Steve Hartman & Veejay Huskey Talk NBA Finals, NFL Surprises, French Open, And So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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for the French Open title. Center won the first two sets.
Acarez comes back to win the next two sets, and
right now Acarez up two to one in the fifth set.
But this is going to go down to the wire, now, VJ.
VJ and I have been We've known each other for
years and we you know now obviously we've been doing
our Sunday show week after week after week. And here's

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what I know about VJ. He's very calculating when it
comes to texting me. There are times when he will
text a volume of things that he wants to get
off his chest. But to me, he says more when
he doesn't text me when I expect a text. So
let's go back to Game one of the NBA Finals

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on Thursday. So this is how this worked for me. VG.
I was at the Dodgers game that day working on TV,
and so by the time you can imagine the traffic.
You know, by the time I got back to my
house and turned on the basketball game, it was late
in the third quarter, and okay, see he was up

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like ten, and you know, things are looking pretty much
the way I thought it was gonna look. And so
I get there and I hear my daughter is gonna
be bringing dinner home. Okay, so I'm waiting for her
to arrive with dinner. So it's fourth quarter now and
the lead is at eight. I think Indiana just and
I'm thinking to myself, you know, I can't wait to
talk to VG on Sunday because what I'm gonna say is,

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all right, I'm gonna give you this. I'm gonna give
you this about Indiana. Indiana's got fired. I'm gonna I'm
gonna I'm gonna give give it to the They got fired.
They're not going to just roll over the go to
get some fights. So the leads eight, and my daughter
comes in and she goes, we got dinner. So I
just walk away from the TV and I sit down
to eat dinner. So I go back to the TV.

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The game is over, so I pick up my phone
and I'm like what. I then go back to the
TV rewind and relived the end of that game, of
which the Pacers led for exactly point three seconds of

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the game. Yep, they led point three seconds of the game.
So here's where I stand as we go into game two,
and we're gonna have a lot about this game today
in my head because I've seen this for so many years.
There are unexplained teams that win championships. The eighty eight
Dodgers were a classic example, Like, there was no way

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a Dodger tam coming out back to back seventy three
and eighty nine seasons, and by the way, they had
a losing season the year after, not only wins the
World Series, but they beat two of the best teams
of that era, the Mets and the A's to do it.
And you're like, why you had Kirk Gibson, have you
know this inspirational year? And then you had this oral
Hersheizer fifty nine straight consecutive scoreless innings his dominates. The

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second best pitcher was a rookie Tim Belcher. They had
no other players in their lineup. Of note, there was
nothing about this team that would explain them winning any
games in the postseason, much less winning the World series.
And so I'm looking at this Pacers team and I'm like,
what am I missing here? Why are the Pacers seemingly
a team of destiny? Right now, we've talked about a VJ.

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This is a team of rejects. This is a team
made up of players who played elsewhere who's franchises even
though they were good players felt they were expendable, and
so they had this, you know, sort of this group
chip on their shoulder. And then they have one of
the apsol best coaches in the NBA and Rick Carlile.
That is the only expectation. I am not gonna conceive

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this series to the Pacers, but I will concede this
something is happening. I mean, there is something going on
with the Indiana Pacers and the basketball gods this year
that I really can't figure out. But I have to
acknowledge something is going on in Indiana.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, there's a more than just something going on Indiana.
You talk about the eighty eight Dodgers team and everything
they have, the overcoming you mentioned Kurt Gibson. Let's not
forget the home run where the man can barely walk
and he hits off with people probably still think maybe
other than Trevor Hoffman, and Mariano Rivard one of the greatest,
if not the greatest closer of all time. And mister
Dennis Eckersly that had the wildest underhand side arm speed

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pitch ever. And then it comes to you know, Randy
Johnson comes along. He's got kind of the same stature
of saying, not the closer, but just a dominant number
one hurler from the bump. So you talk about that
Dodgers team, I give you another team. It seems a
little bit about Destiny two. You want to go back
to the four Pistons and you use and my beloved
Detroit Pissons. You the team rejects. So you want to
talk about reject Let's talk about Ben Wallace, who was
multiple Defensive Player of the Year that was shunned off

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from the Wizards. Let's talk about Rip Hamilton, a guy
who was in college at Yukon, was an All American
and and and you know, stapled his name as a
college legend at Yukon. He got jen send it off
by a few teams. Let's talk about Tayshawn Prince. People
thought that was a mistake draft pick, and they thought
that why would you draft Tayshawn Prince. But then if
you remember, after they draft Tayshawn Prince, they had a

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chance to get Carmelo Anthony, and people said, why would
you draft Carmelo Anthony? You have Tayshawn Prince. Take this
guy named Darko Millericich and let's see how that works
out for it? How'd that work out for you?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
You want to talk about another reject, Let's talk about
mister Jouncey Billups draft picking a draft by the Celtics
after one year, one year, one year, Jensenden around and
their head coach, former Tar Hill. My guy, mister Larry Brown,
who did take who did take the the seventy six
or two ANYBA Finals, but was Conna, you know, shunned
off as not a player's coach because him and Ai

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kept bumping heads. Right, So you want talk about a
team reject, You want to talk about a team that
was kind of just destined for greatness in the championship.
Let's go with the four Pistons. This team is very
similar and I mentioned this last Saturday Sunday on our show.
It feels like the four Pistons team because Tyrese Halliburton.
There's your Chauncey Billips, mouse Turner. There there's your Ben Wallace,

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and then you have these other three guards. You have Mathurin.
People forget he was on the different Nugget team when
he won the championship, so he's a champion, so he
knows what this feels like. And I believe, if I'm
not mistaken, he's the only player in this series other
than Sam.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Are you gonna say is Rashid?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
He can either be Rashid or tay Shan Prince, take
your pick, and then you can just fill out everything else.
And then you have this Rick Carlisle, guy who has
won a championship, who is coach in the championship and
for ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls out there, not
a breast with his career.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Has an NBA.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Championship with the Boston celt six as a player, so
he's been in plenty of deep finals, deep playoff runs
his entire NBA life, just not as a coach as
a player. And I mentioned this last week about this team.
They have a lot of different guys that can defend
a lot of different positions because OKC is so deep.
Tyreese Halliburton, I tweeted, we have got to stop acting

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like this guy is not a superstar. Something that really
irked me leading into the final Steed was all this
talk about how certain people are gonna watch. No one's
gonna watch, no one's gonna diss. This is gonna suck.
All we do is complain over the last six or
seven years about the Warriors and Lebron. We got tired
of seeing it. We got tired of seeing it. We
got tired of seeing it. You people know I'm telling
the truth right now. And when the basketball guys in

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the league actually give us two young stars for us
to now usher in a new era. Lebron's not winning
no more rings, guys, Steph Curry's not winning any more rings.
Kevin Durant's not winning any more rings. That's that era.
They're done. They'll still get talked about because they have
big names, they have great careers, their icons, their legers,
their top whatever in NBA history, but they're not gonna
win anymore. This young group of guys coming through and

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Edwards K cunneyham Sga Tyrese Haliburton not to mention the
guys an Olympic gold medalist. So there's some people that
know basketball that thought this man was good enough to
be the final twelve to goal to pay us to
represent the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
All Right, a little bit later on, I'm gonna throw
something at to that we talked a little bit about yesterday.
I'm gonna keep it fresh for you on this. Here
were a couple of things. By the way, I just
loved what Carlisle post game. So the Pacers had nineteen
turnovers in the first half. In the first half, I
think it was twenty, he had nineteen. I'll play five

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and think about this. You are on the road against
a sixty eight win team, yes, and you are negative
eighteen and turnover margin twenty four to six.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Can't take care ofable on the road, can't take veritable,
and you.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Still win the game. So even Carlisle goes, so we
had nineteen turnovers in the first half, he goes, I
that's got to be a record, right, folks, I mean,
sir throwing and not talking about his own That's got
to be a record. Now do you think any team
in the NBA finals histories had nineteen turnovers and a half?
So he's and he's doing with a straight face. Right,

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of course you can do that after you win the game.
And then he went into how great Okay's defenses, and
I'm stopping. I'm thinking, Okay, now he's really doing the
butter up job, because the bottom line is OKC there
were a lot of elements that led to it losing.
What did we talk about with OKAC going into this matchup?

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They have more depth, right, they have more depth. Ben
scoring thirty nine to twenty eight Indiana. How about this?
All five starters for Indiana double digits. They spread the wealth.
SGA forced to carry the low because ched Holmgren was
a complete no show and your so called All NBA
player Jalen Williams was six and nineteen from the field.

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The worst stat in that game for OKC was thirty
field goal attents for SGA. Yeah, thirty eight points, But
that's not their game where he has to take every
shot because the other guys can't knock down a shot, right,
And so you know, and talking about okc's defense, here's
what I saw late in that game. Indiana had looks

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and they knocked them down. So they were getting looks
and now they're knocking down those shots. I mean, they're
shooting well over forty percent threes, and that's the difference
in that game. So I like I think about the
Indiana Pacers, think about this franchise or second VJ. So
they are an original ABA franchise in nineteen sixty seven,
they were only in the nine year history of the ABA,

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there were only two franchises that had the same name,
same city all nine years. One was the Pacers, the
other was the Kentucky Colonels, who did not make the
cut when they merged into the NBA. The Pacers were
the best team of the ABA. They won three championships,
they were in the ABA finals two other times, and
they've been a complete zero when you think about it.

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They've never been terrible, but they've just been that middle
of the road franchise pretty much for their entire existence
in the NBA. So I'm still trying to figure out
why are the basketball gods now deciding it's their time? There?
Is it their time? Is this gonna be like oh
one where Alan Iverson goes off at Staples Center just

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to step over on tylu I had a front of mine,
hated the Lakers. He called me right after that. He
goes Philadelphia's gonna win that series. My retort was they
won't win another game. He goes, will you talking about
They'll have games three, four, and five in Philly. I go,
Lakers sweep and they did. So we still don't know.
Was this again an aberration? We saw what happened with

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Denver in that opening game against Oka. See a very
similar comeback in that game. Had a game two Look
what was it? Forty plus point blowout for OKC. All right,
we're gonna break it all down. We got a lot
to talk about today. I got a lot of NFL
news again. We're keeping our eyes on this fifth and
deciding set the men's final at the French Open Alcarez

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Leading Center three games to two, and I've got an
interesting question I believe for one VJ. Husky. This is
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your screen. All right, Fifth and deciding set going on
right now, Acarez and Center French Openmen's final, Achaaz serving
leading four games to three. Continue update you on that one.
By the way, Center won the first two sets of
Alcarez does win. What an amazing comeback from back to

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back French Open times. By the way, this is on
the men's side. This is the new rivalry, all right.
So you know feder along gone, Nadal retired, Djokovic hinting
he'd played in his last French Open. This is the
this is the matchup now Center and Alcarez. You'll see
plenty of that in him. Get used to it, all right.
So yesterday we were talking about we got a little

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sidetracked and we ended up talking about bo Jackson for
a moment and never bad, was never bad, And we're
talking about the marketing genius of Boat, because when you
think about it, Bo did not have a long either
baseball career or a football career because of the hip injury,
the dislocation, and but the marketing of him was so perfect.
Bo knows it was unbelievable marketing.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And so.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
What happened was he was cool, as we called it
back in the day. He was Boa was cool, like
he had his cool. I mean, it's everything's cool about both.
So we're talking about who's cool now. And I was
corrected immediately. No, no, no, it's not cool anymore. It's
more like Aura, who's got the Aura? I go, okay,
well that's interesting. And I'm getting this from ian young guys.

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I like the youngsters around here, like the twenty somethings,
say are d They're like, well, you know, Shae, Shae
let our producer, Shay's talking to everybody right now. Can
I get to Shae on the mike right now? Can
you talk to Shae?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Quick shouts on my man Ian.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I miss you, buddy, I Shay, I got a question
for you, because we're talking about this Aura thing yesterday. Yeah, okay,
that it's not about who's cool, who has it's all
about Aura. It's about the aura or yeah, and so
because T isn't cool, he is Aura. Okay. So that's
that's where I want to go with j right now. Okay, okay,

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let's see this is interesting.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Alan Iverson is cool if we want to like, that's
that's who I think of cool, Like when when you
want to put someone at the top of the NBA
and cool Alan Iverson.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
And that's pre you, I mean Alan Iverson. I So
yet you know still Ai as a guy that was cool.
Ai wasn't that far along, like like you're acting like
he wasn't even well, he was MVP in two thousand
and one. That was twenty four years ago and.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
It was still playing through the audice And if I
can jump in here, see I lived through Ai. Howard
are you against ay?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
I'm twenty five?

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay, So AI was at Georgetown? But where you were
you born? Two thousand bag So AI was at Georgetown
before you were born?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah? Ai was Aura. It was it was cool.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I think you guys are trying to separate two words
that actually mean the same thing.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well that's the whole thing. It really does mean the
same thing. So let's let's start right there when you
look at the current NBA, because you know, the answer
I was given by several guys is aunt Ant has
got it. And these are the twenty somethings they look
at the NBA right now. I said, all right, who
has that? Aura? Who has that? And it's like aunt Ant, Scotty, No, no, no,

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And I'm like, well that's where we were a year ago.
We had this conversation last week. Like last week, he
was being touted as the second coming to Michael Jordan,
who obviously was like the ultimate guy in that respect.
So who would you say? Now, give me, give me
a short list, a.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Short list really fast. But I just I could see
cool has to be in shade. I want you to
hear on this. It has to be organic. It has
to be organic. Ai it was organic, Like remember they
put a dress code in the NBA because of AI.
God started wearing corn rows and getting the tats, wearing
the sleeve on the arm, the fingerband. AI started all

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of that like Jordan's started. Jordans literally took a knee
brace and pulled it down to his calf. He took
the wristband and pulled it up to his his form
Deon Sanders took the headband and pulled it around his neck.
That's an aura that you just create because when you
walk into a room, people feel you.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Right, you can't be annoyed cool right, It's like it's
like a nickname for me.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
You can't give yourself. It's just why I do that
all the time. I just like being the clown. I'm
a stand up comedian twenty five years old.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I just like that one. The one case of great
aura that got stomped on and removed by the league. Though.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Lebron James when he wore that black face mask when
he was with the Heat, it was like the first
one to wear the black best I know, but it
was well, it was a lot of the guys were
in clear ones before that. He wore it like Matt
Black and I think the NBA after those couple of
games he had it, came out and said, oh, this
has actually got to be clear.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
But the black one was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, it makes you look like Batman. Yeah, I mean
it was, it was, it was.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
But it but back to organic and cool. Uh, it
just has to be organic to me.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I think.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think Tyrese Halliburn is cool. I honestly do because
he has such a silent swag like Ann Edwards feels
like when he walks into the room. Okay, perfect example.
I'm sorry, I can give this to you. Have the
video on my phone. I'm covering the Lakers in Minnesota
Timberwolf series. You can hear Ant from the locker room.
We're all in the press room. Wait, and I'm sitting
in the front row because I've never got a chance

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to talk to them. I've talked to other Minnesota players,
but the last few games I've done, he didn't come
to the podium. So, okay, Ant's coming to the podium.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Boom.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I want to get up front to get a question
in any But you can hear Aunt talking in the
back and shouting and saying certain things to let us
know he was on his way, that he was coming.
Julius Randall walks in quietly, Rudy Gobert walks in quietly.
But Aunt had to let everybody know that he's coming
around the partition the NBA Finals partitions in the background,

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and he's coming in, even to where their PR person
had to tell him, hey, watch your language. He's like, oh,
I can't say he did f bomb me. I can't
say that, all right. He sits down, he grabs the
bady and goes, guess, can't be myself and just looked
up and we're all trust me. A few people chuckled,
but there were some people in the room that was
just like, come on, dog, like we get it. You're here.
You just eliminate the Lakers the night they eliminated him.

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You would just eliminate the Lakers.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
We feel it.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I said this on our show with Martin that we
used to do on Saturday nights.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Here. My thing with Ann is it feels like he's
trying to create a carriage exactly instead of letting it become.
You know why Jordan was cool because Jordan just really
cared about winning.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
But his coolness came like the man still has a cologne,
but let me ask you where the original Jordan cologne?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
That's cool? Okay. So he was so in respect and
no disrespect to Kobe, but Kobe was manufactured. He tried
to create his own persona right, which doesn't make it cool.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
No, right.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I never looked at Kobe as being cool.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Kobe was a killer, right, because you can't be a
killer and cool, right, so, and but the point being
is you need cool to engage with the younger generation.
That's what they're looking for. That is what's going to
take that next generation of NBA fans to have that
player or players that they identify not just because of

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the game they play, but that's something about them that
resonates with them.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
I would caution you younger people that I would call
you younger people are I get it, but just let
me say this. I would caution the younger generation of
that because if you're looking for cool, then you're not
looking at their game.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
If you're looking when you said he looked at he
thinks Tyree's Halliburton is cool.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I do, and I'm with it, but he has a
say it's natural for him though, right, Tyree's just kind
of has this natural that he has this natural, organic
swag about it. He tweeted after they wanted to go.
He's howd his gold medal and it says when you
were part of a group project and did the least work, right.
He took that on where where where Jason Tatum?

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Right?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
There was a big thing about Tatum. Now Tams like,
why am I sitting Tyree.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Is like, look, man, hey, bruh, look guess what I
still got haha, gold metal. When you were in class,
we all were in a group project at some point
in our life in high school, guys where we didn't
do as much work and the group still got an
A plus, which means you got an A plus two
and you didn't go on, I didn't get to do
a lot of the work. You're like, hey, mom, my
group got an A plus. Hey Dad, guess what got
an A plus?

Speaker 4 (20:49):
On on that?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
On that?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
That to me is organic cool.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
I do think Tyrese Haliburton currently has the most aura
in the finals right now. Oh yeah, we're just talking
about finals. Yeah, okay, you know what the issue is
because you brought up that you need to fight like
kids want to find that cool or someone with aura.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
SGA.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
It's very manufactured. Everything he's been doing with his his face,
his personality, the way he talks during his press conferences.
It seems so fake for someone that's my age or younger,
because dude, I don't talk like that.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
If you just to go to a press conference, I
would talk like Anthony. Let me fight it up, though,
all right, let me let me fire off these names.
Just rapid fire with Shay and you tell me all whatever.
Luka Dancic, Yes, yes, Yanna sounds at the company.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yes, uh, you know what gave it, Mora when he
stared right at Hallie's dad on that didn't say a thing.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
That was a huge moment for That was a huge moment. Okay,
So you've already give me an answer on Shay Gilles,
Alexander Nikola Jokic. Oh that's a good one. Oh yeah, cool,
cool as hell.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
A guy I didn't even want to go to a
paray because he wants to go back to his country
with his brothers and ride their horses.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
He's like, goofy to me. But that's cool, But that's cool.
I guess Eddie Murphy was goofy. He's to go to Hollywood. Yeah, yeah,
it was goofy. Yeah all right. I just I'm just
throwing some of the biggest names out there. But again,
the key here is the NBA desperately needs this next
generation of fans to make that connection. And again we
can talk about who we're not talking about who is

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the best player in the league. I mean, you can
have many arguments on how you actually come to the
answer of who is the best player, it's about who
is resonating right now now again for Tyre's Halliburton, who's
had game winning shots in all every round of these postseasons.
I mean, we're going if the Pacers were to win
the championship this year, people are going to go back

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in the twenty twenty five NBA playoffs and say that
Tyrese Haliburton had literally one of the greatest playoff runs
in one season that any players had in the history
of the NBA.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Also, so if I can add this with coolness, guys,
this is where this is. This is why I caution
the younger fans, Steve and shame You're you could be cool,
but it runs out sooner or later if you don't win.
You know why Magic was cool right when he got
to the NBA. He had nothing to do with college,
just the fact that he got to the NBA.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
He had all that.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Or he had that smile, which is the greatest smile
in the history of sports, his Magic Johnson's smile. But
he won, and then he won again, and then.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know what else was cool?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
That he was battling Larry Bird, that glar Bird.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
You can go white boy you know why because he
was who he was, right, He didn't pretend to be
anything other than exactly was. Whether he hated him loved him,
he was.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
It was organic but whatever. But what else did he
do in the eighties?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
He won? He won, Shack.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know why people love Shack because Shaq won.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Remember saying, you can't be cool unless you win. Now,
you gotta win. Listen, Jackson didn't win.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Let me tell you something, though, Shaq's coolness was falling
off guys until Phil Jackson got here, cause they were
getting swept out here. And Shaq even has done podcasts
and interviews and admitted this. He felt his aura fading away,
and he knew he had to eventually start winning championships.
And that brought Shack's coolness back into the fall because
Shacks started winning. If you're gonna be cool, fine, but

(24:10):
you don't you don't win, that's that that coolness and
or fades away.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Really, I got a player for you guys right now.
Damian Lillard doesn't win, hasn't won.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's not cool. No, he's not cool, but he's look
at he's recognized one of the great shooters of all right,
he's a but he ain't cool. He has had, if
anything before he was the moment. Part of it was
he he was in Portland forever, never won anything. I
mean he was recognized for what he should be recognized.
Bring way to the risk, Dame Tootership in the league.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
He doesn't win, so sooner or later it's just like
and now he's got to blow the Achilles. We're not
going to see him next year. We won't see him
again till twenty twenty six. We'll be he'll be forgotten about.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
You don't win. Let's find out what's funny right now?
Speaking of cool, speaking of aura, she has it in abundance.
The Great Moncey belania Us is here. Hello manci you guys, if.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
You're not watching this French Open men's final right.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
Now, put it on because yonic center and Carlos Algraz.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
This is umble bow at it.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
I can Algaaz serving for the match, is down a
double break point and Sinner is trying to not only
stay alive but get the upper hand. This could go
to uh.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
I just saw in the last point Carlos Akraz gave
him a little shorty and you thought that there's no
way Sinner was gonna get there.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
He gets it, and al Kaz couldn't get it.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
So, I mean Center is down right now four games,
five games to four, so he's trying to tie it
up again.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
This has been going on for almost five hours.

Speaker 9 (25:42):
Here's what's funny is that Carlos Alkraz was down two
sets to start.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Hell, there is the break in Arita five five. Alcarez
was serving for the match. Center breaks him five five five.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
Here we go.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
It's not over. It is not over.

Speaker 9 (25:58):
But Alkaaz is owing eight after losing the first two sets.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
That's today.

Speaker 9 (26:03):
Yannick Cinner is zero to five in matches that are
over four hours. So both of these are gonna break
a trend. One of them is gonna break their trend.
We'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
So good, so good.

Speaker 9 (26:14):
Game two of the NBA Finals tips off at eight
eastern later today Oklahoma City thunder Pacers.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
Obviously, okay, see you trying to even the series here.

Speaker 9 (26:22):
Cooper Flag plans to have a private visit with the
Mavericks on June seventeen. This is ESPN reporting, and a
one week after that visit is supposed to be the
NBA Draft, So one week after that he might be
Dallas's number one.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
Overall pick in baseball. The Rays of taking the lead
from the Marlins.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
It's three to two top of the ninth inning in Tampa,
while the Phillies have tied the game against the Pirates.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
Won one.

Speaker 9 (26:43):
Top of the fourth inning, Diamondbacks have added another run,
so they're up on the Reds to zero.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
Bottom of the fourth inning.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
About to start, Tigers are beating the Cubs at home
two zero, top of the fourth inning. Guardians on the
scoreboard first thanks to a bow Naylor two run homer,
so they're up on the Astros to zero.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
Bottom of the fourth inning.

Speaker 9 (27:00):
Former Dodger Miguel Varga is putting the White Sox on
the scoreboard with the two run homer. They're up on
the Royals to zero. Top of the second inning. Back
to you, guys, put this game on, all right.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
We are watching this match right now, so again five
to five in the fifth set center is serving right now,
and yeah, this is a great time of the year.
You know. We obviously we're talking about the NBA Finals,
and we got a lot of NFL news we're gonna
get to as well. Major League Baseball rolling along. But
in the midst of all this, we get you know,
Grand Slam tennis, and next week coming up, we got

(27:34):
the US Open golf at Oakmont, which is a phenomenal course.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
We get about the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's Stanley Cup Final, which has just been like can
I pass were the second on the Stanley Cup Finals?
Because overtime first game, double overtime second game. I was,
I'm watching the second game and there's Edmonton. You know,
you have empty goal, you know, trying to tie it up,
and Correy Perry, I'm like, Corey Bear, are you still

(28:00):
in the league. He won the Cup with the Ducks
in two thousand and seven as a second year player.
He's in his twentieth year. And then Edmonton ends up
losing and you talk about a place going silent. Game on,
I mean, you know, you're on the edge of the sheet,
goes into double overtime and Marshawn gets the game winning
goal for the band at Caroline and all of a sudden,

(28:23):
it's just like silence.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
And speaking of Marshawn, you gotta think about a guy
that's been with other franchises, major franchises and hockey and
has won like this guy, he knows what he's doing.
And that's the point when you get to this point
of the season in any professional sports, whether it's the
Super Bowl, whether it's the NBA Final, Stanley Cup Final,
or the World Series, you gotta have guys that have

(28:45):
done this before. That's why the young teams don't win
championships in pro sports. Guys, they just don't. I'm sure
someone can pull one out of there out of their
rear and from you know, won every twenty to twenty
five years. Fine, but most teams that win championships in.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Pro sports been there, You've done that.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Gotta have a few guys that's been there and done that,
because the guys that haven't been there and done that,
you don't know how they're gonna react until you get
to that point. That's why it took Jordan a minute
to get over the hump. It took the Pistons a
minute to Isaiah Thomas and Dumars to get over the hump.
It took Shack seven eight years to get over the hump.
Like it rarely happens right away when you come into

(29:24):
the league. Tim Duncan had it, but look, you had
David Robinson, who was a decade plus guy in Papovich
coaching who he had already been in the front office
and already had been working with the Spurs. They didn't
just pull Papovich out of the dry cleaners and say, hey,
you want to be coaching the Spurs.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
He was already there.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
So you gotta have these pieces In Marshawn, I'm watching
this guy, and I'm like, man, what a pick up
for the Florida Panthers. And then you and I know
we have JP on lately. We said it weeks ago,
maybe about a month of more ago. If you're not
watching playoff hockey, ladies and gentlemen, you're missing. I'm telling
you you're missing.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Now. You know the thing about it, people understand this.
So in the regular season, when you have overtime, it's
three on three. Right in the playoffs it's five on five.
I mean, you got you got a full ice, you
got everybody and your ear playing for that knockout punch.
And and I was amazed watching over both teams are
really aggressive. They weren't. They were playing aggressive, which can
leave you open. Ultimately, that's what happens, and then you

(30:15):
get a breakaway and and the game is over. But
I almost bet the Bank three the Stanley Cup Finals
going seven.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh no, this is going sound so I call it.
I think oilers in seven, just like I paced as
a seven. But you talk about the aggressiveness that they've
been playing. You know why you lay that way, Steve,
because you have a net miner that you trust. You
got a net miner and both these and both these squads.
Skinner has been standing on his head. But these are
two great offensive teams. You're going to give up. All
these games are gonna be five to four four three.

(30:44):
Fight didn't the first the first period was three to two.
They will like it was like in the first two
minutes in Game one. I'm like, oh my goodness, gracious,
let me sit down and get it something.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'm with Hibern on the vecha again. Sample it. Okay, folks,
if you get a chance, it's been ever done it before.
Keep your eye out. It's a rematch of last year's
Stanley Cup final. Two great teams. They know what it's
all about. They it's nothing new to them on both sides,
which makes it the incredible series and the world's best
player hockey players in this series who has never won

(31:18):
the Cup, and Edmonton trying to become the first Canadian
based team to win the Cups since the Canadians way
back nineteen ninety three when they beat the La Kings
and Wing Gretzky. All right, so we got all of
this going on right now, and again keeping our eye
right now. Center Alcarez five to five, center is serving.
He's got ad right now. So again we'll keep an

(31:39):
eye on this. Quick thought on this golf tournament this
week coming up at Oakmont. Excited, I mean Scotti Scheffler
has pulled in sixteen million dollars in the last what
forty days? Sixteen million dollars in forty days. It's nice.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Let me hold something, Scotti, let me hold something. I mean,
let me hold something time.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
The guy is absolutely on fire right now. But you know,
I was talking to Tam Byer, he's our resident golf
real true hardcore expert, and I asked him and he goes,
I think the shambo again. He goes, I think back
to back. I guess you're gonna win a third US Open.
He goes on, well, and then Dan's played Oakmont, He's
actually played back Warts. He has played that to Wars.

(32:20):
It's right outside of Pittsburgh and you know the legendary
for Johnny Miller's sixty three and seventy three Jack Nicholas's
first PGA Tour victory. He beat Arnold Palmer in the
playoff to win the US Open at Oakmond back in
sixty two. I don't know what is your gut feeling here.
I mean, it would be hard to bet against Scotty
Scheffler right now.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, I know it would be hard to bet against Scheffler.
But you know, yesterday showed that one ranking thing. And
I thought about yesterday, like you said, you were right
with the way you open the show. If you don't
hear from me, that's saying a whole lot more. I
just knew that you were just like if you haven't
heard from me on the text or you know, a
little calm that that speaks vioumes, because I mean, I'm
just waiting.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
As you were talking big time hard about just you know, okay, See,
pacers would be lucky to win a game, not only
not say anything, not only that my girl Coco yesterday
she was taking out the number one And here we
go with these rankings. The number one ranked world player,
Bill Sabolenka I had won two of the majors last year.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I got it, but also too, she also lost to
Coco and the US Open final also too, So Coco's
years because it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Matter Slam last year, that's why she was number two.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
That's that's fine. But she's but the number one ranked
world player, not just in the French Open and the
world all year long. That ranking still did not cash
in to her first French Open at Roland Girls, so
she shot off the Coco for I watched and I
watched every I watched every second yesterday.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Why did I went back watching second? I was watching
with my daughter at the end. And look, I mean,
she's phenomenal and obviously she's already secured a spot in
the Hall of Fame. She has a French she has
a US Open.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Man, she's twenty one years years old, twenty one years
so spoken, it's so lazy.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
But is that's that that? You know? Sabi Anka is
not to be dismissed. She's got three Grand Slams of
her own and that could be another ribery. So emotional, well,
she breaks down, man. And by the way, she was
bitching and moaning after the match about the terrible conditions
and I'm like, okay, but it was the same for

(34:21):
both of you. You know, she was trying to make
excuses about the conditions and she was moaning.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
And said it during these trophy presentation on the court
and then said it at the press conference. But I
was shocked that that was the first thing out of
her mouth.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Oh no, she she did. Congratulations.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
No, she congratulated her after she mentioned about the conditions.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
That.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
But just to mention the conditions, the other player had
to play in the same conditions as you.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
As you did.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
But shot out shot to my girl. Congratulations.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Sinner just took Uh. He's now up six games to five.
Al Charez is now going to serve to save his
spot in the match. After that, we don't have a
tie breaker in the fifth set? Do we no chance
at the French up? And we'll find out. All right,
we'll get you an updated on that, and we got
some NFL news to get to. He finally did it.

(35:12):
That's right, Well, get into the Aaron Rodgers situation in Pittsburgh.
What's next? This is Fox Sports Sunday. Don't listening to
Fox Sports Radio Radio. Harvin Husky, Fox Sports Sunday. We're
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, we have
a clarification as we are now heading to a tie

(35:33):
break in the fifth set of the French Open Men's
final center in Alcarez. So it is first player to ten,
first player to ten in a deciding tie breaker in
the fifth set. So first player to ten, obviously I
have to win by two, we'll win the tiebreaker. So
Alcarez with the one nothing lead in the tie break

(35:55):
right now, By the way, the shot that he hit
to send in the tie break a cross court. The
angle doesn't even make sense from where he hit the
ball on where the ball landed. But we're seeing two
young players at the absolute peak of their power going
toe to toe right now in the men's French Open final.
And so keep your eye on that. And uh, and

(36:18):
then we got the polar opposite. Let me ask you this,
is there anything cool about Aaron Rodgers? No, like he's
like the anti cool, isn't. But was was there a
point in his career where Aaron Rodgers was cool?

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Championship belt celebration, I thought that was I thought that
was like Cam Newton Superman.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
The fact probably the greatest Hail Mary passer of all time.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
That was definitely something to how he would operate an
offense of like, oh, hey, he's he's like he immediately
notices you're off side of rushes to the line like
even being a Lions fan, like we'd talk about with
my friends all the time about like I wish he
was in a different division because you're just forced to
hate him. And then just something happened around a certain

(37:05):
time where he just I think bore.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
One of our.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Producers isolated it to when he put his feet up
on a table, his his bare feet up on a table.
Well look, no, no, no, no, no, no, no hold on,
let me let me, let me finish, Let me finish.
It was from that moment when he got a little
bit of pushback on that that he suddenly realized, oh,
I can like start trolling these people, and that would
eventually lead into what happened during COVID.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I go understand what you're saying, Chris, But at the
same time, I mean it was during COVID and saying
this was the precursor to when he didn't realize that
like he would get the media, he would get the
media's attention for being a weirdo and a clown until
he did the feat thing. Yeah, well he he's anything
but cool right now the question. But here I'm gonna

(37:51):
I'm gonna shock yet maybe VG on this whole thing.
And by the way, Acarez is up four zip right
now in the tie break. He has broken center twice
in the tie break, So Centaer's going to need a
miracle comeback here to salvage this match. But here I'm
gonna surprise you, I think with my take on Aaron
Rodgers to the Steelers. Let's remind everybody again the last

(38:15):
four years in Pittsburgh, which includes Roethlisberger's last year where
he could barely throw the ball more than fifteen yards
down the field. And then, of course, now you got
Kenny Pickett, and then you had Mason Rudolph come back,
and then all of a sudden you got Justin Fields
and you got Russell Wilson, and through that entire mess,

(38:36):
four straight winning seasons, four straight winning seasons, three of
the four years making it into the postseason. And I'm
thinking to myself, all right, if they are that good
of an organization, because I think it's a big difference
between the Jets organization and the Steelers organization. But if
they can somehow manufacture winning records with subpar quarterback play,

(39:00):
really subpar quarterback play. Aaron Rodgers gotta be better than that,
even if he's slightly better than that, at the very least,
the idea that, oh, it's gonna be unbelievable that Mike
Thomas is gonna have his first losing season ever with
Aaron Rodgers as his quarterback. I'm gonna say it right now.
Pittsburgh will not have a losing season this year. The

(39:20):
over runners eight and a half. I'm going over maybe
nine and maybe ten, but it won't be eight. It
won't be seven. The Steelers will have a winning season,
not a championship season, with Aaron Rodgers' quarterback.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
This thing is gonna fall in his face and fall
in his face fast, just like I said when he
left and went to the Jets. This thing's gonna fall
flat on his face. When people show you who they are,
trust them, believe them. Believe people when they show you
who they are. Aaron Rodgers has shown us who he is.
Aaron Rodgers has shown us as a quarterback. This division
is gonna be much better this year. I think Cleveland's
gonna surprise his people. I think the defense will be

(39:55):
better in Cincinnati, and we already know what l Jacks
and the Baltimore Ravens do. I'll take the under and
I'll take the under because Aaron Rodgers is gonna burn
this thing to the ground.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Are we adding that over under to our over under?
Chris uh As far As wins for the Pittsburgh Steelers
this year eight and a half. Soon I'm going over,
he's going under. We're gonna roll on with more on
Fox Sports Sunday. All right, rolling along here on a
huge sports Sunday, Fox Sports Sunday once again in the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Well, that was a that was

(40:26):
a match for the ages of disappointment in the tie
break where Alcarez took over but a five set match
as Acarez wins his second consecutive Rollo Garrel's championship. He
now has two of the French to Wimbledon and the
US Open. He's twenty two years old, so right, future,
I have but Yanick Center his best run ever at

(40:47):
the French and he's gonna win plenty Grand Slams. So
that's it. That's that's your new matchup. On the men's side,
it's it's it's great. I mean that's what you need.
You need rivalries. Rivalries, whether it's team sport, whether it's
an individual sport, rivalries bring eyeballs. People want to see that. Yeah,
they want to see the next time these two guys
get on the court in a Grand Slam final.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Not only that would robberies. Individual sports you need them,
I think even more than team sports, cause I think
team sports you have historic robberies, right like, yeah, you
have like the Red Sox are or at the Yankees
tonight on TV. So that's it doesn't matter who's in
the uniforms. It's the emblem, it's the logo, uh usc
U c LA, it's the name, it's the emblem, it's
the logo. An individual sport, you do need robberies or

(41:33):
you need someone for everybody to chase. That's what made
Tiger so riveting, not just because he won. It was
who was coming. Because remember, it was gonna be Phil,
then it was gonna be Sergio, it was gonna be
It's gonna be Earn. We kept trying to find guys
that was gonna chase it, catch Tiger, knock him down,
knock him down. Yeah, Tiger just kept knocking them off. Like, listen,

(41:54):
I'm sorry, this is my era. You guys just gonna
have to live in it. You'll get somebody else down
the line to cheer for. But right now I own
this same thing with Jack, same thing with Jimmy Johnson
and NASCAR, Like the guy dominated NASCAR for a decade
and you wanted someone to come up against him, and
just nobody could. He just kept beating everybody when it
mattered the most.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
One of my favorite Phil Nicholson stats a man that
won over forty PGA tournaments six majors, never achieved the
number one world ranking in his entire career. A lot
of other guys have over that. I mean, Lee Westwood
was number one. He was the world's best player. You know,
Luke Donald was ranked number one in the world for
a while there, and Phil never actually got to number Do.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
You ever think he was the best player in the world.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
And it's not. As long as tire was out there
you go and there you go.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Right, It's like, look at the guys that don't have
rings because of Michael Jordan. Doesn't mean that you wasn't great,
doesn't mean that Berkeley wasn't great, doesn't mean it. Reggie
Miller wasn't great. Insted back to back they had and
they had double shot. They had back to back shots
at a one year with home court advantage. But you're
going against Michael Jeffrey Jordan. It happens, Man, it happens.

(43:03):
Could you imagine what the how many guys woul win
the West? If Shaq, Kobe and Tim Duncan weren't in
the West, we could have had a bunch of guys.
Derk might have got a ring sooner. You're you know
what I'm saying. Some other teams might have won. But
when you got to go against Kobe and Shack and
Duncan and the Spurs and pop for twenty years, you've
got no shot.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
I know you watched Game one of the NBA Finals. Yes,
by the way, I told you, I told you how
I had to do the rewind hob in it. Let
me ask you this, so we we bid farewell to
TNT and the NBA. Ernie Johnson got a little emotional yep.
And so I'm seeing the same guys together for the

(43:43):
NBA Finals. Was it just me? Or was something off?
Without the TNT banner, same guys, something was off. I
look at I'm not one that sort of hanging on

(44:05):
every word of a play by, you know, an announcing crew.
I've said this a few times in my lifetime. There's
only what I call three must listen to announswers. The
first one was Howard Cosell when they launched Monday Night Football.
This is before your time, But when Monday Night Football
came on, Howard Cosell was that guy. John Madden, no question,

(44:28):
John Madden's presence on any NFL game immediately took it
to another level. And then in a different role, it's
been Charles Barkley. Where Charles Barkley is a guy, I
want to hear what he has to say. Everybody else,
to me is just another voice. So I like more
some you know. I mean, there's you know, there's there's

(44:49):
good guys in college football, Like you know, I think
when Fowler and Herb Street too thoughts together, Stay Night.
It's an outstanding, outstanding broadcast. Johnson dynamite because it captured
the moment. You know, Brian Musburger for years was great
in capturing the moment, right. But I'm actually saying I

(45:11):
want to hear what this person has to say. I
wanted to hear what Kosal had to say, and outrageous
as it was. I want to hear John Matten anything
he had to say, and obviously with Barkley right now.
But I'm looking at these broadcasts and I'm like, I
don't know something is missing right now with the NBA.
If you could put together VJ right now, your dream

(45:33):
announcing team to call an NBA Finals game, you know,
a combination of two or three people that you think
would do the best job and really capturing the moment
and raising it's you know, sometimes you don't have a
lot to work with. That was the beauty of John Madden.
It wasn't like every game that he broadcasts was a
great game. The most of them weren't. But he had

(45:55):
a way to elevate it, elevate the game beyond what
it actually deserves. Are there such announcers now? Do you
feel in the NBA that in light I mean, you
don't have to worry about what we saw in Game one,
But if this is like a forty point blowout, yeah
you know tonight, if this is a repeated way up
in Game two with Denver and OKC, you're hoping, is

(46:16):
there somebody that can hang your hang hang you could
still you're still interested in what they have to say?

Speaker 2 (46:21):
No, no, not at all, not at all. I tell
you what's missing. I'll answer both questions. I'll tell you
what's missing. Their heart, man, their heart, their heart's gone.
You could see it in his face. If you didn't
catch Barkley, ladies and gentlemen, all our great listeners, Fox
Sports Radio, my esteem colleague here to my left. If
you didn't catch Barkley on Dan Patrick, you need to
go YouTube. Yeah, because he's being brutally honest about what's

(46:42):
going on. Right, Like, they shot a pilot. Nobody knew
about it, and Barkley probably wouldn't have He probably wasn't
supposed to tell Dan Patrick that because damn was like,
hold on what what he goes? We shot a pilot
about a month ago, and it was the dumbest bleap
I've ever Like, he's talking about the team that just
signed him to a seven year dear and he's telling people,
I'm gonna give him about two years. They can't fire me.

(47:04):
I make too much money, so I'm gonna give him
about two years and they're still gonna have to pay
me for five more years. That I'm not gonna work
for them, because he's always been about against going over
the years.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Is this gonna be a repeat of when Disney took
over the Star Wars brand and ruined it? Probably.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I'm not a big Star Wars guy, so I can't
speak to that, but I'm sure Star Wars fans out
there right now the listener.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Are like, yeah, there you go, Steve.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Great comparison and analogy. So their heart's gone. My three
man team, they already had it. They already had it, yes, yes, Breen,
and they dismantled it for whatever, for whatever reason. And
mine Harlan and Reggie. Harlan and Reggie do a great
job when those two guys are together, and Stanton stands

(47:47):
that third guy in there with those two, I can
mess with.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
That, but they aint they are and everything he does
not he calls NFL G. My favorite thing about Kevin Harlan.
We interviewed him many times when he would be coming
to show cal for or something. So Kevin, uh, I
guess the first stop is a must. He goes in
and out, in and out.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah, out, But I mean he just he, like you said,
there's certain guys you just want to hear them call
the game. You just want to be entertained. You and
I were leaving the other day. We had a moment
where I expressed professional appreciation to you, and you looked
at me and you said, VJA, our job is to
entertain and educate, exact as simple as that. It's as

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simple as that is. By the way, you have to
have both right.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
You know where I learned that from, and the very
beginning of I was Chet forty, because Chet forty was
the original producer director of Monday Night Football Run. Arlich
told him Chet, this can't look like a normal Sunday
NFL game. We're in prime time. You've got to yacht you.
We're gonna call the game. We have to entertain. You
know what Chet said, I'm gonna turn the camera to
the crowd. Never been nut before. Find those looney guns,

(48:54):
find the hot women out there. We are gonna show.
We're gonna show the cheerleaders. Never had been done before.
But that was the whole point. You're in prime to
You've got to entertain.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Doctor Bus with the Laker girls. We're gonna entertain you
guys during timeouts instead of calling the timeout and watching
security stand there and watching referees just stand there. We're
gonna try it out some some some beautiful athletic ladies
who have been practicing ten hours a day all right
for the past four or five days this week to
get this routine down to entertain.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Well, they saw with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders have done
there you go. So as far as that goes, heart's
gone number one. You could just see it in their face.
You can just see it in their eyes. They don't
want to, they don't want to have to do this.
But it's gonna be the same production crew. It's the
same behind us the scenes people. It's the same camera people.
It's the same T and T people. It's just not
gonna say T and T behind them and TN T

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on the desk. And once again the mothership is Dan
Patrick calls it as come in man and being the
highest bidder.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Money talks, money talk.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Talk.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
But and they'll overpay. They'll overpay. They did for college football.
They'll overpay.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
It is interesting though, like we're watching the show up
and Final here on TNTT.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
We're watching the Stanley Cup final on TNT like other
networks are getting in on this. You don't have to
hog it all. And I'm not trying to dump on
a mothership. I'm just it's okay that other networks get involved.
You and I just sit here watching a promo for
a FanDuel they got TV shows. I sat right here
like three or four months ago, and I said, anybody
out there looking to get on TV and Sports Star Radio,

(50:23):
DraftKings dot Com Network and Fan Duels Network, they're going.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
To be doing new shows.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Get your clips out, get your reels out, get the contact,
do whatever you gotta do, because these people are gonna
be putting out more content. It can't all be one network.
And what do we have this new I think it's
go look and go look, go look and his son's
gonna have a sit down talk sports show on TV
on Fandue. There's other opportunities for other networks to get
in on it. The mothership just overpays for it. But
you can just see that they're hard. They're just not

(50:48):
in it no more because it just takes that. It
just takes that T and T away from It's like
a player that leads a historic franchise and go somewhere
else to get some money because they already want to ring. Yeah,
you're still in the fella, the NBA. Yeah, you're making money,
but the jersey name says something different.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
So it feels that.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
You can't tell me putting on a Charlotte Hornet jersey
feels the same as putting on a Boston or a
Laker jersey. You can't tell me that it doesn't. It
means something to put on a white, Crispy Dodger jersey
with the red number out here chavezervine on a Sunday
in eighty two degrees, or a Colorado Rockies jersey with
gray and gray and purple and up in thin air, like,

(51:24):
it's not the same.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Do you see the Cardinals the lou Did you see that?
The Cardinals? I mean, look, I'm a Dodger fan my
whole life, right, Cardinals have the best looking uniforms in baseball, really,
with the bird and everything and the bad Oh god, absolutely,
I've always been crazy about the Mariners uniforms. Man that
tail in that Navy. Cardinals like the best uniform.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Well you already know she's stepping in, she stepping in.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Wait a second, can we open up Monci's mic for
just a second year? The Cardinals don't have a beautiful unifum, Okay, beautiful,
that's a whole different word.

Speaker 7 (52:03):
I think it's like fine fine, right, like it's it's
not it's not bad.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
And I think that's red white and blue or red
white and navy. It's just kind of like normal, right yeah,
like no one.

Speaker 8 (52:16):
I don't even say, like, okay, it's classic, but like
I don't.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, it's not the Saints, right, that black and gold.
It's not Michigan with the wing helmet.

Speaker 8 (52:27):
Right, I go Bears with the white jersey and the
blue and the orange one.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I'm far from a Dodger fan, but I love going
to the games Man. When you see somebody sitting next
to you in him crispy white with that royal blue,
looks that that that looks with the royal.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Blue Dodger had on.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
He got his Hall of Family, either bucket of nachos
with all them damn hollopios on. They look with all
that all that cheese on their fingers, that looks fresh.
And look at this, look at that beautiform.

Speaker 8 (52:54):
It's not ugly. It's not ugly. I think that I
don't like the Padres uniform.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
I don't like that brown, all that beautiful. I don't
they finally brought the brown back. It was like a
game changer. The Firecracker San Francisco Giants and uniform. They
do fresh bonds in a Giant's uniform. Yes, hy bonds

(53:19):
is the Giants the missage. I understand this. The Mets,
Giants Dodgers famous color scheme was a combination of the
Giants and Dodgers. That was the whole thing about the
Mets because they were replacing two teams. Those are also
the colors of the New York City Flights. Fadre Brown
one of the absolute best uniforms in baseball. Don't like

(53:41):
Pirates is also top about Pirates? Is fresh Pirates? Go
back to the pill box stop it box love that
that's the I called it the bird Weird family. The
seventy nine Pirates that won the World Series with Stargo
Pops had an unbelievable series. Dave Parkering Gang. They had

(54:03):
like so many different uniforms that year and they just
kept That was really the first type of recycle. You know,
the Astros have.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Had some really good and some really bad uniform Astros
went that same face as Padres did, where it's basically
called we don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
So we're going to try to copy the Yankees.

Speaker 5 (54:21):
Yeah, like went through the phase where they're like, why not,
like the only boring, only one pin stripe Yankee Yankees,
white pinstripe home.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Tried, of course, no classic, you can't Yankee fitted you fresh?
You fresh?

Speaker 7 (54:38):
It is fresh.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
H But these these these gimmicky uniforms they throw out
there to make a few bucks, and don't buy that garbage.
Absolutely lois.

Speaker 7 (54:51):
Lime green and pink City Connects.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
You know me, I'm I can honestly say the City
connect jerseys the same as those floors they pay for
the NBA cop unwatchable.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Anything that South Beat Colorway is fresh, right, anything that
South Beat callaways fries on.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
The other start, We're gonna get back to the big
game of the day, which is Game two of the
NBA Finals coming up tonight, Pacers going up against Okay,
see what needs to change for Okay? See, we'll tell you.
This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harbin and Husky Fox Sports Sunday.
We are in the Fox Sports radio studios. All right,

(55:41):
ladies and gentlemen, it is that time. What time is that?
Oh you're talking to me? Okay, here we go.

Speaker 10 (55:49):
This profitables over under a half A flagrant gentlemen, are
your perfect picks? All right, guys, we're getting into this.
Let's see what do we have here.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
So you guys already mentioned one on the show here,
remind me again who is going over and under on
the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Eight and a half? It's eight and a half? Who
went over?

Speaker 5 (56:11):
I think it wasj you went over and Senior absolutely.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Flip it reverse that, Okay?

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
I just I am to make sure I am a
big believer that they've had over the last four years
with zero quarterback Aaron Rodgers can't be any worse than
Kenny Pickett. Think, so, yeah, I'm going over eight and
a half. He's going under. Well, let's recap it real quick.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
Last week, as we always get into that, we're still
putting to Isoline to put together the full point thing,
and plus we have several NFL totals plus Bill Belichick
in the future. But recapping last week the Cowboys women
we put in the book shake Gil just Alexander had
thirty eight points in game one, so Steve took the
over on that, and I think what was the other ones?

(56:56):
The over under half of suite for the Dodgers. You
both went over and I think the Yankees picked up.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
The dub there.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Did they did? Okay, they picked up the Winds, So
no sweet for the Dodgers. And then they did get
my order right at Wendy's. So unfortunately and for three
for VJ last week, two points said they were going
to mess up your order again.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
You said that, yes, yeah, interesting, so we were complicated
order though it's a simple order.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Did you just get the chicken sandwich again?

Speaker 1 (57:28):
A chicken sandwich order?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
They didn't make your order before. They just they just
didn't have enough chicken breast lefton again, it's indust true.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
Yeah, and I didn't ask them to sub like hey,
you know, they just whatever whatever gets the customer out
of there. Anyway, we move on to this week. Got
a good mix, actually just nixed one. I was going
to do a Team USA one, but they stick right now.
I don't really need to talk about the men's soccer
at all.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
You know what, who's been the hero of some of
these NHL playoffs is Leon dry Title. Everyone likes to
talk about him. He's been fire usually only in the playoffs.
This is where my hockey knowledge begins to end because
I believe ice belongs to the drink and not on
a floor. So Leon dry sidel next game, over and
a half, over under one and a half goals.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Just the next game, just the next game, Game three,
Game three down in Miami.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Oh man, he's been on fire though, man overtime goals.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
I mean, he's just scoring machine.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
He's always at the right place at the right time.
Those were the positions himself. Takes great passes, quick release
on his puck shots.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
The theme of this, uh perhaps pets is flutch. So
just keep that in mind as we go to more
of these picks. You know what, give me one and
a half goals or goals?

Speaker 1 (58:44):
When have goals? Goals?

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Oh under, I don't think of sports twice. But he'll
I think you'll have over well.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
I mean we've been talking about the offensive firepower for
both of these teams, and you know again, I hey,
I'm tuning in the game two of the Stanley A
Final and it's three to two in the first period.
It's nothing. I don't know. I mean, we're talking about
a guy that's put up one hundred points every year,
fifty goals. I mean, the guy's a machine.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
But just one game on the road. And see, the
thing is, the Oilers have so many guys there there
really are good They know how to that puck around
and I feel like.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Because they've been doing decently, I think it's worth a shot, right,
So I'm gonna I'm gonna give him over. That's a lot.
I mean, two goals on the road against the Panthers
is asking a lot. But I'll roll the dice on that.
Isn't he with the Panthers? No, okay, no, he plays

(59:41):
his whole career. Not yell at me. Speaking of speaking
of clutch, Let's move on.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
So Tyrese Haliburton was the star of of Game one,
even though I don't think he is a great player,
but I will say I think he is a clutch player.
There are moments where he just disappears in games, but
then you'll have the shot like that to end it.
So looking at the rest of these next three games
coming up over the course of these three games, and
this is gonna be a little ephemeral. I was talking

(01:00:09):
with Shae, our producer, about how we even classify this,
but I want I'm I'm talking about Tyrese Haliburton big
shots one and a half over under.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Oh no, you have to define this. So I think
how a big shot could say, first shot before the
half that turns out to be a game winner later.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
I guess this is what me and Shaye were talking about.
And I think we're going to define a big shot
as like either a three or a long to that
either flips the score, dagger or buzzer beater.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
In the last two minutes of the last two minutes, Yes,
in the last the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Next how many of the next three games?

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
What's the over?

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Under one and a half?

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
That's easy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
No, I'll go under on this one three games? Well,
what my point is this? All right, let's let's say this.
I get see again. This is such a vague stuff, Chris,
I know, all right, so let's say fun of this.
But no, no, no, no, no, no, you can go down.
All right. Let's say Tyrese Halibert. Let's say there's a

(01:01:09):
minute to go and Indiana's down three and he hits
a three to tie it and they lose the game,
and you're like, well, that was a big shot, and
I'm like they lost the game. Still a big shot.
It was still a big shot. No, no.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
Position, It has to lead to a victory to define
it to eight. Tell you what, me and Shay will
keep defining this. We we will set our own It
makes them. It makes a difference when I'm talking about
over under. If you if you say, what was a
big shot in the moment, I'm like, yeah, but they.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Lost the game. You have to you have to be
comfortable with fuzzy logic.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
The last two minutes of the next three games.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Yeah, well, I mean he could have like, you know,
back to back shots late in the game and still
lose the game and say those are Shay, get on
the on the horn here for a second. Here, he
can't hear you right now, all right, Shay, Shay, can
you hear us? Okay, So this idea of Tyree's Halliburton
hitting a big shot, all right, let's let's talk to this.
So let's say it's a one point game. He comes down,

(01:02:06):
he hits a shot to give the Pacers the lead,
and then okay, c scores, and then he comes back
hits another shot to give him the lead, and then okay,
see wins the shot. Who wins the game? At the end.
Does he get credit for two big shots even though
they lost the game?

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
I I think it should be a dagger shot. It
has to be something that either solidifies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
The game they win.

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
The game has to win the game, right, It's either
it's a game or is under on DJ. You want
to now that we've got that, you want to stick
with the over yep, Okay, I'm going I'm going under one. Okay,
So we got to the we got to the Steelers.
I want to say in the AFC for our next pick.
And I'm mostly doing this because I've had to listen
to takes about Anthony Richardson vacating apparently what seems to

(01:02:53):
be the Colts quarterback job here. I have no This
is a team that I have have a very complicated
history with, considering some of their writers tried to get
me fired for my lion's job. So I've had a
hex on the Colts for what seems to be about
since Carson Wentz was their quarterback and it's worked out
very well. So gentlemen, Colts Indeapolis Colts have their season

(01:03:16):
total set at seven and a half wins over or under.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
I'll go first in this one. Yeah, I think they're
playing for their owner. Jim Irsay was well liked in
that organization. So I know their quarterback situation is very
iffy at best, but they don't play in the best
division in the NFL by far. So I'm definitely going
to go over seven and a half for the Colts

(01:03:44):
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Tough division to figure out, but.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
That division could be very mid this next year. All
those teams can be like nine win teams.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
All thought the Texans were on that's gonna be on
this mediork rise, and that got blunted.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
I feel, I feel what you're saying. It's not a
direct comment to you, but not we all. I sophomore
slump is something for real for me at the quarterback position.
I think it's gonna happen with Jaden Damis. I think
he's gonna find that out this season. I look at
this schedule, man, I mean, you know, at the Chargers,
at the Steelers, at the Chiefs know some tough role games.
We don't know what the Jazz is gonna be At Seattle,
Darnold's up there throwing two interceptions and seven on seven's

(01:04:24):
already up there. And as you mentioned this division, Texans
right their defense, you know they could play defense.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
CJ bounced back. This is a must win year for
the Jaguars too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Right, That's how I was gonna that's the team to
go to. Now, Jaguars, what do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
You gotta go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
You got the coach out of there, Okay, But now Trevor,
it's on you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
We give it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
We've given you trav We move we moved up. We've
given you Travis Hunter. We've given another weapon etn like
we signed some weapons last year at the skill position
for you, uh man, I eight wins last year, AOC
is tough. At the Bengals Packers, they they're at the
you know, I'll go under. I just I want to

(01:05:01):
believe in Anthony Richison, I really do. But I'm hearing Anthony,
I'm not hearing too much positivity upswing about the guy
at the quarterback position.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Is he getting better?

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
So seven and a half, Yeah, I'll take the under
because that means if I get seven, I'm good and
that's one lesson win from last year and last year
they might have got a gifted a few teams, I
mean the Dolphins that were playing their fourth streen quarterback
and lost sixteen thirteen.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
Right, So the more I think about it, like I'm
struggling to even see them get six wins, right, So
look at that that you look.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
At that schedule, Dolphins coming in to open my Dolphins
coming in, the Broncos coming there. They got two home
games to open up. But you're talking about the Dolphins
of the Broncos coming in and coming there with style
defenses and offenses that can you know, put points on
the bordergation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
I just want the drafting of Anthony. Remember after the drafty,
they said, even if we had the number one overall
pickway they're taking Anthony Richardson. Did you see him? On me? Cod?
If you can't throw the ball, act really, you're not
going to be an effective NFL quarterback period excellently. I
don't care what kind of skills you might have. You
got to be able to throw the ball accurately. All right?

(01:06:03):
Is that it? No? No, we've got one more. We
do four, We do four and I steal. Hang on,
hang on, hang on, Let's do it on the other side,
because first we got to find out what is trending.
Mancy is standing by I am, I am.

Speaker 9 (01:06:18):
I'm here hanging out taking a breath after that ruling.
Garrow's final that I you know, I think what's cool
about like tennis is like, you don't need to know
how to play the sport. It's pretty self explanatory, right,
Like you can just tune in. If I tell my
girlfriends to tune in to watch a football game, they
look at me like I'm asking them to.

Speaker 7 (01:06:35):
Do, you know harder.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
The thing about it is tennis is very much like golf.
I mean, my parents were tennis people. They love tennis,
and so when you play a sport, even at the
lowest level golf or tennis, and then you see what
these people you're just like, it just really ows your mind,
Like it's how do you do that?

Speaker 8 (01:06:54):
I'd like five hours to still have the stamina.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
That's what I was about to break up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
I don't know what I can do of it than
sleep for five hours and think about this line up.
If I could do right now for five straight hours other.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Than sleep, yeah, yeah, and you're doing it on clay. Yes.
Can you imagine rocking around on clay? You have to
slide on you yes?

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
Yeah, right right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:07:16):
It was an impressive match, but Carlos Alcoraz defends his
Roland Garros title against Yonick Sinner. They went plus five hours,
went down to the fifth and final set went down
to a tie break, and that's really where Carlos Alcoraz
kind of dominated after being down two sets to start
this match, but he won the first seven points in

(01:07:38):
that ten point tie break and it just came down
to the wire.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
Came down to the wire. Very exciting.

Speaker 8 (01:07:45):
So we'll move on to baseball.

Speaker 9 (01:07:47):
Here the Dawyers, yes trying to avoid the three game
sweep from the Cardinals, and they are up luckily right
now for zero. Bottom of the fifth inning, Kershaw Kershaw
has five strikeouts.

Speaker 7 (01:07:59):
What are we eighteen to go?

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Eighteen to go for eight thousand? Yes, I don't care
if he is bulling them down.

Speaker 9 (01:08:07):
I know, I know, I'm so everybody was like, he's
not gonna make it. I'm gonna you guys, He's gonna
get there. He's gonna get there fast. He got five
or ready in this game. That's amazing. All right, mets
around the scoreboard first against the Rockies one zero.

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
I also do like Rockys uniforms, by the way.

Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
I like the purple.

Speaker 8 (01:08:21):
I kind of like the mountains that they sometimes have.

Speaker 7 (01:08:24):
You know, okay it's purple. I like the purple. Okay, Okay,
you don't like them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
It's cool, yes, right, cardinalform. Look at these two dumb
birds standing on the birds on the back. He's dumb looking.
I'm not a Cardinals fan, but I am a.

Speaker 9 (01:08:43):
Fan of their uniforms. Yes, okay, the listeners just tuned in.
It was a uniform conversation. The Twins are edging the
Blue Jays at home for three. Bottom of the fourth,
Royals and White Sox now tied it to a piece.
Bottom of the sixth. The Guardians still on top of
the Astros for two. Bottom of the seventh. Tigers are
shutting out the Cubs four zero. Top of the eighth,
Diamondbacks and Reds tit a two. There was a slight

(01:09:05):
rain delay. They're back in action. It's the bottom of
the sixth inning in Cincinnati. The Rangers are up on
the Nationals to zero top of the second inning, Phillies
and Pirates one one, top of the eighth, and it's
the bottom of the ninth inning starting in Milwaukee, as
the Padres have a one zero lead over the Burrs
and the Rays already beat the Marlins three to two.
We've got the Canadian Open happening right now. Sam Burns

(01:09:29):
is in the lead at seventeen hunder part Overall, he
is seven hundred through sixteen holes. For this final round,
Kevin You is one shot back. Nick Taylor is two
shots back in a group of about four.

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the per fet picks.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
It's just one more quick one. We have the US
Open coming up here this week. And I didn't I
love trying to set this because I don't think I
was looking around. I do not think you can go
over under on strokes at books. If you can let
me know, okay, But Oakmont is a fascinating course. It's
been there quite US Open has been there quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
Two thousand and six, the winner was on hell Cabrera
was five over par one. It went five over Tiger
Woods and Jim Furick tide for session that was two
thousand and seven, two thousand and seven. Excuse me what
I say? Six sick yea yeah, yeah, two thousand and seven,
and that was on Hell. Cabrera won it at five.
Did I do that again? Geez soon? Yes, two thousand
and seven on Hell Cabrera won it at five over

(01:10:55):
Tiger Woods. Jim Furick tied at second six over, but
then when it went back in twenty six and this
is probably where that was screwing me up. John Dustin
Johnson won it with a two hundred and seventy six
score card. That's four under par par of seventy at Oakmont.
He played lights out. He played lights out, But nobody's
playing more lights out right now than Scotty Scheffler, right,

(01:11:17):
and it's an American, an American course. So between the two,
I've been sweating bullets on where to set this because
I feel like setting it under par is a trap.
But at the same time, I feel like guys are
getting better and better. I'm being generous about this. Scotty
Scheffler two hundred and seventy eight and a half on

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seventy eight and a half finals is par, right, So
I'm saying over under. So basically we're saying over unders two.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
And a half hunder. Yeah, that's easy for me. This
is a tough as it's a tough course.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
And also, to remember, guys, I live in that part
of the country, there's still these not summer yet, there's
still these late spring windy kind of drizzle rain showers,
and we know that stuff softens up the greens. We
know people have to come off the course if they
have to have it the weather delay. It kind of
breaks your breaks, your rhythm, breaks your stride. I actually

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like rom at plus fourteen hundred. That's whe I'm gonna
put my money at on this bad boy. But uh yeah,
give me, I don't. I don't see a golfer finishing
under par on this course next week.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
I think it said this it like to eighty and
a half. Would you still you're you're still going over
for shuffling.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
To eighty and a half. You might get an argument
out of me, okay, but I do think the winner
of this tournament, I'll put it at a plus three.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
This Oakmont's tough. Oakmonts. It's tough, guys. Oh, it's a
brutal of course, it's it's it's and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Listen, we don't know if someone's gonna come out of
the woodward.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
You know, comfort somewhere you got.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
You got Xander Shaffie off there at the plus two thousand,
like some of the great golfers. That's gonna be. This
the US Open, it's the best in the world, right
and this in oakemand Is it's brutal man. And I
think the winner at his tournament, Steve Honestly, I think
this win is like plus two man.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Well, plus three, okay, but the we're looking at the
total two and so here here's the thing. It used
to be a par seventy one course for the US Open,
and they changed it the year in two thousand and seven,
So you go back before that. Ninety four, Ernie Els
won at minus five. Again it was a par seventy
one course, not a par seventy, so he would have

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been one under then. And then in ad three Larry
Nelson won at minus four when again it was a
par seventy. So I'm gonna go you're going over, Yeah,
I'm going over. I I think it's right on that number.
I think minus two, minus three is the winning score.
I'll go under on this one again. I don't see

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anything that's gonna derail Scottie Shuffler and I was talking
to you might not have that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
We might not have this one final by the way,
by the time we're on the air next but either
way it'll be, it'll be counted.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
We'll have an idea. We'll have an idea. I have
an idea.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
Next Sunday we'll have an Either VJ will have won
already or I'll be like waiting with baited Brown.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
But I will agree with it. I mean, Parr is
a great score, Oakvie. Believe me, no one's gonna be
complaining at the end of the first route. They're sitting
it even par So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go under.
I think somebody could definitely get to three under a
West Scottie Sheffer can the way he's playing right now.
And you just my guy child. Think we get into
some arguments over this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I they know I love it. I think this is
a Vegas sucker bet.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
I think Vegas puts sucker bets out there. I don't
have no this is this is a perfect special here.
I don't think you can find this on a Vegas board.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
No, no, I'm just talking about as far as as
favor the favorites like plus three hundred and so Steve,
you got the winner at minus three day. Yes, yeah,
so you have the winter that's not gonna happen. That's
not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
This course is tough.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
This is this Oakmonts held it nine times, all right,
so we know Colbert knows seven Johnson, Ernie L's and ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Other guys were under Park. But again it was a
part seven changing exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
And they make these courses harder now every year, these
courses get harder. If you think Ernie L's in ninety four,
so thirty one years ago when he won it, that
is not the same course that he played on in
ninety four and won it in ninety four. This is
a much harder, much different course. The winner plus I
like to win it over Park.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
You guys made sixty million plus in forty days. You
keep talking this guy up it since we had to show.
I have seen world number one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
No, I ain't seen the window since we had our
show together, and keep talking them up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
So when the Scotty Cheffer just won the PGA yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Oh, that's why he did win the PJ right, that's
why he did he did right, right, right. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry you did you just want the Masters. I
mean you're watching.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
Remember there was that PGA champion Jenny also won. Yeah.
Okay on the other side, bad, Yeah, that may very
forgettable after players mess up the job. Palmar, it's gonna
be joining us coming up in the next hour. But
we got come. We got some interesting news coming up
here in the world of the NFL and some OTA's news.

(01:16:11):
This is Fox Sports Sunday, Hartman and Husky Fox Sports
a Sunday once again in the Fox Sports radio studios.
We still have more than four hours until Game two
of the NBA Finals. After that, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Gonna be until Wednesday. We were won't It's just unreal
how you space this out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Because my point is if you did catch Game one
on Thursday, you were like, Okay, I like this, this
is this is great.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
When's the next game Sunday evening when you're relaxing with
your family like every other family in Americas.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Okay, but it's too long, Yes, it could have been.
It's well not for you and I I'm just talking
about the average Joe who's not exactly one hundred percent
dialed in on the NBA Finals match between Okac and Indiana,
but happened to tune in the game one and say, wow, okay,
that was exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
But if you do it every other day, that means
you would have had the game last night. And the
average Joe is out either at the club or a
lounge or a bar or something on a Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Who's home on a Saturday night, Steve Okay, who's on?

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Want to say? Even you play boy?

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
You be out? I was working less. There you go,
the more streets I was doing late night TV.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
I was working, so I was out on late night streets.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
One of the things I know over the weeks ahead,
you know, let's face the folks, you know, there was
a lot of exciting things. Again, we got we had
the French Open finals. Both of the men's and women's
were phenomenal versus two. Last time that we had a
Grand Slim, both the men's and women's finals were one
versus two. I mean it's been forever, by the way,

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both two seeds one right, uh and both went the
max and and so you're not gonna beat that for
the French Open. No, uh, and now we got the
US Open coming up. We were just talking about Oakmont,
So there are a lot of good things they're gonna
sprinkled over the next couple of weeks. We're gonna have
Wimbledon coming up, we got the Open Championship. I mean,
there's all kinds of stuff, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
You have this club tournament, this soccer.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
I know you're not but this thing is, Chris, and
I know I'm not as excited to you because we
just finished up the domestic seasons. These guys are exhausted,
like I'll be curious how to get uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
And obviously we got the Stanley Cup final right now,
which is we both agree is going to be seven games,
great match between the Panthers Oilers, all right. But that
being said, NFL is still ky, So we know we're yeah,
in some ways we're appreciating what, you know, all these
things that we're talking about, but at the same time,
in the back of our mind or maybe at the

(01:18:43):
front of our mind, uh, we're thinking NFL all the time.
So one of the things is we got ot as
going on right now. And by the way, this whole
thing with Aaron Rodgers yesterday spoke with Adam Kaplan because
I asked him, like, why now, because a week ago
I was even joking with him that Brett Farv did
not with Minnesota until the mid of all August August
and then when I have a phenomenal season, I said,

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could you see something like that happening with Aaron Rodgers?
He goes, no, I don't think it will be that late,
But as it turnedout, it was the very next week.
But they wanted to make sure they got him into
camp with training camps coming up, because then you have
the long layoff. But it's always fun at this point
to me to start making some early predictions, not so
much on teams, like, you know, exact win totals, because
we don't even know the rosters yet. We'll get to

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that as we get closer to the season, but as
far as making some early predictions on teams that will
either exceed expectations going into the next year or fall short.
Because you can go through every single NFL year, there
are three or four teams that completely fall off the map,
and then are three or four teams like the Commanders

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last year or the Texans the year before that, they
literally just come out of nowhere and find themselves into
the postseason. So on the other side, I want to
get you ready for this because I want to get
a few teams out there. Of teams, give you a
little chance. Now take a look at the roster out there,
because I have three teams of mine that I think
are good bets have much better season than anyone's going

(01:20:11):
to predict. This is Fox Sports Sunday, having all kinds
of fun here on a huge Sunday in the sports world.
This is Fox Sports Sunday. And once again we're in
the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, we got four
hours still until tip off a Game two of the
NBA Finals. Have been watching some baseball going on today.

(01:20:31):
Of course VJ is always locked into his beloved Texas Rangers.
He's donning his Rangers CAF today as well. Yeah right now, leading, uh,
leading the Nationals to nothing. We're on road wind, trying
to get a road.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Back in the DMV man my team that might not
my area I'm from though, you know DMV Washington Nationals.
I was like, wow, if I was home, I definitely
on a nice Sunday would be out here. And then
you know what, I would do after this game, I
would go home and get ready to watch the NBA
Finals because it's on a good Sunday evening when everyone
ones at home getting ready for Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
Okay, well yeah, and then I mean, okay, we already
found out. What was it? Wednesday? Is Game three? Of
course series goes back to Indiana. Are we what are
we looking for Game four? Do we have a Game
four schedule for the NBA?

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Probably to be Friday night? You think I got to
be a Friday night. I'll pull it up and look, yeah,
because it would make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Well, I after having two days off or three days off,
then you only have one day off.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Yeah, I think so, because then when it shifts back
to okay, see for a Game five, then that'll be
on Sunday. You have to have the NBA Finals on
Sundays evenings.

Speaker 9 (01:21:36):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
You cannot not have something for the nation to watch
big sports wise for the championship. Then on a Sunday evening.
You have to have the NBA Finals on a Sunday evening.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
So I hear it. It is Friday. It is Friday
in Indiana, very good Friday Friday. And then you're gonna
have let's see Sunday, it's going to be Sunday. Sundays.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Oh no, no, no, it's not Sunday, Monday. We see,
that's a mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Yeah, that's Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
That's a mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Monday Thursday. So it would be Monday back in ok
See for Game five and then Thursday back in Indiana
for Game six. That's a mistake. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
I just think you, I just think Sunday is just
a great night to have a finals.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Well maybe in the world to be Jay Husky, it
is no just the world of America.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Everyone's home on Sunday nights.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Who's not home?

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
What family is not home on a Sunday evening? Everybody's
home on a Sunday Eveningee.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
If you have children out, school's out. I mean, I
understand home on Sunday till Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
I still got to pick him on tomorrow. He still
got to get up and take my Sunday school tomorrow morning,
and pick him up tomorrow, take my Sunday school Tuesday morning,
pick them up Tuesday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
For anyone that, let's say out there has kids. Was
the Staples commercial from nineteen ninety six. It's the most
wonderful time of the year, the greatest commercial ever made.
It's one of the most simple commercials. Probably costs a
dime to make that thing with the two stone faced
kids as the dad was dancing, yes, putting all the
back to school supplies. It is still one of the all.
In fact, it was funny.

Speaker 9 (01:23:14):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:15):
I was talking to Isaac longcrom with his two little boys,
and we look back at the comments because that video
still runs and their people go, I play.

Speaker 6 (01:23:23):
It's.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
The funny thing is those two little kids probably now
have kids of their own playing that commercial of themselves
for their kids getting back to school or letting out
for the summer. All right, I wanted to get a
little bit into this. Throw some teams out there that
let's start with the idea of teams in the NFL
that you believe are going to exceed expectations. They're going

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to be this year's Commanders, or the Texans from a
couple of years ago, or every single year two three,
four teams come literally out of nowhere find themselves in
the postseason, Like why did I bet on that team
long odds to get into the postseason? And I'm going
to give you a team off the top, and I'm
looking at what they have done in the off season

(01:24:08):
and I think this team is going to be one
of those teams that could be knocking out now. As
you know, one of my great predictions last year was
the Denver Broncos making the postseason. It was my only
good prediction because I believed that Bo Nicks was the
guy that Sean Payton wanted a quarterback and he used
him and he got dividends from that. That was a
good pick last year. That was right there on that

(01:24:30):
list from last year's NFL is my pick.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
He was winning it all on that list. So I
think the end that was that was I had Dallas.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
All I saw. I saw that was all right. So
I wasn't correct correct all my predictions obviously. But one
team I think it is going to make a big
leap this year the New England Patriots. Oh, I know,
you didn't expect that, and I'm going to tell you why.

(01:24:58):
So one of the one of the re since that
the Patriots are now back on the path to respectability.
You got to get to respectability before he can be
good is they got rid of Bill Belichick making decisions
in the draft because if you look at their draft
this year. You have a young quarterback and Drake May
despite very little around him, lousy offensive line, not a

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lot of weapons, he hung in there and he showed
signs that yes, he has the skill set to be
a really good quarterback in this league. But their first picks,
four picks in the draft were all offensive picks. They
added to their offensive line, which they needed. They added
the tackle Campbell, they added a center in the third round,
and then you get Trevian Henderson out of Ohio State

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from a big time program. I think he is going
to add a level to that offense because they don't
have a running back. You have to have a legitimate
running back in this league to at least offer a
little suspect on the defensive side, to give a little
bounces the offense. New England because I look at the
Jets as being just flat out awful, and I look

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at the Dolphins as a huge question mark going into
this season. The Bills are the Bills. But I think
that right now you could look at the New England
Patriots and say that is a team that could could
get eight or nine wins this year. I think that
they can make that kind of leap and if things
really go right for them, uh, it could be even

(01:26:26):
better than that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna predict right
now as a team that's gonna be a way over
on the over underwins this year as the New England.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Patriots home against the Raiders, at the Dolphins home against
the Steelers, Panthers, and at the Bills. I see that's
four and o to start. No, absolutely not foreign. No
to start, you are You're already high on the Steelers.
So they the Steelers will come in there with great
weather with Aaron Rodgers, right because you think they're gonna
be over five hundred team. The Panthers are gonna be
a lot better than people thinking. And we know they're
gonna go get white by the Bills. They're gonna go

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down to Miami and get wiped early in the year
because it's gonna be hot down there. Well said to fourteenth,
you're gonna be it's gonna be hot down there, and
they're gonna put them in the sun.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
The Dolphins. Trying to predict games is like always based
on what happened a year ago.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
Trying to predict sasons.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
We're trying to predict right now, you're gonna say, Chris Hartman,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Absolutely I don't think this is gonna get that situation.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Well, okay, I'm in with New England. Who are you?
Two teams?

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
I got right here and I'm gonna be a home
right here.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
I'm gonna go out. My Dolphins finished eighty nine last year.
Two have missed a lot of time if two was there.
This is a twelve win team, easily twelve wins. Well, yeah,
they well they won eleven games back to back years.
That's just that's the way. Okay, it is, they happen twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
If they win.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Twelve, twelve, I'm calling twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I know the rules. We're going with twelve. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
I don't have to give a lot of reason about this.
This team I think is just super super interesting. And
you and my man missed the perfect picks. Was just
in here talking about them because we we all three
admit just everything went wrong with them. Watch the Cleveland
Browns this year. Watch the Cleveland Browns this year, because
you guys, are your quarterback gonna be the starter is
gonna be Shador Sanders. I've been saying that since day one,
so I'm not gonna fall off of that. But we

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don't have to get into our Chaudor conversation. But that
running game with Chubb coming back, I'm with you. When
you blow your knee out, it takes a little while
to get back. But they got some other backs in
that tool shit that they can use too. They have
some receivers, they got a tight end, and they have
a very very very good upper echelon defense and defense travels.
You could take a defense with you anywhere and they're

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gonna get on the field and perform. You got Miles Garrett,
who is not the highest paid non quarterback in the
history of the league, still coming off the end wrecking shop.
Look for him to have fifteen plus.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Sacks this year.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Absolutely, Miles Garrett will have fifteen plus sacks this year.
He is going to It is a tough division. But
you also got some quarterbacks in that division too that
you can get to. And that's including Lsry.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
You say the Steelers are gonna suck, So okay, they.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Are gonna suck. Aaron Rodgers is gonna burn that thing
down to the ground. People watch, all right, seven wins, seven.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
And you got in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
But I got I got a third team. That's I'm
going to let me get a second team.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
All right, my second team. My second team will be
the Carolina Panthers. I'm with you. So you know, they
get McMillan, who is a big time receiver, is going
to be a huge asset for Bryce Young. Uh. And
I was impressed with Bryce Young a year ago. Absolutely,
I mean he held it together in light of complete absence.
They were they were competitive in a lot of games

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last year. Should be the Chiefs, should have beat the Chiefs.
And I just I started again. See, both of us
have followed Bryce Young since his high school so we
know this kid. We know what he's about. Forget the stature. Yeah,
he's the smallest quarterback in this league, but that this
kid is a winner. I believe that. So I think
the Panthers are going, especially in that division, a very

(01:29:48):
winnable division. Honestly, you get a few breaks, get a
couple of on the there's never a it's a fine
line between ten and seven and seven and a couple
of bounces. If you become ten and seven, that could
be the kind of year for the Panthers. So I
think the Panthers are a team that potentially could actually
win that division. And I'll add to it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
You talk about a running back being added to New England,
let's talk about the running back, the rookie out of
Georgia et and the younger brother of Travis being answered
into this to go with Hubbard, who they gave the
extension to. Who's the thirteen hundred yard back? So now
you got kind of this rookie that could come in
and spell him kind of like a thunder and lightening.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
All right, we'll just hold it right there. We'll just
save some of this because in the weeks ahead, we're
also going to talk about some of the teams that
are gonna botom out this year in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
One quick second, you have to let me just throw
I think they win their division.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Who's this?

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
The Chargers are going to win the AFC. No, no, no, no, no,
Charges are going to win the AFA.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
That is a classic team that overachieved by editing one's
account in twenty twenty four. No one had them in
the playoffs. I think they take a step back before
they take a step for I'll tell you he's going
to finish of the Chargers this year. The Raiders, Dot

(01:31:05):
Pete Carroll, Pete Carroll. You know Pete Carroll, don't you?
Hall of Fame coach Pete Carroll? Right that guy? Do
you have a veteran quarterback right now? You think they
upgraded quarterback?

Speaker 10 (01:31:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Did they not take the number one running back in
the draft? Ashton Genty is gonna run? You like Geno
that much? What I'm asking you like Geno that much? Well,
he's not up greade from their quarter They quarterback last
couple of years better than I think. Well, he's working
with a coach and knows him. Okay, right, So I
mean you're Pete Carroll, Gino Smith, and now you have

(01:31:38):
the this Genty kid. He's gonna run wild.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
He's gonna be a beast.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
All right? Yeah, all right. So we're on the record
right now. I'm gonna say between Raiders Chargers, you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Got the charge to finishing third.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
More fourth? Right because you think they were? Oh wow?
Although I haven't. I'm not one hundred percent committed on
Denver yet. Okay, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
I was last year.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
I need time again. Final predictions will call later. I
want to see rosters and everything else. Although the Chargers
are in camp early because they're in the Hall of
Fame game against Chris's Detroit Lions. All right, coming up
on the other side, It's always a treat to check
in with a man that can cover any sport at
the highest level of knowledge. The Great John Paul Morosi

(01:32:22):
will join us. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harvin HOUSKEI
here Fox Sports Sunday once again. We're in the Fox
Sports Radio studios. So many things going on right now.
We got a little bit of everything, and a guy
that is the perfect foil to hear his thoughts on
everything happening in this exciting world of sports. Is the one,

(01:32:44):
the only, the Great John Paul Morosi. I don't even
know where to start, JP, but I'm gonna start with hockey,
because you know we do that sometimes here, you know.
And I sit down and watch these first two games
of the Stanley Cup Final, I mean, it just doesn't
any better. I mean, two overtime games, double overtime game.
I almost I fell out of my seat when I

(01:33:05):
heard Cory Perry with a game tire for Edmonton in
game two. I'm like Corey, he won the Cup with
the Ducks and O seven here he is twentieth year
in the league, forty years old, still making big plays
out there. But VJ and I were talking about this,
I mean, this just stares like a seven game series.
But I want to get your thoughts of what's happened

(01:33:27):
so far and any surprises to you and just how
tight these games are, and maybe the big surprise are
maybe not a surprise, is just the offensive explosion of
both of these teams early on in the Stanley Cup Final.

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
Yes, Stephen BJ first of all, always great to with you,
especially when we've got so much to talk about, which
is the case right now. It is just a smorgas
board of great sports right now. And with respect to
the Cup final, you're right it hasn't been necessarily a surprise.
But what's impressed me the most is just a hate
of these games, the pace and the physicality. If you

(01:34:05):
tuned in to hockey for the first time in these
two games all season long, I'm guessing your reaction is,
what is this Because it's just so fast and so physical.
We've already seen a couple plays, either goals themselves or
setups by McDavid that are just next level. The vision

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that he has when he's with Dryicidle, their chemistry is excellent.
And then I think on the other side of things
with Florida a huge goal of course by Brad Marshan,
and it's no accident that with Corey Perry scoring the
game time goal and Marshan getting the winner, these are
two names of two very prominent players who have played

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so much high level hockey over their careers. And this
is why you bring in a veteran like Corey Perry.
He's been at the Stanley Cup final. You reference to
his title with the Ducks. Stevie's been in the Cup
finals so many times even since then. He brings in
a ton of experience. Marshan is a winner. He gets
the big goal double overtime. He also scored a huge
short handed goal in Game two. So I think the

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big question I had coming into this was will the
Oilers have enough goaltending from Skinner to stay close to Vebrovski,
And I think the answer so far has been yes.
So I think for a lot of reasons, the Oilers
have to feel good about where they're at, even though
they did sure miss a chance to really swing this
series into their favor had they won that Game two

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in double overtime.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
My man JP how you doing, brother?

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
Always a pleasure and as always as always, how's Mama
Morosi doing.

Speaker 6 (01:35:45):
She's doing great, VJ. She's doing great. The Tigers, as
you know, playing a huge weekend series here in Detroit
against the Cubs. So my mom is doing great following
her deer Detroit.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Tigers oziah seven and a half lead in that division.
Looks like they're running away for it from it, man,
But I want to stick with championship stuff right now.
Let's flip over to the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
After Game one, I was one that would pick the
Pacers in seven. I thought that would be their only
shot is in seven. And I'm gonna go out on
the limb here and throw something out. I know people
are gonna think it's very hyperbolic, but it's not. Okay,
See is under a lot of pressure and there are
a lot of trouble tonight because for them to lead
that game the way they did and then to crumble
down the stretch, if that game is even close within

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twenty points for most of tonight, you can't relax. You
can't just think, Okay, we got it, because we've seen
this Pacer team time and time and time again. No
one wants to mention going into the finals, they were
twelve and four this postseason. Then once you're they're twelve
and four, right, which is the best record in the
postseason going into that game up there with ok See,

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I think okay See is in a lot of trouble.
I think okay See is under a lot of pressure,
and I think that this team is a lot better
than people get them credit for. And as I mentioned
last week, Rick Carlisle was the coach that made it.
Pushed all the buttons right correctly so towards the end
of that game, and I thought, okaying staff just fell apart.

Speaker 6 (01:37:04):
Well, Carlowle's been here before, and I think the other
piece and so much of the national narrative has been
around Halliburton with respect to the Pacers, and then for
good reason, this is one of the best clutch playoff
performances that we have ever seen. And yet the Pacers
are are more than just tim. They had three guys

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who had double doubles in in Game one three, and
they had three players who actually scored more points than
Haliburton did. Siakham, Turner and Top and all score more
points than Haliburton did. So to me, there's a balance
to this Pacers team that they get really good three
point shooting in the smith as well. Obviously there's this
There's a lot to like about the way this this

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Pacers team is balanced out to where they're not just
one player, they are a full group. Carlisle knows how
to use them. And I also think you saw in
terms of the overall minutes played and the and the rotation. Again,
Topham came off the bench some big, big minutes, McConnell,
m Thurne as well. So Carlisle goes fairly deep in

(01:38:08):
new his bench to make sure there's enough depth where
the Pacers can come at you in waves and if
you dedicate too much of your effort. And it's understandable
to Halliburton. Siakam has been phenomenal in these playoffs. So
I just think that the Pacers are a much better
and deeper team than a lot of people realize. And
I agree that it's a must win for okay Sack

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tonight and if they even if okay See does win
the game tonight, the Pacers they still have home court
after this, and I like their chances going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
Hi, I want to get to some baseball. So last Thursday,
I was at the Dodgers Mets game. Dodgers with a
miraculous come from behind victory, Confordo with the game winner.
I actually talked to him after the game, right so,
like the first time all season that any reporters were
talking to Michael Confordo after a Dodgers game. And I
asked him, I said, you know, what does it mean

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to you to to not only have the game winning hit,
but to do itains your former team. He looks at
me and goes, well, honestly, it really doesn't matter who
is it against. It's just a matter of doing it once, like,
you know, actually contributing this team. But you know, the
Dodgers really have been going sideway. They're even trying to
hang on right now. Kershaw gave him a strong outing

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today five innings, gave up just one run, seven strikeouts,
no walks, and their bullpen is trying to hang on
as they're unraveling. But I want to talk about the
Mets for a second here. Of course, the good fortune
of playing the Rockies, I skin, is that in Ripley's
believe it or not, that the Rockies won three games
in a row on the road against the Marlins. I
mean that is going to go down because they've been
getting blitzed. They're down eight zip right now to the

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Mets in the third game of this series. Soda, by
the way, three for three today. But how do you
look at the Mets right now when you look at
the National League at this point, where do the Mets
fit in in terms of teams to beat to win
the National League? Pennant.

Speaker 6 (01:39:58):
So it's a great question because I was actually thinking
about this earlier in the week. We actually we were there.
We had the MLB Network game on Wednesday, so I
was there the night before that. You were there at
Dodger Statum. Yeah, it was a great game, a great game,
yet not of your Dodger fan. But Pete Alonso had
himself another night at Dodger Stadium. And and I mentioned
this because the thought I had watching that game and

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looking at the at the just at the two rosters
in front of me, Dodgers Mets. The Mets right now
have the most balanced and deepest roster in the National League.
I really believe that. And and that may sound a
little surprising, but look at Griffin Canning in the rotation,
look at code. I Senga the fact that Soto is

(01:40:44):
now getting going in again. I understand it's the Rockies,
but he's had a good a good weekend, three it's today.
Alonso is one of the best run producers in the
entire National League right now. They've had I think some
good supplemental offense from different spots. I think Baby has
taken a bit of a step. I think they're catching
Tanem is solid and again they're bull ten. Big fan

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of Reed Garrett. I know that was sort of a
hard luck game for him that you saw last Thursday.
He's been really good. Das has been really good. I
just think it's a well managed team. I think Carls
Mendoza does an excellent job. He's done a really good
job Mendoza as of kind of tamping down some of
the talk around Soto in the first third of the season.

(01:41:27):
I think by the time we gets to October, Soto
is going to be back to being mostly himself.

Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
Is he gonna be as great as he was with
the Yankees a year ago, Maybe not, but I think
he'll be at least as good, or maybe better than
what we saw from him when he was a Padre
so which is still, by the way, a really productive player.
So you look up and down, Nimo is still a
solid player. Lindor, as we know, is one of the
great leaders in our sport. I like the Mets, and

(01:41:52):
right now they're playing a lot better than the Phillies.
The Phillies have actually hit a bit of a tough stretch.
Harper's back on the IL now. I think for a
variety of reads, this is the mess of the team.
I like the best and the entire National League, not
just the NLST. I like that group of players right now.
Of course, in the American League, Gosh, the Tigers keep
doing it. They win a series, they win a series
against the Cubs this weekend. Again, it's not it's not

(01:42:13):
just my mom's favorite team. And the numbers said it
pretty darn good. And I like the way the Tigers
are playing right now.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
My man Jping, let's switch over to the NFL because
the NFL is always king and we know that uh
Ann Rodgers finally signs. It's beneficial with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
We have a difference of opinion on this one. Yeah,
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
I am gonna just tell you what I think, and
I just want to hear your opinion on it. I
think he's gonna burn that place down to the ground.
I think this is gonna be timeless, first losing season
and forever, because I believe a lot about chemistry. I
understand we could compare the quarterbacks from last year and
then saying, hey, well, Ann Rodgers can't be no worse
than that, and that's very that's very valid. But chemistry, attitude, energy, personality, camaraderie,

(01:42:58):
it means, and we've seen it pour out lately in
the last few years with this guy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:03):
It just doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Am I hating too much on Ann Rodgers? Or is
it the Pittsburgh Steelers plus five hundred train gonna keep
rolling on? Does this man just pull this thing down
to the ground and they just go what the heck
were we thinking?

Speaker 6 (01:43:17):
Aaron Rodgers? Since twenty twenty one, last three seasons, he
is fourteen and twenty one. There we go, he is
fourteen and twenty one and he is forty one years old.
That combination of numbers, and again it's the story's deeper
than that, and so there's even there's the chemistry piece

(01:43:40):
and potential distractions. Just there's been a lot of controversy
surrounding in the last couple of years. I get all that,
But the bare facts of things, okay, is that he's
a forty one year old quarterback who is fourteen and
twenty one over the last three seasons combined, and typically
when you're forty one, your performance athletically does not get better.

(01:44:05):
I'll just make that point. And so I would have
to look at this and say, what evidence do we
have to say that he is going to be a
difference maker? And aren't there other quarterbacks that you could
acquire that that would be at least as as competent
as him, who might be younger, and you could have
as maybe someone that you build around a little bit.

(01:44:28):
At this point, even if he has a year fimilar
to what he had last year, which was basically a
barely average year from a standpoint of quarterback efficiency, et cetera,
there are other players in this league who could come
in and do something approximating that and also be part
of your future. It's a really hard thing to do

(01:44:50):
to bring in a forty one year old and say, well,
this is the this is the vision for the future
we're building. I just I have a hard time. I
have a hard time seeing this as being a a
really smart short and long term play when you consider
again how often you look at the history of the game,
how many of how many above average you can look
at all the above average quarterback passing seasons in the

(01:45:12):
history of the games, how many of them have been
delivered by quarterbacks who are forty one years of agent
Olden Well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:18):
All of them probably with Tom Brady. Look at JP.
You know, I love you, VJ, I love you. You
guys are so wrong in this one. And by the way,
when he gave him fourteen and twenty one, that's a gift.
It's really thirteen and twenty one because he got the
one to oh two years ago. Well, you know he
goes down on like the first play. The Jets did
win that game the first series. Yeah, he played the
fourth series, and Zach Wilson actually came in and four.

(01:45:39):
But I am telling you it's about the organization. If
the Steelers can pull off these last four seasons. Roethlisbergers
last year where he could barely throw the ball fifteen
yards down the field, and with Kenny Pickett and yeah,
Jason Mason Rudolph and Justin Fields and Russell Wilson. They
can pull off winning seasons with those guys. Yeah, they

(01:46:00):
can pull off a winning season with a forty one
year old Aaron Rodgers one.

Speaker 6 (01:46:04):
Quick point Roethlisberger when he was on his very very
last legs there as a Steers quarterback. He was thirty nine. Okay,
he was two years younger than one.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Roy right now, I know, I know, I know, all right, Well,
you guys will be wrong. That's okay. Everyone's perfect all
the time, although I try to be as close as possible.
Once again, JP will love you man, Enjoy the rest
of your day, and we'll talk to you again next week.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Always love the conversation, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
Thank you for the God bless there. He is the
great John Paul Morosi. All right, let's find out what
is trending right now. We got a little bit of
everything today here a month see everything baseball, just real fast.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
Where do you stand with this area, Argus Day If
you had to put money down on it today?

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
Well, eight and a half wins, Yeah, this works out well?

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
Or is dying crumbles?

Speaker 7 (01:46:52):
What is well?

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
Well? The over runners a great record because it means
either they'll have a winning record because nine wins would
be nine or losing record eight and nine? So are
you thinking they'll.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
Have him means nothing? They just won nine games.

Speaker 7 (01:47:07):
Yeah, like, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
They're not actually won ten games?

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Did they want it?

Speaker 1 (01:47:10):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:47:11):
I just feel like staying above five hundred, which is
what Mike Tomlin has done, you know forever.

Speaker 7 (01:47:17):
Is probably going to happen. But is that a winning season?

Speaker 1 (01:47:22):
Is that what you brought a for?

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
Just to keep the plus five hundred going? That's the yeah,
that's the point.

Speaker 7 (01:47:27):
Yeah, I don't. They're not going to win the division.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
I want to see this thing blah blah. I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:47:34):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
By the way, you know the team, you don't see
like it being oh wow, he saved us. Why is
it that though Pittsburgh has had such such a good
time playing the Ravens, have you noticed because it's.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
A division robbery game, you know each other, there's.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Nothing that you mind. Donald looks like that John and goes, dude,
I own you.

Speaker 9 (01:47:57):
It's interesting how more people don't follow what the Deelers
do in their approach untaking on the raids.

Speaker 1 (01:48:03):
Well, they're very forgettable, right, even when they win a game,
they're forgetting.

Speaker 7 (01:48:06):
They sit back and I'm like, why don'd you guys just.

Speaker 8 (01:48:08):
Do what they did?

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Just the just put on the Steelers and Ravens tape
and do what the Steelers do.

Speaker 8 (01:48:12):
Steelers do.

Speaker 9 (01:48:13):
But you know, yeah, sometimes you know, people just try
and find everybody doesn't have a T J.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
Watt and a fat Fair.

Speaker 7 (01:48:20):
But you you can still try to.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
Take that approach, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:48:24):
You know what I'm saying. All Right, guys, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (01:48:27):
I just always said, there one r VJ, like when
I'm watching.

Speaker 8 (01:48:29):
It, like, okay, okay, it seems like somebody has some
sort of blueprint.

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:48:33):
Anyway, anyway, here we are, guys, a lot of.

Speaker 9 (01:48:35):
Baseball going on, and a lot of scoring going on
by the New York Mets, but not by Juan Soto.

Speaker 8 (01:48:41):
No, Jeff McNeil has home ridge twice.

Speaker 7 (01:48:44):
He's got four or five rbi. Also, Pete Alonso has homework.

Speaker 8 (01:48:48):
So the Mets are crushing the Rockies a zero top of.

Speaker 7 (01:48:50):
The fifth inning.

Speaker 9 (01:48:51):
The Giants just tied the game against the Braids at
home one one. They're going to start the third inning.
The Orioles have tied the game against the A's one
to one. Bottom of the second inning about just dart
Ran Dietro sat Ina puts the Mariners on the scoreboard
with an RBI double. They're up on the Angels one zero.
Bottom of the second about to start in La Clayton.
Kershaw is done for the day, but as you mentioned,
not a bad outing for Kershaw.

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
I had not well, Yes he did.

Speaker 9 (01:49:14):
He pitched five innings, gave up like six hits, one
earned run, but seven strikeouts.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
No walks, no walks, So he is down two.

Speaker 7 (01:49:22):
What is it now?

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
I have it?

Speaker 9 (01:49:23):
Seventeen strikeouts, seventeen strikeouts away from three thousand.

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
The Dodgers are up on the Cardinals five to three.
Top of the eighth inning.

Speaker 8 (01:49:31):
The Twins are beating the Blue Jays six to three.

Speaker 7 (01:49:33):
Top of the seventh.

Speaker 9 (01:49:34):
Royals have added some more runs, so now they have
a seven to two lead over the White Sox.

Speaker 7 (01:49:37):
At the top of the ninth inning.

Speaker 9 (01:49:38):
In Chicago, Rangers and Nationals tied at to apiece. Top
of the fifth inning, games that have wrapped up. The
Padres edge the Brewers one zero on a Manny Machado
home run. The ray Is edge the Marlins three to two.
The Tigers shut out the Cubs four zero. The Pirates
top the Phillies two to one on an Andrew McCutchen,
who had the go ahead RBI single in the eighth inning.
Paul Skens pitched two seven two thirds innings, gave up

(01:50:01):
two hits, one walk and seven k's in this one.
The Reds outscored the Diamondbacks fort to two. Of the
Guardians defeated the Astros for to two in the NBA
Game two of the finals later today, eight Eastern thunder
Pacers OKAC trying to even the series.

Speaker 1 (01:50:14):
There.

Speaker 9 (01:50:15):
Yeah, Carlos aukerraz over over five hours, almost six hours,
but he was able to defend his French Open title
against number one Seanick Sinner. At the Canadian Open Engulf,
Sam Burns is in the lead, eighteen under part overall.

Speaker 8 (01:50:28):
He is done for the day and was eight under
for this final round.

Speaker 7 (01:50:31):
Cameron Young is one shot back.

Speaker 9 (01:50:34):
And lastly here this is more for VJ but Dolphin
star cornerback Jaylen Ramsey.

Speaker 7 (01:50:38):
You know he wants a trade.

Speaker 9 (01:50:40):
He's planning to not attend mandatory mini camp, planning to
stay away.

Speaker 1 (01:50:44):
As that happens. They haven't gotten a deal done with
rams obviously.

Speaker 7 (01:50:49):
One right, yeah, right right right there they're figuring it out, but.

Speaker 2 (01:50:53):
Somebody, somebody wants more or somebody doesn't want to give
up something. This deal should have been done. We saw
this with John Newsmith. All that deal fall through the
Steelers and then they got reignited again. If a guy
and I love Jay Rams, I'm never mad at a
player that wants to leave.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
He wants out.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Anthony Weaver wants to use him differently. He doesn't want
to be used that way. His family is still here,
his family and stuff was still here. He wants to
come back and be with his family. Being away from
them for the last year and a half, I'm sure
makes a man a man. I miss I miss I
missed my Boo Boo, and I miss my kids. Yeah,
I miss my booby cat and I miss my kids.
I want to go back.

Speaker 7 (01:51:22):
He talks about that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
By the way, you know, Jalen Ramsey obviously makes a
pretty good coin being a star, right, do you really
want to face the California taxes as opposed to with
these at this point? At this point, and he hasn't
done well, sure for your family and everything yet if he.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
Hasn't done well with all the money he's made, shame
on him. Come on now, come on now, if you
ain't done well with the brand.

Speaker 7 (01:51:44):
Exactly this point, this point.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
Come on, yeah, you shouldn't even be worried about that
at this point of his career.

Speaker 7 (01:51:50):
We worried about that he's gotten too.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
Reupnew like big contract deals in his career.

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
Yeah. By the way, I'll never get the story. There
was a year when Kobe Bryant took his twenty five
million dollar salary lump some I don't know why this was,
but you know what he would after everything? What he
actually netted after that seventeen No, it was under it
was twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
Whow. But then he also flip some money into its
start past four dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
Come on now, yeah, yeah, yeah, you may you make
it up if you're smart. Now, if you get a
twenty five million dollar paycheck and only you get twelve,
and you're like, you're not happy about that, No, you're
not happy.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
But I'm not happy about the paygeing I get when
I see the taxes out of it, and I'm just VJ.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Brenner Husky. All right, all right, well, once again we're
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(01:52:55):
coming up, our final predictors for Game two of the
NBA Finals. Even up this series or the Pacers going
to do what they did the last couple of series,
dominate on the road and take control. We'll break it down.
This is Fox Sports Sunday, Harman and Husky, Fox Sports Sunday,
Fox Sports Radio Studios. I want to thank our crew today.

(01:53:16):
Montseyne was brilliant as ala. It's very busy day, very
busy day. Keep track of everything happening out there. Chris was.
I'm not going to say it two weeks in a row.
In fact, I'll never say it again. I'll I'll say
is that Chris did the job at the highest level
as usual. So I can't say Perfet. I mean I
just can't do that. Why not? Well, now your name

(01:53:38):
is on a whole segment. Yeah, that's the Perfet picks.
So if I called it like Chris's picks. We wouldn't
be able to call me Chris probably not want to
play overplay that. By the way, I was reminded yesterday
I was doing a report on Chargers OTAs that they're
starting a week early get ready the Hall of Fame

(01:54:00):
game against the Lions.

Speaker 5 (01:54:02):
So Chagos, dude, that that Hall of Fame game is
isn't in August, it's in July.

Speaker 1 (01:54:08):
It is in July, so earlier football. There's nothing wrong
with it. Yeah, well we'll definitely take that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
And of course, Shaye, everything that went wrong today.

Speaker 1 (01:54:18):
Well, Shae is a man among men because he will
he takes the credit he is earned, and then he'll
take the blame that he hasn't earned it. See, that's
part of it, you know, that's I mean, that's the thing.
I mean, you know you're like, that wasn't me. I mean,
it's it's you know, it's like a coach, Like being
a producer is like a coach, because you know, I

(01:54:38):
can't shoot the ball for you, Okay, you know I
get to layout a perfect play and then if you
don't execute it, I get blamed. Yeah. It's like, well
that's like a ref that's that's not that much he
can do. I mean, you could can't shoot the ball.
We can't do and all that kind of stuff. All right,
The twenty twenty four to twenty five Indiana Pacers just

(01:54:58):
had a phenomenal postseason. So remember they open up against
the Bucks and what do they do. They had the
first two games at home and they won them. Then
they go against the one seed Cleveland. They go into Cleveland,
win two in a row series over. Then they go
up against the Knicks. They go into New York, win
the first two games in New York. I mean, when
you do that, you know what it reminds me of

(01:55:19):
In twenty twelve the La Kings, they were an eight
seed and in all four playoff series they won the
first two games on the road. In four consecutive series,
they won the first two games on the road and
ended up winning the Stanley Cup. Now the Pacers tonight
have a chance to do it for the third consecutive

(01:55:42):
series of winning the first two games on the road.
It was enough to take out the Calves, it was
enough to take out the Knicks. So now the question
going into Game two is will they do it for
the third series in a row winning two games on
the road. Also, keep in mind the Pacers average margin

(01:56:06):
of victory after a loss in the postseason, because they
haven't lost back to back playoff games through that. In
the Pirate postseason, average margin of victory coming off of
loss is over twenty points. So that's what you're faced
with as you ponder your final call on tonight's game.

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
That's nothing to pond or I already know I am.
Last week, I threw some numbers out there about these
Pacers and they proved true in Game one. Number one
field goal percenting, field goal percentage team in the league,
number one scoring team in the league last game forty
seven percent from the field, forty six percent from the field,
and three point shooting. That doesn't go away. I'm telling
you guys right now, Oklahoma City is in a lot

(01:56:44):
of trouble. They're in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
Number one.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
Game one was not an anomaly. It wasn't luck. This
is who they are, this is what they do, this
is what they've been doing all postseason. And it's supposed
to just all go away and one night and we've
seen SGA having to try to kill to mantle and
it did not work. Thirty eight points, But as we mentioned,
Jaylen Williams, where are you? Check Holgrim, where are you?
But these two guys aren't those guys, man, They're good

(01:57:08):
and great role players and defenders in dort in the
regular season, first team, all defensive, all that good stuff. Guys,
I get it. But when you're on this level, don't
none of that matter. None of that matters. Nothing you
did in the regular season matters, but your experience and
what you have. And once again, Rick Carlisle, I will
take him over. I'll take the Indiana coaching staff over
the Oklahoma City coaching staff any given day, the Pacers

(01:57:33):
in a close game tonight, it may look it may
balloons of fifteen sixteen, hell the last one with the seventeen,
But the Pacers just cannot be counted out. I'll take
them to the keep the energy going. They'll still gain
to tonight and almost almost, not quite, but almost put
the nail on the coffin. And this finals, as I predicted,
the Pacers the winner. Give me the Pacers tonight they

(01:57:56):
go up too. Oh they've been doing it. Why went out?
Why went not picking the Forbes Tracers?

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
I sat here a week ago and said the Pacers
would be lucky to win a game I had made up.
Is going to be a sweep or is it gonna
be five sweep or five back?

Speaker 2 (01:58:10):
You thought they get blew out in Game one? You
thought was gonna be a blow up.

Speaker 1 (01:58:13):
They're gonna blow They're gonna get blown out. And guess what,
they were down big in Game one until the very end.
The demeanor of Shay Gilgess Alexander after the loss. I
thought he was on point in terms of his analysis
of what happened. He wasn't making any excuses. He goes,

(01:58:35):
you know, but he has faith that this team understands
what they're gonna do. Look, you've got to figure out
how to get more out of chet Holger. You know,
six points, that's not gonna happen. Jalen Williams is gonna
have to be an All NBA player, which he was
but certainly wasn't in Game one with his six or
nineteen shooting. This first game was very similar to Game

(01:58:56):
one against their series against Denver. Denver pulled it out late.
Next game. Okay, see won by forty three. It won't
be forty three, but it will be twenty plus. I
see an easy Oklahoma City now I don't know beyond that.
We're gonna take this one game at tie right, right,
you know, because by the time we're back here next Sunday,

(01:59:19):
either the year will be a sweep and already over,
or we'll be looking at a game five.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
Yeah, it's either gonna be two two night or three
to one. Is either gonna be two two or three
one by the time we get there.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
You know, yeah, yeah, and then we'll have that money game.
Bagase the money game. But as far as tonight's game
is concerned, I think Oklahoma City is that good. This
is a sixty eight win team. I'm sorry. Indiana is
a great story. They play hard, uh, but this is
gonna be one of those games where it's gonna be,
you know, not winnable, and Oklahoma City will pull away
in the end. They can put an explanation. Boy, get

(01:59:53):
their fans into it. Yeah, we're back. We're back. That's
where we're gonna be at the end of game two.

Speaker 6 (02:00:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:00:00):
Right, the next week, we're gonna have the US Open
Golf going on. We're gonna have a lot of goodies.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
I have a lot to talk about next Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
Absolutely, have a great day and keep it here on
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