Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier React To Timberwolves Shocking Denver, Knicks Losing To Pacers, And More!!

Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier react to the stunner in Denver with the Timberwolves advancing to the Western Conference Finals. Chris and Arnie also discuss Arnie's Knicks losing to the Pacers in heartbreaking fashion. Plus, the guys talk more about NFL, more NBA hot takes, Arnie's Picks, and more!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to sports radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let's go, stinking genius, let's go stop it.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Let's stop it.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Stop the I hate when you do that too.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Are we retiring? Let's go from the show. That'd be.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's because you're so happy today. Every time one of
my teams lose in a big game, you always come on.
So I that God, that God.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean, it's not it's not like you kind of
bring some of it on.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
And I mean you did consistently refer to the Pacers
as the fever, and you did constantly ask if you
should worry about Caitlin Clark getting hers on the Knicks.
So I mean you you do kind of bring some
of this song on yourself there, stinking no at.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
First, I must be JINXD. Really is what it comes
down to. I I've got to be jinxd. I mean
it goes back to the to the Dolphins and their injuries,
and now the Knicks with the regiies, I mean, to
make matters worse. Now brunts and has to have a
fractured hand. I mean, what what did I do to
the sports gods? I realized seventy five percent of my
life's misery comes from sports. You know that don't you

(01:11):
go ahead tell you that's seventy five percent of my
misery comes from my sports teams. Really, it destroys me.
I feel like I'm jinster or something.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Even my Arizona Wildcats football team, our starting quarterback got hurt.
Just thank goodness. We had a backup quarterback, a quarterback
that happened to be better. But my teams are just
following apart. I don't know what I did to deserve
this for a stop geez, and I watched it knows
to be that Halliburton guy. Yeah, oh dude, what he

(01:44):
wore to the press conference. He's lucky I didn't pour
a can of paint on him or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I would have.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I would have ruined that sweat or did you see
that sweat Journey war, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
You weren't going to throw anything on the sweats shop.
I would have thrown an past. It's off.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
This happened, Arnie because the Knicks minus Brunson playing the
Celtics the points.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I gotta tell you, what what a what a what
a BS move by him? I want you to know
that what a BS moved by him by wearing that
sweatshirt first by Hall a Burton wearing that sweatshirt. I
want to know something. Is he calling the whole team
of the Knicks chokers or just certain players? Why don't

(02:29):
you go ahead and say it instead of insinuating that
the Knicks are a bunch of chokers, which isn't true
because they just had injury after injury after injury. You
have the nerve, the nerve to wear something like that.
I hope all of New York saw that. I hope
the Nick fans saw that. Next time this guy comes
into town. I hope that Nick players saw that and said,

(02:50):
you call me a choker? Now, okay, I'll see where
you are. You know, I know how to deal with
people like that on the basketball court. I used to
pump fake and when they lift their feet, my elbow
would go right into their neck, into their jugular. That's
how you get them. I think that's just such a
BS move, doing something you know you're gonna win. But yeah,
I have a little class about it. I get you've

(03:10):
been there before.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
You wore that.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
He hasn't, and I'm surprised. If I was a reporter there,
I would have gone into the NIXT locker room and said,
let me tell you what he's worrying. I'm surprised the
whole Nick team didn't come in and ripped out sweatshirt
right off his body. You know that stopped because ruds
and won fight. He he had one hand. Jeez, I'm serious.

(03:35):
Should have said, people out of the locker room to
rip that sweatshirt up. Cuts and you know what, he
had to have packed that sweatshirt and brought it with
him because he didn't wear it into the game.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
How do you think it got there?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well? I just well, where did the game? At least
have some guts man, at least say what's on your mind? Gosh,
I hate people. You know what what a coward move
that is? And oh yeah, somebody gave it to me
a couple of days ago. I don't know who gave
it to me. I just like to be comfy on
the plane. Yeah, you be comfy because uh, you'll be
out in four more games. You make me sick. You

(04:09):
really do make me sick. Hate that guy now?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
One one oh nine.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
The Pacers beat the Knicks to move on to the
Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Also served Oh gee, how about that? Everybody they play
gets hurt too. I look at a pretty good break
for him right every time. I mean, look at the
Boston the easiest road to the to the championship that
I've ever seen in my wife, Hey is.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
But it's poising, is healthy.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
And with the way things have gone for the Boston Celtics,
who's to say that I literally praise that the way
things have gone for the Pacers, aren't he? Who's to
say that Jason Tatum does a wrench and ankle or
or something happens Jaalen.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Brown or way to go there, Plank, way to wish injury?
Are we on the sports hub in Boston? Go that's
Chris play wishing injury on your best players.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
As as I just.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Said in the opening segment, I wish all of them
would get hurt. That's that's how things have gone with
the Indiana Pacers.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
They've caught a few breaks, but see.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I hate them now, they're they're public enemy number one.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well you need to put some respect on them.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now give your respect what you did on the court,
Oh yeah, because I was playing out there. We have
like a million injuries. What's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm just saying, when you constantly clown a team in
a city I.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Deserve to have my team have injuries. Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Then now you have to put respect on their name.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
You're an excusinator. You're not take take your l Yeah,
you hit socks man. The Knicks they got humbled by injuries.
They also had one of the most amazing shooting performances
I think I've ever seen from a team in the
first half, from the.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Throwing everything up there, I'm like, I want to pay
some respect artisan we get hurt. They're shooting unbelievable, and
then brunts and fractures his hands. What are you gonna
do next? Light Madison Square, Garden on fire? Where's the lightning? Both?
It's ridiculous. Really, I got you couldn't have gotten it
any worse. Hartenstein got worse. I thought they were gonna

(06:16):
take people out of the stands and start having them play.
It's insane how many injuries we had.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know, I really feel bad about your team losing
because you're my friend and unlike you. I know you though,
I don't don't sit here and root for your team
to lose, but holy smokes, when they do, it's incredible
content on this show to think that, Okay, let me
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are horrible damp.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'm writing out your show, by the way. I'll get
to that later on.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I just do it how I like it, so Arnie
sins and with two Game sevens two Game seven speaking
of of not liking how you lay a show out,
you're sending the rundown for the show before either game
has tipped off.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Then we're going to talk about both game sevens. What
do you want me to wait till after the game's done?
Minnesota game just ended.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think it's I think it's okay to wait till
after the game's done to send what you want to
talk about from it.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I don't want I know exactly what I wanted to say,
but the first court I knew exactly what I wanted
to say.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
So the best part of this is Arnie.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Then after a couple of hours after the game, there
was some radio silence there for a while. I think
everyone on the crew can attest to we were afraid
to reach out to Arnie after the Knicks lost one
thirty one oh nine one three Z zero to one
O nine.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
And he merely.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Sends back an updated and instead of adding more of
the Roman numerals to it, instead of adding more content,
you simply have circled in the most what's an inelegible,
illegible handwriting possible something about Halliburton's sweatshirt and I cannot possibly.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Have you highlight You highlighted it, he highlighted.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I did, he was, and I had no I even
saw the interview. I've got TNT on now and they
were showing some of the clips from it, and everyone
back and looked for it and then rewatched it, and
I thought, Arty's really going to be triggered by this,
And I'm I'm here to say that that report is confirmed.
This is what you're mad about uh not your team's

(08:45):
in ability. And again it's unfair for me to pick
too much on the nuts right, not by me, But
you're calling it a cheap shot by Halliburton for wearing
this sweatshirt.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
I don't know why you act like you're a fashion
god though, the last one to comment on someone's outfit.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I don't care if he wears a hoodie. Just don't
have a picture of Riggie Miller and doing the choke side.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I hope you know like therapy is. You know it's
it's virtual now, you know you get some there.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Get Yeah, because to think that you would come away
from that today and that's the maddest thing or the
thing you're maddest about, sorry, is interesting to me. Why
do you think did he get on the mic and say,
y'all are a bunch of chokers?

Speaker 2 (09:31):
No, we are a sweatshirt that insinuated that the team
was a bunch of chokers. That's what you did. That's
what you did. That's worthy of a couple of backsweeds.
Next time we play I'm knocking you on your ass
next time we play about that? Okay? And you know
what if you want to throw a punch, oh, I
hope you do. I hope you do. Why wasn't anybody

(09:52):
suspended when all the pacer players came off the bench
or is that allowed now? I didn't. I didn't know
that you're allowed to go timeout or no timeout? Everybody
run it off the bench to throw punches from the
Indiana Pacers. I didn't know that was allowed nowadays.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hey, he knows who they are now they're the pacer
What did I say?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, Arnie?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
You all well, you've been calling them everything but the
Pacers the last few games.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
The Indiana Luckies is what they should be, because every
time they played somebody, somebody gets hurt.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
You anything else you want to add on this before
we talk about Anthony Edwards crashing the Western Conference finals?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Or are you you're going to talk about Anthony Evers
waving goodbye to the Denver crowd and should yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Go ahead, Mary, okay, of course I got you.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh yeah, get some help stop it.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Did you see? Did you see after the Edwards waving
Yokis didn't like that. He didn't like that at all. Well,
of course he's not gonna like it.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
He just got beat on his home court by a
team that they were a fairly decisive favorite over.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Can I explain to to you this is exactly what's wrong.
Go ahead with the younger generation, all right. You can't
win like adults, and you can't lose with dignity. You
know you can't. You can't go ahead and say that
was a hard fought series. You know, even back in
the day when there was fighting and pushing and shoving,
you know, they lined up in hockey or in basketball

(11:20):
and they shook the other team's hand. No, no backstabing,
nothing like that. Nowadays, it's like, hey, yeah, we're gonna laugh.
We're not gonna tell you what we're saying. I'm gonna
wear a sweatshirt. Don't ask me about it, though. If
you're gonna ask me about it, I'm gonna lie. I'm
gonna say if somebody gave it to me, I don't
know who gave it to me. Yeah, I gave it
to you. How about that Artie's band you gave it

(11:40):
to you. Don't tell anybody who gave it to you.
And then you're wearing it, Oh you didn't wear it
before the game. That just bugs Dad at.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Every single time you enter this like slight bit of analysis,
did you guys catch that. He dies into yeah, well,
you know, waving at the bench, and then all of
a sudden, automatically before it gets to Anthony Edwards not
necessarily having the best game tonight, but his teammates stepping
up around him what they did defensively. You can't help yourself, Arnie,
But to circle back and get even madder about Tyrese

(12:12):
Halliburton's sweatshirt?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Did you just did you just catch that?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Is this gonna be like talking NFL and you've always
got to bring up the Miami Dolphins? Is the rest
of the night going to be everything that you've got?
Segueing back to Tyrese Haliburton, No.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I just I'm looky. I wasn't covering the game for
Fox because I would have brought in a can of paint.
I would have thrown it on him and the boss
would have called me up. Did you throw paint on
Haliburtons sweatshirt? I said, yes, I did, Yeah, I did.
I'm sorry I did.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Absolutely, we got a guess that's gonna come on, so
you can you can calm down or Steve coming here?
Steve Curry's not coming on today. That is still shocker.
That is still a streak. That's still a streak that
hasn't been paid off yet. No. Mark Medina has become
a solid NBA expert an insider for the crew here

(12:59):
at Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I had a guest on the overnight show last night,
Arnie that.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Had never happened whenever I'm sitting in on the open,
I have never had a guest and Mark was kind
enough to come on, so we'll we'll dive into his thoughts.
I wonder if he's as mad about Tyrese Haliburton sweatshirt
as you are.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thinking about fans are.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I'm sure Spike wee' is bad about it.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'm gonna do a Twitter search just to see how
mad everybody else is. But I I thoroughly enjoyed watching
this Minnesota Timberwolf team not give up. Shouts out to
the boss Man scottis Shapiro, second Western Conference.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Look up to the Boss. Oh gosh, I hate when
you do that. That just drives me crazy. I mean
serious to shut out to the bus, shouts out to
the boss text because I knew he was gonna be
all crabby now that they want. At least I can

(13:57):
answer his text now.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I think the Krabby one is currently sitting in his
man cave somewhere in Vermont. I don't think any of
the Krabby ones are anywhere else but right to.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
The morass man for the Timberwolves? Do you even know
if if it wasn't for the would.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
You do not expect people to have given you your
your rose? I'm sorry, any but would you not have
expected people to have given you your flowers?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
If the Nixon moved on, you'd absolutely do.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
I watched those if if it wasn't for the Boss,
where you even know what city the Timberwolves playing?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
The last time you did this with Indiana it backfired,
So I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Even Charles Barkley said he hasn't been up there in
twenty years.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well and then they they show video of him when
he was there four years ago.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, Clo, So I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
No, no, no, he's you're right. No, you're you're right, Ardie.
I'm not listen. I'm not trying to fight with you tonight.
But what's what's funny to me is you are every
little thing is going to leave to you being a
little bit on edge. So I'll say this, You're right,
Charles Barkley said, I hadn't been in Minnesota in twenty years,

(15:09):
but then all of a sudden, the inside the NBA
crew is like, well, here you are in Minnesota in
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
So I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
I understand the kind of unique nature of the Minnesota
Timberwolves making it. But through all your anger and all
your frustration, you've got to give them credit for being
the ultimate not out of it team.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
They were left for dead so many times in this series,
including in the first half of this game, and they're
moving on.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
They got a lot of bit I know they were
down by twenty. I was enjoying the game. I'm like,
oh my goodness. It looked like Denver was just so
out of sorts, out of whack. They Jolkics didn't want
to really take the shot. Even though we hit a
couple of threes. Murray wasn't you know. He wasn't hitting
those big time shots like he was against the Lakers,
and Minnesota took advantage of it. Plus they got some

(15:58):
easy steals. It's some breakaways. They played good defense in
the second half. They deserve to win. They looked. They're
an exciting team, and I don't know, I'm not even
that mad that he waved goodbye to the crowd, but
as you get into it as the game's going on,
but they they deserved it. Man, that was a good win.
Now we'll see if Dallas smacks the around a little
bit or if they get by Dallas.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Feeling any better at all. Probably not to the end
of the show.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Probably not till next week, right, Probably not to the
Pacers giddy limoning.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, I won't feel that when you'll feel better, No
till next year.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know that you don't have a bigger fan than
all you guys are out there. Yes, a loss like
this stands with me until the NBA starts back up
again and we go on a revenge tour, our revenge year,
and get revenge on the Pacers and everybody else that
that stood in our way, and we pick up some
free agents and we dominate everybody. You know, then I'll

(16:54):
feel a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
When we come back to the tirack dot Com studios.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Let's talk to the experts.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Our buddy Mark Medina helps break down what happened in
Game seven's in Denver and Madison Square Garden where the
home team went oh for two. We're off to the
finals and we're breaking it down tonight on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3 (17:54):
All right, it's already in Plank on a Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 8 (17:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Tough now night for Arnie's Nicks, tough night for the
defending champs, but a great night because we get talked
to our buddy Mark Medina and Mark g underscore Medina
on Twitter. Wow, let's start just real quick with what
just happened. How impressed were you were with the sticktuitiveness
of Minnesota. It's not panic to continue to battle. Jamal

(18:23):
Murray had a game, You'll get you had a game.
It didn't matter because that was a team effort for Minnesota.
I'm blown away by how they persevere tonight.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Mark, Yeah, same here. Very impressed by Minnesota, Very perplexed
by Denver. Here's why. I think Minnesota show that they're
not the young team that's going to feel overwhelmed with
the moment. They have all the talent and the right
competitive motor and resiliency to overcome a twenty point deficit.
But how did the defending champs and at game seven
squander that kind of lead so easily. This was the

(18:51):
team that was all about being resilient and being able
to overcome deficits and rise to the occasion when they
feel challenged. So yeah, this was a classic seven game
series where if you simulated this you would probably get
an outcome every single game. But I was just very
surprised with the fact that the Nuggets had such a
large lead that they didn't put away I would have

(19:12):
understood a lot more if it was just nip and
tuck the whole way through and just came down to
a final play. But lots of crets to Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
And what makes it more amazing is that Towns got
into foul trouble they made on a run. Reed came
in and did a phenomenal job for them. Otherwise they
make a run with Towns on the bench there.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Yeah, how about another thing. I mean, Rudy Golbert wasn't
playing really that effectively at the beginning of the game,
and you know so much to Charles Barkley in the
TNT gang were saying, hey, yeah, sitting crunch time, and
all of a sudden he gets eight to thirteen points
in the final quarter and you know, hit a really
good turnaround shot. So yeah, I mean there was a
lot of crazy developments. The other part is that Carl

(19:53):
Anthony Towns is really able to you know, help absolve
you know, the Wolves from having a Portnite from Anthony
Edwards from a shooting standpoint, But I think that this
really just kind of taps into what this team's identity
has been. They have a lot of depth, they have
star power, They have teamwork, and they have experience with
having to cover up for someone else's poor performance or

(20:16):
an injury, because that's what happened all this past season.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Mark.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I know the obvious answer is whenever you're one of
the final four teams, you got a chance to win
a title. But you and I talked about it with
Dallas last night after they beat the Thunder.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Could that be a team that you could see holding
up the trophy?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I'll carry it over to another final thought for me
on the Western Conference finals being said, is Minnesota a
team that you could see hoisting a championship trophy?

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah? I think that a barring significant injuries to all
these three teams, I think that it's going to be
among Boston, Minnesota, and Dallas. I mean, Indiana great, they
have Tyris Alburton, they have a really high powered offense.
But I don't think that, you know, unless the Celtics
lose Chris Osfzingis for the entire series and have some

(21:04):
injury issues also with you know, Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown,
that they're going to be able to beat Boston seven games.
So I think it's going to come down to those three.
If I did have to take a favorite out of
all them, I would say it's Minnesota. I think Dallas.
Let's be clear, Luca Doc just playing out of his mind,
Kyrie Irving is playing like he was in the twenty

(21:26):
sixteenth NBA Finals in Cleveland again, and they have a
lot of good supporting cast unlike past seasons. But I
think there's just something about this Minnesota team that's really special,
with the Lwards being the star in the making, Karl
Anthony Towns, you know, really willingly being that one A
or one B co star, and then having a really
good VET, and Mike Conley who can still play at

(21:48):
a high level, and Rudy Gobert, you know, being a
good defender and occasional score. But yeah, I think what's
really going to be good about these playoffs is I
think you can flip a coin for either of those
three games, and I think that Minnesota Dallas is going
to go full seven games.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Mark you how we always say when the Lakers, but
that was the bubble, that was the bubble, that was
the bubble. Are we going to say that about the Pacers? Oh,
they did it, but I mean, look at the injuries
on the os. It's like do you the injury right, Mark?
Can't we say that about that too?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Or what?

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Well? Rook? They won Game seven because they shot out
of their mind. I think they made NBA history for
a shooting sixty seven percent, which is unheard of, never
been done a playoff game before. But I would say this,
if it wasn't for the next injuries, they would have
won this series a while ago. But you know what,
it could have should have. And I am one of

(22:39):
the people that think the Lakers title in twenty twenty
was legitimate. I was in the bubble for part of
that run. I know how challenging it was, and you know,
there are different challenges that were unconventional, that weren't the
same as it would be for a normal season with fans,
and as a result, there are also some advantages. But
I think the challenges vastly outweighed the advantages and there's

(23:03):
a reason that a lot of teams fell short during
that season. But yeah, to the original point about Indiana,
I think that they they have been playing with house money,
so to speak. But they are a team that I
think is the beginning in the beginning of a long
playoff push in future seasons because they're young, they haven't
got a lot of got a young Starr and Tyris

(23:24):
Halliburn and good nucleus. But you know, I think that
they'll run to the bus. Saw that as the Boston Celtics.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Hey, the final thought for me, I find it interesting
that you look at the teams and they were kind
of unique in their approach to the trade deadline, right
so in Pascal Siakam and Indiana has been rolling there
for a bit now, But I was watching PJ. Washington
do what he did for Dallas. I don't think anything's
going to change the way people look at and how
they're going to approach necessarily the roster. But could seeing

(23:53):
Indy and could seeing you know, what's going on right
here with Dallas and PJ. Washington in those moves, could
this spurred team's on to be a little bit more aggressive.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
You think in the future of the trade deadline?

Speaker 5 (24:05):
No, not necessarily. I think that trade deadline it always creates,
you know, urgency for different reasons. You know, when you
are a team that is trying to make the next
level like Dallas in Indiana, Yeah, they're going to make
moves to give them another piece of the puzzle. You know,
others are trying to tank and collect assets for the future,
and then there are some teams like the Lakers specifically,

(24:29):
that we're trying to make moves, but they don't have
enough enough assets to make it work. So a lot
of times, you know, the difference between a team making
a deal or not a deal is usually they don't
have enough to make a deal as opposed to Oh,
they're just sitting on their worlds and twiddling their thumbs.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
You know, Mark, I know you cover the NBA, but
I'm kind of curious if it's Minnesota the Pacers, do
you still have to cover that game? Do you still
have to work it or what?

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean I didn't know, you know, Okay, I didn't know.
I think maybe you wouldn't have to cover it any.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Have you heard of the impending suspension that Halliburton's going
to get for wearing that sweatshirt because it was so.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
So wrong that he did that. Have you heard any
rumors about that?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
I was gonna ask as a fellow, I believe you
guys are Knicks fans, right, do you guys?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hatty?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm a Knicks Ooh that made me sick that he
wore that sweatshirt. If I was a reporter, I would
have thrown a cant of paint on it or something
like that. That's why, that's why I can't cover.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I like that he backed it up. Yeah, he shot
ten of seventeen from the field. He overcame some roughshooting
Knights of the series and they won. So just like
Roggie Miller, he did the choke side after having a
good performance. So you're allowed to do it before the game.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
That's what you should have done, apparently because he didn't
wear it before he saw Hey, Mark, I have a
great week buddy. We appreciate all your breakdown to the
insights here on Fox Sports Radio this weekend.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Man, appreciate you guys. It's always a fun listen.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Thanks, Mark, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I just I want to imagine you sitting there as
we welcome in Steve de Seger with what's trending. I'm
trying to imagine Arnie there with a notepad and maybe
like a pencil in his ear and he realized, he
realizes what's happening with the sweatshirt, and he just finds
a can of paint, right.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
That can of paint over there, showing up now.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
And he goes charging towards the day of Steve and
he throws the Paint.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
God sweatshirt off.

Speaker 9 (26:27):
Sure, we've only got cans of paint sitting around the studio,
of course, speaking of our studios here, the Timberwolves radio
play by play man, Alan Horton was an anchor for
US here in two thousand and five and two thousand
and six and got.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
We developed a few of those what's our boy's name,
that's it Charlotte Now thank Charlotte Hornets NBA play by
play guy.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
He's a former Fox Sports radio analyst.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
There are a few we have heard, certainly David Gaskun
on the television doing Mountain West basketball and Resa Garrison
as well, but Alan Horton is been with Minnesota since
two thousand and seven. He says tonight his Wolves are
the first team in NBA playoff history to win a
seven game series where they won the first two on
the road, then lost the next three and still won

(27:12):
the last two. This was final coast, did.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Not look like it was possible.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Down twenty early in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
The Wolves win Game six. They win Game seven.

Speaker 9 (27:24):
Timber Wolves Radio on Kfan, the final at Denver in
Game seven tonight ninety eight ninety, so they win three
times on Denver's home court in the Altitude Wow. Jamal
Murray had thirty five points in the loss, Nicola Jokic
thirty four, but contributors plural from the Minnesota side. Even
though Anthony Edwards was struggling with his shot most of

(27:44):
the night, he finished with sixteen points, Karl Anthony Towns
had twenty three, and Jade McDaniels had twenty three. Road
teams in recent years actually have winning records in game
seven's in the NBA playoffs. AP says they certainly did not.
If you go from nineteen fifty to two twenty sixteen,
it was a record of about twenty five wins one
hundred losses in game sevens for the road team, But

(28:06):
since then, since twenty seventeen, winning record of twelve and nine,
including Minnesota's road win tonight, and can I add from
the Denver starting lineup, yes, Murray and Jokich tons of points.
They scored about seventy of the ninety points. I saw
a stat that the Nuggets this whole year playoffs included
when they didn't get a hundred points, they didn't win

(28:26):
a game, and they were held under one hundred, certainly
multiple times by Minnesota, and that's how you beat them
in Denver as well. But Aaron Gordon played over forty minutes,
had four points. Tonight starter Katavius Colwell Pope forty minutes,
he had five points. Michael Porter Junior three of twelve
shooting seven points. Those are the other three starters and
Denver season is over. Indiana, a six seed, is into

(28:49):
the East Finals starting Tuesday at Boston after winning at
New York today one thirty to one. ZH nine Pacers
shot sixty seven percent from the floor, a NBA playoff record.
Nicks forty two two. Tyrese Halibert, Narnie's favorite, had twenty
six points. Dante DiVincenzo thirty nine points in the loss.
Jalen Brunson was six of seventeen shooting, did have nine assists.

(29:10):
Left in the second half.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Wet over him actually broke he.

Speaker 9 (29:15):
He slapping down broke his own hand. Alec burks off
the bench with twenty six But the next season is over,
and by the way, Minnesota will be hosting games one
and two against Dallas when the Western Conference Finals begin
on Wednesday. The NHL playoffs resumed tomorrow. Xander Shaffley won
the PGA Championship, his first major victory, by one stroke
over Bryson de Shambeau, who shot sixty four. This was

(29:37):
in Louisville. This weekend. Colin Morikawa filled to a tie
for fourth place six shots back after starting the day
tied for the lead. He shot seventy one. Today, Nelly
Corna took the pg LPGA event in Jersey City by
one stroke. NASCAR's All Star Race on FS one Juegato.
After the race a fight between Ricky Stenhouse and Kyle Busch.

(29:59):
Base All Sunday night game in Atlanta went to the
Padres nine to one. You darvish another win seven scoreless
innings and nine strikeouts. Dodgers and ten innings beat the
Reds three to two. Sho Hey Otani the game winning single.
He had two hits, Otani batting three point fifty three.
And the Raiders have officially announced the passing of Jim
Otto Hall of Fame center, who wore his trademark number

(30:21):
double zero for most of his career fifteen years a
Raider through nineteen seventy four, entered Canton the Hall of
Fame in his first year of eligibility in nineteen eighty.
Jim Auto was eighty six.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Back to you undrafted. Sam Farber was the name I
couldn't come up with. Oh Sam, Yeah, sure, yeap, so
we and what's our guy's name at Minnesota?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
That was Horton.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay, so Alan Horton, Sam Farber, Low and Cron got gone.
I mean Scott Shapiro's got himself like a coaching tree here.
Of update, guys, he's had another kiss up to the boss.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yes, it is all right, thanks Steve. Listen.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Shout outs to my peeps here and Oklahoma, and I
apologize Arnie, Mary Crew. I. We are in the middle
of a tornado warning, so they just actually issued an
all clear for the campus. The difference between a watch
and a warning warning usually indicates there's a nat or
on the ground somewhere, So I think we're gonna be okay,

(31:18):
but it is. It is wild to do this show
while I'm watching our local news and the weather person
is live showing us shots of funnel clouds at ten
thirty at night Central time. It's crazy. So I apologize
and tenors up. Oklahoma, peeps, get ready up in southern Kansas.

(31:39):
But my bringing up mostly to say sorry, Mary, Sorry Arnie.
If all of a sudden, I'm just gone because of
the connection and the wind and the power.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
So it's fine that mine, me and Arnie will just
be fashioned police.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
It's still too to talk about the decks.

Speaker 10 (31:51):
Of course, we can just talk about how bad they are.
That's why.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, I got you, dude.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
You want to you want to respond to one of
the haters. You know, I don't like this because I
get in fights, but I felt like that this would
be one you would want to respond to.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Because we're getting a lot of tweets. I can't keep
up with them all today. For some reason.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
I think it's because you're not paying attention. I think
you know, we got a lot.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Even Mary tried to send me a tweet. I didn't
even see if they're coming in too fast, But go
ahead read it to me, all right.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
I'm going to try to clean this up a little
bit too. Tell Arnie he's a fraud. It was way
way worse in his day. Plus, this series would have
been a bleap of compliments, especially out of Ant's mouth.
For Jokic, tell Arno, you're not paying attention to the
series without actually telling me you're not paying attention to

(32:42):
this series. He's mad because you were talking about ant
waving goodbye. And for the most part it's been pleasant
between the two sides.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, first of all, Jokic wasn't happy about it, and
he made that known now, and he wasn't happy about
it that he did the champions a belt signed too,
don't lose, But that that that doesn't bother me. I
about you not really mad at Anthony Edwards. If you
want to act like that, To act like that, I'm
sure it's also the heat of the moment. This was
done at the postgame conference and the press conference when

(33:15):
he wore that sweatshirt just to rub it in. So
that's that again, you've gone out of your way to
be your horse's ass. But that's okay. You know he'll
come back and bite you in the ass.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Of all the things.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Let's see, I wrote down numbers, sixty seven percent first
half field.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Goal ridiculous, ridiculous, four straight I know, keep that can't
even goes sixty seven in the layup line yet alone
shoot like that. That's that's just insane.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
You know, Siakam hitting fifteen of twenty in the first half.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
He'll never do that in his life again.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Getting the injury breaks if you will with Jannis Lillard,
No b heart, Jalen BRUNSWI No, it's the sweatshirt that's
got you upset that he wore in the postgame press conference.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Just drubb. I hate people who rub it in too.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
That what are you talking about? That's you, that's you.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Well, somebody's gotta rub it in them as well, be me.
But I don't want him.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Rubbing it in.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
You can't say you're a choker though. You can't say
a team's a choker when they have a bunch of injuries.
That's that's what bothers me about it.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
But again, I don't I don't think he's He's just
wearing a sweatshirt, Arnie. I don't think he's trying to
send some hidden message about how they choked away of
the game.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
My elbow just accidentally hit him in the neck.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
When we okay, we're just getting I thought you handled
that well. When you come back and we come back
to the tyrack dot com studios, let's go in depth
on the tweets tonight. It's stinking genius. Want him at
Plank Show. Everyone follow us at Fox Sports Radio. Uh,
and we'll hit the postgame locker room as well. Boy
Anthony Edwards is talking his talk and we're here for
it on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
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Speaker 1 (34:56):
Does that to make you feel better? A little frank
New York, New York.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
I may go down there and just hang out of
like little Italy, get get myself some dinner or something.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
What do you do when your team loses? Do you
have because it's over now? You're not someone who ride
away wants to start talking about you're gonna win it
the next year?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, no, that's not me.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Do you punish yourself at like and all you can
eat buffet somewhere? Is it the brown water? Do you
not let yourself have dessert? I mean, what's your what's
your go to when your team loses?

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I had been out of cream pie today, so I
didn't let tell you that.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
What so you don't have a I've got to say,
I've got to be alone for a while. I've got
to I'm like, listen, honey, kids love you. I'm gonna
go sit by myself for.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Just to my wife, I always say it's her fault.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
That's really not healthy. And then usually fortunately for us,
a lot of our team's seasons have come to an
end on a Sunday, so we can't really just wear
it for a day or an after. We got to
literally jump right on the air. Hey, Arnie, your NIXT
season just wrapped up. You all of a sudden started

(36:15):
caring about basketball two weeks ago, and they you had
him in the finals, they got beat.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
How's it going? You're mad? You're mad so but you know,
but I expect you to be mad about a sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
It just it just hurts more because, you know, my
team more on their way to winning a Super Bowl
at an NBA championship, and now injuries derailed it. Otherwise
we would have definitely won, you.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Know, mister nobody writes I feel Arnie's pain. New York
literally ran out of people to play. It's good, but
take heart. Boston beats the Fakers or Pacers in six
games at the worst.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
What killed me is I think have to take the
Pacers in that series. Not sure Are you serious. I'm serious.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Mustang Mania, who honestly hates me. I mean, there are
people that despise me, honestly hates me. But he does
send this. It's pretty good. Can't wait to hear Arnie
whine about his Nicks. What if the Dallas teams knock
out the Avs and Nuggets both from the playoffs. Well,
the good news is and he had sent that right
before the game wrapped up. Not a chance for the Nuggets,

(37:19):
right because it's Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Moving on. But I got to tip my cap speaking
of that to Dallas. Arnie.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
We sat here. I think it was on a Sunday night.
I think it might have led to our beef between
myself and Mustang Mania. I thought the thunder were on
their way to the Western Conference finals. I thought they
might win the whole damn thing.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
You were feeling good about yourself.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
I was in my and you know me, that's a
big no. Not for me.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
I'm never someone that tries to get two over their skis.
I try to say stay conservative. I really really like
being right. And I went against what is the benchmark
take of not losing my mind over one game, and.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I paid for it. I paid for it, paid for it.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Congratulations yeah day from everybody?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Or what, well, I told this story last night.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
You're not that Raiders loss or at Oklahoma laws.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
I I probably would say the crabbiness level is highest
for OU and then the Raiders, and then somewhere very
much in the middle to down below is Oklahoma City.
I hate that I allowed myself to get invested. I
hate that I taught feelings for her when I knew
it was just a one night stand.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Arnie.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
That's how I feel with what happened with the Oklahoma
City Thunder in this playoff run, LJ rights public service announcement.
If you want to lock when betting, listen to Arnie
and bet the opposite way. It's already funded my vacation
to Bora Bora.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
I called PS. None of our listeners are going to
Bora Bora.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Apparently LJ is UCLA dodger. Frank writes, not a great
weekend for Stan Kronky. The ads, the nuggets, and the
arsenal all come up short. Yeah, well, he still gets
to go home and counted down to his Scrooge McDuck
vault of coins.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Okay, it's always a good week for somebody like him.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Andrew writes, Arnie. What hurts? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:19):
What hurts the most right now? Is it the fact
that they couldn't stay healthy? Is it the fact that
Indiana shot from the floor in the first half? Is
it the fact that Jalen bruntson are not Jalen Brunton.
I'm sorry? Why am I blanking on the pacer? Oh
the pacers?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Dude? Thank you? Is it because Haliburton wore the sweatshirt?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
It was the injuries. The injuries took its toll on me.
I mean it was like every day something new, and
you know what was set up for a perfect I
mean you talk about how Willis Reed came back hit
two shots? Oh g Anobi hit two shots. If the
if the Knicks come back and win that they would
have equate it to Willis Reid. I would have watched
it all the highlights for like a week straight, and

(40:03):
and the Knicks did close it within six I give
him credit for that, but just just too many injuries.
The hard thing at Hertenstein didn't play well at all
and then brunts and busting up his hand.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
You know, Pete wrightes how many Roman numerals. Were there
just one Nick s Lows And that's it. That's honestly,
there were nine. There were nine Roman.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Marteen which there was fourteen.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Uh oh oh, I got a if I scroll over,
there were fourteen Roman numerals. And what's funny is when
Arnie sent his update, the only thing he updated updated
was Aliburton wearing Reggie Miller City now high wi. Yeah,
you highlighted, so fourteen Pete, but I think half of them.
Half of them are all about Tyrese Haliburton. All right,

(40:49):
when we come back, we'll get you ready for Todd Furman.
We'll get you ready for the Western and Eastern Conference finals.
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Speaker 2 (41:15):
By the way, how was the overnights? I know you
were filled in for Bernie who was on vacation. Do
you know where Bernie went to?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
By the way.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
I have no idea, but you always seem to be
very dialed into Bernie's whereabouts.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
So I'm Marie.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
He went to Parie. How about that? Really? He said
to me, a picture of him hanging out in front
of the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Dang man, it's pretty good getaway, it was.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
I'm like, wow, that's damn cool man. You know my
sister in law, she goes to all these Italy or
just just his jet setting all over the place, and
then I don't take my wife anywhere, so.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah, you should feel terrible about that.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I'll go to Martha's vineyard in a couple of weeks,
so hopefully that will be good.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I've never been there. Is he gonna be the summer
of Arnie Arthur's vineyard? Are you going to continue to
say you're gonna take trips and then you don't end
up going.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
No, I'm gonna go to Martha's video. I wanted to
go to Charleston until I heard that Ben Maller was
down there, and then I'm like, I'm not going to
vacation anywhere Ben went to because obviously if Ben goes,
there's probably someplace cheap or something. So I forget it.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
This is not the case. It's beautiful. You would love it.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I know you've been down there. Have you been there?

Speaker 7 (42:23):
No?

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I mean I think my dad took me there during
our senior my senior year of high school, so like
thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
You know.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
But I've been there, just not in my adult life.
So I don't know what the true fun is. Hey,
but it could be more.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
By the way, what do you make of the one?
But you know who's getting a lot of flack today?
By the way, tonight I should.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Well on tonight show it's Tyree's Halliburton for a sweatshirt?
But no, ye for your take on it.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You know who's getting more fleck than him? And has
to do with that game? Who Steven A.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Smith? Oh? Why what did Stephen A. Dom? I'm out
on this?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
You're on this?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, I haven't heard all right?

Speaker 2 (43:00):
The pregame the do.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
You need to sager to break down what happened for
you here?

Speaker 6 (43:07):
Well?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
No, no, you know the pregame. You know when they
go to the done with the pregame and then they
go to the start of the game, but there's like
eight minutes before they actually tip it off. For like
ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
You know, it's like opening tip is coming up next,
and you know opening tip is not coming up next.
You've got to get eighty six different perspectives. I hear
what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
So they went to stephen A who was live on
the court right, and he was His message was to
the New York Dicks, we gotta you know, we gotta
do that. He started screaming and yelling, and then he
brought Spike Lee into the picture and he just started
yelling over Spike, and Spike yelled a few things, not much.
Spike looked uncomfortable and people are like, that's just too much, man,

(43:46):
And they were ripping them all over Twitter. I mean
that's all one. Oh yeah, there's a lot of media
people say that that was ridiculous. He didn't have to
bring Spike. I know, I'm fine with him bringing in
like what the big names on the first row. There
was so many of them, but let them talk or something.
He was just kind of yelling, going go next, you

(44:08):
know stuff like that. I like, yeah, but I always
say something intelligent once in a while. West All you know,
I just won't go are you you know? I understand
he's there to get everybody pumped up, and he's Steve
and ay, but you know, he brings in a Spike
and he knocks his hat off, and Spike was like
losing his glasses and it was just kind of uncomfortable

(44:30):
the whole thing. And Spike really didn't get to say anything.
If you're going to bring him in, it's just say, Spike,
your keys, what do they got to do or something,
you know, quickly, just give me ten seconds or something.
But he didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
You know, see, I am.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I came to this realization last night. I told his story, uh,
speaking of filling in for Bernie. Filling in for Bernie.
I I fell asleep right at tip of the thunder
Mavericks game.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Don't ask me how.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
I just was out and and I opened my eyes
with Luca hugging PJ.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Washington.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
I was like, I don't know what just happened here.
But I went back Arnie and I watched the entire game,
the entire thunder Mavericks.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Game in one hour.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Ooh that's good.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Now, let me explain because we got to be careful here, guys.
I watched it in one hour by fast forwarding through
commercial breaks, fast forwarding through halftimes, finally getting right to
where the game actually tips off.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh I like that, Yeah, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
We waste more time with pointless bs in these game broadcasts,
and I'm afraid someone's gonna find out and they're gonna
make his VVR everything so that we can only spend
an hour watching sports. Okay, I mean there is more.
I don't know about you. I love what we do.
I love our shows. I love the media. I love
the angles and the perspectives. But when you say a

(45:57):
game is gonna tip off or kickoff at a certain time,
when we go past that time, I don't need any
more breakdowns on the game. I don't need your final
final thoughts. Hell, you had two final thoughts ago Steven A.
What's your final final final thought on tip off?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Here? In a bit? I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Yeah, no I don't. I don't understand. Also, And but
that's what they do. They drag it on. And like
I said about Steve and A, he just look, he's
supposed to be over the top. Chris, you know that,
and I know that that's that's what he's there for.
But sure he just took it a little too far
and got Spike Lee involved, like you don't maybe get
another one of the actors in there, but he didn't

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have that also, so I know he's getting criticized today.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
As we come to you live from the tyrack dot
com studios, the Western Conference finals are set.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
It'll be the Mavericks and the t Wolves.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Eastern Conference finals Indiana and Boston. But I'm curious to
get your take on this from Jalen Brunton. Now Todd
Firmin isolated to join us in about ten minutes from now.
We'll get on the numbers over unders totals things coming
up up for the least Western and Eastern Conference finals.
But Jalen Bronson was asked, is this season a success?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Here's what the Knick star said. Did we win the championship?
Did we get close? So no, that's just that's my mindset.
That's just how it is. Do you agree?

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not gonna say it was
a failure though it's a stepping stone for next year.
You didn't fail because there was just too many injuries
out there. No, it wasn't a success because he just
wasn't won series. But by far, no means that it
wasn't a failure. Or anything like that. So I understand
where he's coming from, and he doesn't want to go
ahead and say, oh, yeah, it was a great year

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and then have everybody in New York that paid whether
he's some knucklehead, but they didn't win a championship. But
if it's still a great year. We all got hyped
up for it, but it wasn't overall successful because they
didn't go far enough.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I don't I'm not a big believer, and I think
you would call me so. I don't think it's championship
or bust, right, And I hate to hear Jalen Brunson
say that. I know that everyone has their own fuel
or have everyone to describe it to get him through
an off season and and get them better.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Right, But what the Knicks did through adversity, Arnie, I.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Know we sit here and you proclaim the Nick sneezing
is the greatest sneeze you've ever seen in your life.
And I know you had him going to the NBA
Finals and no one was going to beat him.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Now they're out of the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Well they would have gone and let's be honest, if
they said.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Right, they would have right.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, But I am I'm so impressed with Brunson and
how this team of guys that you know, Demoncenzo's not
a guy that's talked about a ton.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
He has been and he had thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I don't even know his contract, but I mean he's
certainly worth that everybody they pay him, because I don't
think he has a big time contract out there. It
all started with Julius Redall. Think about this. When you
lose Julius Red though, and you lose Adanobi, and you
lose Heart or not hard Side Mitchell Robinson, and then
what is it Garanovitch or whatever is there is? I

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can't even pick straight now anymore, so mid and then
Brunson fractures his hand and then gosh, I know I'm
missing somebody else. I can't even think it. And then
if Heart had the stomach spray, and it just I mean,
my gosh, how many injuries I had? The overall under
five and half injuries for the New York next it
was getting ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Well here's the other thing, because I again, I don't
want it to.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Be championship or bus.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
That's just that's not a real world that you can
live in when you face the adversity that the Knicks did.
I mean, it was absolutely unbelievable, and they were still
there in a game seven. It took a historic shooting
performance to beat them. The other thing I keep seeing
now that you've sucked me into the stephen A Smith thing,
there seems to be people that felt like the ESPN

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broadcast tonight was a little bit too nix centric.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Right, And that's another thing that there were com putting about. Also.
I disagree on that, because look, what are you gonna
make it? Indiana pro Indiana on the road. Don't don't
be silly. Of course you're gonna build it up for
the New York audience. It is a Game seven. So
that's why.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
So in other words, you didn't have a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
No that I didn't have a problem. I could understand that.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Okay, well I didn't have that big of a problem.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
With stephen A. I just would have liked hidden the
I mean, if you're gonna bring Spike Way in, ask
him a question to let him answer it, don't just
have him stand there like a knucklehead, jumping up and down.
You know.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Well, And then the other part is when you're with
your friend and you see him before a game, right,
and they're a fan of your team.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Right when you're doing that, let's go, let's get out
the high five. Let's go, man, let's just kidd it.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
That's that's cool when it's just shooting him, when you're
trying to do it like on live TV or you
know it just it doesn't work right, be with your
boy that moment. Just get a little perspective in that
other moment. That's the way that I look.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
You know you're gonna talk to John Starks, you're gonna
talk to Ben Stiller. Sure, if you're gonna bring any
of those you know, front and row guys in, bring
him in. But at least let's get the perspective. We
always see them on TV sharing and stuff like that.
Give him a minute or two that, or not even
a two minutes. Give them thirty seconds. I bet they
have plenty to say.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Hey, since we're riding the eulogy if you will on
the Knicks twenty three to twenty four season. I'm glad
you brought that up. I'm glad. I know it's not
on one of the Roman numerals.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
By the way, you know, if you were chanting outside
the guard Nix and eight. Nixon eate Nix and eight.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
That's not bad.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
That's not bad. I'll give him credit for that. That's
that's self awareness. But Arnie, there really seemed to be
a lot on New York. And again, I get it,
I understand it. It's New York, it's biggest media market,
so on and so forth. The Nicks and iconic franchise
Madison Square Garden not just a game seven, but throughout
the series, there was a lot on the former Knicks

(51:56):
that were there, right, And for you and me, it's
really cool because you see the John Starks, you saw
the Charles Oakley, Walt Frazier, right, I mean you saw
these guys. Van Marbury, right, Stefan Marbury, yh. Starbury was
out there quite a bit. Does that really resonate with fans?

Speaker 1 (52:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Not with the young fans. Have no idea who these
Here's that guy Ben Stiller, who the hell is that?
I have no idea that young fans don't even know
Chris rock Is. Maybe I don't know some of these
guys on the front row, Charles Well, Charles Oakley wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
But oh he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Okay, he may have been there, I'm not sure because
I know he said he wasn't gonna go. But that's
beside the point. There was a lot of big stars,
but they're from so Patrick Ewing was there. Twenty one
year old releast remembers Patrick Ewing.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Hey, look, so it's the guy that got fired at Georgetown. Boy,
they gave him a lot of opportunities. Anyway, let's go next. Yeah,
everybody knows Patrick Ewing is not if they're like twenty one.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Or twenty two, you may not know. So they don't
do anything for the young audience. For somebody like you
and I. I like to see them out there, and
boy do they all look so old, But that's glat.
I like seeing them out there and rooting for the
team and getting involved. It's been so long, you get.
I mean, that's why they're there, because it's been so
damn long.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
That's right. So one final thought on this, Todd will
join us.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Tom Thibodeaux has war At is welcome in places like
Chicago and Minnesota in the past.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
We get in New York, I know, and I'm defending
him here.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
He gets criticized as a guy who grinds on his
players too much that isn't smart about having them at
their best in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Look at the Knicks injuries.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
But Rick Carlisle, of all people, Rick Carlile stood up
for his guy in the post game.

Speaker 11 (53:42):
Toun for pound is no better coaching this league than
the TIBs, and what he got out of that team
was amazing. The competitive level in this series was through
the roof. We played a great game tonight, but whatever
we threw out and they just they kept coming, they
kept coming.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
The crowd was unbelievable. Yeah, uh, you agree. Maybe we're
not giving enough credit here to Tibbendow and what he did.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Why didn't Carlile wear a Reggie Miller sweacher? I just
want to know why did they wear something? Hey, why
does a TIBs you coach a bunch of chokers? No,
he's right about that. He's he did. He obviously has
high respect for him. Look, I like Carlile too. I
thought he did a pretty good damn job in Dallas,
but he just out wore his welcome there, you know

(54:25):
what I mean. So Cuban just said it's time to
go and we're gonna make another move. But overall, he's right.
TIBs the players like playing for him. They love him.
The run through a wall for him, He's not gonna
go anywhere, but he can't. He can't really do the
play until you die thing. Look do look at Kawhi Leonard.
That guy takes off all the time, but he still

(54:45):
gets hurt. But you gotta back up. She gotta have
one through fifteen for the next but he can't be
doing that for an eighty two game season.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
All right.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
When we come back to the tyrack dot Com studios,
let's talk numbers and spreads with Todd Furman. But Arnie,
I think I found something that's going to make you
even matter. Oh great, then, Tyrese Haliburton sweatshirt. We'll dive
into it as we roll on on a Sunday night
into a Monday morning on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
it's Arnie and playing from the tyrock dot Com studio.

(55:15):
Saleo to our buddy Todd Furman the bet to Board Podcast. Todd,
I hope you didn't take Arnie's advice and make that
big wager on the Knicks like he had told you to.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Is.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
I think it was a guarantee if I remember correctly.

Speaker 8 (55:28):
Hey, look, the Nick fought valiantly just didn't have the
horses to get him across the finish line. And he
saw they're reflected in the number today where they got
bet up from two to three and a half. There
was some money that came in on the Pacers. And
anytime a team shoots better than seventy percent from the
floor in the first half, doesn't matter who's on the
other side, not going to be enough to get across
the finish line. And even if the Knicks were able
to get through with a win today, I'm not sure

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how the B team would have done, knowing that Jalen
Brunson would have been shelled for the duration of the
Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Dodd, you know how Vegas will sometimes return your bet
for some reason think should return all the bets tall
than New Yorkers because of all the injuries out there.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
Yeah, that's not really how it works that way. There
are a couple of sportsbooks that like to do that
to grab headlines. There's a reason that they don't take
money from professional betters, for they're good karma refunds. But
nowhere out here in the desert will you have that luxury.
Sometimes you end up on the right side of injury,
luck and sometimes unfortunately end up on the wrong side.
And it's what brought the next season to a little
bit of a premature end. Whereas I think if they

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were healthy, they would have given the Celtics a heck
of a lot more resistance than what they're going to
get at the hands of the Indiana Pacers.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
All right, so let's start then their Pacers Celtics. Pretty
I've slanted obviously towards the Celtics. How big of a
favor right now, Todd, are you seeing Boston?

Speaker 8 (56:39):
Boston roughly a one to nine favorite to win the series,
meaning you'd have to put up nine dollars to make
one dollar in return. It's kind of been rinse and
repeat for the Celtics throughout this gauntlet, so to speak,
of Eastern Conference opponents that they're going to have to
dispatch and roots of the NBA Finals.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
And when you look at.

Speaker 8 (56:53):
Game one, Boston a nine point favorite. If there's one
thing we've seen from the Celtics, they'll put their foot
on the accelerator Game one, they'll know show Game two,
and they'll try and figure out ways that they can
close out the series in another fashion. So Indiana's gonna
try and do everything they can to run Boston up
and down the court. But if the Celtics have any
metal or moxie, I just don't see a path that
Indiana has to winning more than one two games Max here.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
You know one that you just said, Todd, Indiyandam's going
to look to get the ball up and down the court,
probably better than they did against the Knicks. Over to
twenty one. I got to take the over in all
the games, don't I or what well?

Speaker 8 (57:26):
I mean, you look at the way that Knicks totals
were against the Pacers. Those numbers substantially higher than what
we've grown accustomed to in the past with Knicks games,
and it played in Indiana's hands. I mean, dropping one
hundred and thirty on the Knicks to close out the
game today not something that you normally see in game seven,
and when you look at some of the other totals
that you've seen, you know, kind of other than game
one that was two eighteen, everything else still in that

(57:49):
similar range. Two fifteen and a half was the low
point in game six, but it really didn't matter. So
to twenty two. Kind of where this number will trend
and it's a question of how the Celtics want to
go about their business. If they're perfectly comfortable running up
and down the court, you know, we could see a
return to some of the scoring margins that we saw
before the All Star break, while which is a trademark
that we haven't really seen all that much so far

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this postseason.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Tod, can we talk a little bit about Dallas.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Obviously they broke every thunderfans heart and Luca was amazing,
But I think that's a team that can win at all.
Is there value potentially in a Mavericks run here maybe?
Or am I getting caught up in the moment?

Speaker 6 (58:27):
No.

Speaker 8 (58:28):
I think there's definitely a potential when you have a
lead level shot makers like they do in Luca and
Kyrie and couldn't go off at a moment to notice.
It's the kind of thing that you're looking for as
you get deeper into the postseason, and you know, in
the wake of everyone riding the emotion of the impressive
comeback from the Timberwolves tonight where they erase that twenty
point deficit, I think people are enamored with Minnesota saying
this appears to be a team of destiny with Anthony

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Edwards and some of the depths they've shown. Meanwhile, Dallas
has a chance to rest heal up a little bit.
They'll have an extended break before they get back in
action on the twenty second, and I think the Mavericks
will be able to push Minnesota, you know, quite a bit.
When you look at that series number, Minnesota right around
a dollar seventy to seventy five favorite of four point
favorite in Game one. But as we've seen time and
time again, Dallas doesn't get phased if they lose early

(59:09):
on in the series, and they are more than comfortable
just trying to skit that split on the road, take
things back home and be able to see the advantage
when they get home court and going in their favor
you saw.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Do you have the new championship numbers for the four
teams left? Is any value out there? I guess Boston's
going to be the overwhelming favorite. So you get any
value with the other three teams or one?

Speaker 8 (59:30):
Yeah, if you look, if you believe in the Pacers,
I mean they're going to be your long shot play.
I mean they're six and a half the ones just
to win one series, let alone win the NBA Finals,
So still a big number out there, but I think
if you're looking to identify a little bit of an opportunity,
it'll come from the two Western Conference teams. Boston will
open as a favorite in the NBA Finals, knowing that
they'll have home court advantage regardless of who wins between

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Dallas and Minnesota, and you're going to see odds makers
paying plenty of respect there. So Boston not an overwhelming
favorite depending on how those teams look out West, but
no doubt will have a minus sign by their name
should they get out of the Eastern Conference.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Todd, I keep trying to get into some NFL talk,
but obviously the NFL are the NBA has been amazing.
So I'll use this opportunity to ask some NFL questions
of you, Like the schedule coming out this week, anything
kind of catch your eye or change your perspective based
on how a bye week or some matchups lined up
in any future bet you were thinking about.

Speaker 8 (01:00:23):
You know, on the surface, we knew the Pittsburgh Steelers
we're going to have one of the most difficult schedules
in the entire league in terms of number one most difficult,
And the schedule maker did them no favors when you
look at the gauntlet the Steelers will have to go
through beginning in week eleven, when they'll play their first
division game, through the end of the regular season, all
teams that have playoff aspirations, all six AFC North opponents,

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both home and road. A David Philadelphia mixed in there
Kansas City on Christmas. So if Mike Tomlin is going
to get this team to five hundred, something that he's
done every single year he's been in charge in the
Steel City, this may be his greatest Houdini act. And
when you look at some of the other teams that
are there, I mean Kansas City will go through a stretch.
They'll play one home game over the span of about
fifty days, which is a little bit unusual. But they'll

(01:01:05):
have a couple of games early on where they have
a chance to set the pace if they're able to
beat the Ravens on that opening Thursday night and follow
it up with a minibi against the Cincinnati Bengals, a
team that's already taken some under money as well since
the schedule was released With the New England Patriots. This
was a team that most professional betters didn't think much
about already coming in and you look at how difficult
it'll be the first four or five weeks. You wonder

(01:01:27):
if that means that Kobe Brissett will bear the brunt
of it, And how quickly Jared Mayo and the front
office decides that they want to put Drake may out
there to get that valuable experience.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Don I know you like hockey Edmonton and Vancouver in
the game seven? And am I seeing this? Writers? This
a misprint that the Rangers are an underdog at home
to the Panther. That can't be possible that gay.

Speaker 8 (01:01:47):
Ye second straight series. The Rangers will be dogs at home.
This series a little bit different though than against Carolina,
where we saw the Canes open in that dollar sixty
to sixty five range. This number came out substantially shorter,
but the Panthers have taken money, driving that price from
minus one twenty five upwards of minus one fifty. And
you look at this Rangers team. Their biggest edge is
in net with Igor Shusterkin, but if he looks at

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all human in the series, Florida's depth should be able
to take advantage of a Rangers team that just doesn't
have a lot of scoring up and down their lineup,
and you mentioned Edmonton, they get a bit of a
fortuitous balance. Unfortunately, it comes with the Vancouver Canucks leading
scorer Brock Bester, who dealing with a blood clot situation.
So you his health first and foremost, but he won't
be available for Game seven. Even if Vancouver will be

(01:02:30):
able to pull the upset, his availability remains in question.
So I'm sure if you're talking to folks in the
league office, they love nothing more than a Rangers oiler
Stanley Cup final with a major market and some star
power on the other side. But I think Dallas and
Florida have been the two best teams and it wouldn't
shock me at all if those are the teams we
see playing in the Stanley Cup Final a few weeks
from now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
All right, let's get to the big story of the night.
Stinhouse justified in the right hook. I think who, like
Ricky's dad, is going after Kyle Buscher. I think he's
trying to hold him back, like I have zuppru to
film to this fight, and with NASCAR, the NASCAR twitter
feed is tweeting out the fight video. Todd but pretty

(01:03:09):
wild to see that thing got out of hand. That's
a good old fashioned scrum.

Speaker 8 (01:03:13):
Yeah, definitely escalated quickly, and I think, you know, that's
one of the I don't know if I want to
call it a luxury or a byproduct of the fact
that normally, if a driver is knocked out of a
race at early he's able to end up leaving the
venue and kind of cooler heads can prevail. But given
the layout at North Wilkesborough, there's no tunnel, and once
the rap starts, Ricky Stenhaus was stuck on the infield.
You knew he was stewing over the moment on in

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a non points paying race. To have Kyle Busch knock
him out only two laps in, you figure tensions were
going to escalate. Didn't think it would quite translate into
the haymaker that we saw there. And always interesting to
see Fox's very own Bob Pocris in there recording the
video firsthand and then almost getting the phone knocked out
of his hands. So an interesting altercation to say the least.
But NASCAR needs some of those rivalries and maybe Ricky

(01:03:57):
and Kyle racing outside the top ten where most of
them spent the season will be something we need going
into NASCAR's longest race. I'm a moral day with the
coach six hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
All right, Todd, When is the last time you went
on somebody's show and they gave you two winners, wanted
one hundred to one and wanted sixty to one.

Speaker 8 (01:04:14):
Well, it's never happened on this show, Arnie. So you're
telling me today, Maybe the first I'm sitting down, I'll
grab my pen and paper, I should say, my mechanical pencil,
so I can erase what you tell me about thirty
seconds after I get off the air.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you a race all you want.
But Arizona Softball was one hundred to one to go
ahead and win the whole thing. They already took care
of the Arkansas Region and Arizona baseball. I had won
the Pac twelve, so you might as well jump on
them aboard. There's sixty to one. But I don't think
you can get the softball team at at one hundred
to one anymore. Now.

Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
No, I don't think that hundred and one number will
be there. But you know what, Arnie, who knows? I'm
not sure if she's got any eligibility left, But if
Jenny Finch comes walking through that door. Should be Arizona
becomes very formidable in terms of trying to win the
softball role here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
It's gotta be tough. Thanks Tot, have a great week, Bunny.
We appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Always a pleasure boy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
There is the great Todd Furman here on Fox Sports Radio.
Look at you caring about diamond sports.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
What about it tonight? Softball?

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Hey the Seger comes rolling in to get to catch
us up on what's trending.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
And I hate to go Arnie here, but Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Last night, whenever I was filling in for Bernie, I
was having flashbacks to like you and I in two
thousand and seven on the weekend whenever we would do
the overnight weekend show. Because we had a game going
on into our second hour that was an extra innings,
we might.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Have stopped that. Yeah, yeah we did. I think it
went the whole show.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
But we had a twelve inning softball game that didn't
get over last night until three a m.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
EASTERNO. So I was having.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Flashbacks to when we were on the air doing what
was that like a twenty inning baseball.

Speaker 9 (01:05:45):
Game Texas Baseball plu us And we had Greg Tooley
who has worked with Colin for years on the TV
now was your producer and from Texas and of course
a huge Longhorn fans. We even went live to the
Longhorn Radio network.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
It was it was great.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
We had a lot.

Speaker 10 (01:06:00):
I'm sports at two in.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
The world, give me flashbacks. It was a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
It was this pre Arnie. Is that what it was?

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Arnie did not exist.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Wow, I didn't know you were at the network though't
you joined the network when I joined the network.

Speaker 9 (01:06:11):
Arnie on five networks, I believe, But you did.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
You did become popular until you started working with me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I didn't get over, as the kids would say, until
they teamed me up with you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
And now the rest is history.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (01:06:23):
Two things that you guys just touched on. One f
S one was doing the interview with Joey Logano after
the All Star Race tonight in North Carolina and they
finish it up and the interviewer says, oh, we got
a fight going on, guys, and here with the fireworks
still going in the background.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Those two crashed back at lap number two.

Speaker 9 (01:06:46):
And so that was going on on FS one that
started at the time, as Ricky Stenhouse said, my car
didn't touch you. Go look at the replay, go back
and watch it punch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
On lap two.

Speaker 9 (01:06:58):
When Stenhouse Junior was pushed into the wall by Kyle
Bush in retaliation, they say, for making a three wide
pass after the start of the race. So that's a
long time to stew on this because it was in
the garage area post race that these two drivers are
exchanging blows. And yes, Oklahoma and Arizona softball number two,

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number two ranked Oklahoma three to two over Oregon, and
Arizona eliminated Villanova. By the way, Ucla won a thriller
at home last night and then an easy win today
is Maya Brady had the game ending single. UCLA star
Maya Brady the niece of Tom Brady, by the way,
so it's going to be Ucla in a best of
three against Georgia next weekend. Georgia at home had to

(01:07:41):
win twice against Liberty today and did to advance Number
one Texas Softball against Texas A and M next weekend.
Arizona plays number five.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Coloma, NY State.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Will something Oklahoma couldn't do but go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:07:54):
Unless Brunson gets injured. And number two Oklahoma against Florida
State super Regionals next weekend NBA Playoffs. My goodness, did
we turned out have a game tonight at Denver. Minnesota
eliminates the defending champs ninety eight to ninety despite trailing
the Nuggets on the road early third quarter fifty eight
thirty eight. AP says this is five straight seasons now

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the defending NBA champion has not even reached its conference final,
which is the first in NBA history. The last champ
to get that far the twenty nineteen Warriors made. While
Indiana eliminated the two seeds in the East, New York
beat them up at Madison Square Garden won thirty to
one oh nine. The Pacers shot sixty seven percent from

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the floor at NBA Playoff record. Indiana's starters from three
point range thirteen for twenty two. Today, the Pacers go
to Boston, the one seed in the East, to start
the Eastern Conference Finals. On Tuesday, Pacers were shooting so
well early they became the first NBA team ever to
in a game seven on the road, score seventy points
in a first half. So here we were going to

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get a second straight blowout, because after all, Minnesota was
down fifteen at the half and down twenty quickly early
second half. But already we've had twenty twenty point differences
twenty twenty point games in this postseason. The record apparently
is twenty four in a single postseason. And as you heard,
Boston is a heavy favorite against six seed Indiana, with

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the Celtics hosting games one and two Tuesday. Thursday night,
Minnesota starts at home for the Western Conference Finals. The
one seeds out, two seeds out. Three seed Minnesota at
home Wednesday night Friday night against five seed Dallas. The
Sunday night ballgame went to the Padres nine to one
at Atlanta. Winning pitcher You Darvis seven scoreless innings, nine strikeouts.

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He hasn't allowed a run in over a month. It's
twenty five straight scoreless innings for you, Darvis. She was
due to pitch last night. That game was rained out. Dodgers,
excuse me. Padres and Braves will play a doubleheader. Monday.
Dodgers were ten inning winners over Cincinnati three to two.
Sho Heo Tani a game winning single. The Reds with
runners in scoring position went one for twelve. Xander Schoffley

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won the PGA Championship, his first major victory mentioned the
NASCAR All Star Race went to Joey Logano. He earned
the poll because the Saturday heats were canceled due to rain,
and Logano earns the million dollar payday. He really earned it.
He led one hundred and ninety nine of the two
hundred laps. Danny Hamblin finished second, and Nellie Corda took
the lpgaf Inn in Jersey City by one stroke. She

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has won six of her last seven tournaments. She's right
number one. Corda is the first LPGA player in over
a decade to win six times in a single season
and needless to say, season's not over.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Back to you, thanks Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
We'll get more in depth on the biggest stories with
Steve coming up in about five minutes from now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
That's the Stinking Genius Arny Spaniel. I'm Chris Plank.

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off the air. Okay, many people have sent this to us.

(01:11:14):
You haven't talked about it. Yeah, the sweatshirt has you triggered?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Yes? Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
What'd you make of Paul Pierce's act?

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Oh? Man, I was gonna get to that. That bothered
the hell out of me. Also, what is he doing?
First of all? Who is he right? Why is that
guy still relevant for crying out loud? Who the hell's
Paul Piers to be stopping out in New York Knicks
Jersey for no reason whatsoever? Did you make a prediction
and they lost us? So I don't even know what
he was doing it for, to be honest with other

(01:11:42):
than trying to be funny. But I didn't find it
funny at all.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
I never understand a burning jerseys to begin with. But
I mean, you're Paul Piers, don't. I don't think you
need to be out doing that, right? Did you lose money?
It seems like a gambling thing where maybe he lost
some money on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Or maybe he's trying to be like Skip who throws
away the same cowboy jersey in the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Does he do that show at all?

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
That's exactly what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
But is that if you're wondering trying to be funny
or what.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
I think that's what it is for those that are wondering.
There's video making the rounds from at the Dunk Central,
which I assume is a reliable source, but he claims
it's Paul Pierce with as Okay, well, it's Paul Pierce
with a Jalen Brunson jersey and he's, uh, he's stomping
on it and he's rubbing it into the ground, act
like he's gonna light it on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
So he shows show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
I think I think he had to wear it on
the show, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
He Again, you're supposed to be the guy that watches
all this, you're the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
No, they had some type of before he lost a
bet or something like that, but I'm I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
So thanks to mister nobody. But as he writes, this
might make you angrier than the sweatshirt. Paul Pierce, the
same clown who faked an injury got wheeled off in
the finals, only the miraculous, miraculously returned.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Did this?

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
I feel like you're angrier about the Haliburton sweatshirt than.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
This, Yeah, because you know, obviously Haliburton was playing against us.
I mean, Paul Pierris is what one hundred and fifty
years old, and try new one year olds is gonna say,
who the hell's Paul Pierce? But yeah, this just bothered
the heck out of me. And you're wearing the sweatshirt
and you did take no accountability for it. You don't
answer the questions. You just say, yeah, somebody gave it
to me a couple of days ago. I just want

(01:13:26):
to be comfy on the plane. Ah, you're full of bologna.
You just don't have the guts to say what, why
you're wearing it or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Wouldn't we come back to the Direct dot Com Studios
team to Sager takes us in depth on the biggest
stories of the day next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
All right, Arnie, it's that time. Yes, we saalo to
Steve to Sager to get us caught up on everything.
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:13:49):
Steve, Well, let's start with those New York Knicks. Two
seeds in the East who season ended despite Dante Divincenzo's
thirty nine points at home. They I won't say had
no shot, but boy where overmatch from the start with
the historic shooting of the Indiana Pacers.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
And by the way, let it beat. We got one
answer tonight that we've had argued for like a gazillion years.
I could beat the last guy on any the last
guy on any bench on any NBA team. Alex Berks
was the last guy on the Knicks bench. He had
what twenty six six points? So no, you can't. You
can't beat the last guy on the bench of any

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NBA team.

Speaker 9 (01:14:27):
So unknown by Knicks fans, his name is Alec But okay,
we'll move on.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
The Pacers had been the last game, right.

Speaker 9 (01:14:37):
The Pacers had been one in five on the road
this postseason, and they led by twenty two in the
first half at New York Today wound up with an
NBA playoff record sixty seven percent shooting from the floor.
So the Knicks still have not made a conference final
since two thousand. Can you guess in the four major
sports what teams have not reached their sports final four

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this century? In the NFL, you'd have to go back
to the nineties for the Cowboys in Washington and the
Dolphins and the Cleveland brown since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Oh geez.

Speaker 9 (01:15:10):
In baseball, you'd have to go back to the nineties
since the Reds and Pirates made.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
The NLCS the Big Machine.

Speaker 9 (01:15:16):
And the Washington Wizards according to AP nineteen seventy nine,
the last time they made an Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Or are they the Bullets back then? Huh they were?

Speaker 9 (01:15:25):
And in Minnesota Timberwolves team, let's put this in context,
that hadn't done much of anything the last twenty years
is somehow with this twenty point comeback at Denver tonight
into the Western Conference Finals and hosting Game one on
Wednesday against Dallas. Last time they were in the West
Finals was an MVP year for Kevin Garnett two thousand
and four. And keep in mind that Minnesota got a

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franchise in the fall of nineteen eighty nine they started playing.
They had not won a single playoff series until Garnett
in two thousand and four, and they'd had Garnett for
years and Flip Saunders coaching and had lost in the
first round seven years in a row until they finally
not only won a first round series, but made the

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run in two thousand and four. They won a game
seven at this stage, eliminating Sacramento, which was very good
twenty years ago, and then the Lakers beat Minnesota in
six to win the West in two thousand and four.
In the twenty years since. For the Timberwolves, they hadn't
won a single playoff series until this year's run, So congrats.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
It's what about the twins? Though the Twins have had
well That goes back away time also.

Speaker 9 (01:16:35):
In nineteen ninety one World Series.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
For Franky Viola, go back all the way then, or
what Jack Morris, Frankie Bola.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
There's a name from your.

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
Past, Viola, eighty seven twins that was actually our boss
has pointed out that in the four major sports, I
think it's the longest without making your sports final is
the city of Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
The Jews also they were very good.

Speaker 9 (01:16:59):
Something else these days, But okay, we'll move on. As
far as a city actually winning a title, not just
advancing this far, I think Buffalo and San Diego would
be the cream of the crop there because once Lebron
got a title for Cleveland, Ohio, you'd have to go
back to the AFL days for the Chargers and the Bills,
I'm sure, but congrats to the Timberwolves and it keeps

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going and quite a rally to even get there and
take this game seven first off against the defending champs
and being down fifteen at half. That means they have
put themselves in the record book for a game seven
biggest halftime deficit overcome. Previous high was eleven. Golden State
six years ago was down eleven and came back to

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eliminate Houston. So Dallas is up next. Mavericks clinched their
second round series last night. Luka Donsich became the first
player in NBA history to have three straight triple doubles
to close out a series. By the way, this was
week eight in the UFL attendance numbers yesterday ten thousand
in each game, eleven thousand for the TV game at
San Antonio today, but at Saint Louis thirty two thousand

(01:18:05):
fans and the Saint Louis BattleHawks won again twenty six
to twenty one over DC team running back where is
the Kiss of Death? Wayne Gollman from Clemson had two
touchdown runs This team Saint Louis six and two they
could get home field for their conference championship game and
AJ mccern did not play at quarterback today. He missed

(01:18:25):
the game due to an ankle injury. The other game
was the one at San Antonio the Bramas over Arlington
twenty to fifteen. Anthony McFarlane nine carries eighteen yards rushing,
but he had three catches for one hundred eighteen yards
and a couple of scores. I looked at the schedule,
it's mid June when we get to the UFL playoffs.

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The conferences they call them the USFL Conference and the
XFL Conference, depending on which league you came from to
this new United Football League. We already know it's Michigan
against Birmingham in the USFL Conference Final June eighth, and
then the next weekend, Saint Louis is supposed to host
the final in the Dome, whether the Saint Louis team

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is in it at the time or not. And kudos
to Xander Shaffley who won the PGA Championship today, his
first major victory. He's from San Diego, played at San
Diego State. This guy won the Olympic Golden Golf three
years ago and it was in Tokyo.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
His mom grew up in Japan.

Speaker 9 (01:19:21):
So many great scores this weekend in Louisville at the PGA.
After the first two rounds there were seventy eight golfers
under par, the most crever in the history of any major.
Shaffley finished a record twenty one under par. Heading into today,
there were fifteen golfers already at double digits under par,
over twice as many as there had ever been in
a major. And yet everyone was scoring well, not just

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the winner. And Shawffley wins by one because he burdied
the final hole and therefore avoided a three hole playoff.
And remember, Shaffley had a sixty two in the first round.
He needed pretty much all of that to avoid the playoff.
In the end, this afternoon, a one stroke victory over
Bryson De'shambo who shot sixty four Colin Morikawa, a southern

(01:20:06):
California native, as well as his Showfley. He fell to
a tie for fourth place, six shots back after starting
the day tied for the lead. And while NASCAR did
have its All Star Race today, let's not forget that
NASCAR goes back to regular season. It's holiday weekend already
next weekend, So that means Charlotte and the Coca Cola

(01:20:27):
six hundred next weekend. The Padres won tonight nine to
one at Atlanta. Last night's game there was rained out,
so Padres braves in a doubleheader on Monday. Dodgers won
in ten innings.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
Today.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
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Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
What.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
By the way, Oh, I was gonna say, there's a
couple of things I wanted to bring up. Okay, did
you see what Michael Malone said after the game today?

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Yeah? Do we have an edited version of that?

Speaker 11 (01:21:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
No, we can't play that. You can't play that?

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Okay, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
I didn't know if the editor is behind the scenes
had cleaned that up yet.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
I heard the unedited version, though, what do you think?
He was pretty upset, But it's it's not an unfair question.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
I don't think to ask, right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
It wasn't that he called it a well, he said
stupid ask questions.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
Okay, okay, here not to that one question.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
Let me let's have a quick little show meeting. I
know this is a little bit unique to do, but okay,
Mary obviously is got to be a major part of this.
Patrick to Sega, if you want to jump in right now?
On the FTP site, it says Michael Malone Q and
A on being up twenty bleeped. Yes, how confident are

(01:22:04):
we that our crew?

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Oh, I'm not confident at all.

Speaker 9 (01:22:06):
I'm actually actually knowing who our editor is right now.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
I'm extremely confident.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Oh, I got no confidence.

Speaker 10 (01:22:13):
And honestly, if it does, we can just dump it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Oh you got Yeah, we can't.

Speaker 10 (01:22:17):
Also, so if you you go to play it, we
can play it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
And I still don't have confidence.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
You still don't have confidence?

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Okay, Well, I don't know what the ability to deny
responsibility if I just play it from my end and so.

Speaker 10 (01:22:31):
It's fine, I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
You got it?

Speaker 10 (01:22:33):
Yeah, I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
This is this is what arn't he's talking about?

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
How hard is it just to absorb a loss like
this after after going ahead by twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Next question, Man, the season's over. That's what's hard being
up twenty season's over. You don't understand that the season's over.
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Stupid questions. Good job by the editors that never doubted you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
Guys, you're the bast I love shout out to bring
in the back Brie, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
I don't know. It's not a stupid question.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
No, it's just not. Yeah, well you didn't say. You
know what if you listen to it and said stupid
ask questions.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Well, they that words. So I don't know why you
keep saying it. I'm sorry, potty mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
You're you're in a You're in a I think this
is what's considered safe harbor or something like that, so
I think you can get away with using it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
So I saw that, And also, I did you know,
I haven't had a chest to talk to you. Wednesday
was like a holiday for you when the schedule came out. Yeah,
I was. I was crying when it came out.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Why were you crying when the schedule came out, Arnie?

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
You didn't see the Dolphins schedule?

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
I did, I did. It's pretty smooth.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
You gotta get the schedule in the history of schedules?

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Is that? What the is that what the kids are
saying right now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
I wanted to be conservative and I had us going
sixteen and one, okay, but I dougraded us to fifteen
and two.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
See, the pain didn't even last that long. From the Knicks.
You're already on to your team. Wait what did you
just say?

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Yeah, fifteen to two, you got they'll be They'll be
favored in probably about fifteen of the seventeen games. And again,
it's a cake schedule. It's it's it's so easy. I'm
actually embarrassed.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
Even even well, in fairness, the East is a well,
the Patriots are down, but the Bills and the Jets,
you know, if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy, they might be pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
The Patriots are one of the two teams that won't
be favored in any game this year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:32):
They said, who's the other one, Caroline, Yeah, but good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
It's yeah, it's so it's so easy. It's it's embarrassing.
Actually it's I mean, there's there's a trip. Yeah, there's
a trip to Green Bay on there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
You gotta old.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
Boy, and you gotta go told old boy, don't bother
you Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Last year we played San Francisco and that's at home.

Speaker 1 (01:24:59):
Arnie, your schedule is not easy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
For the easiest in the NFL. Probably it's probably the
easiest schedule in the history of schedules.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
I think you're selling yourself a bill of goods now, no, but.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
If any no, but it knows how to break down
in the NFL schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
It's me done this. I did the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
One loss, one one loss at every time in sixteen
to one, fifteen to two.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
So where did you give yourself a loss?

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
I had to force myself, mind you force myself to
give a loss at Buffalo, at Buffalo, and that's really it.
Maybe san Francisco, I said, okay, maybe that one too.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Get this stretch from weeks thirteen to eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Okay, okay, at green Bay, when for the Jets, When
at Houston, when home for San Francisco, at Cleveland, when
at New York.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Jets will be eliminated by week eight, so they won't
have anything to play for. I wonder will be the
quarterback for that game.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Glad you stayed down a long time to proclaim. I
don't think it's so easy that many games.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
So easy. Really, it's so easy. It's so easy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
What would you do if the Patriots are better than
the Dolphins?

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
This Patriots won't win five games?

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Well, I mean they quit my job? Did they win
five games this year? I don't think that's necessarily going
out on a limb right now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
But what was the Raiders schedule? How tough was the
Raiders schedule?

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
You know what's kind of funny about it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
I was more bent that they only had two primetime games,
and then I kind of pulled back and realized, why
would you put them on primetime?

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Well, any games primetime, you get to see any game
you want.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
Really so, and again I'm still on old school though.
You're right.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
I can watch every single game I want at any moment,
at any second. All I have to do is say
Shady Sean for twenty hit me up with that watch live.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Link, or I could buy a service.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Well, congratulations, I do have you going starting off the
season two and ten. So that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
But I still very much dig having my team on
in a primetime window.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I do. I mean that that still matters to me.
Call me old school, and.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
When the only primetime window you get is a Friday
Black Friday game on Prime Video and you get one
Monday night football game.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
It just seems a little bit like a disrespect card.
But they played, so they play ugly football right now.
The quarterbacks ain't O'Connell or defensive team. You're gonna try
to kind of muck it up, and it's just it's
not gonna be pretty. And oh yeah, you're right as
tough of a back to back slate to start the
season as you could have going to the Chargers and
that's the Rangers.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Yeah, that's not gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
But again, it's not gonna matter because apparently the Dolphins
are going sixteen and one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
If you lose to the Panthers, you might as well
just forget the season already.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's how most teams are
gonna feel this year. I mean, honestly, I think that's
how most teams are gonna feel this year. I will
say we're really betting heavy on the Jets to be
good again. I mean, I nerded out night in the
final hour of the show, Arnie. I was listening to
a podcast with Mike North and he is the He's
not our buddy that we used to hear hear on

(01:28:09):
Fox Sports Radio the mayor of Chicago, Mike North.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
Apparently there's another Mike North. Yeah, and the schedule guy
he is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
And so I went through some of the things he said,
because you mocked me whenever I told you we were
going to play on Christmas this year, and sure enough we.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Have two games.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
But the process to actually play a Wednesday game was fascinating,
and he was pretty honest about, hey, we bet on
the Jets this year because they kind of owe us
one because they had so many games in primetime last year,
and they even admitted.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
A bit of a mistake in which they put the race.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
I mean, he's like they sent the Ravens on the
road back to back heres on Christmas. I think that's
that's kind of it's a little bit rough, But Christmas
games are here to stay. They're not going to go anywhere.
There else going to make the morek.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
You're allowed to petition the for a mistake like that.
You're allowed to petition in the NFL, and the schedule
makers to correct a mistake for something like that, because
they obviously can't catch everything.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
You know, no, no, but I think everybody was fairly
happy with it. It was in any any date, any
game where you automatically when you saw it said, okay,
there we go. Beyond figuring out the Dolphins, right sixteen
and one, fifteen and two, What.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Do you mean like one game that stands out.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
For them or what? No, not for the I don't
care about the freaking Dolphins. Aren'ty you cram the Dolphins
down our throat? I'm in as a general thought where
you looked at me like, for instance, I'm excited about
the Christmas Day games to see how it works doing
it on Wednesday Saturday of the week before, trying to
see how that affects things for those teams going forward.

(01:29:40):
I'm fascinated by the amount of Chiefs we're gonna have
crammed down our throats.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
But that's what you're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
We're gonna have the back to back champs and when
Taylor Swift's hitched to him. I you know, last year
they missed on the Lions and not showing them a
lot in primetime. I was trying to figure out who
could be that team they're missing on this year that
doesn't have a lot of primetime games. Maybe the Saints,
maybe it's the Broncos, maybe it's the Raiders. But I
felt like it wasn't overly jaw dropping, except trying to

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figure out how they were gonna work the Wednesday schedule
and who was going to be that other team they
bet on a lot in primetime and lo and behold,
it's the Jets again.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
You know, I tried not to go too far down
the line when it comes to the schedule. I'm like, oh,
I can't wait till week ten or week fifteen or
something like.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
That, because we also don't know who's gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Right. I'm more of a week to week guy, But
I am interested if I'm gonna get burnt out because
right off the bat, you got the Thursday and you
got Friday. We're gonna have what how many double headers
on Monday? We're gonna have three or four?

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
I think it's three three, and not on the opening
weekend anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
No, it's not on the opening weekend, but it's during
the course of the season, which I'm okay with that.
But how many Friday games are there going to be?
It seems like there's a lot more Friday then we're
more than used to. So I'm wondering if that's gonna
take away some stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
You know well, is in the only Friday game the
Black Friday Game.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
September sixth has a game on a Friday. Yeah, Oh
that's the opening weekend. That's the trip to Brazil. Yeah,
they're going Thursday, Friday and then Sunday with the opening
weekend for the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
That's I mean, that's one more than you would normally have.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Okay, so I thought maybe there was more than that too.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
So I think that's about it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
Your odd days are the typical Thursdays on Amazon right,
and now the Wednesday double header on the olist?

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Question, do I have all the channels? Am I gonna
be able to get every game? Or not every game?
I don't even know anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
Hey, since you brought up the NFL, what do you
make of your boy not shown up for offseason workouts?

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Tua?

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
And now, by the way, Matt Stafford is not showing
up either, according to reports. But Tua's not taking part
in the off season training. Might not be there for
OTAs he wants contract. He might I hear he might
be faking that leg injury that you tell all great
athletes to do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
Whenever they want to get a new contract.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Yeah, so you listen to the show because they all
do that. I don't blame to it. He wants the contract.
They said they were gonna give him a contract, so
I'm really not sure what's holding it up. Didn't the
Dolphin say they were gonna give him a long term contract?

Speaker 11 (01:32:06):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Yeah, did you not read my notes I sent you
for the show?

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Actually I couldn't read your notes. It was really horrible.
You should never be able to allow it to write
out a show by yourself ever. Again.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
Yeah, it's right, four years, two hundred and twelve million
dollars for Jared Goff and it kind of reset the market.
So I think that's what happened. I think you looked
at Jared Goff getting what fifty mili this year, and
I think it's suddenly reset everything because now two wants
fifty three million dollars and if he's a franchise guy,

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you got to give it to him, right.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Yeah, absolutely, you have to give it to him. He
is our franchise guy. He's our quarterback. So I don't
know what they were gonna give him before the goth contract,
but yeah, if he got that much didn't. You gotta
go ahead and equal it or more. That's what you
gotta do.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
How could you possibly have a problem with these notes?

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
They actually tell you what you can talk about outside
of your little script.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
No, you won.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Your penmanship is horrible. It's it's absolutely atrocious.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
I was putting my penmanship up against yours any day
of the week.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Two.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
You don't really you have no Roman numerals at all, zero,
no room. You don't really even come up with topics.
You just put in where the time frame is, where
the who does something like that? Let me come on now,
and then your second page, My goodness, three pages. It's
like a bunch of scribbles out there.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
I just thank goodness I write all the shows for us,
otherwise we never would get anything done.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Yeah, I mean, let me give you an idea of
what Arnie will give you in a note.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Okay, so this is uh, this is off Roman numeral number.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Seven, number seven. Way let me get to number six
because usually you don't know. I just wrote NFL latest
trade in draft rumors and any news coming.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Out the draft was the draft was like a month ago.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Okay, but I know you like it. So I was
accusing to this.

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
Meanwhile, here's a note that I have on my apparently
not successful enough notes. Yeah, where Tua sitting out OTAs
he's on his fifth year option with twenty three point
one seven million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
I think he's a franchise guy.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Miami's had twenty five different starting quarterbacks since nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
When Dan Reno played his final year.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
In twenty twenty two, it was the first top ten
offense for Miami since nineteen ninety five, a team who
hasn't had a playoff win since two thousand and you
want to get on the availability of Tua because he's
only played one full season, Well, guess what he's played
in fifty three games, He's had fifty one starts. Joe
Burrow in the same draft has had fifty two starts.

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Jalen Hurts in the same draft has had fifty one starts.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Those are everything, It's everything I've been saying. So you
just you just write down everything I've been saying.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Is what you do? Yeah, that's everything you've been saying.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
That's everything I've been saying about my dolphinsive to us.
So you just write it down and use it as
your own all.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
Right, then let me give you the rams.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
If this is everything you're saying, he wants more guaranteed
money in twenty twenty four, it is matt stafford problem
is he just turned thirty six and not worth it.
His front office has been flirty flirty. There was rumor
of Aaron Rodgers' interest. Kevin Dimoff, who is their GM,
said that they didn't ask Stafford to redo his deal
this offseason. Stafford said they absolutely did, and in the

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last five years he's only started every game twice. That
was after eight straight years of playing every game in Detroit.
Is he worth it at thirty six?

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
No, Finally, Rob Parker's going to be right on one
thing he's done, or whatever Rob says about it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
He's trying to say. Rob's not right a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
It's time to move on. Really, Chris, it's time to
help me. From Rob Parker, I mean from Matthew Stafford's
it's time to go ahead and get yourself another franchise quarterback. Besides,
he's not one hundred percent healthy. We know the injuries
he goes through. And you know, I'd be honest. I
would tell him if he was asking my opinion, I'd
say move on and enjoy your life. You know his

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wife was very ill too, She was very sick.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
And did you watch him though? Last year? He looked
pretty damn good.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
You didn't in some games, I know, but when he
when he played, the Rams were getting that tag for
a while of the team that nobody wanted to play
in the playoffs because they had started a little bit
rough and then they got hot. I think you're trying
to bury Matthew Stafford a little bit too early on.
He I think he might have a few good years
left and if he wants security beyond what's your other

(01:36:30):
playing with the Rams right now?

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
At quarterback?

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Well, you gotta see. You gotta go ahead and rebuild
from that, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
You're not You're you're lost Ange. You don't get to
rebuild in Los Angeles. People whose interested pick yourself another quarterback?

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
I mean, well, you didn't do it when you had
a chance this year.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Yeah, you really should have, really, is the honest. You
should have made a move now and then now you're
gonna have to wait till the next year's draft to
go ahead and find out what's there.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Why not try to make a trade.

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
That's how you got Matthew Stafford, who could who could
be that guy out there right now? It's just I
feel like you're you're quick to say, oh, you got
to move on. Okay, Well, then what's your plan this year?
Just what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
Tank?

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
Well, you should have to play in last year when
you had all these quarterbacks in the draft, that's what
you should have done.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
I don't know any of them are good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Well, so, like you said, Stafford's thirty seven, how long
is he gonna be out in the on the high
end of his career.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
I thought he was. I thought he was pretty good
last year. And in fact, they they damned there, they
damned there made a run.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Well, the mast isn't Do you want to pay Matthew
Stafford four year, two hundred million dollars or do you
want to pay a young quarterback a lot less money
so you could use the money to spread it around.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
I'd want the best possible quarterback I could get. And
you just saw Jared Goff get four years, two hundred
and twelve million dollars. And oh, by the way, you
traded Jared Goff for this guy, So I I mean,
you could say, go spend that money somewhere else. But
I don't think that's how you can look at an

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NFL team right now?

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
What do you think there're one of the Rams over other?
Eight and a half?

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
Nine? Is that what I took? I think it was
nine and a half?

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
Actually, wow, I got to go under that, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
Why why it's eight and a half?

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
Eight and a half?

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Why would you autom then? Why didn't you tell me
whenever you said you knew it? Why would you automatically
go under? Because Matt Stafford, what's a new contract?

Speaker 7 (01:38:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
I just don't think he's gonna make every game, that's
the first thing. I mean, there were so many injuries there.
That doesn't mean they'll have it again this year.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
I have to say that Aaron Donald two has retired,
so they've got a little bit of a hole in
the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
All right, there's some football for you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
Will the Rams commit to a little future stability for
Matt Stafford? Will the Dolphins come to an agreement with
Tua before either one of them have to sit out?

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
You didn't answer my question. Do you have all the
channels to watch all the games? You got all that
or not? I've got one stream dot net. I think
there's a couple of other very illegal streaming sites. Oh
that's what you Okay, I got it?

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Now, No, I what do I I have? I have
the regular channels, right, just the basic. I've got the ESPN,
I've got the Prime, We've got Netflix. But I mean
I'm not gonna be able to get YouTube TV and
I'm not gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
Be able to shift to have the Sunday ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
I watched the Red Zone more anyway as it is,
so No, I don't have all the channels, Arnie. I
couldn't watch the damn Peacock game for your Dolphins last year.
I had to sign up for like a one year
free trial or one month free trial.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
Is that against Kansas City you're talking about? Oh jeez,
that that. I had to make sure I had that game.
I don't know how I got it, but I had
to make sure.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Is there a point?

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
I know we got a break, but just since Arnie
brought it up and he knows I love this topic,
is there a point where it becomes too much?

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
We're like, we're at that point? We are at that point.
I don't mean price wise, it just means too confusing.
You need six channels, don't you? Is it six channels?

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
You would need a YouTube TV subscription, right, and in
that you would get potentially.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Go to YouTube TV and find a game. You have
to pay for a subscription.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
Well, you would have to.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Yes, you would be able to get the local markets
because they have the local channels, but you would have
you would have to actually purchase YouTube TV, Arnie.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
It's not just like watching a video or something.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
All right, I gotcha, I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
Which would be pretty cool though if that was the case,
right exactly. Yeah, I saw the you know, when you
were mathing the math last time when we had the
number of what it costs, Apparently we had left out
the actual subscription that you would have to have, because
not only do you have to have a you know,
you want to buy a Sunday ticket, but I guess
in that you have to have some sort of subscription

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to YouTube too.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
That's built into it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
If you pay for every game. You know how you
can do that too? Does that include the games on
the Amazons and all that or.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
No, they've got to come up, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
They've got to come up with a way to where
you can do that, to where it's like I want
all the games.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Here's my app boom.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
I mean, you can get NFL Plus, but that doesn't
even give you anything. They've got to come up with
the deal to simplify it. But that's not ever going
to be the case because Netflix wants it's there on
Chris There on Thursday night, ESPN, onance US on Monday night.
All right, when we come back to the tyrack dot
com studios, will hit your tweets at Stinking Genius One.
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(01:41:15):
it's already in Plank on a Fox Sports Sunday. You
want to hit some of these tweets.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
Yeah, we've gotten we have not done a good job
at that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
I I'll take the l on that one at Stinking
Genius one at Plank Show, best way. Josh Wright's I
was mad the Colts only got one primetime game two
NFL missing out on the A, R CJ games.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
Anthony richardson CG.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Strouds, that doesn't bother me so much, only because we
could pretty much get our team on any day at
any game back in the day. You have to hope
you were on like a Monday night football so you
can see your team. But now you can get your
game anytime.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
I understand that, but it doesn't mean a little more
to you to see it in primetime under the lights.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
Yeah, I'm okay with like a couple of the games,
but I love playing Sundays. Let's let's get let's lace
it up. Then I'm I hate when they have to
do the Thursday and the Monday. It just takes them
out of their pattern.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Unless they win, then you're happy with it. You're like,
oh straight, this team can do anything at any time.
Mister nobody writes, Indy is a class list organization. Their
coach is a cry baby, they're legendary announcers, a babbling honk.
I don't know what that means. I respect the effort,
but not the people. I think he's madder than you
are about the Pacers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Arnie, Well, I think a lot of Knick fans are
upset at what happened, but you know what they're they're
kind of like, well, it didn't make a difference. Was
if we had to play Boston next round, which we did.
They weren't gonna win without brunts and who had the
who had the fractured him? By the way, how great
was it to see after the game that Brunson went
outside to go meet with the fans, even though he

(01:42:53):
had a cast on his hand, even though he had
busted up his hand, took the time to be, you know,
not like Haliburton and went out there to meet the fans.
How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
How do you know Haliburton didn't go meet the fans.
Maybe he did with his sweatshirt on. I'm sure he
take with his sweatshirt on. I think you would be
fine with it if he wore it to the game.
The fact that he didn't wear it whenever they're walking
in and the NBA does this scoopy red carpet thing,
he shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Worn it at all. I mean, when you win a
game and the other team out of a lot of injuries,
just take the w move on and start thinking about
the next series. Don't act like the other team choked
that there was all you know, you came back from
twenty down or something like that. That's just ridiculous, man.
And who you're saying is choking, you know. I just

(01:43:41):
I think it was just very classless to do.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
So can I And I want to make this clear
because at no point during any press conference. Did Tyreus
Aliburton say that the Knicks choked? Arnie is insinuating that
because he wore the sweatshirt, and for some reason, you
feel like that's telling the next thing choked instead of
just celebrating maybe an iconic moment in sport.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
He had a sweatshirt of Reggie Miller putting his hands
around his neck.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
That's right, it's an iconic moment in the Knicks Pacers.
I guess rival, let's be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
You know what that means. He means that you're saying
your team choked. That's what he's That's what he's saying.
He puts that on.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
He's the guy that plays for the team, the Pacers,
dare Reggie Miller.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
I'm gonna wear a sweatshirt that has Chris Planks picture
on it with my hands around your neck? All right?
Is that okay with you?

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
I don't I don't know how that applies here.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
I don't know, but I just want to wear it now.
Of course, come on, I.

Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
Think you're making and reading into this too much.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
I think that's been my that's been my takeaway from
hearing you cry about it for two and a half hours.
I think you're trying. It's it's an iconic moment in
the series history. You think I'll know what Nick fann
that takes offense to that? Let me look, I'll search
on Twitter, and I think you just might be Oh,
stop because he wore the sweatshirt. It's a one trolling.
It's not him saying the Knicks choked. It's an iconic

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moment in the history of this rivalry. And he just
got one of the biggest wins in the franchise's history.
They went on the road in Madison Square Garden beat
the Nicks in Game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
No, he beat a team in Game seven that wasn't
the New York Knicks. They beat My team was.

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
Injured all right one final time.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
That was tyroneif team studios Steve desager to recap a
wild day of Game seven.

Speaker 9 (01:45:21):
So what's up, Steve, Well, new York's out. Indiana beat
the Knicks in New York won thirty to one oh nine.
So Indiana is in the Eastern Conference Finals for the
first time in ten years. The franchise hadn't won any
series in ten years until this year, and now Minnesota
is into a conference final for the first time in
twenty years. In the West, Timberwolves won Game six by

(01:45:43):
forty five points and then won at Denver in a
comeback tonight, ninety eight to ninety down twenty early third quarter,
it's Minnesota that advanced. They were down fifty eight thirty
eight and Anthony Edwards was not shooting well. He finished
six of twenty four from the floor sixteen points, seven assists,
but Jaden McDaniels had twenty three points, Karl Anthony Towns

(01:46:04):
twenty three points twelve rebounds. So Dallas will be in
the Western Conference Finals, which start at Minnesota on Wednesday.
Pacers go to Boston to start the East Finals on Tuesday.
In the WNBA, Seattle won at Washington eighty four to
seventy five. Each team had started the season zero to two.
Indiana is zero to three, a host Connecticut tomorrow. The
NHL Playoffs resume tomorrow with a game seven to end

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the second round Edmonton at Vancouver. The series winner goes
to Dallas to start the West Final on Thursday. Yes,
we've got Dallas basketball and hockey both in conference finals.
That's going to be a very busy arena for the
next week or two. New York has the Rangers, hosting
Game one of the East Final Wednesday against Florida, but
the New York Knicks did not advance. If the Knicks

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had won today, joining the Rangers in conference final, it
would have been the first time since nineteen eighty eight
that two cities each had teams in the NHL slash
NBA Final Four. Instead, the knickser out, and yet again,
when down big at the half of a playoff game,
they do not come back and win. In the shot
clock era, which is most of NBA history, when the

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Knicks are down at least fifteen at the half in
a playoff game, they have one win one and nineteen.
That one win was when they came back for a
seventy two to seventy victory in two thousand against My
Ashes the Bad Old Days. Xander Schaffley won the PGA Championship,
his first major victory. Number one rank Scottie Scheffler tied

(01:47:31):
for eighth place with Justin Thomas at others. Number three
ranked Roy McElroy tied for twelve's plays. Shaffley is now
number two in the world. Nellie Corda took the LPGA
event in Jersey City, by one stroke. She's won six
of her last seven tournaments. She is ranked number one
on the lady's side. NASCAR's All Star Race on FS
one tonight went Joey Logano, earning the one million dollar payday.

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Denny Hamlin finished second after the race of fight between
Ricky Stenhouse and Kyle Busch. The Yankees won their seventh
straight game, seven to two over the White Sox home
run for Aaron Judge, his thirteenth. Winning pitcher Carlos Rodan
went six innings. He's five and two. Giants won their
fourth in a row, four to one over Colorado at
Rockies offense. It was a hot team for a week
until they met San Francisco three for thirty at the plate.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
Today.

Speaker 9 (01:48:17):
Winning pitcher Jordan Hicks went five innings for the victory.
He's four in one and the Dodgers in ten innings
beat Cincinnati three to two. Sho Hey Otani the game
winning single. He had two hits, betting three point fifty
three the loss to the Reds Closer Alexis Diez, who
has in the area of seven this year, Arizona six '
four over Detroit X Dodger Jock Peterson now with the
Diamondbacks went three for three today and RBI double, RBI single.

(01:48:40):
He's betting three to seventeen. Angels got four runs in
the seventh and won at Texas four to one. Tonight
it was San Diego nine to one over the Braves.
You Darvish the winning pitcher with seven scoreless innings nine strikeouts.
He's pitched twenty five straight scoreless. Baltimore won again six
to three over Seattle oriol still two games behind the
Yankees Burns. With the win, Craig kimberl to save. Philadelphia

(01:49:03):
has the best record in the Major leagues thirty four
and fourteen. They beat Washington again eleven to five. Nationals
have lost five in a row. Phillies Aaron Nola went
seven innings for the victory. He's six and two. Cleveland
won again, five to two over the Twins. Each team
just four hits. Twins have lost six in a row.
Cleveland won on a three run homer bottom of the night.
So the Guardians first in the Al Central now with

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a record of thirty and seventeen wins for Toronto and
the Mets. Wins for Houston and Pittsburgh and Kansas City
sent the a's to an eight straight loss, eight to four.
It was eight to one after eight innings of play
back to.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
You, Thanks Steve, have a great week.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
Ken See it's Ourny spand you're on Chris Plank or
hitting your tweets slash x submissions to the show. Throughout
the night, Jita asks guys, what's up with the fight
between Kyle Busch and Ricky Stenhouse Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
I'll tell you this much.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
It's the most well documented fight I think we've ever had. Arnie.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Well, the cameras are right there. I loved it. They
got everything into it. You know, I do need to
I do need to watch it again so you can
tell me all the people involved. I I know, of course,
uh Stenhouse and Bush, but the rest of them fighting
around and stuff like that, I gotta know. And one
guy was like get out of here, get out of
here and throwing people off the the thing. I got

(01:50:22):
to get everybody who was involved, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
I think one of the guys was Ricky Stenhouse's dad.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
I think he got punched.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
Yes, yes, you're right about that. He got punched. Yes,
not good, not good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
But uh yeah, Well, I don't really know what more
there is to say, except it's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
It was pretty wild.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
You don't see fights like that Ucla Dodger, Frank, this
was good, Arnie. A Knicks look forward as opposed to
a Knick's funeral.

Speaker 1 (01:50:50):
The future is bright.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
Well, let's see who we get in the off season.
I'm wondering how that's going to work out and what
they're gonna do about Julius Randall. A lot of question
marks about the Knicks in the offseason.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Doug Wrights looking forward to the NBA Final Four with
no big market teams to hear about for the next month,
half the sportscasters at FSR are now scrambling for a
map to see where Indianapolis and Minnesota are located.

Speaker 1 (01:51:17):
Minneapolis, he writes, Time to earn your money.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
I hope it's going to be the pacers of the Timberwolves.
I'm sure that's going to be a ratings bonanza for
everybody out there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
Yeah, it was probably not what they rooted for.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Yeah, sure, Okay, if you put the truth serum with
the Final four, I'm sorry, Well, you could pick your
Final four and your dream finals matchup. You wanted Boston
to the Knicks, and you want the Knicks to eventually
get to an NBA finals, right, right, if you're TV,
if you're Adam Silver.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Absolutely you do. I mean that's what moves the needle.
Everybody wanted to go ahead and see that. Now Indy
out of Boston, how many people gonna watch out it?
If Boston takes them in like four or five games,
They're really not gonna watch it?

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
Good question here.

Speaker 3 (01:52:03):
This was a very early submission that I meant to
get to earlier from Nick who writes, who's Larry Bird
going to root for Boston or Indiana?

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Oh? Stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:13):
It's a good question, dude. Larry Bird was with the
Pacers for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
He's mister Boston, is he not?

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
I mean yes absolutely. When you think.

Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
Hat I would go ballistic if I was a Celtics fan.

Speaker 1 (01:52:29):
You think that you were mad about Tyrese Hallibert.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's see what the see what the
Celtic fans say about him wearing a Pacer hat.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
How about that he was only the head coach there
for three years?

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
He's an Indiana guy too, Right, He's come on, man,
he's got to be Celtics, right, But any think it's
kind of funny because he was impactful. Nature Boy writes,
the real impressive thing that happened in the NBA this
year was when the Lakers hoisted they're in season Banner.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Who cares about the tea Wolves come back today?

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Well, that's true. The Lakers do have that in season championship.
Are they going to have a parade for that or no?

Speaker 1 (01:53:06):
I hope so I'll be there.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Yeah, these are two really good ones, but it branches
us off into a completely different you want to you want.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
To talk about the why not?

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
In other NFL News Ahead News Rights, Sam Ponder might
have to start looking for a job now she's joining
Sage Steele and defending Harrison. Butker, I don't know what
Sage Steele and Sam Ponder have to do with that,
but I'm kind of Harrison.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
Butkerd out, Arnie. I'm not gonna lie to you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
Go in Jersey right now. And I guess they sold
out of them all, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
I think the Chiefs should disband as an organization for
allowing him to be a member of that organization. I
think Patrick Mahomes should ask for a trade. Darryl Wrights, Arnie,
he wore the sweatshirt because of obnoxious and Nick fans
like Arnie, Jason Smith, Spike Lee screaming a Smith and
all of those old and decrepit former Knicks they keep

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showing on TV. They're loud, delusional and end up with
the same result. Draymond Green called this hashtag NYK fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
I did note. Draymond Green called up Brunson fracturing his
hand and all their injuries going on. He must be
a doctor and figure out that they were going to
hurt themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
You know, when you blame the injuries, even though you
have every right to, of course, you do open the
door in future arguments to have it be something that
people can constantly use against you.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
No, but whether they say well, Draymond Green called this
called what what? What did he call? That? Everybody out
of the New York thinks we're going to get hurt.
That's ridiculous, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
When we come back to the tyrack dot Com studios,
our final segment features what you all came for tonight,
Arnie's picks.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
That's next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:54:53):
Great job tonight by the crew, Mary crushing it on
the wheels of steel, Patrick hooking us up with not
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Speaker 1 (01:55:19):
Sorry about your nicks, Arnie, No you not, I really am.
I wish they could have stayed healthy, because now it
gives you an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Right, I wish I would stay healthy, but we were
easily gotten my boss.

Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
Also, I should mention the big Ben Mallard is coming
up next right here, back from Charleston of these fine
Fox Sports Radio affiliates.

Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
All right, are you ready? Are you ready for your picks?

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
Do it all right?

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
Take it away, Steak and genius. Let's get after your picks.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
Well, we'll go straight to the NBA and we'll go
to the final four teams where it's going to be
Minnesota in Dallas. Boy, that's going to be a ratings bonanza.
There's no doubt about that. I'm sure people are going
to be musty TV on that one. Besides that, God
to love the way Minnesota is playing. What a great
come from behind victory today against Denver. I just love

(01:56:07):
the way they're John and assinners. I'm gonna take Minnesota
in seven over Dallas, and that takes us to the
Pacers and Boston. You know, I want the Pacers to
lose in two. You understand that, right, I just hate.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
Them, that's right. Two.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
But I think they're gonna end up beating the Celtics
in seven. What I think the Celtics can't be trusted.
The Pacers certainly can score. They're gelling right now. They
have all the confidence in the world. I'm taking the
Pacers in seven, and then I'm taking Minnesota over the

(01:56:45):
Pacers to win the championship. How about that? And then
I'm gonna ask the Boss for another race.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
Well, if you call this one, I'd say you'd be
all about it. There is if you feel this, Arny,
I would suggest you go really put some money on it,
because you're getting incredible numbers right now for the Pacers
in the series with the.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
This is the twenty eight to one to win the
whole thing, right.

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
I just saw that there. It was like eighteen to
one for the series.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Okay, I thought it was twenty eight to one.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
Foh is it twenty my p I mean you're my numbers.
You were here.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
I'm taking the Rangers over Florida in that series. I
would take Vancouver over Edmonton in game number seven. My
Arizona Wildcats over Oklahoma State in softball. Boy, they had
an easy day. All they do was beat Villanova twice.
We took care of Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
No, you only had you played him twice. You only
need to beat him once.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
Today, right right, right right, But we beat him twice.
We sa won in the first game. Now and then
my baseball team were number one seed in the PAC
twelfth Tournament. What a great victory over Oregon State. I
think we win the PAC twelfth Tournament also, So we're
on a roll. There. You have my picks. Do with
them as you please, no longer strictly for entertainment purposes only.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
So, by the way, made me laugh. On Twitter, Cameron writes,
what gives you guys? Reading my tweets on the air
is like the Knicks winning at all in the finals.
It won't happen. Very funny, very well done. Thank you
all the great tweets on the show tonight. You do
realize this week is the end of an era. This
is the Final twelve. Yeah, final PAC twelve event. Yep,

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that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
It's uh. I haven't really thought much about it. I'm
ready to get in our new conference. I can't wait
till we kick the crap out of Oklahoma State and softball.
But yeah, it's no more PAC twelve. We are done.
Though it is over for the PAC twelve. I'm not
going to really miss it that much like everybody else, though.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
Okay, you're not sentimental about the good old days?

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
No, no, not at all, not at all. No, Arizona
wasn't one of the original Pack eight teams anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:58:45):
Okay, I mean, how long had you been in the
PAC twelve for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
Since let's see your ninety two years before I got
to Arizona, So I want to say, like nineteen seventy
nine or something.

Speaker 1 (01:58:57):
Pretty good run.

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
It's pretty good run in one conference, especially when you
see how much people move around. Now, Hey, I wanted
to end the show tonight on two tributes. One that
for us. You know, I loved Jim Outa because I'm
a Raider.

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
Yes, yeah, and he was.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
He embodied everything that the Raiders were about. Undrafted, you
had these beasts of the offensive linemen. And then here's
Jim Otto that would lead the way. So rest in peace,
Tom Motto. But Eddie, Arnie, a guy that you dealt
with a lot, and a guy that I love.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
Eddie Gossage passed away this week.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
Yes, I saw that. That really shook me. I dealt
with him a lot. He was a great guy, Chris,
I mean a great the best, oh man. And I
saw that. I'm like, I can't believe it was sixty
four or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
Yeah, he had battled cancer and by the just to
tell people who he is, Eddie Gossage was the track
president promoter for the Texas Motor Speedway for the longest time,
and he was smart about it.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
Arnie.

Speaker 3 (01:59:56):
He became friends with people in the media. I'm sure
you talk to him a lot to the races.

Speaker 1 (02:00:00):
He's great.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
We used to do remotes there when I was working
in Dallas. Always accomminating, always a great guy. He's like,
what could I do for you? Just just a real
pleasure to be around. I'm sorry to see that happen.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
Yeah, to an absolute legend in the racing world.

Speaker 3 (02:00:17):
And Eddie Goasig and an absolute legend and Raider Nation
and Jim Outo r I P.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
So you're really going with the Pacers, with.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
The Pacers and seven and you know I don't want to,
but I have to.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
So you feel that. So what are you gonna do
if the when the Celtics sweep this series?

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
They're not gonna do that. They can't burn the tape.
Celtics can't be tried.

Speaker 1 (02:00:36):
Why don't you trust them? Is it? Is it the injury?

Speaker 6 (02:00:38):
In me?

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
I think it's just the rivalry. You can't trust a
team that's better than you.

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
Stinks man, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (02:00:44):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:00:44):
When we oh, we're done. Ben Mallers coming in next. Already,
have a great week next Sunday night recap in well,
we be in Game two by then in the Western
and Eastern Conference finals.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
Should be fun. Big benis next on Fox Sports Radio.