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Till the Final Whistle _ Playoff Heat & Diamond Dreams · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Military broadcast radio, the station that's giving veterans a
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  voice. Find us on the web at MB Radio.
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  Dot US. Think of all that time, every
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  wait in the winter, all those all actors, no one else, every
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  Sprint in the summer. Think of every summer dies
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  early. Mornings on the levee, late
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  nights in the film room, bus rides to playoff games, every
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  bump in the road, every moment of ecstasy, every moment of
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  doubt. Years wondering is it all worth
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  it? It's all led to this.
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  Man, I got this. It's a 60 minute drive for a 60
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  minute game. After all the miles we've
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  traveled, we're almost there. After all the hours we've
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  worked, one more can make us legends.
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  After all that time, this is our time.
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  He. Seems like no nonsense guy like.
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  We emphasize that for the Saints fans out there on TikTok,
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  Caveman. What did you just say?
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  The rebuild starts right now. Marshall Lattimore is gone.
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  So the defense like we're not we're not getting any better.
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  Looking to get into Smith. What a pass got you with the
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  game winner. All right, goodness.
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  And that is why you have a career year like you have one of
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  them. You're having you have the best
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  quarterback in the league, the best wide receiver in the
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  league, and you've got the best edge rusher in terms of total
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  sacks this season in your four and seven and your playoff
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  chances are hanging on by it. Let's make it interesting we're.
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  Making it interesting. Come on.
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  Give us the freaking. 1. Oh no, who the heck is that guy?
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  Deflect the good health defense from the Warriors.
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  Oh, in a. Pants and to make it froze it
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  down. What chance this could be the
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  pass of the year so. Far you might watch every game
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  the rest of the. Season in the NBA, Mr. Announcer
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  Guy. So don't you go saying that
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  you're never going. To see that.
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  You're such a. The station where our veterans
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  You are looking live until the final whistle on NB Radio.
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  We haven't even started. Talking I've already get shots.
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  Shots at caveman The Saints. Are I saw that?
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  I saw that. Of reaction Wednesday.
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  Geez, geez. But here we are on MBR station.
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  There we are letting our veterans voices be heard.
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  The boys are back in town again for another good week in sports.
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  HG got some news coming from University of North Carolina.
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  It's not about Bill Belichick. Right.
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  And his girlfriend, very interesting story.
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  You know, a score we don't really cover on here, but this
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  is just cool stuff that we'd we'd share it.
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  But the the UNC women's lacrosse team has they just recently won
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  the national championship. And interestingly enough, three
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  sisters, all starters on that team that are playing together
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  all differently, you know, varying different age ranges,
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  like 1's a freshman, you know, one's playing in their last year
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  of eligibility. One sister was for a while, you
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  know, tearing it up across the country in California at
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  Stanford was like the two time assist leader.
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  But just just recently, this past season, the Stars in line
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  to get them all back onto the Tar Heels lacrosse team.
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  They came together and they won the championship 12 to 8.
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  I think the oldest and the youngest sister each had like 4
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  points scored. And the the middle sister, she
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  had like 6 or 7 assists in there just dealing out.
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  And also also interestingly enough, the coach of that team,
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  her daughter is also on that team.
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  So really a family affair going on there at the at the
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  University of North Carolina. I guess they're just all about
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  nepotism there. It it benefited the women's
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  lacrosse team, obviously they. Yeah, they're killing it.
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  They won't let me down. I thought you was going to talk
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  about some. Drama or some rumors at the
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  first of the show? No, just just cool story there.
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  Obviously, you know Bill Belichick hired his son.
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  Looks like. It's the the Humphrey sisters.
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  The Humphrey sisters? Yep.
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  On this team. So crazy that they just all
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  ended up on the all the team together that go on championship
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  run. So that obviously one sisters
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  freshman. Finally, your eligibility.
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  Betty Nelson from Littleton, Co into Columbine High School.
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  Hey, shout out. It all comes full circle.
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  That's why we're covering UNC women's lacrosse right now,
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  because in reality, we like. Her and.
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  Betty Nelson. You know her and Rowdy Beers?
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  You think they know each other? Both from Littleton, Co.
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  Yeah. Maybe they crossed paths?
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  He went to Valor, right? He did, yeah.
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  Possibly. Possibly.
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  Yeah. A kid named Rowdy Beers going to
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  Valor High School. That's I can't possibly be what
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  his his name was. Yeah, they have changed that.
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  He's playing D1 football this year.
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  Yeah, yeah, he's a receiver. OK.
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  So where's? He playing that.
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  I don't know. I think he might have finally
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  made it into like a power conference team.
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  He was. He was somewhere in the Group of
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  Five. Let's see.
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  Let's look it up real quick. Our next our next segment for
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  the morning though. He was on FIU.
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  FIU looks like he's a tight end now.
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  OK, Rowdy beers coming to an end zone near you.
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  While we're on the topic of college sports, the the World
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  Series, College World Series through softball and baseball
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  both getting on their way. They're kicking off the softball
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  World Series here in Oklahoma City is down to its Elite 8,
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  their final eight teams. So it's bracket one, Oklahoma,
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  Florida, Texas and Tennessee. And then bracket 2:00 you got
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  UCLA, Texas Tech, Old Miss and Oregon.
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  So very heavy SEC representation.
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  Oh yeah. And there, which is usually the
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  case, probably, you know, don't know a ton about the college
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  softball, but if I had to guess, Oklahoma's probably winning it.
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  I know they got a nasty. Pitcher they are.
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  Pitcher is one of the best in the country.
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  They have made some national headlines just the powerhouse
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  that they've got brewing there. So if my on on the
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  unprofessional opinion here that they're probably the the team to
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  beat and the team that's going to be hoisting whatever their
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  the World Series trophy is. They got Tennessee game one
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  against Tennessee is going to be tomorrow. 12:30 I wish I
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  honestly this sport got more coverage on the ESPN site in
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  like the ESPN app. The college baseball and college
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  softball don't even have like their own tab.
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  You have to go and like dig to the other sports section and
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  then go to stats. It's a it's a weird, it's a
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  weird. You got to dig through.
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  You got to go through. A It's a little.
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  Unfortunate to get to college baseball.
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  After after you get through football and basketball for
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  college sports, quick and accessible access to new stats
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  highlights that type of stuff for the other college sports
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  just isn't isn't as available. Like, you really have to dig and
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  it makes it tougher for casual fans to to get access to it.
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  You know, it's not everybody's got the time to go dig in
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  through archives and, you know, figure out stats and everything.
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  Find all the the stats, highlights and news rosters,
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  that type of stuff. Then on to the men's World
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  Series, which is coming up here too.
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  That one is actually getting ready to kick it.
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  Hasn't started yet, but we've got a number of brackets set.
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  I'm probably looking at another SEC team.
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  I know Tennessee won it last year.
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  LSU, they were the team that they beat.
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  They're they still got AI know they got a really good team
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  still. Texas, another powerhouse and
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  Vanderbilt the one seed throughout all of this.
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  Some other good teams in here. Oregon State, UNC, look at them,
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  they're in there. Oregon.
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  Coming in on a five seed. You got some just some real like
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  random schools, Rhode Island, Little Rock University.
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  Yeah, Fairfield. Brigham or Brigham, Tim?
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  I don't know if I pronounce that right.
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  It's like logos, like a dragon with whiskers.
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  Yeah, Central Connecticut. In here, didn't even know that
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  that was a Division One school. Howbap.
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  USC Upstate. Houston Christian, OK, they're
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  playing Texas first round. Columbia University, they There
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  we go. They got Ivy League in there
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  even though they have the baseball team.
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  Yeah, Binghamton. Where do you play baseball,
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  right? So definitely some randoms in
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  here that you don't see in a lot of the the other big college
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  sports. They could make for some pretty
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  fun upsets in these opening series when like, you know,
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  maybe, maybe Wright State takes a game on the one seed
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  Vanderbilt opening it up like we might see some fun stuff, but I
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  didn't know they actually did this on these College World
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  Series for the opening brackets. The highest seed is hosting all
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  those games. So this one Vanderbilt being the
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  one seed in this Nashville regional, it's obviously
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  obviously hosted in Nashville, TN or Vanderbilt University is.
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  But yeah, it's yeah, I think that's pretty fun.
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  Like you get to, you get to travel around, like home field
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  advantage is kind of a good thing for them, but.
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  Kind of gives you a reward for being the higher seed.
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  Yeah, more and more. Less travel for your team after
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  playing that whole season. Especially like when you doing
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  that with with a tournament, like for like a college football
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  bowl game, that makes a little more sense to maybe do another
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  neutral site 'cause it's just one game, you know?
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  But. That's something I don't never
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  quite got why the men's men's basketball tournament always it
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  it's immediately at neutral sites for the first two rounds.
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  But the you know, the first two rounds like the couple of the
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  high seeds get to host a bunch of the other teams and they have
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  tournaments in those regions. I think it's like the one and
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  the two seed, maybe even up to the three C they're hosting
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  teams and that that region, but that's not how they do it in the
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  men's bracket came in who you liking for the for men's World
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  Series here? What are you thinking?
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  Men's Honestly, Ole Miss not looking bad this year.
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  I kind of want to see a nice little run here from Coastal
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  Carolina. You know they that's one team
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  that's been really hot this year.
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  I'm. Going to go in here.
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  They got Fairfield coming in on the first round.
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  I mean, it looks kind of like a favorable match up for him going
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  into it. They're one of the ranked teams
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  in it too, so they're hosting the regional.
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  I'm going to throw out maybe you can't live a crazy one, but give
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  me give me Arkansas. OK.
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  Is your back man. I like that.
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  I could be, I could see that happening there.
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  They were so close in the in the in March Madness.
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  I'm going to run. I know I've heard some really
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  good things about that squad there too.
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  Calipari. They got some hooked.
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  Up some magic with them. They got a lot of pride in that
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  baseball team down there in Fayetteville, too.
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  One regional I think could get pretty scary.
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  Here is this Eugene one, 'cause if we get a Arizona, Oregon
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  match up right there, who do you think goes out that one?
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  That's a that's a rivalry right there.
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  Are the better teams just not like throughout the season?
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  But that is a rivalry match up, you know?
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  That's potential upset, right? There, I don't care who's been
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  the better team. Like a playoff atmosphere that
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  could be that becomes just a whole different ball game, you
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  know? Arizona and Oregon are not too
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  far either. It's not too far of a travel for
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  fans to get there. Arizona just has to get through
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  Cal Poly. Oregon just needs to get through
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  Utah State very, very well could do that.
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  Well, on off from college into the pros.
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  What's going on in the world of MLB?
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  Well, we'll start off with the least shocking news.
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  Man, the Rockies still suck. Still suck.
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  Well, they're going to need Bonex to attend a lot of games.
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  Yeah, we need luck from something.
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  Somebody at this point like might as well have them show up.
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  They, I mean, they won when he came out and threw the first
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  pitch for him. It was a good pitch.
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  Two man Bonex, he's he's got quite the arm, like you know,
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  nothing's hitting nothing too crazy than like putting he he
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  just, you know, threw it straight down the plate.
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  But it was a good fastball. It wasn't bad, it wasn't bad.
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  They should have time. And then do you know who
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  Zacharifik is? Caveman.
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  I does that that YouTube, he's always like got a bunch of crazy
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  stories about his life. He's always trying to flex him.
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  Now he, well, he's his whole stick.
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  Is that he's like such a humble guy.
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  OK, I know. I know which guy you're.
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  Talking bro, he can't. He comes out to the the the
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  Saint Louis Cardinals game and they're like showing them on
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  their broadcast and they're like, and there's the Cardinals
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  most humble fan. He's like surrounded by all
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  these like beautiful women. Like he just got like a stack of
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  huge cash in his hands. It's wild.
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  He literally spoke his his success in these existence.
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  That's so sick. Well, that was, I thought that
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  was pretty funny. So shout out to the Cardinals
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  for doing that. They are trailing though the
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  Cubs in their division. That's a pretty tight race
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  though right now between Chicago and Saint Louis.
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  Here we go. The Cubs are looking pretty good
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  this year, man. They are not having a bad start.
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  Yeah, this is good to see. I'm liking what they're seeing.
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  They got a real ability to put up some runs too from from what
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  I've seen from them. I mean, they can get it going in
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  a hurry. My thing with them is I've I've
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  also seen them just get an absolute shootouts where it's
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  just like like team, they're just hitting bombs back and
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  forth with the other side, other side Phillies.
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  That's the team to keep an eye on.
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  They got the Mets pretty hot on their tail, but.
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  They're sneaky. Yeah, they're sneaky Braves.
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  Man, what a disappointing start to the year.
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  I thought I thought they were going to be something, but
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  obviously jerks and Profar goes and gets suspended 80 games.
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  Cunha junior. I he's I think he's designated
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  to return from that. I don't know.
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  He's back. He he hit a home run on his
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  first pitch back. Oh, that's right, he's back.
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  That's the only real bright spot.
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  That they have. I mean, they got him and Marcel
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  Adunya Adunza. So I mean, maybe they can they
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  can get something generated there.
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  I think Chris Sale, he's also he's a brave, right?
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  Great. He's a great pitcher there.
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  Maybe they can get the season back, back on track.
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  But I had a lot of high hopes for the Braves this season and
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  it's not looking very good for them.
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  The Phillies, though, I think team to watch out for where it's
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  like they can't. They might know that that
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  championship window is closing for him.
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  They're they're getting older, but they still got a lot of
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  talent in there. Kyle Schwarber's having himself
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  a great start to the year, man. He is just.
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  Just going to be tough. He's crushing home result this.
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  Pay to win Dodgers team got their billion dollar man back.
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  Ohtani's back and he's able to pitch now, so.
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  Hasn't done the top of it, but. That's exactly what they needed,
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  honestly, in the playoffs, they still were able to get the World
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  Series win last year, but like they it was clear that we we saw
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  in those series that they needed, they needed some
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  pitching depth. Definitely, we'll have it now.
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  Dude the the NL W is just insane.
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  RIP the Diamondbacks. I mean, 27 and 28 would be good
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  enough to maybe have you like, you know, close third, maybe
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  even second in some conferences. Is still last pretty much if
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  they swap with the pirates. Right, but you go look at the
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  AL, the AL East, the Yankees, man, they they got pretty
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  dominating it. Yeah, they might just walk
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  cakewalk to a victory and clutch the the NL E here.
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  Because unfortunately. Rays are looking OK.
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  OS. Yeah, that.
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  Balls want to collapse from them.
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  They aren't even this. This conference isn't even
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  competitive anymore now. Yeah, that's a joke.
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  It used to be Baltimore and the Yankees just battling it out all
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  season for like the last 2-3 years.
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  Last season they were in the play offs.
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  I don't know what happened to the O's.
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  I know, you know, like I know free agency injuries and
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  everything happened, but I think they they kept most of their
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  line up together rather well and they didn't get, you know, too
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  gashed on free agency. It's just like totally different
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  team out there like they're they just got they lost another tough
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  one. The Saint Louis gave up seven
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  runs there that they were one of those teams going into the
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  postseason last year. Like they got real.
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  They got some great pitching, great slugging.
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  They. Were one of the more deep teams
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  last. High home run low.
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  Low runs giving up potential. Now they've got one of the worst
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  run differentials in the league. The two teams that everyone was
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  like, oh, these guys are missing this.
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  These guys don't have that. They're both in the freaking
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  World Series. Absolutely nothing can top the
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  Rockies -174 run differential 9 and 46.
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  Question for all the viewers out there.
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  And just for yeah, for you as well.
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  OK, man. I mean, if they continue on the
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  pace they're on, like, oh, is it safe to say that they might set
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  the record for just worst professional sports season ever?
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  Can we, can we? Is there anything else that you
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  could put above the absolute blunder of a season?
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  Because like our highest. Paid players can't even play
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  well. One of our highest played
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  players is on the Cardinals. And he's been off the team for
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  almost five years. What, four or five?
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  While take me back to 2008 man special team there it's it's
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  real unfortunate. You could like Tricky Dick
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  Montford, man, he just won't sell that team and you we could
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  it's. Getting bad.
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  They could just put. If they could put together even
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  a respectable ball club. Man, people in Colorado are
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  starving for some good baseball. Yeah, yeah.
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  So Nolan, Nolan Arenado is going to make $5 million from us this
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  year, hasn't been on the team in half a decade.
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  He who's traded to Saint Louis in 2020 and.
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  We also sent. Cash by the Rockies.
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  What we'll always flabbergast to me about this, that we also sent
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  cash with him. Yeah.
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  Like what are we doing? He we just really set this guy
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  up. He could retire now.
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  He's good, good to go for real. And he's still playing at a
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  pretty high level, I'm not even going to lie.
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  Nolan Arnotto. I'm like a little seeing out of
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  the Cardinals this year. They'll be a fun team.
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  I don't know if they really got the depth, just the match up
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  against some more of these stack teams.
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  Like if they run into like a an LAA, Philadelphia, even the
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  Mets. I mean, the Mets spent a ton of
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  money on their lineup. They'd want to.
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  So that's like the biggest contract in sports history.
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  Sneaky, sneaky. Potential, though, to take the
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  ML Central only three games back from Chicago.
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  Oh, definitely. And their next?
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  Series here. They both play the two worst
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  teams in the MLB. Pretty much.
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  The Cubs are playing Colorado. I think that series starts
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  tonight. I think it's already started.
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  I'm pretty sure they'd be this 3 nothing yesterday cheese and I
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  don't. Know what the score of the first
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  game of the series was, but not losing by three.
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  Touchdowns in the baseball game just almost feels like an
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  accomplishment for for the Rockies or.
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  Having to be like. A close game, like a close
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  football game where they win by a field goal.
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  It's like we don't need to be in 28 to 20 baseball games.
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  It's kind of. Exciting.
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  It's the only bright spot that we really see on the on the
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  Rockies is when we scored twenty runs, but we have nine wins.
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  I just there's. Absolutely no technique from
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  anybody out here. Well, I would brought up 1 so
• 24:48
  though I feel like he's been a little just.
• 24:52
  Underwhelming. So far, for the money that they
• 24:55
  pay them, you know? Only 45.
• 25:00
  Only 45 hits, eight home. Runs this.
• 25:04
  Year 25 RB is like Francis Landor and Pete Alonso are just
• 25:10
  carrying and I mean he's made some nice plays in the outfield
• 25:15
  I suppose. But again, it's nothing like.
• 25:20
  You, you know, it's nothing that's making me like, oh,
• 25:23
  that's an $870 million player right there, like.
• 25:29
  Welcome, hey. Ruby Smith.
• 25:32
  Thanks for joining in. Just.
• 25:34
  You know, maybe. He's getting off this slow
• 25:36
  start, you know, so maybe he just he'll pick it up as the
• 25:39
  season goes. But there's something to keep an
• 25:41
  eye on. I think with with New York is
• 25:44
  hey. I've been a little underwhelmed.
• 25:46
  Just might be able to get hot. Yeah, May 30th they go and play
• 25:52
  the Rockies at home. Hey, that's always a good get.
• 25:54
  Going game. There we go.
• 25:58
  One last thing. That I had here before we we
• 26:00
  take our first break and and just kind of sign off on
• 26:02
  baseball is these Yankees fans like acting like Juan Soto just
• 26:08
  betrayed them so. So hard like.
• 26:12
  Like so terribly. He was there for one season.
• 26:14
  One or two. Years, he really wasn't like it
• 26:16
  was a it was. A blip of time and.
• 26:20
  The term of a baseball. Player's career.
• 26:23
  And like, I mean, they're acting.
• 26:24
  Like he was a lifelong player that betrayed them and went to
• 26:27
  their their most hated rival. Doesn't make any sense, but.
• 26:32
  That's New Yorkers for you, man. One season.
• 26:36
  He did sign a 15 year, $700 million contract.
• 26:41
  After that, I guess you know what?
• 26:43
  If I'm a If you're a Yankee son, you're usually also a Knicks fan
• 26:48
  and you don't want. Like you don't have a you don't.
• 26:56
  Really have a lot to look forward to with football and
• 26:59
  your Knicks are almost on the playoffs so I guess you could be
• 27:02
  upset and he had already been. Moving around on different teams
• 27:07
  was on the nationals. In 2015.
• 27:11
  And. Then he.
• 27:14
  And then he finally debuts in the MLB in 2018, goes to the
• 27:19
  World Series with the Nationals, and then he was traded to the
• 27:22
  Padres in 2022. And then the very next season
• 27:25
  was on the Yankees. So like the past three?
• 27:29
  Four years, kind of been moving around, yeah, been bouncing.
• 27:31
  Around, he's very good player. But it's been on a few different
• 27:35
  teams. So like, it just feels like kind
• 27:39
  of weird. They all turn their back on
• 27:41
  them. Like the their Bleacher
• 27:43
  creatures at Yankee Stadium that all had their back turned to him
• 27:48
  for his first at bat. And anytime he was pretty.
• 27:51
  Much in the outfield, their first time in the outfield,
• 27:54
  first at bat, They all just turned their back.
• 27:56
  Didn't didn't want to watch there.
• 27:59
  He was there for one season. It's all right.
• 28:01
  You'll be OK. They're dramatic.
• 28:03
  They really. Are well, that's going to do it
• 28:05
  for our MLB updates here. Still a long season.
• 28:10
  I mean, we're barely even halfway.
• 28:13
  We're barely even close to halfway through.
• 28:15
  We're going to head to our first break.
• 28:18
  When we come back though, we're going to have some action to
• 28:21
  break down with the NHL and NBA Conference Finals underway, so
• 28:29
  stay tuned. We got all that.
• 28:32
  More coming up on Till the Final Whistle on MBR.
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• 33:15
  Welcome back, everybody. We got kind of history repeating
• 33:19
  itself, like HG said before we came back on the air.
• 33:23
  And the NHL Stanley Cup. I mean, all signs.
• 33:26
  Are pointing to a rematch last year's Stanley Cup Oilers and
• 33:31
  Panthers both with commanding 3 one series leads history is not
• 33:35
  kind to the team that's down three one I mean there's I.
• 33:40
  Don't even know the official. Record off the top of my head,
• 33:42
  but it is not very favorable if you're the team down 3 to 1 and
• 33:46
  it's only happened. Once in the actual Stanley Cup
• 33:50
  Final. So Oilers nearly pulled it off
• 33:54
  last year and couldn't do it. I mean, we're in for an exciting
• 33:58
  series, but I wish we had some something different going on
• 34:02
  here. I wish it could have been stars,
• 34:04
  Panthers even. That would have been the coolest
• 34:06
  series. Yeah, the two really good
• 34:09
  offenses. Big thing that's been.
• 34:11
  Bad for Dallas is Miko. Antonin is just he's gone quiet,
• 34:16
  like hasn't had a goal in six straight games now.
• 34:21
  It's like he's kind of disappeared in this Finals and
• 34:25
  he was one of those guys that I thought would play a big role
• 34:29
  for Dallas, who got the win. Game one really without a lot of
• 34:35
  the guys who I thought were going to be big for him.
• 34:37
  You know why Johnston and Miko were both pretty much
• 34:40
  nonexistent in that Tyler Son gun.
• 34:43
  He got involved here. Mikhail Grundland, He was
• 34:47
  another guy that highlighted for Dallas.
• 34:50
  He was really good in this game. One goal, one assist.
• 34:54
  Matthew Sheen scored Miro Hikison and Issa Lindell, the
• 35:00
  defenseman also getting in on the score and for Dallas as they
• 35:06
  came out really strong at home. 63 barrage, five goals, A5 goal
• 35:13
  assault there in the 4th. I mean the the the third period
• 35:19
  force, you know, one of them off of an empty net and they just
• 35:25
  yeah, they. Just took it to.
• 35:26
  Edmonton, who was, you know, up 3 to 1 going into that period?
• 35:31
  And you're like, all right, looks like.
• 35:32
  We got ourselves what should be a competitive series here.
• 35:35
  Dallas is looking strong and imposing their will and steals
• 35:39
  game one. I mean, it's just been.
• 35:43
  Silence really from them ever since we go on the Game 2 where
• 35:48
  the Oilers win it three to nothing.
• 35:52
  Stewart Skinner, good rebound game for him.
• 35:55
  He's he's really been exceptional in this series.
• 35:59
  I thought he was kind of just yeah.
• 36:02
  Middle of the. Road terms of playoff goalie,
• 36:06
  you know his his play as a goalie in the playoffs, Excuse
• 36:10
  me, this series, aside from that, that first game, I mean,
• 36:16
  he's been really good in this one.
• 36:19
  And Edmonton they get. Obviously pitching the shot out
• 36:22
  here, 25 shot attempts on gold, didn't let the single one go in.
• 36:27
  Aldinger has been slowly declining for the the stars and
• 36:35
  this one like Conor McDavid first.
• 36:39
  Two games was. Was kind of quiet too.
• 36:41
  I mean, he got an assist in this one.
• 36:43
  Duke at Hopkins has been a real difference maker.
• 36:47
  Guy I didn't really have, you know, I rather being a big
• 36:51
  making a huge difference in the series, but he's been.
• 36:55
  I mean one of the. I mean, I would I would say
• 36:57
  maybe one of the top three players you're Edmonton on this
• 36:59
  one here helps him get that three to 1 shut out or the three
• 37:07
  to nothing shut out. Got the defensive and Brett
• 37:09
  Kolak also getting involved here.
• 37:12
  And then the series shifts back to Canada, and this one.
• 37:16
  This was dirty man. Like you're saying, you're
• 37:19
  talking about Skinner having a pretty solid, pretty solid
• 37:22
  series. This one pretty sure is it up.
• 37:25
  Dallas still have 34 shots in this game, the Edmonton's 24,
• 37:31
  and this final score of this game was 6 to 1 locked.
• 37:35
  Down goaltending by Skinner in this one here and.
• 37:39
  On the flip. Side Jake Ottens, you're just.
• 37:43
  A brutal, brutal. Showing here, yeah.
• 37:47
  I mean, none of these were empty.
• 37:48
  Nets either I mean he was in the goal for all of these and there
• 37:54
  was a late power play goal. Well, they're already up five to
• 37:59
  one that really just put that nail in the coffin and here was
• 38:03
  when Connie McDavid kind of came along.
• 38:06
  Obviously he can't got two goals really woke up in this one.
• 38:10
  Him and Zach Hyman each with two goals in this one.
• 38:14
  Bouchard, he got involved in this one.
• 38:17
  John Klenberg also has a couple of defensemen also getting
• 38:20
  involved here. And.
• 38:25
  Yeah, Edmonton. This is a deep team, obviously,
• 38:29
  like David still might be. I think it's still safe to call
• 38:32
  him the best player in all of hockey.
• 38:36
  Nougat, Hawkins has. Been fantastic, especially this
• 38:39
  series. 3 assists. He assisted on three goals.
• 38:41
  Him and the Van der Kane set up almost every goal on this one
• 38:46
  here. Excuse me?
• 38:49
  It's really just the easy. Night in this one in this took
• 38:55
  taking the series away really just walking away with it
• 38:58
  starting to walk away with it this game for another easy
• 39:03
  finish four to one Oilers take the take the win here 29 shots
• 39:09
  for Dallas who also won 60% of these space offs keep going came
• 39:13
  out and. Blow my nose, you're all good.
• 39:20
  And even having. More power play opportunities
• 39:23
  and they will only have the ability to score one goal on it.
• 39:28
  But Edmonton just. Clearly looking like the more
• 39:30
  aggressive team in this series, and really after losing that
• 39:34
  game, one has been beating Dallas to the punch in this.
• 39:39
  Fifty hits in this game, The 24 a little more fight.
• 39:43
  Out of Dallas in this one too, they kept it close for a while
• 39:46
  and then they went to the empty net down to the one and they
• 39:49
  just, I mean an absolute collapse, which I feel like.
• 39:52
  Two to down, 2 to one. Why go empty net and they went.
• 39:57
  Empty net kind of early there was like 3. 3:00-ish minutes
• 40:02
  left to go in. This game like 2, 2:30, maybe a
• 40:05
  little less than three. I feel like you got to.
• 40:08
  Put That's when you just try to get the puck to your guys and
• 40:11
  just. Give them an opportunity.
• 40:14
  Like, don't empty the net, just try to get your best players an
• 40:18
  opportunity to score real quick, Nico.
• 40:22
  Wyatt McHale, all just big no shows.
• 40:27
  They're not having really any impact on this game at all.
• 40:32
  You know, all the might, all minuses and they're they're plus
• 40:35
  minus here. It was a just.
• 40:38
  Another bad showing Hopkin nougat Hopkins man more assists.
• 40:44
  He was dealing out here. Caprisi captain man.
• 40:47
  He got his his second goal of this postseason.
• 40:50
  He's been just playing his role really well, but he got his shot
• 40:53
  here on the on the empty net. Leon Dr. sidle probably his best
• 40:58
  game of the series. One goal, one assist.
• 41:03
  Adam Heinrich also getting the goal as well and Skinner 29 shot
• 41:07
  attempts on them. Only one goal, giving up
• 41:10
  another. Good night from.
• 41:11
  Him and Al Andre had a. Pretty good night here, 31.
• 41:14
  Only gave up two goals. It was just, you know, then I
• 41:17
  went to the empty net and just everything fell apart.
• 41:20
  Yeah. I mean, I understand like your
• 41:23
  guys aren't your top guys, can't really get going this series.
• 41:27
  So you might as well just empty the net, have an extra body out
• 41:31
  there for the chance somebody else to score.
• 41:34
  But at the same time, I feel like you got to.
• 41:38
  You got to give. Yourself a little bit more of a
• 41:39
  chance there. I don't like how.
• 41:41
  Early they went to the empty net there.
• 41:44
  I thought you know that that getting you're not quite in that
• 41:49
  spot where you want to just take that risk.
• 41:53
  There's still plenty of time, but I think that you you just
• 41:57
  kind of see the the barrage that.
• 42:01
  Edmonton really had. Them under and I think that it
• 42:04
  was a little bit of a mental thing there.
• 42:06
  They got into their head and they thought that they had that
• 42:09
  like they were going to need 6 this early because they just
• 42:12
  felt like they couldn't do anything offensively for pretty
• 42:15
  much most of the night. I mean, they had four power play
• 42:21
  opportunities to and only got one goal.
• 42:24
  Meanwhile, Edmonton was two of three on their power play
• 42:26
  opportunities. We mentioned all the extra hits.
• 42:33
  A lot more. You know, four more shots on
• 42:36
  goal, more blocked shots and there's the 18 giveaways for
• 42:42
  Dallas and a couple of those giveaways really like at a
• 42:47
  really bad time that. Led to easy.
• 42:50
  You know, empty net scores on the other end.
• 42:55
  So the Stars, they were my pick to win the win the Stanley Cup.
• 43:00
  They are falling apart. Yeah, this is the wrong time.
• 43:03
  To do it too, Yeah, Game. Five of the.
• 43:05
  Series tomorrow night, 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on ESPN.
• 43:11
  We got a Game 5 happening tonight over on the Eastern
• 43:15
  Conference of the NHL, where Florida leads over the Carolina
• 43:19
  Hurricanes 3 to 1 as well. And this one, Carolina took game
• 43:23
  443. Nothing but going back.
• 43:28
  Lost 5 to game 1/5 to 0 in game two and six to two in game
• 43:34
  three. This might be a different story.
• 43:36
  I mean again, being down 3. Nothing in the series has never
• 43:39
  been good, but. Chains are starting to get some.
• 43:42
  Momentum at the right time, maybe eventually this is better
• 43:46
  than winning. Game one and then going on to
• 43:49
  possibly lose in the next 4. Obviously we covered game.
• 43:52
  One last week on their on their shows on the Crib last Tuesday.
• 43:56
  Game 2 was a 5 to nothing trouncing by the Panthers.
• 44:02
  They just looked well in control.
• 44:05
  Stole another one on the Road Rd. here.
• 44:09
  Sam Bennett was lighting them up.
• 44:12
  He had two goals. Matthew to Chuck with the goal.
• 44:18
  Alexander Barkov. He also gets it gets in on the
• 44:21
  action Gustav Forsting loved that name.
• 44:25
  He got in and it Brobrowski pretty easy night only on the
• 44:28
  block. 17 shot attempts didn't let a single one through and
• 44:32
  the. Panthers were Cruz.
• 44:33
  I think got off the three goals early and just kind of coasted
• 44:37
  their way in the Canes going to two different.
• 44:42
  Goalies in that one not. A whole lot to talk about.
• 44:44
  I mean, they just got worked over by the Panthers.
• 44:49
  So go on to Game 3. Back in Florida.
• 44:53
  And not too far to travel. For these two teams, you know,
• 44:55
  yeah, it's not too far, the travel time.
• 44:58
  For him really, this is pretty good series for these two teams.
• 45:02
  You go into your Stanley Cup Final very well rested.
• 45:08
  But another game it just. Looked like Hey, Carolina might
• 45:12
  have had a chance going into the third period until they allow
• 45:15
  five goals only. Able to answer.
• 45:19
  Back with one losing 6 to 2 in this one.
• 45:24
  And for a lot of this series, Florida has been kind of using
• 45:28
  Carolina's defensive methods against them.
• 45:32
  And it's really bothering the Canes.
• 45:37
  Like really, really bothering them.
• 45:40
  And they've just been real. Struggle on the score.
• 45:43
  We're able to get to on this one.
• 45:45
  Seth Jarvis, Logan Stankov, But Stankov and but.
• 45:50
  Again. For them with just an absolute
• 45:52
  barrage to Chuck. No goals, but he does have two
• 45:56
  assists, same with Rodriguez. Alexander Barkov.
• 46:01
  And he's been, he's been really good this series.
• 46:04
  Two goals on this one also an assist.
• 46:11
  Excuse me, sorry for this allergy.
• 46:13
  Season. Oh, it's killing me.
• 46:15
  Too most morning soon and then hey, here's.
• 46:18
  A Nico stepping up for his team in the big way in the Nico off
• 46:22
  of. Cola 2 games for the.
• 46:24
  Defenseman and Bob Roski again another pretty good master class
• 46:28
  25 shot attempts only gave up two and Piotr Ketchov just.
• 46:37
  Another game. Where he really, really
• 46:39
  struggled. And so it looks like, oh man,
• 46:42
  Carolina can't get anything going.
• 46:44
  They're getting just bothered every game.
• 46:48
  It's you got game. 4 at home for Florida.
• 46:51
  Get out the brooms. Right.
• 46:53
  But those hurricanes said we ain't here no bell just yet.
• 46:59
  Yeah, it ain't over. Till the fat lady sings.
• 47:03
  Some good defensive. Adjustments.
• 47:06
  It's just kind of a. Adopted a bit of a more, you
• 47:10
  know, a newer zone technique here and.
• 47:15
  I don't like the. Panthers just seemed a little
• 47:17
  confused by it. They had some trouble really
• 47:20
  ever getting it going. Bob Rosskey, he he only gave up
• 47:27
  one goal in this game and then it was another situation where
• 47:32
  there was just a collapse on the empty net very late.
• 47:36
  Gets shot down, yeah. I mean nothing you can really
• 47:39
  control there, but. More again.
• 47:42
  More pulling the goalie for more desperation there late.
• 47:45
  Yeah, another. Situation where it's like might
• 47:48
  have gotten in their head, you know, 2. 2:10 left.
• 47:52
  That's not crazy early to go empty net here, but you're only
• 47:56
  down, you know 1 nothing and you're defectly.
• 48:01
  They think they. Just you know, they were like we
• 48:03
  got to just give a six guy out there now because our.
• 48:07
  The offense. Has just been stagnant all
• 48:10
  night. We need a little extra help in
• 48:12
  there, a little extra action and then a big collapse where they,
• 48:18
  you know, gave up a score that's actually a little earlier than
• 48:23
  210 like 2240 and then like almost 30 seconds later, give up
• 48:28
  a goal. Nearly another 40 seconds later,
• 48:31
  give up another goal. That was that just about closed
• 48:34
  it out here. So Carolina it I mean it's going
• 48:39
  to be really tough to play like this for another three games to
• 48:44
  come all the way back. That's why getting down three O
• 48:48
  is just so bad and you know for the by the gun I think also came
• 48:55
  into this one looking a little overconfident Oh yeah maybe
• 48:59
  thought that they had this one in the bag already that's.
• 49:02
  Forced them over 4IN power play in this game they had.
• 49:08
  This was actually the Kane's first lead in the conference
• 49:12
  finals that they've had in a few years.
• 49:15
  So since they were there in in 2022, they're in the conference
• 49:20
  finals. They hadn't actually had a lead
• 49:23
  in the game in the series yet they.
• 49:27
  This. Was their first their first win
• 49:30
  in the conference finals since 2006, wasn't it?
• 49:33
  Yeah, yeah. And.
• 49:35
  They honestly, Florida really had a chance to.
• 49:38
  I was I'm looking at it right now, they had a second goal that
• 49:42
  Carolina scored. They got called back by just an
• 49:46
  offside by this just a hair, a hair of an inch in the second
• 49:52
  period like very early in the third got very got called back.
• 49:57
  So this game could have been much different here for Florida
• 50:01
  could have been 4/4 nothing 5 nothing to finish it off, but.
• 50:07
  What's up, Jose? Welcome.
• 50:08
  In Jose, welcome to the. Show, but it looks.
• 50:11
  Like we might see Florida and Edmonton in the Stanley Cup
• 50:16
  Final once again going back to our.
• 50:18
  Predictions here. I think I had Dallas, Florida.
• 50:22
  We both had Dallas. And Florida going here and we
• 50:25
  both had them winning in six games actually.
• 50:29
  Well, it was kind of, we're kind of could be on track for six
• 50:31
  games for Florida. I think Florida might, yeah.
• 50:34
  The Canes might get one more on them.
• 50:36
  I really feel like Dallas is going to get gentlemen swept,
• 50:39
  though, and they just look absolutely all out of sorts.
• 50:43
  Be a different story. They're going to be back home
• 50:45
  facing elimination, That's going to be a different story.
• 50:48
  We'll see what type of game we get out of them there.
• 50:52
  Earlier showings in this. Season from Dallas, a completely
• 50:56
  different team from what we've seen in the playoffs in these a
• 51:00
  bad time for one of your. Star players is just going
• 51:02
  missing, yeah. The guy that was really just.
• 51:05
  Killing his former team in round one.
• 51:09
  Big saving grace from in that series.
• 51:12
  Honestly had some big time goals.
• 51:15
  Second series. Honestly against The Jets they
• 51:18
  were just firing on all cylinders.
• 51:20
  That's what I feel like made us go and pick Dallas to win the
• 51:24
  series against Edmonton is because they just look so good
• 51:28
  against Winnipeg. Or maybe we just had Winnipeg
• 51:32
  should have been on frog watch on that season.
• 51:34
  Got brought to Game 7 around one, yeah.
• 51:37
  Well, you probably should have. Had them on frog watch earlier.
• 51:41
  Well, unfortunately, as boring as it is, looks like we're just
• 51:45
  getting a rematch of last year's playoffs, the last year's Cup.
• 51:49
  And you know what? To be honest, that's not that
• 51:52
  unfortunate. It was, it was a really good
• 51:53
  series last year. Went to seven games.
• 51:57
  Game 7 in Florida. Some absolute master.
• 52:00
  Class performances from guys like to Chuck Dry, Seidel,
• 52:04
  Connie McDavid, Sam Bennett, all those dudes were all just
• 52:08
  showing out. Bob, Roski, Skinner, all
• 52:13
  Lincoln, some fantastic plays. So will Florida go back-to-back?
• 52:19
  Will Edmonton finally bring the Cup back to Canada?
• 52:24
  We'll see. What's what's your pick here,
• 52:27
  Caveman? Honestly.
• 52:29
  It look kind of looks like they might.
• 52:31
  It kind of looks like they're the better team I'm leaning more
• 52:35
  towards. Edmonton too.
• 52:36
  I can't lie. I can't lie.
• 52:38
  I want to pick Edmonton. You know, I'll go.
• 52:42
  I'll. Go Edmonton.
• 52:43
  I think it's going to be a series though.
• 52:45
  Oilers in seven going. To win it.
• 52:50
  To Canada breaking the. Curse Stanley Cup prediction.
• 52:54
  Out there from a boy, K Van. Who do you got HE?
• 52:57
  I I kind. Of like Edmonton too.
• 52:59
  Give me Edmonton in six. Let's go in.
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  Six. OK, OK.
• 53:04
  Don't. I don't like.
• 53:05
  To bring it back again, Yeah, finally break the curse all.
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  Right. Well, that's going to.
• 53:11
  Conclude our NHL Stanley Cup coverage.
• 53:14
  We're going to go take another quick break.
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  When we come back, we've got NBA Conference Finals to break down.
• 53:22
  One series is all about comebacks, the other has been
• 53:24
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  coverage. I think we got to start here
• 56:55
  where Mr. Overrated gets the 3-1 lead over the New York Knicks
• 57:02
  last night, Russell Heights in Gary.
• 57:04
  Indiana. I've been hearing that a lot.
• 57:07
  These there's some crazy conspiracy videos going out.
• 57:10
  Obviously they're kidding around, but it's people saying
• 57:12
  that the Indiana Pacers are completely full of cursed energy
• 57:17
  and a satanic team in the NBA that have sold their soul.
• 57:21
  It it is insane. It's wild.
• 57:23
  The reasons why about Halliburton's demonic energy in
• 57:27
  his knee. They have had some.
• 57:31
  It's so insane. Reasons why like NBA.
• 57:35
  Teams in the playoffs or like 4 and 17132 when you're trailing
• 57:43
  by 14 points or more with two minutes or less to go in the
• 57:47
  game. Three of those four wins are
• 57:50
  from the pitch. Indiana Pacers this year.
• 57:53
  It's absolutely. Oh my God.
• 57:57
  Like they have pulled off. Some absolutely insane comebacks
• 58:03
  like they did in game one. They were down eight points with
• 58:08
  less than a minute to go and they find a way to tie it up.
• 58:12
  Taliban the. Series, dude.
• 58:16
  Gets a shot up. After what looked like a just a
• 58:19
  disastrous dribble and Dr. Attempt to the basket and he
• 58:22
  just runs back out beyond three puts up a shot and like his foot
• 58:28
  was on the line so it like they tied the.
• 58:32
  Game. Didn't send them home.
• 58:34
  He got the Hawaii bounce. He hits the choke.
• 58:37
  Sully the the choke. And the Kevin Durant toe on the
• 58:41
  line all in the exact same play, the way that it's really bounced
• 58:48
  straight up in the air all the way up, literally to the top of
• 58:53
  the shot clock, stealing all the.
• 58:55
  Iconic moments in. MSG.
• 58:57
  Too. I mean we.
• 58:59
  Got some fantastic for performances to I was someplace
• 59:04
  43. Halliburton 31 and only four
• 59:09
  free throw attempts from him in this one, too.
• 59:11
  Brunson. You know him.
• 59:12
  Alive, dude, you know. Brunson got.
• 59:14
  His ass in a lot of 14 shot of the free throw attempts.
• 59:18
  Nice. Smith made 7.
• 59:19
  Threes in the freaking fourth quarter.
• 59:20
  I swear to God. Like 7 threes for the Pacers.
• 59:25
  He had like one shot he could. Not.
• 59:29
  He he was an absolute flame thrower in that fourth quarter.
• 59:34
  He like, you know, he hit like multiple big threes, like
• 59:38
  back-to-back to back like to help get that last shot
• 59:41
  available for Halliburton. And where was he at?
• 59:45
  He had really been quiet the entire playoffs and just comes
• 59:49
  out of nowhere in this one game, one of the Eastern finals,
• 59:52
  right? And just is.
• 59:54
  Can I miss some insane magnet? Ball from the Pacers this
• 59:58
  series. Oh post.
• 1:00:01
  Season. I think he was really good in
• 1:00:03
  this game, 35 and 12, but it just did not matter.
• 1:00:09
  Hallie and nee. Smith Siakam I think have a
• 1:00:12
  pretty solid game as well. 17 points for him that hard gives
• 1:00:17
  you 15. You get 14 out of Turner, 8 out
• 1:00:20
  of the top end. TJ McConnell gives you 10 off
• 1:00:23
  the bench after and gives you 9 off the bench.
• 1:00:25
  You're getting 10/10. Boards out of OB.
• 1:00:28
  Topping that was really what just made the difference like
• 1:00:31
  very top heavy here for the next you know, 16 for OG and bridges,
• 1:00:35
  43 for Brunson, 35 for cat and then rusty guys kind of fall off
• 1:00:40
  a Cliff. Miles McBride gives you 9, but
• 1:00:42
  then like that's the next closest your next highest scorer
• 1:00:47
  really was what a lot of the Pacers to.
• 1:00:50
  Claw back in the this is. They just found ways to make Cat
• 1:00:54
  and Brunson uncomfortable, turn the ball over and just not be
• 1:00:58
  able to convert. It leaves them, really.
• 1:01:00
  Outmatched to lot of turnovers for.
• 1:01:03
  The Knicks in this one, turnovers killed him down the
• 1:01:06
  stretch. It leaves them real.
• 1:01:07
  Outmatched because they get to a certain point where it's like
• 1:01:11
  their rotation is very limited. Obviously they only had three
• 1:01:16
  guys come off the bench and play in this one.
• 1:01:18
  Delon Wright got no minutes here, so I mean you, yeah, he
• 1:01:22
  played no minutes and still had a negative plus minus.
• 1:01:25
  It's kind of messed up that they did that to him.
• 1:01:28
  But anyways, you know, they have three guys coming off the bench
• 1:01:31
  there. There is absolutely nobody and
• 1:01:34
  you go it around the other way like you were saying, three guys
• 1:01:37
  almost got 10 plus points coming off the bench.
• 1:01:40
  You. Know all of your starters?
• 1:01:42
  Are scoring 14 or more like all the starters are going off?
• 1:01:47
  Yeah, it's. Really like.
• 1:01:49
  The Knicks off and sometimes is really interesting to me because
• 1:01:53
  it's not like they're getting the looks that they want
• 1:01:56
  defensively because they're trying to run a lot of pick and
• 1:01:59
  roll. The Knicks are and I feel like
• 1:02:02
  if you're Brunson, do you really feel like Halliburton, like
• 1:02:06
  one-on-one could really match up like speed with them, step first
• 1:02:10
  step and guard them like that? Like I feel like they should.
• 1:02:13
  That is kind of the match up they should be looking for.
• 1:02:16
  And they constantly screen away from it and then get back and
• 1:02:20
  then try to like scramble back to that match up late.
• 1:02:23
  And it ends up like they end up having possessions late in the
• 1:02:26
  shot clock where they generate these turnovers or it becomes a
• 1:02:29
  missed shot. It's like, I feel like Brunson
• 1:02:33
  on Halliburton, you have a pretty favorable match up for
• 1:02:35
  how Brunson likes to like physically get in the post, like
• 1:02:39
  for how short he is and let's take him that way.
• 1:02:43
  Like I feel like they should kind of have some opportunities
• 1:02:46
  where he should. It's just him and Halliburton.
• 1:02:48
  Like Brunson's been pretty. Good scoring on whoever is on
• 1:02:50
  them. But I just feel like, yeah, that
• 1:02:51
  would be like your like most you could rely a little bit less on
• 1:02:55
  Brunson trying to get to the line more than just scoring off
• 1:02:58
  the pure buckets. Because I think on the flip
• 1:03:00
  side, Indiana has been pretty good about seeking out or trying
• 1:03:04
  to get Brunson in that action, get him on Halliburton.
• 1:03:06
  Because like, Halliburton's so fast, he gets that first step on
• 1:03:09
  him. And I mean, Brunson's just
• 1:03:11
  cooked. He can't.
• 1:03:12
  Oh yeah. He can't keep up.
• 1:03:15
  We go on the game. To another insane game coming
• 1:03:19
  down to the wire in the Garden and again in this one, you know,
• 1:03:25
  the Knicks started to build a little bit of a lead and.
• 1:03:29
  Then it just all. Fell apart late and they just
• 1:03:35
  missed some crucial shots late in the game, some costly
• 1:03:38
  turnovers late and another one slipped out from their fingers.
• 1:03:43
  Pascal Siakam legacy game for him.
• 1:03:46
  Playoff career high 39 points. Another good game on the Brunson
• 1:03:51
  gave you 3611 assists. They did try to make him a bit
• 1:03:55
  more of a playmaker in this one and he still was He was very
• 1:03:59
  good at that. He still found a lot of value
• 1:04:02
  and honestly? When when he is really their
• 1:04:07
  second option, they got they got a very good thing going their
• 1:04:12
  offensively Halliburton. Is a near triple double.
• 1:04:15
  He's 14 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists.
• 1:04:19
  Also couple steals for him. Each one of the.
• 1:04:23
  Indiana starters recorded at least one steal in this.
• 1:04:27
  Game. And again, it was just, you
• 1:04:29
  know, you got some some good performances.
• 1:04:31
  Brunson obviously at 36. Towns and Bridges gave you 20.
• 1:04:35
  OG gave you 16. They you know, you'll take that.
• 1:04:38
  But then Josh Hart was 6. That's your next closest guy.
• 1:04:43
  When you've got TJ McConnell giving you 10 off the bench, you
• 1:04:46
  know them Harder with 12, Turner with 16, D Smith with 12.
• 1:04:52
  It's just more. They're just getting more
• 1:04:54
  scoring for more places on Antony Bradley coming in and
• 1:04:59
  scoring one point off that Pacers bench.
• 1:05:03
  They have. Tony Bradley, I don't even know
• 1:05:06
  he's still in the NBA. It's insane.
• 1:05:10
  Hell yeah, man, he's out there. Getting active this.
• 1:05:13
  This one right here, I really was like, man, Pacers and Six
• 1:05:17
  was a pretty solid prediction by the two of us last week.
• 1:05:23
  Game 3. Knicks took it, but I feel like
• 1:05:27
  they almost played it a little too unsafe.
• 1:05:30
  They nearly took this one to the foul game.
• 1:05:33
  And we saw what happened to the Thunder in the Nugget series.
• 1:05:38
  If some of those series did not come up to those free throws,
• 1:05:41
  and I feel like the Thunder probably it would have, that
• 1:05:44
  series would have been a lot differently and.
• 1:05:47
  Certainly could have ended a lot.
• 1:05:48
  Differently. This one you got a little.
• 1:05:51
  More I think that this is the Pacers.
• 1:05:54
  They were a little off here. Nesmith and Nabhart both had
• 1:05:57
  pretty bad games. Halliburton like 20, but it was
• 1:06:02
  like a pretty quiet 20. Miles Turner.
• 1:06:06
  Siakam both sort of quiet. TJ McConnell was good off the
• 1:06:09
  bench. The rest of their bench wasn't
• 1:06:11
  that good. I think he just got, you know,
• 1:06:13
  good point performances and solid showing off the bench.
• 1:06:18
  Landry Shannett was able to come and knock down 3.
• 1:06:21
  Josh Hart coming off the bench, kind of the right move there in
• 1:06:26
  this game. He and Miles McBride both coming
• 1:06:30
  in off the bench giving a little more energy to the bench and
• 1:06:34
  Mitchell Robinson back in that starting line up if anything.
• 1:06:38
  For more, just a. Defensive presence.
• 1:06:41
  Cat led the way scoring. 24 points, he had 15 rebounds.
• 1:06:46
  Brunson, he got to the line and telling Cat got to the line a
• 1:06:49
  lot. Just a, you know, like the the
• 1:06:51
  Knicks relied a lot on the free throws and this one, they put
• 1:06:54
  the Pacers up the line a lot, but the Pacers were pretty bad.
• 1:06:58
  I mean, compared to like a 90% clip from New York.
• 1:07:02
  Oh yeah. Well, that.
• 1:07:03
  I mean that almost. Gets kind of where it comes
• 1:07:04
  down. It's just the Pacers not being
• 1:07:06
  able to convert all my free throws and this was a. 20 point
• 1:07:09
  comeback from the Knicks. Like they they still.
• 1:07:13
  Allowed 22 points off of their 15 turnovers, though they.
• 1:07:18
  Really were. Kind of getting beat they're
• 1:07:21
  still in that trouble turning over the ball 15 in this game,
• 1:07:25
  but the Pacers were right up there with them 14 so they.
• 1:07:30
  Just allow twenty. Two points off turnovers.
• 1:07:32
  I mean, that'll obviously that'll put you down 20 pretty
• 1:07:36
  easily like. Indiana really bad shoot in the
• 1:07:41
  three which is not which is unlike them.
• 1:07:43
  They just kind of had an off night just overall in general.
• 1:07:48
  And Despite that, yeah, then they still have that come
• 1:07:51
  storming back. It was them not hitting those
• 1:07:54
  threes that I think really stopped this game from getting
• 1:07:57
  out of hand because it wasn't like they were getting bad
• 1:07:58
  looks. I mean, they were set.
• 1:08:00
  Running plays beautifully. Setting up those looks very
• 1:08:03
  well. It was there available.
• 1:08:06
  For the taking and they just weren't able to convert.
• 1:08:11
  But yeah, Cap put on a superhero Cape late to, you know, get the
• 1:08:17
  get New York back in this one. So they got a game on the road,
• 1:08:22
  this one. We were yet to see a home.
• 1:08:24
  Series victory till we got the game four.
• 1:08:28
  It was on. Dominican Mother's Day so shouts
• 1:08:32
  a cat lost his mother a few years ago he is actually a
• 1:08:35
  Dominican so he did he was celebrating it it was good
• 1:08:40
  performance that he got to show out for his mom that day but
• 1:08:44
  going. Into game. 4 here.
• 1:08:47
  The Knicks did not look so good in this one.
• 1:08:49
  At least Halliburton just looked amazing. 3215 and 12 without a
• 1:08:54
  start over. His dad was.
• 1:08:56
  Finally allowed back at the stadium and yeah, he was
• 1:08:59
  fantastic. Shiakam also scoring 30 points
• 1:09:02
  of Benedict Matheran, unsung hero off the bench.
• 1:09:06
  Best game. That's my guy right now.
• 1:09:08
  All playoffs from him, probably 20 points off of that bench.
• 1:09:14
  Yeah, he. Was.
• 1:09:15
  He was just huge for him here. He can really get.
• 1:09:18
  Going for them as like the leader of their bench unit, like
• 1:09:22
  I feel they have really good potential with him and what's.
• 1:09:26
  Crazy is he did that all in 12 minutes.
• 1:09:29
  He did a lot. 11 * 11 free throws.
• 1:09:32
  Yeah, yeah, this guy's just out there playing like a little mini
• 1:09:36
  Brunson. If you're seeing the like the
• 1:09:38
  free throw comparison, got one less free throw than Jalen
• 1:09:42
  Brunson and played like half the time. 25 less minutes of
• 1:09:49
  basketball, Yeah. 1 less free throw.
• 1:09:51
  Again, not a really. Like not a great game for the
• 1:09:55
  Pacers in terms of their free throws, only 84%.
• 1:09:58
  But then the Knicks were also pretty down only at 84% there.
• 1:10:01
  Those few points of these, these games can really make a huge
• 1:10:04
  difference. Brunson count, you know, we're
• 1:10:08
  talking about him in his free throws 12 of them in this game,
• 1:10:12
  31 points, 5 assists doing some stuff on the defensive end.
• 1:10:16
  So like which was surprising to see.
• 1:10:18
  You know, it's just something you don't usually see out of him
• 1:10:22
  with the the the two steals, one block.
• 1:10:27
  Josh Hart, yeah, him coming off the bench has been a decent
• 1:10:32
  move. I mean, he had 11 rebounds in
• 1:10:34
  this 112 points, but he. Did foul out and.
• 1:10:38
  Turn the wall over five times, Yeah.
• 1:10:42
  He. He's it's.
• 1:10:43
  Been tough for him man like he. Like he's like.
• 1:10:49
  He has had like a lot of plays, I'll say that don't show up on
• 1:10:51
  the stat sheet, hustling for loose balls, that type of stuff,
• 1:10:55
  which is like why you have a guy.
• 1:10:56
  That's why he's on the team like Josh Hart.
• 1:10:59
  That's why they got Josh. Hart, but I would like to see
• 1:11:03
  some more. Games like this from him just in
• 1:11:05
  terms of getting more rebounds, maybe scoring some more points
• 1:11:09
  because with just all the depth at the Pacers have, that's just
• 1:11:12
  something the Knicks need. I mean, Mitchell Robinson only
• 1:11:15
  scoring you 6 points, Hart with 12 points off the bench.
• 1:11:18
  I mean, the next three guys combined for the the Knicks
• 1:11:23
  bench all equal to that. So only three points from
• 1:11:27
  McBride, Dylan Wright, Landry Shamit.
• 1:11:31
  Cat. He had a.
• 1:11:32
  Double double double OG and Anobi only hit 1/3 and it was
• 1:11:36
  just an absolute like prayer with a shot clock winding down.
• 1:11:41
  This the. Craziest shot you could have
• 1:11:43
  imagine Huge. Huge time for him to hit it too.
• 1:11:46
  But. Ultimately wasn't enough.
• 1:11:49
  I thought Mikhail Bridges, man, I got to try to get him some
• 1:11:52
  more jump shots on the 3.1 dude, he was pretty lethal.
• 1:11:56
  Only. Yeah, only. 5 attempts in this
• 1:11:58
  one and honestly again to bring up something that the Knicks are
• 1:12:02
  doing that obviously easier said than done, but I feel like
• 1:12:07
  sometimes they do just kind of make like small little mental
• 1:12:11
  mistakes in in these games. Like they had a fast break in
• 1:12:16
  this in the last game, the one O six 100 game 3 where it was a
• 1:12:22
  fast break. Halliburton tosses 1 down to
• 1:12:25
  Siakam, and he catches the ball like pretty deep under the
• 1:12:28
  basket to where he's not really able to do anything except for
• 1:12:33
  pick a direction on the baseline and dribble out without stepping
• 1:12:37
  out of bounds. And OG Onanobi picked up a
• 1:12:40
  blocking foul by like, sneakily trying to push Pascal Siakam out
• 1:12:45
  of bounds. It's like in that moment, like
• 1:12:48
  think smart right here in the playoffs and stop trying to push
• 1:12:51
  people out of bounds and get a quick turnover on that's been.
• 1:12:55
  Cats still having that issue where he picks up dumb fouls
• 1:12:58
  that put them in foul trouble. Sometimes that's.
• 1:13:01
  Another thing that has. Like he hasn't been as available
• 1:13:04
  for them because they gotta have them on the bench 'cause he's
• 1:13:07
  just again, getting some of these dumb fouls.
• 1:13:10
  I don't think it's been as egregious in years past, but
• 1:13:13
  especially in like games two and three, I thought he got in some
• 1:13:16
  trouble pretty early. Same thing with Brunson.
• 1:13:20
  Ultimately didn't end up costing them having a lot.
• 1:13:23
  Of fouls in this type of lineup is not good at all, at least at
• 1:13:28
  least like considering how much minutes you and the other five
• 1:13:32
  guys are probably going to be playing together super deep.
• 1:13:34
  Rotation here you probably don't want to have.
• 1:13:37
  Even Cat 4 fouls he I feel like he would have had maybe 34
• 1:13:42
  points in this game if he had only two or three.
• 1:13:46
  Well, it causes. Him to have to play out there
• 1:13:48
  more passively too, especially on the defensive end, which like
• 1:13:53
  he's. Has he got no blocks?
• 1:13:56
  In this one, yeah, he can be a real.
• 1:13:58
  Factor. On defense like I've.
• 1:14:02
  Seen that from him. He's a pretty good defender,
• 1:14:05
  but. Like he get if he gets.
• 1:14:06
  In the foul trouble, he just can't defend, you know, like he
• 1:14:09
  the same way that he wants. To like he's used.
• 1:14:13
  To. I think a big MVP.
• 1:14:15
  Of this series also is Rick Carlisle Pacers head coach
• 1:14:20
  because in multiple post game interviews has been like
• 1:14:25
  absolutely trolling Tom Thibodeau and like Cameron
• 1:14:30
  Payne, for example, is who's been having pretty pretty quiet
• 1:14:33
  post season and hasn't really been utilized too too much in
• 1:14:37
  this series. Obviously Rick Carlisle in many
• 1:14:42
  interviews has been like complimenting those players in
• 1:14:47
  sort of like a way to get him to give him some minutes out there
• 1:14:52
  be like oh you know Cameron Payne very lethal shooter for
• 1:14:56
  him. But in this game 4 here doesn't
• 1:14:58
  even get it doesn't even see the, hasn't even.
• 1:15:01
  Hasn't even sniffed it. He had one.
• 1:15:04
  One game earlier in this series where he was 2 for seven.
• 1:15:08
  I mean, it's it was just funny levels of troll for Brick
• 1:15:12
  Carlisle right there, 'cause this of getting to be a pretty
• 1:15:15
  good like obviously the classic rivalry between these two teams.
• 1:15:20
  But with the new rosters and like the teams being built up
• 1:15:24
  competing again, this is this is good rivalry right here every
• 1:15:29
  game. Despite the Pacers with A31
• 1:15:32
  series lead, every game has been super close.
• 1:15:36
  It's just. Been a really great.
• 1:15:37
  Series to watch Game 5 tomorrow night back in New York.
• 1:15:43
  Caveman, what are your predictions?
• 1:15:45
  Does Indiana close it out or do the Knicks find a way to
• 1:15:49
  survive? Honestly man.
• 1:15:52
  I. The Knicks.
• 1:15:56
  Kind of look defeated after this game. 4I can't even lie.
• 1:16:01
  I want to be hopeful that they can take it to a game six, make
• 1:16:06
  the Series A little bit more interesting, and then possibly
• 1:16:10
  Indiana goes and wins it in in the Game 7.
• 1:16:15
  But in the I'm going to take. The Knicks in this one, I think
• 1:16:17
  they're going to rally back here.
• 1:16:19
  This is going to be another cat game and I think Brunson is.
• 1:16:23
  I think they're going to utilize, like I said, they're
• 1:16:25
  going to try and get Brunson in the post against Halliburton and
• 1:16:29
  I think it may not be him peer scoring, but I think that does
• 1:16:34
  get him to the line a lot. I think it's going to rattle
• 1:16:36
  Halliburton a little bit. That's my prediction there.
• 1:16:38
  I think Knicks take this one and Cat comes alive.
• 1:16:44
  I want to see that. Yeah, I think.
• 1:16:46
  We're going to. See one more big showing out of
• 1:16:49
  these the Knicks star this year. You know, give me like, like,
• 1:16:53
  Bronson's going to have like 40 something.
• 1:16:56
  I think Cat's going to be like high 20s to low 30s.
• 1:17:00
  They're just they're going to be like real.
• 1:17:02
  I think the role guys are going to be real lights out from
• 1:17:06
  three, they're going to hit AI think they're going to be really
• 1:17:08
  well from three. They're going to rally behind
• 1:17:10
  the MSG crowd, you know, facing elimination home crowd sharing
• 1:17:14
  them on think they're going to come out.
• 1:17:17
  They're going to give us a they're going to give one good
• 1:17:19
  really rally the force Game 6. But I think ultimately that
• 1:17:23
  they're going to and here, here's.
• 1:17:26
  My shout out Jimmy covers. This is my best bet breakdown.
• 1:17:29
  If campaign gets minutes in this one, bet the over on three
• 1:17:33
  pointers made. Bet the house on it.
• 1:17:37
  There we go, campaign over. God I hate.
• 1:17:41
  Campaigns jump shot. He does.
• 1:17:45
  He's one of the. Uglier ones.
• 1:17:47
  It's disgusting. Like when he was like a six.
• 1:17:50
  Man on the Suns, he he was kind of knocking it down.
• 1:17:53
  Yeah, he was it. Was when it's.
• 1:17:56
  When it's ugly and it goes in like Halliburton, then you can't
• 1:17:59
  really say anything but like 2 for seven, right?
• 1:18:03
  It's when it gets ugly and. It's not going in that you're
• 1:18:06
  I'm just like. Then you're like even.
• 1:18:08
  Even that even. When it was going in for him I
• 1:18:11
  was just like how bro that just looks disgusting going up.
• 1:18:15
  It's no, it's. No, what's his name?
• 1:18:18
  Streamer Guy XQC. Have you seen his jump shot?
• 1:18:23
  Oh no, I. It's I.
• 1:18:24
  I'll have to send it to you or something or look it up.
• 1:18:27
  Folks, you do got to see this like this.
• 1:18:29
  He's just a Twitch streamer, but like it.
• 1:18:32
  It looks like he's glitching when you're like shooting the
• 1:18:34
  jump shot. It's wild.
• 1:18:38
  And it kind of works. For him, I mean like there's no,
• 1:18:41
  there's no way it would work in the game because like his
• 1:18:43
  release point is so low. I mean that's going to get
• 1:18:46
  blocked. So like if he's it's contested
• 1:18:49
  to hide on him too. If he just like, yeah, he got it
• 1:18:52
  up there, it's a gross. Release point I.
• 1:18:57
  Well, we can sit here and talk. About ugly jump shots all day,
• 1:19:00
  or we can get to a couple of guys that have some nice jump
• 1:19:02
  shots here. There's some good jump.
• 1:19:04
  Shots in this series here. SGA.
• 1:19:07
  Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards.
• 1:19:10
  Definitely one of my favorites just.
• 1:19:13
  Appear Hooper right there. Like this one.
• 1:19:15
  We got into game. One last week on the show.
• 1:19:18
  If you want to see our thoughts on that, check out last week's
• 1:19:20
  episode. Game two, Another blowout.
• 1:19:24
  Minnesota made it look a little closer.
• 1:19:27
  The key Alexander. Walker, I think he uses big
• 1:19:31
  minutes for them off the bench. Julius Randall, that's the the
• 1:19:36
  Julius Randall Knicks fans were one in Minnesota, about 6
• 1:19:40
  points, 2 for 11. He's having such.
• 1:19:43
  A good playoffs. I was ready to crown him as like
• 1:19:47
  the one of the best performers. I was saying it last week that
• 1:19:52
  they just need a little bit more time because even when they were
• 1:19:54
  losing like Game 1, he was on. Even though they got killed, he
• 1:19:59
  was the only one scoring this one.
• 1:20:01
  I feel like they're just that much closer.
• 1:20:04
  If he's if he's hitting some shots, yeah.
• 1:20:07
  This is. Probably the most perplexing
• 1:20:10
  thing is how Mike Conley went plus 14 despite only scoring 3
• 1:20:15
  points and going one of six. Having one turnover.
• 1:20:19
  And two fouls. They had three rebounds and
• 1:20:22
  three assists, so those must have been and assists help.
• 1:20:24
  Them back up. I guess it must have been.
• 1:20:26
  Crucial on the. Flip side, Dante.
• 1:20:29
  Di Vincenzo -27 I need to see I'll.
• 1:20:34
  Look, I want to look up one day how to how they calculate the
• 1:20:38
  full plus minus. So they calculated like if
• 1:20:41
  you're just on the floor when a good play happens.
• 1:20:44
  'Cause he did play 20. 8 minutes like they could have like there
• 1:20:47
  could have been a couple steals or like a pass that led to an
• 1:20:51
  assist that he was near or something.
• 1:20:53
  Yeah, yeah. Well, I.
• 1:20:55
  I hate to say. It but SGA is definitely playing
• 1:20:58
  like an MVP. 38 points in this 112 or 21.
• 1:21:02
  Some pretty good shooting. He had eight assists as well. 3
• 1:21:06
  rebounds I've been trying to. Make him a bit more of a
• 1:21:08
  playmaker here in this game. I'll tell you why Dante di
• 1:21:12
  Vincenzo is -27 is because they were just hunting him with those
• 1:21:16
  pick and rolls. He could not.
• 1:21:19
  Get a break. In this game and they they.
• 1:21:22
  They kept fighting through the screen and like having it set so
• 1:21:25
  high so like they just get like Shay just kept getting like so
• 1:21:30
  much runway to drive towards the basket leads the league and.
• 1:21:36
  Drives and they're setting up their offense exactly just for
• 1:21:40
  him to have the clearest pass to the basket to drive and.
• 1:21:45
  He popped off and then. You know his guy Jalen Williams,
• 1:21:49
  he also popped off 26 and 10 out of him J Dub only really one
• 1:21:55
  cold really like one or two games where he hasn't really
• 1:21:59
  been on. But he is having himself I think
• 1:22:02
  a fantastic post season as well a good.
• 1:22:05
  Role in the offense. Too like bigger, bigger role
• 1:22:08
  than I really expected. They're like coming, kind of
• 1:22:11
  coming alive is like a second. I think he hits like some.
• 1:22:14
  Timely. Threes, too.
• 1:22:15
  I mean, OKC was pretty atrocious from three.
• 1:22:17
  They were 933, but they didn't really bother.
• 1:22:20
  I mean, they were pretty much having their way inside the
• 1:22:22
  shot. 50% from the field, 45 and 90 from there.
• 1:22:27
  And the Wolves just, yeah, pretty ugly on the opposite.
• 1:22:31
  And they were 41% from the field, 28% from 377% at the
• 1:22:37
  line. Neither team was super good at
• 1:22:39
  the line, but yeah, SGA got those 15 attempts nobody else
• 1:22:44
  really got close to. To what?
• 1:22:46
  He took in that. One Chet 22 points I.
• 1:22:51
  Think a lot of people forgive. Man, he was a second overall
• 1:22:53
  draft pick so. This Thunder.
• 1:22:56
  Team is just so stacked and you know their defense was just
• 1:23:01
  giving the wolves fits and T wolves have a good defense, but
• 1:23:05
  they would just find the ways to carve them up.
• 1:23:08
  But I think the wolves they made some pretty good adjustments in
• 1:23:11
  Game 2 or game three rather well.
• 1:23:14
  They had a huge. Blow out 143 to one O 1.
• 1:23:20
  And I mean, in this game, really, SGA had a bad night on
• 1:23:25
  it. Let's just be honest, you're
• 1:23:27
  going to have a bad night every once in a while.
• 1:23:29
  And I think they made some. Great adjustments here where
• 1:23:32
  instead of like fighting through that high screen and and trying
• 1:23:36
  to guard them almost up at the half court they had, they had
• 1:23:41
  what's his name? Jaden McDaniels.
• 1:23:44
  Kind of hang back like just above the three-point line.
• 1:23:47
  And when that screen comes up, you know, they instead of like,
• 1:23:52
  like letting it switch or trying to fight through it, he goes
• 1:23:56
  under it, you know, and then just got gave him, let him get
• 1:23:59
  back in position a little bit easier.
• 1:24:02
  Just set his feet. And stay with Shay and they they
• 1:24:05
  did a good. Job of just like making sure
• 1:24:07
  Dante di Vincenzo did not get. Put into that.
• 1:24:12
  Action and on Shay and he didn't have to guard him.
• 1:24:18
  And yeah, Shay. Struggled to try to make him a
• 1:24:20
  bit more of a playmaker and he struggled to do that.
• 1:24:24
  And also, the Wolves just shot lights out.
• 1:24:28
  They were on from everywhere. I mean, they hit 20 threes in
• 1:24:31
  this game. They were 2040.
• 1:24:34
  They were 57% from the field. So just they're.
• 1:24:40
  They're shooting lights out and they just, everyone was having a
• 1:24:42
  great game. You know, like Terence Shannon
• 1:24:44
  gets in the game for 13 minutes, drops 15 points, you get the key
• 1:24:48
  logs and they're walking 10, 12 points off the bench.
• 1:24:51
  Nas Reed, Rob Dillingham Gone. Minutes.
• 1:24:54
  Yeah, Sorry. Let's go.
• 1:24:55
  Only scored one point but but you know he'll he'll get free
• 1:24:58
  throw. My guy, My goat Joe.
• 1:25:00
  Angles didn't get the sniff before.
• 1:25:02
  I'm so angry about it. That's alright.
• 1:25:04
  Yeah, Divan Chenzam wasn't -27 tonight.
• 1:25:09
  Leonard Miller, bro, this guy coming out here scoring 11.
• 1:25:13
  Some of these guys are in garbage time, but Aunt Julius
• 1:25:16
  Randle were definitely on 24 other, Randall third the other
• 1:25:20
  hand and Anthony. I think.
• 1:25:22
  Edwards has been doing a great job of just contributing so many
• 1:25:26
  different ways for his team. He's been getting like he's been
• 1:25:28
  their leading rebound there, like second place and rebounds
• 1:25:32
  almost every game. He had nine in this one.
• 1:25:34
  He had 6 assists, 2 steals. He's playing really well.
• 1:25:41
  And if the wolves, the big problem here is I just, I don't
• 1:25:46
  know if like the wolves, I can't imagine they shoot like this.
• 1:25:51
  Every. I mean they.
• 1:25:52
  Were just like it was just they were on point.
• 1:25:55
  This was felt like. They couldn't.
• 1:25:56
  Miss, you know, and it's kind of like.
• 1:25:58
  The Thunder were saying post game that like even if they made
• 1:26:03
  the adjustments that they need to make, that they needed to
• 1:26:07
  have made in that game to like may it possibly win, Like they
• 1:26:12
  still most likely would have lost because of how the
• 1:26:15
  Timberwolves were shooting and just how well they're playing,
• 1:26:18
  that they were just the better team that night.
• 1:26:20
  So they didn't. Seem rattled.
• 1:26:22
  Whatsoever. Yeah, did that.
• 1:26:24
  I think diagnolts, you know we. Saw some of those little.
• 1:26:28
  Little adjustments that they could make and later late in the
• 1:26:33
  game where they didn't want to let, you know, get those those
• 1:26:36
  clear driving lanes and everything there.
• 1:26:39
  And they were bringing, you know, some of those bigs up high
• 1:26:42
  to help make it tough for him to to find the lane and or find
• 1:26:47
  somebody to pass it out to. But I don't, you know, good like
• 1:26:52
  good coaching by Dagnall by not showing too much of his hand.
• 1:26:55
  Like you're kind of getting crushed.
• 1:26:57
  They're not missing everything. Like, yeah, you make those
• 1:27:00
  adjustments, but then they're going to see what those are.
• 1:27:03
  And like in a game. Where you're probably not going
• 1:27:06
  to win. Do you want to tip your hand
• 1:27:07
  that much? He clearly didn't want to.
• 1:27:12
  So the wolves walk away with the big one here, but then you get
• 1:27:14
  the game for different story here where they just come.
• 1:27:18
  Right back they lost by 40 points and then win by two.
• 1:27:22
  First close game of the. Series here too two points Shay
• 1:27:26
  dropped 40 and despite them you know still trying to keeping
• 1:27:31
  that similar strategy where they were they were fighting under
• 1:27:35
  the screens and and. Instead of like giving.
• 1:27:38
  Him him room to drive, but. They just you.
• 1:27:42
  Know he got the ball out of his hands a little bit quicker and
• 1:27:44
  then they were getting it back to him and letting him get to
• 1:27:47
  different spots. And really dishing it.
• 1:27:51
  Though in this. 110 assists, right and he.
• 1:27:53
  Was he was almost on a triple W and 40 points, 10 assists, 9
• 1:27:58
  boards. He was all over.
• 1:28:01
  He was. Just all over the floor making a
• 1:28:03
  huge difference in the other wolves.
• 1:28:05
  They just didn't shoot as well. So they're like they were they
• 1:28:10
  were kind of some of those bad looks that they were just hit
• 1:28:12
  knocking down the game before they were getting put back into
• 1:28:16
  those situations and they just weren't able to convert them
• 1:28:18
  again. And a lot of they just a lot
• 1:28:23
  like the Tim, they're the the thunders defense, the way they
• 1:28:26
  can swarm and help. Is just I.
• 1:28:30
  Mean it's just second to none like how they how that they're
• 1:28:33
  moving out there I mean you like the way they bring these double
• 1:28:36
  teams you think somebody else would get open but they just
• 1:28:39
  they can rotate back so quickly they're so well coached there I
• 1:28:44
  mean this is really a historic defense that we're seeing like
• 1:28:47
  they. They can just cover.
• 1:28:49
  So much ground. And this fight?
• 1:28:53
  Another 34 point performance out of Jalen Williams, 21 other
• 1:28:57
  chat. He had a huge three blocks, but
• 1:29:00
  not huger. Then one where Jaden McDaniels
• 1:29:04
  really got a good look. He was kind of off balance and
• 1:29:08
  the way he recovered and got up in time using this non dominant
• 1:29:13
  hand that blocked that shot, I mean that looked like an easy 2
• 1:29:16
  for McDaniels. He wasn't able to get it.
• 1:29:18
  That was a great. Great point to mention J dub
• 1:29:21
  here too though. When your second scoring.
• 1:29:25
  Options contributing and complementing your MVPS 40 point
• 1:29:30
  near triple double with a 34 point game with three steals and
• 1:29:36
  getting 5 assists himself. He shoots so efficiently I
• 1:29:40
  didn't even really know he's taking 24 shots in these games.
• 1:29:44
  Like, it really doesn't feel like you shoot the ball that
• 1:29:47
  much when you watch the Thunder play, I'll say.
• 1:29:52
  If you're. The.
• 1:29:53
  Timber Wolves. One thing you kind of hang your
• 1:29:55
  hand on, Randall again was bad. Can he get back?
• 1:29:59
  Like he just wasn't hitting the shots?
• 1:30:03
  He only had five points. He was won a 7 and then.
• 1:30:07
  They committed a. Lot of resources.
• 1:30:10
  To Ant and some other guys. Really stepped up 22 other
• 1:30:15
  McDaniels, 21 on the Divin Shenzo, 23 other Nikhil
• 1:30:20
  Alexander Walker. I mean, him and Divin Shenzo are
• 1:30:23
  both five of the from three-point land.
• 1:30:28
  Like all right. Can these guys continue that and
• 1:30:31
  can we get, you know, Ant some more easier little alleviation
• 1:30:36
  from this pressure that the Thunder bringing to him on
• 1:30:38
  defense maybe get hand going shooting some more.
• 1:30:41
  Can Randall score by their problem?
• 1:30:45
  Is I just? I don't know.
• 1:30:45
  If that's, you know, like the performances they got on these
• 1:30:48
  guys, if that's going to be something sustainable that they
• 1:30:51
  can live and die on and the Thunder have kind of figured out
• 1:30:54
  how to disrupt Randall and Anthony Edwards, That's where
• 1:30:59
  most of the help is rotating. And I think it didn't even
• 1:31:03
  really it didn't burn them in this series.
• 1:31:04
  And I think they're they're willing to live with guys like
• 1:31:07
  McDaniels, even Shenzo, Alexander Walker, Nas Reed, what
• 1:31:12
  have you, even Mike Conley. They're willing to live with
• 1:31:15
  those guys taking more of those shots.
• 1:31:18
  Because Mike Conley is and trying.
• 1:31:20
  Being forced to score more. Mike Conley's not.
• 1:31:22
  Been a threat? Yeah, he's been.
• 1:31:25
  He's been really quiet, which is unfortunate.
• 1:31:28
  Because UNK is one of my favorite players ever.
• 1:31:31
  Was never really given too much opportunity, got too much help
• 1:31:36
  with the Grizzlies, had Marc Gasol there for a little bit.
• 1:31:39
  They were a pretty solid duo, I can't lie.
• 1:31:42
  But you know, Mike Conley's cool.
• 1:31:44
  And it'd be, it's all. It's like having Russ on the
• 1:31:47
  Nuggets to see him try to get his first ring.
• 1:31:49
  That's how I feel this watching Mike Conley with this with this
• 1:31:53
  Timberwolves team. But in my opinion, though, my
• 1:31:56
  prediction for this Game 5 tonight, 8:30 Eastern Standard
• 1:32:00
  Time I'm. Going with the.
• 1:32:03
  Thunder to get one more win. One more win for that. 2016 team
• 1:32:09
  that lost to Golden State before it all blew up that one.
• 1:32:13
  You need one more win to just get it back for that. 2016 team
• 1:32:18
  that lost to the Warriors it. Blew a three.
• 1:32:21
  One lead to the Warriors that year.
• 1:32:23
  I hate the I. Hate the Thunder, but what?
• 1:32:27
  This has been pretty great. Post season for.
• 1:32:32
  Small market teams and I'm really happy that it's looking
• 1:32:34
  like 2 smaller market teams will be representing 2 teams with no
• 1:32:38
  finals. I think that's going to be good
• 1:32:40
  for the league just to. Maybe get some more.
• 1:32:44
  You know, star power evenly distributed and some bigger
• 1:32:48
  names coming out to these smaller market teams.
• 1:32:52
  Something I just think it would. Be good for the league.
• 1:32:55
  I got high hopes. For this, but on the other hand,
• 1:32:59
  May 29th, 6:00 or 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, we got
• 1:33:04
  the Knicks, Pacers, Like we said, we're both going Knicks
• 1:33:08
  here. I think Pacers win this one in
• 1:33:10
  six, though. They go back to Indiana in Game
• 1:33:13
  6 and take it. Why I got the wolves?
• 1:33:15
  Losing is they're going to be on the road and I just don't trust
• 1:33:18
  the role players to play as well as they did at home.
• 1:33:21
  It's just always that's small. Market team but OK C yeah that's
• 1:33:25
  not they always go hard they. Go hard for their team, respect
• 1:33:29
  to them for that like. They, you know, they're just a
• 1:33:33
  huge. Rug Nuggets rival so I got to
• 1:33:36
  hate them but I got respect for that's fair.
• 1:33:38
  How? How hard they?
• 1:33:39
  Go for the their fans. Go and how they go hard.
• 1:33:42
  They go for their fans. Our prediction is.
• 1:33:46
  Thunder Pacers in the NBA Finals.
• 1:33:48
  They're going to be a fantastic. Finals Who do you got drop?
• 1:33:51
  It in the comments right now. Blow us now.
• 1:33:53
  Blow us now. Drop it in the comments.
• 1:33:55
  Right now, all I know is that we were talking about the schedules
• 1:34:00
  last week for the NFL and we opened up our show with the with
• 1:34:05
  the mean, mean shots fired comment coming Caveman's way.
• 1:34:10
  Broncos. Titans.
• 1:34:12
  Week 1 give your predictions 'cause we got a we got a Titans
• 1:34:15
  fan over here saying that the Saints are whack.
• 1:34:18
  So let me let me get your full I want your full four quarter
• 1:34:23
  breakdown in this game real quick HD that's what I want to
• 1:34:26
  hear right now that we got our we got our NBA breakdown out of
• 1:34:30
  the way. What's I want your four quarter
• 1:34:32
  breakdown. Broncos, Titans, Broncos,
• 1:34:35
  Titans. What do we what's gonna happen?
• 1:34:37
  OK, well. I'll I'll say I think.
• 1:34:41
  It's going to be a low scoring to start this game, right,
• 1:34:44
  because the Titans got a really underrated defense.
• 1:34:47
  Sorry. I think that that's a solid
• 1:34:48
  defense. This is going to be, you know,
• 1:34:50
  some new weapons, new guys getting involved in this Broncos
• 1:34:53
  offense. I think they're going to be
• 1:34:55
  trying this to get a new running game established with RJ Harvey,
• 1:34:59
  so. Like maybe?
• 1:35:02
  Like 10 nothing like Broncos get a field goal in the 1st, get a
• 1:35:07
  good drive going in the halftime, score a touchdown.
• 1:35:10
  So it's 10 nothing. Cam Ward, look, I got I think
• 1:35:15
  he's going to be a very productive star there in this
• 1:35:18
  league for a while. But this is a tough first game.
• 1:35:23
  You're on the road, you know, in Mile High, above sea level, some
• 1:35:27
  place you probably don't have a lot of experience.
• 1:35:31
  Or, you know, playing. In it in the first place against
• 1:35:34
  a really good defense, you know, there's some the Titans
• 1:35:38
  offensive line is pretty good. So I don't know if he'll be on
• 1:35:40
  there, like too much pressure, but just compared to, you know,
• 1:35:44
  the weapons that the Titans have versus, you know, who the
• 1:35:48
  Broncos got in that secondary. And that line back.
• 1:35:52
  In core, I think it's going to be tough for them to to run the
• 1:35:55
  football. I think coming out of the
• 1:35:57
  halftime, they're going to get a good drive going, make it 6:50.
• 1:36:00
  But then that Broncos offense is going to start to wake up.
• 1:36:04
  They'll go down, score another touchdown and Cam ward, you
• 1:36:08
  know, going to start feeling the pressure and we're going to see.
• 1:36:13
  I'll say like his second. Turnover of the game.
• 1:36:15
  It won't be a pick six, but the Broncos will turn that into a
• 1:36:18
  field goal and then so it'll be 20 to 10 into the third.
• 1:36:25
  Or 20 to 7. Into the third, but the Cam
• 1:36:27
  Ward, he's going to lead a a solid drive, but it's going to
• 1:36:31
  end up in the punt and the Broncos, they're going to go
• 1:36:33
  down. And.
• 1:36:37
  Also have their drive into the punt so going to have some time
• 1:36:41
  taken. Also Campbell gets the ball back
• 1:36:44
  and quit. They didn't get a quicker drive.
• 1:36:47
  Get a field goal up so it's 20 to 10.
• 1:36:49
  But then the Broncos come on 4 minute offense, drive the ball 2
• 1:36:53
  up, a lot of clock, score a touchdown and seal this thing
• 1:36:57
  up. Get out of there the 27 to 10.
• 1:36:59
  I like it. I like it.
• 1:37:01
  I like it. And you know what?
• 1:37:03
  You see, you were fair with your judgement there because we were
• 1:37:07
  going to flash forward to Week 17 of this upcoming season where
• 1:37:11
  the Saints are going in that Nissan Stadium in Nashville take
• 1:37:15
  on the Titans. I mean, at this point in the
• 1:37:18
  season, obviously the Saints most likely are going to be
• 1:37:21
  undefeated because Tyler Shuck is just going to be in the
• 1:37:26
  quarterback, just carving up that league.
• 1:37:28
  He's he's already. In a little quarterback building
• 1:37:31
  room right now, Kellen Moore, they got a lot of good guys to
• 1:37:35
  try, try and try and build them up.
• 1:37:38
  But if it goes as planned, obviously the Saints will be
• 1:37:40
  undefeated going into this game and it's going to be just some
• 1:37:44
  master Class Monster 6 touchdown game from Tyler Shuck like
• 1:37:49
  Saints. Tearing them up. 63.
• 1:37:52
  To. To to seven Titans will be.
• 1:37:55
  Titans will get. 1. Classic Saints.
• 1:37:58
  Beat down and it's going to be be like what, Drew?
• 1:38:04
  Brees did to the the Colts, who was the quarterback for the
• 1:38:07
  Colts the year like Peyton Manning was hurt and they didn't
• 1:38:11
  like it was an early Sunday Night Football game and like
• 1:38:14
  obviously when the schedules came out, Peyton was supposed to
• 1:38:17
  play. But that didn't happen, right?
• 1:38:21
  And instead, the Saints hung one on and it was, I think that was
• 1:38:25
  the score was 63 to 7:00. But they might have, they might
• 1:38:28
  have almost scored 70. It might have been like 69 or 68
• 1:38:32
  to 7 or something like that. And I I don't even know who the.
• 1:38:36
  Colts quarterback was, but that was just a a brutal year.
• 1:38:39
  A real unfortunate. That was the situation that
• 1:38:43
  Indianapolis got into really good to show how much Peyton
• 1:38:48
  carried that team because it's like like the he like the
• 1:38:52
  defense. That's nothing Peyton can do
• 1:38:54
  about that. And so you're like just his
• 1:38:59
  ability to to control an offense and probably take up long drives
• 1:39:04
  made his life easier for his defense without Saints weren't
• 1:39:07
  having none of that all seriousness.
• 1:39:10
  Though I think Cam Ward probably going to have a pretty good
• 1:39:12
  season. They got some decent guys for
• 1:39:15
  him. Their defense, it's a pretty
• 1:39:17
  good defense to piggyback a young quarterback on kind of
• 1:39:21
  similar Broncos. Before they really had some of
• 1:39:25
  their big offensive games and some of their big, big moments,
• 1:39:30
  they were really relying on that defense to help and develop
• 1:39:33
  their young quarterback. And it honestly really helps.
• 1:39:36
  It honestly really helps because we saw it.
• 1:39:38
  We see it kind of working out now, good offensive line.
• 1:39:41
  And a solid defense. Make your life easy on.
• 1:39:45
  Your your young cubies man don't like.
• 1:39:48
  Too. It's too much to expect them to
• 1:39:50
  come in to be the savior right away.
• 1:39:51
  You know, give them a year where they don't have to, you know,
• 1:39:56
  don't make them have to be the hero, by the way.
• 1:39:59
  Just just a good time to get their confidence up to develop.
• 1:40:03
  And you know, when they make mistakes, it's not just, you
• 1:40:08
  know, it's not just killer. You got a defense that can go
• 1:40:10
  out there and build you out when you have great players.
• 1:40:12
  On your defense, they will also want to have those moments where
• 1:40:16
  it feels like the game is in their hands and they get to make
• 1:40:19
  that game deciding. Play late, you just have the
• 1:40:22
  opportunity to change the game like that making a play.
• 1:40:26
  I mean you get you get some veteran defensive players and
• 1:40:29
  some good defensive players and opportunity to shine.
• 1:40:32
  You know, kind of kind of helps everybody out all.
• 1:40:37
  Right, you want to talk about. Defense, you have a chance to
• 1:40:39
  shot man the that Saint Louis Battle Hawks.
• 1:40:43
  Doing it again. Just putting one on.
• 1:40:48
  I mean, I'll be at the worst team in the league, but the
• 1:40:50
  Centonia San Antonio Brahmas smacked around silly. 39 to 13
• 1:40:59
  Max. Duggan.
• 1:41:01
  Played his last half of football before the post season.
• 1:41:05
  Looks like he's going to just be the guy going forward so.
• 1:41:10
  He's. Good confidence building win.
• 1:41:12
  This was a decent. One from him, only 17 attempts
• 1:41:16
  though, but again he only played the.
• 1:41:17
  First half he was 12 to 17133. The touchdown, what a nice drive
• 1:41:22
  at the end of the half to score a touchdown and the really, you
• 1:41:27
  know, kill any confidence that these these Brahmas had.
• 1:41:32
  Because he punches the ball. Punches it in with around what
• 1:41:35
  do? We call it. 1:11 left to go.
• 1:41:40
  Brahmas were able to get a field goal before that, but.
• 1:41:43
  They're they're all they're. Their offense really sputtered
• 1:41:46
  out there aside from an opening drive, field goal, 2 punts and
• 1:41:51
  then two turnovers on downs for them and the rest of the game.
• 1:41:55
  That second-half defense out of the battle Hawks was fantastic.
• 1:41:59
  So many guys with like 7 or 567 tackles.
• 1:42:03
  You know Cameron Kelly name either Mike Rose, Callahan,
• 1:42:07
  O'Reilly all 7 tackles right there.
• 1:42:11
  We only. One sack too.
• 1:42:13
  It wasn't like a crazy day for sacking the quarterback, but
• 1:42:15
  they just. Like.
• 1:42:18
  Forced a lot of bad throws just off of the pressure.
• 1:42:22
  Calvin Bond in. 14 to 26 for one O 3 that's not.
• 1:42:27
  Really too bad. Promise had a solid.
• 1:42:29
  Run game, but the Battle Hawks Collective, you know, 32
• 1:42:33
  attempts between all their running back, all their runnings
• 1:42:35
  are 169 and two touchdowns. Brandon Silver's man, he comes
• 1:42:39
  into the game, game manages that that thing out to be really
• 1:42:43
  efficient. Spreading the wealth, Getting
• 1:42:46
  some. Of these receivers involved, you
• 1:42:47
  call it Jacor Pearson. He he's really having a nice end
• 1:42:52
  of the season here. Hakeem Butler 5 catches, 66
• 1:42:55
  yards in the touchdown. Blake Jackson, Frank Darby
• 1:43:00
  getting involved, a couple of catches there.
• 1:43:02
  Darby caught a touchdown. Good confidence building.
• 1:43:07
  One here, kind of just rolling over the last team in the
• 1:43:10
  league. That's what you.
• 1:43:12
  Need going into the playoffs? Though you know you're playing
• 1:43:15
  the. Defenders and they actually
• 1:43:17
  lost, so you could be hosting that game in the Battle Dome
• 1:43:22
  battle. Hawks have only lost.
• 1:43:23
  One game in that building since they they've started playing
• 1:43:27
  ball there. Talk about like that's the best
• 1:43:30
  home field advantage in the whole UFL right there.
• 1:43:33
  There are some of the best. Fans, honestly, they lost their
• 1:43:36
  team to LA. They had a.
• 1:43:39
  Professionally, NFL team now also like those.
• 1:43:42
  People like football. No Team No.
• 1:43:44
  City deserves a football team back more than the Saint Louis
• 1:43:47
  man they they loved football there bro.
• 1:43:50
  So unfortunate that they lost that team in LA man.
• 1:43:54
  And it's like they also like the chargers are also there dude.
• 1:43:58
  It's like nobody cares about football in LA.
• 1:44:00
  That's it's like third all the the sports tier lists.
• 1:44:05
  I mean if the kings are doing good maybe even 5th 4th it's
• 1:44:10
  just they still have. Lakers.
• 1:44:12
  The Warriors. Lakers.
• 1:44:14
  The Clippers and. Even the Warriors in San Fran.
• 1:44:18
  Still California. Yeah, still California.
• 1:44:21
  Just like honestly. Was a more hype.
• 1:44:23
  Team in all of California. Just the LALA.
• 1:44:25
  Is first, first and foremost the basketball town?
• 1:44:27
  Yeah, that's basketball. It's got the that's the.
• 1:44:30
  I'll always be the king there. But then I mean, like, the
• 1:44:32
  Dodgers have been such a good team there for a while and
• 1:44:36
  they've been like a huge, huge commodity in LA.
• 1:44:41
  It's like Saint Louis thought all.
• 1:44:43
  They had were the Rams and they they lost them.
• 1:44:45
  Now they got the Battle hogs. They moved.
• 1:44:48
  And their team got better, too. It's.
• 1:44:51
  Like what was the? Change in moving where your
• 1:44:54
  stadium was to go and get Matthew Stafford and win a Super
• 1:44:57
  Bowl like St. Louis they got subjected to like
• 1:45:01
  years of like Jeff Fisher and Sam Bradford, you know, made
• 1:45:06
  although they did have Steven Jackson.
• 1:45:08
  You remember Steven Jackson on the ran bowling ball of a human
• 1:45:12
  being. Love that guy but he just.
• 1:45:15
  Was like one of the last. Of a dying breed of power backs
• 1:45:19
  in the NFL. All right, caveman, can't forget
• 1:45:23
  about your boy. CJ Anderson, Yeah.
• 1:45:26
  Yeah, he. Had he?
• 1:45:27
  Was the bowling. Ball running back out there, he
• 1:45:30
  racked up 1000. Yard season for the Broncos
• 1:45:33
  caveman What happened with the Panthers here?
• 1:45:36
  What the heck? Both teams.
• 1:45:38
  Played. Their best ball in the
• 1:45:40
  second-half, but. Birmingham Just.
• 1:45:42
  Outplayed. The the Panthers there.
• 1:45:46
  In the fourth quarter, they got us again.
• 1:45:48
  Man, they got us again. I thought this was finally going
• 1:45:52
  to be the week that we could take them out.
• 1:45:54
  They had a really bad week coming into this one.
• 1:45:58
  And it like Birmingham has really been living or dying off
• 1:46:02
  of the big play these past few weeks.
• 1:46:06
  Deon Kane, bro, this guy's been a monster for the past two
• 1:46:11
  weeks. He had four catches for 55 yards
• 1:46:13
  in the touchdown and this one. But a lot of like their their
• 1:46:19
  best drives were came off with some deep shots here.
• 1:46:23
  And they were able to finish them.
• 1:46:24
  Off in the red zone. Still no Bryce.
• 1:46:27
  Perkins for the Panthers either. I think that might be what's
• 1:46:30
  killing us and a good rating from him, but the accuracy.
• 1:46:35
  Like 22 or. 39 yeah, 235 and a touchdown.
• 1:46:39
  I also think Danny Edling. Hasn't been that much of A
• 1:46:41
  threat with his legs, and he's a decent running quarterback.
• 1:46:44
  Yeah, only three attempts. In this and that was what was
• 1:46:46
  making the. Panthers offense so hard to stop
• 1:46:48
  is like Bryce Perkins threat with his legs.
• 1:46:51
  We had like UFL. Lamar Jackson in the house, just
• 1:46:55
  running around Jamar Smith. On the Birmingham, so I got to
• 1:47:00
  give him credit, he's been fantastic the last few weeks.
• 1:47:03
  Like I've been saying, the deep ball for Birmingham, they have
• 1:47:06
  just been living and dying off of that.
• 1:47:09
  I mean, they'll have they'll, they'll have drives.
• 1:47:12
  Just sputter out after one play, but they they hit that deep shot
• 1:47:16
  and it's like something clicks like then they're.
• 1:47:20
  Able to just. Finish off these drives, think
• 1:47:22
  they're their only drive where they didn't really have to rely
• 1:47:25
  on the deep ball. Was this last one, They go 11 to
• 1:47:27
  72, 11 plays, 72 yards, and they just really methodically worked
• 1:47:32
  it down the field, blown out a lot of the clock there.
• 1:47:36
  And made it really tough. For a Panthers to come back
• 1:47:40
  there didn't leave them a ton of time they had.
• 1:47:43
  The score significantly killed us.
• 1:47:47
  On just gang tackling Oh. Yeah, like.
• 1:47:51
  Really, they they honestly rallied to the football a lot
• 1:47:54
  better than us in this game. And like later in.
• 1:47:58
  It later, later in that game when they finally got that last
• 1:48:02
  stop is when it really came down to it because they got down the
• 1:48:06
  field. I mean that one.
• 1:48:08
  Really one possession where instead it's like the Panthers
• 1:48:12
  fumble the ball a chance to to go down and and tie it up or not
• 1:48:20
  or yeah, yeah, they had a chance to go down and tie it up and
• 1:48:25
  they lost it instead that really.
• 1:48:28
  That. That kind of killed them.
• 1:48:31
  That was like a cost. Of a huge, costly turnover it
• 1:48:36
  makes. It tough because that gives them
• 1:48:38
  a chance at home field advantage.
• 1:48:40
  They just lost the last week before to you guys by one point,
• 1:48:47
  the Battlehawks, right? And it was on a game that they
• 1:48:51
  kind of collapsed near the end right there team were they're
• 1:48:54
  both playing their best football and just collapse at the end.
• 1:48:59
  They had a really. Bad week coming into this one, a
• 1:49:02
  chance for us to take a higher seed and get home field
• 1:49:05
  advantage. It looks like we'll be playing
• 1:49:08
  in Birmingham. Yep.
• 1:49:11
  And that was where this game. Was at I got a solid crowd out
• 1:49:14
  there in Birmingham. So this will probably be the
• 1:49:18
  last week we'll we'll see any starters until the postseason.
• 1:49:22
  I imagine out playoffs are set. We know it's going to be
• 1:49:25
  Michigan and Birmingham. Now it looks like after this
• 1:49:29
  game Birmingham will host unless they blow their game next week
• 1:49:34
  and Saint Louis will more than likely be hosting the defenders.
• 1:49:38
  They were the last game of the week.
• 1:49:39
  Before we get to them, we'll just real quickly touch on
• 1:49:42
  Arlington. Slack in the.
• 1:49:45
  Showboats 30 to 12. This game beat.
• 1:49:49
  Down. Not as bad as.
• 1:49:50
  The Brahmas, though, no playoff. Implications here, but A-Team
• 1:49:55
  Arlington that just couldn't find a way to win some close
• 1:49:58
  games that would have probably been in the post season if they
• 1:50:02
  were able to do that. They had a good showing here.
• 1:50:05
  Luis Perez, we are the new. He's going to be a good QB this
• 1:50:09
  season. Oh, they got Marquette.
• 1:50:11
  King. That's crazy dude.
• 1:50:15
  Tyler Vaughn, he. Had the big game here come?
• 1:50:18
  On Ready EJ Perry. Dresser went for the showboats,
• 1:50:22
  struggling immensely. They're not playing San Antonio.
• 1:50:26
  They just can't get it going it seems.
• 1:50:29
  This game pretty much from. Start to finish, Arlington was
• 1:50:34
  well in control, looked like it was might be close because the
• 1:50:39
  showboats they found a way to put together some drives there
• 1:50:42
  at the end of the half. Make it close game, make it
• 1:50:45
  12:00 to 9:00 going in the halftime.
• 1:50:48
  And then they just got absolutely worked the rest of
• 1:50:50
  the game. Outscored 12 to nothing on the
• 1:50:53
  fourth quarter on their way to a 30 to 12 defeat.
• 1:50:58
  Confidence building 1 for Arlington, who maybe they're
• 1:51:01
  close to, maybe taking that next step next year and being a
• 1:51:04
  playoff team. And here those might.
• 1:51:09
  Be a little easier to get the next year because there are
• 1:51:12
  rumors of expansion coming to the UFO.
• 1:51:16
  That's what you love to. See get a little bit of that
• 1:51:19
  talent disparity gone some of these guys going the other so
• 1:51:22
  here let. Anything from like it's New York
• 1:51:26
  teams, potentially somewhere in Florida, maybe a Pennsylvania
• 1:51:32
  team could we could probably see a Cal.
• 1:51:35
  I mean a California team seems almost a sure thing.
• 1:51:39
  I would like to see you know again some more.
• 1:51:44
  Smaller market. Or smaller.
• 1:51:47
  Towns. That's what I kind of like.
• 1:51:48
  About this, you know, Saint Louis, Yeah, is 1.
• 1:51:53
  Arlington, Birmingham. I mean, Michigan is they're in
• 1:51:57
  Detroit, but still, you know, like Memphis.
• 1:52:02
  That's that's another fun one, you know.
• 1:52:04
  Yeah, Memphis. Is a good one.
• 1:52:07
  Like if you're going to do it for the team.
• 1:52:09
  Like don't do it in Miami. Like Tampa would be cool.
• 1:52:11
  TC is growing but. Like, again, that's one, yeah.
• 1:52:16
  Like a a city that. Doesn't already have four major
• 1:52:19
  Yeah sports teams. In it, you know.
• 1:52:23
  Or unless it's Denver. If we could get a UFL team here
• 1:52:25
  in Denver, that'd be pretty cool.
• 1:52:27
  That would be sick. But I don't know, it doesn't.
• 1:52:29
  Sound like we're on the. On the roster.
• 1:52:33
  I would, honestly. They should put a team in.
• 1:52:35
  Portland, I would kind of I'm kind of interested to see like
• 1:52:37
  what would be like a team in Portland.
• 1:52:40
  I think that would be interesting.
• 1:52:41
  Boise ID too. I feel like I feel like they
• 1:52:45
  would go crazy with the team in Boise ID.
• 1:52:48
  OK, I. Like that.
• 1:52:50
  Honestly though, yeah, give me, give me.
• 1:52:52
  Some other picks guys that drop those in the comments.
• 1:52:55
  Right now, yeah. What's a?
• 1:52:56
  What's a good? Pick or UFL city where should
• 1:52:59
  where do you? Want to see a UFL team?
• 1:53:02
  We know Jimmy. Loves UFL.
• 1:53:04
  Let's get one right out. North Dakota low key.
• 1:53:08
  Baton Rouge, Put one in Louisiana, just on New Orleans.
• 1:53:12
  Baton Rouge. I think that'd be kind of sick.
• 1:53:14
  That would be pretty cool. That would be pretty cool.
• 1:53:17
  Well. We'll we'll see if anything
• 1:53:19
  comes to pass with that. But on to the last game of the
• 1:53:23
  weekend. And the Roughnecks is doing the
• 1:53:25
  Battlehawks a huge favor, taking down the Defenders 3rd, 24 to
• 1:53:31
  21. I was about to say 13 points in
• 1:53:34
  the third quarter for Houston and they just narrowly survive a
• 1:53:41
  12 to nothing fourth quarter by DC Defenders just not quite able
• 1:53:48
  to get the job done. They were so close.
• 1:53:51
  I mean, our late fumble that the defenders were able to turn into
• 1:53:56
  a touchdown, but then they had to go for that alternate kick
• 1:53:59
  off to give themselves a chance. And that's when the the
• 1:54:02
  roughneck defense made a stand and the safety was the lone
• 1:54:08
  points Houston had. After one quarter, they were
• 1:54:10
  down 9 to 2 and then they scored nine points of their own.
• 1:54:14
  Looks like they're pulling away before DC almost kept storming
• 1:54:17
  back. But I'm glad.
• 1:54:20
  The defenders were able to hold on.
• 1:54:23
  Here, now, the Battlehawks. Hopefully just need to.
• 1:54:29
  To win out next week, I think to play it safe and they'll have
• 1:54:33
  home field where they will host the defenders and Jordan Ta'amu.
• 1:54:38
  They did pull them early and this one because again, there's
• 1:54:42
  not a whole lot of like no playoff implications here
• 1:54:46
  besides maybe some seating. So not risk.
• 1:54:50
  Letting them play 1/2 pull them out.
• 1:54:51
  Not risky getting hurt. Cornell Powell, he's making me a
• 1:54:55
  little nervous from the battle. Hawks at the player and this
• 1:54:57
  dude's been balling out the past two weeks.
• 1:54:59
  Yet 8 catches for 104 yards and two touchdowns on this game.
• 1:55:04
  He's just by the nose for the end zone.
• 1:55:08
  Him and Chris rolling. Sneaky good receiving duo here.
• 1:55:13
  If you're here's to know. Some things to hang your hat on.
• 1:55:17
  Jalen McClellan, I think he can be your quarterback.
• 1:55:20
  Of the future. So long as he doesn't, you know,
• 1:55:23
  get snatched up for by the NFL or or better opportunity.
• 1:55:31
  But he's looking like. A a real good player for them
• 1:55:33
  there. And they figured some things.
• 1:55:36
  Out in the run game, Lorenzo Lingard.
• 1:55:38
  Will he still be around with the team?
• 1:55:40
  If so, that. 'D be big Justin.
• 1:55:43
  Hall second year player for them.
• 1:55:44
  He had 10 catches for 126 yards. Big day.
• 1:55:49
  Yeah. Kiki Chisholm finally doing
• 1:55:52
  something this season, caught 2 touchdown passes.
• 1:55:56
  So, something for Houston? To potentially hang their hats
• 1:55:59
  on, big window for them and for the Battle Hawks.
• 1:56:03
  More importantly, to really set the stage.
• 1:56:08
  This next week is going to be a pretty down week in terms of
• 1:56:14
  viewing. Some teams, you know, playing
• 1:56:16
  for pride, other teams just trying to stay healthy and get
• 1:56:19
  ready for the postseason. We'll still give you a brief
• 1:56:22
  update on that as it comes on, but that's going to do it for
• 1:56:25
  the UFL Week 9 recap week. Ten got.
• 1:56:31
  Saint Louis at DC for their final match up, Houston play in
• 1:56:36
  Michigan, Arlington and San Antonio and the last match up,
• 1:56:41
  Birmingham gets to go to Memphis to play the showboats.
• 1:56:46
  That's the last final match up. I do believe that that.
• 1:56:50
  That Saint Louis game might require.
• 1:56:54
  Somebody to win that because. Yeah, the Defenders did beat the
• 1:56:57
  Battle Hawks Week 3 this season. So oh, this.
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  Actually comes down to the wire for a home field advantage.
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  This will be interesting because.
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  I mean like like who? How are they going to play this?
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  Because seven and two seat battle Saint Louis.
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  They lose out, they're seven and three, but they're down 2O in
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  the season series to to DC. So I think they might actually
• 1:57:19
  have to witness. I don't know, maybe maybe.
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  They're just going to say screw and we'll just, we'll play them.
• 1:57:26
  That way the guys out, we'll just.
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  Play it. Play them again next week.
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  Yeah, not risking it being fully healthy.
• 1:57:31
  Maybe both teams sit there starters.
• 1:57:34
  That's going to be an intriguing one.
• 1:57:35
  That's probably the game to watch there that.
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  One opens. Up Friday.
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  Night at 6:00 mountain time eight, 8:00 PM Eastern.
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  That would be the one to watch the rest of these, you know,
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  some teams playing for pride. I don't think Michigan's going
• 1:57:52
  to play their starters against Houston St.
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  Birmingham probably won't play their starters against Memphis.
• 1:57:58
  Can the Brahmas get a win for for some confidence going into
• 1:58:04
  the next year? They going to finish one and 9.
• 1:58:06
  I mean, what a turn around being the champion in the championship
• 1:58:09
  run. They're up last last season to
• 1:58:12
  yeah, they need the bottom feeder.
• 1:58:14
  They need at least. One of the league this year.
• 1:58:17
  Arlington. Let him have it.
• 1:58:19
  They had such a great defense last season, too.
• 1:58:23
  Yeah, that's a good. Majority of those.
• 1:58:25
  Guys at the NFLI mean like they didn't.
• 1:58:27
  Lose to any of their playmakers on offense?
• 1:58:29
  A different quarterback. The offensive line took.
• 1:58:34
  A little bit of a regression, but I thought, I didn't think
• 1:58:36
  you'd be like that. Yeah, that much?
• 1:58:38
  Shocking of a drop Wade Phillips gets.
• 1:58:42
  Gets out of there early and young head coach that really
• 1:58:47
  hasn't had any experience doing this before.
• 1:58:51
  It's be tough. It's.
• 1:58:52
  Tough for him. All right, well, we're going to
• 1:58:55
  let's predict predict these these winners real quick.
• 1:58:57
  So Birmingham, MI who you got? I am going.
• 1:59:01
  Michigan, come on, finish out the season with the dub.
• 1:59:04
  We need it. We need it.
• 1:59:06
  And Saint Louis. And DC the battle Hawks.
• 1:59:09
  I believe battle Hawks their defense has been just playing
• 1:59:13
  out of their mind. Travis Freeney and Pita Tiamo
• 1:59:17
  who Tiamo who are just an elite pass rushing combo in this
• 1:59:22
  league. They're hard to stop.
• 1:59:26
  And. They just they generate.
• 1:59:27
  So much traffic out there, they're great.
• 1:59:31
  Max Duggins. Brahmas.
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  Who do we got? I'm going.
• 1:59:36
  Brahmas, man, give me the Brahmas.
• 1:59:37
  Yeah, come on, get the kill. Final match up now the.
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  Rally kids are gonna crush him. Rally kids are with me.
• 1:59:44
  Brahmas rally kids are gonna be crushing.
• 1:59:46
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• 1:59:51
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