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- 1:24it a little bit this week betting on the MLB
- 1:27didn't watch the games didn't keep up with them
- 1:29at all just Kind of watched it cash, but we can
- 1:33talk about that a little later It's just me and
- 1:36Sean for this episode. So Sean, how are you?
- 1:40Good well, I'm okay, I think Fred's got eliminated
- 1:47from playoff contention last night hurts a little
- 1:52bit But we've been here before, so it's just
- 1:57kind of another day. Another day of being a sad,
- 2:00sad fan of a Tennessee -based sports franchise.
- 2:07But overall, yeah, I'm good. But shout out to
- 2:11our friends at the Trends Center. There were
- 2:14a lot of trends for the Sharks last night on
- 2:18the game, but I went against the trends for the
- 2:21cause. For the Preds to make the playoffs mm
- 2:25-hmm Because I want to see my team in the playoffs.
- 2:30That's the cause Yes, and it turns out you became
- 2:34a double loser Yeah, it was it was all or nothing
- 2:40or even a triple loser Since they got eliminated
- 2:44from the playoffs Got eliminated from the playoffs.
- 2:50Yes, I lost the Preds bit And the Preds lost
- 2:53it's too and the print well the Preds lost goes
- 2:57into the into the bet and also Getting kicked
- 3:01out of playoff contention. It's kind of like
- 3:04one in the same. So we'll say two and a half
- 3:06I Think triple sounds better. I think it's funnier.
- 3:10Anyway, that's besides the point Was gonna get
- 3:14into the NHL a little bit later. I didn't want
- 3:17to kick off the show with With the a cornerstone
- 3:24of of three for the money and that's will's college
- 3:27hockey future That didn't hit however Now that
- 3:35I'm thinking about it I realized Chris is the
- 3:38one that posts on on Twitter so I what we I completely
- 3:43figured out there it didn't get out there I put
- 3:46a bomb on on Denver Moneyline even though that
- 3:49they were Favored heavily in the I don't know
- 3:53about heavily, but they were minus 170 It was
- 3:57juicy. Yeah, it was a bit juicy, but When it's
- 4:01juicy, you got a bomb it so I did and I made
- 4:04some of my money back which was Good not all
- 4:10of it, but you know happens That's hockey, baby
- 4:16But yes the the whale play, mega nuke play was
- 4:22was North Dakota, as I believe I almost 100 %
- 4:29gave out last time we we did the pod. But I wasn't
- 4:35you were about like 65 % sure you're going with
- 4:39North Dakota. Yeah. And then we didn't end up
- 4:43recording last week. Right. You already gave
- 4:45the pick out. And then that our graphics guy
- 4:49sent out the the post on on x yeah the really
- 4:53good looking graphic um but uh but yeah that
- 4:58didn't hit wisconsin uh just they came out hot
- 5:04and north dakota came out flat as simple as that
- 5:07um and uh was not fun to watch um it was kind
- 5:11of a boring game to be a to be quite honest um
- 5:15but uh But yeah, after that, uh, I did a lot
- 5:19of soul searching, uh, and some more research,
- 5:22actually. Um, and then I was looking at the final
- 5:27matchup, which Denver beat Michigan to go to
- 5:31the, uh, to go to the championship, which was
- 5:33like, it was crazy. Like in my mind, I was like,
- 5:36all right, if North Dakota doesn't hit, I'm picking
- 5:39the winner of Michigan Denver to, to win it all.
- 5:45To some to get some sort of money back on this
- 5:49and uh, that's what I did and that's what happened
- 5:52um, but in my research I found their uh Their
- 5:56their goalie hicks johnny hicks. Um doesn't lose
- 6:03Stud I feel like I should have seen Seen this
- 6:08I feel like I should have come across this stat
- 6:11in my in my research, uh But I didn't But I found
- 6:17it just in time so And I was a little surprised
- 6:23that that kind of flew under your radar Because
- 6:28that guy just doesn't lose Yes, he's your whole
- 6:33system is based on the goalies Well, okay, so
- 6:39with the goalies It felt like kind of a wash
- 6:44Because all the goalies in the frozen four they
- 6:47were all freshmen and so they were and they were
- 6:49all good And I think I might have heard something
- 6:54about how Johnny Hicks He didn't play a full
- 6:57season. He came on as a backup On their on the
- 7:02roster and then their their starter got injured
- 7:05And he just took the net and didn't lose. He
- 7:09went up until the championship game. He was 15.
- 7:13Oh, and one in his collegiate career. And then
- 7:18now it's 16. Oh, and one, which is, which is
- 7:22crazy. And then like, I did a little more research
- 7:27on the goalie. And like his his junior league
- 7:30record is something like 72. 12 and 4 something
- 7:37like that. It's uh, it was absolutely insane.
- 7:40Uh, so it did fly under the radar. Um, I did
- 7:44probably Hear something about how denver's goalie
- 7:48is It's weird like I want to say like unproven
- 7:54but at that point that's like the only way to
- 7:56prove it is Is to win, you know is to to win
- 8:00the whole thing and he's never had the opportunity
- 8:02to until Until this past weekend, which he proved
- 8:07it But yeah, so Denver won and I won a little
- 8:15money back and you know, I'm only down a couple
- 8:17units, but that is okay we take that and I was
- 8:23I was like this close to retiring from from these
- 8:26monster monster college hockey bits because it's
- 8:30very irresponsible and I really don't do a lot
- 8:35of research during the season. So like, I really
- 8:39don't really have a good reason to do it. I just
- 8:41do it. But it continues. Retirement postponed.
- 8:47Not today, old friend. Well, I'll say after the
- 8:52North Dakota loss, you were two and two on college
- 8:56hockey, frozen for winners. Yes. Profitable.
- 9:03you were still profitable both of them on on
- 9:07all four of those bits you were up correct but
- 9:12it was I was I was teetering on the idea of retiring
- 9:17if Denver lost right because if Denver lost it
- 9:22would have been like all right I still would
- 9:24have been up walk away from the table walk away
- 9:28while you're up and Yeah, didn't want to go down
- 9:33a slippery slope. But anyway, but yes, that was
- 9:37that was the college hockey breakdown. A quick
- 9:40couple weeks. I was thinking about this on my
- 9:43drive home from work today. Chris's wedding was
- 9:48right before the national championship game.
- 9:54Remember? I don't think the frozen Ford even
- 10:00started yet. No, no, no, no. The basketball.
- 10:04Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was on that. We had the wedding
- 10:08on Friday and the national championship was on
- 10:10Monday. Yeah. And man, that Michigan team, I
- 10:18feel like that team could beat anyone. I mean,
- 10:20obviously we don't have Chris here, who's our
- 10:23main basketball sicko, but to really break it
- 10:26down numbers wise. they didn't put they didn't
- 10:30put them through a shellacking i mean they didn't
- 10:33uh i the line was like six and a half and i think
- 10:37and i think they won by they won by six and i
- 10:43think i had like uconn at plus plus five and
- 10:47a half something like that i think he had michigan
- 10:50minus six and a half because i also had michigan
- 10:53minus six and a half okay then that was it yeah
- 10:56um It's like they didn't they didn't beat the
- 11:00shit out of them, but they did You know, they
- 11:04won the game and like down the stretch. It was
- 11:06like there They're winning this In the most handedly
- 11:12way possible, but not really. I don't know. It
- 11:14was weird It was also two weeks ago, and I don't
- 11:16really remember a lot of it. I'm gonna be real
- 11:19But yeah, I mean it I don't know. It's like Yukon,
- 11:26Michigan Of course, Michigan's going to win it.
- 11:31Like they're just the better team. And I think
- 11:34obviously Michigan, Arizona, that game was like,
- 11:40I was saying like all week leading up to that
- 11:42game was like, these are the two best teams in
- 11:44the country. And it's a shame this isn't the
- 11:47finals. And thank God it wasn't the finals because
- 11:50Michigan just whooped their ass. Arizona couldn't
- 11:54do a goddamn thing. But Yukon hung on. I think
- 11:59they're like something. What are they like? It's
- 12:06something like I think they're undefeated on
- 12:08the spread in the finals. That's wild. Yeah,
- 12:13like something crazy, which should have seemed
- 12:16coming, but I thought Michigan was the best team
- 12:20in the country. I picked him in my bracket to
- 12:22win. I lost my family bracket by 10 points to
- 12:28my brother -in -law. Damn. We both picked Michigan
- 12:32to win. It sucked. It's like one first round
- 12:38exit got me, but whatever. Who cares? I didn't
- 12:44look at my bracket once after I made it, if I'm
- 12:48going to be honest. I think because Like I was
- 12:53out after the first game that that Ohio State
- 12:56TCU game and I mean that was so long ago. That
- 13:01was a month ago and like Damn, yeah, and like
- 13:07half the and like they put out a style. There
- 13:08was like half the brackets are essentially a
- 13:11busted essentially like over half I think was
- 13:14like 58 % Which is I mean, that's just gonna
- 13:18happen when it's an eight and a nine and that
- 13:20was the first game but Like damn But but yeah,
- 13:26I mean there's a reason why like these companies
- 13:29were like Enter to win like the billion dollar
- 13:33sweepstakes if you get a perfect bracket It's
- 13:36never gonna happen Like yeah, you're brought
- 13:40a bracket is never going to be perfect Yeah,
- 13:44there's something like a trillion chance Yeah
- 13:49Think you're more likely to get struck by lightning
- 13:52and win the lottery at the same time Yeah, it's
- 13:57uh, it's uh, it's up there, you know, I think
- 13:59someone did the math on it the numbers out there
- 14:01I'm not gonna look it up But that number is out
- 14:06I think it's like one in a trillion or a quadrillion
- 14:09something like that Just because there's so many
- 14:12things that can happen. There's so many moving
- 14:13variables and obviously there's upsets and And
- 14:19yeah, there's always gonna be upset so it's very
- 14:21hard to predict but that's why it's March Madness
- 14:24One in nine point two quintillion Oh quintillion
- 14:31Damn you're and that's assuming that there's
- 14:35a 50 50 coin flip for all 63 games Which isn't
- 14:42the case no, that's not the case Well, there
- 14:47it is. That's crazy. But shit, let's... That's
- 14:55all I really got to say about March Madness.
- 14:58It was like two weeks ago. We're so past it.
- 15:02The sports world's behind it. Right. I'm trying
- 15:05to play catch up here. But let's move on, man.
- 15:08Let's go to the NHL, like you alluded to at the
- 15:12beginning. our our fair Nashville Predators have
- 15:16been eliminated from playoff contention and You
- 15:21know, I'm I'm a chronic like if you're not gonna
- 15:25do anything in the playoffs then don't make the
- 15:27playoffs Type of guy but like, you know, that's
- 15:31my team man That's like I'm still sad. I just
- 15:35want to feel something. That's all I want. Yeah,
- 15:39it's just like Don't know like even if you play
- 15:43if you end up playing the avalanche round one
- 15:46You you drop two on the road It's like hey, we're
- 15:51coming back home. You know, you still have that
- 15:54like you still like feel Something it's not like
- 15:58all hope is lost after two games. It gets it
- 16:01gets me through the workday Yeah, it's like I
- 16:03get to watch hockey tonight or tomorrow night
- 16:07Great, I don't know. It's just something that
- 16:11I haven't experienced in a while and I'm just
- 16:17gonna have to wait another fucking year to do
- 16:20this again. I haven't experienced hope in a while.
- 16:25Well, I don't mean hope, but I mean hope. Man,
- 16:36when I just look at the landscape of the Nashville
- 16:39predators, there are good signs and and kind
- 16:45of bad signs too like the good the good signs
- 16:48is like the red rap picks like have been kind
- 16:51of killing it in their league in their separate
- 16:53leagues right now and it's and it's great like
- 16:55ryker leave played really really well at michigan
- 16:58state i think he's going back for another season
- 17:00because why would you go to the ahl when you
- 17:03can just stay in college um and uh aiden fink
- 17:07signed a uh An AHL contract and then he signed
- 17:11his entry -level contract he was the Last pick
- 17:17that David Poyle made like five years ago. That
- 17:20wasn't five years ago. That was there was quite
- 17:22some time ago like three years ago, yeah, I was
- 17:25like three years ago and Like He's been kind
- 17:31of like pop he has like something like Ten points
- 17:34and like four games something like that in the
- 17:37AHL and then they signed him today or yesterday
- 17:40uh which was cool um and uh he might play for
- 17:46him thursday you know it uh you know we'll see
- 17:48what he just got but i mean like see okay i want
- 17:52to walk i want to kind of walk through this it's
- 17:56like i saw we signed adam think and that contract
- 18:01starts this year so He's going to play two games
- 18:08and then a year is already off the contract One
- 18:13game Okay, even even better. He's gonna play
- 18:17one game and he's Collecting a year's salary,
- 18:22correct? I That sounds correct, but I don't want
- 18:28it to be but also like who fucking cares well,
- 18:32I mean in terms of like it's like the salary
- 18:34cap, but like But no, I mean that like as like
- 18:40entry level is three years. He signed a three
- 18:44year entry level deal. I think it might have
- 18:47been a two year. Two years. So he's got one year
- 18:51left after this one game. Yeah, I think so. What?
- 19:03What's the deal with that? What's the point of
- 19:09signing him? I think they might have lost the
- 19:16rights to him if they didn't sign him. That was
- 19:19probably it. And then I think there might be
- 19:23something where it's like if you play three years
- 19:26of college hockey, You can sign a two -year instead
- 19:30of a three -year entry -level deal something
- 19:33like that. Maybe I I'm going out on a limb here,
- 19:40but I that's what I think and Because like we
- 19:45didn't sign him to an AHL contract we signed
- 19:47him to like an AHL tryout and we But we still
- 19:52somehow put him in games with Milwaukee So I'm
- 20:00not quite sure how this is all handled. I think
- 20:06they would be smart enough to, you know, like,
- 20:13like have the way with all to be like, Hey, if
- 20:15we don't put him on an entry level, like he's,
- 20:17he's gone. Like we'll lose his rights. And then
- 20:21they were probably like, okay. They're probably
- 20:23their hands were probably tied is I mean Yeah,
- 20:28right I'm that's the only like reason I can think
- 20:31of because I'm like because when we had um Tolvin
- 20:36and like we signed him late in the Regular season
- 20:42and he got on the team like pretty quick after
- 20:45that Like I think he was in Milwaukee for like
- 20:48one game one or two games or something But he
- 20:51was on like an entry -level deal I Don't think
- 20:55He didn't he didn't play for Milwaukee first
- 21:00Okay, I'm very I'm pretty certain that so he
- 21:04just came up yeah, because he was in he was in
- 21:08the KHL yeah, and He came over and the hype for
- 21:14him was Like like so much it was astronomical
- 21:20like astronomical hype. And like, rightfully
- 21:23so. I mean, that dude rocked in the KHL. Yes.
- 21:29I hope he's doing well. And I think he's was,
- 21:32is he still in Seattle? Yes. Okay. But like,
- 21:39they signed him to like a two or three year entry
- 21:44level deal. And he only played like five games.
- 21:48or something and one year was gone. And like
- 21:52that was an example. It's like, okay, well, we're
- 21:54not losing the rights to him. Like a year's just
- 21:59gone after playing five games. So I'm hoping
- 22:05that this think is like, oh, we would have lost
- 22:09like the rights to keep him as a player other
- 22:13than just being like, oh, we're We're playoff
- 22:18hopeful in case like a Guy gets hurt in the playoffs
- 22:23or something and we have to have like an emergency
- 22:25like call -up Do you know do you know what I'm
- 22:27saying? I know you're saying I I also think it
- 22:34could be a factor of like hey, I mean We might
- 22:38like if we have to sign this guy to keep his
- 22:41rights Because I think because when I think about
- 22:46it I think that might have been it like we were
- 22:49going to lose his rights because after three
- 22:52years three full years of like a college hockey
- 22:54season if you don't sign them they are gone and
- 22:59what he was on before was not like an nhl contract
- 23:06it was essentially a tryout uh but he played
- 23:10games and so i'm fairly certain we did have to
- 23:13sign him um but also like I think there was also
- 23:20maybe a you know an idea of like Let's give this
- 23:23guy a game. Let's see what he's got, you know,
- 23:27because yeah, that's true They signed him to
- 23:29that contract after he played like four or five
- 23:32games with with Milwaukee and murdered it So
- 23:38it was very much like hey, let's see what this
- 23:41guy's got let's you know This will be it'll be
- 23:45good to know if he can hang For our future plans,
- 23:51you know Yeah, I mean I get I totally get that
- 23:55right. Um, if you if you have to keep the guy
- 23:58keep him but Don't know it's just like Well,
- 24:05I don't even know I'm tripping for it because
- 24:06like he's still an RFA after his Deal runs out
- 24:13out of out after his entry level deal runs out.
- 24:16He's a restricted free agent Yes, so I Don't
- 24:21know why I'm really tripping but like You're
- 24:25tripping because it's one game and it burns one
- 24:28game for one year right and that's just like
- 24:33It's crazy. That's that's bonkers and As far
- 24:39as like salary it might be prorated, you know
- 24:42In terms of like we're playing you for You know,
- 24:46we're gonna burn a year, but it's prorated because
- 24:48you didn't play the whole year It could be something
- 24:50like that where he only makes I don't fucking
- 24:54know those numbers. But yeah, I don't know. I
- 24:56just thought like all entry -level deals are
- 24:59like Structured the same or you like get the
- 25:04like league minimum or whatever or like a rookie
- 25:08minimum That you're guaranteed I don't know what
- 25:11I don't I'll say guaranteed and like air quotes
- 25:14So it's like I think it's like Less it's like
- 25:2125k less than a million or something Isn't it
- 25:25like? 975 ,000 So for an entry -level deal, that's
- 25:30max for entry -level deal. That's max. Okay And
- 25:36like most Most prospects sign the max Yeah You
- 25:45know unless Some happens, I don't know. I just
- 25:50go cap space and look this up Yeah But also like
- 25:59I Mean it's an entry -level contract like it's
- 26:03That's nothing. I'm not worried about the money,
- 26:06right? Like we're oh We don't have that much
- 26:11cap space But I'm not worried about it, but So
- 26:17he signed for 950 for three years, okay, so we
- 26:25get him for two more years. Oh Yeah All right
- 26:34Well, there it is Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm not
- 26:38worried about the cap at all I'm just more worried
- 26:44about like well now that I see that he's three.
- 26:47I'm like, okay We're cool, but yeah, and that's
- 26:53what this is 2025 2026 950 ,000 he's getting
- 26:58950 K for playing one game Again, I think it
- 27:03might be prorated but At the end of the day is
- 27:06it doesn't matter but Yeah, it doesn't matter
- 27:11but it's still just like man to play one game
- 27:15and become short of a millionaire is crazy Right
- 27:21But back to my original kind of rant here There
- 27:28are both good things and bad things happening
- 27:31with the predators And it's, it's a weird kind
- 27:36of spot we're in right now where, you know, you
- 27:39never want to be that team that barely doesn't
- 27:41make the playoffs because you're, you're kind
- 27:44of in no man's land. Um, yeah, we made the push
- 27:47and we almost made the playoffs, which was exciting.
- 27:50And I am saddened that we didn't make the playoffs.
- 27:53Uh, but at the same time, it's like, it seems
- 27:56like we've been drafting pretty well, which,
- 27:59uh, which is cool. Um, and it uh it's also like
- 28:06hey man who's who's gonna be gm when are we gonna
- 28:13get the new gm what is what is going on there
- 28:17because the sooner we get a new gm the more the
- 28:21better of a plan that they can make for what
- 28:24the hell we're gonna do because like we're we're
- 28:28in that middle ground where it's like dude we
- 28:30could tank Or we could push like it It really
- 28:37kind of depends on what this what our next GM
- 28:40sees us as a as a franchise and it's like obviously
- 28:44like We're not Where I feel like we're not in
- 28:54a place to tank but also like I'm low -key Not
- 29:00gonna be Sad if we lose on Thursday because if
- 29:05we lose on Thursday and San Jose wins one of
- 29:08their games or two or Gets three points either
- 29:13the next two games Then we will drop one spot
- 29:17will be in the top ten and we'll have a slim
- 29:19chance of going moving up in the draft in the
- 29:23draft lottery Because I mean shit the Islanders
- 29:27went from 11 to 1 last year in the in the draft
- 29:31lottery. And so it's like, hey, it could happen.
- 29:36There's a slim chance, but it could happen, you
- 29:39know. And so I think it also might kind of depend
- 29:43on on that as well. You know, where where we're
- 29:48picking in the draft, because if we're picking
- 29:50first, or like, second or third, like we might
- 29:55as well just go all in. Because I mean, what
- 30:00the what the fuck else would we do, you know?
- 30:05If we if we draft like the first overall pick
- 30:08or like even the second or third, like they'll
- 30:10those guys can can make the NHL, you know, depending
- 30:13on who it is. And start becoming a difference
- 30:18maker. But at the same time, it's like, dude,
- 30:20I heard that like, Jonathan Marceau doesn't want
- 30:23to be here. And he's asked for a trade for like
- 30:24the last two years. And it's like, okay, well,
- 30:28play better. So we can trade you like I don't
- 30:32I don't know what we what you want here And it's
- 30:34like i'm here at some things that it's like we're
- 30:36we're interviewing brad tree living who just
- 30:38got fired from the leafs Like I don't want that
- 30:41fucking guy And we uh, we also like uh interviewed
- 30:46some other fucking gm They got fired this year
- 30:49and I don't want that guy either and I can't
- 30:51even remember who it was um And so like I don't
- 30:55know I don't know what we're gonna do. Um Then
- 30:59like Part of me is like hey, I think we're gonna
- 31:03sign we're gonna we're gonna hire Tom Fitzgerald
- 31:06who just got fired from or let go from from New
- 31:11Jersey and On one hand that would be kind of
- 31:15cool because he was the very first Nashville
- 31:18Predators captain and It would kind of keep it
- 31:21in the family But then on the other hand, it's
- 31:23like yo keeping it in the family has not worked
- 31:27It's not, I was just about to say, I was like,
- 31:29dude, stop. We're done with this. I know we're
- 31:38going on 30 years of being a franchise, 31 years
- 31:42of being a franchise or whatever. No, not even
- 31:45that. It's 98. 27? 28? Yeah, not even 30 years.
- 31:56Know we're like Not that old but we're also like
- 32:01not that young where we don't have to keep playing
- 32:04we don't have to like Keep like picking off the
- 32:09family tree Right we like Burnett was a cool
- 32:16hire it was fun we had fun I Have questions about
- 32:22this guy Yeah Uh, but he's right there always
- 32:31like past three years. He's been like, kind of
- 32:34like right there. Yeah. He's been either barely
- 32:39makes the playoffs or, or doesn't, or barely
- 32:44doesn't make the playoffs. Um, well, actually
- 32:47last year we were awful. We were terrible. Yeah.
- 32:49We're pretty bad. Um, but I don't know. I don't
- 32:54know what we're going to do with him. I don't
- 32:58know. I'd say we roll with him for another year
- 33:02because we can't have a new GM search and a new
- 33:05head coach search in the same off season. I don't
- 33:08want that. Just stick with it for one more year.
- 33:13If you're bad, you're bad. Build it up again.
- 33:17Get more collateral. But for right now, According
- 33:24to Google AI, the top candidates are Bill Scott,
- 33:29who is the assistant GM for the Oilers, Scott
- 33:34White, who is the assistant GM for the Stars,
- 33:38Brett Peterson, who is the assistant general
- 33:41manager for the Florida Panthers, and former
- 33:45GM John Chaika. Oh, John Chaika. Yeah, I don't
- 33:51want to hear you. He was the last GM for, uh,
- 33:54Arizona. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently he was like a
- 33:59huge douche too. Yeah. He's last on the list.
- 34:05So good. Yeah. Bill Scott doesn't seem too bad
- 34:09though. Uh, from Dallas? No, from the Oilers.
- 34:16Man, I don't know. I don't know about. That one
- 34:22just because like It That I mean the oilers like
- 34:30there's always gonna be questions around them
- 34:31just because like they have the greatest hockey
- 34:34player on the planet and Like the second greatest
- 34:37hockey player on the planet and like cannot get
- 34:40a save to to save their life and it's uh It's
- 34:47it's really like this can't get a goalie and
- 34:49like I don't goalies are hard to come by at the
- 34:53same time but like some of the GM moves that
- 34:57they've made over the past couple of like after
- 34:59they made the cup final for the first time and
- 35:02they let go of like Holloway and Broberg because
- 35:06they were on RFAs and they couldn't they couldn't
- 35:09match whatever they were offered or something
- 35:11it was like dude these were great fucking players
- 35:18and now they're great somewhere else. This is
- 35:23also the guy who signed Connor Ingram to like
- 35:26a five million dollar deal for like three years
- 35:29or something. When did that happen? He played
- 35:33for the Coyotes after he left with us. Bill Scott?
- 35:42No, John Chica. Oh. Oh, sorry. I know, sorry.
- 35:47My bad. I thought we were on the go. My bad.
- 35:52I was like, on the Google, I was looking up John
- 35:56Chaika and I was just like, this guy doesn't
- 36:00seem right. Yeah, that's one I, I don't know
- 36:07about. But like the stars, assistant GM, or the
- 36:12Panthers, I think that would be, I think that
- 36:15would be massive. if we got one of those. Someone
- 36:19from the outside. Yes. This is how the rest of
- 36:24the league works. Oh, yeah, we needed a companies
- 36:28do this all the time where they get like outside
- 36:30hires to get a new perspective on things. This
- 36:34is what we need. Yes, to become like, we need
- 36:40a new identity. Yes. And like I think hiring
- 36:47brunette was kind of a step in the right direction,
- 36:51even though he is like part of part of the family.
- 36:55Just because like, it felt like our entire time
- 36:59here. Like we've, we've just been relying on
- 37:03like a strong decor. And then like very middle
- 37:05of the road forwards. And it feels like kind
- 37:08of the opposite now, which is where most of the
- 37:10league is. And You know, we haven't won anything
- 37:16and most of the league has so I Am you know,
- 37:22I'm in the same boat as you I do think we should
- 37:24keep him for at least another year and then The
- 37:28GM will hire his guy or whatever Yeah Unless
- 37:33he's good again unless he's a good coach This
- 37:37coming year, but we'll see moving on from the
- 37:40NHL. I mean, uh, I mean I guess not actually
- 37:42moving wrong for NHL Playoff matchups, I don't
- 37:46think all of them are set, but some of them are.
- 37:49And the one that I am excited for the most is
- 37:53Pittsburgh -Philly. I don't know if you knew
- 37:56that that was the first round matchup shot. Oh,
- 37:59shit. I did not know that. I've been making mainly
- 38:02looking at the West, so the East has just been
- 38:06in another realm to me. Yeah, the that rocks.
- 38:15Yeah, that. That's I think there's only one other
- 38:19matchup that is set and that's Dallas, Minnesota.
- 38:25Is it not King's avalanche? Is that one not set?
- 38:32Yeah, I guess that one set. Or I mean. Or could
- 38:37they jump? They could I think the Kings could
- 38:41end up in third Yeah, it's possible the Kings
- 38:47could because they got two games left now 89
- 38:50points and Utah's right above them at 90 with
- 38:54two games left and Anaheim is has 90 points with
- 38:58two games left, so they could uh, they could
- 39:02jump them but But yeah other than that Guess
- 39:08buffaloes play in Ottawa, which that series like
- 39:13six years ago Would have been just a bunch of
- 39:18piles of shit on the ice But now that one should
- 39:24be electric But going back to Philadelphia Pittsburgh
- 39:28I'm really excited for that. This is the first
- 39:32time they've met since 2020 and I remember that
- 39:35series Left a little bit to be desired. I feel
- 39:38like there wasn't as much animosity. I think
- 39:40just because like You know their stars were older
- 39:44like Sid was older and Jeru was older. So like
- 39:48there wasn't as much like You know macho shit
- 39:51going on Which the macho shit was like Was what
- 39:58I was there for brother. Yeah, so but uh this
- 40:02Philly team is young and scrappy. And I wish
- 40:10Dan Muse nothing but the best in Pittsburgh,
- 40:13but also fuck the penguins. So. Yeah, it's tough.
- 40:20Yeah. It's tough. When I learned that he was
- 40:24like their coach, which I learned this like a
- 40:26month ago, I didn't even know that. But when
- 40:30I was like, oh shit, Dan Muse is their coach.
- 40:33that's crazy yeah they they moved on from solvin
- 40:38like earlier this year didn't they and he got
- 40:40like they they i think they canned him in the
- 40:45offseason what's the offseason yeah and uh oh
- 40:51also nick bonino is behind the bench in pittsburgh
- 40:54really yeah he's like uh an assistant to Someone
- 41:00I don't know. I don't know his title, but he's
- 41:03he's like on the bench and I'm like, oh fucking
- 41:06bones, dude I fucking loved Nick Benino. He was
- 41:11awesome I love that job recall all time in Canada
- 41:19But yeah, Philly Pittsburgh, I'm hoping that
- 41:24we get fireworks in that Philly has some some
- 41:29hotheads and Pittsburgh like this might be one
- 41:35of their last years to like make a run so with
- 41:40their with their stars because like Malkin's
- 41:43like 40 and Sid is like 39 and so it this might
- 41:48be uh we've I mean we've kind of been saying
- 41:50that the last couple times I made the playoffs
- 41:52but but at the same time like hey man you're
- 41:5740. you're 39. It might be it, you know, unless
- 42:04you go to the avalanche. Anyway. But but yeah,
- 42:11no wrong. Yeah, so. But yeah, other than that,
- 42:18I mean, Dallas, Minnesota. Man, I want Minnesota
- 42:23to win that series really bad. Well, actually,
- 42:28I would. Preferred outcome rather both teams
- 42:31to lose, right? That's a preferred outcome, right?
- 42:35Ultimate preferred outcome would be their planes
- 42:38crash into each other But That's probably not
- 42:45gonna happen with today's technology so I want
- 42:49Minnesota to beat the stars because I hate the
- 42:54stars and like Billy Garen like Listen, he, he
- 43:00low key has my heart forever when he built the
- 43:05team USA. And so I kind of like, if it's not
- 43:08us, I want it to be him just because like, man,
- 43:15he did it. He fucking did it. He's a, well, he's
- 43:21really, he's not a gold medalist. Only the players
- 43:23get the gold medal, but he put the team together.
- 43:26It bullshit It is kind of bullshit, but but I
- 43:31mean he's a you know, he's in the books He just
- 43:34doesn't have the medal, you know The coaches
- 43:37don't get a medal either What yeah, I did not
- 43:42do that. Yeah in the the medal ceremony, you
- 43:45know, the other coaches got the medal so Hmm.
- 43:48It's on their resume though. They still you know,
- 43:51they have it just not physically So But uh, I
- 43:59I want Billy Garen to Win more things if they
- 44:06don't go through the Nashville Predators But
- 44:09yeah also like, you know, Minnesota they feel
- 44:15like a cursed franchise like it feels like whenever
- 44:17their teams are like really good and they like
- 44:20make the playoffs like nothing fucking happens
- 44:23for him and It is kind of like, hey, man, I want
- 44:30this for you. So you can feel this, you know,
- 44:35it's like minutes, like fucking Minnesota, the
- 44:37state of hockey, you know? Yeah, I get, I get
- 44:40what you're saying. Yeah. But like fuck the stars.
- 44:46Yeah. I don't know which one I hate more. I hate
- 44:53probably the stars. They've caused me more. Mental
- 44:57turmoil. Yeah but But also like man of Buffalo
- 45:05won the cup this year they won't That would also
- 45:09be sick. That would be crazy, dude So, okay,
- 45:14let's go through what would be the worst possible?
- 45:19Matchup for the Stanley Cup finals like ratings
- 45:23wise Ottawa would it be would it be Utah Buffalo?
- 45:32No, it'd be it'd be Utah, Ottawa. Canada? Yeah,
- 45:39because Ottawa isn't even the most popular team
- 45:45in their territory. It's the least like like
- 45:54Isn't Ottawa in like the same territory as Montreal
- 45:59though? Yeah, what territory is Montreal in?
- 46:09I don't know. I just know they're in like the
- 46:12same place. I don't think Toronto is in that
- 46:16territory. I know Toronto is in Ontario. Oh shit.
- 46:22Okay, Ottawa. Like in geography, what are we
- 46:29doing? What? It's in the near city of Montreal.
- 46:39Yeah. Oh, it's near Montreal. Yeah. Providence
- 46:44or province. It's Ontario. So Toronto is on Ontario
- 46:50too. Yeah. So there's three teams in that territory.
- 46:55Yeah. Oh shit. And now I'm looking at it. Ottawa
- 46:59is like on the brink of like Quebec and Ontario.
- 47:03Yeah. So like, okay. So when Ottawa came to town,
- 47:10like, everyone was already like either hardcore
- 47:13Montreal fans or like they wanted them to be
- 47:15the Nordiques. And like, I think I think urinating
- 47:19tree did a video on Ottawa a couple of years
- 47:23ago, obviously shitting on the team for like
- 47:25performance reasons, because that's what he does.
- 47:28But also at the same time, it's like, I think
- 47:31I think their stadium is like, kind of in the
- 47:35middle of nowhere, like near nothing. And like,
- 47:40apparently like the state like everything about
- 47:43the stadium is bad like the parking is bad the
- 47:45seats are bad like i i don't know dude um something
- 47:49like that and uh like ottawa is like probably
- 47:52the least the least liked team in canada because
- 47:59interesting toronto is a big enough city to where
- 48:02it has its own you know its own fan base and
- 48:05so is montreal i mean montreal has been there
- 48:07for like you know a fucking Million years and
- 48:09so is Toronto. So like their fan bases are already
- 48:12established Winnipeg is in is in a Manitoba there's
- 48:17no other team in that in that that territory.
- 48:20I don't think there's any other Civilization
- 48:23other than Winnipeg in Manitoba you I think you'd
- 48:26be right as well And Calgary and Edmonton they've
- 48:33been here for so long that it's like they they
- 48:35have their own fan established fan bases, they're
- 48:39both in Alberta. And then like Vancouver, BC,
- 48:45British Columbia, correct? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean,
- 48:49they I mean, they've been around such a long
- 48:52time as well. And so like, they have their their
- 48:55fan base is established. And like, when Ottawa
- 48:57came in, they were kind of feeding off of like,
- 49:00you know, Montreal, because it's the closest
- 49:01city and like, trying to trying to gather in
- 49:05like the Nordics fans and shit. um from Quebec
- 49:08but like Ottawa's probably the least like city
- 49:12so I think in terms of like a draw like Ottawa's
- 49:18gotta be the least and then in the west it's
- 49:20probably gonna be see on one hand like I want
- 49:26to say it's Utah because they're so because they
- 49:30are the newest team but also like having a new
- 49:33team in the Stanley Cup final is exciting you
- 49:36know But like In terms of like least wanna I'm
- 49:45looking at the West I'm like, it's gotta be Utah.
- 49:48I know right Because all these other teams pretty
- 49:53much have established fan bases and it's like
- 49:55Like you could you can I think you can well like
- 49:58I not only the argument for fan bases market
- 50:02-wise like Vegas huge market right the Edmonton
- 50:09huge market like Southern California Anaheim
- 50:12in LA huge markets Colorado is just not only
- 50:18a huge market for the team, but like Just a good
- 50:23fucking team so they're they're going to get
- 50:26views the same with the stars Minnesota state
- 50:30of hockey of course they're gonna be tuning in
- 50:33So I'm like my eyes immediately go to Utah. I
- 50:37think yeah, I think you're right. It might be
- 50:39Utah. I Think it is Utah you I think it's Utah
- 50:42in Ottawa because I when you brought those are
- 50:45two wild -car teams We're like, you know, we're
- 50:47right It's like the probability of this happen
- 50:51is like slim to none But of course this would
- 50:54be cool. And also this would be the worst cup
- 50:57final of all time Right When you brought up Buffalo,
- 51:05I was like, I see where you're coming from, but
- 51:07also like, think like Bill's light with Buffalo,
- 51:15because I don't know if you, yo, I just remembered
- 51:18this. Did you see the Buffalo Sabres Twitter
- 51:22today? About their beer thing? No. Oh. Yeah,
- 51:31I got something to bring up about that too. Okay
- 51:34the today is like self -proclaimed the Buffalo
- 51:39social media admin receipt day and They like
- 51:45at you know at the beginning of the year They
- 51:46were dogshit and then like they made this big
- 51:48push and now they're like one of the best teams
- 51:50in the East At the beginning of the year Like,
- 51:55you know, I mean, you know, you know sports fans.
- 51:58They're always tweeting at their their teams
- 52:00like you fucking suck sell the team Yeah, yeah,
- 52:03whatever and like they went through and like
- 52:06they didn't quote tweet all of them or Like replied
- 52:10to all of them, but they did a lot. Oh Shit,
- 52:14and it's awesome. It was hilarious Look up the
- 52:19Sabres Twitter whenever you get a moment because
- 52:22it is hilarious But when you talk about the the
- 52:27beer sabers, are you alluding to when they brought
- 52:29them? Back or when they they made them a thing
- 52:33they they went on that run Yeah, do you know
- 52:36their record after they made like the beer sabers
- 52:39which is like, you know the the novelty like
- 52:43beer Cup that looks like a sword Yeah, isn't
- 52:48it like I saw the graphic today. Isn't it like
- 52:514312 and three? Yeah, it's something it's 46
- 52:5622 and 8 Yeah, that's uh, that's crazy. It's
- 53:01like and then the debut the debut of the beer
- 53:06saber saber They won against the Blackhawks 9
- 53:11to 3 Dude Genius idea for this is the thing that
- 53:19turned it around This is the singular thing that
- 53:22you can pinpoint. It's like, this is when the
- 53:25franchise turned it around this year. Yeah. And
- 53:30I mean, you can speak to swords with alcohol
- 53:33in them because you got one. I can. I did in
- 53:36Vegas. I did. And airport security almost, I
- 53:40tried to bring it back and they were like, what's
- 53:44in this bag? And I was like, it's a sword. It's
- 53:48a sword. There was margarita in it. Yeah, I should
- 53:54have just thrown that away. That was stupid.
- 53:57Bring that back. It was funny. But yeah, check
- 54:02out the Buffalo Sabres Twitter. It's hilarious.
- 54:07They, they basically like, put Ryan, Ryan Whitney
- 54:13in a fucking body bag. Apparently someone paid
- 54:16for a billboard that Has like a quote of him
- 54:22and like his face on it. This is the Sabres have
- 54:24a zero point zero zero zero chance of making
- 54:27the playoffs and It's uh, it's hilarious but
- 54:33Look that up. I had a I had a ball looking through
- 54:37those today and Then like if you look in like
- 54:40one of their one of their tweets People will
- 54:44be like, oh thank god. This wasn't me Then they
- 54:48then they quote them from like, you know months
- 54:50ago when they're like Fuck it's 3 a .m. And I'm
- 54:53thinking about how bad the Sabres are And they're
- 54:56like this you oh Shit, yeah, they got they did
- 55:01like a whole like receipts. Yeah, we got coupons
- 55:04like oh my god. This thing is hilarious It's
- 55:08uh You could tell you like the Buffalo Sabres
- 55:11not making the playoffs zero point zero zero
- 55:15zero percent chance Someone paid for a billboard.
- 55:23I think it was the team. I think it was the Sabres.
- 55:27It probably was. Because there's two of them.
- 55:31There's two of these billboards. Hilarious. They
- 55:36just said you had it coming. Yeah, they they
- 55:39did a whole thing and it was like. They even
- 55:42tweeted out a Sabres admin burn book. Yes. from
- 55:46Mean Girls. Yes. Wow. This is the admins first
- 55:51playoffs. It's it's great. This is this is all
- 56:01time. You could spend like an hour and a half
- 56:04going through all these and get your money's
- 56:09worth of entertainment there. Oh man. This thing
- 56:13is free. Yes. The Twitter is free. Today was
- 56:20one of those days where you're like, Twitter
- 56:22is free. This guy named Alex Jones just replied
- 56:29to them, am I safe? It just says you're safe,
- 56:32Alex Jones. He was having a good day today. The
- 56:39admin. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is Christmas to
- 56:42him. Mark safe from Buffalo Savers admin. But
- 56:52oh yeah, this is this is highly recommended.
- 56:57I'm just like scrolling through the replies.
- 57:00Oh yeah, these are just going through the replies.
- 57:04Yeah. And they're from like months ago. Oh yeah.
- 57:10Like some of these are from like October, like
- 57:12when the season just started. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 57:19It's great. This is awesome. That's great. Check
- 57:22that out on your own time. But yeah, that's really
- 57:27all I got for the NHL. I'm excited to watch the
- 57:30playoffs because I think I'm actually going to
- 57:32do it this year. Probably not bet on it because
- 57:36every time I try to bet on the playoffs, I'm
- 57:40terrible. It's so predictable. Yeah, it's so
- 57:46hard like it's I think it's the hardest to bet
- 57:49on like postseason sports wise Yeah, because
- 57:54it feels like anything could happen the worst.
- 57:57Yeah Anything can happen in the NHL. Mm -hmm
- 58:02But all right, let's do you have anything else
- 58:05in the NHL or I Mean do we think this is Like
- 58:12today the Capitals are playing their final game.
- 58:16Do we think this is a vegans last game? I don't
- 58:25know. That's a tough one. I was thinking about
- 58:29that today. And I was like, man. This could be
- 58:33the last game. But also it couldn't. I think
- 58:38it's really up to him. Because like He doesn't
- 58:44have anything else to prove unless he wants to
- 58:46get to a thousand goals in the regular season
- 58:49because he's already done it and Like he reached
- 58:52a thousand goals in in playoffs and in regular
- 58:55season combined He did that this year so I Don't
- 59:01know stuff one Unless he's trying to chase the
- 59:07the all -time Like goals in regular season and
- 59:12playoffs by just Seeing if they can make the
- 59:18playoffs. I don't know not this year, but next
- 59:20year But one thing is for sure when he does retire
- 59:26from the NHL he's gonna play a year in the KHL
- 59:29I think he's already kind of said that that he's
- 59:32like I want to play in the KHL for a year To
- 59:35see how it is or something and I want to play
- 59:38in Russia I'm like, well, they'll probably Pay
- 59:45you a lot more than anyone else that has ever
- 59:47played in the in the KHL Yeah at all And they
- 59:54throw money around over there apparently, yeah,
- 59:57especially to the to the Russian players, but
- 1:00:00you know, I Did ask our caps friend Ryan if he
- 1:00:07thinks this is over his last game And he said,
- 1:00:09I won't be surprised if it is, but I feel like
- 1:00:13he may do one more since they didn't make the
- 1:00:15playoffs. I think that's a fair assessment. That's
- 1:00:20fair assessment. Absolutely. But is that just
- 1:00:30hopefulness that he comes back? Just wish one
- 1:00:35more would be going around. Could be. But also
- 1:00:39like, I mean, I don't, I think he only scored
- 1:00:44like 31 or 32 goals this year. Uh, so I mean,
- 1:00:5022nd straight year of scoring that many goals,
- 1:00:54which is insane. Um, but also like, I mean, you
- 1:01:00know, if only that number, but at the same time,
- 1:01:03it's like, that's not, that's not really his
- 1:01:05standard. And I don't know if you saw this, Sean,
- 1:01:09but like a month or two ago, he went the whole
- 1:01:14season without taking a D zone draw. Did you
- 1:01:18know that? How was that possible? Don't know.
- 1:01:26He went most of the season without taking a D
- 1:01:30zone draw. Which seems impossible because because
- 1:01:36of icings yeah, but He didn't It was a big it
- 1:01:47was a big kind of story like it was like reading
- 1:01:50I do not see that Mary or early March and it
- 1:01:52was like Ovechkin still hasn't taken a D zone
- 1:01:55draw and so like You know on one hand very impressive
- 1:02:01but on the other hand, it's like He probably
- 1:02:04did this on purpose to play less hockey Because
- 1:02:10he's old yeah, so I don't know well If it is
- 1:02:19if today is his last game What an animal just
- 1:02:24an absolute farm animal an absolute just Pig
- 1:02:29a warthog just a disgusting disgusting human
- 1:02:33being and you will be missed and I mean that
- 1:02:39with the most sincerity from the heart like you
- 1:02:43are what hockey needs to be and is I mean you
- 1:02:50can make the argument that him and said saved
- 1:02:53the NHL yeah cuz in the early 2000s the league
- 1:02:57was not in a good place it's not Pittsburgh was
- 1:03:01about to be sold to somewhere else even though
- 1:03:05like they kind of had recently won a Stanley
- 1:03:08Cup but their teams were just dogshit after that
- 1:03:10after LaMue left and that's fucked from Blackberry
- 1:03:15almost bottom made him the Windsor Penguins or
- 1:03:20something like he wanted to move him up to Canada
- 1:03:23Yeah, he almost bought the Prodors to That dude
- 1:03:28was like Have you ever seen that movie, Blackberry?
- 1:03:32No, you told me about it and I never got around
- 1:03:34to watching it. That dude was just like, he just
- 1:03:39wanted to own an NHL team. That was like his
- 1:03:44main goal in life, was just to own an NHL team.
- 1:03:49Interesting. Fuck that dude. That dude sucks.
- 1:03:54Yeah, Blackberrys aren't really a thing anymore.
- 1:03:56Anyway, so like, Didn't mean for this to be like
- 1:04:02a retrospective, but they kind of saved the league
- 1:04:04because they brought attention to it because
- 1:04:07this guy couldn't stop scoring goals and Sid
- 1:04:12looked like Wayne Gretzky like this this child
- 1:04:16Yeah at the time so Like hey more power to you
- 1:04:23if he calls it quits Hey, man, it's respectable.
- 1:04:28Yeah Everybody's got to hang it up at some point.
- 1:04:32We might have had this conversation on the show
- 1:04:34but like after he broke the goal record and It
- 1:04:40was like is OV on the Mount Rushmore of hockey
- 1:04:43players And I was like I Don't know if I had
- 1:04:50this This conversation with y 'all on the show
- 1:04:54Or if we were just drunk one night in the garage
- 1:04:59This is this sounds like a garage conversation
- 1:05:02if I'm being honest, yeah Because like It's it's
- 1:05:09it's weird just because there's been so many
- 1:05:11great players in so many different aspects of
- 1:05:15the game and like Mount Rushmore is Only four,
- 1:05:19but we don't have to get into that on this episode
- 1:05:24What and we're not um there's something i need
- 1:05:32like paper for just to write yeah just to write
- 1:05:36down names yeah so i don't forget them but uh
- 1:05:40i think that's all i got in the nhl really the
- 1:05:43only thing i had of uh of note is uh see the
- 1:05:48shit with the diana russini yeah i don't i don't
- 1:05:54i don't know it's Don't know about all this.
- 1:06:01I don't want to like say anything like I Just
- 1:06:07brought it up because it was in the news and
- 1:06:10she like resigned From yeah short to the ESPN
- 1:06:15the athletic the athletic. Yeah, she she resigned
- 1:06:19and I was like, oh There's smoke there's fire
- 1:06:24Just throw it out there Should we be hired by
- 1:06:30Barstool within a month? She could or they could
- 1:06:37I Don't know we'll see yeah, I don't know this
- 1:06:45this thing is weird Yeah, we should save it Yeah,
- 1:06:56because maybe by the time Yeah, no, but maybe
- 1:07:00by the time of next week Well, like this story
- 1:07:02is already like two weeks old and then like new
- 1:07:06stuff like came in like today About how she resigned
- 1:07:12So Who knows there may be more more to it Maybe
- 1:07:20she'll sign with Barstool next week And we can
- 1:07:23bring it up again Well, you know what we're talking
- 1:07:26about next week, right The draft talking about
- 1:07:34the draft. Yeah, I think about it for a second
- 1:07:36Which man that snuck up on me? Yeah, I mean It
- 1:07:43feels like and so busy Yeah, the past couple
- 1:07:47weeks have felt Like a lot of shit is going on
- 1:07:52Because like I mean for me part like Leo last
- 1:07:55week was the Masters and I mean, I didn't watch
- 1:07:58a single second of the Masters, and I don't know
- 1:08:01if Chris did either because he was on his honeymoon.
- 1:08:04Probably didn't, but like the same past weekend,
- 1:08:09it was the Frozen Four, and obviously that's
- 1:08:10big for this show. The week before that... Big
- 1:08:14for some. Big for some. The week before that
- 1:08:20was the Final Four, and then this weekend is,
- 1:08:27I mean, this weekend is WrestleMania. I'm gonna
- 1:08:29be watching that. And then next week is, is the
- 1:08:36draft. This week. Yeah. WrestleMania stuck up
- 1:08:42on me, probably because they haven't been doing
- 1:08:44a good job of building it. But that's a, that's
- 1:08:48a different, that's a different issue. We don't
- 1:08:51talk about that on the show as much. Sorry about
- 1:08:56real sports on this show. not sports entertainment.
- 1:09:02That's what it is. Not that there's anything
- 1:09:05wrong with sports entertainment. There's nothing
- 1:09:07wrong with sports entertainment. Sometimes I
- 1:09:11enjoy it more. Anyway. I was about to say because
- 1:09:17I can't bet on it. But I can. You absolutely
- 1:09:20could. I absolutely can. If I wanted to. Yeah.
- 1:09:25And Haven't put serious thought to it I'll say
- 1:09:31this every year. I'm never gonna bet on wrestling,
- 1:09:34but I always think about it. I always like to
- 1:09:37look at the lines I'll be like Do you look at
- 1:09:43the lines and you're like you're preparing yourself
- 1:09:46for what may happen because you're much more
- 1:09:49involved in Wrestling culture than I am for sure
- 1:09:55And you, you know, like all the storylines and
- 1:09:58what's going on. And you have an idea of like,
- 1:10:01what may happen or what may not happen. But do
- 1:10:03you look at the lines and you're like, yeah,
- 1:10:06I can see that happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like
- 1:10:12last year when they had the intercontinental
- 1:10:14title match, it was like, I think it was a fatal
- 1:10:17four way. And then like, I remember looking at
- 1:10:20the lines. Like a like whatever the match was
- 1:10:24announced and they were all kind of like Plus
- 1:10:29money and I was like, all right, you know, don't
- 1:10:32really know what's going on here Can't really
- 1:10:34tell and then like right before mania Adam Mysterio
- 1:10:40was was favored to win it all and I was like
- 1:10:43That's exactly what's going to happen. It's like
- 1:10:47I'm like it was like Just seeing like where the
- 1:10:52public money is going it unlocked a key In my
- 1:10:57in my brain. It was like that's exactly how I
- 1:10:59can see this happening And that's what happened
- 1:11:02and that's what happened. That's exactly what
- 1:11:04happened. Yeah, okay, so like yes and no, but
- 1:11:11It's just for fun. It's just for funsies. Yes
- 1:11:16But it's like I know I know you like some theories
- 1:11:21about storylines. I'm a big theory guy. I wonder
- 1:11:26if you look at lines and you're like, I could
- 1:11:29definitely see that happening. Oh yeah, I could
- 1:11:34definitely see that happening. It's like Roman
- 1:11:36Reigns plus 600 to win the IC. I don't know how
- 1:11:44that match is going to end up. came out of my
- 1:11:48ass I don't even know if Roman Reigns is in the
- 1:11:51eye like for contention for the IC he's not but
- 1:11:55he has a he has a title match with CM Punk see
- 1:12:00you know that because he won the rum oh I do
- 1:12:04yeah I do remember that I don't know that I remember
- 1:12:07that well you know I know it now you get a you
- 1:12:11get a shot at the title I know it now nah you
- 1:12:16do that Not the heavyweight part, but not which
- 1:12:19one but but yeah They've been building that one
- 1:12:23up that one should be pretty good. I hope so
- 1:12:25at least but anyway That's kind of all I got
- 1:12:33Take us out. All right. Thank you so much for
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- 1:13:12his honeymoon tonight. So he'll have MLB picks
- 1:13:15tomorrow And he's he's all ready to lose money
- 1:13:20on on the MLB. So he was in the group chat itching
- 1:13:24to bet on baseball. Yes itchin He's like he needs
- 1:13:31a little something in his like he's imagine being
- 1:13:34on your honeymoon just like baseball Well, he
- 1:13:39was on a you know all -inclusive and those typically
- 1:13:43have casinos so he got some gambling in not on
- 1:13:47some gambling in but imagine gambling and just
- 1:13:50being like I just want to bet on baseball I cannot
- 1:13:55relate I can't either can't relate at all when
- 1:14:02baseball season's going on I'm like I can I can
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