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9-30-26 Hour 1 - Different mindset between Avs & Nugs/Jared Bednar EXTENDED/Kids don't dance anymore · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardi, and Kane On Demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: We made it, boys. We did it. We're back already.
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  Speaker 3: Game one of the Av season starts tonight. And we
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  Speaker 3: will talk to Jared Bednar.
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  Speaker 2: At 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Good news for the people listening right now is that
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  Speaker 3: when Jared Bednar joins us at 8 o'clock for the
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  Speaker 3: first time this year, we have two pairs of tickets
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  Speaker 3: that we will give away to tonight's game.
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  Speaker 2: Two of them.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: You know I love our listeners, right? You know I do.
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  Speaker 1: You know I do. I do. You know I do.
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  Speaker 1: The mood's already starting. Well, he's in Avs mood tonight.
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  Speaker 1: He's already there. So, listen. We got two pairs of
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  Speaker 1: tickets to the home opener against the Los Angeles Kings.
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  Speaker 1: Season opener.
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  Speaker 2: Utah!
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  Speaker 1: Give me two. You know I love our listeners, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that they've really been... I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: they've been good enough to deserve this. Well, the decision's
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  Speaker 1: been made. No offense to all the listeners out there.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. But I'm not sure you've earned the
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  Speaker 1: right to go to the season opener tonight against the
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  Speaker 1: LA Kings. And by the way, I was at the arena...
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  Speaker 1: For practice yesterday, I had to go back for an
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  Speaker 1: event with Mackenzie Blackwood, Scott Wedgwood, and Joe Sackick. And
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  Speaker 1: they were rehearsing the opening and everything all day long.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be killer.
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  Speaker 4: It's the best.
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  Speaker 1: So if you do win these tickets, get your fannies,
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  Speaker 1: both cheeks in the seats early because you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to want to miss this.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Ben Nardi.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking lasers and sharks with lasers and Freaking videos
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  Speaker 1: and Conor screaming, and it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Your chance to win those tickets will come the segment afterwards,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the segment, so stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much the entire 8 o'clock hour. Now, very interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the morning sprint, specifically Raj, talking about this yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and I do think that this is a very interesting
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  Speaker 3: perspective on how both teams in town, whose seasons are
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  Speaker 3: about to.
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  Speaker 2: Start, are approaching... what the off-season narrative has been. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: When I listen to a lot of the Nuggets people,
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  Speaker 3: front office members, players, and coaches, from a couple days ago,
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  Speaker 3: a clip like this from David Adelman.
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  Speaker 5: I understand we're going to say things, there's going to
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  Speaker 5: be narratives, all that stuff, but the men in that
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  Speaker 5: room that are back, 154, and won the most road
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  Speaker 5: games in the history of the franchise, and had the
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  Speaker 5: best offense in the NBA, I know you guys want
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  Speaker 5: to ignore that, but that's what they did. And so
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  Speaker 5: you have to lean into some of the things that
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  Speaker 5: you did well.
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  Speaker 3: So that was just a piece of what Nuggets Media
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  Speaker 3: Day was, which had this tone of, and I get it, hey,
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  Speaker 3: nobody believes in us.
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  Speaker 2: It's us against the world. That'll bring the team together.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you listen to the way that the
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  Speaker 3: Avs spoke, you know what I didn't hear from the
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  Speaker 3: Avs this offseason? What are you guys complaining about? We
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  Speaker 3: were President's Trophy winners. We played good last year.
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  Speaker 1: They all said nothing. we failed.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 3: And, and it's different approaches mentally towards this season. And
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  Speaker 3: to be honest, I, I like the abs approach better,
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  Speaker 3: which is, it doesn't matter what we did in the
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  Speaker 3: regular season. It's about how the season finished. And we
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  Speaker 3: are determined to make sure that doesn't happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed. But Vic, David Adelman is not wrong with what
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  Speaker 1: he said. They did win 54. They did win most
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  Speaker 1: road games. I mean, they, This is a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a defense mechanism, I guess, from the Denver Nuggets, a
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  Speaker 1: defense mechanism.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like our players are getting blanked on, and
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  Speaker 6: we need to defend them.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And believe me when I tell you, this starting five,
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  Speaker 1: I will take all day, all night, twice on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm totally down with that, and I understand the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: surrounding the team and the cap and the aprons and
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  Speaker 1: everything else. But it is a bit defensive, right? When
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  Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't have to be. I mean, I, again,
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  Speaker 1: did the thing with Joe Sackick last night. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: explain to the crowd out here, you know, how hard
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  Speaker 1: it is to win. He's like, well, it's very hard.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, you know, and you run into, he goes,
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  Speaker 1: we had, we had a bad week. He goes, injuries. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to even talk about that. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: the best defenseman on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, injured. He goes, we had a bad week
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  Speaker 1: and we need to try to make up for it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, let's go. I mean, that's, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Right. It's almost like, look, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to apologize for anything, but we lost and teams
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  Speaker 1: lose and it sucks, but we're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: make up for it.
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  Speaker 6: I really have nowhere to go with this because I
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  Speaker 6: don't disagree with you guys. I don't understand the tone
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  Speaker 6: of being defensive when you lost in the first round
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  Speaker 6: in upset fashion.
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  Speaker 4: If anything, you should be conciliatory. You should be, hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's on us. We have to fix it. They know that.
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  Speaker 4: They know that.
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  Speaker 6: I think the undertones are, we don't want to take
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  Speaker 6: even another step back.
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  Speaker 4: We need to.
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  Speaker 1: Take these guys, hey, you did a lot of good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take that good and take it for what it's worth.
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  Speaker 3: The only reason I bring this up, Vic, this isn't
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  Speaker 3: to be some negative thing towards the Nuggets. It's to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Gabe Landeskog told the media, we can't come
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  Speaker 3: here thinking because we won the President's Trophy that it
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  Speaker 3: means anything.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has to prove themselves. And I think that everybody
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  Speaker 3: in that room, from players to coaches to front office
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  Speaker 3: members for the Avalanche, I think this feels a lot
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  Speaker 3: like a blueprint year. Like, this is the same year
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  Speaker 3: that back in 96 to 2001, the same stretch of
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  Speaker 3: championship for non-championship seasons to championship again.
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  Speaker 2: You're right back on that pace.
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  Speaker 3: And With the age of this roster, with a coach
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  Speaker 3: going into the last year of his contract, it does
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  Speaker 3: feel like if we don't get it done this year,
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  Speaker 3: we got some pretty seismic things happening this offseason that
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  Speaker 3: we'll address later. But this is going to be our
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  Speaker 3: last sort of push forward with this group as we
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  Speaker 3: know it. They've already made some changes. Val Nachushkin, a
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  Speaker 3: big part of the roster, big part of the championship run,
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  Speaker 3: no longer on it. This feels like a year in
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  Speaker 3: which we're either going to get the entire thing done or.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of questions in the offseason and a lot of moves
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  Speaker 3: to make. And that, I think, can provide.
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  Speaker 2: How about this?
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  Speaker 3: That's a hell of a character to angle out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's get this done or we have some big decisions
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  Speaker 3: to make once the season ends. And I think this
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  Speaker 3: team is highly motivated to get that done. It feels
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  Speaker 3: almost to me like there are two options for the
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  Speaker 3: Avs this year without Nimit Dwayne. They're either going to
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  Speaker 3: win the Stanley Cup. or I think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: fizzle out pretty quick in the playoffs. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the two. I don't see them getting
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  Speaker 3: to the Western Conference Finals and losing four games in
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  Speaker 3: a row again. It feels like if they get to
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  Speaker 3: that point, they're going to be an unstoppable train on
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  Speaker 3: the way to a championship.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what they were in 2022. I mean, once
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  Speaker 1: they got there. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They went
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  Speaker 1: 16-4 in the postseason, bro. I mean, they were well
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  Speaker 1: on their way to that at 8-1. Through two rounds,
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  Speaker 1: they were 8-1.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 1: And that's nothing to sneeze at. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Good line.
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  Speaker 1: That's nothing to sneeze at.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You okay? Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I love how you leaned away from the mic only
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  Speaker 3: to have the sneeze throw you directly in front of
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  Speaker 3: the mic.
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  Speaker 4: Whip my head.
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  Speaker 1: That was a whiplash sneeze. It really was. It was
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  Speaker 1: a little whiplash.
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  Speaker 2: Is what I'm saying making sense, though?
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  Speaker 1: Does it feel that way? Yes, it's making a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. Not only that, but I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: it is on the Nuggets side, Vic, but, again, it
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  Speaker 1: feels defensive. The Avalanche embrace the pressure. They embrace what's
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  Speaker 1: ahead of them. They embrace the expectation.
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  Speaker 4: You better be made of the right stuff to embrace
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  Speaker 4: the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: But they embrace it all, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I applaud them for that. I praise them
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  Speaker 4: for that.
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  Speaker 6: You know, all these Nuggets players aren't the same players
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  Speaker 6: that won a championship that embraced the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I there's a lot of different players in there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to the goalies last night. And I, I mentioned, Hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: you're there's a lot of expectation on this club. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of, you know, you got to get
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  Speaker 1: it done type of thing. I mean, Kenzie Blackwood's pause
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  Speaker 1: for a second. He goes, I think it's awesome. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I I've been places where you don't have any expectation.
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  Speaker 1: But so he goes in that he goes, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a way to play. I'm paraphrasing here. He's like, you're,
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  Speaker 1: you're in it. You're right there with this club. And,
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  Speaker 1: It's great. And you're surrounded by guys who feel the
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  Speaker 1: same way. And it's, it's, it's, it goes, I would
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  Speaker 1: not like to be any place else. And I, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool. It went a long way
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  Speaker 1: for me. Well, it's gotta be.
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  Speaker 2: Like a huge shock to your system. I think about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny when I'm saying you, you get
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  Speaker 3: traded to the white socks and you're on a winning
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  Speaker 3: team because that team won or lost a hundred games
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  Speaker 3: in three consecutive seasons before this year, I was watching
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  Speaker 3: the white socks playoff game. Brenton Doyle was put in
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  Speaker 3: for defensive purposes late in that game. And it's like, man,
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  Speaker 3: Brenton Doyle went from a team that lost 104, 106,
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  Speaker 3: whatever the number was, games this year, to a team
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  Speaker 3: that's in the postseason, now won a playoff game. It's
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  Speaker 3: got to be crazy for the expectations to change like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I will say... On a side note, did you
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  Speaker 3: see the Pope?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see the Pope, no. Was he at the game?
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  Speaker 1: No, but the Pope is a big White Sox fan, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up a White Sox fan.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote the White Sox a personal letter from the Vatican.
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  Speaker 1: before the playoffs. So they, they've got God on their side.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Brett's staying consistent with his previous beef, and he's
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  Speaker 7: fading the Pope. He's fading the Sox.
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  Speaker 1: I never did that to the Pope. I never did
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  Speaker 1: that to the Pope. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big White Sox guy. They're the Rockies of
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  Speaker 2: the AL. I want them to win the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate the White Sox over the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: White Sox are more blue-collar.
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  Speaker 1: That's a team of people. If you lived in Chicago ever,
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  Speaker 1: like I did, it is night and day. It's not even.
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  Speaker 6: The Cubs are the wine and cheese.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand percent.
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  Speaker 6: They cast themselves off as, hey, we're just lovable Cubs fans.
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  Speaker 4: No, you're not. You're all rich.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely the wine and cheese. They smoke Marlboros.
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  Speaker 1: They smoke and then they chug beer and they, you know, they....
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  Speaker 2: They get dirty fingernails.
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  Speaker 1: They jaywalk.
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  Speaker 2: Like car oil residue is on their hands when they're
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  Speaker 2: at the game.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, I had to bring that up because I
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  Speaker 1: saw them.
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  Speaker 4: They commit crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, there's blue-collar crime and there's white-collar crime. The
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  Speaker 1: Cubs fans commit the white-collar crime. The money laundering and the... And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: Moj, we can get into this detail with Jared Bednar
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  Speaker 3: in 45 minutes, but the word on the street is
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  Speaker 3: that they have already.
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  Speaker 2: And they should be.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's been disappointing for a little less than two
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  Speaker 3: years now.
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  Speaker 2: Power play just hasn't been right for a while. Making
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  Speaker 2: some changes. I've heard and read that they're possibly changing
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon's spot.
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  Speaker 1: In that power play. Would you like an update?
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  Speaker 2: They're throwing TJ Hughes in there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, everybody could see it. I mean, all the
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  Speaker 1: media is there watching practice.
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  Speaker 4: I heard whispers that if you say this, you could
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  Speaker 4: be in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Moshe.
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  Speaker 1: So, Nate. As you're looking, let's say, center ice in.
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  Speaker 1: Nate's over on the right wall now. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: opposite side of where he typically is. Marnie Natchez is
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  Speaker 1: over on that side. Hale's running, obviously, the point. You've
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  Speaker 1: got TJ Hughes in the middle, in the bumper spot.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting. I'll tell you why he's there, though, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Coach will back this up. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got Landy net front. Landy to retrieve pucks from behind
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  Speaker 1: and all that sort of thing. But Landy's butt is
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  Speaker 1: still big. So it's still hard to move Gabe Landeskog
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  Speaker 1: from out in front of the net, and he's very,
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  Speaker 1: very good there at tipping. He's very good there at
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  Speaker 1: retrieving pucks, getting quick rebounds, and bashing it in, that
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing. What T.J. Hughes has been able to do,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked to Joe about this last night, how
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  Speaker 1: do you go find this damn undrafted college-free agent who's 22, 23,
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  Speaker 1: now he's 24 years old? Some bumper guy? The bumper, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The bumper. The bumper. How do you find a guy
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  Speaker 1: like that to not only make your team, but to
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  Speaker 1: be on PP1? He goes, well, our scouting staff did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. So Andrew Cogliano has been promoted to
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  Speaker 1: assistant GM. You saw that. Kevin McDonald is also assistant GM. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: And Brian Wilsey, kind of advanced scout, former Colorado Avalanche,
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  Speaker 1: Washington Capitol. They've been kind of talking to this kid
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  Speaker 1: over time, and he's not been drafted. And then he
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  Speaker 1: got too old and so on. And He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: sign with the Avalanche. And so he comes in as
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  Speaker 1: a mature player and ready to go. But what he
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  Speaker 1: does do is he has an innate ability right now
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  Speaker 1: to sort of move into areas where he gets lost
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah. And he moves into areas on
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  Speaker 1: the ice where the opposition sort of forgets about him
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  Speaker 1: and then he can make a play. Was he invisible? No,
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  Speaker 1: but he knows he has this sixth sense on where
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  Speaker 1: to go at the right time. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 4: Like one of those time wars?
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  Speaker 1: Right. Hey, listen, you're the one with the Harry Potter wand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he puts on his invisibility cloak. And he shows up
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  Speaker 1: at the side. He just described a guy who can't
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  Speaker 1: be seen. He has a brain on him. And so
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  Speaker 1: as the play is developing, he goes to the right spots.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes things work even that much better. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to Coach about it coming up at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Is he a power play specialist?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: No. No, he's not.
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  Speaker 2: 2-1 Steelers against the 2-1 Browns. That's weird to say.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody's two favorite quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 2: We all love them, right?
• 14:20
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  Speaker 3: in 45 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Stick around. You know.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Tried and true.
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  Speaker 1: Mosh, you know what's funny about Mosh's hatred? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: For Banana Ball? Banana Ball just showed up.
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  Speaker 1: On the screen.
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  Speaker 4: Just a commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Just a commercial.
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  Speaker 4: He starts whining about how they're not real. No, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't whine.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you can't be on a bleeping unicycle in
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  Speaker 3: the box.
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  Speaker 6: Until you realize this, you have to understand something, Mosh.
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  Speaker 6: That kind of entertainment, and it's strictly entertainment, it would
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  Speaker 6: be like going to go see a cover band.
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  Speaker 4: It's not real.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the real Def Leppard band. It's a cover.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what if you saw a KISS cover band and
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: they're like head to toe in the paint and all
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: that stuff?
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wouldn't you be like, well, what are you, Gene Simmons?
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: Why are you so anti-entertainment when it comes to baseball,
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: but you go out there to see these cover bands
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: all the time?
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: What's the difference? Yeah, you have no response. It's silence.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. See, he's trying to come up
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: with a reason.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: He can't.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the heck. Because... Go ahead and
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: tell the listening audience, what did my vocabulary consist of
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: during the break?
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: He saw a guy on a unicycle hit the baseball,
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: and he just went off.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: It pissed me off.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: I said this, I was like, do you know how
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: hard that is?
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Imagine just trying to hit a baseball, period, from a
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: guy throwing an 85-mile-an-hour curveball, and he's doing that on
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: a unicycle.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: With music blasting, with everybody dancing.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: You love Red Panda. Why aren't you pissed off when
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Red Panda kicks bulls on her head?
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting into this today. Yeah, because you have
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: no response.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: I don't have any response.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Because you were just put in a corner.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Because you're going to the Doobie Brothers cover band.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Hey, man, the Doobie Step Brothers are very talented.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Speaking of.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: I had a blast yesterday, and I love how the
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: wild card round in the MLB starts at like 11
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning because I just got playoff baseball
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: all day. So two games blowout, the Yankees torch the
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Red Sox, and the Padres beat the snot out of
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: the Cubs. But that homer that was hit by Austin
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Riley was so cool to hear the crowd pop like
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: that in Atlanta.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Why was there nobody at the game? Atlanta has been
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: that way forever. It's the weirdest damn thing.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, and I know what the
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: answer is, so I'm going to sort of set myself up.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: If this was a Rockies game, yes, it would be
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: standing room.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: It'd be sold out. Let me take it a step further.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Before people say, well, that's because the Rockies don't go
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: to the playoffs as often as the Braves. The Nuggets
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: have been in the playoffs a bunch of years in
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: a row.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: So have the Avs.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Is any game never not sold out?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's always sold out.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Denver is a superior sports town.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Atlanta is a crap sports town.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Atlanta is a crap sports town, and that is case
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: in point.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: It really is. Even at the old Fulton County Stadium,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: even back in the heyday, Bobby Cox managing the Glavins
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and the Smolts and the Chippers and all the Andrew
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Jones and all these guys. Javi Lopez. They would never
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: sell out their opening games of the postseason.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Who do you think you are?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It's stunning to me that that crowd or those fans
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: down there are so lackadaisical. But that's God's honest truth,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and that is time-tested. Atlanta fans will not show up.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Through the first round of playoff baseball.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Like a diggable pool? Like a diggable pool.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: But hang on.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Two things I want to mention. First of all, the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Phillies were floundering at the end of the year. They
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: were nervous that they were going to miss the postseason
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: they were losing so often. So their fans already had
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: this sense of like, this is not going to go well.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: For Mattingly to trot out their closer in the seventh
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: and say, give me three innings in a one-score game
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: is lunacy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Lunacy.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Because that guy pitches one inning.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Not three to close out a game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: These experiments that occur in the postseason always strike me
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: as just, you have.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: No faith in what's happening. Yeah. You're doing something that
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you hope works, but you don't know if it works.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: So, Austin Riley, I don't know if you saw how
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: that all set up. You know, it did kind of
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: feel like the Phillies had control of the game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: They get an error.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: They called it a hit.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: It was an error.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: With two outs in the eighth. Next guy is hit
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: by pitch.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Now there's 2-1 with two out, and then Riley puts
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: it over the fence, and they're up 5-3, and the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: game is over. That followed by, and I tried to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: explain this to people, the Chicago White Sox, who are
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: in the postseason and now have won a playoff game,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: they won 6-3 yesterday over the Astros. That team lost
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: 100 games three consecutive seasons prior to this year. Baseball,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you do not need four years to turn a team around, okay?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: You can make a competitive team year to year if
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: you have the right core pieces.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: You really can.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Along with adding a couple of others, okay?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And one of my favorite players in the league is
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Murakami of the White Sox. And I didn't play this
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: days ago.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I haven't. And I'm so mad. I went straight to it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: This was his celebration after they clinched the pennant, right?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: So this is when they clinched the pennant. clinched a
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: postseason spot. They're in the locker room. They're doing the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: champagne shower.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So he's got a translator. So this is translators removed
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: from these questions, but here was his answers. How's it
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: going so far?
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: How many champagne bottles have you opened so far?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: What does it mean just to be able to celebrate
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: with this team?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Everything about that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: From his teammates just screaming as he's saying it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: What was his, handle it? What? Handle it? Hundred. 100. 100.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: He's like, on a scale of 1 to 10, he goes, 100. Oh,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I see. So you're on a scale of 1 to 10.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: How's it going so far? 100. 100.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: How many champagne bottles have you opened so.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Far?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: 100.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: What does it mean just to be able to celebrate
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: with this team?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I am a Japanese! So good. That is so good.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: That might be the best thing I've heard all week.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I am a Japanese!
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: He had an RBI last night along with a couple
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: of runs for the White Sox.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: But you know what kills me about a guy like
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: him playing first base for the White Sox? And again,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: we've talked about his homers early in the year, right? Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Because he burst out of the gate spread, and I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: think he was leading the AL in home runs for
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: He had like 10 in the first 20 games or
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: It was nuts.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He finished with 35, but you know what his batting
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: average is, Vic? He hit 207 this year.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Who cares?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Can I ask you a question?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But how do you hit 207 and you're like, you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he's a bona fide big leaguer, but you're hitting 207, bro.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Moshe, I'm flipping around.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: He gets on base a lot.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead. I'm watching sports. I'm watching sports. I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: watching sports.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I was watching some of the baseball, obviously. I watched
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: some of that Vegas game, which made me sick.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I know. I saw your liver hurts, right? Yeah, I
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: saw that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Olofsson scores. Made me sick. Can I ask you
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: this question?
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Why would they schedule the opening night of the NHL
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: on the same night as the MLB playoff openers?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure they're too concerned about it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Well, I was. I'm going to tell you who is concerned.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: I am.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Because there's too much stuff going on, and I couldn't
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: focus on one. If you want to get an audience
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: to stick with you, you should be concerned about it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you that right now. You should
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: be concerned about it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Well, Vic, literally at this point in the year, at
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: this point of the calendar.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: It's opening night.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: There's no way to avoid baseball, okay? There's no way
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: to avoid it, and you've got to get your asses going, too.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You could have played yesterday, opening night. Or two days ago.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe you could have. But either way, the Avs are
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: playing tonight, and there's going to be baseball on tonight.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: I know, but I'm just saying opening night, right? You
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: guys see that ESPN video with the kids coming over
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: the boards?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's kind of cute
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: watching the little guys hanging on.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: The boards and falling down. And I probably couldn't get
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: over the boards to this day. But watching that video.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Pretty cool. So well done.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar is going to join us at 8 o'clock
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: this morning. I do want to, I don't know if
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: you guys saw this. There was a few clips going
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: around yesterday. So NFL Films, they have that sort of
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: mic'd up recap of the NFL weekend. And the Broncos
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: were featured in this with their big comeback over the Rams.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm so happy that I heard this. Because I'm like,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: we can't be the only ones. Sometimes when players, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: when you're winning games, maybe you ignore some of the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: bad stuff that happens because you're like, hey, we got
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: the dub. And a lot of players are like, I
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: don't care.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: It's the NFL.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: However you get a win, we take it and cherish it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: During this, like, mic'd up segment during the Broncos game,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: They cut to the sideline.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And it's after, I think, the Atkins touchdown.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: No, the Waddle two-point catch. Or Waddle two-point catch.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: So they cut to the sideline. It's all the offensive
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: linemen standing there, both standing over them. And I believe
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: it was Ben Powers. Couldn't tell who was talking because
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: the camera was behind him. But I believe it was
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Ben Powers who said this.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Why can't we do this in the first half? We
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: like to... We like to... We attack when they least
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: expect it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just happy that one of them said it out loud.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you have to be feeling the same way
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: we feel.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: They're puzzled like we are. Yeah. They don't get it either.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: If they don't get it, the head coach doesn't get it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Who's supposed to get it? I don't know. Who's supposed
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to get it? So we have our listeners and say, Moj...
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But you just keep deflecting and saying, you know, that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this can't continue. But I'm like, well, if the players
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: themselves don't understand why they are the way they are overall,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and the coach keeps saying, God, dudes, we can't live
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: like this. But they keep living like this. I know.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: What the hell am I supposed to think? Because I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, what happens to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos and what they are able to inflict
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: on opponents is historically should not be able to happen,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: at least repeatedly. Individual times, a couple odds here's or there's, okay, great.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: But what they do consistently, for the most part, should
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: not be able to happen. And I was reading Jeff's article. Leggies,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: we'll have them on tomorrow, right? And in the last
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: four years, the Broncos have come back in the second
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: half from probabilities of losing. Well, put it this way.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Win probability in 23 against the Bears, week four. Trailing
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: 28 to 7, 1.3%. They win 31-28. Yeah. 20-25 against
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, down 17-3. Win probability, 5.7%. They win 21-17.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The Giants game last year, week seven. They're down 19-0.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: They're going to the fourth quarter. Yeah. Vic, 0.2%.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like never happened.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Your GPA, your final year at Notre Dame, 0.2. I'm sure. 33-32,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: they win. And then this year, the Rams, 16-0 when
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they were down. They had a 6% chance of winning
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that game, Brett. 6%, and they pull it out 30-26.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It's amazing, but I think the word we're looking for
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: here is resilience because these guys believe that at any
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: point in the game, they can come back and win.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's just amazing to me that.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Real quick, though, wouldn't you agree, boys, that that is
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a mental hurdle that not all players and not all
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: teams can overcome? Of course. It's a mental hurdle of like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you know, even if you don't know the exact percentage,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you feel like, oh, my God, we've got a 6%
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: chance of winning this game, and you do it because
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you've done it. They have a mental resilience and a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: mental understanding and a mental belief that not a lot
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of other teams have, and it's a special thing.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: You know, I've heard a lot of this– Over the
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: last few days, couple days, about how the Broncos got
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: lucky with that call.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And I'll give you, okay, yeah, the call went their way.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: It went their way, right?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But they also got back in the game. Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: They also overcame a 16-0 deficit.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Put themselves in position.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: They also kept pushing the pedal. They also took the
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: ball all the way down the field.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Inside the red zone.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: They did that. That wasn't just a gift. So.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Hearing the Rams say, well, you know, that was a lucky.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: The Broncos made their own luck. They put themselves in
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: position to do that. Correct?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I think we got some news. I think we got
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: some news.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Hold, please.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I'm looking for news. You want us just to stay silent?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I just want to make sure that this is all correct.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's doing journalism stuff.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Here you go. Jared Bednar will join us in 30 minutes,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: extended four more years.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Boom!
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Boom!
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: We will talk to that man in 30 minutes.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Kaboomy!
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: So, it's one of the things, again, I mention this
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a lot in the offseason, because, again, it does feel
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Wait, Beds has a new four-year deal? New four-year deal.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: We finally got some breaking news on this program.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: It's about time we get some breaking news.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Damn it, nothing happens at 7.34 in the morning ever,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and we got it done.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: What time does he join us?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock, bro.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: 25 minutes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Dude, can he send donuts or something?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yo, can I get some of that cash?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Can I get some of that cash? So we'll talk
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: to Bed Z about this in 25 minutes. So there
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: you go. It was one of the things I was wondering. Look,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: it's not unprecedented. but it is something to where you've
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: got a coach going into a last, a last year
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: of his contract and Moj, you know, the expectations are
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: high this year. I wondered just kind of what's at stake.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And we talked to Joe Sackick. In fact, Nellie, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: know you, you got something else from this interview. Can
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: you go back to our interview with Sackick after the
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: McCarr extension and grab the question I asked him about
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Bednar going into his last, his last year of his deal.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Cause I wonder what the response was going to be.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And I, He said, we're working on an extension for Bednar.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: We aren't worried about it. He's not worried about it,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: that sort of thing.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: And I kind of went like, okay.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Going into the last year of his contract, I'm... Vic,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: you agreed with me when we were talking about it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It was....
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: He's not going to say it, but I'm pretty sure
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: that Bednar's worried about it a little bit going into
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: the last year of a deal.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Worry's not the word.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Here's how I would put it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: He knows.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: And they know, and I think we all know, if
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: he's on the open market, Mosher, you know, how soon
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: would he be snatched up?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: 18 seconds. Okay. So we all know this. Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: Conveniently, he would like to stay here because he loves
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: it here. And the players love him. So I don't
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: think he was worried for job security. He was worried
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: that he would have to pick up and.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Leave and go somewhere else.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: That's the worry.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: The biggest compliment you can be paid, by the way,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: because I know there was a lot of people calling
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: for a lot of heads at the end of last year.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Listeners, fans of the team, right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: And Bednar was certainly one of them whose name got
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: thrown out there a lot from angry abs fans at
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: the end of the season. There's to me one reason
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: why Bednar is not only still here, but got this extension.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: And it's because he.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Got the backing of every single guy in that locker room.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: They all said, I don't want any other coach, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: this guy right here, he's the right guy for the job.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: When we had Joe on the program, I know what
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: your reaction was. I know what Vic's reaction was. What
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: was my reaction? Two, to Joe saying, okay, we actually.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Have the audio. Go ahead.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: No, we're, we're continuing. We're going to, we're going to
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: talk about it and, and see if we can, uh, uh,
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: we can get to, to an agreement here. Um, but now,
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, coaches, players, there's a lot of people that
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: have gone in their last year of their deal. Um, and,
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: and you find a way to get something done. So I, I,
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: I'm not worried about it. I don't think, uh, Betsy's
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: worried about it now. We'll, we'll, uh, we'll, we'll try
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: and get, uh, get to an extension and, uh, hopefully
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: we can work something out. But there's no urgency either.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: What was my reaction? Be intellectually honest.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: The deal was being done.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: You felt like a deal was in place.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You said you weren't worried about it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: You're like, well, Moe, you gotta... I said, look, when
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Joe Sackett says he's not worried, and I know Beds
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: isn't worried, and Vic, let me reiterate what you said,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: because you're correct and so are you, Brett. I go
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: on My reaction goes by what I know. I know
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that the players want him. I know that he wants them.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I know this is a very good club. And for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: people out there who go, oh, man, he's the problem
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and this and that and they should have won, there
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: are so many factors that go into winning the ultimate prize,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and it's a very difficult thing to do. But you
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: have an excellent coach. Hey, Vic, you ready for this?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Way back in the day, we're flying, and I don't
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: know where we're flying. It's in the middle of the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: night someplace. And I'm sitting next to Peter McNabb, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he and I are talking and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: It's after a game, so it's maybe not the middle
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of the night. And he called a player up to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: talk about something, blah, blah, blah. McNabb looks at me,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and he goes, you know what? This is in the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: early going when things weren't well. He goes, this guy
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: is a good coach. Mm-hmm. He goes, this guy is
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a damn good coach. He should be here for a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: long time. McNabb says this to me. I go, I agree.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: You know, things are tough right now. It's a tough transition.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: He goes, but this guy's a damn good coach. And
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: here we are a decade later and 14 years later,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: we're going to do it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to Jared Bednar about this in 20 minutes
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: to grab.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar is going to join us in 15 minutes,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: fresh off a four year contract extension that was announced
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: about 15 minutes ago.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Now, Opening night tonight for the Avs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: If you want to get in the building, we have
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: two pairs of tickets we're giving away, and all you
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: need to do is listen intently to that Jared Bednar interview.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: It'll happen in 15 minutes. So, all of that coming
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: your way.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Avs and Kings tonight, 7.30 pregame, right here, Altitude Sports Radio, 92.5.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: All the boys are back.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: We're going to have Riker sit in the booth with
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: McGahee for this game.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: We're going to have Birdo doing pregame, all that fun stuff.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: The puck will not drop until 8.18. Great. So it's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: going to be a late one because it's the second
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: half of TNT's opening night.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Is that TNT crew the same?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Well, they have a lot of different ones. Yeah, me
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: talking about the pregame, yeah, it's all the same. And
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I think Kenny Albert's going to be here probably with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Brian Boucher and Jackie Redman. They do a great job.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I think TNT does an excellent job, yes.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Look, there's a lot on the line this year.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You have.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: A team that you look from last year to this year,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: a whole bunch of changes. You know, we discussed a
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: little bit of this already, but putting a guy like
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: TJ Hughes, an undrafted dude, on the number one power
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: play unit is a very, very interesting thing. And how
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: that's going to work. If you were to point to
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: one thing last year, and here's the deal with the Avs, man.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: You look at every major statistical category that you would
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: use as an indicator for how good your team is.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Goals for, goals against, save percentage, penalty kill percentage, power
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: play percentage. They were like top three in every category
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: except for power play. And if they can get that
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: most just hovering around the top 10.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: How about even strength goals?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all of it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: How about goals against?
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Mention that.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I know, but they don't just hand out the Jennings
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to two goalies who play at least 24 games a year.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You know, just say, oh, look, you're handsome. Take this.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, they played well.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: If this team can get back to hovering around top
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: 10 in the league in power play percentage, if they
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: can get that up to 20-some percent again.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Mean, think about adding another goal or two a night
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: on the power play and what that would do for them.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: It would blow your mind.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: But you would become, like.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: If everything else stays the same, which is not a guarantee,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: but let's just say, I mean, you're returning a lot
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: of guys from last year. If you get that power
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: play percentage back up to around that 20 mark again, Vic.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: It'd be like Brad Pitt. This is the kind of
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: how I look at the power play last year. It's like, okay,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Brad Pitt goes to Thirsty's, okay?
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Are we talking like 1987? Whenever, whenever.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Whenever. Behind the Thirsty's? Because you can relate to Thirsty's, okay?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Brad Pitt goes to Thirsty's every other night and usually
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: strikes out. Wait.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Are you assuming that Brad Pitt would strike out at Thirsty's?
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: That's what this power play was like last year. Brad
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: Pitt would slay at Thirsty's.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: But I'm making my point. So he would be Screech. No,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: he's Brad Pitt. And he goes to Thirsty's every other night,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Brad Pitt. and most of the time he strikes out.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And you're going, how could Brad Pitt strike out at Thirsty's?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: There's no humanly way possible. There's no human that ever
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: struck out at Thirsty's. Even you. So, Brett, you see
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: what I'm getting at? It's like this power play when
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: you look at the talent.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: God, I wish if I had a time machine. Watching
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Vic dance to ABBA.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Do you want to see him? It was Air Supply.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Air Supply.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Air Supply.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: Dick was probably driven to shake your body down to
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: the ground.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: You know what's funny?
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: And I hate to detract from sports talk, but we're
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: going to be joined by the coach here momentarily. I
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: yearn for the days that you would go out to
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: a place like Thursday's and men and women would dance.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: There was actually dancing that took place. You went out
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: to dance.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: And you danced to fast songs. You danced to slow songs.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: And that's how you courted your mate.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: You danced.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I swear to God.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: There's no dancing anymore.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: There are so many things that in my life, I
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: feel like I was last to experience before everything sort
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: of changed. Smoking in high schools was a thing that
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: ended like right when I got out of high school.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Dancing. You went out to bars and clubs and you danced.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: If you go to a club, a club is made
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: to play music and have people dance.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Nobody dances anymore.
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: It was just, and nobody got embarrassed either. I would
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: go with some dudes who are dudes, right? But as
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: soon as the music hits, you dance.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: It's like, Do you want to know why? I mean,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: this is a serious thing. You want to know why?
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Because everybody's worried that this is going to happen to
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: them if they start dancing.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: You think social media has changed the dance industry?
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't want to be the guy who gets
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: posted on the internet that's... Hey, look at this clown.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look how embarrassing this guy is.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Did you guys have dance clubs?
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: And you went, right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You have no idea how I can move. You have
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely no clue. Okay, so you took part in that.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: See, people like Nelly and Brett.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: They're losers.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I know they're losers. I told you I did. No,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: we danced.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: We danced.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: With my now wife, I danced with my wife in bars.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Hold on. Are you allowed to dance in that county
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska? They made a movie about that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: They changed that in 94.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, you know what? You and I actually went and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: saw a band one time, and I think I saw
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you and your wife dancing.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Remember that? We dance. We dance. Okay, listen. Back to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: my original point. The Brad Pitt point, this is a
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: good point. With.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Let me get back to sports.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: So Brad Pitt. Okay, with McKinnon and McCarr and Natchez
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and Landy and at the time, you know, Leckie or
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: whomever was filling in if somebody was injured or whatever,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: there's too much talent on the field. on that power
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: play to strike out. That's what I'm telling you. And
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: by the way, when it got later in the season, Brett,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and into the postseason, it got up there. It was better. Okay.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: It was better.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Yes. But does my analogy make sense to you?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, I get it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Right? I like it. And you're driving home with your
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: buddy Brad, and you're going, struck out again, huh? I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: don't know, dude. I don't know why you did. But,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, maybe he's like, I mean, maybe that's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: what it was. And maybe sometimes on the power play,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: they're going, I can't shoot the puck.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: I think confidence just took a big hit last year.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I think it probably did.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: And for some reason, you know, like, if you're a
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: great golfer, and suddenly you can't putt, and you.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Have, they almost had the yips.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's an excellent way to put it.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: That's what it felt like at times. It's like they
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: pressed so hard to fix the power play. They just
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: never got it down.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: How comfortable is McKinnon in that circle, then sliding down
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to the goal line, extended short, a short porch and
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: all that. He was very comfortable doing that. Yeah. But
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, no, we're going to move you to
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the other side. He's like, cool. Like everybody wants this
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: thing to kick ass. Everybody wants it to kick up
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: a big time notch or two notches. So everybody's willing
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes to have that happen.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Whoa.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: What?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: A texter just wrote in my version of Thirsty's. He
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: actually called it out. He said, Brett probably frequented the
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Whiskey Tango in Omaha. Yes, Whiskey Tango was my Thirsty's.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: You know, I was thinking about it.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: How often do you think I danced just randomly with
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: Marty's mom at Thirsty's? Because he told us his mom
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: would go to Thirsty's in that same era.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, you would just dance with people randomly.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Out of all the things.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: He should have never admitted that.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Marty made two giant mistakes when he was here.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: He said that his mother used to go to Thirsty's
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: around the same time Vic did.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Big mistake.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Huge. The other was, what are you insecure about? And
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: he said, Ziers.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: And that became the number one thing we discussed about Marty.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing, guys.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: If you ever try and be vulnerable with any one
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: of us animals on this show, it is going to
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: end poorly for you.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: We don't do vulnerabilities. We don't do that. Marty's headphones
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: with two trash can lids with the tinfoil connecting the two, right?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: The poor guy, we just abused him. And, you know.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Talk about his mother dancing with Vick at Thirsty's for
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: like four years. I'm sure it happened. What did you
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: say before Nelly?
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Nelly was like a day away from taking over for Marty.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: And didn't you say he had the head of a
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: milk crate or something like that?
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I did, yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: No, you guys were going to build a parade float,
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: I think. And you said, hey, milk crate, build me
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: a float.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: That was... Steven, as much as I make fun about
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: you blowing on your flute. Steven, you do not.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: Now that I look at it, your head is extraordinarily large.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: It's square.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: It's huge. It's a milk crate. I mean, think about
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: what a milk crate looks like. That's his head. And Steve,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: just structurally, because it's like that, isn't a bad thing.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's just an accurate depiction. The point is this. Steven,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: as much as I make fun of you blowing your flute,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: all right? The ears and your mom, I mean, with
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the ears, yeah, they would never compare to the flute thing.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Travis writes in, you abused Marty so badly he left
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: the sports industry and moved.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Back to the Midwest. Kind of. You know he's listening
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: right now, too. He's in his cubicle.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Hey, Marty, tell mama I said hi.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, jeez.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Hey, mother, hi for me.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll talk to Coach about all this stuff here
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: in about six minutes.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: If you're just tuning in, we're going to talk to
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar in six minutes, and he is coming off
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: of literally 25 minutes ago, a four-year contract extension.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for him. I'm excited for the team. And
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the players are. Vic, the players want him.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You have to understand, when they talk to the players
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: about this and that, They want Bednar. He wants them.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Joe wants him. He wants the city. It's all good.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: All right, and we'll ask this question, I guess, to Coach,
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: who's going to have trouble answering it, but why quickly,
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: in five seconds, why was.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: It important to get it done before the season?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll answer that question, I'm sure. Why'd you make
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: that the first one?
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: I asked you.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the man himself could probably better answer
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: it here in about five and a half minutes.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: So, Jared Bednar is going to join us here in
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: just a moment.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: It's always a party at Stoney's on Lincoln, and tomorrow's
• 44:09
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• 44:12
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• 44:15
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• 44:16
  Speaker 2: We'll see you at Stoney's on Lincoln tomorrow night. Jared
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Bednar joins us next.