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Ken's back, Cubs stay hot, Wolves Thumped, Joe O'Donnell The Voice of the Wild joins · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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Thursday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next couple of hours talking
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sports with you. Thanks for starting your
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afternoon here with us. We will take you up until just
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before 2 off the bench coming up from 2 until 5.
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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We're going to talk to the voice of the Iowa, the Minnesota Wild
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boy. They're in O2 deficit down to
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nothing to the Colorado Avalanche.
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We'll talk to Joe O'Donnell, how the Wild can get back into this
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series, what has gone wrong, etcetera.
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We will talk a little puck at the bottom of the first hour of
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the program. 115 Brian Walton will be here.
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Talk about one of the surprises in MLB.
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Those Saint Louis Cardinals, although they lost yesterday
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playing pretty good baseball, hanging right in there in the
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Central Division that is now led by those red hot Chicago Cubs
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will talk to Brian Walton. And then Scott Agnes, who covers
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the Indiana Fever, will get a season preview with Scott.
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Not going to ignore the WNBA. Well, as long as certain players
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on the floor. And then it gets a little easier
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to just click and go past it. But that's what's coming up on
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the program. Trent will have some plays of
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the day. Circa Sports sponsor those.
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Speaking of Circa Caxiono and Circa, I have a little
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announcement. It's going to be more than a
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little announcement tomorrow at 12:30 when Mike Palm joins us.
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So a little tease to be listening A, to Mike Palm
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because he's usually got the chock full of information.
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But B, we've got a little bit more on top of that as we're
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going to make an announcement regarding A well, TuneIn
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tomorrow at 12:30. But I think, but you and I are
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and the radio station are all pretty pumped about that.
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How you been? Pretty good.
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How about you? Good, good.
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See ya. Nice to be.
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Here, Yes, absolutely, you're busy.
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Yeah, yeah, it is. But it's it's it's OK.
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But my age is I'm kind of feel my age for the first time ever.
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Maybe. Really.
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Yeah, I think so. I'm starting to Yeah.
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I mean, I'm guessing gets up with everybody, right, Except
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for, you know, elite athletes. But anyways, glad to be back
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here. Boy, the Cubs have been
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unbelievable the last three nights.
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Again last night, PCA boy, I can only imagine wouldn't be like
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well, a I'd have been gone, so I wouldn't I'd listen to it in the
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cab. Uh huh, or if I would have been
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back to the hotel. But that's what you know that's
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what happens when you leave early.
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But man, oh man, what a what a fun team to kind of follow,
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right? And to have as the the baseball
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team in central Iowa that moves the needle more than any of the
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others Cubs come from behind fashion beating those Reds.
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It was a pretty good team in their own right.
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This is a good team. Got to figure out the back end
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of that bullpen. That's true when it got a little
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worse. I think it got better addition
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by subtractions with Pagan's injury.
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I think that helps them. You've got some scar tissue.
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How many games did he blow against the?
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Guardians. Every single one of them.
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Man, there was there was a ton of them.
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But the Cubs have their own issues and it struck again
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yesterday. Matthew Boyd, who's been maybe
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not as sharp as he was last year, but he's still a big piece
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of that banged up rotation. Well, no more.
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He tore his meniscus of all things, playing with his kids,
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playing with his kids and tore the meniscus and just add to the
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heap of of Cubs pitchers that are on the IL.
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No timeline has been made yet. Surgery apparently was conducted
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this morning. But I, I don't know, maybe best
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case August, September. It didn't sound good, did it?
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Didn't did you see any more? I saw the playing with the kids
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right away. I mean that that was kind of the
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the top of the headline part of it and like, oh, what happened?
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Did you hear the what? Like they're playing ball in the
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backyard. He stepped on, you know,
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baseball and that's how he tore it or 'cause when I first read
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it, it was like he was like playing on the floor with his
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kids. I mean, that's I, I guess the
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way that it kind of went. That's what I read too, so you'd
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think it was more. Than I don't know I hadn't seen
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more so that's just kind of where the speculation for me
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when is running around you can definitely see that like hell
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yeah there's kids yes absolutely I there there's this little hole
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in our yard that I seem to hit all the time when I'm chasing
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after Jack and and someday that ACL is going to blow it it's
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going to be something like that so I didn't know if you saw
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anything further 'cause that's all I saw but is that how you
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read at the beginning too like he just on the.
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Floor on the floor with his kids.
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That's weird. It is.
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But baseball injuries, there have been so many of them.
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Guys sneeze and go in the IL. With a rib.
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Cartilage, yes. Rib toward ribs, Yeah.
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Yeah, there's so many of those. What is it about baseball that
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for whatever reason, there's been so many?
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Is it? Yeah, I don't know.
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The sheer volume of games are playing for a long time, but
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still, the NBA and NHL go forever, too.
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We don't hear about these kind of injuries.
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It doesn't feel like at least in the same realm that we do with
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baseball. Well.
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Maybe the guys aren't as good athletes too.
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You could get away with it a little bit more in baseball than
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those. Others that's that's fairpoint.
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We'll see where the Cubs go. I don't know.
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I mean, look at they're in first place in their division.
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This is a good baseball team. They're a fun baseball team.
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Everybody seems to be hitting at the at the right time now.
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Bush has come out of his slump. PCA Suzuki, who missed the
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beginning of the year. Bregman's hitting the ball.
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Nico is Nico Kelly behind the Playboy is good with that ABS.
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He doesn't miss. He does not miss.
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He's been terrific. Bullpen's been OK with one
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exception, 1 yesterday and that Martin Kidd who blew the save,
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he's already been designated for assignment.
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So we'll see where it goes. But they've got an afternoon
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game coming up here in about an hour or so.
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You had Cappy yesterday, I'm assuming?
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What did Cappy have to say anything?
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He loves his team. No way.
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Yeah. And I really like this team too.
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I I understand you got the Dodgers, They're behemoth.
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The Braves are playing great baseball and they're finally
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healthy for the first time in three years.
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And that obviously changes just the complexion of the whole
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thing. But he's gone spend.
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There is no guarantees. You never know when
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opportunities like this are going to hit and you look
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through all right, they're going to need maybe another couple
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arms now. Well, you know one of those arms
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apparently is Joe Ryan, your squad, but further down the
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rotation Ober. Have them.
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So not a glowing endorsement from a Twins fan.
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No bag of balls. What do you need is.
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That that's he's that bad. He's not that.
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Bad, but yeah. Maybe a change of scenery, maybe
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I mean a good team behind him. I don't know.
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I don't think he's that good. No, look at if the if Joe Ryan's
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available and you're going to go after Bailey Ober, Come on.
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And Joe Ryan avoided what could have been something, really so.
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What was the fight? What was the Where do we stand
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on that? OK.
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They feel like it's nothing that's going to be Is he going?
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To miss a start or two. Yes, yeah, going to be on the IL
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something and but overall not as because the early indications
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was this could be season ender. Yeah.
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And it's not that, at least that's what they say, right, If
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you can get any kind of package right now.
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Do it, Absolutely. I don't think you're going to
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though. Yeah, because you have to
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wonder, right? It's the same as Scooble.
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I mean, Scooble is going to break the bank at the trade.
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The Tigers worth the trade deadline.
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What does that mean for? What does that mean for the
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Tigers? What does this mean for Scooble
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going forward? This guy was going to break the
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proverbial bank. Cy Young winner, American League
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left-handed pitcher. He was going to be able to, you
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know, write his own ticket. But man, now you've got these
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concerns as to what you're going to do All right, baseball's been
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really good the last oh, certainly this week's been
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fascinating to watch. At least I've enjoyed the heck
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out of it. I really have the come from
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behind wins Cubs Monday night, Tuesday night and then again
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last night and they'll play here this afternoon.
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Real quick on the NBAI do want to, I do want to mention the
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Spurs and the Wolves. Look, Minnesota went to San
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Antonio. Best case scenario.
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Well, best case scenario, of course it would have bowled, but
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you wanted a split and they got game one got blown out last
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night. But you know what?
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I you, you could see that coming.
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Oh. Absolutely.
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I I was talking yesterday about that's an old spread game.
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Like if you like the spur side, don't lay the whatever what it
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got to 9 1/2 or whatever it was, it was about 9.
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And a half 10 or 10 at 1:00. Point late 29 1/2 That's and.
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That's what we saw. They won by what, 38 something
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like that? Yeah, I did.
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You did you do that? I did not.
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I should have. Yeah, I just believed in the the
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toughness. But I was just shocked too. 24
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minutes spraying in that game. Why I even playing him I thought
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was surprising. Fairpoint and that designation.
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You got the steal. You stole game one.
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Give him that extra time, give him that extra rest.
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Hopefully he can come back and and have a little bit more juice
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when you get up to Minneapolis for game three.
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I was surprised by that, but I love Chris Finch after the game.
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I don't know if you saw him. Last night's game or the game
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last night? I did not see that.
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I saw game one. He called them out.
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Did he? Oh yeah, He's a good coach.
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He absolutely is. Talked about their toughness
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that they weren't engaged, said they got punked.
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Did he and that will resonate, I think in that locker room
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because those are this is unlike most Minnesota sports teams that
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for the for the most part feel kind of soft.
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Usually they kind of there's toughness here.
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There's a lot of toughness on this squad and because of that,
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I think they'll bounce back and I think they really do have a
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shot in this series. I do too.
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They need more for man, no doubt.
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He was great in the fourth quarter game.
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One going to need that continuously and and you're
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going to have to have him out there 3538 minutes, yeah.
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Certainly ratch up the minutes for.
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Sure. The other guy's got to step up.
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You need and Nasri to have a game where he docks, he's
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capable for three pointers and and goes off.
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Randall has to have a out of body experience go off for 40.
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Those are the kind of things they're going to need.
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Mike Conley drink from the fountain of youth, as he did in
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Game 1. He was really good.
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Absolutely was. They got a little something out
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of Anderson. Shannon's so good off the
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bounce. He's so spent.
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Three, you know what? He's been a revelation, I think.
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I know he's banged up this year, but just those guys that are
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like, man, that guy's good, you know?
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We don't watch good in college. During the regular season, we
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just don't. And, and then it's those guys
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remember him in college, remember him maybe from the
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playoff a year previous or something like that.
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Like man, this guy barely plays and he's really good.
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Let's take a call then. I want to move on.
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What? You know what, Matt, just hang
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on. I I don't want to forget to do
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this because it really, it really struck me.
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Matt, we'll come to you in just a second.
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Did you see Scott Van Pelt's piece on Stephen Nurse on on
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Sports Center from the other night?
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He it is so good. Van Health's excellent.
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What did they call it? The big story is that.
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One big thing. One big thing, thank you, one
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big thing and I'm so glad I clicked on and watched.
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I had no idea that he is this an every night affair occurrence
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for him. Yeah, yeah, it's usually a part
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of the show at some point. Yeah, where SVP, just whatever's
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on his mind. And that's why his Sports Center
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is so different than any other. That's one Sports Center that,
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if I have time, I definitely want to catch.
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So if and I know the latest is always the greatest, but if you
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were is this is Scott Van Pelt entering that all time greatness
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ESPN Sports Center anchors. His for me, there's no doubt he
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is for me. He is just the way that he does
11:00
things. He's also got the radio
11:01
background so that he. Does that's true?
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Him and Ryan are still together. I absolutely loved.
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I thought that was my favorite. ESPN Radio 25 years ago, now
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something like. That How long was it really?
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Wow. 20 years ago. Good God, we're getting old.
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But I love the way that he also still incorporates kind of the
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more radio part of it. There's more opinion, there's
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the gambling part. I like that.
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And of course, too, and the bad beats and everything that he
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does there. Stanford Steve, I think is a
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great sidekick for him, too. So they do it well.
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But yeah, the one big thing, he's just so thoughtful.
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He really is. He's a guy.
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Genuine. Yes, it's.
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Because we have so many of the provocateurs over at ESPN and
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the Stephen A's and and things like that.
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And apparently Stephen A and the other butt Dart, what's his
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name? Skip Bayless are reuniting for
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tomorrow show. And I won't watch a second of it
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because that's just not my he's my style.
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Scott Van Pelt is my style. And when he does those kind of
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things, like he did Nick Nurse's brother, it shows you just
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there's a lot more there than just a guy talking about sports.
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If I didn't know, Nick, I'm not saying I'm not sure I would have
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clicked on it, but I'm so glad that I did it.
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So well done and so heartfelt. And and you can find it if
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you're on. XI just retweeted.
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It's such a, it's, it's 2 minutes and 22 seconds and it's
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absolutely worth every single one of those seconds.
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All right, let's get Matt in here.
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Then we'll get back into a couple of other topics from
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earlier this week. Hello, Matt, How are you?
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Thanks for being patient. Matt, what's on your mind?
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Yeah, you're good. Hey, I was just calling to see
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if you guys knew about the the Circa is giving away a trip to
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their spot every time there's a Cubs walk off win.
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But you know, I don't know if it's every time or if you have
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to sign up for it and then every time there is a walk up when you
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get like another entry into the. I, I heard about it for the
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first time yesterday and we're going to have Mike Palm on
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tomorrow. And I'm, I'm, I was meaning to
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ask him about that because I think it's for Illinois
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customers only. I think because they're over in
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Illinois and they have a relationship with the Cubs,
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Matt, but I'll ask Mike Palm, you know, you're going to get
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some details. Yeah, I don't know if there's
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every time we're just one, but I was wondering if if it is every
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time, like I'll be curious to know how many he thought they
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would give away. I mean, if it's every time three
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in a row. But I got, I got the details
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here. It's just real quick.
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There's seven things. You get a three night stay,
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Circa $500 Southwest Airlines gift card, a limo from Circa
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student from the airport, a $2000 credit to stadium swim
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table at the sports book, a $500 credit to Barry's, and then a
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$40 credit at the Legacy Legacy Club.
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So this is every single one of the walk off.
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Wins. I don't know, I can't.
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I don't know if it's every. Time, or I'm looking at it now,
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it is every, every game. They're gonna break them.
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Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I was wondering how many
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he thought they'd give away 'cause they're up to like or.
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And it sounds like it's only at Wrigley, though not on the road.
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That's correct, yes, yeah, but. But yeah, yeah.
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Matt, thanks for listening. Appreciate the call.
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I'll, I'll find out more tomorrow.
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But So what did you find? So yeah, this is on Circus.
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This is on Marquee is where I found the link.
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Gotcha. On Marquee, when the Cubs walk
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it off at Wrigley Field, you could win a trip to Circa in Las
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Vegas. You can sign up there.
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You do not have to be an Illinois resident for this.
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You don't. So for all of our Iowa residents
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out there and yeah, quite the deal.
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Holy mackerel. And now you're, I'm sure a lot
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of people are kicking themselves a little bit slow sided up.
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But yeah, sign up because I'm gonna guess there might be
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another walk off or two at Wrigley this year. $2000 stadium
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swim credit, you know far $500.00 of gold berries.
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That's I mean you're giving me a couple of lobster tails.
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Absolutely yes. Keep the Stella's coming.
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I love the fact they got Stella on top of berries.
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That's a really. That's a really good package.
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Yeah, I heard about it for the first time yesterday and then
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I'm glad Matt brought that up. We'll bring it up tomorrow with
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Mike Palm. We'll bring up our own.
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Well, I can't say anything more but be listening tomorrow at
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12:30. It's going to be, it's going to
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be some fun for some kicks and no listeners.
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And Circa Sports, that's tomorrow at 12:30.
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All right, real quick on the Minnesota Wild in Colorado.
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Avalanche, Joe O'Donnell coming up at the bottom of the hour.
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Colorado's so much faster than anybody I've seen all year.
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And you know what? And I said it and I was wrong.
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I thought Minnesota. Then it's again, what's the old
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expression? The series doesn't start till
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the home team loses a game. Well, the series has started.
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They're down to nothing. But they get the they get some
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rest because of the the Women's Professional Hockey League has
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the building on Friday night. So they couldn't play Friday.
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There's something going on tonight.
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They couldn't play, which is good because they need some time
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to lick their wounds and decide what they're going to do goalie
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wise. But Nathan McKinnon is just
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possessed. He's absolutely possessed.
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Makar is out of his mind and the goaltending for the Wild has
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just not been good. Nick, who joined us the last
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couple of days, He's a hockey guy, is he?
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Yes. You're gonna like him.
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He's just moved up in mine. Absolutely.
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He's a hockey guy, so. Who's his team?
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Did he say? Does he have a team?
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He's. Just he's just more of a fan of
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a sport. He's not a big.
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He's got like the weird. Well, he grew up.
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So he's a Patriots fan. Yeah.
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You know, because of his age, Yeah, just like Lucas and
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Patriots fans. But so he's got that part of it.
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He was pretty steadfast in digging his heels in.
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Keep Wallstead back out there for game two.
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I was on the other side, got to make a move after giving a big
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goals. Nine overall in game one and we
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had Dane. Dane laid it out, I thought,
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very well. Almost a tiny.
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Yes, we had Dane on and I thought he laid it out well on
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Tuesday. Make the change.
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The change actually just happened when we were talking to
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Dane is because it's a lot easier with this layoff.
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Yeah, good point. If it was that quick turn
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around, then you kind of head games those guys because of this
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break. I think it makes it a lot
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easier, simpler to go back to wall state because that's what
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they're going. To do right, I think so.
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I think you almost have to. I really do.
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The Gus bus was not great by any means, but again, the the
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Colorado just looks as though I don't know who's going to beat.
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Them. So is it just Colorado,
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Carolina? Just sign it up right now.
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Buffalo's really good. Oh yeah.
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Buffalo impressed the heck out of me last.
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I think it's Carolina and it's Colorado, but I thought
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Minnesota was going to give Colorado all they want.
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And again, I don't. Technically there's a long way
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to go, but is Minnesota going to beat Colorado for the next 5
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games? Right.
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Right. And that's what they have to do
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in order to win. I just don't see that happening
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it seems. Incredibly unlikely it does, and
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they'll get the ducks. And they would they Yes, they
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will get the ducks. I watched the little ducks.
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Last night they will get the Ducks.
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The Ducks were all over in the first period.
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Should have should have had a lead.
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It was 1. Nothing.
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I think they finally got 1 past the past Carter Hart.
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But yeah, Ducks should have won the first game.
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They should have won the first game.
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I thought I thought Utah played as well as the Golden Knights
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did in the first series. So anyways, we March on just
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real quick because I know, you know, when I'm here, horse
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racing kind of gets brought up a little more than not.
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Golden Tempo is not going to run in the Preakness.
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Second straight year the Derby winner has not run in the
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Preakness. If this does not move the Triple
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Crown committee to say, you know what, we have to adapt or die
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because that's what the Triple Crown will do.
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If they don't do something in time for next year, then this
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will continue to lose its luster because the Preakness is, I
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don't want to say dead, but it's on life support back-to-back
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years. The Derby winner is saying, you
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know what, it's just too fast for me to for me to run my horse
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back. We're going to keep them five
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weeks until they run the Belmont.
18:43
There's no reason, none you couldn't run the Derby as
18:46
always, first Saturday in May, the Preakness the first Saturday
18:49
in June, the Belmont the first Saturday in July, you'll get
18:53
more horses. The Derby winner won't pass on
18:55
the Preakness as he's done the last couple of years.
18:58
And it's not going to change. It's not going to change.
19:01
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a year ago it wasn't just the
19:03
Derby winner that didn't run, none of the horses that were in
19:06
the. Derby there might have been.
19:07
One might have been one. Yeah, and I think this year the
19:10
there's going to be 1 and maybe the horse that got scratched at
19:14
the gate. Do you?
19:14
Remember, Oh yeah, that that was trying to do backflips.
19:16
He did a backflip. I can't remember.
19:19
Is it great white? I think might be his name.
19:21
Yeah, my aunt had just in our family group message and just
19:23
said my great grandma Mare. Yeah, our grandpa Mare, he
19:26
always said always bet on the Gray one.
19:27
She had just sent that message. 3 seconds it's later.
19:30
Over he goes. Here he goes.
19:32
And of course. It could have been way worse
19:33
because the I've seen, and this has been brutal.
19:35
I've seen horses flip over and the Jack, the jock can't bail
19:39
out and the horse lands right on you.
19:42
That that that's not pleasant. Anyways, so that's your horse
19:45
racing story for the day. We'll get that.
19:48
Joe O'Donnell coming in here real quick.
19:49
What about Nixon Sixers? Just want to finish up on the
19:52
NBA. Any have you seen anything
19:55
there? They hung around.
19:56
Sixers did last night without impede.
19:58
I like the Sixer side in that one last night so.
20:01
Why did Embiid not play? Is it just Embiid being Embiid?
20:05
They called, they said that he's got an ankle sprain and his hip
20:09
is sore. Just Embiid, just Embiid.
20:11
Just physically the body does not and the.
20:14
Sixers had a chance to beat them, yeah.
20:16
Yeah, They were right there in the fourth quarter and had
20:18
opportunities but didn't score. They put up 12 in the fourth.
20:22
Another one of those How many clunky second halves and fourth
20:26
quarters have we seen in these NBA playoffs from the Magic that
20:30
it's got to be the worst ever? Yeah, for sure.
20:32
You're up 18 and you score, what was it, 19 points in the whole
20:35
second-half? Yeah.
20:36
Brutal. Well, what was the Knicks
20:38
Atlanta game? Yes, that was when they were
20:40
down 61, right? And the Hawks, I think scored
20:42
maybe 21 points in the in the second-half of that one.
20:45
Just time in and time out, the Mexican went east.
20:50
I think right now. Knicks Thunder.
20:52
Yeah, I could see that. A couple other things real
20:55
quick. NILNIL players era, there's a
20:58
whole bunch of NILESPN has signed on What now?
21:02
I've I've been trying to find as much as I can.
21:04
I don't know how many years they've committed to this, do
21:07
you know? No, do not.
21:08
That was left out of the stories.
21:10
I don't know if there was purposely, I don't know if they
21:12
just don't know yet, but at least for this year and help me
21:15
out with this one, because it's two separate tournaments.
21:18
There's an 18 tournament and then a 16 team tournament,
21:21
correct? Yes.
21:22
Why? So what do you mean?
21:24
Why you want to go back to that stupid cockamie thing that they
21:27
did last year with point differential?
21:29
Could you put 12 and 12? Or does the math not math?
21:31
The math does not math. OK.
21:33
Do you want to have a no pure bracket with no BIS, no weird
21:37
consolation stuff, no pigtails, no double cross bracketing, no,
21:40
none of that. And 18, we know how that you got
21:42
quarter final, semifinal, championship, you got the
21:45
backside of the bracket, same with the 16.
21:46
And this year you were allowed an extra game in non conference
21:51
scheduling. So I think that also made this a
21:53
little bit simpler because I remember years ago I posed the
21:56
question to somebody. It was when Maui was at its
21:59
height, so 15. Years ago, how was the
22:01
tournament? When Maui had built itself up to
22:04
a nice tournament and kept getting and finally it was blue
22:06
blood after blue blood. And when it got to that point,
22:09
some national guy I talked to on the radio, I asked them why do
22:14
we not expand this thing out and get it to a 16 team bracket?
22:16
Why don't they want to do that? Because of non confidence
22:18
scheduling. At the time, teams didn't want
22:21
to give up four of their games. Of course the my games go along
22:23
with it. Well, now with this extra game,
22:25
it makes it a little bit more palpable that you can do that
22:28
because you have more flexibility in your non
22:30
conference scheduling. Your 16 team bracket will
22:32
include. Oh my God, some blue bloods.
22:34
Not just Iowa State, Michigan, Gonzaga, Louisville, Saint
22:38
John's, Tennessee, Alabama, Miami, Maryland, TCU, Baylor,
22:43
Tech, Creighton, K State, San Diego State and Oregon.
22:47
Who's the worst team? San Diego, Oregon State, Oregon,
22:50
Maryland. Oregon, well, the Big 10 teams,
22:52
yeah, Maryland and Oregon, they were the ones that were
22:54
definitely the bottom. And Creighton were the bottom of
22:56
the pile last. Year and by the way, missed this
22:59
while I was gone. How about Creighton and Iowa
23:02
playing downtown Des Moines? That'll be good.
23:03
That's massive. Absolutely.
23:05
That's massive. Got a new coach coming in there
23:07
for Creighton. I haven't seen much of how they
23:10
did in the portal. Did you?
23:11
I'm trying to think off the top of my head.
23:13
Of course. Made headlines last year with
23:15
Josh Dixon, Owen Freeman going there.
23:18
Yeah, that's something we'll have to re evaluate.
23:20
I saw a tweet. I saw an axe a video clip of
23:26
Owen Freeman on Randazzo's show. OK, Yeah.
23:28
And, and I'm paraphrasing, I wish I had it.
23:31
And if I was a Creighton fan, this one just drove me over the
23:33
edge because Owen Freeman, this is out of his own mouth.
23:38
He took a lot. He took last year's conduit to
23:40
learn about himself. What he's had a lot of time to
23:43
learn about himself. And we paid you $1,000,000 for
23:46
you to learn about yourself. We paid you to come and play
23:49
basketball. We learned a lot about him with
23:52
a finger injury. I think we learned even more a
23:54
year ago in Omaha. And where did he end up?
23:56
Auburn. Good luck.
23:57
Auburn. Yeah.
23:58
Steven Pearl, if this is the guy that you think is gonna keep
24:01
your job going into your number. Two, how does this reflect on
24:04
Matt Gatens? Yes, right, If it doesn't go
24:07
well. If it doesn't go well.
24:08
Yes, that's gonna be a problem for Gatens I.
24:09
Would think, yeah. People know and pitch your wagon
24:13
to a guy that I had one guy get fired, the other guy that walked
24:16
away from the sport. Not exactly a glowing
24:19
endorsement for Owen Freeman. Miller and Condon underway on a
24:23
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Joe O next. Miller and Condon, glad you're
24:43
with us on the Thursday on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
25:10
I'm Melody Condon. Welcome back. 12:30 Late Tom
25:14
Stomping Tom Connors. What a name.
25:17
What what made him stomping? I don't.
25:19
Know I think it was on stage he was like stomping with his.
25:21
Foot. Oh yeah, yeah, Getting the beat,
25:23
going with the big the beat. Going and the place would go
25:25
crazy. Here's Joe O'Donnell, the voice
25:27
of the Minnesota Wild game. Game three, Saturday night, 8:00
25:33
puck drop, downtown Saint Paul, Joe Trenton.
25:36
Ken, thanks for coming on. How are you?
25:38
Good fellas, always a pleasure. Always a pleasure to talk to
25:41
you, Joe, and we appreciate you doing this for our audience here
25:43
in the state of Iowa. Well, I, as you know, I thought
25:46
Minnesota would win the series. It's not over.
25:49
But Colorado, they just look a step faster.
25:52
I don't know if that's the rest that they got after dispatching
25:55
the Kings and fourth straight. Obviously a much more physical
25:58
series Minnesota had against Dallas and a longer series.
26:01
I don't know what's behind it, but Colorado's just just looked
26:04
a step faster. Joe, how about that?
26:06
Yeah, they've been, they've been the better team through two
26:09
games, no doubt about it. You know, it just you always
26:13
have after playoff games and even throughout regular season
26:17
games, no matter the sport, you can always go 2020 hindsight or
26:21
if this bounce had gone your way or this call or I guess what I'm
26:25
getting at it. So like I just I just wonder in
26:27
game one or two if the Wild have got one more save at some point.
26:30
What does that do for the morale of the team?
26:34
How much closer does the game and the end result ultimately
26:37
be? And look, you got to you got to
26:39
get good goaltending to win the playoffs.
26:41
It's not a secret. It's not a surprise.
26:42
It's been that way for as long as I can remember watching
26:45
playoff hockey. And so far, through two games,
26:48
you know, the Wild haven't gotten that extra stay when they
26:51
need it. They got it in the Dallas
26:52
series. So see where it goes from here.
26:55
Obviously Game 3 is, you know, is the biggest game of the Wild
26:58
season to this point. And you know, and you hope in a
27:01
playoff run you get more of these where it's say the next
27:04
game up is the game of the year. So we'll see how they handle it.
27:08
So they make the change. They go to Gustafson in Game 2,
27:11
back to Walstead game three. What's the anticipation after
27:14
the 96 loss in game one? You make the move, the wall of
27:17
Saint Paul goes down to the bench.
27:19
Now you at least have some time to figure this out.
27:22
What's the conversation happening there?
27:25
Yeah, I think it's the way you got to look at it is.
27:27
And you know, when I talked to you guys originally after game
27:30
one, I don't, you know, I don't think we had all the information
27:33
that I eventually got by the time we dropped the fucking game
27:35
too. And that some of the Wilds
27:37
reasoning for going with Phillip got to send in Game 2 and not
27:40
yet for Volstead was in part because of the workload for the
27:43
young kid and just feeling like he needed a little break.
27:46
He'd never played seven straight games in his NHL career.
27:49
Those are John Heinz's words, not mine.
27:51
The Wild head coach telling me that, you know, and the rest of
27:54
the media as well, like it was part of their decision.
27:56
They felt like he just needed a break.
27:59
I don't know how much of that, you know, was Ball said.
28:01
Like, I doubt the kid would say, hey, I'm fine sitting this one
28:05
out or hey, start Gus and I'll watch this one.
28:07
Like, I don't think that that happened, but I do certainly
28:10
think they factored in talking to Wally.
28:12
How are you feeling? Right, Like where you at?
28:15
And the Dallas series was stressful on the young kid.
28:18
He'd never been in that spot before.
28:20
He faced a ton of shots in those six games, a double overtime
28:24
game, a single overtime game. So I think there were some
28:26
things that, you know, after game one wasn't in his best
28:29
against the Avalanche and maybe he looked a little tired out
28:32
there to the staff. They decided to make the switch
28:35
and they're putting in a guy that has great playoff success
28:38
numbers wise, not maybe wins and losses, but save percentage
28:40
wise. Gustafson like a career 9/16
28:43
save percentage in the playoffs for Game 2.
28:46
He'd been their number one for most of this year.
28:49
He's their big ticket. Gold center as far as contract
28:51
extension goes. So it's not like you're putting
28:53
in an untested, unproven guy when you were placed Walstead
28:57
for Game 2. Obviously didn't work out.
28:59
So my anticipation now is that with the time off, with some
29:03
practice time, that they will go back to Volstead.
29:06
My opinion only on that situation.
29:08
I think it would be the right move.
29:10
And you let the young kid play the rest of the series, no
29:12
matter how the injury goes. Interesting.
29:15
What about Quinn Hughes? What?
29:17
What does Colorado doing to Quinn Hughes?
29:19
Do you notice a difference? What they're, you know, trying
29:22
to take him out of the game as much as possible, jump on him as
29:26
soon as they possibly It's easier said than done, he's so
29:29
quick on the skates. But are they doing anything
29:31
different to Quinn Hughes? No, I mean, I've watched teams
29:35
now as this season moves along, can like, you know, the more you
29:38
can pressure them, you think the more you force him to get rid of
29:42
the puck. But he's so poised with it.
29:43
He's so confident with it. Sometimes that doesn't even
29:45
work. Like he's in some vulnerable
29:47
spots on the ice where, you know, normal hockey logic or a
29:51
coach's perspective would tell you, move the thing, dump it in,
29:53
do something just you're in a dangerous area, get rid of it.
29:57
And Quinn doesn't do that. Like, he'll hang on to it.
29:59
He'll shift back one more time. He'll make another spin move.
30:02
We'll cut on his edges. It's a little bit of like a
30:05
heart attack every time. He's got the bucket times
30:07
because he's so willing to make some of these high risk moves.
30:10
But he's so good at it that I think that, you know, obviously
30:13
everybody's comfortable. He's in those spots.
30:15
He's confident with the puck. Let him do his thing.
30:17
He's a unique player in that way.
30:19
What I have seen from the episode is that they are, you
30:22
know, in my opinion, really trying to pressure him with
30:25
sometimes multiple players to force his hand.
30:28
The forces issue a little bit hasn't changed his game.
30:30
He still seems like he wants to puck and he wants to do all the
30:32
magical things he does with it. But I think the ABS are
30:35
certainly, you know, the quicker you can close on him with 123
30:39
players sometimes if you have to, depending on where he's out
30:41
on the ice, force him to give it up and and maybe take him out of
30:46
his comfort zone. Joe, the series isn't over, but
30:48
they have to win four out of five.
30:50
But we just jumped right past what they did.
30:53
Getting that win. It gets a very good Dallas team
30:55
in the opening round. What did that win mean for the
30:57
organization? We know the history, the
30:59
consecutive losses in the first round of the playoffs, just just
31:02
getting to the conference semifinals, getting that monkey
31:05
off their back. How important was that to the
31:07
organization? Look, it was big.
31:10
It was big for the fans. It was big for the organization.
31:13
Helps obviously on a business perspective, because you get
31:15
more home games, you make more money.
31:18
It justifies the moves you made in season to get a guy like
31:21
Quinn Hughes. It justifies trade deadline
31:23
moves you made if you're Bill Guerin hockey OPS.
31:25
But it's not nearly the goal for the players and the hockey
31:29
operations staff Like, and I can tell you this, like after game
31:33
six and the Wild beat the Stars, I saw Karil Caprice off outside
31:37
the locker room in the hallway. I think he was waiting to talk
31:39
to somebody from Dallas. And I said, hey, Congrats.
31:43
And he literally looked at me and said Congrats for what?
31:47
So OK no Congrats. Keep it going buddy.
31:50
Like let's let's. Get it, You know, like that
31:53
fired me off because like the players didn't act like the fans
31:56
or the staff or you know, and when I say staff, I'm talking
31:59
like business staff, right? The ticket sales folks, the
32:01
marketing folks. Like for a lot of us, myself
32:03
included, it was really exciting.
32:05
But for the players, job not near done.
32:07
And I think they understand that.
32:08
I don't think they think this series is over.
32:10
They're going to come out in game three and they're going to
32:12
put it all on the line and see where the chips fall.
32:15
John Hines just talked with the local media and he brought up
32:18
how in the Dallas series they lost back-to-back game, They
32:20
lost games two and three. They learned some lessons from
32:22
that. They turn the series around.
32:24
So I think certainly they can draw on that.
32:26
They have players of Stanley Cup experience and and having won
32:29
Stanley Cups in the dressing room and this group just a
32:32
series ago when the narrative was here they go again, They
32:35
can't get out of the first round.
32:36
They were the underdogs and they found a way to get it done.
32:38
So I think the Wild will come out with the right approach
32:41
Saturday night game three. The rest will help his team
32:43
immensely. The practice time tomorrow will
32:45
help his team immensely. They always respond when they
32:48
have rest and practice time. They've always come out this
32:51
year in particular and played really good stretches of hockey
32:54
after having breaks on the schedule, so I think it benefits
32:56
them way more than it does the ABS.
32:58
Is, is Boldy OK? I'm referring to that play by
33:01
McKinnon, who I think is playing as well as I've seen him play,
33:04
and he's unbelievable to begin with.
33:05
But I didn't like that play at the end of the game.
33:07
I mean, it would have made a difference in the game if they
33:09
would have been called a penalty or not, but I didn't like it.
33:13
But Boldy's OK, Joe, as far as you know.
33:16
Yeah, you're not. A lot of guys skated today.
33:19
So the team flew back after the game Tuesday night, got in about
33:23
think I got home just 4-3 in the morning.
33:26
So yesterday was an off day. Today was an optional skate.
33:29
A lot of the lesser used time on ice guys skated.
33:33
Some of the Black Aces skated, you know, the guys that are
33:36
regularly scratched in the playoffs.
33:38
So we didn't really get a look at some of the regulars for the
33:40
Wild, but I think Boldy's fine. I mean, he's such a competitor,
33:44
such a tough kid. That was a somewhat dangerous
33:46
hit. Obviously went face first in the
33:48
boards. Something like that to me only
33:51
fires up on that Bold. He only hones in his focus a
33:54
little bit more. So I'd expect him to be ready to
33:57
go for game three with a chip on his shoulder, knowing he can be
34:00
better in the series and and he's got to be to help the Wild
34:02
win. What do you anticipate the early
34:05
crowds going to be? Like I mentioned to Ken, going
34:07
into Game 6, that nervous energy, it reminds me so much of
34:11
the Wild and and the playoff. Just problems that they had is
34:15
that nervous energy that you got in Boston back in the late 90s
34:18
and into the 2000s before obviously they broke through.
34:21
What do you think? It's going to be already down O2
34:23
Saturday night. You get this extra time to
34:25
prepare and get ready for it. What's the crowd going to be
34:27
like Saturday? I think it's going to be off the
34:31
charts really trend. I do like I, I, I think the
34:34
anticipation for this game now look, if it's a one one series,
34:38
you know, the building might collapse with the with the
34:40
excitement level. But I do think that from a fan
34:43
perspective, a lot of this is house money.
34:45
Like they know the team's banged up, missing 2 of their key
34:47
players in the series, which puts them at a huge
34:50
disadvantage. But they also know that they
34:52
just got out of you know, that monkey off their back.
34:54
They exercise the first round demons.
34:56
They beat a Dallas Stars team that's a huge rival.
34:58
Colorado's just as big of a rival and has been for so many
35:01
years. These teams now meeting for the
35:03
fourth time in the playoffs in the wild franchise history.
35:06
So I think with the latest great start, plenty of time for the
35:09
folks to take care of their pregame festivities.
35:13
I really think it's going to be a crowd that says, you know what
35:16
kind of screw it, we're here, Here's cards were dealt.
35:19
Whoever's in the lineup, doesn't matter.
35:21
Get behind who I think will be Ballstead, Annette the young
35:24
goalie and and have this place rocking going.
35:27
To be fascinating. Did you?
35:28
Do you watch hockey on your off night?
35:30
Did you see any? Anaheim, I guess, is where I'm
35:32
going. I thought they look really good,
35:34
Joe. You know, I didn't watch.
35:36
I watched a few minutes last night, the third period when I
35:39
saw they were up. I think that's going to be a
35:42
longer series that I think maybe some might have expected and I'm
35:46
trying to find its way, right. They have such a young core
35:48
group of guys. They have some bats like an Alex
35:51
Coloren that's one of Stanley Cup Jacob Troopers been around
35:54
the block and some deep playoff run.
35:56
But they are mainly a young, you know, I think they led the
35:59
league in goals by players under 23 years of age and wasn't even
36:03
close. So they are a young, young team.
36:06
They'd like to trade chances, like to get up and down the ice.
36:08
I think it's going to be a great series.
36:11
I really do. I think Vegas will have the edge
36:13
when it's all said and done. I might have mentioned that you
36:15
guys last week, but I just Anaheim's fun team and they are
36:18
fun team to watch and they're going to be on the rise for a
36:20
number of years. Same with San Jose Sharks who
36:22
just missed out on the playoffs and now I ended up with the
36:25
number 2 draft. That's another story.
36:27
Don't get me started. Yeah, with the leaves.
36:29
My God. Yeah, with the with the shadiest
36:32
ping pong ball. Unbelievable.
36:33
Draft lottery truly is it is, you're right and nobody will
36:38
ever admit to it, but you know, where there's smoke, there's
36:40
fire and it just seems like it's been weird the last couple of
36:42
years how how it's worked out. However, I think ultimately
36:46
it'll be great for the game and the league the way that some of
36:48
these upstart teams, these young teams are starting to find their
36:52
footing a little bit and they play exciting brand of hockey
36:54
because of all the skill they have.
36:56
No. Doubt.
36:57
You look to the east, is it Carolina then a gap with
37:00
everybody else for you or is it a little bit tighter?
37:02
Ken starting to fall in love I think with the Sabres team.
37:05
Yeah, look, they're a fun team. They're again high end.
37:09
They go, they want to play fast. They can they can come at you in
37:12
waves, they can score on the power play.
37:15
They've got young mobile defenseman.
37:17
They got some kids that are just figuring out what playoff
37:20
hockey's about, which is exciting.
37:21
And obviously they got a ravenous fan base.
37:23
So I think whoever comes out of that series, Montreal, Buffalo,
37:27
they're very similar teams in my opinion.
37:29
Again, young, you haven't really been there lately in the last
37:33
handful of years. So like there's an excitement
37:35
level there. But Caroline has been there,
37:37
done that. They're their biggest bugaboo
37:39
has been the conference final. So many years now they get to
37:42
the conference final and they can't punch your ticket to get
37:45
to the the last round. I think this year could be
37:48
different for Carolina, pending they get the goaltending.
37:50
You know, Freddie Anderson, to me, it's still a question mark.
37:53
He's been around the block, but he's often injured.
37:56
He's often not at his best. I think if Carolina gets
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goaltending, I think they represent the east of the
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Stanley Cup Final. But you know, this Buffalo and
38:05
Montreal series is going to be an outstanding one from an
38:08
entertainment standpoint. I know what a game like is it?
38:11
Is it like in Montreal is? I don't think there's anything
38:13
like it personally. What's Buffalo like for a home
38:15
game? No, it's, it's.
38:18
And listen, they've had, you know, the last few years, yeah,
38:23
been fortunate enough to travel there with the Wild and see like
38:26
they've always been like, here we go again, right?
38:29
Because they missed the playoffs for 11 straight years or
38:31
whatever it was. Might have been longer than
38:33
that. Like that.
38:35
That's a tough pill to swallow for a passionate, passionate
38:38
fan. Just take the Buffalo Bills fans
38:41
and put them in a hockey game. That's what we're talking about
38:45
here. So for them to finally get in
38:47
the playoffs, to get out of a round, to be in a battle with
38:51
one of their hated rivals. I mean, Buffalo is right on that
38:54
Canadian border basically. So, you know, that's why they
38:58
sing oh, Canada before every one of their own games.
39:00
You know, they are, they are Canadian border town
39:02
essentially. So it makes that Series A little
39:04
bit more spicy. As you know Joe, I'm a casual
39:07
and jump in in April. Of course, I didn't see the
39:09
Ducks last year. Full circle back to the Ducks.
39:13
This is their second year of that color scheme with the
39:15
orange. Those have got to be the ugliest
39:17
sweaters in the league, right? I, I, I don't, you're the second
39:22
person that's mentioned this to me in like the last 72 hours.
39:25
I feel like, so you're not alone.
39:29
But I, I, I, I think I like their whites more like I don't
39:32
mind the orange, but that's too much orange on the, on the
39:35
orange ones, right? Like, you know, but again, like
39:40
I'm always for give me like a scheme.
39:42
I don't see all the time. Like if, if, if your, if your
39:45
color scheme is the same as a team in Major League Baseball,
39:48
the NBA, like then it's like you feel like you've seen it before.
39:52
And that's why the retros are so much fun few times a year.
39:55
You know, I'm a big Phillies fan obviously being from
39:57
Philadelphia. Like the powder Blues that they
39:59
wear for their Thursday like day games.
40:02
Dude, I'll take them 162 * a year, you know?
40:05
The retros at the Wildwear, the 78 N stars throwbacks like
40:10
amazing look. So unfortunately the leagues
40:12
don't allow you to wear those too many times for whatever
40:15
reason, and that's kind of annoying.
40:16
Yeah, my squad should never change their uniforms from back
40:19
in the day as well. Joe O'Donnell.
40:21
Joe, thanks for doing this. Going to pose on you on Monday
40:23
for game #4 if your schedule allows.
40:25
Joe, thanks for coming on. Appreciate it.
40:28
Alright guys, talk to you soon. Good to talk to Joe Donald,
40:30
voice of the Minnesota Wilds. We talk hockey for the folks
40:33
that don't like hockey and the listening audience.
40:35
I'm sorry. I've spent in my last six weeks
40:38
and I'm going to talk what I want to talk about.
40:40
I've talked about what you wanted to talk about for 29
40:43
years and 10 months. I'm going to talk hockey in the
40:45
final six. Weeks.
40:46
That sounds great to me. Right.
40:47
And we've got a story just north of us there.
40:50
HL affiliate plays downtown Des Moines.
40:53
I'm sorry, actually, I'm really not and don't think of me any
40:57
different. But sorry.
40:59
We'll take a time out, come back.
41:00
We will finish up the hour. Hour number two, going to talk a
41:04
little Saint Louis Cardinal baseball as they've been a story
41:07
so far this year. And then we'll preview the WNBA
41:10
Kate Martin Wave. What's that?
41:11
I thought she was maybe not the face of that franchise, but she
41:15
certainly brought a lot of people into the building.
41:18
She's well known. I was shocked that she made the
41:22
team. The The Aces are going back to
41:25
the Valkyries. Both.
41:27
Both. Yeah.
41:28
Surprised. She was surprised to hear her
41:30
name called a draft night. We remember that story, just how
41:32
crazy it was. So she's a face.
41:36
Is she one of those players? And we know how difficult it is
41:39
to make this league. She made a couple years.
41:41
That's more than I thought. And we'll see if there's going
41:44
to be a home for her. I hope there is.
41:46
I don't think it's going to be in Indiana.
41:48
I mean, everybody, you know. Yeah, I I get you.
41:50
I get why you would like to see that.
41:53
We'll see. We're going to talk to Scott
41:54
Agnes at 1:30. Miller and Condon, glad you're
41:56
with us. We talked sports with you on the
41:58
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Hi, Miller.
42:11
Condon, welcome back. Final couple of minutes, first
42:14
hour of the program. Just came across a tweet and
42:17
boys just spot on. If Ted Turner's funeral is
42:20
delayed by weather, they better damn well be playing the Andy
42:24
Griffith Show during the delay. How many?
42:28
Today. Right, Braves delayed by rain.
42:31
Let's go to Andy Griffith. Oh man, I I mean, having the
42:36
Braves on TV, they were so bad. Do you remember back in the?
42:39
Of course you do. Yes, absolutely.
42:41
Until 91 they were awful, terrible and.
42:44
But a great broadcast team or a number of broadcast voices I.
42:48
Loved it because it was just baseball on yeah me too and be
42:51
at grandma's house because we didn't have cable and you knew
42:54
that there was going to be a ball game.
42:55
He had the Cubs on WGN. He had that and and we see it.
42:58
I mean, I see it in my era, how many Braves fans there are from
43:01
baseball Benny to so many of my buddies have grown up and they
43:05
just become brace fans. And it helped obviously then to
43:07
run in the 90s and really solidifying things.
43:10
But watching Dale Murphy and then Dale Murphy and then seven
43:13
jokers, they were awful. But Ted Turner, what a life,
43:19
what a career and so many times didn't feel like again.
43:23
This is when did you first? Hear of him when he was sailing.
43:25
Well, didn't he win the What did they call it?
43:27
Is that the America's Cup? Is that what it's called the big
43:30
sailing event? Yes.
43:31
Yes. Absolutely.
43:32
I, I just knew him as the TBS guy.
43:35
I knew him as the Braves owner. That's how I knew him.
43:39
And then it was all the extra things that came on then.
43:41
Oh, he also owned CNN For me. It wasn't, he owned CNN and also
43:45
TBS. It was the baseball, the sports
43:47
part of it. Oh, that guy owns that too.
43:50
And can't they get Larry King a better set?
43:53
I mean, watching CNN as a youth, and it was weird to me.
43:59
Like, all right, they're just talking about the news all day
44:02
long and like, how is this going to work?
44:04
But what tipped it is staying with my grandma for a while
44:08
during the Gulf crisis. And that time period, that's
44:13
where you went because you had your CBS News, your ABC News at
44:18
5:30. Yeah.
44:19
And it was done by 6. They went local news.
44:21
SOAP operas on up until that point.
44:23
And the incredible job that they did, I mean, they made Norman
44:25
Schwarzkopf into, I mean, what was the guys in that black
44:29
Bernie something Bernie? The news guy the the main
44:35
anchor, I think his name was Bernie.
44:37
Bernie. I don't remember Bernie.
44:39
If I saw him, I'm sure I would. I think you would, yes,
44:41
absolutely. Anyways, our two Brian Waltz
44:45
coming up in 20 minutes. Scott Agnes covers the fever
44:48
coming up at the bottom of our number 2.
44:50
Miller and Condon talking sports with you.
44:52
Glad you're with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.