Anthony Gargano Praises Jimmy Butler’s Will to Win & NFL Win Totals

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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Well, good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning, good morning, Happy happy, Happy Saturday
Fox Sports Saturday Memorial Day Weekend edition where the fellas
of Anthony garganam and yeah, it's a uh Memorial Day
weekend is a first. We'd like to just remember and

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appreciate those who fall for us and all of our heroes,
both falling and living, and we want to celebrate all
those people who served. UH. Memorial Day weekend is historically
the gateway to summer, and it is the gateway to
summer twenty two. And it's funny we had I can't

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wait to talk about what Jimmy Butler day last night,
and you want to talk about, you know, playing hero
ball and delivering hero ball. That was Jimmy last night.
That was buckets in uh who was just phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.
And so we're gonna get into that and the whole thing.
But I didn't have to admit. One of the things

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that I love about Memorial Day is that it's you know,
it's the gateway to summer, ushers in summer, and what
that means is it ushers in summer. So we can
get the football. I don't know about you, guys. Man,
I got a bad football. It's I this need. I

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I'm starting to really go all right, now, let's go.
It's it's we've reached that point in the calendar where
as the NBA, you know, you start to wind up
and get the finals, were a little bit away from
the draft now and now all of a sudden you
start to go out. We're in June. You know, I'm
starting to get that training camp, which, like, let's go, man,

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that's the this is the toughest part of the NFL
off season because this is the quiet, right, you have
the quiet of June. You'll have some uh, some of
your O T A s and so you'll have those,
and it was your kind of little teasers for training camp.
And even you know, training camp preseason is different than

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in years past, so you know you've really got the
true three months. You know, I was doing the looking
up the countdown. So Tuesday will mark the one hundred
days to the start of the NFL season, and it's

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almost like you're now thankfully it's it's summer. So it's
it's our happy time, right, It's our time for travels
and and beach and you know, families and you know
the whole thing. So which is great, but we can
put the X through the day ease of the count.
They're not to wish away the summer. But knowing that

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in three months is the start of football one hundred
days to the NFL, So we will commemorate the kickoff
of one hundred days by going through the wind totals
of every team, Yes, every team. I could just see
Figgy's face. He's loving it. He's looking at me going,

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oh god, he's back. Hey guys, one little note, just
watch yourself because we my family was was COVID stricken
and the kids had it and and then my wife
had it and I'd had it and it starting. It
was it was you know, I mean it was thank God, okay,

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but it was it knocked you down a little bit.
So just watch yourself. So I know there's a little
bit of a spike and where none of us really care,
like we just want to we want to live and
that's what we should do. But just f y, I
just watch yourself and and you know, if you get
it or hadre do it or do whatever you gotta do,
because it's it can get out of hand to just
watch yourself. But last night, Buckets was was just a killer, right,

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Like Jimmy Butler was incredible last night for Miami. He
single handedly did not the simple handedly save that willed
them to win last night. When you see a game
like that, that's one of the all time performances. He
shoots sixteen for twenty nine from the field, goes to

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the line eleven times six all eleven free throws. People
go all. Jimmy's not a three point threat. He hit
four of them last night, so he gives you four
threes last night. He plays just is hard out in
every way to force a game seven in such an

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amazing way. He plays forty six minutes. Are you kidding me?
Oh my god? He gives you nine rebounds, eight assists,
four steals, a block, only one turnover. Could you imagine
forty seven? Kyle Lowry guts it out with a really

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really good game. Strusce guts out. He's been hurt. I mean,
you're talking about a team that's just been through the Ringer.
No Tyler hero last night, right, They're just they're banged
up in such a monster way. But boy man, it
was Jimmy just came to play and uh and I

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was able to basically single handedly to go beat Boston.
What a wild wild game. Tatum played incredible for Boston,
but Jimmy was was exemplarary. I mean he was. It
was an all time performance. You know. It's funny because
what I think about a performance like last night, I

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want to get One of the things that I love
to do is a sports fan is to put things
in order right, to chronicle what do they mean? And
I want to do that today with the all time
goat performances where you get single handed you know, single
handed performances like that where one guy wills you to win.

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I don't care whatever sport it is. That's a one
man wrecking ball. What Jimmy Butler did last night, I mean,
I tell you he's a guy. He's always been the
great player, not a superstar, right, You've kind of always
looked at him like a almost like a one B

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type superstar. They've never been Staff or k D or Lebron. Right,
always always that like that next tier, but then obviously
the top of the next tier great ball player. Right,
I could shoot a lot of all old things, little
things on the floor, not a great three point shooter,
but could score terrific in the mid range, could do

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a lot of things, you know, and alpha to every
you know, and he is the ultimate alpha. And in
many ways, Jimmy Butler, which is what I always loved
about him, is that he was the alpha in the room. Man.
He knows that he was the man. He was the guy,
and he was the guy that they counted all last night.

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And he you gotta want the ball. It's it's what
all great players have in common, no matter what the
sport is, you gotta want the ball. You gotta hate
to lose. And having covered Jordan's my early I started
my career and I was in Chicago and covered Mike

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and the greatest lesson that I learned was they hate
to lose versus want to win. Everybody wants to win,
right like that's a that's a saying that everybody wants
to win. But it's those who really that next level
guy they hate to lose. And Jimmy Butler's they hate

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to lose kind of cat man. And he saw it
last night where he just was all over the floor. Fantastic.
All right, let's go to our our boys, the fellas.
Here's my main, Good morning, Figg eight, Good morning yet
And how's it going, Mr? Your buddy? How's everything? Everything
is good, Everything's lovely. We finally had a competitive game

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in the Eastern Conference finals, or a conference finals is
in general. So I was pretty pretty thrilled about that.
It was like, oh, the game isn't actually over with,
you know, nine minutes left in the game, right, and
it's not a twenty point spread. I mean, it's been
It's been such a weird playoff, I mean anti climatic.
I thought it was gonna be so much better and

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then you're right, and then and last night was the
one that lives up to it. And Jimmy Figg was
was she stole over the play I mean he was.
He was that like when you talk about money man,
he was money man last night. And he in lies
the difference between someone like him and say James Harden,
who probably has been put in the superstar category over

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the last decade or so. You know, I don't think
anybody could argue against the fact that Harden is more
just more skilled than Jimmy. But Jimmy, to your point,
has that toughness, has that grit, the willingness to win,
the willingness to not shrink in the big moments, whether
or not he makes the shot, He's gonna be willing
to take the shot and put the team on his back.
And that's something that someone like Harden has not done

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throughout his career. And it's actually the exact opposite. When
it's a matter of most he's been terrible going back
to his days in Oklahoma City. And so you talk
about superstars and all stars. I'd rather have an all
star that plays like Jimmy Butler than a superstar if
you want to put Harden in that category, and I
think it's fair to put him in that category over
the last decade or so, but who doesn't have the

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exact the same attributes. I'd rather have a guy that
wants to go out there and play balls to the
wall every single night. There's someone who can do it
on a on a night in, night out basis, but
chooses not to one doesn't have the effort. I would
much rather have a guy like Jimmy Butler, uh than
the guy like James Harden. And you saw why on Friday,
and you've seen it throughout these playoffs. Jimmy's had huge
games four or forty point games in this postseason run
for Jimmy Butler. So you know you're speaking to me.

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You know that talking to me? You're speaking to him.
Oh yeah, because I'll you know, I'll take it full
circle into my own living room where I sit. And
that is obviously I do a show with Philly and
um A sixer man and A chronicled the process. And

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Jimmy Butler was in Philadelphia, right and James Harden isn't
it with Helphire? I was not lost on me when
I made the comparison. Trust me, I know it wasn't.
And I'll let you know. First of all, I think
you're spot on and everything, he said. Second of all,
I don't know if you remember you were with me

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and well that was all going on, and I kept saying,
run it back. If I'm them, I run it back,
run it back, run it back. And they did not
run it back. With Jimmy Butler and a deal. I'll
give you a little a little insight. The deal was done,
but Brett Brown went to ownership and said he just

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didn't want to get lobbied against him, and then they
withdrew the offer to Jimmy. And you know, Jimmy didn't
like Bratt and and you know there's some stuff I
can I can get into it with you, but he, uh,
he didn't like there was he thought that Brett that
Jimmy would tear apart the team. But what does it matter?

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You're winned titles. Man, Like he's really tearing apart the
Miami Heat, you know, you know, potentially two NBA Finals
appearances in four years. Yeah, really really detrimental. And you know,
you know it's funny because he help point to on
the road during they played a Game seven against the
Raptors on the road, and Jimmy didn't go to Jimmy stayed.

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The whole team stayed at the Rich Carlton and he
stayed at the four seasons like he stayed. He would.
He didn't go to shoot around that day and it
was his you know, he didn't. He didn't like Prett Brown,
so he didn't, you know, he didn't participate in those things.
And when you think back to it, right, like management
ultimately chose a coach whom they later fired, right, which

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is amazing. It almost never happens, especially in the NBA,
And you start to wonder about you know, and again
good from Miami because you know Jimmy Ki winning, Like
Jimmy can win a Game seven, and he could go
into Golden State. And I'll be honest with you, I
think of of all the deserving guys left, like I

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think Tatum will have another shot at it, and Jayalen
Brown having another shot at it, but Jimmy knocking on
the door two years ago in the bubble, still at
it with a guy like Lowry, I think he deserves it.
You know, Steph has his. And not to say that
they're not deserving because they you know again they're back

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in to fund. They're a great story in their own
right Golden State. But you know, I'd like to see
Jimmy win because I think he's a guy who deserves it. Listen,
we remember him calling out you know, Cat and Wiggins
in Minnesota, and we we know him that's this hard ass.

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But I I want to you know, to me, I
want to tip onto the alpha male. I mean, you know,
he's the alpha dog. He's the guy who just says
I want to go out and I want to achieve
and I want to win. And he's Colonel Jessup. Yeah,
because he's not one of these classic you know, a
A you guys, he was a guy that was a

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second round pick, had to fight for everything that he has,
and he just has a he feels really badly about
these guys who are who are coddled and want everything
done their way. And you know, that's why he had
such an issue with guys like Caton Wiggins. Maybe he
turned off some people in Philadelphia for a part for
a part of the same reasons he did not Brown

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but right right, yeah, yeah, Brett at Ben Simmons, Yeah,
and so that and neither of those guys are still
there and uh and Jimmy Butler's uh in Game seven
of the Eastern Conference Finals. So what did I tell you? Yeah?
And the fans loved them, yea, the fans. You know,
he spoke right to the fans. Yeah, he was many

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ways was a player meant for my town. Absolutely, that
tough mentality, Absolutely, an underdog type of story, gives it all,
demands excellence from everybody around him because he doesn't demand
any less of himself. And by the way, I think
that's part of the reason. I do think a little
bit of the quote unquote he'd culture things to slightly overrated,

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but I do think there's a certain type of player
that they do like to bring in and in power,
and I think he fits that mold. He's a pat
riley kind of guy, you know, and I think the
rest of the locker room kind of marches to his
to his beat and lowry acts. They say fit to absolutely.
Loy's that kind of kid, that kind of dude, that
same tough guy. And you know Tyler hero wasn't and

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they he had a tough year last year and he
grinded through and he's actually you know when healthy, you know,
fits that mold to. Now you know you can mold
it into the culture as well. I'm completely with you.
Let's do it like an own to the alphits. We're
gonna do that today. And of course football football football,

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the o t A juice is flowing. Huh dude, we
you know this is this time of year where I
start to go all right, you know we gotta wait
how much longer we gotta wait for it? Well, he
said it's a hundred days, right, So this is where
we start the countdown where like every time we hit
a number, you say a player, So ninety nine days,
it's a warrant SAP until the start of the season.
Is such a loser, right, I'm such a loser. I

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love it. I love the countdown. That's right, Reggie White.
You can't wear a number a hundred, but I'll go
Jim out of a double zero. That'll work close enough.
I love a Jim Otto reference. Are you kidding me?
It's fantastic. I love it all right, we're the fellows.

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We're just getting on the way. You get the whole crew, Pycho, Chris,
how you doing, man, I'm I am celebrating this week
in from one of my teams. That's right. It's not
in Detroit, but I've for those who know me, I
followed Roma for a very long time in soccer. We're

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on the counts. I'm going, what's she talking about? They're out?
You go to Roma. Roma. It's been my soccer team
for a very long time. In Rome, Italy followed them,
you know, since the days of Francesco Toddy talking about

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Alpha's right there with Toddy, one of the greatest players
to ever lived. But I mean they just won. It
was the first Europa Conference League this year. You would
like this is basically European soccer expanding. It's it's you know,
it's it's it's playoffs, it's it's big. You know, all
the European domestic leagues play each other and Roma gets

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to be the first winner of the Conference League over
fand what's the Champions So Champions so I I this
is gonna be an unflattering comparison. So there's three levels
of competition. You got Champions League, which is like your
top one to four for some of the big leagues,
or top one or two for some of the smaller ones.

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Europa League, which is like five and six, and then
Conference League now sits kind of beneath that. So if
you're gonna put this into comparison, I would say Champions
League is your n c A tournament, Europa is n
I T and Conference is probably like a CBT. Oh god, alright,
but listen, Roma's never wanted European Champions Listen, man, it

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means something that it means something big to Rome. They're
celebrating cool. Yeah, and we're all the countdown to Eagles Lions.
I'm ready to square off with you. Yeah, fake? How
about the opener, man, Eagles Lions. I'm surprised that's not
the Sunday night game. Hell, for us. It is right

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for us, Hurts versus Jared Goff. Let's go being baby,
Let's roll, let's go. I'm in all right. We got
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get your podcast. Welcome back, fellas. You know. One of

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the one of the things that if you're a sports
kick like us, when you have a game like last night,
like like in full disclosure, I was I was bailed
on the playoffs, man, I bailed on him. I was like,
I'm I'm done. I wait for the finals. Uh, the
games are just uninteresting and I sit back, look forward

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to it, and it's you know, it's different when you
if you have two or three in a night where
you would get, hey, look you know the first one
to clunker, but there's a second one, right, there's a nightcap.
This one, oh my god, was one night and it
was a blowout. It was like harrible. So I have
bailed the half bailed on it. And then last my

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causing those dude, you're watching this, I got that and
he goes, you better put this on, and it was
and you know, I got to see Jimmy just and
I was happy he did. He texted me because I
don't want to miss that, and I didn't want to
miss that performance. And as a sports geek, it's those performances,

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you know, going back to like my youth, like I
think back to those kinds of Jordan's esque performances. That's
what Jimmy gave you last night. The Alpha performance, and
I think back to some of the great old time
performances and if you're watching Winning Time, they chronicle probably

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one of the greatest playoff performances ever was the Magic
jump at center forty two points with Kareem on the
bench with with an injury, Magic rookie comes in and
just just forty two thirteen, you know, eight at six.

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He was just ridiculous that night, and it was It
was one of the basis of the Winning Time Showtime,
the Showtime Lakers on HBO. Did you see that episode?
Oh yeah, I saw the entire series. Definitely. That was
so much fun too, wasn't it. It was so they
like again, took creative liberties, but it was definitely entertaining.

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I don't know if I don't know if Spencer Hey
what had a hit on the Lakers entire team, but
I guess I certainly added some some extra, uh theatrical
drama to it. But I thought they did a good
job chronicling uh that game, you know, and magic and
you know you mentioned unfortunately for sixer fans, uh taking
over that game six and just dominating for start to finish. Yeah,

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thanks everybody, Sorry, Yeah, that was my first memory as
a Sixer fan. Yikes, I was a boy, a little
tiny boy, you know, and that game, I'll give you
a little it's like was on tape de Lay's Rights
where the that's where the NBA was at that point,
and it was on tape delay and the game because

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the game was at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, the game
was on eleven thirty on the CBS of Philly. And
I remember asking, like, you know, I mean, I'm I
don't know how old. That was, young, real young, And
I had asked my mother, you know, can we you know,
can I take a nap and then take a nap
and watch the game? And uh, you know it was

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and we thought that that was, you know, that was
gonna be a big deal. Six Is would win, no Kareem.
And that that's how you know, they depicted it in
the movie and or the TV show, and I'm sure
it was like that in real life. Everybody just assumed,
all right, what we got Game seven coming up. They're
not gonna win tonight. Hopefully they'll have, you know, have
Cat back in the lineup in Game seven. It was
a foregone you know what kind of like Friday night

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in Boston everybody thought it was a foregone conclusion that
the heat we're gonna roll over and the Boston was
gonna know destroy them like they did a couple of
nights ago. Uh, and it didn't happen, So you just
never that's exactly. It's exactly it those nights like that Figgy,
Like if we're gonna chronicle the great performances and those
great nights where you know, the complete opposite happens, you know,

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and we'll take it to other sports too. Let's let's
come up with this, and Chris, I want you in
on this, like, let's kind of come up with this
sort of thing. And you know, when we think about
those types of epic you know, performances, like you know,
it's it's weird. One of the first names that came

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to mind was Oral harsh Eiser. Oh yeah, run but
the Dodgers, Yeah, incredible, you don't want because he was
also he was another alpha dude, Oral harsh Eiser. He
was they used to call him both nickname Oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, he was that dude. He was nasty man.

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He come in and like he like just like Jimmy,
no fear. Part of part of the alpha is to
perform and play with, you know, unbridled fearlessness, you know, right,
and you know I give a I you know Alan Irverson.
Now they lost that series against the Lakers in two

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thousand and one, but his Game one performance was spectacular
when people thought, remember the Lakers had swept their way
throughout that entire post season, didn't lose a single game,
come back in Game one at home against the seventies
six or who are heavy underdogs, and they found a
way to win that game in overtime, and a I was,
what do you have points something like that in that
Game one. It's just that's one of the that was

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the step over game has to step over Tyler absolutely,
you know. So they didn't win the series, but as
far as individual performances on big stages go and games
that you wouldn't expect to go that way, correct, that
was that was It's a great one. You know what's
funny about that Game two. It's as late as the

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third quarter and the Sixes are up ten in Game
two after stealing Game one, Like there was a thought
at that I'll never forget thinking, oh my god, they're
going to shock the world. And then all of a sudden. Well,

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it was like, no, you're not back down to earth.
But it's pretty cool when you see players, you know,
playing at the highest level when the odds are against them,
you know, every cliche and they actually perform. It's like
something out of a movie, but it's not. It's happening
right before your eyes. No, I know you're you're dead right.
And you know what's funny. You made the comparison with

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Harding and you're right, dude, like you know, you're a
hundred percent. It's almost like it. And this is why
when I used to joke around Corn on the Hasta
because he was in numbers guy, right, you know, tremended
this ballplayer, like you know, I mean the one thing

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as much as I would would you know, bust him
and tease him with the Hasta thing. I always say, wow,
he's a great ballplayer. Yeah, you know, I mean, yeah,
I mean it was. It was. However, Jimmy was more
you know, less numbers and just more grit. Yes, And

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I feel like I would take that mentality over a
guy like Harden any day of the week. Again, even
though Harden is more talent, I don't even more talented,
but he's definitely more skilled from a basketball skill standpoint,
but just that mentality because it's also what it does
and is it it rallies other guys around you too.
And I never thought that James Harden was a leader
in that sense where everybody says, we're gonna rally around James.

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Like I go back to remember when they the Clippers.
This is one of doc rivers and miscollapses. But the
Clippers were up I think fifteen points going into the
fourth quarter of the second round in in Game six,
they we're gonna close it out, and the Rockets were
terrible with Dwight Howard and James Harden on the floor,
were awful. That come back they had in the fourth

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quarter was all backups and scrubs and cast offs. James
Harden wasn't even on the floor for that comeback. They
rallied around each other. They didn't rally around James Harden.
Jimmy Butler. Historically, those guys seemingly rally around him and
take on his personality, and that's the sign of a
true leader. That's such a great point, dude, that that dude,

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that's a that's a tremendous, tremendous point And and it was.
It's funny because you start to think back to that
Minnesota team and you go, yeah, because because nothing nothing
but Carl Anthew Towns a terrific player, extremely talented, absolutely,

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I mean you know, I mean he's a great, great player.
And you know, even wigts to some extent. You know what,
he got his he came, he got his career back
a little bit. He's turned into a good role player.
I don't know, He's not what people thought he would
be coming out, certainly a productive player at least exactly.
But you look at those guys and you wonderer, like,

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why why couldn't they match Butler's mentality? Because if they did,
they would have, you know, they would have achieved. And
it's weird because because of that, because she goes Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Miami.
It's rare that you get a player of his ilk

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that's been on four teams, right, because you just look
at the resume or or you know, or statue and say, wow,
he really bounced around a lot. The must be something
wrong with him, right, What was his issue? Why couldn't
he stick anywhere? Yeah? Yeah, it's bizarre, and it's like
and it's funny because one of his teammates to buyas
Harris is the guy who moved around a lot too,

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but he moves around more because he's passive like a
good ball player, real good ball player. But everybody waits
for him to like reach a novel level, whereas Jimmy,
it's more of well, was he a pain in the
ass or was it everybody else was just soft? Which

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is turned out to be the truth. Sta seems like
it right because he certainly found the right environment where
his personality is able to thrive. And there don't seem
to be any any person down in Miami that has
any issue with the way that he that that he
conducts himself in the way that he plays. Yeah, yeah,
you're spot on. I got another game, You're ready? Is

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a good one. My man to taste the Kake comes
up with this one. It taste the Kate dumb, long time,
I'll know here, heat down three to Boston going nuts.
Oh I know where you're going with this one, And
all this sudden, the guy who was labeled a choker

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starts to dominate and changes history and his own narrative
to be listed as one of the goats. Lebron forty
five points five points against. That was one of the
amazing games. Was that was that was when he turned

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into a goat. It was because that was the year
following the embarrassing loss I believe to the UH to
the Dallas Mavericks, or it may have been. It may
have been two years or moved. They may have beaten
Oklahoma City the year the year before in the finals.
But regardless, people still had doubts about Lebron and whether
or not he was a killer, which I always thought
was ridiculous. But anyway, that narrative was certainly out there

(31:55):
and going up against his nemesis that you know, it
was the tail end of the Big three in Boston,
and he took it to him. And like the iconic
video or photo from that series is late in the
fourth quarter and he's bent over with his hands on
his knees and he has like this scowl on his face,
his game face. You know, Yes, still the coach of Boston,

(32:17):
I believe. So, yeah, Doc was still there. Yeah, they
were talking twelve, I believe, right, So yeah, I think
that was Doc was still there and I believe that
may have been the last year that may have actually
broke up the Big Three. That may have been the
season the postseason that proceeded the Giant trade to the
Nets where they blew it up. Yeah yeah, in that
wild Man, that's why a baby, all right. Well, speaking

(32:40):
of the Miami Heat in Boston, they did defeat Boston
one eleven to one or three, forcing a Game seven
in the Eastern Conference Finals. We've been talking about Jimmy
Butler scoring a career high forty seven or a playoff
career high. I should say forty seven points in the victory. Now,
Game seven will take place in South Beach on Sunday
at five thirty Eastern eight thirty Eastern time, excise me
five thirty Pacific. Lakers, by the way, agreed to terms

(33:02):
with Buck's assistant coach Darvin Ham. He agrees to a
four year contract to become their next head coach. In
the NHL, Colorado defeating St. Louis three to two in
Game six, they advanced to the Western Conference Finals against Edmonton.
On the diamond trade turner Mookie Bets with home runs
for the Dodgers. They defeat Arizona six to four. Seattle
roughed up Justin Verlander four home runs off of the
former Cy Young winner six to one, the victory over

(33:25):
Houston for Seattle, Baltimore overcoming game seven nothing deficit to
beat Boston twelve to eight, Blue Jays over the Angels
four to three, Reds beat the Giants, Carlos Carey hitting
his third home run of the season as Minnesota defeated
Kansas City. You also had wins for the Yankees Padres
as well. Back to the Fellas, all right, what do
you think about Darvin Ham? Honestly, I think he's probably

(33:48):
the best option of the three, just from everything that
I've heard and read about everyone else. The other three
Candida the other two candidates, I should say, with Terry
Stott's and Kenny Atkinson. Kenny A. Atkinson looked at as
more of a player to element guy better with maybe
a young roster. Terry Stotts is, you know, kind of
like a journeyman head coach. He's solid, but hasn't really
done a whole lot. He will be considered kind of

(34:08):
a retreat at this point. Darvin Ham at the very least,
you know, you see some young head coaches who have had,
you know, measures of success. Taylor Jenkins and Memphis is
doing a great job. Email. Udoka is doing a great
job in Boston, So I guess it's why not roll
the dice with the guy who was a former player.
He seems to have the respect of all the players.
Lebron James, you know, give him a bit of a
vote of confidence on Twitter after the higher was made.

(34:30):
So I figured, why not go with some new blood,
because you never know when you find a diamond in
the rough. Very interesting. Um, personally, I'm completely disappointed. So
who would you? Oh yeah, I know who you? You
wanted them to hire Doc Rivers. Laker fans was breathing
a sigh of relief if that didn't happen. Oh my god,

(34:53):
I figure I was praying. Yeah, they are praying because
if you look at like tech sickly speaking, there are
there are a lot of issue. Well, first of all,
there are many issues with the Lakers the way they
were constructed, and then I think coaching wise, especially offensively,
people thought that there was a lot left to the imagination.
Uh this past year with Frank Vogel, who you know
is a defensive guy by trade. So I don't know

(35:14):
if Doc Rivers as great as a you know, a
statesman and can relate to players and and all of
that dealing with personalities, but his endgame coaching has left
much to be desired, especially when it matters most in
the postseason. And if you have Lebron James and Anthony Davis,
the postseason is all you're playing for and your that's
your goal to get back and try to win championships.

(35:35):
And I don't see Doc Rivers as someone who's gonna
lead you back to to that promised land. So I
think they made the right choice. I think choice, Yeah,
a good decision. Yeah, there's a lot of young guys
who look who was Tyler before he took over in
Cleveland mid season led them to a title, and now
he's doing great things with the Clippers. So there's nothing
wrong with going with the young assistant. If you think
he has the proper vision, it can have the respect

(35:56):
of the players. I think that's big. Yeah, I'm with it.
I just wanted to get out of that contract. They
were saying, well, would you trade it for a second round?
I was like, I'll throw in the second round for
the next two years. If I had a first I
could trade, I would do that. Uh, all right, we

(36:19):
got lots to do. We'll come back the Fellas now,
I want to chronicle not Chris. Start to think about
other sports where we saw this type of performance to
the Ode to the Alpha in response to Jimmy last night,
Oh to the Alpha. If we're looking for those kinds
of performances, we'll get the little wind totals coming up too.

(36:43):
I gotta think about treats and our own the stuff
that we love, so we'll give in to that as well.
Where the Fellas on a Memorial Day weekend Saturday, Fox
Sports Saturday on Fox Sports at Radio. Hey, it's Ben,
host to the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory along with
my trustee sidekick David Gascon. Would mean a lot to

(37:05):
have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking,
what in God's name is the Fifth Hour. I'll tell
you it's a spin off of that Ben Mallery show,
Cold Hit overnights on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture
if you will the world will? We chat with captains
of industry in media, sports and more every week Explorer
some amazing facts about a human nature and more. Let's

(37:25):
sen to the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory on the
I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get
your podcast, Welcome Back Fellas hanging Out. I gotta tell
you I I discovered it. I um no, I didn't discover.
I'm watching a new show. So my wife watched it,
and uh and I started. She said, I said, what

(37:46):
are you watching? I don't know if your your wife
does this fake, but she watches, like you know, my
wife has her shows or whatever. And I go, will
you watch? She's like, what do you care? Like you're not,
You're not gonna like it, Like, go downstairs and watch
your games, right, Like we we we have our shows

(38:07):
that we like that we watched together. Yeah, same, we
have shows that we watched together. And we have shows
that we that I'll enjoy and not do them on
my own and likewise verse right, like so you know
our our big shows like we do our you know
we did we just got done Peaky Blinders. I've heard
that's a really good show. I've not seen. It's just incredible.
Fig It's just an incredible show, amazing show. So anyway,

(38:30):
she's I said, what do you want, we'll touch the
tell me who you want. She goes, Russian doll. Have
you heard of Russian doll? I have not, Now, Psycho
Christian is up your rally to man? Ever heard of it?
I have not. I'm kind of way behind. It's a
Netflix it's a Netflix show and basically it's about this

(38:55):
girl who lives in New York and it goes into
parallel universes, alternate planes of existence, and time travel home
in just based on the premise you you guys would
love you got it's a goat show to watch with
your wife, like you guys are got into. It's a

(39:17):
half hour show and it's got some levity to it,
but it's it's deep man. It's it's a d it's
a really it's well done. You gotta stick with it
because I'll just tell you that it's like the a Chronicles,
you know, multiple her death which happened several times, but

(39:42):
you know, her personal thousand ways to die kind of thing. Well,
but there's a story behind it and it's like she's
got to figure out the intersection to make sure that
the chain of existence is intact. It's it's like it's
got a really deep kind of tone to it, but

(40:03):
it's it's, uh, it's fun man, it's a good show.
And she's failed the lead. It's fantastic. She She says
that she is a cross between the girl from Brave
and Andrew Dice Clay. That's an interesting mix that she
she describes herself as that. And uh, it's a great

(40:27):
show man, it really, it really is, you know, for
the whole so week because we're six so you know,
we're binging it and there's two seasons. So we watched
the I watched the first one, Jared already watched it.
We watched that together, and we watched the second one,
and I started thinking about the whole week long. I'm
thinking about the alternate planes of existence in the sports world.

(40:50):
The Sixers won the finals exactly, exactly fig fellas Fox, Well,
good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
happy happy Memorial Day weekend the gateway to summer twenty
twenty two. It's upon us, man a little summer action.

(41:13):
So we're gonna get into the to celebrate summer and
summer retreats, and we're gonna have some fun with that
a little bit later on, and we have the four
coming back today, so we're gonna we'll do that as well.
We're celebrate in the Alpha. After that incredible performance that
Jimmy Butler had in Boston. Last night, everybody thought it

(41:35):
was a Boston Golden State Finals. And at last night
all it was was just a matter of forty eight
minutes and the Seas would win. But here it was
Jimmy says, now games tight, the game's tied at ninety five,

(42:01):
and Jimmy just takes over with a night forty seven plays,
forty six minutes, has one turn You imagine you hand
a little ball all that all night, right, you had
the ball in your hands. Forty seven points, nine assists,
a rebounds, four steals, a block, and just one turnover.

(42:27):
I mean, that's just an incredible night, an incredible knight.
And but that goes beyond his stats, right, I can,
I can. I can give you the stats that just
jump off the page, off the box score, but it's
it goes beyond that. It's a guy willing his team. No,
Tyler hero, you know, been bagged up all series prohibitive

(42:48):
dog in a game everybody thought four gone conclusion, and
yet Jimmy said no. And so you know, Jimmy Butler
Buckets has always been in the alpha a lot to
his to his detriment, right, like you know, the the
great story of Jimmy Butler is it's just four teams.

(43:08):
He's on his fourth team in Miami. We remember Chicago
and then how he gets moved and he was close
to stardom in Chicago. I mean he he was borderline
star in Chicago. And then he gets moved to Minnesota,

(43:29):
and remember Tips was his guy, and then, uh, the
best is he had enough of Cat and Wiggins and
how they approached their work and how they approached the game.
Jimmy didn't see eye to eye. Jimmy exposed them. Jimmy

(43:49):
exposed him and and embarrassed them publicly. That goes to
Philadelphia to this day has a really really good relationship
ship with Joel and Bead probably the only player with
that kind of relationship, like those two share a very

(44:11):
unique bond. But somehow because of Brett Brown and Ben Simmons,
it didn't work out in Philly, much to Philly's loss,
and he goes to Miami and now he's in his
second final. Is that well, he could go into could

(44:31):
reach his second finals. Still in game seven, he's got
a chance, and as much as I so, I think
Bolston probably bounces back. But nonetheless, it doesn't make Jimmy
Jimmy Butler less heroic. Would you agree with that? Fig?

(44:54):
You know, it's uh, it's pretty amazing, you know, the
career arc that he's had, coming from base sally nothing
in nowhere to being where he is now to be
he's one of the more respected of nothing else players
in the entire league. Uh, for the way that he plays,
for his mentality, and even though he's bounced around from
team to team, there's individual circumstances as to why. And

(45:14):
that's the part that gets lost when we have these
sorts of conversations we talk about legacies and players, and
you know, you look down and say, he's played on
all these different teams. Well, there's a reason why he
got moved from Chicago, you know, there's the reason why
I got moved to Minnesota, and then from Minnesota to Philadelphia.
Didn't stay in Philadelphia, you know, and all those reasons
aren't necessarily you know, directly his fault, you know, I

(45:35):
mean Philadelphia you mentioned it was they picked Brent Brown
over him. Yes, you know, and like I said, which
is a rarity that you pay the coach over a player.
And Ben Simmons as well, Yeah, I know, Joel and
b didn't have much of an issue with him, but Simmons, Uh,
to say that he's solved is probably an understatement at
this point. I'm sure people in Philly would agree. And

(45:55):
I'm sure Jimmy Butler called him one on a few times,
a couple two or three times when he was there too,
and that didn't sit well with him. And at the time,
Ben was still seen as the you know, rising, one
of the faces of the franchise along with Joel Oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah. There was a it's amazing man.
There was a lot of talk about you know who

(46:16):
who would have the ball in his hands, and Jimmy's like, listen,
I gotta have the ball in my hands because you
gotta be a threat to shoot, right like that? Like real,
Actually that was really Brett Brown. Brett Brown wanted to
put the ball in Jimmy's hands. I don't do this day.
I One thing I don't know is what rubbed Jimmy

(46:39):
the wrong way about Brett. Jimmy just didn't think he
was a good coach. Yeah, and he strikes me as
a guy that kind of you know, he wears his
heart on his sleeve, doesn't you know? Pull punches is
not going to sugarcoat anything. So I can see I
can see Jimmy and practice and Brett saying okay, do X,
Y and Z, and Jimmy saying, no, that's stupid. We
should be doing a B and C and saying it

(47:01):
just like that, No, that's stupid. You know, But that's
a lot of great players are like that. You know.
Kobe was like that. Maggie Johnson by the way. I
know he smiles and all that stuff. But let's talk
to talk to pat Riley or any of his teammates.
I used to work with one of his teammates, Michael Thompson,
does local radio out here in l A. And he'll
tell you how tough Magic was, and he'll call people

(47:23):
out and we'll get into fights and practice. That's what
competitors do. Yeah, and see it's funny because that was
Jimmy in a lot of ways. I mean, he was
frustrated the way Brett. Brett was very esoteric as a coach. Like,
you know what's funny. I I was at I used

(47:43):
to go a lot of his practices and was working
on this book project with them. It was, you know,
you're I was there a lot and you know, Brett
would have times when it was very interesting, got beautiful man,
like nice, nice man, but he would and like he
was big with bonding. Like so they were very international,

(48:05):
so they would have culture and they would have these
they would talk about what was kind of events and
whatever it was happening. So it was a lot of
like that sort of bonding whereas you know, you could
see a guy like Jimmy, he was like, you know,
forget about this kombayot stuff. Basketball. Yeah. Yeah, I think

(48:31):
that was probably the root of it, because I can't
imagine that that held his attention. No, and there there
there was a lot of guys of that ILK corp
like that, And look, it's good to have a you know,
a deviation from the norm every now and then. You know.
I read the the book the Rose, recent book that
was written about the New York Knicks, the nineties Knicks,
and there was a year where they were struggling a

(48:52):
little bit and pat Riley didn't tell the team diverted
the plane they were gonna go to Vegas. They couldn't,
so I think he took him to Reno and they
spent the weekend there and they're all floored by it
and thought he was playing a joke because pat Riley
is like this hardass, tough coach you know, you know,
if you if you can't handle it, then get off
my team type. And it was a deviation from the norm,
and they felt that actually helped propel them because it

(49:14):
gave him a little bit of a break. But if
it's something that you do all the time, the treat
isn't a treat. If you do it, you know, three
every you know, every other day, so that that that
it kind of wears off. You could be the closest
you could be the closest team ever gonna be terrible
on the court. You know that we can't lose sight
of you lose sight of the fact of why we're here,
you know what I mean? Yeah, now with out of

(49:36):
doubt and I you know, it's not just bonding, right,
you gotta try to win. It's it's great that you
would bond, but that needs to be the byproduct. Yeah,
and look and look there are players who will tell you.
Some will say like, hey, team bonding is extremely important,
and those just say it doesn't mean anything. Also, like
I've been on teams who were super close that won
two games. I'm just using from an NFL perspective. And

(49:56):
then I've been on teams that were you know, guys
were necessarily fighting, but we weren't. The close is the
friends and we want twelve games and went to the
playoffs and you know, made a deep run. Yeah yeah,
that's that's his spot on. All right, So let's do this.
Let's let's kind of chronicle some of those performances where
you have that we watched the last night that we

(50:18):
celebrate in history. In fact, some of the guys listening
hit me with what about Mr October? Like you can't
have Mr October is your nickname and not and not
give you that Reggie Jackson, you know, I know it's
before a lot of people's times, but my god, like that.
Those are the you know, the the big moment guys, right,

(50:43):
the legend the goats of of of the big games,
you know, yeah, you know, and one more modern, uh.
I go with Madison Bumgarner Friday Night, not withstandard the Dodgers,
and he's one of those has weird careers. It's he
was he's a good I was, He's not average as
a I guess the last couple of years he has been.

(51:04):
As a regular season pitcher, he was always good, never great,
But man, once he got to the playoffs, lights out,
Well he has a Yeah, he's he's exactly He's the
bizarro Kershaw. He's the exact opposite. It was like an
r A of one or something in five or six
World Series games. It's incredible the way he turns it on.

(51:25):
And a couple of those performances were like on two
days rest. I mean, just so it's not an individual
game or performance. Serious performances, dude, that's insane. Yeah, it's unreal.
That is incredible. Yeah, in the twenty four team playoffs
he was four and one with a one e r
A M and over five World Series games in his

(51:48):
career point to five r A point to five in
five World Series. That's insane. That is ridiculous, Absolutely ridiculous.
That is the deaf finition of a big time performer. Psycho, Chris,
give me football man. Let's yeah, I've got a few
here because I'm I think the problem for me is

(52:09):
like I'm trying to figure out a way to not
just look at a quarterback because I feel like it's
pretty easy to see when a quarterback's going off right, right,
you know, I get points that year that that is
a that that whole playoff, and I was even thinking,
I mean even as early back as the Patrick Mahomes
playoff front in where they're always down, or even you know,

(52:31):
Matthew Stafford sixteen. But let me give you one who's
not a quarterback. Although again, real quick before I get
off the quarterback though, like I know, we all know
he's great. But I can't speak enough about that Super
Bowl for for Tom Brady beating the Falcons, Like that's
just I've never seen performance like that. I don't think

(52:52):
I ever will. But you know what about Von Miller's
Super Bowl fifty gets like what two and a half sacks,
two quarterback gets forces to fumble and he's doing all
this chasing after you know, the season m v P
in Cam Newton, Yeah, and and and he basically listen,
that was the end that Cam Newton there was he

(53:12):
just pushed Cam Newton did like that was it Like
he was Cam Newton went rise right, guys, and that
Super Bowl was he was He was never the same.
That was That was a result. I it was just
as shocking as the result when the Seahawks played the Broncos, right,

(53:33):
because that's super what we all thought that'd be a
tight game where the Broncos clearly had an edge, and
instead Peyton Manning comes out and gets absolutely stomped by
the legion of Boom. And we kind of expect a
more pitched game between a great Broncos defense and Super
Bowl fifty and you know what we saw of Cam
Newton that entire season. Instead of what comes out as
von Miller immediately sacks Cam Newton turns in the first

(53:55):
touchdown the game, and then the gas never lets up,
Like the Broncos just keep slamming, just keep slamming, just
missiles into Cam Newton and he just keeps crumbling under
that pressure. Oh man, he did crumble, Mike, did he
ever not crumble? The kind of play for me is uh,
someone thumb, someone fumbled the ball. I forget exactly who

(54:17):
it was. And Cam could have dove for it and
decided not to back And he said after the game,
he was like, well, you know, I could have injured
my shoulder. Yeah, the famous business decision. Everyone killed him
for that for really, like it was like, bro, this
is the Super Bowl. If if you're ever going to
try to die get injured on a play. That's the
one that's the super I mean, you know, not enough,

(54:39):
That's that I thought. I thought. And then the irony
of all ironies is he eventually ends up hurting his
shoulder and his career is never the same after the
shoulder injury. It was like canny, It's ridiculous now keeping
on von Miller. I think like two weeks before then
the a f C Championship, he also got like Miller

(55:01):
hit Brady like four times another two and a half sacks.
Like he was just he was just a monster that
entire play, that entire NFL playoff. Yeah, he was just unbelievable.
And like he's still and I mean he even even
as leaders the last last year where he's with the Rams,
he was still kind of just doing it. Just one

(55:23):
of the great defensive players. I think I'm ever gonna
see Miller. Uh he did right. Well, I know they
didn't win the game. And you'll remember this one, Anthony,
Uh the first time the Patriots played the Eagles in
the Super Bowl and uh, we had Terrell Owens with
the broken leg and they didn't know they're everyone was

(55:47):
surprised that he even played, and he had one a
hundred and twenties something receiving yards. I mean people were
saying like, oh, the Patriots played him soft. I didn't
watch the game film like that, so maybe they were.
Remember they weren't. But coming off of a broken leg
at three weeks earlier, four weeks old, maybe, and to
come back and have a game like that against a
really good defense was a pretty impressive performance. That's a
category in inns of its own that I love. The idea.

(56:09):
It's like a guy out there trying to put a
team on the back, but it's always kind of in
a in just an effort that's ultimately going to fail
because like you, you mentioned that, and the first thing
I think of for me, as you know, with Detroit
Sports and my veins and everything, is like the Isaiah
Thomas performance on the ankle. That's right, Yeah, with the
with the stuff ankle. It was a losing effort for
the Pistons, but Isaiah played out of his mind. Jack

(56:31):
young Blood playing on a broken leg in the Super Bowl,
you know there are some there are a lot of
classic stories like that. Yeah, yeah, no, I'll never forget
the t O one he had no business being back.
That's the first time I heard about the hyper barrack chamber.
Oh was it with to It was the first time

(56:51):
I ever heard about it. And and the so In fact,
there's a guy named Rick Burkeholter. Rick is the trainer
for the Chiefs. He was the trainer of the Eagles,
and he worked great trainer and he work Pittsburgh guy
like was raising football. He worked hand in hand with

(57:15):
t O on his rehab and he would tell me,
he goes, you never saw anyone work harder at a
rehab than tarall Owens to get back from the leg.
And you know what, he it's unfair that he gets
he gets, you know, unduly criticized as his coup. Now

(57:37):
he may have, he may be half a coup. But
but when he's doing the sit ups in his driveway right,
which people point to, like, look how crazy this dude is.
The bottom line is he would he did to get
back for that Super Bowl, and he's the best player
on the field in fact, and he builds the game

(57:59):
plan and puts him in the game plan. But thinking
you know, as you should, well, you know I'm not
going to go full bore, he said. Listen, if I'd
known he was going to be that healthy and play
that well, you know he was, I would have I
would have made him. I would have put the normal
amount of plays in him right for him. But you know,

(58:20):
he's thinking he's got to manage him, and it turns
out he's he's that dominant of a force. And then
he just wants a new contract because he gets signed
on a on a cheap deal and the the Eagles
don't give it to him. That would that would buck
me too. I was always on t l side for that.
I don't know if I agree with his antics, but

(58:41):
I certainly understand why he wanted an extension at that point. Yeah,
like that was come on, dude, you gotta you gotta
give the guys. You gotta give the guy a bonus here,
rip up the deal, do whatever you gotta do. Give
the extension. He didn't have to take shot to Donovan McNabb.
I think that was probably one of the missteps for me.
He was like, all right, this was throwing up on
the field, why don't you pay me. I was like,

(59:02):
it might be true, you probably shouldn't say it. You
know why he was mad at Donovan because Donovan didn't
have his back when it came to that, Yeah, Donovan,
Donovan should have went and said yo, yeah, he should
have been the main one, right. But but Donovan was
jealous to Teo. Like they were, they were like tight,
and then all of a sudden there was a Halloween

(59:24):
party and falling out. I think Keith Donovan was a
little jealous because t O was a fan favorite. It
was a weird relationship. But I'll tell you that the
every telling story when they were there was a brawl
in the in the tub with Hugh Douglas vague, the
ambassador at the time. Yeah, but but I refreshed my memory.

(59:45):
I vaguely remember the story. So there there, so there,
there is an argument between Hugh and t O. Chrise
To was flapping his gums right and he was not.
Teo gets out of the toub of the cold tub,
puts his puts his slides on, and it goes after

(01:00:09):
Hugh Dougles, who was a monster guy. Hugh tough guy, right,
big guy. Right. TiO goes after him, right, and there's
a couple of swats and TiO can fight man show
that all of a sudden he catch his eye contact
with Donovan and he goes, will you look at at

(01:00:29):
d donav turned it out and turn turn, turn around,
and he will love it. I'm not surprised by that. Yeah, yeah,
Teo was not smart. He was out of his mind anyway.
But he deserved the kind of shame because they should
That's another one that was they should have worked that out.

(01:00:52):
But he had that Jimmy Butler thing in him. All right,
we are we gotta take quick t o. We could
come back. We got lots to get to. Where the
fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio, all right, welcome back,
fellas hanging on a Memorial Day weekend talking about the

(01:01:13):
all time like alpha performances off of Jimmy Butler this night.
So we're having some fun with that. It's also Memorial
Day weekend, and uh, historically that's the you know, the
gateway to summer. Man, It's it's what it is. It's
like people look at it and go, all right, you know,
summer two is here. I know, Figgy, you've got a

(01:01:34):
big trip planned this summer. It's coming up in a
cover in a few weeks where you're gonna go in
your honeymoon, hitting up your your motherland. There, go in
Italy to the Motherlands, which is gonna be may. I
can't wait for you to go to Chicka Tear. Oh yeah,
that's gonna be fun. You're gonna you're gonna love it.
You're gonna love it. It's gonna be great. What is

(01:01:56):
your typical now, you know, if you're not going abroad
and and you're gonna be somewhat local, what's your typical summer?
You know, what are you hitting up in this summer? Well,
I'm usually thankfully live near the water, close to the
beach now, so I will typically make at least a
few trips to the beach, you know, um, but try
to get outside and get some get some sun, you

(01:02:18):
know what I mean. I know it's it's we live
in southern California. We're very spoiled out here from a
weather standpoint, but there's nothing like summer, you know what
I mean. So I love going out. I love hitting
up the beach a little bit, you know, playing a
little beach volleyball, you know, embarrass myself out there in
the corporate have a little bit of fun, you know.
So definitely a lot more outdoor activity when it comes
to when it comes to the summer, rolling around for sure.

(01:02:39):
Now what age your summer? You're bet like we were.
I was chronicling this yesterday. The Great Summer Treats. So
we have this thing and uh are near the beach
is a board We have a boardwalk with amusements and
rides and all kinds of treats. So the Great Summer

(01:03:00):
a treat Like they have these boardwalk French fries that
are you know, just ridiculous. They're like decadent fries. And
then they have like the Barwol pizza and the various
ice cream, water ice the whole thing. What's your favorite
summertime treat? Favorite summer treat? Um, Well, I'm that was

(01:03:22):
never really a big ice cream guy, though, I will
say when I will say, when I was a kid,
I always look forward to the the flint stone push
up pops. Do you know what those are? Now? Like
ice cream and it's like you push it from the bottom,
You eat a little bit of it, and as it
whittles down, you keep pushing it up and more comes
to the surface. And they have different flavors for like

(01:03:43):
different characters. And I forget exactly I remember Barney Rubble, yeah,
but it was but it was ice cream. So it's
not like it wasn't like the pushpop candy so but
it's the exact same concept essentially. Yeah, and I don't
remember the flavor. I think it may have been orange.
But the Barney Rubble flavor was my favorite. So that
was something I looked forward to. I like every whatever

(01:04:04):
the Bonny Rubble. Then I remembers what the Barty Rubble
flavor was, let me know, because I don't remember, but
that was definitely something I always like forward to. For sure,
that is fabulous flavor. But these days, I'll go, I
like a good drumstick. I'll say I do like I
do like a good drumstick when it gets warm out.
That's kind of like a go to for me if
I'm going to have some sort of ice cream or

(01:04:25):
frozen treat. The drumstick is good, classic drumstick. Yeah, I
I appreciate that. Did you guys have the rocket pop? Yes,
we did have the rocket pops. That's right. The rocket
pop was what it was. It was. Yeah, we had
going back to my childhood, we had like these, uh
there was Ninja turtle pops. So it was like it

(01:04:46):
was the shape of the head of the turtle. But
they had different flavors based on you know, one of
them was orange, one was red, one had like a
purple bandana, and they all had different flavors. And the eyes,
if I remember correctly, I think the eyes may have
been candy like bubble gum up some sorts. Oh wow,
that's yeah. So after you after you finish, you know,
devouring the ice cream, the head part, you have the

(01:05:09):
gum to chew on for a little bit. There you go.
That was That was a move that was always That's
a summertime treat. Psycho Chris, what do you got give
me your favorite summertime treat? Oh man, uh, I'm trying
to remember why I even got from those ice cream trucks.
We didn't really have a lot of them around where
I was growing up. I think for me, what was

(01:05:30):
your summer retreat? Like, what did you guys? I mean,
every everybody's got a summer retreat. So where did you
guys go in the when it came to the feel
like your summertime get away? I would probably say just
the pool like that there was a pool, like I'd
say ten minutes up the road, had a nice little

(01:05:51):
snack shack there. I I know, I know, for usually
we'd go up there, I'd get like, you know, this
is talking like where I'm like eight years old, the
chicken tenders and everything. But also they had, um, what
were those things? They were like it's like the sour
patch kids, but it was like strings. It was like
these sour candy strings. I forget what, but yeah, like

(01:06:14):
we'd always I'd always get those because like, I was
a swimmer when I was in uh elementary school and
junior high, Like, I would swim all the time. So
just I I spent a lot of my time in
the pool. Did you guys go anywhere like the family vacations?
So I think a lot of our family vacations because

(01:06:34):
we lived in you know, northern Ohio, Toledo, we tended
to take a lot of our vacations in the winter time.
I remember we'd always go out to like Arizona or something.
We'd get a couple of trips to Disney World, and
I did. My dad was a big is a big
Olympics jump junkie. He's been going to Olympics since munich

(01:06:55):
Um and I've been to two Olympics in my lifetime.
I went to Atlanta at nineties six and Sydney in
two thousand, but both yeah, but both those again we're
kind of later in the in the years, so I'm
more accustomed to taking vacations, taking trips in the winter.
I didn't know if there was a lake, like you

(01:07:17):
know usually no, Okay, so we do have a lake.
It's my grandparents actually lived in a lake. You might
know this very west end of Pennsylvania. Kanye it Lake. No, yeah,
this has been I think this is like, must be
the west this would be the west side. This is
like an hour outside of Pittsburgh, between there and Meadville.

(01:07:39):
But they had there was a lake out there, and
we would go see our grandparents out there around the
fourth a lot of times, uh, in June or around
the fourth of July. And I think one of my
one of my cousins had a boat out kept a
boat out. Uncles kept a boat out in the lake.
So we go out there. That's that's about as far
as we travel though, and that's just basically assing you know,

(01:08:00):
Ohio right into Pennsylvania. Yeah. It's funny because if it's Midwest,
you know, or you know, in the it's not on
the coast. And when it comes to the United States,
it's usually the lake where people go to, Like you know,
I lived in Chicago and they would always go up

(01:08:22):
to Wisconsin to there that that would be there, like
their vacation, like there's summer vacasion. And Toledo is technically
on a lake. It's a port of Lake Erie. But
I don't Lake Erie is not I mean unless you
really like going too put in Bay over in Sandusky
Cedar Point. We used to go to Cedar Point quite
a bit, and people don't know what Cedar Point is.

(01:08:42):
It's basically just a giant roller coaster park. It's a huge,
it's very it's a very famous roller coaster theme park
out in Sandusky, Ohio. We go over there. But other
than that, I've heard, I mean, that was always a
big deal that people, yeah in Ohio would hit the
amusement like those I mus parts. Yeah, see, the Point
was the big one. But other than that, no reel

(01:09:03):
reason to go on something. What was that they had
a big one of those big amusement. I forget the
name of it. Where was the in Cleveland? There was
So this is funny because like I also spent two
years when I was young, we lived in Williamsburg, Virginia

(01:09:24):
for a while. Yea bush gardens. Yeah, in the bush
gardens a few times. Yeah, yeah, that was always a
monster like that. The busch Guards was Yeah. I think
one down in Tampa is now bigger, but the one
in Williamsburg was always kind of right price you had
a colonial we went as kids, they had a colonial

(01:09:47):
thing going Colonial Colonial Williamsburg. I remember actually one fourth
of July there. I must have been like four or
five or whatever, but I remember the cannons and everything. Yeah. Yeah,
it was like a big deal. But the it's like figgy.
Like when you're thinking about which are the beach towns
that have like good amusement stuff for the kids. Uh, well,

(01:10:09):
popular one will be Santa Monica. Uh you know the
time of Monica. Pire has the big ferris wheel and
a and a bunch of stuff to do. Just not
too far up. You have Venice Beach. I don't know
if that's as I wouldn't say it's not kid friendly,
but you know, you have Russell Beach out there, and
it's probably more bars and like for adults and all that. Um.
Manhattan Beach is certainly a great area too, but that's

(01:10:32):
probably more of like good no nice restaurants and and
bars to go to a little Yeah, definitely more more
upscale than Venice for sure. Um so yeah you have
and then you can you can go to Malibu, which
is very nice, to go up to Zooma Beach. There's
you know, plenty of places up the west down especially
the southern California area, which your phenomenal spots uh in

(01:10:53):
the summer to go, and they're they're places you can
go for different things. If you want to go swim,
you know, and you know, dive in the water, you know,
probably in Manhattan and Redando are probably pretty good for
you if you just want to go and you know
and be near the water but not necessarily get into
it and just you know, go to a bar bar
hop a little bit. You know, maybe Venie wouldn't be
the worst place to go over Santa Monica. So it's
pretty much anything that you could possibly want, you know,

(01:11:13):
you can do close to the coast. So that's what
something about the like that Bordwold, like the pier that
is you know, you you experienced on the West coast,
I experienced it on the East coast, and that pier
thing like that to me is like the boardwalk is
like summer absolutely, you know, like you closed my eyes.

(01:11:37):
I go boardwalk summer. Like they have one in uh Wildwood,
New Jersey. Now that's it's not far people in Atlantic City.
So it's you know, probably like like forty five minutes
uh south of Atlantic City and it's while was right
on the water. They have a boardwalk that's about three

(01:12:00):
miles long and it's got a bunch of piers with
just amusement rides. Right, games like they have all kinds,
like all kinds of games stuff they you know, you
could there's like seventeen different basketball games like you know
you hit, you hit, you know three three pointers? You

(01:12:22):
get stuff to animals, right, you know you have dogs.
I have all kinds like you if you're you can
only imagine how many games they have, how many different
roller coasters and you know, several water parks, horned houses
like it's just it's and they have all these food
stands that are ridiculous. Wenna have to be other in

(01:12:43):
pizza and you name it. And so this town, which
it's like kid heaven. So when you were like we
would go every year for like two weeks. That was
our vacation, and you know, and it was take great.
You had the beach and the boardwalk and all you
wanted to do was go and and you know, go

(01:13:07):
on a boardwalk and hang on the beach. But the
board again had all this stuff. It was it was
you know again kid heaven. Now is this anywhere near
or are similar to Coney Island? Yes, actually, you're right,
it's a very similar. I think. Now Coney Island is
so close to New York City, right, like Coney Island

(01:13:31):
is Coney Islands a little hardcore? Oh yeah, like if
you know what I'm saying, Venice is like that. So
I know what. Okay, So I've been to Venice a
few many times and Coney Island is exactly that, but
a little older and more worn, right, Okay, so you

(01:13:54):
can imagine jeffinitely rough around the edges. Wildwood is is
little bit it's more spread out then both it's big,
like it's it's this vast town. The boardwalk is big
and it's got and it's way more like family friendly,

(01:14:16):
you know, I mean you would like someday if you
have kids, you go there. I'm telling you people, it's
a little gem like your people love it. It's awesome
year it so yeah, you would, I'm telling you would.
It's it's a blast for like families and kids and
all that stuff, and there's just a million things to do. Listen,

(01:14:39):
I've been to disney World, right and we took the
kids al hazard to say that, Well, it's not as
big as disney World, and the rides, the rides are
really strong, not as strong as disney World. But it's
actually more fun really yeah. Yeah, because as you have

(01:15:00):
the beach, it's right on the beach in the water.
So I put it ahead of Disney World. Yeah. Someone
say that's a hot take, hit a little trending my
brother Alright, Well, someone who said it will be a
hot take to say the Miami Heat had a chance
to win in Boston on Friday night, is that's not

(01:15:20):
gonna happen. It's gonna be the NBA Finals. Draymond Green said,
we're gonna face the Celtics. Didn't happen, not on Friday.
At least there will be a Game seven in the
Eastern Conference Finals. That Heat went into Boston beat Boston
one eleven to one oh three. Jimmy Butler forty seven points,
sixteen of twenty nine from the field, had four steals,
eight rebounds, nine assists, filling up the statuet. Kyle Lowry
chip to eighteen points in tennisis as well. Game seven

(01:15:43):
will be in South Beach on Sunday at eight thirty Eastern.
And other NBA news, Milwaukee assistant coach Darvin Ham agreeing
to a four year contract to become the next head
coach of the Lakers. In the NHL, the Avalanche advanced
to the Western Conference Finals with a three to two
victory over St. Louis in Game six. They will take
on Edmonton in Game one of that series on Tuesday.
In baseball, Mookie betsid his n L leading thirteenth home

(01:16:04):
run in a six to four Dodgers victory over Arizona.
Toronto over the Angels fours at three. That's their third
strade victory. Texas beat Oakland eight to five, Luke Voit
to home run for the Padres. They defeat Pittsburgh, wins
for the Mets, Yankees, and Braves. Baltimore score ten runs
after the sixth inning and they comeback victory over Boston.
The final score there twelve to eight. All right back

(01:16:24):
to the Fellas all right, my brother, we got wind
totals coming up. I want to get into every team.
I'm curious and we're all going to Yeah, baby, you
don't give you every team. You know it. You know
we're talking football. We're gonna go every team. Why do

(01:16:46):
I think that summer is a gateway to football instead
of a standalone Why is that? I'm asking you because
you're you're you have good I think in another life,
both you guys I think would be great therapists. Three
months in the Super Bowl, three month stores this season

(01:17:11):
lots to get to where the fellas right here on
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Welcome back, fellas. Hey. We we played a little bit
of a clip of Draymond Green talking about how how

(01:17:37):
nobody believed in the Warriors and nobody expected the Warriors
to be in the finals. All right, and uh and
it was funny because it was a Ben Mallark uh clip,
which was I love Ben right on the net. All
the guys on the network are fantastic, but I'm thinking

(01:17:58):
about it, and I'm thinking about the nonsense that comes
out of dude's mouths, like just utter nonsense, and that's nonsense.
Doc Rivers said that no one expect like that. Nobody
picked the Sixers to do anything like, which is just

(01:18:18):
a lie. Like the whole point was when he took
the job was to win win the championship, and yet
he said, Wow, you know, nobody picked us to do anything.
We're talking about dude, that's a both faced lie. Like

(01:18:39):
Draymond Green, no one picked the Warriors? What what? What? Figure?
Or did I miss something? Yeah? I And this reminds
me of something that Paul George said after when DC
Rivers his last year with the Clippers in the bubble
and they got eliminated after collapsing against Denver, and I
was like, oh, was it disappointed because you guys long

(01:19:00):
to had championship aspirations And I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said, like, well,
did we have championship aspirations? That wasn't our goal or
like I'm again i'm paraphrasing, that wasn't his exact quote,
but it's like, really, I mean because I could have
sworn you and Kawhi Leonard sat up there at your
press conference to say that they we're gonna win here
in l A and do it our way in X,
Y and Z. So the revisionist history from that standpoint,

(01:19:20):
The Warrior Draymond Green said that had his postgame press
conference too, He was like, yeah, I don't know if
I expect it doesn't go to the fun yet didn't. Seriously,
what the what the hell did you expect? I mean,
love it? What? What? What? I don't understand? Why do
these guys need to lie? Right? I mean and it's
a ball faceline too, like these dudes no party, bullet,

(01:19:43):
no wady like like be like the Dodgers, right with
the All Star team, right, no one pick, no one
thought we could do it. Yeah, I like what Dave
Roberts told Dan Patrick before the season started. He was like, yeah,
we're gonna win the World Series. Doubled down not when
they asked him again, it was like, we have the
talent and I have the confidence. Why not of course?
Yeah exactly, Like why why can't you just be more

(01:20:06):
like that? Which is and and again, no one's ever
against this whole idea, like a you know, nobody believed
to this. It's a good offs against the world is
the biggest nonsense, not true thing ever. And I don't
remember exactly what the playoff odds were whether the postseason started,
but I can guarantee you the Warriors were in the

(01:20:27):
top five as far as odds of making it to
the finals and winning the finals. Guarantee you that. And
by the way, there were high expectations for the Sixers. Doc, Yeah,
the highest of expectations for the Sixers exactly. You failed,
all right, oh my god, colossal fail. Where the Fellas

(01:20:51):
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It's eight a m. In the East, five am in

(01:21:13):
the West. A happy, happy Fox Sports Saturday Memorial Day
weekend edition. We're sending it all morning talking about Jimmy
Butler and the heroics. It's it's so funny. There are
these games and we've all know them, we all see them,
we all see it coming. Where you just think it's

(01:21:34):
a foregone conclusion. You got it set in your mind.
There's no way that Boston is gonna lose at home
in a close out Game six. It's not going to happen.
And you got it. You're you're, you're sure of it.
In a series that has been marked by blowouts, twenty

(01:21:56):
point demolitions. Right, he felt the same thing would happened
last night. Bagged up heat No Tyler, hero Strews, Hurt Lowry, hurt,
Jimmy hurt. Right, they're all banged up, they're all playing,
but you go, this is it. This Bolston team too
tough until you get him night like buckets and buckets

(01:22:22):
gives your forty seven and buckets gives you forty six minutes,
only one turnover, and he's gained flawless right, eleven for
eleven at the line, grabs a bunch of rebounds, hands
out a bunch of assists, right four steals. It's it's

(01:22:45):
just one of the all time great great moments that
we'll see it. Can Boston, you know, come down, you know,
come back and rally in Miami? Now it's I do
think Celtics win. I think they're gonna win a game seven,

(01:23:07):
but who knows. I mean Jimmy could have another one
uf his sleeve, and that's a tough Again, they're well coached.
Miami sposis terrific. Your day will be at home. The
only thing keep going back to with them is that
they're so bagged up to that rally in the game seven.
Can they do that? Fig, Yeah, that's gonna be difficult

(01:23:31):
to do. I mean both teams are banged up to
by the way, Marcus Smart is playing at half staff
out there like it's it's been tough sledding. But yeah,
they're they're decimated. They're decimated. Like the guys who are
not even in the lineup right now, key Guysili here's
the coman of the year didn't play the other night.
So it's it's definitely attrition. But just the way the
swings of this series, if you look, if you just

(01:23:52):
from a pure talent standpoint, Boston should win. You know,
Miami's kind of just winning with grit and toughness and
Jimmy I obviously just dominated the game. Now can he
pull this out again? You know, uh, Sunday, that's the question.
This would be an all time if he was able
to do that, he wins that series. Doesn't he have

(01:24:14):
to be considered, uh a top five player in the league. Uh,
that's that's always difficult for me. I always always hate
to say, you know who the best player is, our
top three or four based on one postseason run. But
he's definitely having a phenomenal run. After last year, by
the way, it was not good in the playoffs, and

(01:24:34):
I know he's banged up and he had COVID issues
and all of that going starting off last year. But
to respond after the way he played in the postseason
last year to the way he is this year, look
of nothing else. The playoff Jimmy thing is real because
he saved his best performance to to have three years
two years the bubble and yeah, so he has saved

(01:24:55):
some of his best performances for the biggest stages. Is
there's something to be said for that. So I don't
know if it's altaim Intil being one of the top
five players in the league, but if people didn't already know,
it puts him on notice, you know that. Uh, if
he thought that he wore a fluke in the bubble
a couple of years ago, they're not going anywhere. He's
just so interesting because he can dominate a game. Look,

(01:25:22):
there's not a lot of guys that can dominate both
edge of the floor like he can't. Yeah, and he
and he picks and shoeses when to do it too.
It's not like you know, Ai or Kobe or Jordans,
those guys were gonna get their shots. Those guys are
gonna shoot at least, you know, twenty two shots at
least in every single game. Jimmy Butler, can you know,
drop forty seven? You know, Friday night, he might score

(01:25:44):
twenty you know, twenty two the next but he might
have twelve assists. You know, He's one of those whatever
you need from him and only give a night, he
can give it to you. And he's always willing to
take the big shot if he needs to. And I
think that's what that's what makes a you know, great players,
you know, like that stand out. He can do a
little did everything and he did he Look, he filled
up the statute for all the talk of the forty
seven points on Friday that you know, the the nine rebounds,

(01:26:08):
the eight assists, the four steals were huge. Someone who
does He's an all around He's a great two way player,
all around player, and I think there's a few of those.
There's a few elite players at the top of the
league who are great at both ends of the floor,
and he's one of them. Yeah, and he does it
with a strong personality, a strong personality, but not a

(01:26:30):
flashy personality, which honestly, I think hurts him to a
degree when talking about whether he's the top player in
the sport, because like Jana's doesn't say a whole lot.
It's pretty quiet. But I mean, he's so undeniable with
the way that he plays. Personality or not, he's gonna
stand out. Jimmy Butler doesn't necessarily wow you with his
style of play. He's just efficient. You know, he'll hit

(01:26:52):
it from the mid range generally speaking. He's not a
good three point shooter. I think he shot or something
like that for eight. Yeah, but that's you know, a
guy being able to step up when it matters most
and hit big shots. You know, that's what separates him
and ragging on James Well, I don't hate to do it.
Keep ragging on James Harden, you know, Mr. You know,

(01:27:13):
lights you up for fifty in January on a random
Tuesday night, and then when it matters in the playoffs.
He's you know, not taking a take over over two
or whatever it is in the second half of a
closed out playoff game and disappears. Yeah, and not to
uh not the pile all. But you know, did you
see the tick tock video him at the party. I

(01:27:35):
didn't see it, but I'm not surprised by it. You know,
it's just funny. Like you just go, here's Jimmy on
the stage right, and here's Harden at the party. Yeah,
it's tough for us. It would be one thing if
James Harden balled out and got a triple double and
did everything you could and the team lost, you can

(01:27:55):
stomach that. But when he is one of the main
reasons why the team lost, you know it. And I like,
I know these guys like to separate you know, personal
lives and businesses basketball, and they want to be able
to enjoy it. But I mean, fans don't want to
see that. They are not fans don't want to see that.
Exactly Like nobody's got big rudge. You know, you go
do your thing. But but when you see one guy

(01:28:18):
bawling out on the floor and the other guy you know,
balling out in the party, you go yeah, you know,
I don't need to see it. Like you know, God
blessed and joy. No one's telling you that that you
gotta you gotta be. They have an old saying about
you know, um put the crepe on your door and
it's it's the mark death. Then you're in mourning, a

(01:28:41):
state of mourning, right, you should be locked in a
dark room watching film and working out in the gym
in the offseason. Yeah, and look, listen, that's what fans
want or believe wrongly, So you know, I mean that's
the whole thing. Like you, we want you to suffer

(01:29:01):
the way we suffer. And truth of the matter is,
you know, guys are disappointing, you know, but like it's
like any other shortcoming in your own life. You get know,
you know, it's still bothers you. But that does how
you're gonna live your life. Yeah, you're not gonna go
on a vacation with the family because you you had
a bad quarter at work, you know, sale is selling

(01:29:23):
or whatever it is that you do. You're gonna sit
there and sulk. You might spend some extra time figuring
out where the missteps were, but you're not gonna stop
living life and enjoying life in your off season or
off time exactly. That's unrealistic from the fan, but you know,
it's sort of human nature. I mean, like you get it,
like you know, you get it. Just the fan kind
of doesn't want to see the face. But anyway, you

(01:29:45):
you know, when you get a guy like Butler, he's
a unique especially today, and I guess he would be
considered more of a throwback. How many Jimmy Butler's are
out there in all sport. Lebron's kind of like Jimmy.

(01:30:06):
I'm not a fan of all the sub tweeting and
all that stuff, but yeah, from a player, for the
way he plays on the court, kind of like the
killer mentality standpoint, despite what people say about him being passive,
which is the most ridiculous thing ever. If a guy's
open passing to him, that's basketball past. Neither he nor there.
But yeah, I do think someone like Lebron, Yeah, kind
of embodies that same mentality that Jimmy does. Absolutely has

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a chip on his should and by the way, Jimmy
had every reason to have a chip on his shoulder.
I'm so much more impressed with someone like Lebron because
he had all the expectation in the world as an
eighteen year old. Hell, even as a sixteen year old.
We all know who he was, and they said he'll
never live up to thy. I think he's lived up
to thy and which makes it even that much more impressive.

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Give me the football equivalent, the NFL equivalent to Jimmy
So my guests would have to be a quarterback, huh,
And he wouldn't be a Brady, even though he's kind
of like Brady maybe, I mean Brady unheralded, you know,
didn't have a lot of you know, a lot of

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popping circumstance coming out of Michigan and bark at you.
He's always been been able to bark at you. He's
been he's he can be combative at times, constructive lex Brady. Actually,
he's a Brady. He's a perfect example of Jimmie Butler.
That the career arc, all of that. You know. Now,
obviously he's more accomplished with winning MVPs and Super Bowls
and all that, But as far as a quote unquote

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rags to riches, low expectation too, obviously high reward personality. Yeah,
you know who you know, you know, let's face you, man,
they'll bark at you. He gets mad, he gets patulant.
Remember he didn't even shake Nick foles dad super Bowl,
that's right, which was ridiculous. But it's like the people

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his his defenders will say, oh, look how much of
a competitor he was. He didn't want to shake hands
he was. You know. That's I guess is that it
depends on what your outlook is. It's the Pistons and
Osaiah Thomas ducking away when the Bulls finally beat him.
I guess it's just a matter of perspective on that.
I think most people would say, you know, you lost
the game, shake their hands, be a sportsman about it.

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But but but he's so hate, he's so mad. He's no,
he's a hate to lose, you know, he's got to
hate to lose Gene. Absolutely. And let me take modern
superstars Chris Chumping. So if I say Steph is Steph
have to hate to lose Gene, I think so it

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doesn't show. I mean he doesn't have you know, it
doesn't have like the killer instinct look in his face
and all the intensity all the time. But I I
do feel that Steph Curry and we've seen it he's
a killer at times, So I think he has that mentality.
I think so too. It just yeah, as you say, like,
he just doesn't. He doesn't come off with like he doesn't.
He never really you never really catch him scowling, You

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never really catch the the angry postgame interview you when
he does loses kind of like you know, he seems
disappointed in everything. But I don't think that's the reason
to discount him just because he's smiley. Yeah, magic was smiley.
Do you think he's running the competitor? All right, I'll
get you with Kevin Durant, k D have to hate

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to lose mentality. Despite my uh uh lack of fandom
for Kevin Durand and many of the things that he does,
I do believe that when he's on the court and
when he's healthy, yes, he does everything he possibly can
within his power to be able to try to get
the team to win. So I do think he has
the killer mentality Lebrone without question. Oh absolutely, Mahomes, I

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think so. Yeah. I mean we've I think we've seen
it out of him before. I mean his one of
his most impressive games to me was when he was
the Super Bowl. They lost to Tampa when he had
no offensive line and he was running for his life.
And the fact that he was able to stay upright
at times and try to scramble and make plays even
though they lost that game. That impressed me. How about

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you know, you know it's a you know, was a
great one because I believe you know, it's a whole team,
the Cowboys like Ricky I can only imagine our resident
Cowboy fan is a great producer. And do they have

(01:34:31):
the hate to lose? Does anybody other than than Jerry
Jones have it? Uh? I think Ezekiel Elliott kind of
had it. I don't know if he hasn't anymore, but
Dack definitely doesn't have it. Yeah, because I don't get
the less. I don't think they want to win again,
you want to win, But does they kill you to lose?

(01:34:55):
That the sun rises with Zach with I mean with
dak than next morning, that the sun still rises. That's
that's the vibe I get from him. I would agree,
I would agree with that. How about Russ What do

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you think Russ fake? I think he still has the
drive to win. You know, look, this is why, this
is why. Look, I mean he had that offseason long
dispute with the Seahawks, whether it was passive, aggressive, or
in the media, whatever you wanna call it, about improving
that the offensive line, you know, and where or not
he wants to be traded. You don't do that unless
you have passion, and eventually did get traded to a

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place that has I think the Broncos offensive line is
still a question, but there's no question about the skill
players that they have around him. So absolutely, if he
wasn't a competitor, he wouldn't have fought as hard for
the Seahawks to make improvements last year, and he probably
wouldn't have fought as hard this past office or this
offseason to get himself trade at to Denver. So I
would never question his work ethic. And look, he was
a third round pick. They paid all that money to

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Matt Flynn. He had to beat him outain training camp,
which he did, and the sky was the limit and
he took off and won a Super Bowl and and
probably should have won another one. So absolutely, you know
what's funny, I wonder you don't like questions Peyton. Did
Peyton have it? Um? I think he had it. I

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think he just had certain uh shortcomings in the postseason
for whatever reason, just certain demons, and I think after
his first you know, to three exits in the playoffs
when he wasn't playing well, I do think it got
into his head. I think Clayton kersh All to a
degree is a victim of that too. Now he got
better and beat Tampa the last time that when the
Dodgers won the World Series in the Bubble in Texas,
but generally speaking, his postseason numbers have been terrible. Uh So,

(01:36:46):
just like Peyton Manning. So I do think at a
certain point he got into his head. I don't think
Peyton had it. I think that, uh I think the
flashes we did see if it was less about just
kind of that drive him was just more just being
a jerk sometimes, like the idiot kicker comment. People lionize
him for that comment, but I just I just I

(01:37:06):
don't know, like there there was there was that that.
Those Colts teams are just really frustrating to even think about,
because like you look at all that talent and you
just watch them collapse and just insane ways. And I
mean it was it was the same way with the
Broncos right up until the Broncos got probably one of
the greatest defenses we've ever seen. Like I remember you

(01:37:27):
mentioned Joe Flacco a little bit earlier, like the throw
over the head of um, yeah, who's who was the
defender in that game? It wasn't a key but no,
it was it was a safety Raheim. I forget his
last name, a Raheim. It was raheems something. But we're
hem more more. That's yeah, yeah, just and like, look, Peyton,

(01:37:49):
Peyton played through a lot of it, but a lot
of pain in that. I give him that, but I don't. Yeah,
interesting one more and then we'll take rachers. I think
he does. And I think he's always had it. I
know he's not that people are not the biggest fans
of him either. And look, he had a real obviously

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not the best game this past postseason, but generally speaking
throughout his career, whenever they have lost in the playoffs,
it's it's almost never been his fault. So you know,
you know, it's funny about him. He's got a lot
of Jimmy. Those two are very similar. Jimmy but Jimmy
Butler d Yeah, I think, uh, I think that they

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could both come up like dominating game and then you
know the both they both rub people the wrong way.
That's absolutely true. Uh. Aaron Rodgers obviously is a lot
more outspoken than Jimmy has a weekly radio spot with
Pat McAfee. Jimmy Butler is not doing that, um and
so I think that kind of uh, that adds to

(01:38:54):
the the tractors, you know, saying like, oh, this guy
won't shut up in the vaccination thing. So I do
think there's a lot of things independent of his play
on the field that people do hold against him. But
if you're asking me as far as on the field,
you know, does he have to hate to lose mentality?
I absolutely believe he does. Yeah. I just think that
I think part of hate to lose it does come

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off the field. On the field hate to lose. I
don't think there's any issue there whatsoever. I know he'll
make the palty phaces every now and then, but like,
as long as he's in that position to throw the passes,
he will do it. And you'll get on his teammates too, yeah,
and his coaches, like he'll get on everybody. But at
the same time, when when you're off the field, and
some of the things he said off the field, if

(01:39:36):
you are hate to lose. You have to realize some
of the times you're just being very self sabotaging with
one of some of the stuff that a yeah, yeah,
I guess I'm talking more field, but I hear you.
All right, let's take quick t o we'll come back.
And I got the wind totals burning a hole in
my pocket. So we got to discuss where the fella

(01:39:57):
is right here on Fox Boards Radio. Welcome back fellas,
hanging out with you on this holiday weekend, making a
fun one. I got wood in the wind tunnals just
like that. I want to talk about. I'll probably do

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this many times between now and started a season, but
I can't figure. I can't help it. Yeah, there's no
probably about it. This is uh, this is version one
Session one. Yes, why is it that right now? I can't.
I don't. I can't get enough of it now, I can't.

(01:40:40):
I have the lust out. It's too early to lust. Yeah. Well,
you know, you see the finish line of the NBA
coming up, summer's coming, and outside of an Olympic year,
which we are, there's really not a whole lot in
the sports world happening outside of some Major League Baseball
and then once you start getting into June July, you
start hitting what people consider to be the dog days

(01:41:01):
of the baseball season where you don't feel the needs
to know covered on a day to day basis in
a lot of areas. So there really isn't another sport
to sort of latch onto. I'd say between the end
of the NBA and the start of training camp around
late July early August. So I believe if I correct me,
if I'm wrong, does that does that make sense to

(01:41:21):
you at all? Does that it makes perfect So I
feel like that's probably makes it perfect sense. And I
also look at and like, I love baseball, but yeah,
I mean you know, I mean it could be a
grinds hundred and sixty two games. I get it, and
and the problem is, like it didn't mean you know what.
What what makes football so special is the level of

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meaning absolutely Yeah. You almost have to take like ten
baseball games to equal one NFL game right each day,
Like I mean that that's all. That's a whole week
and a half of two weeks of baseball sometimes and
you don't get the same team. The problem is if
you're looking for the butterflies, like it's why I thought

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you and I agreed on this fig. We thought you
expand baseball playoffs and you make it like the NBA,
because that's that's what people really want. Yeah, more meaningful
games if you're not going to retract, which they'll never
never do, because honestly, the best way, the best way
to have every game be meaningful is to go back

(01:42:27):
to the way they the way they used to do it.
You know, they take the top two teams in each league,
they play in the the LCS, and then you play
the World Series and then all the regular season games matter.
But you're not going to do that. They're not gonna
do that, So then the best alternative at that point,
I'm not a huge fan of allowing a whole bunch
of teams into the playoffs, but if it means that
more teams are going to actively try to win, then

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I think that's probably a better solution. So you're right,
and truthfully, the real soul of that sport should be
what you just said, it should be you play all
year long and there's one World Series. Well, also, I
I don't think baseball really like gets. There's not as

(01:43:11):
much meaning to an individual baseball game. But sometimes it's fine.
It's kind of just background noise. It's just it's hard
to compete when we're talking when what we what we do,
jumping on the radio and trying to assign meaning to
every game. It's hard unless you're taking a bird's eye
view of baseball, which again, like when you've got something
as accessible as football, where everything has meaning, it just

(01:43:33):
kind of loses itself out. But yeah, I don't even
look at it like more like what we do as
to as a fan when you're watching playoffs, there's an
edge of your seat. It's a it's a bigness trust
Like I was sick for those years the Tigers we're
in like the LCS. Why like to figg ease point.

(01:43:59):
If you're actually want to do it like back in
the day, then you should eliminate, you know, at the
very least. Have you know four divisions, right, American National League?
Two divisions of peace, and you play all year long
to crown those two. Yeah, because then all of a sudden,
you're you know, that random series against your division rival

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in June could have real meaning. You know, this is
this is why I feel like we do the wind
totals to try to avoid doing the how to fix
baseball talks? You correct, correct, And it's not even like
you know, I need to fix it or whatever. I'm
just remarking that I want that level of angst, you know,

(01:44:47):
and you get it. We can we get football. You
if your team loses your bump for a week, yeah,
and you're looking forward to the next game seeing how
they can turn it around. Yeah, and Mike's very obviously
you feel great. You know, this is why you know
sports back in the day before you had you know,
satellite TV and you can watch every game every night.
You know, Sunday night baseball was special. The game of

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the week in the NBA was special because you couldn't
see everybody all the time. So that that's had a
big effect on it to those stadiums. Like I grew
up in a natural League city, right, so I'd never
forget watching and they game in a week, and I
love when they were in American League cities because I
didn't have it right right, like, so if you just

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watched I never on it from Tiger Stadium. Tiger Stadium
felt it was mythical, like it was a Siberia or something,
you know, right where it could because you know, I'm
naturally seeing something used to three rivers and these all
these that was old Tiger Stadium was like the old
one of the oldest parks out there, Like that's up
there with Fenway if they had not demolished it where
it's like, hey, yeah, you couldn't smack a ball off

(01:45:50):
the ceiling. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, yeah, which was cool.
Cecil Fielder used to do that all the time, just
bomb right on the city, right off the canopy, thanking
it with some trending and in wind totals. Alright. Jimmy
Butler playoff career high forty seven points. He left the
Miami Heat over Boston in Game six of the Eastern

(01:46:11):
Conference Finals Friday night. Final score was one eleven two,
one oh three. Butler also had nine boards, eight assists,
and four steals. Jason Tatum did lead the Celtics with
thirty points, but also had seven turnovers. Game seven will
be in Miami on Sunday. Milwaukee Bucks assistant Darvin Ham
has agreed to a four year deal to become the
next head coach of the Lakers. In the NHL j

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T Conference. Scored two goals for Colorado, but it was
Darren helm who scored the game winning goal in the
final seconds, leading to the Avalanche over the Blues three
to two in Game six. They advanced to the Western
Conference Finals against Edmonton on the Diamond Toronto one. It's
third straight. They beat the Angels four to three. Dodgers
over Arizona six to four. Kick Craig Kimberro picking up
to save former Dodger Keilly Jansen, recording his eleven say

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for Atlanta as they defeated Miami. Went for Texas, Seattle, Minnesota,
and the Yankees. They got a home run for Matt
Carpenter in a two nothing victory over Tampa Bay got
two days ago second game with the Yankees to the
home run. Crazy is that? That is nuts? He was
hitting like one eight last year or whatever like St.
Louis former MVP, just a totally hit the skids and

(01:47:15):
watch We'll go to the Yankees and oh my god,
you're right on alright, fig great stuff. Let's hit our
wind totals and let's start. You're ready, We're gonna start
with Detroit and uh, the wind total six and a
half minus one twenty. So you do me a favor, Chris.

(01:47:43):
You have a pad and pen are you can you
can you Yeah, I can. I can get a virtual
version of one. I'm just loading up on my laptop.
I can probably. All right, Well I want you to
I want you to have our picks. All right, Ricky,
you're involved here. The four of us were the fellas,
so we're gonna we're gonna hold on to this thing.

(01:48:05):
Lions six and alf fig over under under. I think
they'll be over the three the three Wednesday last year.
But I don't think they're They're creeping towards seven. I
think five is probably a good spot for them. Ricky,
I'm going under. I just don't. I just don't see

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over six wins with golf at the Helm, So I
a great All three of us go under. Now, to
the resident Lions backer, Psycho Chris, that schedule is very
easy what they have. They're not going any further west

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than Dallas. They start the year with some confidence builders
between a bunch of NFC East teams and the now
restless Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFC, and
the earth is decaying. I'm not saying this is a honk,
but when this was a solid straight six, I would
have said over. I think I'm going to lean over here.

(01:49:10):
I think a lot of their worries last year we're
also a lot of that was on Anthony Lynn's offensive system.
Over lies. Look at that not far over, I'm not
let's go. I like it all right, I like it alright.
Patriots eight and a half, that's the favorite minus one

(01:49:35):
fifty figgy uh eight and a half that half, I
swear I know I'll take the over were grudgingly, by
the way, but I'll take the over them over eight
and a half. How about you, Rick? I'm with Kevin
over over? How about you Psycho Chris. I hate to

(01:49:59):
be the descent voice and all of these at the
same time. I can't see them crashing down to earth like.
That's not that's not asking for five now, that's basic
saying going eight or lower. That's a losing record. I'm
gonna say over. You'll say over, I'll say I'm there.
I'm still I look at him and listen, you guys

(01:50:19):
are probably right, but I look at him. I still
think the Bills are the class the division. I think
Miami is better. Love them and look the paper. The
Jets are better, and they're not good, but they're better.
So they can steal the win against New England. I
look at him and I'm not I'm not solving the

(01:50:40):
quarterback totally understanding and quite honestly neither am I. And
like if you if you ask me tomorrow, I can
take the under. But so they're not doing it tomorrow,
we're doing it right now. I'll take the over. So
that's that's how you know, uneven or uneasy? I am
about it with the Patriots, all right, Eagles over nine
and a half, Figgy. I think they're slightly improved to

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as a team. Big number nine. It is. That is
a lot started eight and a half, went up to nine,
and if it was eight and a half, I take
it nine and a half. I'm gonna go under. Okay,
how about you, Rickie? That's an under? Is it? Really?

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You say? Ricky's probably gonna say that for any team
in the East, not the It's not the Cowboys. He's
pretty certain. I uh, what do you think, Psycho Chris?
I I begrudgingly have to take the under. It's it
seems like it's I'm not fully sold on Jalen Hurts
right now. I know they improved the that offense, but

(01:51:49):
I'm not. I'm not I'm not on board yet. Okay,
Now remember now I need to do this to you guys,
since you guys are all under guys, I go lock
over lockoes, don't court lock. And now now I'm gonna
read you the schedule that you find how they can't

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get again tenant seven. You're gonna find eight losses on
this schedule. Here you go at Detroit home, Minnesota at
Washington home, Jacksonville at Arizona home, Dallas home, Pittsburgh at
Houston home, Washington at Inde Home, Green Bay Home, Tennessee

(01:52:38):
at Giants, at Bears at Cowboys home, Saints home Giants. Yeah,
I can see potentially eight losses in there. You can see.
I think it's It's like I look at dag on
the lock ten. There's always gonna be some games of
breaking very odd ways. What it comes down to me

(01:52:59):
is I look at the NFC East and I think
Dallas is probably gonna win that division. Then after that
I have to ask myself are there going to be
any wild card teams? Because I feel like in the
NFC this year, wild card means ten wins. So is
the NFC East going to own a wild card I
instinct say no, so I have to an extra team.

(01:53:23):
I mean, you look at it, I know, and I
think the NFC's cards are wide open though, like you know,
it's I think there's gonna be like NFC West last year,
where we were like, oh, the NFC West will gobble
up multiple wild cards. So I think the a f
C is just chop full of town. The NFC is weak.
And I look at that Eagles team. They improved all

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across the board. They got they got several pieces on defense,
and you got j Brown to go with Davante Smith.
You got a guy that can get those guys the ball.
That's the question for me. Yeah, not not. And I
think that's fair. I mean that's I mean, I think
that's what every Eagle fans thinking too. Yeah, And they
ate up an extremely easy schedule last year now. And

(01:54:07):
it's also it's always tough when you talk about strength
the schedule coming into a season because you just never
know you're basing it on last year, last year, and
things change every year. There's a team that the first
every single season correct. And I'm with you guys when
it comes to schedules and wind losses and w l's
and all that stuff. My only point, you guys is
like certain teams like you's Houston all of a sudden

(01:54:28):
going to be better, like to the point where you
could you could lose on a given Sunday. Maybe because
I don't think Philadelphia is that great that it's that
far fetched that they can potentially lose to a bad
team on a random week, you know what I mean,
don't know Jaguars game last year as a lot like
the Eagles aren't so good that you know they're not.

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And I agree, I don't think that they're I'm not
saying that they're the Rams or anything like that, but
I look at them and I go, I mean, the
odds of them losing are less. I mean, it's the
use is not good. Could they lose without it down?
They're not above a loss. Molly point is that that
I don't think that I look at that schedule. I
think it's a pretty easy schedule. You're not play you're

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playing the AFC South, not the a f C West.
But if you're playing the h C West, you goes,
are you gonna lose all all for those games? I
mean true? I mean, but I mean even the South.
I mean I would say at the Cult is not
a given victory. The Titans is not a given victory.
I think that I like the Cults. I think the

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Cults are good. Cults are a super Bowl sleeper. Actually,
I agree. I think that. I think Ryan is a
really good pick pick up. I think the Colts are legit,
but that's it. I mean Jacksonville. Yeah, and I don't
think the Titans are a legit super Bowl contender, but
they're definitely not going anywhere. They'll be in the mix.
There's certainly a team that the Eagles can lose to,

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you know, yeah, I used to. I mean, I think
they got weaker with the oh A. J. Brown trade.
I agree, But Derrick Henry is still there. He is,
but I'm much I worry about him off a cliff eventually.
I don't know. That's guys like him are just like
like Eddie George, another great Titan. One year he'll be amazing,
and then one year, I don't know where he'll fall
off a cliff. That could be this year, it could

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be three years from now. You just don't know. Alright,
Miami's nine. It goes back to the quarterback again with
Miami and does but they're good. They are, They're they're
good everywhere else? So are they in really good everywhere else? So?
Can they get enough? Can too just be enough of
a game manager, you know, get it to get the

(01:56:33):
ball to his weapons out there for them to win
ten games? I could see it, Yeah, I could see it.
I mean, I'd rather go over Miami than over New England.
That's that's kind of doing that with that, you know,
I would agree with you. I'm going over New England
and I'm also gonna go over Miami. But I feel
more confident in going over with Miami than I do

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with the Patriots. All Right, Ricky ten games is steep,
rookie head co coach. I'm gonna go under. All Right,
Ricky goes on there? How about you, Psycho Chris like
compounding a lot of unders. But I think I'm with Ricky.
I just injuries always seem to play a part where

(01:57:14):
it comes to Miami for whatever reason. I don't have
explanations for it. Some teams just seem to get rid
of with injuries more they're one of them, and add
two on top of it, I gonna think their potential
is gonna be wasted again under all right, we'll come back.
We'll continue our for a NFL win totals, little chance,

(01:57:36):
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(01:58:00):
Fox Sports Saturday upon us. All right, let's continue raving
some fun with some NFL wind tutals. Good chances to
kind of go through some of the teams and what
we like, and you know, kind of look at this
good chooses to talk about him. Man, the Texans over

(01:58:21):
under is four and a half under is the favorite.
I think the same thing. I don't. I don't see
over that. I mean I could see and another kind
of four wind tea season for them. Nothing they've really
appreciably improved upon. I think I'm gonna have to. It's

(01:58:42):
it's rough, look at it's rough to take four or lower,
but I'm gonna take the with the hook. I will
take the under. Yeah, I could see four and thirteen
with that hook A lot, Figgy, I'm with you. I'm
taking the under Rick has to be the under look.
It's the first one we all agreed on was the Chexons.
How about the Vikes? Nine minisoda nine. I gotta take

(01:59:09):
the over here, guys. I mean I look at it
and look at the very least. I think I gotta push.
I think they're the very least a nine win team.
So I think they got weapons, They're not a bad tea.
I'll take the over I would have if if push
war an option, I would do the exact same. It's

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because it's nine, so so it is okay, Yeah, then
I think I'll take the push on that. I'll take
the push on that. So I think, you know, it's
almost like you get a free shot. How about you
score some points? So exactly, they got somewhat of a
tough schedule. You know, they got the Cardinals, they got

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the Bronx, they got well, they got the Cardinals, they
got the Patriots, they got the Bills. I'm going under
you're gonna go on their Minniesota. They do the schedule,
he's rough. I I would agree there. How about you
Psycho like the push, but I like it for the
under look. I I need to see some more healthy
seasons out of out of Dalvin Cook. If we're really

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going to do this with them, and to be honest,
like this, they kind of follow along with the Bears,
like this is a team that is desperately trying not
to admit to itself that it needs to hit a
reset button pretty soon. Well, you got a new coach
in there, so that's that's last gasp there. Yeah, that's true.
I just don't think the NC no real quick outside

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camp and a half Steve number. I'll still take the over.
I'll take the under. I think they'll probably win in
I'm taking the over. I'm going to take the other too,
because you get eleven. Yeah, right, that that division, you
know that. I don't think the Saints are going anywhere.
They're good alright, Fellas, Big hour ahead, Fox, Well, good

(02:00:59):
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We celebrated Jimmy Butler last night and his incredible performance

(02:01:46):
dropping forty seven to save the heat. Everybody thought, I
know I did that. It was a foregone conclusion. Boston wins,
Miami banged up, No Tyler, hero Stroue, Hurt, Lowry, hurt,
Jimmy Nick right, they're all banged up. Bolster banged up too,
but a lot less and thought last night it was

(02:02:09):
the it was going to be a Celtics winning Game
six and we get ready for the series. But Jimmy
didn't have any of it. And Jimmy Buckets was was amazing,
gave us the gift of sports that that moment of wow,
one guy step it up and Buckets was amazing. So

(02:02:31):
I spent a good portion of the morning talking about that.
We'll get back to that shortly and we'll give you,
you know, we'll suss out. We'll have the big brain
on Brad coming up to suss out some of the
game seven and then what it would look like with
with a matchup with Golden State. But what we're doing,
we're have some fun today with the guys. Were doing

(02:02:53):
the NFL win totals. You know, it's funny when you
reached the point of all right, you know, after this
in summertime, right, June's coming up. So then you have
the mini camps. Then everybody goes away into the O,
T A S. And then they come back it's training camp,
and then it's the abbreviated preseason and uh, and then

(02:03:15):
the season starts. We are now on Tuesday, we will
be one hundred days out of the NFL season. Once
you get inside a hundred fig you start to go,
I you see the finish line right right, it's a
hundred days. I mean, that's nothing you can do that.
You know that, that's that's nothing. I'm surprised you have

(02:03:38):
sockey season. You haven't crushed it down to hours. I'm
imagining you have like a like you have like the
ticker in there, like in your living room, and it's
like it's really the death fell football. Countdown, Yeah, countdown
the kickoff. You know, it's funny we wait all year
for it, right, Like I can get away with like yours,

(02:03:59):
the the rhythm of the off season. So you got
February into Super Bowl. I mean, you know you've just
you vote deed on the playoffs, right, So as much
as you hate it, you could deal with it, right
because it's you know, you just went through a season
and then you got March madness, right, you get that,
you got that whole March thing, working little baseball looking

(02:04:22):
forward to that. Then you got the arching of the
NBA NHL playoffs. So it's fun. It's fun couple of months, right,
it's March, it's April, it's May. And then once you
go through that three month stretch, you know you got
you know, you went through the draft and all you
go through three month stretch, you started going alright, well

(02:04:43):
now I'm starting at the itch again. Yeah. Well, and also,
you know, coming out of the Super Bowl, the NFL
stays relevant that entire time because you come out of
the Super Bowl, you get into the combine. You come
out of the combine, you have your senior Balls and
Shrine Bowls and all that stuff, and then you start
talking about draft coverage and that takes into April. You
have free agency, by the way, which I skipped over.

(02:05:03):
So like the NFL, even after the Super Bowl ends,
i'd say from early February all the way through until
now we have O t s and then once those
wrap up and you have mandatory camps are early next
month or middle of next month, that's kind of when
they just disappear completely off the face of the earth.
And the NFL has pretty much no news at least
no good news between i'd say mid June in late July.

(02:05:24):
But the NFL keeps itself. Yeah, keep that's so. I
think that's part of it too, Anthony, is like the
NFL finds a way to keep itself relevant for as
much as it can throughout the off season. Uh, and
it's dormant for probably about five and a half to
six weeks stretch. Yeah, that's a great point. It's true.
That's a great great point. All right, Well, speaking of relevancy,
let's go back to our wind totals, and let's go

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to Las Vegas. Wow. I know that the a f
C West is a tough division and that the a
f C in general is uh rugged conference. But the
ray Eaters come in eight and a half. I think
that's a stone over. But let me go to my

(02:06:09):
resident Raider man, Figgy. That's difficult because on top of
playing in a pretty tough division, they don't necessarily have
the easiest schedule outside of their division either. You know,
they're going on the road at Tennessee, at New Orleans,
got the Colts again, you know, you play at the Rams.
So when you said it was eight and a half,

(02:06:30):
it's hard, Well, it's just I mean, just consider I
like to know what the other an f C West
with its win totals are for the other teams, because
that's it's gonna be a hard division to handicap. Um
My heart says, over, but I don't know, ahead might say, under,
really I love McDaniels did. There's not a team in

(02:06:53):
the division that I don't like. That's the problem. So,
and everybody's not gonna win ten games, you know. So
I can see the Raiders, you know, getting eight, possibly
getting to nine and probably and possibly still missing the playoffs.
But if it's eight and a half right now, I
think I'll take the under Ricky. I think they got

(02:07:14):
a good shot to split those divisional games. Eight is
like the perfect number. Um, Damn, I gotta I gotta
go over eight now, all right, I'm going over to
uh Psycho. I'll take the under. I think um schedule
has no favorite. Yeah. I I'm not usually the unders guy,

(02:07:36):
but I'm taking all unders so far. I just I
think looking at the division, I favor the Chargers, I
favor the Chiefs. I just I feel like Vegas they're
gonna fight really hard. I just worry that they're gonna
probably end up at the bottom of that pack. Yeah.
I think they in Denver are probably gonna be fighting
for the bottom. And the bottom is not bad. The
bottom could be nine wins, you know what I mean.

(02:07:57):
It's still it's still it's tough, all right. Tennessee is
nine nine, I can I I have a sinking feeling.
I feel like Tennessee is the one playoff team that
is due for some heavy regression. I agree, and they're

(02:08:19):
they're nine with a lean to the under because it's
the Getta L minus one, so I figur it's it
on there. I think they got worse. I worry about Henry.
I don't think Fitzpatrick is good enough to like consistently
be winning you ball games year in and and like, Yeah,

(02:08:40):
as I said, I think the theme with running backs,
like I mentioned with Dalvin Cook, but it's something I've
got to keep in mind for like Carolina with Christian
McCaffrey too, is these these injuries to these running back
heavy teams just absolutely brutalize them. And you, if you're Tennessee,
you just hope Derrick Henry stays healthy. Yeah, And the
problem is you're taking your acclaiment to to Robert woodsho

(02:09:01):
was coming off of a devastating injury. You don't know
how he's gonna react to that. And you have a
rookie coming in at receiver. You don't know how he's
gonna react. Delt out a J. Brown. Yeah, and and
so you gave Brown. So I can certainly see where
there's regression there. Nine seems pretty high for me. I
think I think they're still good enough defensively to keep themselves,
you know, competitive, and in games. I can see them
winning between seven. Between seven and eight, I think you

(02:09:21):
start getting up to nine and ten. I think that's
that's pretty Uh, that's a lot. I'll take the under. Yeah.
I love I love Vrabel, but I have to go
under two. I agreed, alright, we're all in agreement. Under
nine Tennessee Arizona is eight and a half. Fig we're

(02:09:45):
at here interesting eight half. So this is kind of
similar to the a f C West to the not
with adding Seattle in there. But I think three of
the four teams are legit obviously playoff caliber teams. Um,
I think I'll go over the over for Arizona. I
don't think they got worse this offseason. It's it's tough

(02:10:09):
because I think a lot of people have sold their
belief in Arizona just on what happened with the team
in Kyler Murray back end of the schedule, where they
just you're gonna lose your receiver for yeah, for four
of the first four games. Yeah, yeah, you're not gonna
have Hopkins for a while, but you don't have Channel John.

(02:10:29):
You lost him. So that's that's big. Yeah. So those
are I mean, those are key contributors right there. And
yet at the same time, I feel like that last
year was kind of a learning I don't know, I'm
halfway between. It was a learning example. But I also
have all my friends from Texas Tech in my ears
screaming that this is what happens to uh Cliff Kingsbury

(02:10:50):
teams as well. Um, I think, just to break my
break my trend, I will go over. I think they'll
get nine, all right. Ricky Eves Broncos, Chargers, Patriots, Rams twice,
Niners twice. I'm going under. I agree, I'm going under
as well. There's something about that team that doesn't smell

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right either. Well, I mean, the star quarterback complaining about
his contract doesn't help, so you can crumble under that,
or he can play better and kind of you know,
flip the bird to the to the organization and say, hey,
pay me and play well. So they the last over
Kyler's short career. They've gotten off the phenomenal starts and
then tank towards the end of the season, like Chris
brought up, But they have gotten off the great starts.

(02:11:34):
They want to eleven games last year, so um Yessuh,
they're not gonna have DeAndre Hopkins for the first couple
of games of the season, but uh, they ran the
ball better last year. I still think they're solid defensively,
so I think I think they were solid team. I
think also worth pointing out that Hopkins was hurt, was
like injured late in the season. Yes, for much of
the back end of the schedule last year, uh Jets.

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And by the way they they humbled at the end
of the season and without Jets five and a half
boys over is steaming. I can imagine why this and
half is real low. Mine is one six five under

(02:12:18):
plus one thirty five. So everybody likes the over Jets,
what are you faking? Fake? Well, if I was a
gambley man, which I am not, if it was just
for the odds, I'll probably take the under. So to
be honest with you, so I could. I can obvious
I can potentially see them, you know, winning six games
or so. They certainly have all the names on paper,

(02:12:41):
but you don't win games on paper. So I'll believe
it when I see it. I'm taking the under for now,
Like I feel like looking at six wins and flipping
on its head is like I can see the Jets
losing eleven games. Yeah, so like it, like, yeah, if
you can lose eleven, you can use four, you can
lose fourteen, right, Yeah, you know, I just I I
need to do that to remind myself. We are on

(02:13:02):
a seventeen game schedule sometimes, so I'm regrudgingly taking the over,
but I don't feel good about it. Like I guess
I'm hoping Zach Wilson's healthy and he is something, but
I can't see. I can't bet over Zach Wilson just yet.
I gotta say it. I bet on there? Do you
ask me to bet it? I would go on there.

(02:13:23):
My my heart is saying over, but my brain I'm
is saying under. I'm going under a lot of hype
on that squad. I don't I don't try there, and
they're an untrustworthy team, undeserved hype. There's there's a difference
having optimism and then hyping it up saying like, oh,
this is our year, which I've heard at least one
Jet fan say, so, all right, I get this. My

(02:13:45):
bit could be my favorite over of the of all
of them, the Cults nine and a half, that's an
easy over for me, right that one. I would bet
the Cults over or Colts to win a division I love.
I love the Colts all day long. Over nine and

(02:14:06):
a half. I'm I'm gonna pickle here because I already
took the under on Tennessee, so I should be taking
the over on Indianapolis. I guess I think. No, No,
I'm I'm taking the over on Indianapolis. I just don't.
I'm not high on the Colts like you guys are.
I was watching Ryan last year throwing some absolute ducks,

(02:14:28):
and like, this is a team that just with every
opportunity given to them, has stayed true to their DNA
and crumbled. With all the talent they've had, they've crumbled.
They've never lived up to the moment. Yeah, I know,
and like, but was pretty good. He has some good
games last year. I think He's not what he used

(02:14:49):
to be obviously, but I think and also considering they're
a run heavy team, they're not gonna ask him to
throw the ball forty times. This this, this line about
the Colts has been fed to me for four years
straight now, and it's never worked out for them. What
line they've got eight team, just plug in a quarterback

(02:15:10):
and they'll go for it. And like whoever they've plugged in,
it's it's like, maybe it works out for the Winds
and I'll take the over, but they've never gone far
at all. Well, it's a crazy, crazy conference too, but
crazy good conference. I mean, I just like them. I mean,
to me, it's the easy over yeah, I think there.
I said, I think they could potentially make it to

(02:15:30):
the super Bowl. I don't say I was picking them
to go there, but I think they're they're talented enough
to do it. Over over on the Colts, za's unanimous
Chargers ten ten and it's a favorite minus ten on

(02:15:51):
the Chargers. I think I like the over, I like
the over two. I think Staley's getting just so much,
so much just weird hatred for his fourth down decisions
and all of this weird. I mean, going forward on
fourth down in your own territory. I know, I know,

(02:16:13):
I know why, But like if any of those like
those are coin flips at the end of the day,
like I feel like this Chargers team is just very
talented and just well led. What about the idea that
you know you're going to overtime and I mean, I
mean you're going to tie. Yeah, and even less that's
less egregious for me than you can't was an early
third quarter or maybe late first half, when you you're

(02:16:36):
backed up in like your own twenty and you go
forward on fourth down. I don't care what dictionary and
football encyclopedia you're looking at, analytic, that's not the right move,
And I do know I defended Brandon Staying the all
of last season for going forward on fourth down. I
thought that it's the right way to go in the
right situation. I have no problem going for it, but
you gotta be smart about it too. But I'll take

(02:16:56):
the over. All that being said, I think they're just
over go over the dark Corset dark horse m VP
candidate Herbert I'm taking the over. He might be one
of the favorites. He might be right behind Josh Allen. Yeah,
I'm about dark horses, all right, Caroline six, under is

(02:17:19):
the favorite here minus I'm going over. I'm gonna and
it's an over on because of Matt Rule. I'm gonna
go Rule coaching for his jack Listen, they're close in

(02:17:40):
a lot of places. I know they don't have a quarterback,
but they they're defensively, they're really good. Yeah, I like them.
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go over. Yeah, I'm gonna
take the under because, quite honestly, if they're gonna have
any more to come up success, they're gonna have to
keep Christian McCaffrey healthy, and he has not sayed thinking.

(02:18:00):
So that's the big X factor. Is health. But I
do think that I do think that they got someone
in Matt Corral. I don't know how how helpful he'll
be at the start of the season, but I do
feel like, I like, I like, vaguely like the over
I might be saying this, I might be saying is

(02:18:20):
greedily because I also don't want Carolina to be picking
for a quarterback next year. I got you, Ricky. I
know Rule is your boy, but I just have no
faith in Donald I'm under all right, Uh and then
have that your boy, rick your boy that cow malloys

(02:18:42):
how hard alwis? No, that's an over easy easy. Really,
I think you guys got worse now season. Now we're
we're we're a twelve win team. Their teen wins, thirteen winds.

(02:19:04):
He lost two. Fix your offensive line? Now, yeah, but
we just drafted Marie Cooper. We're good man trust and
that defense defensive spectacular and it's only going to be
better than they were last year. Well, I mean that
that has a big effect. You know. I love that,

(02:19:25):
I love Mica, you know, so those whole parts is
making it makes a big difference up front. So um
and go over to Yeah, I'll take you over. The
division is weak, all right, and you're going over to Chris.
I'm going over, not to the degree that Ricky is,
but I think tens ten tens an easy push, all right,

(02:19:45):
I'm going under. Of course you are on there. Let's
go Niners ten. And that seems steep fake, I mean,
on the high end for them. Yeah, um possibly. I

(02:20:07):
mean if I guess we have to we have to
figure out what the quarterback situation is going to be,
because that does factor in. I don't know what tree
lance is. I know that Jimmy Garoppolo is a at
least solid enough you asked me to win your games.
And there. I don't think they lost a whole lot
from a roster standpoint, up and down the roster. There's
still a good roster top to bottom. They're just their
big weaknesses that quarterback, regardless of who's under there. So

(02:20:28):
ten seems like a safe bet. Did you say it
was ten or ten and a half. I'm gonna push
on that, all right, So you go over and the
very least you get a push. This smells like an
under something about it? Okay, alright, makes sense? I can
I'm kind of torn. How about you, Psycho? I'm taking

(02:20:49):
the under at most, I'll get the push at the
very least, though, floor being what it is, I feel
like this is the year where all these these scales
about Jimmy Garoppolo being Winter Guy kind of falls off
people's eyes. All right, interesting, all right, I'll take the over, um,
but kind of big grund. I kind of would figure.
I think it's to push. H We'll come back and

(02:21:12):
we'll table this and we'll come back. We have the
Big Brain joining us our betting analysts to go over
the weekend's action. Figgy, great job, love as always, you
love best in the wife, So it's nice to say that.
All right, everybody hanging and back in just a moment

(02:21:33):
right here fellas on Fox Sports Radio. All Right, welcome
back fellas on this Memorial Day weekend coming up, we
got our man, the Big Brain, Brad Feinberg, our betting
analysts to check in on the holiday. We can give
us some picks and a surprise Game seven selection between

(02:21:56):
the Heat and Sees. Before we do that, let's go
to the RD of trendings. I got some good stuff
for you, Anthony. Good morning, as always, Good morning weekend. Likewise,
you know what I can't complain, babe. Yeah, that's how

(02:22:18):
it should be. And now Kevin has joined the club. Yes, high, Yes,
so we can commiserate and vent to one another. If
you know what I mean. Delete that from the podcast, please,
so good stuff for you. I'll save the piece to
resistance to towards the very end. We'll start with a
pretty good piece to resistance in his own right. Game

(02:22:40):
six of the Eastern Conference Finals Jimmy Butler forty seven
points but also nine rebounds, eight assists, and four steals
for the Miami Heat and their one eleven on three
victory at Boston, forcing a Game seven on Sunday at Miami.
Multiple outlets report the Los Angeles Lakers have hired Darvin
Ham as their new head coach. Him It spent the
past nine seasons as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks.

(02:23:02):
Before that, he was actually a Lakers assistant for two seasons.
As a player, he won a World championship for the
Pistons under Larry Brown against the Lakers back in two
thousand and four in the Stanley Cup playoffs on Friday night.
The Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues were tied in
the final seconds of Game six of the Western Conference Semifinals.

(02:23:23):
Here is Connor mcgahey on k K sean O'Connor helms
Miss Scots, Miss Scots, Darred Helm with four point nine
seconds to go in the third parad Darren has taken
the helm and he's about to take the Avalanche into

(02:23:45):
the Western Conference Finals. Kart's hard work pace off Darren
Helm is the example. Colorado wins the series and indeed
advances to the Western Conference Finals. I guess reminds me
of those old NBC published public service announcements. The more

(02:24:07):
you know, all right, Last, but not least, Major League
Baseball writing, Anthony Older Red's out Theader Tommy Pam slapped, yes,
slapped San Francisco Giants out theater Jack Peterson in the
outfield during pregame batting practice because of a disagreement about

(02:24:32):
their fantasy football league. Peterson explained the dispute after the game.
This delicious audio courtesy of NBC Sports Bay Area. Enjoy.
I'm pretty creative, and all of us are around here,
but none of us could possibly have made this crap
up if we tried. Listen, I put somebody on the

(02:24:54):
indibert served when they were listed as out and added
another player, and there's a text message in the group
saying that I was cheating. I don't know. I looked
up the rules and sent a screenshot of the rules
out says that when the players ruled out, you're allowed
to put him on the I R. He had a player,
Jeff Wilson, who was out, and he had him on

(02:25:15):
the I R. And I said, you literally have the
same thing on your tea on your bench. It was
listens out. So it's like, it's feels very similar to
what I did. And that was basically all that. There's
not much more to it now, Anthony, you're a pretty
creative Yeah, you're a pretty creative guy. I mean you
literally write movie scripts for real. I'm a pretty creative guy.

(02:25:39):
We're all pretty creative around here. I don't think any
of us could have possibly come up with something like
that that actually happened back to you. I love it,
I love I love it. Now. Fortunately we have an
expert I Low on the line, so our big brain
a bread right at Feinberg Ilo. He has played. He

(02:26:03):
played in thirty five fantasy football leagues, like at once
thirty five? Isn't that right? Brad it is right. That's
a pretty big that's a pretty big Excel spreadsheet. Brad,
I got a story for everyone. I shouldn't likely say this,

(02:26:23):
but m and I your partners in one league. And
he wanted to take Cooper Cup last year and Jonathan
Toler's two of his surprise players he liked. I said no,
and then he slapped me in the face when I
didn't rist friends, friends, you know, do you believe that, Tommy?

(02:26:46):
Oh my god, it was the greatest. It was. It
was tremendous. And then lets you look, guys, I made
me a firstually, do you know, Tommy Sam. I think
it's like an m m A fighter like he does,
like m m MA stuff like no joke. I think
he actually does, like from what I read, I think
I'd read this before. He actually does like m m A.

(02:27:07):
Training doesn't when we tie all this stuff. That's probably
one of the other reasons that Jock Peterson decided to
u K Racker is the better part of discretion or
whatever it is. Yeah, what would you what would your
ruling be? You, as a man who was in thirty
five fantasy football league's this bad here? What was your

(02:27:32):
what would you what your ruling be well. In my
league's actually we really never had an I R list.
The list was always like, you know, you have a
certain roster, right, usually twentyman roster, and if you want
to cut one of your twenty spots to pick up
a player, you do it. There really is no I
R spot, you know, we basically just do it when
you You just have twenty spots and you can use

(02:27:54):
those twenty spots wherever you see fit. So none of
my leagues had an I OUR spot person. But if
the guy I would think, if if there is an
I R spot allowed, if the guys on the I
R you can reserve him. If he's not, you can't.
I would think it would be that simple. Yeah, yeah,
wild man, just actually wild all right, brother, listen last night,

(02:28:21):
I mean what a night Buckets dropping forty seven and
eat your heart out six or fans like us. Oh god,
but I love the fact that that that Boston. I
gotta tell you. I mean they were there for a
party and then boom, you know, I look, I will
say this, Um, I played Miami in the first half

(02:28:43):
last Nicks. I thought they would keep it. I thought
they would not people. But I didn't think they're gonna
win the game ever, let him make that clear. But
I thought that they could. Um Kearney was a prideful team,
and I thought they could keep that game at the
couple of five the first time. I love that, to
keep the game close for a while and make it
like a scratchy claw a game, which they did. But
I was very surprised. I thought the Boston would pull

(02:29:06):
in the fourth quarter. Name when the Dark White hit
that three to put them up, I really thought that
was going to be the dagger. But Lowry finally had
a big game and uh really guts the effort from
a Miami team that is. I mean, I get that,
you know right now, with they're the way these guys
are banged up, Boston really should have beating this team

(02:29:26):
pretty easily. But now we're down to game seven. So
who do you like? Select? Yeah, the only way I
can look at Boston just because anything, I just think
that they are, uh just the better team the lane
two and half points. The only way I can look
I did. I will say this though again, and Mammy
showed it. Miami is just not gonna lay down and say,

(02:29:48):
all right, you guys can have this. Um maam is
extremely prideful team in Butler, you know, but it's probably
gonna take an effort like we saw from Butler um
in Game six. In my opinion, for um Miami to
win this team, maybe they can get it. He's that good,
he's that tough. U from a just a pure forgetting gambling.
If you're just looking from an NBA perspective, what it

(02:30:10):
could be a better series? Um, I think Golden State
versus Boston would be an incredible, electric, tremendous series. That
would be a much better series than Miami versus Golden State.
But someone who's a six or fan like you, I
never could for Boston. So we'll see what happens. If
I do think Boston is more likely winter here, and
I do think that they do cover the two point spread. Yeah,

(02:30:32):
I see, I'm with you. I I thought this too.
I go WOWD Now when didn't. I mean, Jimmy was
just just like I mean, she's got you know, he
was amazing. Bucket's all incredible. But it's so hard. You
gotta go in to Boston play a perfect game. I mean,
he played a perfect game. Now gonna come home. You're

(02:30:52):
still banged up, right, it's so hard, banged up. Lowry's
bang up, and I know it's one. There's no hero, right,
you gotta you gotta gear it up from one game.
Dad's tough spot, man tough spot. Yeah, it really, really is.
I agree with you. It's going to be extremely difficult
for in my opinion, you know, Miami to pull this off.

(02:31:14):
I think can imagine if they did, then they have
to face Golden State and win four more games. Uh,
I think it's gonna be again probably too big of
an ask for them. But again, they showed a lot
of gumps in yesterday. Not a lot of people know one,
I you know one, I know no one. You know,
they thought they could actually win the game. But again
it's you know in sports, you know sometimes you know

(02:31:35):
you really band together and just you know, bunk her mentality,
you can do quote unquote the impossible. So it was
it was impressive to watch about the last night. Who
do you are? If you look at it, you got
Golden State versus Uh, let's take Boston. Are you already
your sets in that matchup out already? I'm sure I assume. Yeah.

(02:31:58):
You know, it's interesting. I think if if if if
Boston had one yesterday, Anthony. Um, I think Golden State
probably would have been about an hour forty favorite or
so something like that. Um now, uh a slight favorite
now because Boston showed some weakness so to speak. Um,

(02:32:21):
you know, maybe maybe it'll be a little bit higher.
We'll see, but they would be a big favorite against Miami,
you know, over in my opinion, definitely over two to
one favorite for sure, much smaller favorite. I think, you know,
maybe three to two or a little bit less against
UH to say, well of home court against Boston. But
I do think if the Boston plays Golden citing Anthony,
I would be very surprised. I know we've without a

(02:32:43):
lot of seven games series, are you know, longer serious
like this kind of series? Seven game series? The Milwaukee
Boston was seven game series, but a lot of these
games have been blowouts. I do think that we would
get a very good competitive series between Boston and Golden State.
I think they're very well matched, and I would be
I think that would be from an aesthetically point of view,

(02:33:04):
just watching basketball would be the best series to watch. Again,
I think Miami is really on the last legs. Maybe
they could pall off a miracle here. But uh, um,
I just think again, for all the reasons we discussed,
just being so injured and whatnot, this is not the
same Miami team we saw a year. I think it's
gonna be again quite a little bit too big of
an ask, but you never know. It's just one more game. Yeah, yeah,

(02:33:25):
the big brain with us are betting analysts. All right,
an h L playoffs, we got a good one. I
think you're gonna leave Carolina here, Carolina and the Rangers.
Carolina can close it out. Um, are you in on Carolina?
Where you at? No, I'm actually gonna go the other
way here. I'm gonna lean here the Rangers. Look, I

(02:33:46):
love this. This has been a bad series for me.
With me and that I did play, I played. It
has been a very bad serious for me. I have
played the Rangers in the games in Carolina, and I
have you know, I have not fared well. Because Carolina
is three and oh at home. Uh, it's interesting, Carolina

(02:34:07):
is thirteen and oh. There are games Anthony. In the playoffs.
The home team has won the last seven years in
the NHL playoffs, Anthony, the road team has won more
games in the home team. There's been no Luminates advantage.
So I've been a big and I want a bunch
of other games this year going taking the road team,
but just not in any of the Carolina games. Usually
I look to take the road team and when they're

(02:34:27):
getting a big price, because I don't give really any credence,
much credenc the NHL home mice advantage in the playoffs.
Um now this game wish just stirkin. The Rangers to
be were the slightly better team named Carolina during their
regular season. Um now I get Game five, the Rangers
completely got outplayed. Carolina put a great game. But I

(02:34:49):
do think the Rangers will win the series and get
till game seven, win the team six and get to
the game seven and then, um I will probably be
stubborn if they do and take them again getting a
dour fourt or so in game seventh or fortunate enough
doing game six. But I would much rather take the
Rangers getting a dollar forty in Carolina than laying the
Dower fifteen at home in the garden. That's just me. Uh.

(02:35:10):
In the West Edmonton slays, now they get the lanch,
you give you get many shot against the avalanch. Yeah,
I listen, I think I absolutely do. Look Colorado, look St. Louis,
you know, without doing it, and they they faced they
played you know, Colorado tooth and nail. I mean that

(02:35:32):
was I watched all those games and they were they
were very tight. Again, they'd gone either way. And look
we're seeing in Edmonton team Anthony again that we've always
known which eye citle and McDavid that they have, but
they usually have two of the two best players in
the nice obviously with the Avalanche having a couple of
stars like themselves, like you know, like McKinnon or whatnot,

(02:35:53):
and the car that you know, maybe this is one
of the rare times they don't. But they're about a
two and a half from one favorite Anthony. Um. I
do think they can potentially upset them. I I think
colind is the most likely winner of the series. Do
I think that they win the series about seventy two
percent a time, which is what two and after one
translates to about No, I don't think it's quite that high.
And I I do think that, you know, I will

(02:36:15):
be looking to play Edmonton in the games in Colorado,
if you know, I'm taking like plus a dollar sixty
plus a dollar seventy in that area. Yeah, I can
see that anything that's Memorial Day weekend with baseball. Yeah,
I think I do a couple uh baseball of baseball stuff. Uh,
let me bring it up right now. I did like

(02:36:39):
Alcantara of the Marlins, Anthony getting he was getting one
fifteen against Tucker Davidson. Davidson's a yeah, really, a guy
hasn't had any kind of career. He's an eight point
seventy r A and only kennings that this year. Sandy
Alcantara has about a two point one r A is
only allowed two runs as last twenty four innings. I
think the Marlins are the most likely. When you're here

(02:37:00):
for sure, and you want to give me a price,
I'm gonna take that all day. Um. And I took
under five and a half runs in the five inning
line between Arizona and Los Angeles. Now Merrill, Kelly Anthony
and it's nine starts to share. He fits well. Eight
of his nine starts to allow three runs are less.
Consolin is allowed two runs are less, and all you

(02:37:20):
know in all eight of his starts and one runner
less than six of the eight. So I'm gonna I'm
gonna take under Um, I'm gonna take under five and
a half runs in that as well, and then I
took the Padres with the run Mine Linger run and
a half. Joe Musco against GT Brewbaker. Musco has been
great all year. He's allowed two runs less and all

(02:37:41):
of his starts he's at one point nine are a blue.
Baker is a guy who's an ear a over five
in his career. Um, I think I need them online
minus one and a half plus minus at the hours twenty.
But I'm taking plus one ken, So I did bite
on that, and then uh, you know, so those and
I did take Johnny Quato under five and half strikeouts
as a ro Okay. Sounds great, my brother listen, have

(02:38:02):
a great weekend with the family. We appreciate it as always.
Buddy the big brain on Brad the great betting analysts,
good stuff, Pal, there he is. We'll come back and
wrap it up. And uh, I know you're waiting on
a soccer pick. Well, that's coming from our man psycho Chris,
who can't wait for the Champions League Final or wrap

(02:38:26):
it up? Coming up next fellas right here on Fox
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fellas hanging out on this Memorial Day weekend with a

(02:38:50):
Saturday Man perfect day. Hope everybody enjoys it. Have a
blessed day, blessed weekend. Man, enjoy it the whole thing
and get some relaxed sets of faun in you name it. So,
today is a big day in sports when it comes
to the Champions League and shops, and I'll put your

(02:39:12):
you know, the Big Brain might be in thirty five
fantasy football leagues and he's a great sports team decapper,
but I'll put Psycho Chris when it comes to international
soccer against the Big Brain. And we've got Liverpool Real
Madrid today. Psycho Chris, I know you're in. Yeah, I'm in.

(02:39:36):
I'm all in. I'm staying up once I get home.
Like this is an unbelievably special matchup. Just the season
Liverpool's had. They for those who don't know, they captured
like two of these every club Play Everyone tournaments in England.
They were a hair's breadth away from winning the England
domestic title. They're one of the best clubs I've seen
in recent memory, and they've got just such unbelievable talents

(02:39:57):
with guys like Mohammed Salah. And then you've got Realm Drid,
who's just you know, people know the name, it's Football Royalty,
literally in the name Football Royalty and you know, great
Grant manager with Encelado, Karen Benzema is amazing. And the
way they did it to like beat Manchester City coming

(02:40:17):
from behind on a goal aggregate like these are. And
this this isn't a goal aggregate game. This is a
winner take This is a single elimination, winner take all game.
It is the biggest match in all of Europe. Two
insanely talented teams just square. This is like the sport
at it's highest right now. It's just it's it's, it's it's.

(02:40:38):
I have no words for it. It's just it's an
unbelievable matchup. Yeah, man, I'm with you. I think it
could be a great by the way, I feel like
that's hard because Liverpool is unbelievably talented, but the way
Madrid got here it feels like they're a bit of destiny.
I'm leaning Liverpool. I I like it. I watched that
game too, that that match was amazing and everybody enjoy it.

(02:41:01):
We love you, We'll see you next Saturday.

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