.
4:13:50
I was actually going to go to Ohio to watch Revis be inducted
4:13:56
that year and we were gonna go with Josh.
4:13:58
Remember that? Yeah, I remember that we were
4:14:00
gonna go to that that Hall of Fame and Cleco and Joe, klecko
4:14:05
and revised went in that year. But Leroy was one of the more
4:14:09
underrated one of the greatest safeties ever played a game.
4:14:11
So it's cool. It's kind of cool getting him on
4:14:14
the show. It's gonna be a great interview,
4:14:16
and he doesn't really interview a lot.
4:14:18
He doesn't really go on a lot of show, so it's pretty cool that
4:14:21
he wants to come on the show and talk about his career and being
4:14:24
inducted to the whole family. I think there's only been like
4:14:27
six, safety is ever been inducted into the Hall of Fame
4:14:30
and He's one of them, it's a pretty cool story, so it's great
4:14:33
to have them on. I'm looking forward to getting
4:14:35
Leroy on the show. I'm sure.
4:14:36
Job is. I'm sure all of you guys will be
4:14:39
very intrigued to hear some of the stories that he has in his
4:14:42
past and what he's doing in the future with all the different
4:14:45
organizations he's working with all right.
4:14:47
That's it. Thank you, Nick.
4:14:49
By the way, congratulations to Nick winning his first coaching
4:14:52
job. Oh, by the way, so golf club for
4:14:55
old Nikki, 17 strikeouts for the old Nick boy, it wasn't him
4:14:59
throwing ball. That's are you surprised?
4:15:02
No, I'm not surprised. You're always trying to find a
4:15:05
way to, you know, stand out. And you're going to be a good
4:15:08
coach here. Good, you're a good dude.
4:15:09
So, I, I know, I don't expect anything but greatness for the
4:15:14
old wood boy, as we hold on, hold on.
4:15:16
I'm gonna figure breaking news goody has no woody.
4:15:21
All right, that's it for our show.
4:15:22
Ladies and gentlemen, good night, we'll talk to you,
4:15:24
Thursday.