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- 0:03Speaker 1: When come on sty Oh it is, and you guys
- 0:08Speaker 1: are the most entertaining sports program in the world. The
- 0:13Speaker 1: Bone gomin no, no, stop working. You and I are
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- 0:22Speaker 1: I wish I was Boopy Boopy MacLean man. That's a
- 0:25Speaker 1: great name.
- 0:26Speaker 2: All the Bone.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Good morning, Charlotte, welcome board it it's time for the
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- 0:49Speaker 3: We are ready to rock and roll.
- 0:51Speaker 1: You thought it was a national holiday with the fourth
- 0:54Speaker 1: on a Saturday with You thought correctly. You thought it
- 0:57Speaker 1: was Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding day and that
- 1:01Speaker 1: should be a national holiday. You thought correctly. You thought
- 1:06Speaker 1: the Mac and Bone boys were slackers and wouldn't show
- 1:10Speaker 1: up today. You did not think correctly. We are here, baby,
- 1:14Speaker 1: We are here. You didn't think America was gonna celebrate
- 1:18Speaker 1: its two hundred and fiftieth birthday and the boys were
- 1:22Speaker 1: gonna take off the day before.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Hell no, that.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Isn't what happens. So here we are, baby. We are
- 1:28Speaker 4: ready to roll.
- 1:29Speaker 1: That is a elongated, dramatic way of saying that we
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- 1:41Speaker 1: gonna have some fun today. We will definitely have some
- 1:43Speaker 1: fun with the Swift Kelsey wedding of the centric wedding
- 1:47Speaker 1: of our lifetime, America's royal wedding. I can't help myself,
- 1:51Speaker 1: can't help myself with that. We will talk a ton
- 1:54Speaker 1: of sports today on this radio show, including the ridiculous
- 1:58Speaker 1: ratings for the World Cup match, absolutely absurd interest brings
- 2:04Speaker 1: a tear to my eyes someone that loves soccer, So
- 2:05Speaker 1: we'll talk about that today. The Hornets and Jeff Peterson.
- 2:09Speaker 1: I feel like among many of you his Q rating
- 2:12Speaker 1: has dropped a bit, how far she his Q rating
- 2:14Speaker 1: have really dropped, because two weeks ago, I think we
- 2:18Speaker 1: all fully trusted this man. So we'll talk about that
- 2:21Speaker 1: today on the radio show. We've got some Panthers stuff,
- 2:25Speaker 1: very interesting stuff from Albert Breer about Bryce Young and
- 2:28Speaker 1: how the Panthers view his contract situation, so we'll get
- 2:31Speaker 1: into that as well here on the Mac and Bone Show.
- 2:35Speaker 1: As we get ready to head on in to the
- 2:39Speaker 1: fourth of July weekend, many of you already on your
- 2:41Speaker 1: fourth of July weekend. So hopefully, whether it's podcast, whether
- 2:44Speaker 1: it's live, you'll be able to check out this show.
- 2:47Speaker 1: And if y'all are working today early in the morning,
- 2:49Speaker 1: we are here for you. The Fit Dog is with me.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Unfortunately Bone is not with us today. He's got a
- 2:55Speaker 1: personal situation he's taken care of, so we hope everything
- 2:59Speaker 1: works good for Bone. But we got a rock and
- 3:03Speaker 1: roll today, Fitty. I'm expecting fireworks from you on this
- 3:07Speaker 1: radio show today, my friend, you get expanded airtime. It's
- 3:11Speaker 1: time for the verbal fireworks. How you feeling fit well?
- 3:14Speaker 3: If what you walked into the side studio about five
- 3:17Speaker 3: minutes ago is any indication of the fireworks that you
- 3:20Speaker 3: want me to bring. Not that sort of fire We're
- 3:22Speaker 3: gonna be from the other end, You're gonna be in
- 3:25Speaker 3: luck for the next four hours. Good morning to you, Mac,
- 3:28Speaker 3: Happy Friday, Happy fourth of July weekend. It should be
- 3:34Speaker 3: It should be a fun one man. I am looking
- 3:37Speaker 3: forward to it. We get the Mets and the Braves
- 3:40Speaker 3: and action this weekend. I thought about going through this
- 3:43Speaker 3: series earlier this year. Very glad I did not spend
- 3:46Speaker 3: the money to go down.
- 3:49Speaker 4: Did I ruin your plan?
- 3:50Speaker 1: I was thinking about that when I saw the Mets
- 3:52Speaker 1: and Braves were on the schedule this weekend. By the way,
- 3:54Speaker 1: Braves lose again last night. Man, that bullpen got shelled
- 3:57Speaker 1: last night by the Cardinals. But I remember you saying that,
- 4:01Speaker 1: and then I realized, Oh crap, it's this weekend and
- 4:04Speaker 1: Sunday starts your dogs sitting stint for me.
- 4:08Speaker 3: No, I didn't ruin your plan. Did the Mets ruin
- 4:10Speaker 3: your plans? It was you actually saved me money, So
- 4:14Speaker 3: I thank you for that. NASCAR returns to Chicago Land
- 4:18Speaker 3: this weekend.
- 4:19Speaker 1: That's awesome. First time in seven years. Man, it's been
- 4:22Speaker 1: too long. I like that joint, man, I am.
- 4:24Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see how this next Gin car
- 4:27Speaker 3: on that track that is age, It has some character.
- 4:29Speaker 3: How that's how that's going to look. I'm having a
- 4:31Speaker 3: little pool party tomorrow. Flounder's coming over. He's gonna get
- 4:35Speaker 3: in the pool. I'm pretty excited for the fourth of July.
- 4:38Speaker 4: Man, I missed the rest of the guest list there.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I only heard Flounder. The rest is just family that
- 4:43Speaker 3: I that I have to put up with.
- 4:45Speaker 1: If I if I I feel special today after hearing
- 4:48Speaker 1: that well.
- 4:49Speaker 3: And that's fun because they do the cooking. Like if
- 4:52Speaker 3: I could cook, it would just be me and Flounder
- 4:54Speaker 3: like it always is. But I'm bringing some other family
- 4:56Speaker 3: over better.
- 4:57Speaker 4: I don't think you're making it better now.
- 4:59Speaker 3: I probably not.
- 5:00Speaker 4: You made it better, ladies.
- 5:02Speaker 1: There's some spots and lam me, ladies, we have listened
- 5:05Speaker 1: this early on the day before Fourth of July, but
- 5:08Speaker 1: there's some spots at the Fitty Flounder Mama Fourth of
- 5:12Speaker 1: July Extravaganza. I feel like tomorrow is going to be
- 5:16Speaker 1: not like the McClain family or party animals on the fourth,
- 5:20Speaker 1: but I feel like tomorrow is just going to be
- 5:22Speaker 1: like preparing because we drive to Orlando on you know,
- 5:26Speaker 1: we leave early Saturday morning, drive to Orlando instead of flying,
- 5:31Speaker 1: and then we get on the cruise ship on Monday morning.
- 5:34Speaker 1: So I feel like tomorrow is just gonna be prepping.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I mean, the things we have to do to get
- 5:39Speaker 1: the house prepped. Missus Mac does not want Fiddy to
- 5:43Speaker 1: see a dirty house or an extremely dirty house. I
- 5:46Speaker 1: think it still will be a little cluttery, but like
- 5:49Speaker 1: she's very serious that we got a clean for Fiddy's arrival.
- 5:52Speaker 4: You know what I mean. It's like it's like King
- 5:54Speaker 4: Charles is showing up or something.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Considering I only spend my time in two rooms of
- 5:59Speaker 3: the clean mansion, you can tell the missus there's not
- 6:03Speaker 3: a whole lot of work that needs to be done.
- 6:04Speaker 3: As long as the couch is ready for my ass.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Do you go to a couch TV room area? Yeah,
- 6:10Speaker 1: kitchen and the bathroom and the bathroom. So other than that,
- 6:14Speaker 1: we're good. Yeah, Okay, you can just.
- 6:15Speaker 3: Throw everything into all the other rooms, closed the doors.
- 6:18Speaker 3: I never know.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass that along, I might say, with some
- 6:21Speaker 1: time cleaning tomorrow. That is good to know. All right, man,
- 6:25Speaker 1: we're gonna try to have a fun show today. Wish
- 6:27Speaker 1: the Bone Man could be with us, but we're gonna
- 6:30Speaker 1: do it today. Me and Fiddy and everybody that's out
- 6:32Speaker 1: there's gonna be a bond today. Everybody that's out there
- 6:34Speaker 1: with us today and not like slacking, sleeping in and
- 6:38Speaker 1: doing like family things. The augassy of you to do that.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Everybody it's with us day is a bond, all right.
- 6:43Speaker 1: We're all together on this day and we are gonna
- 6:45Speaker 1: have some fun today, all right. So let's mention a
- 6:50Speaker 1: couple of things here off the top. Last night in
- 6:53Speaker 1: the World Cup Portland and Croatia was a damn thriller.
- 6:57Speaker 4: This thing was amazing.
- 7:01Speaker 1: There was four total disallowed goals because of offside in this game,
- 7:07Speaker 1: including one that Croatia scored literally at the death final minute,
- 7:13Speaker 1: that would have sent it in to extra time, would
- 7:16Speaker 1: have tied the game up at two. It was disallowed
- 7:19Speaker 1: for offside. Rinaldo lives to play another game for Portugal.
- 7:24Speaker 1: The word has gotten out that he's I mean, everybody
- 7:26Speaker 1: probably imagined this was coming, but he's retiring from international duty,
- 7:31Speaker 1: so this would have been it for him. I'm kind
- 7:33Speaker 1: of a hater, so I wouldn't have minded to see
- 7:35Speaker 1: him go. Although our friend Chad aka Gooch Grundleman on
- 7:39Speaker 1: the Twitter line twitter or text line has pointed out
- 7:43Speaker 1: a great scenario. Now, I'm not sure this could happen
- 7:45Speaker 1: because this would involve Portugal beating Spain. Of course we
- 7:48Speaker 1: would have to beat Belgium because Portugal plays Spain next.
- 7:51Speaker 1: But he says, please give me soccer gods America in
- 7:56Speaker 1: the quarterfinals, knocking out Rinaldo for good and ending his
- 8:01Speaker 1: international career. That would be That would be better. Than
- 8:05Speaker 1: an ipa on a on a warm day.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Man, So you're you're a Ronaldo hater.
- 8:10Speaker 4: I can't stand.
- 8:11Speaker 1: I can't and you're not a messy guy. Well, Messi
- 8:15Speaker 1: annoys me because of the Charlotte FC thing. But Messi is
- 8:19Speaker 1: the goat, and I don't even think it's close. Like
- 8:21Speaker 1: I am insulted that some people think there's a goat debate.
- 8:25Speaker 1: I just the all around player that Messi is. Offensively,
- 8:29Speaker 1: I'll say all around offensively, Rinaldo can score and or
- 8:33Speaker 1: has been able to score much or he's at his
- 8:35Speaker 1: best anymore.
- 8:36Speaker 4: Matter of fact, they took him. He did score the penalty,
- 8:38Speaker 4: but they took.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Him off and then they won it with his replacement
- 8:42Speaker 1: with a game winning header. But anyway, I think the
- 8:44Speaker 1: dude's selfish. I think the dude's egotistical, and I just
- 8:47Speaker 1: don't think he is nearest. He's amazing, he's been amazing,
- 8:50Speaker 1: but he's not near as good as Messi and he
- 8:52Speaker 1: has not maintained his level the way Messi has either.
- 8:55Speaker 3: I feel like like in twenty ten, twenty fourteen, it
- 8:59Speaker 3: was a real big debate, a real big topic. I
- 9:02Speaker 3: can remember with some of my soccer friends that I had. Yeah,
- 9:05Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't the MJ Lebron debate, but I
- 9:08Speaker 3: guess it was the soccer equivalent of it. But I
- 9:11Speaker 3: think you're.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Right, like this didn't feel like it should be a
- 9:13Speaker 4: commod once.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Once Messi won the World Cup in twenty twenty two,
- 9:18Speaker 3: not that he needed it, it felt like that cemented his
- 9:20Speaker 3: legacy as I guess to go to least of this generation.
- 9:25Speaker 3: What I have found interesting, MAC is with this World
- 9:27Speaker 3: Cup run that we've seen from Portugal is if you
- 9:30Speaker 3: go to ESPN after every single Portugal match, there's some
- 9:34Speaker 3: headline about Ronado and it's not positive. Like if you
- 9:38Speaker 3: look at ESPN right now, the headline is Portugal snatched
- 9:42Speaker 3: thrilling victory, but should Ramos replace Ronaldo? Like we're not
- 9:46Speaker 3: having those conversations about Messi And it's not the first
- 9:48Speaker 3: time in this World Cup that that said. It's happened
- 9:51Speaker 3: for for Renaudo, So I don't think he's necessarily aged
- 9:54Speaker 3: as gracefully as Messian.
- 9:56Speaker 1: No, although he did finish the penalty, and in fairness
- 9:58Speaker 1: to him, he had a great finish but was just
- 10:00Speaker 1: a bit offside, just a bit offside. So but anyway, yeah, yeah,
- 10:06Speaker 1: that's kind of way I view. I will say this,
- 10:07Speaker 1: he had a heartwarming moment yesterday. I'm not going to
- 10:10Speaker 1: be a jerk about that. It's the anniversary of their
- 10:13Speaker 1: Portugal national team teammate Diego Jota passing away in a
- 10:17Speaker 1: car accident, and he got out his jersey yesterday and
- 10:20Speaker 1: after the win, so I'm not gonna throw any shade
- 10:23Speaker 1: at that. That was definitely a touching moment. But I
- 10:25Speaker 1: like what Guca is saying. I think that would be
- 10:28Speaker 1: an amazing moment. But I'm not sure we get there.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I don't think we're getting there, because
- 10:33Speaker 1: not the US particularly, but I don't think Portugal is
- 10:37Speaker 1: getting there. Spain is reving it up. Spain yesterday three
- 10:40Speaker 1: zero win and they are starting to look the part
- 10:43Speaker 1: they're starting. I'm starting to wonder, apologies to all US
- 10:46Speaker 1: fans that have dreams of a World Cup title, starting
- 10:49Speaker 1: to wonder if France and Spain will be to the
- 10:51Speaker 1: facto title game in the semi finals. I think it's
- 10:54Speaker 1: starting to feel that way. So anyway, we also have
- 10:58Speaker 1: to discuss the all the offside role and the use
- 11:01Speaker 1: of VAR and the automated technology to determine offside. It
- 11:06Speaker 1: feels like fitty. A lot of people that don't watch
- 11:08Speaker 1: a lot of soccer but are watching this World Cup.
- 11:11Speaker 1: We're furious that the great moment was taken away the
- 11:14Speaker 1: Croation tire and it's like, I mean, now, this one
- 11:20Speaker 1: was weird because this one requires the new technology of
- 11:23Speaker 1: a chip in the soccer ball to determine that it
- 11:27Speaker 1: touched that it grazed the head of a Croatian player,
- 11:32Speaker 1: thus making the guy that's the other Croati player the
- 11:36Speaker 1: ball went to offside. This is a new technology, even
- 11:39Speaker 1: newer than the automated offside technology that they've been using.
- 11:46Speaker 1: You really can't see that it hit the dude's head
- 11:49Speaker 1: and it might have grazed a hair, but you can
- 11:51Speaker 1: see they have a little meter. I don't know if
- 11:53Speaker 1: you're watching the game, they have a little meter on
- 11:56Speaker 1: the screen that shows you the little almost like almost
- 12:03Speaker 1: like a Richter scale thing that shows you when the
- 12:05Speaker 1: earthquake hits, like a little line that goes up then
- 12:08Speaker 1: back down, like that's supposed to show you that there
- 12:11Speaker 1: was contact in the dude's head with the ball. The
- 12:14Speaker 1: look on your face right now is just one of
- 12:18Speaker 1: sheer mystery. But people were not happy about this. Not
- 12:22Speaker 1: the casuals were not happy.
- 12:24Speaker 3: It seems confusing on the surface, at least in full transparency.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Was not locked in on Croatia and night.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Soccer Fitty is a farce by the way, well it was.
- 12:36Speaker 3: It was a podcast night for the Heel Top log.
- 12:39Speaker 3: I had to talk about Angelo Brizzy committing to North
- 12:42Speaker 3: Carolina out of the transfer portal position. Preshus began on
- 12:46Speaker 3: the football side of things. I'm still back moving and
- 12:51Speaker 3: I'm a single guy moving.
- 12:53Speaker 4: Oh, you don't need to say that is exhausting.
- 12:56Speaker 3: Like I've made progress stuff organized, but if like I've
- 13:02Speaker 3: not made progress every time about around, I'm having to
- 13:05Speaker 3: do more and more stuff. So I've had to kind of,
- 13:08Speaker 3: you know, be very deliberate with my time. But from
- 13:12Speaker 3: what you're explaining to me, I can see why people
- 13:14Speaker 3: could be.
- 13:14Speaker 1: People are just there's there's reasons why people are. The
- 13:17Speaker 1: funny thing is people that don't like watch soccer a
- 13:20Speaker 1: lot or incredulous by all this and they act fitty
- 13:23Speaker 1: like there's not things like trying to figure out what
- 13:26Speaker 1: to catch is in football, you know what I mean?
- 13:28Speaker 1: Like it's like we have fed up, weird, crazy stuff
- 13:31Speaker 1: in every sport, or.
- 13:33Speaker 3: Why when the offense fumbles the ball out of the
- 13:35Speaker 3: end zone the defense gets the football.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Things like that that if you were new to the sport,
- 13:38Speaker 1: you'd be like, hold on, I don't really understand. I
- 13:40Speaker 1: think people are just mad it took away this great moment.
- 13:44Speaker 1: I also think people are like, is your technology is
- 13:47Speaker 1: you're chipping the soccer ball working? Because we stared at
- 13:50Speaker 1: our TV screens at high definition and couldn't really tell.
- 13:55Speaker 1: And I think I think the argument, in all seriousness, though,
- 13:57Speaker 1: is do we need to regulate sport wort's down to
- 14:00Speaker 1: a t like that with technology, like or have you
- 14:04Speaker 1: taken away from the game? Where are we better off
- 14:07Speaker 1: letting some of this stuff just go to the referee,
- 14:11Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the human eye, that sort
- 14:13Speaker 1: of thing.
- 14:14Speaker 3: You know. The argument against it is is and you
- 14:17Speaker 3: see it like in baseball, because I think baseball for
- 14:20Speaker 3: the longest time wanted to push back against you know,
- 14:22Speaker 3: the ABS system. They didn't want all you they didn't
- 14:25Speaker 3: want an automated strike zone. And like, I know, officiating
- 14:29Speaker 3: is hard. I talk about it all the time. I'm
- 14:30Speaker 3: the son of an umpire. I watched my dad umpire
- 14:33Speaker 3: for ten years, and I saw firsthand how hard it is.
- 14:37Speaker 3: You watch him get yelled at, watched him get yelled at,
- 14:39Speaker 3: watch him get cussed out over his striking zone.
- 14:41Speaker 4: I bet.
- 14:42Speaker 3: But officiating is mac The technology is needed because the
- 14:47Speaker 3: human error is as big as it's ever been. So like,
- 14:50Speaker 3: I'm open to it because the humans can't get it right.
- 14:54Speaker 4: That is true.
- 14:55Speaker 1: If the humans were pretty d aren't good, I feel
- 14:57Speaker 1: like you'd have a better argument against technology. I also
- 15:01Speaker 1: think people just wanted Croatia to score the game tire
- 15:04Speaker 1: and to go in next because it would I wanted
- 15:06Speaker 1: more soccer, like it was an amazing game and it
- 15:09Speaker 1: would have been amazing, but not to be, not to be.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Portugal advances and Monday is going to be amazing day
- 15:15Speaker 1: at the World Cup Portugal Spain, which is a rivalry
- 15:18Speaker 1: of very heated rivalry, and then the US in Belgium.
- 15:21Speaker 1: That's going to be beautiful. The Braves, at least you
- 15:25Speaker 1: get the Mets this weekend at your house. I will
- 15:27Speaker 1: give you that. That's good news for you. Braves lose
- 15:30Speaker 1: last night eleven to five. It was an interesting game
- 15:33Speaker 1: because Waldrip started fitty and gave up a three run
- 15:37Speaker 1: homer in the first, and then the Braves came back
- 15:42Speaker 1: with five in the first and Waldrip then settled in,
- 15:44Speaker 1: ended up not giving up any more runs and went
- 15:47Speaker 1: five and a third. But the bullpen with the Braves,
- 15:50Speaker 1: who was so great for so long, This pen, and
- 15:54Speaker 1: like the whole team, has gotten You know, some parts
- 15:57Speaker 1: of this team have have gotten bad, but they've definitely
- 16:01Speaker 1: regressed a bit. That bullpen. Fitty gave up ten run
- 16:06Speaker 1: or ten hits and eight runs last night and they
- 16:10Speaker 1: lose this game eleven to five. So different way to lose,
- 16:14Speaker 1: but man, it was another loss for the Braves, who
- 16:17Speaker 1: have now lost fourteen of nineteen. It's another loss of
- 16:21Speaker 1: a series and we'll see what happens, I guess, Fitty,
- 16:24Speaker 1: this is the ultimate test of just how much the
- 16:26Speaker 1: Braves are struggling. Do they lose a series to Actually,
- 16:30Speaker 1: it would be a second seit didn't the Mets beat
- 16:31Speaker 1: them in a series, yes, so we would be Do
- 16:34Speaker 1: you lose a second series to the Mets?
- 16:37Speaker 4: Is a real litmus test?
- 16:39Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned the bullpen. They gave up seven runs
- 16:42Speaker 3: in the seventh inning to a Cardinals team that is
- 16:46Speaker 3: better than they were a year ago. But I don't
- 16:49Speaker 3: know if that's a team that the Braves should be
- 16:50Speaker 3: losing too at home in that fashion. The most the
- 16:55Speaker 3: big thing Mac is their lead in the NL East
- 16:59Speaker 3: and we're still a little week away from the All
- 17:02Speaker 3: Star break. Matt gets down to two and a half games.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Like you know, I think Bone tried to keep pushing
- 17:08Speaker 3: off the Phillies. Maybe it was gonna take some time
- 17:11Speaker 3: to get there. Maybe it's gonna be post All Star break.
- 17:14Speaker 3: That's that's not that's not the case. Here the Phillies
- 17:16Speaker 3: are there. Like in the Phillies, I think under Don Madley'
- 17:20Speaker 3: been arguably the best team in baseball, Millie outside of
- 17:23Speaker 3: the Dodgers. You know, they're they're gonna be there and there.
- 17:27Speaker 3: This is gonna be a race down the stretch. And
- 17:30Speaker 3: I think we have learned what the Braves need to
- 17:32Speaker 3: address as we get closer and closer to the trade deadline.
- 17:36Speaker 3: You know, they need they need more arms.
- 17:38Speaker 4: Time.
- 17:39Speaker 3: There's something that they're gonna you know, Double A is
- 17:41Speaker 3: gonna have to go. He's gonna have to go big
- 17:42Speaker 3: game hunting if he really wants to solidify this team
- 17:46Speaker 3: as a threat to win the to win the division.
- 17:48Speaker 3: And look, we see teams in baseball, go from the
- 17:52Speaker 3: wild card round and they get hot and they win
- 17:54Speaker 3: a series or two. I think the best path, though,
- 17:57Speaker 3: to get to an NLCS, let alone a World Series,
- 18:00Speaker 3: is to get that buye And I just don't know
- 18:02Speaker 3: where my confidence level is in this Braves team to
- 18:04Speaker 3: achieve that. After they raced out into a double digit
- 18:07Speaker 3: game lead in the nl East a month and a
- 18:09Speaker 3: half ago or so.
- 18:10Speaker 1: They have lost six of the last seven series. And
- 18:14Speaker 1: there's Fitty, of course he's doing the little six to
- 18:16Speaker 1: seven hand gesture there, but six of seven series, there's
- 18:21Speaker 1: still fifteen games over five hundred. But yeah, there's work
- 18:25Speaker 1: to be done at the trade deadline. If you're a
- 18:27Speaker 1: Braves fan, this man this season has turned around abruptly,
- 18:30Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Also want to mention John Carlson,
- 18:34Speaker 1: the defenseman who the Canes traded a six round pick
- 18:37Speaker 1: for during the draft, even though he was about to
- 18:40Speaker 1: become a free agent. All they wanted to do is
- 18:42Speaker 1: be able to negotiate with him before everybody else. Well,
- 18:45Speaker 1: those negotiations were not fruitful. John Carlson's going to the
- 18:49Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning instead, so they waste a sixth round pick.
- 18:53Speaker 1: I'm not gonna act like I find that is some
- 18:55Speaker 1: huge deal, but definitely notable, and I continue to search
- 19:01Speaker 1: fitty TMZ Sports Twitter for more updates on the Travis
- 19:05Speaker 1: Kelcey Taylor Swift wedding. Apparently they were having the rehearsal
- 19:09Speaker 1: dinner last night at MSG, and then everybody goes back
- 19:12Speaker 1: today and has the wedding, although there is one report
- 19:15Speaker 1: that says they already got married in private and this
- 19:18Speaker 1: is just a celebration of that. So I don't know.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Maybe you can argue I'm way too interested. Do you
- 19:23Speaker 1: have any interest? Because a lot of guys in the
- 19:25Speaker 1: text line are like, Mac, why the hell do you
- 19:27Speaker 1: care about this stupid crap.
- 19:29Speaker 4: I am very intrigued by this.
- 19:32Speaker 3: I thought I had no light and then you show
- 19:38Speaker 3: up and you're talking about reading TMZ reports but they're
- 19:41Speaker 3: already being married in private. How they had a rehearsal
- 19:44Speaker 3: dinner last night at MSG, and maybe, just maybe you
- 19:47Speaker 3: have less than a lie.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I watch videos of them bringing the food in. The
- 19:55Speaker 1: food trucks were there overnight at MSG couple nights back,
- 19:58Speaker 1: and I was watching them videos of that. This is
- 20:02Speaker 1: like the biggest sports and entertainment wedding of like our lifetime, Fitty.
- 20:09Speaker 1: I'm just plus, there's not a whole lot going on
- 20:11Speaker 1: other than soccer.
- 20:11Speaker 3: Did you put this much effort into your own wedding? No?
- 20:15Speaker 1: I didn't. I was told to stay away. I was
- 20:17Speaker 1: told I was told to show up at this church
- 20:20Speaker 1: at this time. Basically, all right, up and shut up.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Of course that's happened. Of course that's happened. All right, y'all,
- 20:28Speaker 1: let's move along here. I'm sure everybody's gonna agree that
- 20:31Speaker 1: you are all intrigued with Taylor and Travis and their
- 20:34Speaker 1: big day to day. When we come back, though, let's
- 20:36Speaker 1: get to some football stuff. Albert Breer on Bryce's chances
- 20:40Speaker 1: for a new contract. PFF's got a QB list. Where's
- 20:44Speaker 1: Bryce there?
- 20:45Speaker 4: Brandon?
- 20:45Speaker 1: I you cut another video, my lord, mentioning the commanders
- 20:50Speaker 1: yet again. And we have a crazy story involving an
- 20:55Speaker 1: ESPN draft analyst being investigated by the attorney general in
- 21:00Speaker 1: the state he lives in. This thing has gotten very crazy.
- 21:03Speaker 1: It's all coming up. Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety two seven, WFNZ. Mack and Boat Show
- 21:34Speaker 1: with you, and we're glad you're with us here. As
- 21:38Speaker 1: we celebrate the fourth of July. We ain't talking taking
- 21:42Speaker 1: off today, baby. We are here for you. We got
- 21:46Speaker 1: some panther stuff, some other football stuff to get into here.
- 21:49Speaker 1: It's Meg and Fitty. The bone Man is out today.
- 21:52Speaker 1: I have a questioned fiddy. I want to know how
- 21:54Speaker 1: you feel about this. Texters can chime in on this too.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I don't think I've gone too far here. I don't
- 22:00Speaker 1: think I've done anything that is taboo. I am chomping
- 22:05Speaker 1: on a day old donut. I cannot believe. Apparently the
- 22:09Speaker 1: rest of the station is in total fat asses like
- 22:12Speaker 1: you and I are, because these donuts are three of
- 22:15Speaker 1: these donuts left that the Charlotte Knight's brought in.
- 22:17Speaker 4: For us, and they are the good good man.
- 22:19Speaker 1: They are like it's big old donuts, right, one of
- 22:21Speaker 1: these like gourmet donut spots. And I have just started
- 22:25Speaker 1: chomping on a day old donut. That's acceptable, right, that's
- 22:28Speaker 1: not frowned upon. I'm not going to get treated like
- 22:31Speaker 1: I did today that bone and I grabbed a slice
- 22:34Speaker 1: of pizza out of a pizza box that was lying
- 22:36Speaker 1: on top of the trash can.
- 22:37Speaker 3: No, you're not. This is a safe space because we
- 22:41Speaker 3: know who's in this room. We know who occupies this room.
- 22:45Speaker 3: I'm surprised that they were able to survive the wrath
- 22:47Speaker 3: of Flounder when he made his way in to do
- 22:50Speaker 3: the Weston Walker Show yesterday from twelve to three. But
- 22:53Speaker 3: we're in a climb and controlled room now. These were
- 22:55Speaker 3: like maybe somewhere outside the WF and Z studios. Anyone
- 23:00Speaker 3: to know whose myths had been around them? Maybe I'd
- 23:02Speaker 3: question it. But if I probably liked what I was
- 23:05Speaker 3: seeing in the donut box over there, I probably would
- 23:08Speaker 3: have been adulghep, are you sick?
- 23:09Speaker 4: A gander?
- 23:10Speaker 1: Two?
- 23:10Speaker 4: No one's gould eat that blueberry one?
- 23:12Speaker 3: Are they? Absolutely not. I also had my McDonald's this morning,
- 23:17Speaker 3: so I'm kind of trying to lay low for a
- 23:19Speaker 3: little before I put something else of my belly.
- 23:21Speaker 1: It's oh, that's not a bad strategy for you, not
- 23:23Speaker 1: a bad Just see, I'm breakfast free, so I'm looking
- 23:25Speaker 1: for something, and that donut box was here. It's almost
- 23:28Speaker 1: like it's my reward for being here today. Baby, That
- 23:31Speaker 1: is my bonus, and I will take it. A day
- 23:33Speaker 1: old donor, and I will take that bonus. All right,
- 23:36Speaker 1: Let's talk football, shall we, Ladies? And gentlemen, boys and girls,
- 23:41Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit here about Bryce Young. Albert
- 23:47Speaker 1: Breer has written a piece with like different different thoughts
- 23:52Speaker 1: and what he's hearing on each NFL team, and one
- 23:56Speaker 1: of those things, the thing about the Panthers is all
- 23:59Speaker 1: about Bryce in his contract, And I'll read this off here.
- 24:01Speaker 1: We're gonna we'll talk about this more in the seven
- 24:03Speaker 1: o'clock hour fifty we'll get deeper into it, like in
- 24:06Speaker 1: terms of Panther nation and fans and like what do y'all,
- 24:10Speaker 1: what do y'all think about this? And what do we
- 24:12Speaker 1: need to see from Bryce in order for this to
- 24:14Speaker 1: be acceptable? But Albert Breer writes, the Panthers look poised
- 24:18Speaker 1: to head into the fourth year of Bryce Young's contract,
- 24:20Speaker 1: and it is, to be clear, a critical one for
- 24:23Speaker 1: everyone involved. Yes, they've exercised this fifty year option for
- 24:27Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven at twenty five point nine million. But
- 24:30Speaker 1: if Bryce doesn't look like the kind of guy the
- 24:32Speaker 1: team would want to invest a deal at more than
- 24:34Speaker 1: fifty million dollars per year in this fall, then the
- 24:38Speaker 1: Panthers will become a suitor for a quarterback next spring.
- 24:44Speaker 1: So the way I read that is like they're gonna
- 24:48Speaker 1: give him the fifty million dollar test, like they're gonna
- 24:51Speaker 1: watch the season play out. And again I have I
- 24:55Speaker 1: have supported this idea of trying to get Seymour from Bryce.
- 24:58Speaker 1: You know, do we see more consistency from him? And
- 25:03Speaker 1: does the team improve with him like we, like so
- 25:06Speaker 1: many of us, think they're going to. But that makes
- 25:09Speaker 1: it seem like fitty. They'll literally watch him play, watch
- 25:12Speaker 1: the season play out, and ask themselves, are we willing
- 25:15Speaker 1: to give him fifty or fifty or more than fifty
- 25:18Speaker 1: million dollars a year? If not, he's probably not our guy?
- 25:24Speaker 1: What do you think of that way of looking at it?
- 25:26Speaker 3: I don't know how much I buy into they're gauging
- 25:29Speaker 3: how he plays this year and that being the contract
- 25:32Speaker 3: value that they're assessing him at, and that if he
- 25:35Speaker 3: doesn't live up to being in that fifty million dollar
- 25:38Speaker 3: price threshold, then they're they're moving on. I think that
- 25:43Speaker 3: they'll be more than comfortable offering him a contract very
- 25:46Speaker 3: similar to what we have seen Baker Mayfield signed with
- 25:50Speaker 3: Tampa Darnold Simon Seattle when Daniel Jones got paid by
- 25:54Speaker 3: the Giants. Initially, even though that was a deal that
- 25:57Speaker 3: was pretty much what a one or two year deal
- 25:59Speaker 3: before they could they could get out of this. But
- 26:02Speaker 3: what I have maintained in this, in this whole discussion,
- 26:07Speaker 3: is this Mac. I do think that Dan Morgan has
- 26:11Speaker 3: built the roster up to a point. He's built the
- 26:15Speaker 3: roster to where Scott Fiterer claimed to have built the roster.
- 26:17Speaker 3: To remember when I remember going into Federer's last year,
- 26:21Speaker 3: he said, we've gotten better at every position except the quarterback.
- 26:25Speaker 3: All we can all we need is drop in that
- 26:27Speaker 3: quarterback and we're ready to take off.
- 26:29Speaker 1: One of the most delusional things ever said by a
- 26:31Speaker 1: Charlotte sports figure.
- 26:33Speaker 3: Yeah, that comment and not get age. Well, hopefully Jeff
- 26:35Speaker 3: Peterson's comments about the core that he just traded away
- 26:39Speaker 3: will age a lot better. I do think that if
- 26:42Speaker 3: Bryce doesn't meet the standard that they're looking for, I
- 26:46Speaker 3: do think Dan Morgan will roll up his sleeves and
- 26:49Speaker 3: go get him a quarterback. I do that because I
- 26:51Speaker 3: do think the roster will be ready to you.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Okay, so where do you do? And I want I
- 26:55Speaker 1: only want to do an appetizer here. I want to
- 26:57Speaker 1: say the main course for the seven o'clock hour. That's
- 26:59Speaker 1: hard for me to do.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Of this conference.
- 27:01Speaker 3: I want the appetizer in the main course at the
- 27:03Speaker 3: same time, the bread, the salad, and the steak.
- 27:06Speaker 1: I would see you as a guy like my kids
- 27:07Speaker 1: that want to eat dessert before dinner. That's a that's
- 27:10Speaker 1: a thing they like to do. But I first of all,
- 27:13Speaker 1: only twelve quarterbacks make a million fifty million dollars or
- 27:16Speaker 1: more per year, So we would put him in the
- 27:17Speaker 1: top twelve or thirteen I guess then highest paid QB.
- 27:21Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of other guys that are in
- 27:23Speaker 1: line to be paid here too, over the next year
- 27:25Speaker 1: or so.
- 27:27Speaker 3: But I.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Is there a quarterback store? Is there a qbbay dot com?
- 27:37Speaker 1: Is there a quarterback tree you shake? That's the thing
- 27:40Speaker 1: you act like Dan morganna just go out there and
- 27:42Speaker 1: get himself. A quarterback is ready to win big Like
- 27:45Speaker 1: that's not an easy thing to pull off, you know.
- 27:48Speaker 1: So that's that's what they're up against, is like what
- 27:52Speaker 1: we have, what do we have to pay him? And
- 27:56Speaker 1: how easy is it? Because you know what we're gonna get,
- 27:59Speaker 1: it's a great quarterback. A lot of people are gonna
- 28:01Speaker 1: say it's a great quarterback. Draft, Go draft somebody, Where
- 28:04Speaker 1: are we going to be drafting. How long do you
- 28:06Speaker 1: have to wait for a rookie to be ready to go? Now,
- 28:09Speaker 1: arguably you could draft a rookie and then have Bryce
- 28:11Speaker 1: on his fifth year. But we got a lot to
- 28:14Speaker 1: talk about. We're gonna get into this at seven o'clock. Fitty,
- 28:16Speaker 1: you look like you're salivating. You look like the dog
- 28:19Speaker 1: in sandlot when the ball comes over to it, like
- 28:21Speaker 1: you are ready to go. So just wait until seven, baby,
- 28:24Speaker 1: we're gonna get into it.
- 28:26Speaker 4: We'll talk about it.
- 28:27Speaker 1: AC texted in and said, maybe the topic should be
- 28:31Speaker 1: if Bryce can't get over the over under Vegas number
- 28:34Speaker 1: for passing yards, he ain't worth the contract. The over
- 28:37Speaker 1: under number is three thousand and seventy four yards. Last
- 28:41Speaker 1: year he had threey eleven. AC did the math, so
- 28:45Speaker 1: we don't have to which is good fitting because I
- 28:47Speaker 1: don't feel like thinking too much today. That is, he
- 28:49Speaker 1: says one hundred and ninety two yards a game. I
- 28:52Speaker 1: would feel like if he can't better his numbers by
- 28:55Speaker 1: sixty three yards total this coming season with co You know,
- 29:00Speaker 1: if Coker on board now hopefully knock on Wood healthy,
- 29:04Speaker 1: if he can't do that, that's a bad sign. I'm
- 29:08Speaker 1: not saying this team has to be some explosive passing offense.
- 29:11Speaker 1: And I'm not saying the passing yards needs to be
- 29:13Speaker 1: the number one thing we're looking at. But if he
- 29:17Speaker 1: can't throw for sixty three more yards then last year,
- 29:21Speaker 1: that would inevitably mean he did not become consistent, you know,
- 29:25Speaker 1: like we want him to.
- 29:26Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I believe at its core, this is a
- 29:31Speaker 3: run first offense. I think they want to run the
- 29:33Speaker 3: football definitely, and I think that they are going to
- 29:37Speaker 3: try to run the football to set up everything they
- 29:39Speaker 3: want to do in the passing game. With that being said, Mac,
- 29:42Speaker 3: outside of the tight end room, look at all the
- 29:45Speaker 3: things they've given him in that wide receiver room. You
- 29:47Speaker 3: know you drafted Chris, you know you've got brazl you
- 29:50Speaker 3: you added him. You've got Jalen Coker, who, if he's healthy,
- 29:54Speaker 3: is going to be here for the next three to
- 29:56Speaker 3: four years. You've got the rookie of the year in
- 29:58Speaker 3: Tea Mac. They've given him weapons, So now there needs
- 30:01Speaker 3: to be growth from him in the passing game.
- 30:03Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna get into this more at seven o'clock,
- 30:05Speaker 1: So y'all if y'all gonna be listening at seven o'clock,
- 30:08Speaker 1: you know, fires some text in will read them. Myron says,
- 30:11Speaker 1: but is he a top fifteen quarterback even right now?
- 30:15Speaker 1: He says, I would say no. PFF would say no too.
- 30:18Speaker 1: PFF put out its quarterback rankings. Yes we're in this season,
- 30:22Speaker 1: and yes we shouldn't take this stuff seriously, and no,
- 30:25Speaker 1: I can't promise you I will not take these lists
- 30:27Speaker 1: too seriously. But they ranked him twentieth, which I have
- 30:30Speaker 1: to be honest, I don't have a huge problem with it.
- 30:32Speaker 1: That's kind of the number I throw out, Fitty, when
- 30:35Speaker 1: I talk about where I think Bryce is right now,
- 30:38Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, somewhere in that neighborhood. I don't have
- 30:41Speaker 1: a huge issue with him ranking there, you know. And
- 30:45Speaker 1: then I look at the guys. He's kind of right
- 30:46Speaker 1: behind Stroud is in that neighborhood, a little bit ahead
- 30:53Speaker 1: of him. I'm trying to pull the list up right now.
- 30:54Speaker 1: Josh Allen's number one, by the way. That'll make you happy, Fitty,
- 30:57Speaker 1: Joe Burrow to Lamar Jackson three, homes four and Stafford five.
- 31:02Speaker 1: But when you get to Bryce at twenty, it's bow
- 31:05Speaker 1: knicks right in front of him.
- 31:06Speaker 3: I love Bryce can argue with that.
- 31:08Speaker 1: I love the Panthers, but I can't and I'm not
- 31:12Speaker 1: on here telling you bo Nicks, you know, couldn't drop
- 31:15Speaker 1: off in level of play. But like he was better
- 31:18Speaker 1: than Bryce last year, Baker Mayfield's ahead of him. Bryce
- 31:21Speaker 1: definitely down the stretch, played way better than Baker Mayfield,
- 31:25Speaker 1: but Baker Mayfield was injured. You know, Baker Mayfield's done
- 31:28Speaker 1: more in this league than Bryce. So I'm a huge
- 31:30Speaker 1: problem with that. Stroud three spots ahead of Bryce feels
- 31:34Speaker 1: like they're pretty close right now, you know, So, I
- 31:38Speaker 1: don't know, what do you How do you feel right
- 31:40Speaker 1: behind Bryce is Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Daniel Jones, Tyler Shuck.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Like a lot of people are trying to put Shuck
- 31:46Speaker 1: ahead of Bryce. So I have to be honest. I
- 31:48Speaker 1: think this is a fair list, and this year I
- 31:50Speaker 1: do to Myron's point, I do feel like I need
- 31:54Speaker 1: to see and I don't want to give away too
- 31:55Speaker 1: much at a seven o'clock topic because we keep saying
- 31:57Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it later, and then we keep
- 31:58Speaker 1: talking about Bryce. But I can't help myself. I like
- 32:02Speaker 1: he's got to be in the top fifteen this year. Man,
- 32:04Speaker 1: I think he has to make that jump for us.
- 32:06Speaker 3: I think top twenty in these lists, as much as
- 32:09Speaker 3: value want to put them them and do what you will,
- 32:11Speaker 3: is the nice sweet spot because it allows room for
- 32:15Speaker 3: him to grow. It allows room to take that next
- 32:17Speaker 3: step if you want to believe he can, and if not,
- 32:20Speaker 3: then you could fall behind. Those quarterbacks are listening behind him,
- 32:23Speaker 3: and maybe that makes the decision for the Panthers a
- 32:25Speaker 3: whole lot easier. I have no problem with him being
- 32:28Speaker 3: ranked the twentieth best quarterback in the National Football League.
- 32:31Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. I think. I
- 32:33Speaker 4: think it was four man rush. That's why I saw it.
- 32:35Speaker 1: They retweeted it and they were like, this list is
- 32:38Speaker 1: good to me.
- 32:38Speaker 4: And I looked at it and I'm like, you know,
- 32:40Speaker 4: I think.
- 32:41Speaker 1: I think if you're being an honest Panther fan, I
- 32:43Speaker 1: think Bryce haters will be like, but he's twenty nine
- 32:45Speaker 1: th and QB right, Like, I think they'll try to
- 32:47Speaker 1: pull out some of these counting stats.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Or whatever, and then you have your last games.
- 32:51Speaker 1: I think that's fair, but yeah, you've got to counter
- 32:53Speaker 1: at the last Now. I want PFF to do a
- 32:55Speaker 1: last eight game quarterback ranking. Now I want them to
- 32:58Speaker 1: go back to a last ten game quarterback, right, make
- 33:00Speaker 1: you get twenty twenty four.
- 33:01Speaker 4: That's what I want, Brycey.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Let me not have to specify which set of games
- 33:07Speaker 1: you played great in that is actually and we'll get
- 33:10Speaker 1: into it again seven o'clock.
- 33:11Speaker 4: I keep teasing it, but like, that's what I want
- 33:13Speaker 4: from you, Brycey.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Just make it so I don't have to sit here
- 33:15Speaker 1: and say, if he could just play like he did
- 33:17Speaker 1: in these games, play like that the whole damn season.
- 33:20Speaker 1: We do have to talk about this situation with ESPN
- 33:24Speaker 1: Draft analyst Matt Miller.
- 33:26Speaker 4: This is crazy, fitty and awful.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Announcing is the one that first brought this to the
- 33:33Speaker 1: mainstream public's attention. First of all, he was in a
- 33:36Speaker 1: we'll start with a couple of weeks back. He was
- 33:39Speaker 1: in a horrible car crash and he had to have
- 33:41Speaker 1: his arm amputated. I mean, it's a horrible situation and
- 33:44Speaker 1: I feel terribly for him for going through this. Tons
- 33:46Speaker 1: of other injuries too.
- 33:47Speaker 4: It was bad.
- 33:48Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like he basically said they had
- 33:52Speaker 1: to amputate the arm to save his life essentially, So anyway,
- 33:57Speaker 1: he's going through that and his family order to go
- 34:00Speaker 1: fund me to raise I think fifty five thousand dollars
- 34:03Speaker 1: what they were looking for to help with the medical expenses.
- 34:05Speaker 1: And there are like fifty one thousand, and a lot
- 34:07Speaker 1: of the ESPN personalities, Meta Times, mel Kiper, a lot
- 34:10Speaker 1: of them have donated well because they put up this
- 34:14Speaker 1: GoFundMe and we're asking for money. That led to a
- 34:17Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, putting messages up there on
- 34:22Speaker 1: the go fundme and sending social media messages about how
- 34:26Speaker 1: Matt Miller owes them money. Matt Miller apparently runs I
- 34:30Speaker 1: think last season alone, he ran ninety one different fantasy
- 34:33Speaker 1: leagues and he does these fantasy leagues where he bills
- 34:37Speaker 1: them as you know, money will go to charity. You know,
- 34:41Speaker 1: X amount of money will go to the winner of
- 34:42Speaker 1: the fantasy league. X amount of money will go to charity.
- 34:45Speaker 1: And like I said, it's a ton of different fantasy
- 34:47Speaker 1: leagues he's the commissioner of and people all of a
- 34:49Speaker 1: sudden start coming out and drove saying I've won this
- 34:52Speaker 1: fantasy league. I've never got my money. And it was
- 34:55Speaker 1: like tons of people saying that, and then he did
- 34:58Speaker 1: this thing bone before he got fit, before he got
- 35:00Speaker 1: d ESPN where he was giving scouting lessons, and people
- 35:04Speaker 1: then started coming out saying, hold on, now I haven't
- 35:07Speaker 1: gotten my I haven't I've been you know, where's the
- 35:11Speaker 1: money that we're supposed I was supposed to get money
- 35:14Speaker 1: refunded for scouting lessons. I never got. I paid and
- 35:17Speaker 1: I never got the scouting lessons. So this thing blew
- 35:20Speaker 1: up fitty online to where there were so many people
- 35:23Speaker 1: saying that he didn't pay me on time, or he
- 35:25Speaker 1: didn't pay me at all. That the Missouri lives in Missouri,
- 35:30Speaker 1: the Missouri Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into him.
- 35:34Speaker 1: So he has this going on simultaneously is going through
- 35:38Speaker 1: the gruesome accident. I mean, this is crazy, man.
- 35:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I'm actually friends with his brother on on Facebook.
- 35:48Speaker 3: And because we used to bring him on and Nick
- 35:50Speaker 3: Nick would bring him on back in the mid days,
- 35:53Speaker 3: and he kind of put a message up saying that
- 35:55Speaker 3: there's something that happened to Matt and we didn't know
- 35:57Speaker 3: what it was. He got revealed at a later day
- 36:00Speaker 3: and now we see that he was fighting for his life.
- 36:03Speaker 3: He had a pretty big surgery I think earlier this
- 36:05Speaker 3: week that was going to maybe determine the outlook for me,
- 36:07Speaker 3: and he was talking about wanting to get back to
- 36:09Speaker 3: doing his his everyday work. It's just crazy how you
- 36:15Speaker 3: we don't know the type of lives these people live
- 36:17Speaker 3: behind closed doors. And you know what I found really odd, Mac,
- 36:22Speaker 3: is this is a guy that's you know, if you're
- 36:24Speaker 3: big in the draft world. He works for ESPN, He's
- 36:27Speaker 3: at the forefront of a lot of their draft coverage
- 36:30Speaker 3: on that network. Why would an ESPN employee need to
- 36:35Speaker 3: put up a go fund Me account? Like if I
- 36:38Speaker 3: think we learned a lot about how ESPN maybe thought
- 36:40Speaker 3: about him. Because ESPN has fifty five thousand dollars to
- 36:43Speaker 3: pay for his medical bills, he shouldn't have to put
- 36:45Speaker 3: up a go fund Me account to get donations from
- 36:48Speaker 3: chefter times McAfee. And now you're starting to see where
- 36:53Speaker 3: this tragic accident might expose that this guy is really
- 36:57Speaker 3: not the guy that we thought he was.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Like, if the accident as it happened this probably people
- 37:01Speaker 1: probably just have I've already complained and have just and
- 37:04Speaker 1: probably just go away.
- 37:06Speaker 3: But now it would just be a Reddit thread in
- 37:08Speaker 3: some great conspiracy theory.
- 37:10Speaker 1: And once it got out to awful Announcing, Then Awful
- 37:12Speaker 1: Announcing says they wrote the story. They said the day after,
- 37:15Speaker 1: we've already gotten forty more people, Yeah, saying same things
- 37:17Speaker 1: happened to us.
- 37:18Speaker 4: Anyway, we'll see what happens.
- 37:19Speaker 1: It's just it's it's it's a bit crazy, it's it's
- 37:22Speaker 1: it really is. Anyway, we'll see where that story ends
- 37:25Speaker 1: up going. But next up here on the Boneless that
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- 37:40Speaker 1: me and the Fit Dog with you when we come back.
- 37:42Speaker 1: We got Hornet stuff, including the big reveal the roster
- 37:48Speaker 1: has dropped for your defending champion Summer League Charlotte Hornets.
- 37:54Speaker 1: You know, you want to know who's on there, what
- 37:55Speaker 1: veterans are on there. We'll talk about that next Sports
- 37:58Speaker 1: Radio ninety two to seven wfn Sports Radio ninety two seven, WFNZ,
- 38:23Speaker 1: Happy fourth, Happy early fourth to all of you out there,
- 38:25Speaker 1: and it's good to have those of you that are
- 38:27Speaker 1: out there listening. You ever know, on these sort of
- 38:29Speaker 1: days right where it's the kind of national holiday today
- 38:32Speaker 1: right with the fourth on a Saturday. You don't know
- 38:34Speaker 1: who's out there listening. It is good to hear that
- 38:36Speaker 1: some of you are listening. I'm even glad Myron's listening today, Fitny,
- 38:39Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Even though Myron ripped me
- 38:42Speaker 1: for caring way too much about the Swelsea wedding, which
- 38:45Speaker 1: I probably deserve to be ripped for, but you did.
- 38:47Speaker 1: I'm glad all of you were out there listening to
- 38:50Speaker 1: today and hanging out with us, and I hope people
- 38:53Speaker 1: go on throughout the weekend. Remember you can listen to
- 38:56Speaker 1: parts of the Mac and Boat Show you miss on
- 38:58Speaker 1: in podcasts w WFM, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Go listen to it, you know, over the next couple
- 39:04Speaker 1: of days, y'all cutting the yard stuff like that. I
- 39:07Speaker 1: went out yesterday to cut the backyard. I'm such an
- 39:10Speaker 1: unk and it's not like I got a huge yard,
- 39:13Speaker 1: so I just want I don't want people thinking like
- 39:15Speaker 1: I have a lot of grass to cut.
- 39:17Speaker 3: Just about eight acres, that's all.
- 39:18Speaker 1: But that's it. Yeah, nothing major, but I do. I
- 39:21Speaker 1: do one half of the time because I'm an unk
- 39:23Speaker 1: and I don't want to kill myself. So I was
- 39:25Speaker 1: out there and it must have been six o'clock. It
- 39:28Speaker 1: was still ridiculous. Man, These like yesterday and these next
- 39:34Speaker 1: couple of days absurd heat. Man, I'm not breaking news,
- 39:37Speaker 1: daddy buddy, obviously.
- 39:39Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if we set the record. I
- 39:41Speaker 3: just got the update from WBTV weather that we're in record.
- 39:45Speaker 3: We're on record watch pretty much for the entire weekend.
- 39:48Speaker 3: But don't feel bad, Mac. When I cut grass, I
- 39:50Speaker 3: do it the same way. Like I have a field
- 39:53Speaker 3: that I cut. I've got a sideyard that I've cut,
- 39:56Speaker 3: and then.
- 39:56Speaker 4: We got way more land, don't you at Mama's place.
- 39:59Speaker 3: Yeah, we got about a little over two acres or so.
- 40:02Speaker 4: I don't even know what an acre is. I mean,
- 40:03Speaker 4: I know it's I know I choose to measure land,
- 40:05Speaker 4: but I don't know.
- 40:06Speaker 3: I don't know what it is either. Yeah, I don't
- 40:08Speaker 3: know like how many square feet or whatever it is
- 40:10Speaker 3: that they use.
- 40:10Speaker 4: I don't have much going on.
- 40:11Speaker 3: I mean, like, like the portion of the grass that
- 40:14Speaker 3: I cut takes me an hour and a half probably,
- 40:17Speaker 3: and I stopped.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Probably I'm like an hour total, but I go a
- 40:20Speaker 1: half hour at a time.
- 40:23Speaker 4: Is that sad? That's kind of sad, isn't it?
- 40:25Speaker 1: And when I mulch, When I mulch, like just got
- 40:27Speaker 1: done mulching, like in the spring, I do, like you
- 40:30Speaker 1: can mulch. I do very small increments. I actually like mulching.
- 40:35Speaker 1: I like getting dirty. I like feeling like I did something.
- 40:37Speaker 1: But I only do it in very small increments. So
- 40:39Speaker 1: I'm out there for about forty minutes and then I'm done.
- 40:41Speaker 1: It's like next week and I'll do the next part.
- 40:44Speaker 1: I don't have the staying power out there in the
- 40:48Speaker 1: yard at all.
- 40:48Speaker 2: Man.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Can you can you put pine needles around trees too?
- 40:51Speaker 1: We had never done that before, we had never broke
- 40:53Speaker 1: those out. Okay, I would hope I could probably do that,
- 40:56Speaker 1: but I also hope that I don't have to do that.
- 41:00Speaker 3: I get back on my couch.
- 41:02Speaker 4: I'd like I go out.
- 41:03Speaker 1: There and do just enough to where missus Mack is like,
- 41:06Speaker 1: hey did something today, and I get my ass right
- 41:08Speaker 1: back on that damn couch.
- 41:09Speaker 4: Man.
- 41:09Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you, all right, anyway, let's
- 41:12Speaker 1: let's lock back in here. Seven oh four, five, seven
- 41:14Speaker 1: oh nine, six ten. Those of you that are listening,
- 41:17Speaker 1: feel free to send your text in. Let's talk about
- 41:19Speaker 1: the Hornets, because yesterday, heck, next Thursday night out there
- 41:24Speaker 1: in Vegas, the Hornets will play a Summer League game,
- 41:28Speaker 1: and we have to talk about this rule that they're
- 41:31Speaker 1: experimenting with in the summer league, because this one's rather interesting.
- 41:35Speaker 1: But let's first talk about the Hornets Summer League roster,
- 41:38Speaker 1: which we got worried about yesterday. So on this roster,
- 41:42Speaker 1: obviously the rookies Hannes Steinbach and Christian Anderson. But when
- 41:46Speaker 1: it comes to veteran players, Sion James, Liam McNeely definitely
- 41:52Speaker 1: makes sense, Kalkbrenner definitely makes sense. No con certainly we
- 41:56Speaker 1: that's we thought that was a given, and Tjan Salon
- 42:01Speaker 1: is running it back for a third year in the
- 42:04Speaker 1: Summer League. Of that group, FITTI, who are you most
- 42:06Speaker 1: looking forward or most intrigued in watching?
- 42:11Speaker 3: Well, I would start with with Steinbach, just because I
- 42:14Speaker 3: want to see how those big mints, how that transitions
- 42:18Speaker 3: to at least the NBA adjacent level, which is, you
- 42:21Speaker 3: know what we'll see in the Summer league before we
- 42:23Speaker 3: get to the G League. MAC. This feels like a
- 42:25Speaker 3: pretty big summer for t John Salon and like where
- 42:30Speaker 3: was We're not We're not breaking any news here, not
- 42:34Speaker 3: writing any new headlines. But it feels like at some
- 42:37Speaker 3: point he's got to give this this Hornet's front office
- 42:41Speaker 3: something to believe in moving forward. And I don't We
- 42:45Speaker 3: got glimpses of that last year, like you could see
- 42:49Speaker 3: it at times where there was definitely definitely improvement, improvement
- 42:52Speaker 3: and he was being developed. I still don't know that's
- 42:56Speaker 3: a guy that you could count to be on your
- 42:57Speaker 3: night in, night out, wrote rotation for a team that
- 43:00Speaker 3: just won forty four games a year ago. He'll be
- 43:03Speaker 3: the guy outside of the two rookies, like my eyes
- 43:05Speaker 3: on the most Vegas.
- 43:06Speaker 1: At this point, third year player in summer League, Like, dude,
- 43:09Speaker 1: you ought to have games where you're putting up like
- 43:11Speaker 1: you ought to put up a couple double dub, like
- 43:13Speaker 1: you ought to go to hell Off And we'll see.
- 43:15Speaker 3: I wouldn't bet. Yeah, I'm not sure he will.
- 43:19Speaker 1: I I'll the two things I'm missed in one thing
- 43:22Speaker 1: with each rookie, Christian Anderson. I want to see him
- 43:24Speaker 1: run the pick and roll, because he ran it like
- 43:26Speaker 1: a damn maestro at Texas Tech. I mean I watched
- 43:29Speaker 1: some of those pick and roll highlights and it's like,
- 43:30Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy gets it. It's not it's
- 43:33Speaker 1: it's not just skill, it's like no how and intelligence.
- 43:36Speaker 1: And I want to see that because he may very
- 43:38Speaker 1: well be running our second unit and he'll be he'll
- 43:41Speaker 1: be asked to create for others off the bounds via
- 43:44Speaker 1: the pick and roll. So I want to see that.
- 43:46Speaker 1: And then Hannes Steinbeck, obviously everybody want to see him rebound.
- 43:49Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's worth gets you popcorn ready
- 43:52Speaker 1: for that. But I want to see does he hit
- 43:54Speaker 1: some threes? Does he play out there and hit some threes,
- 43:56Speaker 1: because that's what I'm curious about. He get thirty four
- 43:58Speaker 1: percent in a limited sample at Washington and stretch Big.
- 44:01Speaker 1: If he becomes a stretch big, he's another level.
- 44:04Speaker 3: Right.
- 44:05Speaker 1: If he's not a stretch big, he'd still be a
- 44:07Speaker 1: really good player, but stretch big, if he just if
- 44:10Speaker 1: he develops a reliable three point shot, it's on, and
- 44:13Speaker 1: it's really on for him. So I definitely want to
- 44:15Speaker 1: see that. I do want to shout out Ben Gulliver
- 44:18Speaker 1: of ESPN, and I have to be honest, I didn't
- 44:19Speaker 1: know Ben Gulliver existed at ESPN un till yesterday. But
- 44:23Speaker 1: he did his winners and losers fitty of free agency
- 44:26Speaker 1: and put the Hornets as a winner. So again, this
- 44:29Speaker 1: is this disconnect between the national media and the Hornets fans.
- 44:34Speaker 1: He was raving about what they got back for LaMelo ball.
- 44:37Speaker 1: He was raving about the unprotected pig. And so this
- 44:43Speaker 1: is there's often a disconnect between Charlotte sports fans and
- 44:47Speaker 1: the national media, but it's usually the opposite. It's usually
- 44:51Speaker 1: Charlotte Sports fans saying our Panthers are gonna win ten games,
- 44:54Speaker 1: in the national media say, and you still suck. This
- 44:57Speaker 1: is the opposite. This is many Hornets fans saying I
- 45:01Speaker 1: don't know what the hell we're doing, and the national media,
- 45:04Speaker 1: almost to a man, saying they're doing it right.
- 45:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we've got with Jeff Peterson, you've got
- 45:15Speaker 3: a modern thinking GM that is building and acquiring assets
- 45:19Speaker 3: the way that you use because I think mac we
- 45:22Speaker 3: we live in such a football central vacuum where we
- 45:27Speaker 3: think that every sport operates the way that you operate
- 45:29Speaker 3: in football and how you've value draft picks and everything.
- 45:34Speaker 3: The NBA is is very different, and the people that
- 45:37Speaker 3: know the ends and the outs of how to build
- 45:39Speaker 3: and acquire assets. Look at what the Hornets have done,
- 45:43Speaker 3: and they praise them for what they've done because they've
- 45:46Speaker 3: got a lot at their disposals. Kind of what you
- 45:48Speaker 3: see like in baseball, when you see teams and know
- 45:50Speaker 3: how to navigate, you know, buying and selling at the
- 45:53Speaker 3: trade deadline, when to go all in, when not to
- 45:55Speaker 3: go all in with with with prospects. Well, have to
- 45:58Speaker 3: see what it all culminates it's into.
- 46:02Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty simple breakdown. The national media
- 46:05Speaker 1: has no emotional attachment, so they're looking at this saying,
- 46:08Speaker 1: holy crap, he has a treasure chest of picks and
- 46:10Speaker 1: he will turn them in to big time ballers at
- 46:13Speaker 1: some point, whereas Hornets fans are like, Bro, we've sucked
- 46:16Speaker 1: for years. We just started getting good LaMelo ball. Is
- 46:19Speaker 1: why I buy tickets and you trade him like It's
- 46:23Speaker 1: pretty simple to see why there is a disconnect. I
- 46:26Speaker 1: do want to talk about this, and we'll talk more
- 46:28Speaker 1: about Jeff Peterson's show continues. I do want to talk
- 46:31Speaker 1: about this rule, but I keep calling you both. You
- 46:33Speaker 1: might as well just play the roll bone the rest
- 46:35Speaker 1: of the day, because I'm going to do that about
- 46:37Speaker 1: fifty times. But fiddy, let's talk about this rule change
- 46:41Speaker 1: real quick. They've been using in the G League for years.
- 46:44Speaker 1: They're going to test it in summer league. Whereas if
- 46:46Speaker 1: you go to the free throw line to just shoot
- 46:49Speaker 1: one free throw and n one shoot one shooting foul,
- 46:52Speaker 1: two free throws or a three point shooting foul, three
- 46:54Speaker 1: free throws, you in summer league will go the line
- 46:58Speaker 1: and only shoot that number. You'll one free throw and
- 47:01Speaker 1: it will represent that number of free throws. For example,
- 47:05Speaker 1: you make one, it's one point. You make a two
- 47:08Speaker 1: on a one shot foul, two shot foul, you make one,
- 47:10Speaker 1: you get both points. Three shot foul, you make one,
- 47:14Speaker 1: you get three points. They will not use this in
- 47:17Speaker 1: the final two minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime.
- 47:21Speaker 4: Do you like this idea, fitty.
- 47:22Speaker 3: Absolutely not. It's stupid and and this is I think
- 47:28Speaker 3: Jeff Van Gunny was the first one to really bring
- 47:30Speaker 3: this up on one of the broadcasts about we need
- 47:33Speaker 3: to do this to improve the flow of the game.
- 47:37Speaker 3: I look, I know the final two minutes of basketball
- 47:39Speaker 3: games can take twenty minutes. I know that there's an
- 47:41Speaker 3: issue with reviews, timeouts, stoppage isn't in that point. I
- 47:45Speaker 3: don't think that free throws are slow in the game
- 47:47Speaker 3: down Mac.
- 47:48Speaker 4: And I mean they are, But like, okay, but do
- 47:53Speaker 4: we have to do this.
- 47:55Speaker 3: If if you want the free throw process to speed
- 47:58Speaker 3: up quicker, then you know what you do. Line them
- 48:01Speaker 3: up quicker, put the actual timer on them at the
- 48:04Speaker 3: foul line. Don't let them go yan sit there for
- 48:07Speaker 3: twenty five seconds. There's a ten second rule with time
- 48:10Speaker 3: from the moment they get the ball before they have
- 48:12Speaker 3: to shoot the ball. Like, if we want to speed
- 48:15Speaker 3: up that, don't let these don't let the players bitch
- 48:18Speaker 3: and complain after the foul call. Call the foul, the
- 48:21Speaker 3: shooting foul, line up, shoot the free throws. The free
- 48:24Speaker 3: throw themselves are not slowing down the game. It's see
- 48:26Speaker 3: all the other crap around it. It's stupid. Shoot the
- 48:30Speaker 3: number of free throws at the foul shot demand you
- 48:32Speaker 3: and I.
- 48:33Speaker 1: You and I agree, but for but we're going to
- 48:35Speaker 1: express this in different ways, Like if you want to
- 48:38Speaker 1: try to cut time off the games, the timeouts being
- 48:41Speaker 1: called constantly, I hate that.
- 48:43Speaker 4: It's annoying.
- 48:44Speaker 3: Reviews.
- 48:44Speaker 1: You don't need as many reviews. You have handle those
- 48:47Speaker 1: things it's annoying. Free throws, though are an important part.
- 48:50Speaker 4: Of the game.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Yes, And if the guy who shoots is supposed to
- 48:53Speaker 1: get three free throws and either makes or missus what like,
- 48:57Speaker 1: he should have to shoot all free throws. And it's
- 49:00Speaker 1: just this is ridiculous to me. It's and I guess
- 49:03Speaker 1: I'll agree with you. It's not gonna make enough of
- 49:04Speaker 1: a difference. The pros don't outweigh to cons on this one.
- 49:08Speaker 1: I'll just put it that way. And I'm not talking
- 49:09Speaker 1: about Conka nipple, but I find it to be laughable.
- 49:14Speaker 1: It's just it's ridiculous. Guy's gonna get three points, form
- 49:17Speaker 1: make him one damn foul shot, like or if a
- 49:19Speaker 1: guy misses, he's gonna miss out on two points. You
- 49:22Speaker 1: found someone on a free throw and if they miss it,
- 49:26Speaker 1: like you have lucked out. You've given up zero points
- 49:29Speaker 1: in that possession when your player did the dumbest damn
- 49:31Speaker 1: thing ever and fouled a guy on a three pointer. Yeah, Like,
- 49:33Speaker 1: it's just it doesn't seem necessary to me.
- 49:36Speaker 4: It seems cheap.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Like the way that baseball purists like you look at
- 49:40Speaker 1: the guy starting extra innings on second base is the
- 49:42Speaker 1: way I look at this one. I'll just say that.
- 49:45Speaker 1: All right, we're one hour into booksh'all. We got three
- 49:47Speaker 1: more to go. For better or worse, we got three
- 49:49Speaker 1: more hours to go. Now it's time, everybody for the
- 49:53Speaker 1: real Bryce Young Conversation. Albert Breer says, they're gonna watch him.
- 49:57Speaker 1: If he's worth fifty million dollars, they'll If not, they're
- 50:02Speaker 1: moving on. How do we feel about this? Do we
- 50:03Speaker 1: even buy this? Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ