July 10, 2026 • 37 mins
Stu and the guys are broadcasting once again from Lake Tahoe in advance of the American Century Championship golf tournament as Taylor shares encounters he had with Austin Reaves and Colin Jost. Jason Kelce makes an appearance. Stugotz and Taylor make their picks for the American Century Championship.. Stu welcomes former baseball star Gary Sheffield onto the show. Plus, Hockey star Matthew Tkachuk joins the guys.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Please give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We are wrapping it up here from the American Century
Championships out in Lake Tahoe, same day, every single day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Havn't seen a cloud in seven days. It's actually incredible, Taylor.
We have a loaded show. We really do. Gary Sheffield,
Matthew Kachuck, aj Hawk how about that? And Robert Salah
going to join us today and on God Bless Football.
On the podcast, you can listen to what I think
was the best conversation we had all week, gets to
the Joeth Eisman Show with Stegatts. I mean, that guy
(00:54):
is just unbelievable. But Taylor, you had an Austin Reeves
interact earlier today that I would like to hear more about.
You just teased it. You're like, Hey, Austin Reeves interaction
and I know what to do with that. That means
it's something you want to talk about. So what happened
with you and Austin Reeves here?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I saw Austin Reeves this morning in the hotel lobby. Yeah,
and as he was walking by, he just assumed I
was somebody. So he said, hey, how are you doing?
Very very nice, courteous guy.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, if you're staying in the resort that I'm staying in, yes,
they think you're somebody. It's an unbelievable thing. I've been
coming here for ten years. For nine years, no one
thought anything about me, and now this year everyone thinks
I'm a big time celebrity just by staying in this hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So Austin Reeves asked me, how are you doing? And
I said, if I was doing any better, i'd be you.
And I gave him the double finger guns. He loved it, yeah,
he said. And then when he said he loved it,
I said, Austin, you could have that one for free.
And I mean four years, one hundred and eighty five
million dollar max extension. Good for Austin Reeves's very kind
to you. Say, you set the table for me to
(01:55):
go eat is that what you did. We're probably not
going to get him.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You did that a little late in the proceedings here.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I would have preferred the finger guns.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you never you never know when you're gonna run
into Austin Reeves when you're getting coffee in a hotel lobby.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You could have walked past Austin Reeves at any point
this week, just like listen, you would have had the
gun out of you, out of your way to do it,
but you could have done it at any point. He's
been standing next to us, within fifteen feet of us
since Monday.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Listen, you're gonna nitpick this, You're gonna nitpick that. Yeah,
I'm having the time of my life.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I know you are.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I saw Colin Jos too again. Did you really mean
me and Colin Jos off air? Yeah, have one of
the best relationships here.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It doesn't translate to getting him onto the show.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's parlayed into nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I mean, well, it's parlated into a little friendship with
Colin Jos where I see him this year. We both
love Carolina, right, that's what we bonded over last year.
I knew we could bond over. He didn't remember me, right,
but I knew I could get that bond back with him.
Be sure how strong our bond was last year?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I asked him, what do you think about the Mike
Malone higher? Right away his face lit up. He was like,
finally somebody asked me about Carolina. I've been dying to
talk Carolina. Sure, he said he loves the hire. Yeah,
and then as he was walking away, he said, it
can't be worse than the Bill Belichick higher. It's a
very low bar at Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Right. That would have been nice to hear on the
airwaves here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I mean, that's why I just said it now, all right,
So Colin Jose has joined us this week, tangentially, tangentally.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Colin jos just joined us through my story.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Nyler Taylor betraying a trust with his friend Colin Joe's
and airing out his dirty laundry, his thoughts of Bill
Belichick on the air.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'll take it, I'll take it. I will. Jason Kelsey
walking past us, good good luck.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Man discount says us getting Jason on the pot.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Just say one word. It's a microphone, Jason. One more,
just one more.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Just up, we can say we got you it's a
pleasure to be on Stu Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The Great very disappointed last night.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I think we're the only show that got Jason
Kelcey on this week.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
We got jas on, we got you on the radio,
no once locking the radio except for me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And we just got Jason Kelcey on there.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's gonna be tough for Gary Sheffield to talk back.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
All right, So you so we had college Joe's already today,
we had Jason Kelcey just now you heard him, And
now we're gonna Gary Sheffield.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Matthew could chug finger guns over here.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You are also telling me and I think this is
a delightful topic. If Tahoe Week was a college quarterback,
you have the exact college quarterback. That's how week would be.
Can I guess Brendon swordsby No? Okay, people are gambling
this week?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I mean yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
No, So I'm thinking all time too. I didn't want
to limit myself to just the college quarterbacks today because
they're only many great college quarterbacks all time. And this
is what I was doing in the hotel room yesterday.
While people are out at the casino, people are out
at dinners, I'm sitting in my room and I'm saying,
(05:12):
what college quarterback all time.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
With Tahoe Week? Because content is king to you? Yeah, right, correct, right?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yes, I think there's only one answer. Yeah, it's Brady Quinn.
Interesting explain, like when you think about Brady Quinn at
Notre Dame, right, one of the best looking quarterbacks of
all time, statue poise under pressure, yep. And then you
also need the niceness factor where it was like, if
(05:39):
you go up to Brady Quinn, Brady Quinn doesn't think
he's better than anybody else. Brady Quinn would open a
friendly conversation. So when you combine the beauty and the
grace and the elegance of Tahoe Week at the American
Century Championship, Yes, for me, it's for me. It's there's
one answer, and it's Brady Quinn.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
My only problem with this is he went to Notre Dame,
and I find it nearly impossible that Brady Quinn doesn't
think that he's better than you, Like, I have not
met someone who's gone to Notre Dame who doesn't think
at some level they are better than you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I'm including Mike Golick Senior in this okay.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But there's also something about the Notre Dame helmets too,
where they're golden and fight. This feels just like a
golden week. The Notre Dame helmets are just timeless. The
uniforms they don't need any flash and pizzaz because the
substance of being Notre Dame speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Right and Lake Tajo speaks for itself is what this
tournament speaks for itself. You and I have turned to
each other many different times, on many different occasions that
said to each other, this is a special event.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
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Speaker 1 (06:54):
I said it a year ago, I'll say it again.
The coolest man on the course every year is Gary Sheffield.
Very I mean, look at you, just dressed to the nines.
You look fantastic. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Where else other than here can you be on a
driving rage and all of a sudden you're engulfed in
a conversation with Larry David, you know, all.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Of a sudden asking myself the same thing. I'm like
I'm sitting here. This is my guy. Man, he's the
funniest guy.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Thing in the world.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
And we were just talking about golf and and just
like you know what, what's he's coming out with next?
And this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is like, Icon, Yes, Icon, you want to play golf.
I want to play golf with it. I'm pretty certain
he'd say yes. If you asked him to Gary, Well
you say yes, I know he'll say yes. All right,
reblieve in Sheffield, man.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Come on, Larry David's a diehard Yankee.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, yesh wow.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I didn't know that. Doc Rivers bet him. I'll bet
you one hundred dollars that you don't know who that is.
He's a that vivery cheer. I was like, oh, thank you,
you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
He's a Yankee fan.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Do you want to leave here for a second go
ask him a company.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I'm going to ask him because you just put a
thought in my head.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I want to tell you this. You rock the cigar rut.
There you're on the driving range.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You look fantastic, and I feel like Steph is trying
to copy you. Okay, now he may have a better swing,
but there's no way he rocks his scar the cigar,
all the driving range, with the output the way you do,
there's just no way he thinks he does, but he
does it well.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I didn't know he smoked cigars. He saw me with
mine and he pulled one out. It might be right.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
He is pretty cool though, Yeah, he is cool.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
He swing is pretty man. That's a great swing he has.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And I just like to watch these guys swing because,
like me, i'm aggressive baseball player when I hit, yes,
but in golf you.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Have to swing smooth, yes, and let the club do
the work.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Watching these guys with their tempo and the ball was
exactly what they're trying to hit it. Yes, And so
I said, okay. I took Vince club and I said, okay,
I'm gonna trying the same yeah, Vince Coleman. And the
ball was going.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Just like his ball. I said, now I need to
be around these guys a little more.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. No, that's interesting. I was actually thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You were such an aggressive, violent hitter in baseball, and
in this you have to have tempa and slow it down.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yes, you can't swing hard. You swing hard, the club
opens your head moves.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
But I'm watching these guys they swing no matter that
they swing with the driver three iron or whatever on
an a iron, their tempo is the same, right, I
gotta I gotta learn that.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I gotta learn that.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Have you thought about incorporating the waggle into your golf swing?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Waggle?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
And then like it's funny you said that, because in
nineteen ninety two, Fred McGriffin and I was teammates with
Tony Grin and we lived in Poway off of Ted
Williams Boulevard, Wow, and.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They had a golf course that we stayed at.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
But I didn't pay no attention to the golf course
because I never played golf. So Nike gave me these
free clubs and like, you guys, start playing golf.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
So I go out there with Fred.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
The first sw I had, my chef went down the
middle of the failway and Fred.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
McGriff kicked me off the course and I didn't play golf.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
But then later on in my career, Jordan's say you
need to start playing golf, maybe to calm your crazy
stelf down. Yes, and then I took his advice and
I've been playing ever since.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So has it?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So, Michael Jordan told you that, So has it calmed
you down? It has really in what ways, Like that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Well, I learned patience, okay, and I had no patience.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I'm you know, black and white, yes, in no middle ground.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
And now patients have taught me to fall back, let
things come to me, you know, don't overreact to everything.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
And then my life has just been better.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Have you played with them J's course?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh I'm a member there.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh God, I played there with Dwight Freenie. Come, Dwight
can hit it far far? I keep telling Dwight I'm
gonna put a fly on him to win this tournament
because I know how good Dwight Freenie.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's why Jordan's like him as his partner. He's got
you know, you give me the rest.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Michael's like a father to Dwight, like a brother.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yes, they have a great relationship.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
And I watch those guys, man, and they play every day,
yes together, And I've learned a lot, man, just by
playing golf and being around certain people.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
It kind of opened me up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So Jordan invited you, not that you're a member, but
the first time you went in there, so I've done it.
I'm not going to give away any of the secrets
there because you're not allowed to. But how cool the
codes to get into that place?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
No, no, trust me.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Just being around those guys, man, you never want to leave. Yes,
you're sitting there and you're watching Mike Piazza walk around.
You're watching all these celebrities walk around. What they can't
celebrity or celebrity right, you know. But that's the good
part about it. You know that that that Jordan has
created an atmosphere for us to go somewhere. We don't
have to sign autographs, we don't have to take pictures.
(11:54):
We can just be one of the guys, hang out,
play cards, golf.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It's the best and where were of the hell you want?
Because I went the first time I went there.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Dwight's on the driving range in a T shirt, jim
shorts and sneakers, and I'm dressed to the nine.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For me, that's not saying a lot, but I was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I had everything tucked in on my Michael Jordan's Dwight's like, hey,
what are you doing, dude?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You're over dressed.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I had to ask, can you know?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I saw the guys doing it, but I'm a member,
so I didn't want to you know, get in trouble.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
So I see, I'm like, can we wear a T shirt? Well,
whatever you want. The only rule we have is you
got to be nice to everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Frenny took his shoes off one hole. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
She thought he was in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And then Michael just comes.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Out and he wants the bat on every old Toyah,
it's a fantastic go ahead, Cary.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You mentioned Tony gwyn your first year in San Diego,
you win the batting Championship, the batting title, batting.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Like three thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Who are some of the best hitters that you've seen
play baseball?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Oh wow, he loves hitting.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh man, I tell you, when I think about hitters,
I think about Frank Thomas, you know Bagwell, see, I'm
you know, the type of hitter and then the guy
that when I'm a fan of the game and when
I see guys.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Do what we do on the level we do it
at for.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
As the home runs, the bat and average, the driving
in runs. I look at the guy who walks the most,
and the guy that walks the most and can still
put up the same number as everybody else.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Is putting up. That's those are my.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Favorite on base percentage of like sixty fifty.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Like I remember my coach, Jim Leland told me my
head coach, he's the best, he said, Gary Uh in
spring training. He said, I'm gonna need you to make
sure that you're better than every like the.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Top player on their team. You have to outplay them
every game.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I was like, Oh, nobody ever asked me that. So
he gave me a challenge.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yes, and then improved my game because when I face
the best, it brings the best out in me.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Ye, love, I loved you?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Was he was he your favorite manager you've ever had?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, Bobby Cox about sex too. Yeah, you had some
good managers, some great men, he really did.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You played some great teams.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
What is a man's man? Yes, Like they don't care
who you are, whatever the case may be. This is
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yes, and you have to you have to lead the
way where you was was Leland? Because I find it
hard to believe that you're intimidated by anyone?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Was Leland? Did Leland intimidate you a bit?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He would smoke cigarettes in the dugout He didn't give
a bleep what anyone had to say.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I mean, I love genuine I well maybe Bobby, no, no, no, Jim.
It's something about his ara that you just know not
to cross the line.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Correct, and it's unspoken.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yes, you know what I mean. Yes, But he gave
me freedom to be myself.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Trusted you, He trusted me, and once I saw that,
he became my father.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I love them so cool.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He accepted you for who you are, what you are.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
He became my father.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I love that so much.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Garrett.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Once you got to New York, you were an instant
all star your first two seasons with the Yankees. We
see sometimes people get to New York and they just
kind of shrink in the moment. What is it about
New York where not everybody can make it there?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You know, I had an advantage because I saw my
uncle in nineteen eighty six and he went through those
years in New York. So I was there and I
saw the fans reaction because I'm sitting next to him
and I'm watching the energy, and I said, one day
I'm going to be in that situation.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
So I was more prepared.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Later on in my career than I would have been
in earlier. Sure, and so once I saw it, I
knew what to do. And once when you get to
New York. The thing about New York is when you're
driving to the park, it's almost like.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
You're playing in the game right then, because.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You're getting psyched up because you know what the fans
gonna bring, Yes, and they bring out the best in you.
I love New York fans. They're the best fans in
the world. When I got there, I knew.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I was gonna do. I knew it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes, So you understood just like why Nick fans were
so excited with it on right.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
They needed that yes that we.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Get from them. Yes, whether it's good or bad. Sure,
you know what's coming. And so now my focus is
on the opponent. Now I'm trying to dominate too, because
they wanted me to yes.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
How was it in New York because there's so many
egos there that you have the Jeters that a Rods yourself,
Mariano Rivera, where you guys kind of have to put
your egos aside to just come together.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, but it was a little hard for a Rod.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
And Jeter because of the relationship and position the position.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah, because a Rod moved a third base.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
We all know who a Rod is as a player,
but he made a sycrifice to be be part of
the Yankees, and that we didn't jail at first because
that tension between those two relationship came into play, and
then Joe Torre didn't know how to say, Okay, who
what's what's the bad in order?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Because a Rod is a Rod.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
But if you're talking about hitting third, that's the most
important position in the batan order. Yes, because we set
the tone for the guys in front of us the
guys behind us, like on base percentage that was talking about.
But when you got guys that strike out, strike out
and strike out, you can't have that consecutive so you
got to split it up.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And I think like the second part.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Of the season, I went to Joe Tory and I
told him, I said, you got to have me hitting third,
because I'm gonna set the table guy and I'm gonna
come through. And that when he switched a Rod to second,
because that was when they first start happened and we
started seeing superstars hit second. Yes, because he said where
we're gonna hit a Rod, I said, hit him second?
(17:42):
He was like, we can't hit him second. I said,
where you only hit second once?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yes? Yes, the game game once?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yes, yeah, you hit second once once.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Once is over now that the lineup rotates over, and
then now you get him more at bats.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
And so he just went on a heater from there.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, but you took bats away from yourself a little bit.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Well that's okay. If I know a rod is hitting
in front of me, you're fine with that as opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
After opportunity, because if they were running from him, please
come to me.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, but they didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
But we jailed together, as you saw, you know, because
the first half was a struggle, yes, and then the
second half we turned on.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So Yankee fans, they're passionate and your fans are great.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I agree. I'm a New Yorker. I'm a Mets fan.
I'm not a Yankee fan, sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But they're also spoiled because Taylor here, he is telling
me this Yankee team is good.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
They hit a bit of.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A slump, and Taylor's turning this is the worst Yankee
team of his lifetime.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And I'm like, they're a playoff team right now.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Man, Well, I'll say this when I watch the game,
everybody is bad, yeah, because everybody can be beat on
any given day.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
That's basically only only team that I can say that's
probably like close to unbeatable is the Dodgers, but they
can be beat as well, because all I would do
is I would give.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A ton of the Beary Bonnes treatment, right, and I'm
gonna see how good you are after that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Just put him on. That's right, that's it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh, I'm a buzz your towers. It's too comfortable in
the Boston me.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He really is.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He sits up there like he's in a rocket.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Some chimneys it.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Well, I would love to see him face Nolan Ryan
or Wells or anything. Yeah, Wells didn't throw this hard,
but face Yes, you're not gonna be comfortable, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That Marlin's World Series, the Yankee ones were expected, right,
So it's a different kind of field.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
That Marlins one was.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It was the relief with that one, because you guys
like Wayne put together like a dream team of sorts, right,
There was relief in winning.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That, right.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
It was because we was on a lot of pressure
to win, because we thought that if we won, he
will keep us together and I used to talk to
Wayne Heisinger's wife and tell her that we need to
stay together because we can win four or five championships
with this team. Yes, And she was like, Gary, I'm
trying because he won' Wayne's World.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He was ahead of time.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yes, So like if he really was, Yeah, if you
look at the Battery Stadium, it's a real estate deal.
Everything around it is inviting you to the park. And
so he wanted the Waynes World and Wiregrass and they
didn't want to give it to him, and that frustrated him.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That really bothered him because he felt.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Like, I know this is going to work if we
bring restaurants and you know, hotels and everything to the day.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It was a visionary.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
It was a visionary and they didn't give it to him.
That's why when you look at the stadium where it's
at now, it's a problem.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's a bit it's hard to get to, especially when
most of your fan base is up in Broward, That's
where a lot of it. That's where he wanted to go,
right because he knew where his fan base was. Right,
you knew whether it for us, he knew where the
people were. But you feel like if that team had
stayed together, were such.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A great team. You would have won multiple world serious,
no questions.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know. We we had what it took.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I remember that our test was Okay, we got past
the Braves. We beat them, I think fourteen out of
eighteen times.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
But then when New York came in, the Yankees came
in the town, we dominated him.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And that's when we knew with a team. And so
Kevin Brown.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Like chim music, Kevin Brown, Oh yeah, yeah, give it
to you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
So we had everything you need and our fifth started
beat the Braids every time.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yes, Tony Saunders, that's right. Alex Fernancie, it was your fourth.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think he was a fourth. Damn. That's a good
team when he's your fourth.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Uniforms fttil uniforms are the best year.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Gary Love, Gary Love being a Florida Morlands tell me
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
To stay there.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I wanted to stay there. I just signed a four
year deal. I played that out, then we won the
World Series. Now I'm going into my second contract. I
had seven years, never played one game on that but
I had a blanket. No trade cause I could have
stopped the trade, but I tried to take care of
all my teammates because Charles Johnson was saying they was giving.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Him a five year deal, Bobby, but you wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Jim Eisenwright is the reason I did it because he's
the quietest kid you ever want to see. And when
he came to me, I respect him so much. I said,
you know, if if you want me to do it,
then I'll do it. It's cool because I did it
for them because I could have stayed with them all
and said no, I'm not accepting it. Yes, but if
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you know, I kind of had a little concern because
I didn't know Piazza was in the trade, and I said,
how is this making the Dodgers better? And you get
rid of your best player? Of course, they said, now
you're our best player. I said, you got a point.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think we should end it. All that that was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I wanted to bring up the Cam Schlitzler Paul Skins
trade that Taylor. Taylor is such a homer, I'm not
a He loves Cam Schlitzler so much that I asked
him one day on the show, would you trade Cam
straight up for Paul Skens?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And he said, no, you wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Either ship Field's agreed with Taylor, no win.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I know he's a gamer. He's a gamer.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He's a gamer, and he's a Yankee homegrown proces.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes, that's right, unbelievable. The American Century Championships. Real quick,
tell everyone, while you love this thing so much?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I love it, man, I love it so much.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
I did to come out here with the greats and
watch these guys do something else great. Yes, you know,
they was great in their profession and they can come
to a golf course and flip this thing upside down
and go out there and score low. And I learned
a lot from these guys, but golfing with them, because
you know, when you're around a bunch of good golfers,
you get better.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I'm telling you this on the way out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
If you walk up to Larry David and say, hey,
you want to play on my course of course is
Grove twenty three, I guarantee you he's going to say yes.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I promise you.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm saying because you told me, I promise you will
say yes.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
If he does it, you never have to come up
with me. That's how much. That's how confident I am. Gary.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, well I'm not going to ask him for you.
I mean, you make me feel confident. All right, Get
out of here, man, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Good luck, love weekend, Love you too.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You're great.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Thank you all right, guys.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
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Speaker 1 (24:15):
I've been coming to the American Century Championships for ten
years now, and I got to tell you the coolest
moment for me over those ten years was last night
when they're introducing Matthew Kachuck's brother, Matthew with us right now,
Brady because he's a newcomer. And then the whole room,
a room of world class athletes, give you guys a
standing ovation for bringing home the gold.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How did that feel to.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You, Matthew Kuchuck, because I got goosebumps.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Man, Yeah, it was. It was actually one of the
coolest moments. By the time, it was, uh yeah for
people like that obviously aren't there. They introduced all the
new guys in whatever order. Brady was kind of one
of the guys at the end, and at the end
of Brady's like, you know, little bio that they gave
him out him they mentioned, you know, and we've got
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gold medal group on Friday with Matthew, Bradykachuk and Matt Bouldie,
so cool. Olympic gold medalist for hockey, and the whole
place gave a standing up.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
It was just it was I mean with all the
guys in there too.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
You just look around, it's like, yeah, you know who's
who basically, and for them to do that was was
so amazing. And yeah, it gives you goosebumps for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah for real, man, Matthew has a bitter Rangers fan.
Be honest, should the podcast with Brady count is tampering
because it feels like that gave you an ontaric fan.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He's his brother, man, that's the advantage. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I don't even getting him down to Florida. I mean,
you get him to be a part of the Panthers.
He feels like you had an unfair advantage being his brother.
Don't answer it. I don't even understand the question. Don't
answer it. It's something you think.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
He came to Florida because that would be the worst
question ever.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Got No, No, no, it's the second worst question he's
asked this week. Just so you know, guy, let's talk
about the podcast though, Wingman, because I love it.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You're doing it with your brother.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was talking to Brady before and he said, yeah,
what we try to do is just keep it like
a FaceTime between me and Matthew, because sometimes you could
lose the chemistry even with family members when you turn
on a microphone. I love the podcast. Whose idea was it?
How'd you guys come up with the name wing Ben?
Speaker 10 (26:13):
So? I actually don't know how like it officially got
going or how it happened, but I do know we
were talking about it for a while kind of ever
since like even before four Nations doing it right, and
because we facetimed, you know however many times a week
every other day's talk every day, and basically people started
(26:33):
like pitching us and saying like, basically, you're facetiming him
for an hour and get paid.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I don't know, you might as well get paid for
this conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
I don't even know how. I don't know how, but
I do. I told the story the other day. The
first person that said I should do it, even though
it was kind of the ball was kind of rolling already, right,
like the big like the guy who wanted us to
do it the most was Bill.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Zito, really GM in Florida.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, our GM in Florida.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
And we were just talking to him the other day
and he's like, yeah, like don't forget, like who who.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Told you that the idea to do it?
Speaker 10 (27:06):
So it's it's pretty funny, but we love it. People
love hearing like it's it's different because it's current athletes
and nobody's done it in hockey, so I think hockey
fans enjoy like just like the stuff that's happened currently
and like this behind the scenes stuff with us, And
I mean, obviously we're lucky. We've had some incredible moments
(27:28):
that we can share over.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The last i mean six months. Basically Olympics.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
I mean that's probably the biggest thing. Obviously people like
to hear a lot about winning and stories about winning,
but people are just obsessed with the Olympics, the Olympic stories,
the Olympic guests that are on. So it's been it's
been a huge success so far and we've we've actually
really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It and they love your relationship. I think that's the
thing that shops the most for me. It's all iuthentic. Yeah,
just hearing you and your brother just talking shop.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Well, I think a lot of people can relate to it,
like whether you're you know.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
A brother and assistant, are two sisters, two brothers, two
best friends.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Just the camaraderie and the banter and.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Like the chirps and it just I think a lot
of people can relate to it, which is why.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They like it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So in the last three years, the last well, I guess, yeah,
three years, two Stanley Cups and a gold medal, And
I'm wondering how the gold medal felt differently to you
than winning the Stanley Cups.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
I would say it was a well.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Way less taxing on the body, right, But I did
only come back. I had surgery in August last year,
and I came back like eight maybe ten games before
the Olympics, and I probably should have stayed out another
week or so or really, and so I came back
like right before and my game was just kind of
going like this. But by the end of the Olympics
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when I came back, I felt amazing, like healthwise.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Felt amazing.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
So I guess that was the biggest difference, is I
wasn't you know playing when you're in playoff hockey, it's
every game you're like playing through something little like it's
the most fears competitive, physical and after you win, I mean,
it's so rewarding lifting the cup because of just how
many hours you've put in with the same group and
and just the total that your body has. But I
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will say that the impact of the Olympics was was
was greater because not only did you know the Florida
Panthers fans watched it, but the whole country, the people
in Florida that didn't really watch hockey before they watched it.
And then I mean you could say people in Tampa
who don't like the Panthers, they all were supporting us.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Like it was. It was just so.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Nationwide and it's so cool just talking to people from
each My favorite thing to ask people is like it's.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
One of those very few moments in life where you
know where you were when.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
So I love asking people like where were you and
like the amount of I went. I woke up at
five am to get to my neighborhood bar to watch it,
or I had a watch party at my I had
a bunch of families going for to my house at
six am to watch it. It's unreal and it's unbelievable
because when we were over there, they did such a
good job of keeping us like really focused and like
(30:03):
in a bubbles and we knew that it was the Olympics,
big deal, but we had no idea the magnet. I
had no idea what we were walking into when we
got back to the US, right, and it was in
Miami where we've had a bunch of celebrations before, so
I knew kind of what was it was going to be,
but it was times.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Ten really exceeded it. It was just wild. I'll tell
you one of those stories.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So I can't remember the last time my dad, my brother,
and myself got together to watch a sporting event. My
brother flew down to South Florida from New York, Wow
to my dad's house, and me and my dad.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
And my brother watched that gold medal game. Together.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, it was and it made it like made my
dad's you know, just it's he still gets tears talking
about that.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
You just said it there.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
It's like amazing, like how emotional people were in like
forty six years.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
And then just beating Canada and like slaying the dragon
there a little bit. It's just, you know, it wouldn't
have been the same if we didn't beat Canada the finals.
I think we've Finland beats Canada. I mean, I'm sure
people are still jacked up if we would have won.
But it wasn't the same as being Canada.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Did you notice that when you got home were road
fans treating you guys differently?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Crazy, right, for sure.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I remember my first.
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Road trip was in New York. First game back was
at home, maybe first two were at home. Then went
to New York and after the game I brought the
metal And after the game in New Jersey and in
the Island, just tons of people waiting and they're all wearing.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
The Islanders jerseys and so cool.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
But we were all one team for two and a
half weeks, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What do you remember most about going into that ot
because I think the suddenness of like how quickly it
ended made it even better.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I just remember, I mean the guys that were first
of all, the guys that weren't even on the ice
in overtime. I mean it's the two Maybe it was
the best game of all time, like with the players
on the team, like it was some of the most
insane talent. I mean, probably probably the best game. And
like player pool, you're gonna you're gonna find for one game.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
So the game was moving so fast.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
It's just it was insane. You couldn't even think.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I mean, you're just you're you're flying around, You're hitting everything.
There's no room to make any play. That's what people
talk about, Like with all the skill on these teams. Yes,
these there's there's one hundred point guys in every team
that you got Big David, you know, Austin Matthew's got
two unroll boys, great defense, Quinn Hughes, kil mccarr, Warenski,
these guys. It's a two to one game and then
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it's a two uh three, two overtime game in the
Four Nations. It's a two to one game in Montreal
and the Four Nations. Like it's not about who's gonna
go out there and get the goal. It's like almost
like who's gonna give up a chance the other way.
So to answer your question though, going into overtime, I
was just like, holy cow, like this is he's gonna
be the greatest overtime display by both teams because of.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
The best overtime players in the world.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Yes, and uh, it's just I couldn't. I have no
words to describe how I felt when Jack scored.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
But just to play that.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You're getting emotional now, just to play.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
That Wrenski made before war in the saves, and hell,
he made all game, I mean bolds his goal in
the first We had so many great efforts. And I
will say one thing that's not talked about enough because
it was kind of in the middle of the game,
but we had to kill off a minute and a
half five on three. I remember against that power.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Against them, right the Olympics, And just I mean David's
flying around, you know, like you got.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
To give credits, you know, the slave ins, the JT.
Miller's trocheck Sanderson, those guys that don't get enough credit.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Where's the gold medal? Right now?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I can't say.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I will tell you an unnamed person here said he
has spent more time with the gold seeing your gold
medal than seeing you.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Actually this week's yeah, probably it was Marty Fish.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Yeah, we had had some fun on Tuesday with him.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
We got some good pictures.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
This is such a great event, the American Century Championship.
You guys have such a great bond, the standing ovation
you got last night, the friendship. I don't know if
you were friends with Marty beforehand, but you're certainly good
friends now. And I see you here in your second
year and you're introducing Brady to it because he's in
his first year.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Year.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What did you learn about last year that helped you
prepare for this week year?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
This is my third year, your third year. I'm sorry, Yeah,
I think I think each year it's just like you
know more people.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yes, you seem more comfortable and relaxed.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, you know a lot of the American Century team.
You know a lot more of the NBC team. And
it's just like it's just a week of fun, non stop,
and it doesn't like it literally doesn't stop. Like got
something here in a little bit. And then me and
my Caddie Luke, so we have we have no the
no wives or no girlfriends on the fiances on the
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trip this week. It's just just the boys. So we
got to learn well, yes, it's another batchup part literally
like right after this and a little bit. We'll either
go to the pool, go to the lake for a
bit and then there'll be a few guys there and
just have a few drinks. It just doesn't stop. It's
never ending. I sleep like four hours and night and
you wake up and you have more energy I could
(34:57):
ever imagine. It's just it's an absolute blast. I mean
the other isn't too bad either.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
It's the same every day.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
We ran the nicest place in the country, I think
it is. And it's just I mean, it's a little bit.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Harder to get to for people out of east, but
if they haven't been here, they have to.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's kind of like South Florida in the winters. It
is in terms of the weather where you know, it's
seventy two degrees. He's not a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
A J.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Hawk said.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
He goes in the lake every morning at five poin fifteen.
Have you done that with him?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
I have not been a fifteen I try to get
home by five fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
No, I'm normally. I'm normally a little bit after.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
That if I if I have time to get a
quick dunk, and then I'm there for however long in
the afternoon. And it's the best way to wake yourself up.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
All right, we'll get you out of here on this note.
We appreciate you doing this. Florida Panther fans, while they're
excited that you won the gold medal and they were
all over that moment as well, they want to hear
that we're going to win another cup, so they want
a third Cup. You won too, They want a third
I don't want you to make any sort of guarantees,
but they do want to get back to getting to
the playoffs at winning Stanley Cups. Do you, guys feel
like you have a chance of getting back to that
(35:56):
level this year?
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Well, I hope they want you. We want to.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yes, this was a weird if they want to hear
from you, man like you make it go.
Speaker 10 (36:02):
You know, where as confident of a team as as
ever we've done our core still with us and picked
up a couple of pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Pieces, Yeah, I think so, Yeah, we will.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
I do think that in a season or with a team,
you know, especially after winning, even after winning, I should
say you need kind of a fresh sort of blood
that can raise that level again. And I think Brady
and then you guys are definitely gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
First.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Will you say, have to see Bob gone very sah.
Speaker 10 (36:31):
And whenever you lose a close buddy, you know who's
who's been so good to me, such an amazing pro,
such an amazing teammate. But with that being said, I
am so excited to get Marky back. I played with
him in Cowdery. He's an unbelievable goalie and unreal guy.
Just part of the business.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
But I know Toronto definitely got to go to him.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Bob. All right, man, enjoy the rest of your week
out here. Good luckily. How's the game, by the way, good?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Better this year. I got to play a little bit before.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Should we put a little fly right, We're gonna waste
your time. Check out his podcast Wing then with his
brother uh Bill. Gito deserves all the credit for if
you trying to get a piece of your podcast.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
If that what he's doing, he deserves all right.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's a great pod man. Continue success, and we appreciate
you doing this.
Speaker 10 (37:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You're a great You're a great guy.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Thank you, of course, Thank you, guys,
Thanks for listening to ste Gotson Company Live podcast. Be
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
We are wrapping it up here from the American Century
Championships out in Lake Tahoe, same day, every single day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Havn't seen a cloud in seven days. It's actually incredible, Taylor.
We have a loaded show. We really do. Gary Sheffield,
Matthew Kachuck, aj Hawk how about that? And Robert Salah
going to join us today and on God Bless Football.
On the podcast, you can listen to what I think
was the best conversation we had all week, gets to
the Joeth Eisman Show with Stegatts. I mean, that guy
(00:54):
is just unbelievable. But Taylor, you had an Austin Reeves
interact earlier today that I would like to hear more about.
You just teased it. You're like, Hey, Austin Reeves interaction
and I know what to do with that. That means
it's something you want to talk about. So what happened
with you and Austin Reeves here?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I saw Austin Reeves this morning in the hotel lobby. Yeah,
and as he was walking by, he just assumed I
was somebody. So he said, hey, how are you doing?
Very very nice, courteous guy.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, if you're staying in the resort that I'm staying in, yes,
they think you're somebody. It's an unbelievable thing. I've been
coming here for ten years. For nine years, no one
thought anything about me, and now this year everyone thinks
I'm a big time celebrity just by staying in this hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So Austin Reeves asked me, how are you doing? And
I said, if I was doing any better, i'd be you.
And I gave him the double finger guns. He loved it, yeah,
he said. And then when he said he loved it,
I said, Austin, you could have that one for free.
And I mean four years, one hundred and eighty five
million dollar max extension. Good for Austin Reeves's very kind
to you. Say, you set the table for me to
(01:55):
go eat is that what you did. We're probably not
going to get him.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You did that a little late in the proceedings here.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I would have preferred the finger guns.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you never you never know when you're gonna run
into Austin Reeves when you're getting coffee in a hotel lobby.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You could have walked past Austin Reeves at any point
this week, just like listen, you would have had the
gun out of you, out of your way to do it,
but you could have done it at any point. He's
been standing next to us, within fifteen feet of us
since Monday.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Listen, you're gonna nitpick this, You're gonna nitpick that. Yeah,
I'm having the time of my life.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I know you are.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I saw Colin Jos too again. Did you really mean
me and Colin Jos off air? Yeah, have one of
the best relationships here.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It doesn't translate to getting him onto the show.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's parlayed into nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I mean, well, it's parlated into a little friendship with
Colin Jos where I see him this year. We both
love Carolina, right, that's what we bonded over last year.
I knew we could bond over. He didn't remember me, right,
but I knew I could get that bond back with him.
Be sure how strong our bond was last year?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I asked him, what do you think about the Mike
Malone higher? Right away his face lit up. He was like,
finally somebody asked me about Carolina. I've been dying to
talk Carolina. Sure, he said he loves the hire. Yeah,
and then as he was walking away, he said, it
can't be worse than the Bill Belichick higher. It's a
very low bar at Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Right. That would have been nice to hear on the
airwaves here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I mean, that's why I just said it now, all right,
So Colin Jose has joined us this week, tangentially, tangentally.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Colin jos just joined us through my story.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Nyler Taylor betraying a trust with his friend Colin Joe's
and airing out his dirty laundry, his thoughts of Bill
Belichick on the air.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'll take it, I'll take it. I will. Jason Kelsey
walking past us, good good luck.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Man discount says us getting Jason on the pot.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Just say one word. It's a microphone, Jason. One more,
just one more.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Just up, we can say we got you it's a
pleasure to be on Stu Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The Great very disappointed last night.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I think we're the only show that got Jason
Kelcey on this week.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
We got jas on, we got you on the radio,
no once locking the radio except for me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And we just got Jason Kelcey on there.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's gonna be tough for Gary Sheffield to talk back.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
All right, So you so we had college Joe's already today,
we had Jason Kelcey just now you heard him, And
now we're gonna Gary Sheffield.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Matthew could chug finger guns over here.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You are also telling me and I think this is
a delightful topic. If Tahoe Week was a college quarterback,
you have the exact college quarterback. That's how week would be.
Can I guess Brendon swordsby No? Okay, people are gambling
this week?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I mean yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
No, So I'm thinking all time too. I didn't want
to limit myself to just the college quarterbacks today because
they're only many great college quarterbacks all time. And this
is what I was doing in the hotel room yesterday.
While people are out at the casino, people are out
at dinners, I'm sitting in my room and I'm saying,
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what college quarterback all time.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
With Tahoe Week? Because content is king to you? Yeah, right, correct, right?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yes, I think there's only one answer. Yeah, it's Brady Quinn.
Interesting explain, like when you think about Brady Quinn at
Notre Dame, right, one of the best looking quarterbacks of
all time, statue poise under pressure, yep. And then you
also need the niceness factor where it was like, if
(05:39):
you go up to Brady Quinn, Brady Quinn doesn't think
he's better than anybody else. Brady Quinn would open a
friendly conversation. So when you combine the beauty and the
grace and the elegance of Tahoe Week at the American
Century Championship, Yes, for me, it's for me. It's there's
one answer, and it's Brady Quinn.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
My only problem with this is he went to Notre Dame,
and I find it nearly impossible that Brady Quinn doesn't
think that he's better than you, Like, I have not
met someone who's gone to Notre Dame who doesn't think
at some level they are better than you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I'm including Mike Golick Senior in this okay.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But there's also something about the Notre Dame helmets too,
where they're golden and fight. This feels just like a
golden week. The Notre Dame helmets are just timeless. The
uniforms they don't need any flash and pizzaz because the
substance of being Notre Dame speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Right and Lake Tajo speaks for itself is what this
tournament speaks for itself. You and I have turned to
each other many different times, on many different occasions that
said to each other, this is a special event.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
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Speaker 1 (06:54):
I said it a year ago, I'll say it again.
The coolest man on the course every year is Gary Sheffield.
Very I mean, look at you, just dressed to the nines.
You look fantastic. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Where else other than here can you be on a
driving rage and all of a sudden you're engulfed in
a conversation with Larry David, you know, all.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Of a sudden asking myself the same thing. I'm like
I'm sitting here. This is my guy. Man, he's the
funniest guy.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Thing in the world.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
And we were just talking about golf and and just
like you know what, what's he's coming out with next?
And this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is like, Icon, Yes, Icon, you want to play golf.
I want to play golf with it. I'm pretty certain
he'd say yes. If you asked him to Gary, Well
you say yes, I know he'll say yes. All right,
reblieve in Sheffield, man.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Come on, Larry David's a diehard Yankee.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, yesh wow.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I didn't know that. Doc Rivers bet him. I'll bet
you one hundred dollars that you don't know who that is.
He's a that vivery cheer. I was like, oh, thank you,
you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
He's a Yankee fan.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Do you want to leave here for a second go
ask him a company.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I'm going to ask him because you just put a
thought in my head.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I want to tell you this. You rock the cigar rut.
There you're on the driving range.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You look fantastic, and I feel like Steph is trying
to copy you. Okay, now he may have a better swing,
but there's no way he rocks his scar the cigar,
all the driving range, with the output the way you do,
there's just no way he thinks he does, but he
does it well.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I didn't know he smoked cigars. He saw me with
mine and he pulled one out. It might be right.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
He is pretty cool though, Yeah, he is cool.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
He swing is pretty man. That's a great swing he has.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And I just like to watch these guys swing because,
like me, i'm aggressive baseball player when I hit, yes,
but in golf you.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Have to swing smooth, yes, and let the club do
the work.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Watching these guys with their tempo and the ball was
exactly what they're trying to hit it. Yes, And so
I said, okay. I took Vince club and I said, okay,
I'm gonna trying the same yeah, Vince Coleman. And the
ball was going.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Just like his ball. I said, now I need to
be around these guys a little more.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. No, that's interesting. I was actually thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You were such an aggressive, violent hitter in baseball, and
in this you have to have tempa and slow it down.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yes, you can't swing hard. You swing hard, the club
opens your head moves.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
But I'm watching these guys they swing no matter that
they swing with the driver three iron or whatever on
an a iron, their tempo is the same, right, I
gotta I gotta learn that.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I gotta learn that.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Have you thought about incorporating the waggle into your golf swing?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Waggle?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
And then like it's funny you said that, because in
nineteen ninety two, Fred McGriffin and I was teammates with
Tony Grin and we lived in Poway off of Ted
Williams Boulevard, Wow, and.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They had a golf course that we stayed at.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
But I didn't pay no attention to the golf course
because I never played golf. So Nike gave me these
free clubs and like, you guys, start playing golf.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
So I go out there with Fred.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
The first sw I had, my chef went down the
middle of the failway and Fred.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
McGriff kicked me off the course and I didn't play golf.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
But then later on in my career, Jordan's say you
need to start playing golf, maybe to calm your crazy
stelf down. Yes, and then I took his advice and
I've been playing ever since.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So has it?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So, Michael Jordan told you that, So has it calmed
you down? It has really in what ways, Like that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Well, I learned patience, okay, and I had no patience.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I'm you know, black and white, yes, in no middle ground.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
And now patients have taught me to fall back, let
things come to me, you know, don't overreact to everything.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
And then my life has just been better.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Have you played with them J's course?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh I'm a member there.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh God, I played there with Dwight Freenie. Come, Dwight
can hit it far far? I keep telling Dwight I'm
gonna put a fly on him to win this tournament
because I know how good Dwight Freenie.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's why Jordan's like him as his partner. He's got
you know, you give me the rest.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Michael's like a father to Dwight, like a brother.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yes, they have a great relationship.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
And I watch those guys, man, and they play every day,
yes together, And I've learned a lot, man, just by
playing golf and being around certain people.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
It kind of opened me up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So Jordan invited you, not that you're a member, but
the first time you went in there, so I've done it.
I'm not going to give away any of the secrets
there because you're not allowed to. But how cool the
codes to get into that place?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
No, no, trust me.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Just being around those guys, man, you never want to leave. Yes,
you're sitting there and you're watching Mike Piazza walk around.
You're watching all these celebrities walk around. What they can't
celebrity or celebrity right, you know. But that's the good
part about it. You know that that that Jordan has
created an atmosphere for us to go somewhere. We don't
have to sign autographs, we don't have to take pictures.
(11:54):
We can just be one of the guys, hang out,
play cards, golf.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It's the best and where were of the hell you want?
Because I went the first time I went there.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Dwight's on the driving range in a T shirt, jim
shorts and sneakers, and I'm dressed to the nine.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For me, that's not saying a lot, but I was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I had everything tucked in on my Michael Jordan's Dwight's like, hey,
what are you doing, dude?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You're over dressed.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I had to ask, can you know?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I saw the guys doing it, but I'm a member,
so I didn't want to you know, get in trouble.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
So I see, I'm like, can we wear a T shirt? Well,
whatever you want. The only rule we have is you
got to be nice to everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Frenny took his shoes off one hole. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
She thought he was in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And then Michael just comes.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Out and he wants the bat on every old Toyah,
it's a fantastic go ahead, Cary.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You mentioned Tony gwyn your first year in San Diego,
you win the batting Championship, the batting title, batting.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Like three thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Who are some of the best hitters that you've seen
play baseball?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Oh wow, he loves hitting.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh man, I tell you, when I think about hitters,
I think about Frank Thomas, you know Bagwell, see, I'm
you know, the type of hitter and then the guy
that when I'm a fan of the game and when
I see guys.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Do what we do on the level we do it
at for.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
As the home runs, the bat and average, the driving
in runs. I look at the guy who walks the most,
and the guy that walks the most and can still
put up the same number as everybody else.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Is putting up. That's those are my.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Favorite on base percentage of like sixty fifty.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Like I remember my coach, Jim Leland told me my
head coach, he's the best, he said, Gary Uh in
spring training. He said, I'm gonna need you to make
sure that you're better than every like the.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Top player on their team. You have to outplay them
every game.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I was like, Oh, nobody ever asked me that. So
he gave me a challenge.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yes, and then improved my game because when I face
the best, it brings the best out in me.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Ye, love, I loved you?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Was he was he your favorite manager you've ever had?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, Bobby Cox about sex too. Yeah, you had some
good managers, some great men, he really did.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You played some great teams.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
What is a man's man? Yes, Like they don't care
who you are, whatever the case may be. This is
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yes, and you have to you have to lead the
way where you was was Leland? Because I find it
hard to believe that you're intimidated by anyone?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Was Leland? Did Leland intimidate you a bit?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He would smoke cigarettes in the dugout He didn't give
a bleep what anyone had to say.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I mean, I love genuine I well maybe Bobby, no, no, no, Jim.
It's something about his ara that you just know not
to cross the line.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Correct, and it's unspoken.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yes, you know what I mean. Yes, But he gave
me freedom to be myself.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Trusted you, He trusted me, and once I saw that,
he became my father.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I love them so cool.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He accepted you for who you are, what you are.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
He became my father.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I love that so much.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Garrett.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Once you got to New York, you were an instant
all star your first two seasons with the Yankees. We
see sometimes people get to New York and they just
kind of shrink in the moment. What is it about
New York where not everybody can make it there?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You know, I had an advantage because I saw my
uncle in nineteen eighty six and he went through those
years in New York. So I was there and I
saw the fans reaction because I'm sitting next to him
and I'm watching the energy, and I said, one day
I'm going to be in that situation.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
So I was more prepared.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Later on in my career than I would have been
in earlier. Sure, and so once I saw it, I
knew what to do. And once when you get to
New York. The thing about New York is when you're
driving to the park, it's almost like.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
You're playing in the game right then, because.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You're getting psyched up because you know what the fans
gonna bring, Yes, and they bring out the best in you.
I love New York fans. They're the best fans in
the world. When I got there, I knew.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I was gonna do. I knew it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes, So you understood just like why Nick fans were
so excited with it on right.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
They needed that yes that we.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Get from them. Yes, whether it's good or bad. Sure,
you know what's coming. And so now my focus is
on the opponent. Now I'm trying to dominate too, because
they wanted me to yes.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
How was it in New York because there's so many
egos there that you have the Jeters that a Rods yourself,
Mariano Rivera, where you guys kind of have to put
your egos aside to just come together.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, but it was a little hard for a Rod.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
And Jeter because of the relationship and position the position.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah, because a Rod moved a third base.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
We all know who a Rod is as a player,
but he made a sycrifice to be be part of
the Yankees, and that we didn't jail at first because
that tension between those two relationship came into play, and
then Joe Torre didn't know how to say, Okay, who
what's what's the bad in order?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Because a Rod is a Rod.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
But if you're talking about hitting third, that's the most
important position in the batan order. Yes, because we set
the tone for the guys in front of us the
guys behind us, like on base percentage that was talking about.
But when you got guys that strike out, strike out
and strike out, you can't have that consecutive so you
got to split it up.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And I think like the second part.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Of the season, I went to Joe Tory and I
told him, I said, you got to have me hitting third,
because I'm gonna set the table guy and I'm gonna
come through. And that when he switched a Rod to second,
because that was when they first start happened and we
started seeing superstars hit second. Yes, because he said where
we're gonna hit a Rod, I said, hit him second?
(17:42):
He was like, we can't hit him second. I said,
where you only hit second once?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yes? Yes, the game game once?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yes, yeah, you hit second once once.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Once is over now that the lineup rotates over, and
then now you get him more at bats.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
And so he just went on a heater from there.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, but you took bats away from yourself a little bit.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Well that's okay. If I know a rod is hitting
in front of me, you're fine with that as opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
After opportunity, because if they were running from him, please
come to me.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, but they didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
But we jailed together, as you saw, you know, because
the first half was a struggle, yes, and then the
second half we turned on.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So Yankee fans, they're passionate and your fans are great.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I agree. I'm a New Yorker. I'm a Mets fan.
I'm not a Yankee fan, sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But they're also spoiled because Taylor here, he is telling
me this Yankee team is good.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
They hit a bit of.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A slump, and Taylor's turning this is the worst Yankee
team of his lifetime.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And I'm like, they're a playoff team right now.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Man, Well, I'll say this when I watch the game,
everybody is bad, yeah, because everybody can be beat on
any given day.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
That's basically only only team that I can say that's
probably like close to unbeatable is the Dodgers, but they
can be beat as well, because all I would do
is I would give.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A ton of the Beary Bonnes treatment, right, and I'm
gonna see how good you are after that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Just put him on. That's right, that's it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh, I'm a buzz your towers. It's too comfortable in
the Boston me.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He really is.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He sits up there like he's in a rocket.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Some chimneys it.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Well, I would love to see him face Nolan Ryan
or Wells or anything. Yeah, Wells didn't throw this hard,
but face Yes, you're not gonna be comfortable, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That Marlin's World Series, the Yankee ones were expected, right,
So it's a different kind of field.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
That Marlins one was.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It was the relief with that one, because you guys
like Wayne put together like a dream team of sorts, right,
There was relief in winning.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That, right.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
It was because we was on a lot of pressure
to win, because we thought that if we won, he
will keep us together and I used to talk to
Wayne Heisinger's wife and tell her that we need to
stay together because we can win four or five championships
with this team. Yes, And she was like, Gary, I'm
trying because he won' Wayne's World.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He was ahead of time.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yes, So like if he really was, Yeah, if you
look at the Battery Stadium, it's a real estate deal.
Everything around it is inviting you to the park. And
so he wanted the Waynes World and Wiregrass and they
didn't want to give it to him, and that frustrated him.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That really bothered him because he felt.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Like, I know this is going to work if we
bring restaurants and you know, hotels and everything to the day.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It was a visionary.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
It was a visionary and they didn't give it to him.
That's why when you look at the stadium where it's
at now, it's a problem.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's a bit it's hard to get to, especially when
most of your fan base is up in Broward, That's
where a lot of it. That's where he wanted to go,
right because he knew where his fan base was. Right,
you knew whether it for us, he knew where the
people were. But you feel like if that team had
stayed together, were such.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A great team. You would have won multiple world serious,
no questions.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know. We we had what it took.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I remember that our test was Okay, we got past
the Braves. We beat them, I think fourteen out of
eighteen times.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
But then when New York came in, the Yankees came
in the town, we dominated him.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And that's when we knew with a team. And so
Kevin Brown.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Like chim music, Kevin Brown, Oh yeah, yeah, give it
to you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
So we had everything you need and our fifth started
beat the Braids every time.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yes, Tony Saunders, that's right. Alex Fernancie, it was your fourth.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think he was a fourth. Damn. That's a good
team when he's your fourth.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Uniforms fttil uniforms are the best year.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Gary Love, Gary Love being a Florida Morlands tell me
he wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
To stay there.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I wanted to stay there. I just signed a four
year deal. I played that out, then we won the
World Series. Now I'm going into my second contract. I
had seven years, never played one game on that but
I had a blanket. No trade cause I could have
stopped the trade, but I tried to take care of
all my teammates because Charles Johnson was saying they was giving.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Him a five year deal, Bobby, but you wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Jim Eisenwright is the reason I did it because he's
the quietest kid you ever want to see. And when
he came to me, I respect him so much. I said,
you know, if if you want me to do it,
then I'll do it. It's cool because I did it
for them because I could have stayed with them all
and said no, I'm not accepting it. Yes, but if
(22:18):
you know, I kind of had a little concern because
I didn't know Piazza was in the trade, and I said,
how is this making the Dodgers better? And you get
rid of your best player? Of course, they said, now
you're our best player. I said, you got a point.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think we should end it. All that that was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I wanted to bring up the Cam Schlitzler Paul Skins
trade that Taylor. Taylor is such a homer, I'm not
a He loves Cam Schlitzler so much that I asked
him one day on the show, would you trade Cam
straight up for Paul Skens?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And he said, no, you wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Either ship Field's agreed with Taylor, no win.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I know he's a gamer. He's a gamer.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He's a gamer, and he's a Yankee homegrown proces.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes, that's right, unbelievable. The American Century Championships. Real quick,
tell everyone, while you love this thing so much?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I love it, man, I love it so much.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
I did to come out here with the greats and
watch these guys do something else great. Yes, you know,
they was great in their profession and they can come
to a golf course and flip this thing upside down
and go out there and score low. And I learned
a lot from these guys, but golfing with them, because
you know, when you're around a bunch of good golfers,
you get better.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I'm telling you this on the way out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
If you walk up to Larry David and say, hey,
you want to play on my course of course is
Grove twenty three, I guarantee you he's going to say yes.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I promise you.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm saying because you told me, I promise you will
say yes.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
If he does it, you never have to come up
with me. That's how much. That's how confident I am. Gary.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, well I'm not going to ask him for you.
I mean, you make me feel confident. All right, Get
out of here, man, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Good luck, love weekend, Love you too.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You're great.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Thank you all right, guys.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
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Speaker 1 (24:15):
I've been coming to the American Century Championships for ten
years now, and I got to tell you the coolest
moment for me over those ten years was last night
when they're introducing Matthew Kachuck's brother, Matthew with us right now,
Brady because he's a newcomer. And then the whole room,
a room of world class athletes, give you guys a
standing ovation for bringing home the gold.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How did that feel to.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You, Matthew Kuchuck, because I got goosebumps.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Man, Yeah, it was. It was actually one of the
coolest moments. By the time, it was, uh yeah for
people like that obviously aren't there. They introduced all the
new guys in whatever order. Brady was kind of one
of the guys at the end, and at the end
of Brady's like, you know, little bio that they gave
him out him they mentioned, you know, and we've got
(25:00):
gold medal group on Friday with Matthew, Bradykachuk and Matt Bouldie,
so cool. Olympic gold medalist for hockey, and the whole
place gave a standing up.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
It was just it was I mean with all the
guys in there too.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
You just look around, it's like, yeah, you know who's
who basically, and for them to do that was was
so amazing. And yeah, it gives you goosebumps for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah for real, man, Matthew has a bitter Rangers fan.
Be honest, should the podcast with Brady count is tampering
because it feels like that gave you an ontaric fan.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He's his brother, man, that's the advantage. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I don't even getting him down to Florida. I mean,
you get him to be a part of the Panthers.
He feels like you had an unfair advantage being his brother.
Don't answer it. I don't even understand the question. Don't
answer it. It's something you think.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
He came to Florida because that would be the worst
question ever.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Got No, No, no, it's the second worst question he's
asked this week. Just so you know, guy, let's talk
about the podcast though, Wingman, because I love it.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You're doing it with your brother.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was talking to Brady before and he said, yeah,
what we try to do is just keep it like
a FaceTime between me and Matthew, because sometimes you could
lose the chemistry even with family members when you turn
on a microphone. I love the podcast. Whose idea was it?
How'd you guys come up with the name wing Ben?
Speaker 10 (26:13):
So? I actually don't know how like it officially got
going or how it happened, but I do know we
were talking about it for a while kind of ever
since like even before four Nations doing it right, and
because we facetimed, you know however many times a week
every other day's talk every day, and basically people started
(26:33):
like pitching us and saying like, basically, you're facetiming him
for an hour and get paid.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I don't know, you might as well get paid for
this conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
I don't even know how. I don't know how, but
I do. I told the story the other day. The
first person that said I should do it, even though
it was kind of the ball was kind of rolling already, right,
like the big like the guy who wanted us to
do it the most was Bill.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Zito, really GM in Florida.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, our GM in Florida.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
And we were just talking to him the other day
and he's like, yeah, like don't forget, like who who.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Told you that the idea to do it?
Speaker 10 (27:06):
So it's it's pretty funny, but we love it. People
love hearing like it's it's different because it's current athletes
and nobody's done it in hockey, so I think hockey
fans enjoy like just like the stuff that's happened currently
and like this behind the scenes stuff with us, And
I mean, obviously we're lucky. We've had some incredible moments
(27:28):
that we can share over.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The last i mean six months. Basically Olympics.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
I mean that's probably the biggest thing. Obviously people like
to hear a lot about winning and stories about winning,
but people are just obsessed with the Olympics, the Olympic stories,
the Olympic guests that are on. So it's been it's
been a huge success so far and we've we've actually
really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It and they love your relationship. I think that's the
thing that shops the most for me. It's all iuthentic. Yeah,
just hearing you and your brother just talking shop.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Well, I think a lot of people can relate to it,
like whether you're you know.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
A brother and assistant, are two sisters, two brothers, two
best friends.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Just the camaraderie and the banter and.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Like the chirps and it just I think a lot
of people can relate to it, which is why.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They like it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So in the last three years, the last well, I guess, yeah,
three years, two Stanley Cups and a gold medal, And
I'm wondering how the gold medal felt differently to you
than winning the Stanley Cups.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
I would say it was a well.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Way less taxing on the body, right, But I did
only come back. I had surgery in August last year,
and I came back like eight maybe ten games before
the Olympics, and I probably should have stayed out another
week or so or really, and so I came back
like right before and my game was just kind of
going like this. But by the end of the Olympics
(28:46):
when I came back, I felt amazing, like healthwise.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Felt amazing.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
So I guess that was the biggest difference, is I
wasn't you know playing when you're in playoff hockey, it's
every game you're like playing through something little like it's
the most fears competitive, physical and after you win, I mean,
it's so rewarding lifting the cup because of just how
many hours you've put in with the same group and
and just the total that your body has. But I
(29:11):
will say that the impact of the Olympics was was
was greater because not only did you know the Florida
Panthers fans watched it, but the whole country, the people
in Florida that didn't really watch hockey before they watched it.
And then I mean you could say people in Tampa
who don't like the Panthers, they all were supporting us.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Like it was. It was just so.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Nationwide and it's so cool just talking to people from
each My favorite thing to ask people is like it's.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
One of those very few moments in life where you
know where you were when.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
So I love asking people like where were you and
like the amount of I went. I woke up at
five am to get to my neighborhood bar to watch it,
or I had a watch party at my I had
a bunch of families going for to my house at
six am to watch it. It's unreal and it's unbelievable
because when we were over there, they did such a
good job of keeping us like really focused and like
(30:03):
in a bubbles and we knew that it was the Olympics,
big deal, but we had no idea the magnet. I
had no idea what we were walking into when we
got back to the US, right, and it was in
Miami where we've had a bunch of celebrations before, so
I knew kind of what was it was going to be,
but it was times.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Ten really exceeded it. It was just wild. I'll tell
you one of those stories.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So I can't remember the last time my dad, my brother,
and myself got together to watch a sporting event. My
brother flew down to South Florida from New York, Wow
to my dad's house, and me and my dad.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
And my brother watched that gold medal game. Together.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, it was and it made it like made my
dad's you know, just it's he still gets tears talking
about that.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
You just said it there.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
It's like amazing, like how emotional people were in like
forty six years.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
And then just beating Canada and like slaying the dragon
there a little bit. It's just, you know, it wouldn't
have been the same if we didn't beat Canada the finals.
I think we've Finland beats Canada. I mean, I'm sure
people are still jacked up if we would have won.
But it wasn't the same as being Canada.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Did you notice that when you got home were road
fans treating you guys differently?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Crazy, right, for sure.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I remember my first.
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Road trip was in New York. First game back was
at home, maybe first two were at home. Then went
to New York and after the game I brought the
metal And after the game in New Jersey and in
the Island, just tons of people waiting and they're all wearing.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
The Islanders jerseys and so cool.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
But we were all one team for two and a
half weeks, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What do you remember most about going into that ot
because I think the suddenness of like how quickly it
ended made it even better.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I just remember, I mean the guys that were first
of all, the guys that weren't even on the ice
in overtime. I mean it's the two Maybe it was
the best game of all time, like with the players
on the team, like it was some of the most
insane talent. I mean, probably probably the best game. And
like player pool, you're gonna you're gonna find for one game.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
So the game was moving so fast.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
It's just it was insane. You couldn't even think.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I mean, you're just you're you're flying around, You're hitting everything.
There's no room to make any play. That's what people
talk about, Like with all the skill on these teams. Yes,
these there's there's one hundred point guys in every team
that you got Big David, you know, Austin Matthew's got
two unroll boys, great defense, Quinn Hughes, kil mccarr, Warenski,
these guys. It's a two to one game and then
(32:24):
it's a two uh three, two overtime game in the
Four Nations. It's a two to one game in Montreal
and the Four Nations. Like it's not about who's gonna
go out there and get the goal. It's like almost
like who's gonna give up a chance the other way.
So to answer your question though, going into overtime, I
was just like, holy cow, like this is he's gonna
be the greatest overtime display by both teams because of.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
The best overtime players in the world.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Yes, and uh, it's just I couldn't. I have no
words to describe how I felt when Jack scored.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
But just to play that.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You're getting emotional now, just to play.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
That Wrenski made before war in the saves, and hell,
he made all game, I mean bolds his goal in
the first We had so many great efforts. And I
will say one thing that's not talked about enough because
it was kind of in the middle of the game,
but we had to kill off a minute and a
half five on three. I remember against that power.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Against them, right the Olympics, And just I mean David's
flying around, you know, like you got.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
To give credits, you know, the slave ins, the JT.
Miller's trocheck Sanderson, those guys that don't get enough credit.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Where's the gold medal? Right now?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I can't say.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I will tell you an unnamed person here said he
has spent more time with the gold seeing your gold
medal than seeing you.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Actually this week's yeah, probably it was Marty Fish.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Yeah, we had had some fun on Tuesday with him.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
We got some good pictures.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
This is such a great event, the American Century Championship.
You guys have such a great bond, the standing ovation
you got last night, the friendship. I don't know if
you were friends with Marty beforehand, but you're certainly good
friends now. And I see you here in your second
year and you're introducing Brady to it because he's in
his first year.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Year.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What did you learn about last year that helped you
prepare for this week year?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
This is my third year, your third year. I'm sorry, Yeah,
I think I think each year it's just like you
know more people.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yes, you seem more comfortable and relaxed.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, you know a lot of the American Century team.
You know a lot more of the NBC team. And
it's just like it's just a week of fun, non stop,
and it doesn't like it literally doesn't stop. Like got
something here in a little bit. And then me and
my Caddie Luke, so we have we have no the
no wives or no girlfriends on the fiances on the
(34:36):
trip this week. It's just just the boys. So we
got to learn well, yes, it's another batchup part literally
like right after this and a little bit. We'll either
go to the pool, go to the lake for a
bit and then there'll be a few guys there and
just have a few drinks. It just doesn't stop. It's
never ending. I sleep like four hours and night and
you wake up and you have more energy I could
(34:57):
ever imagine. It's just it's an absolute blast. I mean
the other isn't too bad either.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
It's the same every day.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
We ran the nicest place in the country, I think
it is. And it's just I mean, it's a little bit.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Harder to get to for people out of east, but
if they haven't been here, they have to.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's kind of like South Florida in the winters. It
is in terms of the weather where you know, it's
seventy two degrees. He's not a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
A J.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Hawk said.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
He goes in the lake every morning at five poin fifteen.
Have you done that with him?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
I have not been a fifteen I try to get
home by five fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
No, I'm normally. I'm normally a little bit after.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
That if I if I have time to get a
quick dunk, and then I'm there for however long in
the afternoon. And it's the best way to wake yourself up.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
All right, we'll get you out of here on this note.
We appreciate you doing this. Florida Panther fans, while they're
excited that you won the gold medal and they were
all over that moment as well, they want to hear
that we're going to win another cup, so they want
a third Cup. You won too, They want a third
I don't want you to make any sort of guarantees,
but they do want to get back to getting to
the playoffs at winning Stanley Cups. Do you, guys feel
like you have a chance of getting back to that
(35:56):
level this year?
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Well, I hope they want you. We want to.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yes, this was a weird if they want to hear
from you, man like you make it go.
Speaker 10 (36:02):
You know, where as confident of a team as as
ever we've done our core still with us and picked
up a couple of pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Pieces, Yeah, I think so, Yeah, we will.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
I do think that in a season or with a team,
you know, especially after winning, even after winning, I should
say you need kind of a fresh sort of blood
that can raise that level again. And I think Brady
and then you guys are definitely gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
First.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Will you say, have to see Bob gone very sah.
Speaker 10 (36:31):
And whenever you lose a close buddy, you know who's
who's been so good to me, such an amazing pro,
such an amazing teammate. But with that being said, I
am so excited to get Marky back. I played with
him in Cowdery. He's an unbelievable goalie and unreal guy.
Just part of the business.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
But I know Toronto definitely got to go to him.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Bob. All right, man, enjoy the rest of your week
out here. Good luckily. How's the game, by the way, good?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Better this year. I got to play a little bit before.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Should we put a little fly right, We're gonna waste
your time. Check out his podcast Wing then with his
brother uh Bill. Gito deserves all the credit for if
you trying to get a piece of your podcast.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
If that what he's doing, he deserves all right.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's a great pod man. Continue success, and we appreciate
you doing this.
Speaker 10 (37:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You're a great You're a great guy.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Thank you, of course, Thank you, guys,
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