May 5, 2026 • 33 mins
On this edition of The Best Of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Stugotz and company break down game one of the Knicks-Sixers series as New York won in impressive fashion. Stu and the guys begin a Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday. Dan Beyer delivers the results of Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Christopher mad Dog Russo going to join us at three
point thirty at nan verk at four thirty. Nicks with
a big win last night and the Timberwolves with a
big win last night. Oh really, these games are keeping.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Me up late.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm going to stay the opposite. What do you mean,
I was dead asleep by the time that game ended. Really, yeah,
I had to rewatch the ending.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean one o four, one oh two. That's a
close game. That's a tight game. I'm surprised you fell asleep.
You've been waiting for the postseason all season.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
My eyelids were tighter.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Real quickly.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here before we get to t Wolves and Spurs, because
I think that's the more interesting game of the two
games played last night.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There was a third game played last night by the
hottest team in South Florida, but we'll get to that
at some point.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
That would be their.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Softball team I mean, and we'll get to that in
just a second. By the way, it is a mount
Rushmore Monday. On a Tuesday, we will have a mount
Rushmore for you today. I have no idea what the
topic is. That's because Mikey gets to decide he is
the defending champion.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
He still hasn't told us.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I wonder what that feels like.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You'll never know. It's a nice feeling, is it. Yeah,
do you have a topic yet? Have you picked one out?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I have a few.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'll pick one, okay?
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I feel like Nick fans were in a dangerous spot.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I apologize to Taylor for not sharing in his excitement
earlier today when we take with Salakata the show. Before
the show, I apologized him. I should be more excited.
But these series are long, and people get carried away
with one game. And I've seen it too many times
where a team blows a team out in game one,
and that second team, the Sixers, will come back a
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very desperate team here in game two, and I feel
like nick fans think this is the team, the team
they've seen since Game three that lost to Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
This is the team they're gonna see.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The rest of the way, and if that were the case,
they'd be the best team in NBA history.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean, what do they got to margin a victory
averaging about fifty the last couple of games. Yes, this
is interesting because I wanted to ask you both Taylor
and Stucatts as Knicks fans, this moment right here is
this And I'll.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Just ask Taylor, I guess because you've lived longer.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Stu, well, I've seen him in the finals, right right?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Is this the most optimism you've ever had for the
New York Knicks, Because even last year when they were
in the conference finals, they didn't look great. Right this
year in the second round, you're looking at how well
they're playing, and it's like, well, it feels like this
second round is gonna be, you know, an obvious cakewalk,
right and then you look at the opponent that's coming
(02:55):
up next, and you're not really shaken by you know,
the threat of that team. And so I'm just curious, Taylor, like,
it's got to be different than it was just a
few weeks ago when they were still figuring things out.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
But right now, how good does it feel?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is the top of your list of this is as
positive as I felt about a Knicks team is.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
He It is not even close.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
The most optimistic I've ever been about the Knicks four
years ago was the next four years ago. The most
optimistic I've ever been about the Knicks three years ago
was three years ago. And you could just keep doing
that until you get to present day, because it feels
like whenever we think we're at the peak of what
this Knicks team ceiling is, they kind of blow right
past it. And now it's hard to not watch this
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team the past three four games, ever since they got
that wake up call against Atlanta and look at them
and be like, how isn't this team an NBA title contender.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You can bind that the fact that the Knicks are
playing so well with the fact of who's remaining in
the East.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The Celtics are out.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now you have the Pistons and Calves playing in the
other series, but they're still Oklahoma City out west, and
that scares me.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yeah, although you know the goal with this team.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Is get there, right like, yes, if you get to
the finals, you are still moving forward. You're going through
the stages, whatever it takes. And if you lose to
an Oklahoma City Thunder team, that is the current you know,
villain of the NBA. Okay, you're part of that story,
but at least its progress.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
But even the Pacers took this thunder team to a
Game seven last year, and the Knicks had the the
Pacers like that was a pretty tight series. So I
don't really subscribe to the theory of, oh, the Knicks
just have to make it to the finals and then
you know you're going to be a severe underdog. Even
if they are an underdog. If you make it to
the finals, you might as well just go and go
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ahead and win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Sure, I think, yeah, when you get there, it could
be where you know, because it's a first time for
Brunson and Cat, and Cat, you know, first time first
times in postseasons might not be the most reliable person.
But I think what's different about this sort of last
stretch of success. And obviously it comes at a playoffs,
so it's most crucial. But it's very and I read
(04:58):
an article about this in The Athletic which is very good.
But if you pay attention to the way this offense
is flowing, it's not because we joked earlier Taylor right
about oh, they all of a sudden discovered a pick
and roll between their two best players and that how
that's effective. But really it's just their offense in general,
sort of the read and reacting, the not needing a
singular sort of point of attack every single time to
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be the same right. That's when you get guys like
Mikhale Bridges sort of flowing within the offense, making the
right cuts, finding his shots and just being wide open
and shooting seven of ten.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Same thing with.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Og who's just a beast if you either obviously leave
them open for a three or let him sort of
you know, pump, fake and drive that. Like when when
this offense is flowing, well, everybody's in their comfort zone,
especially now that Karl Anthony Towns has found where he
is within the offense.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I have to follow the face of one mikey A.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He's a good friend, and I always follow that face
because he's thinking what I'm probably thinking.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
How about you beat the Sixers first?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yeah, I just I just worry about you, Taylor. I
just worry about you. I can see the pad and
I'm worried for you because you're not gonna know the
joy You're not gonna find.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Right, Listen, you never want to overreact after one game,
and the six Senters were playing with house money in
that game one. They just really have to steal one
of the first two games in New York. I'll tell
you right now, I'll be the first one to say it.
This is the Vince Carter It's it's over. It's this
this series. We're on to the East time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, Ricardo board out. Ricardo marked the tape right now,
the moment this one's over.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Now, put me on that tape too, because.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, I don't know if anyone marks tape because I said,
down three to one, the Sixers were gonna win that
series against the Celtics, and no one played it.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Where's his tape?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I mean, where's my tape? Yeah, it's all about tailor's clips.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I mean, geez.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't want to oversimplify this, because I do think
that the Sixers can make certain adjustments that will make
up for what I'm about to say. But when you
go from their last series in New York into this
series and you saying, okay, defensively, like I don't have
to worry about Dyson Daniels just locking up Jalen Brunton
one on one or you know, potentially just blowing up
(07:08):
a play like Tyre smaxyvj Edgecomb. They're okay defensively, but
they're not Dyson Daniels, and you're almost always going to
be facing this drop coverage of Joel Embiid. I'm sorry,
but Jaylen Bruns is gonna eat that up all day
long against a guy like emb that you can maybe
you know he's putting in more effort defensively, but even
that doesn't look like great defensive play.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I will say this to all Nick fans, those of
you who crushed Karl Anthony Towns, you do not get
to enjoy this. I mean, I don't care what time
it was, I don't care what day it was. I
don't care when you did it, how you did it,
if it was private, if it was public. You do
not get to enjoy Karl Anthony Towns having this kind
of postseason.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
What are you shaking all about?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
So so wrong?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
It's well because you're one of them. It's laughably wrong.
Carl Anthony Towns. The relationship the Knicks fans have with
Karl Anthony Towns is we're allowed to talk about him, right,
Everybody else is not allowed to talk about him. Kendrick
Perkins comes out and says, Karl Anthony Towns is soft.
Knicks fans have their pitchforks out and be like, Perk,
let us know where we can find you in the street.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
We'll come fight you. But if one of us says.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Hey, kar Anthony Towns, he's kind of soft, and everybody
kind of looks at each other and be like, yeah,
we know.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I don't think that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
There's there have been times when if Perk said that,
you guys would agree with him.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Now, well, that's true, they do.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I feel like it's okay to agree if it's all
at the same time, right, because it's like it's all right.
I feel that way as well. But if they're going,
like if they're doing what Stu Gott's is saying now
and say you're not going to be able to trust
Cat the rest of the series, that's when you take offense.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, he's being great. The other series is he fell
asleep for the game at halftime.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, hang on, I think Taylor had one more thing.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Though, Really he hasn't gotten enough out of the New
York Nixon Carl.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
It's just stu coming here trying to be the police
of who's allowed to cheer for who. Stucott should have
to pass a test to get back on the Knicks,
man Wig.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Really, okay, what's the test? Give me the test.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I'll give you a test. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Name three non starters on this next team.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Let's see. Wow, non starter sham it's on there. I know, right,
and he's one of them. Mitchell Robinson perhaps see his second?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
One third?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He was looking up to he wasn't even looking at
his computer. Yeah, I'm telling you, yesud doing some betting.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
If you would, if you would ask me for four,
I was going to be stuck.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I think you had a fourth.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I think you had a fourth.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right, let's go to the other series. I can't believe
you fell asleep at halftime, but I understand these are
late games. I only thought from this.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Particular game, I was exhausted.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, and we have to break here because Christopher head
Dog Grisso was joining us. It's odd that he's joining us,
considering that he's live on.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The air right now.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Havenented that man, but he is.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
He is going to join us.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There was a time is he where everyone laughed at
the t Wolve for trading for Rudy Gobert because the
big man has gone by the wayside. They looked more
like I'm bin Yama now then they do Rudy Gobert.
But Rudy Gobert has been the MVP defensively of these
playoffs so far.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No he had in he has been and he's been
locking some people up. But I'm gonna save this for later.
Wemby said something yesterday that can prove to people he's
not ready for this.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
He's not ready for this first run and he probably
won't win it. Well, he'll play that later in the show.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
He needs to stop talking.
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Speaker 6 (10:58):
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Speaker 1 (11:00):
Coming up at around four point thirty, let's get to
a Mount Rushmore Monday.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Here on a Tuesday, Dan is Dan with us here
to be our judge.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
We need you Dan. We did to do it yesterday.
I wanted to do it on the podcast. Those guys
said no, we need Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Byer.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
There could be some controversy depending on the finalized topic
for Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
All right, do we have a topic yet? I know
we do have a topic. Izzy's complaining about it. I
told Izzy you gotta win if you want to create
the topic.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I mean very true. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
In honor of Taylor Shirley Temple take the topic this
week is simple. It is beverages.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
All right, give us the imaging Sam.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Thank you there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, you the guy with the spreadsheet for pretending to work.
Do you find yourself needing a pick me up as
you're dragging in your cubicle start the week? Are you
ready to put the sports back in sports talk? Well,
then you're in luck because every Monday we climbed a mountain.
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We talked the legend and we argue about things.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You want handler the truth you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Handle the true that absolutely do not matter and are
completely subjective. This is mouth rushmore Monday, Monday.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
All right, Taylor, we have the topic. Give us the
draft order here.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
On Tuesday, so it's beverages.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
The draft order is Mikey Izzy Stu Gotts Taylor and
then back to me for the snake part.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And Mikey Isy Stu Gods and tailor. So the rating
champ gets to go first.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I hate the one pick.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
My rain comes to an end, but I'm gonna go
with an ice cold beer.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
All right, really cold beer, no specific time, just beer.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Beer's cold. You can go to London, gotta be con stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, to that London stuff all right, but individual beers,
thank you, Iowa Sam. Individual beers are for pouring a beer.
I love that sim individual beers are still.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Available though, right, I mean feeling they are.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Who was next?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
That's me? This one?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's tough because I feel like I'm deciding between the
drink that starts your day or the drink that sort
of makes your day.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
So it's either, you know, a coffee based drink.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And I'm not gonna say which one I was gonna choose,
but I think I'm just gonna have to go.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Margarita. Really, I'm going margarita. I'm going very specific. I'm
going to an alcoholic drink.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
That is the drink you start your day with then
and your day?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
All right? Who's up?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm applying Dan sensibilities here because he's the judge bander.
I'm gonna he loves golf. So I'm gonna say an
Arnold Palmer. Wow, about that.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Arnold Palmer of that?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And you follow me?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I am you gonna go here with my snake picks,
A cool blue Gatorade?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Oh wow?
Speaker 8 (13:50):
And he fresh squeezed lemonade.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Wow, cool blue Gatorade? Cool blue?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Was the key there?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Mind one, I gotta scratch that off, Stu.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Back to you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm gonna say a good old fountain coke. It cannot
be a bottle of coke. I don't want a can
of coke. I want a fountain Coca Cola from a
pizza parlor.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
About that? Yes, Man's back to me.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Huh Yep, I'm gonna sound like an alcoholic if I
go back to back alcoholic.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I mean, you start every day with a margarita.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I'm gonna go with what I believe to be the
most popular version.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
You know what. Nope, I'm just gonna have to go
straight up. Cup of coffee. Never a cup of coffee,
great cup of coff I.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Was gonna say cappuccino, but I was being a little
too fancy there, overthinking it and thinking you're in the
French bistro or something or a cafe.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
All right, all right, me for two. I'll go quickly here.
I'm gonna separate Stew's Arnold Palmer. I'm gonna take an
iced tea, right, and I'm going to take a sprite
or a lemon lime soda.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Really a sprite or a lemon lime soda. Poor a story,
all right, sprite sprite? Okay?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Seven up?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Oh? Is it me again?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Moving fast man? Yeah, alright, man.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm a little torn here, but I feel like I've
got to attach all my drinks to meals.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And you can't have a brunch without a mimosa.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
So I think you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Also can't start a flight in first class without a Mimosa.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
You're off.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I'm going Mimosa.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
You wouldn't know, Stu Gotts.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It's nice up there.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Spirit didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I am gonna go, h I'm gonna go beer category,
but I'm gonna go a PAPS Blue Ribbon Wow PBR.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
But a draft. It needs to be tap.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I love tap.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I don't want bottles. I don't want cans. I want
it out of the tap. You ever had a PB
and J I have? Okay, it's just a PBR with
a shot of Jamison.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Huh So talking about the sandwich.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
My back to back picks here, I'm gonna go a
strawberry banana smoothie.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Oh that's so good. Oh wow?
Speaker 9 (16:07):
And then hmm, I'm torn here, but I have to
go with my community, the Charlotte Temple.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yeah. I was gonna say, if you don't pick to
Shirley Temple, I riot.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I mean you're the king of that community.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, all right, all right, Stu, al right.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's up to me. I love the smoothie from Smoothie King.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That just kind of jogged my memory. I'm going the
Angel Hair Smoothie from Smoothie King.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
That thing that sounds like a pasta. I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's called the angel hair. It's angel something taking an
old fashioned Yeah, really an old fashion. I don't believe
it's still here. Give me a milkshake, all right, So
we have to come.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Back with a real bake.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yes, we do have to come back. Dan Buyer will
have the ruling coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
At nan Vurka to join us at four point thirty
so Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday. Everyone trying to
get a hold of Dan Bayer during the break to
try to swile.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Someone did Someone did get a hold of me.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I'm always any names. Let someone reached out via text?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Who was it was?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Wasn't it Stue?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well listen, I'm feeling it because you guys have been
laughing at me for six minutes because the angel food
smoothie that I love so much, Smoothie King, I called
it the Angel hair.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I mean, just throw some last in.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
There, so gross. Can we recap exactly what happened here? Sure,
we had a Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday. Yeah,
And the Mount Rushmore Monday selection was made by Mikey
and it was of beverages.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And this was based on Taylor's love of.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Shirley Temple's yep okay, and my Mount Rushmore was Man,
this is telling Margarita coffee, mimosays an old fashion.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Yeah, Taylor, what was yours?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Again?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Mine was cool blue Gatorade, Fresh Squeeze, Lemonade, a strawberry
banana smoothie, and Shirley Temple. My problem with Stu Gotts's
smoothie pick. First off, he got the name wrong. Even
if he didn't get the name wrong, he was describing
this smoothie like it was this extravagant smoothie when two
picks before I picked a strawberry banana smoothie. And this
is why I'll put my hand up and say. I
(18:21):
texted Dan Bayer during the break's be like, hey, please
just review. Listen the name the smoothie that Stu gots picked, Yeah,
was just the strawberry banana smoothie with a different.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I didn't ask you to argue your case. I asked
you to give me your Mount Rushmore picks please.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh Yeahsked you said strawberry banana. You did, but listen,
don't knock it till you try it. Throw some angel
hair pasta into a white.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Dirt before we all get grossed out. Mikey R.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Mount Rushmore was ice called beer, iced tea sprite and
a milkshake.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Okay, he likes things icy. And then Stu, I don't
know if you wrote yours down? Did you write yours? Dawn?
Is anybody else fountain?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I was in there a pat flue is in a
blue ribbon, and I was pandering to Dan with the
Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How about that? I was glad.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Yeah, I was going to warn you guys that you know,
trying to pander to me sometimes can work, but sometimes
it can backfire. And I think today is Today was
an interesting, interesting, I guess exercise. In this matter, you
may have been told something during the break that I
wasn't going to reveal until now for you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And it's kind of like telling.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
The the mother and father on the gender reveal a
day before what the gender is, because I feel Iowa
Sam may have let the cat out of the bags everywhere. Yes,
I don't drink alcohol, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Fourth by a mile like me.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's all And apparently that's all Israel does, and he
drinks some espresso to get over the hangover.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, I didn't know this was a mount rushmore
for Dan Bayer.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I apologize.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
So if this was going to be an alcoholic beverages,
I was actually going to pass off the judging duties
to Iowa Sam because it would be worthless.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There was a golden ticket today. Oh wow, H two O.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
Who doesn't love a delicious glass of ice cold water?
And if someone would teenagers just have gone simple and said,
you know what, who turns down water when they come
to your table and say would you like some water?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
No one says no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
I mean I turn it down if I have a
glass of Angel hair pasta. That's I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So there was there was a lot at steak here.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Isy.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Yeah, you're fourth when seventy five percent of it is
is alcohol. I know that may not make me popular
with the masses. It's just the way that things are.
Pbr pbry asap was something my relatives love to say
growing up, just not to me. And having the angel
food pasta in my smoothie, the angel.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Hair postaed my smoothie. Yeah, that work.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Still your third on this snock until you try it,
I said, I mean.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Hey, Taylor, this feels familiar.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
This is this.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Is magic Bird right now and Mike match.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
So it comes down to this.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
It comes down to the one person who has no
alcohol in their drinks in any of them, or the
one who picked one. But they picked some really really
good drinks. Who doesn't love a nice tea or a
nice sweet tea. Maybe h throwing a little raspberry tea
in there. I think it covered all of them. That
was Mikey milkshake, chocolate vanilla, whatever, They're delicious. Yeah, Sprite.
(21:37):
If you would have went Mountain Dew, Mikey, you would
have been number one. But you didn't. You went Sprite,
your number tenant.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I met Mountain Dew.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
Taylor is the winner of today's mount Rushed a delicious lemonade.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
The nemesis the Shirley Temple.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
That's the upsetting party about this.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
You let Shirley Temple win.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Damn Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Can I ask you a question? Would this have suaded
you if I told you earlier today that Taylor said
he would not trade Jalen Brunson for Victor Wending Dama
straight up today he went to put on the poll.
By the way, Nick fans, only would you trade brunts
in for Wenby?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Today?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Just today?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Today, today, only, Dan, when you're done with your weekly
softball game, do you and the guys go grab a
bunch of Shirley Temples?
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Sit around around for everybody Shirley make a rounds. I
would say that if Taylor By saying that, I thought
he would have drink all of Izzy's lists by the
time that he said that, because it was heavily filled
U with the with the alcohol. I was surprised chocolate
milk didn't make it. Who doesn't love them nice class
of chocolate milk? What about orange juice? Huh yeah oj
(22:44):
yeah my list and.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Some of us like to drink pasta. Yeah, but you
know what we should know, dan By? Now just keep
it simple, guys. That's it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It's honest, very cheap, very meat and potatoes.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
That's the Midwest of amost all of these things, little
side of garlic bread?
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Can I can I defer to Sam or Jason on
as they drink alcohol? Would is He's roster have been
better if I actually drank Jason Stewart, Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I really like these choices.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I really like the Old Fashioned was a great, a
great choice, but it was so far off Fire's radar.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Solid Margeria does anything with tequila in, it's gonna get points.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Variety in there and the type of alcohol.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Come on, I know, but he's right. Though we left
out water.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I should have switched Look, my big mistake was switching
out I should have taken out coffee and put in
the espresso martini, and then I would have had a
consistent force them.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
It would have been perfect.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
And guys, I'm pretty sure John Day has actually gone
on record and say he does not drink water, So
he would be one guy be like, no, I don't
want water, no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
He drinks dit coke.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Does he drink pasta?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let's go to Al who's in Albuquerque. He always is,
Go ahead, Al, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
Heyst got say is the nineteen time?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Long time?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Is he?
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You're a man a for my own heart with those
drink selections, You're you're the winner here.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
But I'm calling in to damaged.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Yeah, but you know, slowly, day by day calling in
to provide just a quick update on the Stanley Cup
playoffs since there's a lack of hockey coverage here and
I got to share this important breaking news item courtesy
of the Athletic who did a piece today on Vegas
Golden Knights forward Brett Howden. He's been lighting it up
the past two weeks and they reached out to his
junior's coach up in moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and he provided
(24:41):
this quote. He said, some guys play hockey, and then
there are hockey players. Brett Howden, he's a hockey player. Yeah, guys,
if that's true, that's big news.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yes, it is right, Yeah, right. The fact that there's
a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
No, it's so true. Even yesterday playing softball. Some guys
are softball players. Some guys us play softball.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I'm the latter.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yes, yes, that is breaking news. Thank you all.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I mean that's big stuff.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Is that only? Add?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Okay? Thank you al. There's a difference.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There are people who play hockey and there were hockey players.
Taylor not a hockey player. Shirley Temple open bar Wedding,
not a hockey player, but plays hockey a little bit.
Speaking of playing, how does softball go for you?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Hottest team in the league.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Who stude.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yes, we were intimidating. We were so intimidating that the
other team didn't have enough guys.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
They had the.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Forfeit or they did.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I mean we ended up scrimmaging anyway, So we have
some you know, some play by play here, but it
was definitely a win by forfeit. And now we are
two and zero in our last two and are on
a rule.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
So is he The most confusing part is not only
did the other team not have enough people, the other
team didn't have a single person show up. The team
that we scrimmaged was a team from the game previously.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
It just stuck around.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Was like, hey, we just finished a game, we'll play you,
and then Stu, we play this team.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah we destroyed it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, hang on, that makes so much sense because the
team we were scheduled to play was two and one, right,
and so I was like, this team's coming up, and
I was like, there's a lot of.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Dominicans on this team. There's no way this team should
be winning.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Hat yeah too, I saw that guy with a Nicaragua
hat and I said, oh no, we're gonna have a
problem game.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
So you figured that the Dodgers of your softball league.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It seemed I guess it seemed like they weren't speaking English,
which is already terrifying, like if they're just speaking Spanish
the whole time. And yeah, early on, I was like, Okay,
I see this group. It's gonna be a bit of
a problem. But we put up what six in the
first inning, and it was just we were coasting Stu.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
You know, the key to a good softball game, you
got to put up a crooked number in that first inning.
And when we put up a seventh spot, Yeah, they
were playing catch up the rest of the night.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But this team stuck around to play a second game
against you guys like they would just didn't.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
I tell you they were all Dominican.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Yes, this is what they do.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I mean, Jim Ratts and I can't stand those guys.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
First one in, last guy's out.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I mean, they're always there. They just they're waiting for
a game. I mean they're there now right.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
They're the guys that know how to turn on the
lights at the park right when you're there and you're
like we need lights, They're like, I know how to
do it.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yes, yes, they lock up the gate. Correct.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Now the first question, I know everybody's wondering, how did
Ian do well? He actually had a few opportunities. I'm
gonna let Taylor take it from here.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
But it wasn't a real game. You were just hanging around.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's a great points to you, right, because at the
very beginning, everybody's like, oh, we're not taking any walks.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
This is a scrimmage. We're just gonna go.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And it's just like by the middle of the second inning,
I was just like, everybody's taking this sou serious like it.
We're taking his like treating It's like it's a real game.
But how did he end?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Taylor?
Speaker 9 (27:43):
So Ian was on base in that first inning, stew
and somebody hits the ball to the outfield. Yeah, And
I'm screaming at Ian from first base. You're scoring, you're scoring,
and he's running at third and I go, go, go, go,
when I could clearly tell he's dead.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
He's dead by a mile Jesus I was.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I was sending him into the lines then telling him
to go, and then he he he gets tagged out
a mile before, and he's looking at me like that
was completely your fault. And I'm now I'm laughing because
this game doesn't count. We're up seven to nothing already.
At this point, of course, he's mad at you.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I mean, you're the only person in that body could trust.
He's not looking.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
He has to trust you.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
So then we go out in the field and one
of the first balls gets hit to him and he
canicorn like, couldn't be easier, doesn't have.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
To move love a can of corn, he says.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
He loses the ball on the lights and the ball
hits off like his stomach.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
With his stomach, I thought it was the back of
the glove. I thought it just hit the glove and
fell down.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, I don't even think it made contact with his
glove and made contact with his body.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
But Stu, we figured something out. We're now running a
staggered in the outfield, and the stagger is scrimmage.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yes, this is a fake game.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I mean instead of having instead of having four outfielders
just spread across the outfield in left field and left
center field, Ian is about fifteen feet in front of me,
so he doesn't have to worry about going.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Back because Andrew Jones is behind him.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm trying to cover any ground because me and Ian,
both have two noodle arms, So any balls that get
hit either left or to the right is going to
be an automatic double because we can't physically make that throw.
So now we're just trying to take one thing out
of the equation, and that thing out of the equation
for him is having to worry about going back. And
he made one of the best catches I've ever set.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
But well, you're adding this part of the equation, the
threat of being smacked in the face by a line
drive by almost every righty hitter.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, but sometimes you got to minimize a guy, you know,
you just got to minimize what it is he does
and just have him focused on one little space of.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
The field to catch her. Yeah, go ahead, Dan, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
I also I don't know, Ian, but I would also
think something that Taylor said that I just think is
off base that he was maybe mad that you sent
him home. I think he was just mad that you
didn't allow him to rest that third. It's not that
he was called out. He just wanted to stop running
then instead of more down the baseline, like he just like,
let let me just stop here, and instead you sent him.
That's probably the reason why he wasn't happening a mile. No,
(30:16):
he takes the light.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm telling you, Dan, it's what you're saying sounds logical,
But he takes the light and making the saltball season
a misery.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
He does.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He doesn't want him to succeed. He wants to have
the best stats on the team.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I mean, now that we got our een update, the
real eye of the team Israel.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, hold on has nothing before we get to to
I go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Well, my question is for Taylor about Israel. I mean,
with all the expectations, you got to keep both feet
on the ground.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
And speaking of keeping both feet on the ground, he
jumps wings.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, I never jumped. I never jumped.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Secondarily, Taylor's not answering is he had a walk?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Well walk? I think everybody wanted to know if I
got my first hit. Yes, no, I did not.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
However, I got one at bat Okay, and it's the scrimmage,
I'm saying to myself, of course I'm swinging at everything.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
And so the first pitch was like way inside to.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The point where I'm just like, I'm gonna take two
steps back and swing at this thing anyway, And so
I sort of took a step back and sort of
swung through it.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Whatever I missed it. It was a terrible pitch.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
And then I'm like, all right, at least just give
me something to hit. And this guy just I mean
he basically threw balls that barely were off the ground
and bounced in and I'm just like, I literally can't
swing at those and I have to take my base.
And then they had a second basement over there who
was just talking saying something.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I was like, dude, you think I want to walk?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
And then Stu I saw is he's worst fear almost realized,
what's that?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So I'm approaching my second at bet right, he's approaching
his second at bat.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No one walks off, the walks up the softball at
BET's terrified.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I mean, so he's doing it's softball.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
The score at this point, we're probably up like fourteen
to three, like we are. We are dominating this team,
and we're running out of time. And some people are
terrified of spiders. Some people are terrified of you know, rodents,
what is he Gutierrez is terrified of you? Hear somebody
(32:16):
in the behind the backstop watching the game, go is
that is he? From ESPN and right away, right away,
right away, as is he's walking into the at bat circle.
I hear Anthony go, oh no, this is this is
worst case scenario for.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Someone recognized him.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Now there's an expectation, someone thinks he's a good athlete
because you worked at ESPs.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
So I hear the two guys on the other side
of the fence ask the Empire, and then the Empire
just says something is like he basically asked him to
yell my name.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
It is real.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And then I turned around. I was like, oh god,
here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
And so I'm walking toward at the gate and I
and I was like hey, and they go, did you
work for ESPN.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I worked there for
a long time. Like oh, that's it.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And I got right not turn around because you don't
want to see this. He goes, now, let's see. And
the second I start to walk toward the plate, my man,
the umpire, my savior comes down and says.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Time, I've never been no more at bats.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Today And I was just like, I'll see you guys
next week. It is weird.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You work at ESPN and there's an expectation that you're
John Kronked.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Christopher mad Dog Russo going to join us at three
point thirty at nan verk at four thirty. Nicks with
a big win last night and the Timberwolves with a
big win last night. Oh really, these games are keeping.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Me up late.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm going to stay the opposite. What do you mean,
I was dead asleep by the time that game ended. Really, yeah,
I had to rewatch the ending.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean one o four, one oh two. That's a
close game. That's a tight game. I'm surprised you fell asleep.
You've been waiting for the postseason all season.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
My eyelids were tighter.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Real quickly.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here before we get to t Wolves and Spurs, because
I think that's the more interesting game of the two
games played last night.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There was a third game played last night by the
hottest team in South Florida, but we'll get to that
at some point.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
That would be their.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Softball team I mean, and we'll get to that in
just a second. By the way, it is a mount
Rushmore Monday. On a Tuesday, we will have a mount
Rushmore for you today. I have no idea what the
topic is. That's because Mikey gets to decide he is
the defending champion.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
He still hasn't told us.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I wonder what that feels like.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You'll never know. It's a nice feeling, is it. Yeah,
do you have a topic yet? Have you picked one out?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I have a few.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'll pick one, okay?
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I feel like Nick fans were in a dangerous spot.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I apologize to Taylor for not sharing in his excitement
earlier today when we take with Salakata the show. Before
the show, I apologized him. I should be more excited.
But these series are long, and people get carried away
with one game. And I've seen it too many times
where a team blows a team out in game one,
and that second team, the Sixers, will come back a
(01:59):
very desperate team here in game two, and I feel
like nick fans think this is the team, the team
they've seen since Game three that lost to Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
This is the team they're gonna see.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The rest of the way, and if that were the case,
they'd be the best team in NBA history.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean, what do they got to margin a victory
averaging about fifty the last couple of games. Yes, this
is interesting because I wanted to ask you both Taylor
and Stucatts as Knicks fans, this moment right here is
this And I'll.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Just ask Taylor, I guess because you've lived longer.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Stu, well, I've seen him in the finals, right right?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Is this the most optimism you've ever had for the
New York Knicks, Because even last year when they were
in the conference finals, they didn't look great. Right this
year in the second round, you're looking at how well
they're playing, and it's like, well, it feels like this
second round is gonna be, you know, an obvious cakewalk,
right and then you look at the opponent that's coming
(02:55):
up next, and you're not really shaken by you know,
the threat of that team. And so I'm just curious, Taylor, like,
it's got to be different than it was just a
few weeks ago when they were still figuring things out.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
But right now, how good does it feel?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is the top of your list of this is as
positive as I felt about a Knicks team is.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
He It is not even close.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
The most optimistic I've ever been about the Knicks four
years ago was the next four years ago. The most
optimistic I've ever been about the Knicks three years ago
was three years ago. And you could just keep doing
that until you get to present day, because it feels
like whenever we think we're at the peak of what
this Knicks team ceiling is, they kind of blow right
past it. And now it's hard to not watch this
(03:37):
team the past three four games, ever since they got
that wake up call against Atlanta and look at them
and be like, how isn't this team an NBA title contender.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You can bind that the fact that the Knicks are
playing so well with the fact of who's remaining in
the East.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The Celtics are out.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now you have the Pistons and Calves playing in the
other series, but they're still Oklahoma City out west, and
that scares me.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yeah, although you know the goal with this team.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Is get there, right like, yes, if you get to
the finals, you are still moving forward. You're going through
the stages, whatever it takes. And if you lose to
an Oklahoma City Thunder team, that is the current you know,
villain of the NBA. Okay, you're part of that story,
but at least its progress.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
But even the Pacers took this thunder team to a
Game seven last year, and the Knicks had the the
Pacers like that was a pretty tight series. So I
don't really subscribe to the theory of, oh, the Knicks
just have to make it to the finals and then
you know you're going to be a severe underdog. Even
if they are an underdog. If you make it to
the finals, you might as well just go and go
(04:36):
ahead and win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Sure, I think, yeah, when you get there, it could
be where you know, because it's a first time for
Brunson and Cat, and Cat, you know, first time first
times in postseasons might not be the most reliable person.
But I think what's different about this sort of last
stretch of success. And obviously it comes at a playoffs,
so it's most crucial. But it's very and I read
(04:58):
an article about this in The Athletic which is very good.
But if you pay attention to the way this offense
is flowing, it's not because we joked earlier Taylor right
about oh, they all of a sudden discovered a pick
and roll between their two best players and that how
that's effective. But really it's just their offense in general,
sort of the read and reacting, the not needing a
singular sort of point of attack every single time to
(05:20):
be the same right. That's when you get guys like
Mikhale Bridges sort of flowing within the offense, making the
right cuts, finding his shots and just being wide open
and shooting seven of ten.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Same thing with.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Og who's just a beast if you either obviously leave
them open for a three or let him sort of
you know, pump, fake and drive that. Like when when
this offense is flowing, well, everybody's in their comfort zone,
especially now that Karl Anthony Towns has found where he
is within the offense.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I have to follow the face of one mikey A.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He's a good friend, and I always follow that face
because he's thinking what I'm probably thinking.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
How about you beat the Sixers first?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yeah, I just I just worry about you, Taylor. I
just worry about you. I can see the pad and
I'm worried for you because you're not gonna know the
joy You're not gonna find.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Right, Listen, you never want to overreact after one game,
and the six Senters were playing with house money in
that game one. They just really have to steal one
of the first two games in New York. I'll tell
you right now, I'll be the first one to say it.
This is the Vince Carter It's it's over. It's this
this series. We're on to the East time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, Ricardo board out. Ricardo marked the tape right now,
the moment this one's over.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Now, put me on that tape too, because.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, I don't know if anyone marks tape because I said,
down three to one, the Sixers were gonna win that
series against the Celtics, and no one played it.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Where's his tape?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I mean, where's my tape? Yeah, it's all about tailor's clips.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I mean, geez.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't want to oversimplify this, because I do think
that the Sixers can make certain adjustments that will make
up for what I'm about to say. But when you
go from their last series in New York into this
series and you saying, okay, defensively, like I don't have
to worry about Dyson Daniels just locking up Jalen Brunton
one on one or you know, potentially just blowing up
(07:08):
a play like Tyre smaxyvj Edgecomb. They're okay defensively, but
they're not Dyson Daniels, and you're almost always going to
be facing this drop coverage of Joel Embiid. I'm sorry,
but Jaylen Bruns is gonna eat that up all day
long against a guy like emb that you can maybe
you know he's putting in more effort defensively, but even
that doesn't look like great defensive play.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I will say this to all Nick fans, those of
you who crushed Karl Anthony Towns, you do not get
to enjoy this. I mean, I don't care what time
it was, I don't care what day it was. I
don't care when you did it, how you did it,
if it was private, if it was public. You do
not get to enjoy Karl Anthony Towns having this kind
of postseason.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
What are you shaking all about?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
So so wrong?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
It's well because you're one of them. It's laughably wrong.
Carl Anthony Towns. The relationship the Knicks fans have with
Karl Anthony Towns is we're allowed to talk about him, right,
Everybody else is not allowed to talk about him. Kendrick
Perkins comes out and says, Karl Anthony Towns is soft.
Knicks fans have their pitchforks out and be like, Perk,
let us know where we can find you in the street.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
We'll come fight you. But if one of us says.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Hey, kar Anthony Towns, he's kind of soft, and everybody
kind of looks at each other and be like, yeah,
we know.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I don't think that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
There's there have been times when if Perk said that,
you guys would agree with him.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Now, well, that's true, they do.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I feel like it's okay to agree if it's all
at the same time, right, because it's like it's all right.
I feel that way as well. But if they're going,
like if they're doing what Stu Gott's is saying now
and say you're not going to be able to trust
Cat the rest of the series, that's when you take offense.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, he's being great. The other series is he fell
asleep for the game at halftime.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, hang on, I think Taylor had one more thing.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Though, Really he hasn't gotten enough out of the New
York Nixon Carl.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
It's just stu coming here trying to be the police
of who's allowed to cheer for who. Stucott should have
to pass a test to get back on the Knicks,
man Wig.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Really, okay, what's the test? Give me the test.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I'll give you a test. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Name three non starters on this next team.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Let's see. Wow, non starter sham it's on there. I know, right,
and he's one of them. Mitchell Robinson perhaps see his second?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
One third?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He was looking up to he wasn't even looking at
his computer. Yeah, I'm telling you, yesud doing some betting.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
If you would, if you would ask me for four,
I was going to be stuck.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I think you had a fourth.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I think you had a fourth.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right, let's go to the other series. I can't believe
you fell asleep at halftime, but I understand these are
late games. I only thought from this.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Particular game, I was exhausted.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, and we have to break here because Christopher head
Dog Grisso was joining us. It's odd that he's joining us,
considering that he's live on.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The air right now.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Havenented that man, but he is.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
He is going to join us.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There was a time is he where everyone laughed at
the t Wolve for trading for Rudy Gobert because the
big man has gone by the wayside. They looked more
like I'm bin Yama now then they do Rudy Gobert.
But Rudy Gobert has been the MVP defensively of these
playoffs so far.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No he had in he has been and he's been
locking some people up. But I'm gonna save this for later.
Wemby said something yesterday that can prove to people he's
not ready for this.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
He's not ready for this first run and he probably
won't win it. Well, he'll play that later in the show.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
He needs to stop talking.
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Speaker 6 (10:58):
Ad Dan Vurk go to join us.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Coming up at around four point thirty, let's get to
a Mount Rushmore Monday.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Here on a Tuesday, Dan is Dan with us here
to be our judge.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
We need you Dan. We did to do it yesterday.
I wanted to do it on the podcast. Those guys
said no, we need Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Byer.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
There could be some controversy depending on the finalized topic
for Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
All right, do we have a topic yet? I know
we do have a topic. Izzy's complaining about it. I
told Izzy you gotta win if you want to create
the topic.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I mean very true. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
In honor of Taylor Shirley Temple take the topic this
week is simple. It is beverages.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
All right, give us the imaging Sam.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Thank you there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, you the guy with the spreadsheet for pretending to work.
Do you find yourself needing a pick me up as
you're dragging in your cubicle start the week? Are you
ready to put the sports back in sports talk? Well,
then you're in luck because every Monday we climbed a mountain.
(11:58):
We talked the legend and we argue about things.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You want handler the truth you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Handle the true that absolutely do not matter and are
completely subjective. This is mouth rushmore Monday, Monday.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
All right, Taylor, we have the topic. Give us the
draft order here.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
On Tuesday, so it's beverages.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
The draft order is Mikey Izzy Stu Gotts Taylor and
then back to me for the snake part.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And Mikey Isy Stu Gods and tailor. So the rating
champ gets to go first.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I hate the one pick.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
My rain comes to an end, but I'm gonna go
with an ice cold beer.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
All right, really cold beer, no specific time, just beer.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Beer's cold. You can go to London, gotta be con stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, to that London stuff all right, but individual beers,
thank you, Iowa Sam. Individual beers are for pouring a beer.
I love that sim individual beers are still.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Available though, right, I mean feeling they are.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Who was next?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
That's me? This one?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's tough because I feel like I'm deciding between the
drink that starts your day or the drink that sort
of makes your day.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
So it's either, you know, a coffee based drink.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And I'm not gonna say which one I was gonna choose,
but I think I'm just gonna have to go.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Margarita. Really, I'm going margarita. I'm going very specific. I'm
going to an alcoholic drink.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
That is the drink you start your day with then
and your day?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
All right? Who's up?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm applying Dan sensibilities here because he's the judge bander.
I'm gonna he loves golf. So I'm gonna say an
Arnold Palmer. Wow, about that.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Arnold Palmer of that?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And you follow me?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I am you gonna go here with my snake picks,
A cool blue Gatorade?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Oh wow?
Speaker 8 (13:50):
And he fresh squeezed lemonade.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Wow, cool blue Gatorade? Cool blue?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Was the key there?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Mind one, I gotta scratch that off, Stu.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Back to you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm gonna say a good old fountain coke. It cannot
be a bottle of coke. I don't want a can
of coke. I want a fountain Coca Cola from a
pizza parlor.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
About that? Yes, Man's back to me.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Huh Yep, I'm gonna sound like an alcoholic if I
go back to back alcoholic.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I mean, you start every day with a margarita.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I'm gonna go with what I believe to be the
most popular version.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
You know what. Nope, I'm just gonna have to go
straight up. Cup of coffee. Never a cup of coffee,
great cup of coff I.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Was gonna say cappuccino, but I was being a little
too fancy there, overthinking it and thinking you're in the
French bistro or something or a cafe.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
All right, all right, me for two. I'll go quickly here.
I'm gonna separate Stew's Arnold Palmer. I'm gonna take an
iced tea, right, and I'm going to take a sprite
or a lemon lime soda.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Really a sprite or a lemon lime soda. Poor a story,
all right, sprite sprite? Okay?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Seven up?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Oh? Is it me again?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Moving fast man? Yeah, alright, man.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm a little torn here, but I feel like I've
got to attach all my drinks to meals.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And you can't have a brunch without a mimosa.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
So I think you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Also can't start a flight in first class without a Mimosa.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
You're off.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I'm going Mimosa.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
You wouldn't know, Stu Gotts.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It's nice up there.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Spirit didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I am gonna go, h I'm gonna go beer category,
but I'm gonna go a PAPS Blue Ribbon Wow PBR.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
But a draft. It needs to be tap.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I love tap.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I don't want bottles. I don't want cans. I want
it out of the tap. You ever had a PB
and J I have? Okay, it's just a PBR with
a shot of Jamison.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Huh So talking about the sandwich.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
My back to back picks here, I'm gonna go a
strawberry banana smoothie.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Oh that's so good. Oh wow?
Speaker 9 (16:07):
And then hmm, I'm torn here, but I have to
go with my community, the Charlotte Temple.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yeah. I was gonna say, if you don't pick to
Shirley Temple, I riot.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I mean you're the king of that community.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, all right, all right, Stu, al right.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's up to me. I love the smoothie from Smoothie King.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That just kind of jogged my memory. I'm going the
Angel Hair Smoothie from Smoothie King.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
That thing that sounds like a pasta. I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's called the angel hair. It's angel something taking an
old fashioned Yeah, really an old fashion. I don't believe
it's still here. Give me a milkshake, all right, So
we have to come.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Back with a real bake.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yes, we do have to come back. Dan Buyer will
have the ruling coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live weekday said three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
At nan Vurka to join us at four point thirty
so Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday. Everyone trying to
get a hold of Dan Bayer during the break to
try to swile.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Someone did Someone did get a hold of me.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I'm always any names. Let someone reached out via text?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Who was it was?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Wasn't it Stue?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well listen, I'm feeling it because you guys have been
laughing at me for six minutes because the angel food
smoothie that I love so much, Smoothie King, I called
it the Angel hair.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I mean, just throw some last in.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
There, so gross. Can we recap exactly what happened here? Sure,
we had a Mount Rushmore Monday on a Tuesday. Yeah,
And the Mount Rushmore Monday selection was made by Mikey
and it was of beverages.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And this was based on Taylor's love of.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Shirley Temple's yep okay, and my Mount Rushmore was Man,
this is telling Margarita coffee, mimosays an old fashion.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Yeah, Taylor, what was yours?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Again?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Mine was cool blue Gatorade, Fresh Squeeze, Lemonade, a strawberry
banana smoothie, and Shirley Temple. My problem with Stu Gotts's
smoothie pick. First off, he got the name wrong. Even
if he didn't get the name wrong, he was describing
this smoothie like it was this extravagant smoothie when two
picks before I picked a strawberry banana smoothie. And this
is why I'll put my hand up and say. I
(18:21):
texted Dan Bayer during the break's be like, hey, please
just review. Listen the name the smoothie that Stu gots picked, Yeah,
was just the strawberry banana smoothie with a different.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I didn't ask you to argue your case. I asked
you to give me your Mount Rushmore picks please.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh Yeahsked you said strawberry banana. You did, but listen,
don't knock it till you try it. Throw some angel
hair pasta into a white.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Dirt before we all get grossed out. Mikey R.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Mount Rushmore was ice called beer, iced tea sprite and
a milkshake.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Okay, he likes things icy. And then Stu, I don't
know if you wrote yours down? Did you write yours? Dawn?
Is anybody else fountain?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I was in there a pat flue is in a
blue ribbon, and I was pandering to Dan with the
Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How about that? I was glad.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Yeah, I was going to warn you guys that you know,
trying to pander to me sometimes can work, but sometimes
it can backfire. And I think today is Today was
an interesting, interesting, I guess exercise. In this matter, you
may have been told something during the break that I
wasn't going to reveal until now for you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And it's kind of like telling.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
The the mother and father on the gender reveal a
day before what the gender is, because I feel Iowa
Sam may have let the cat out of the bags everywhere. Yes,
I don't drink alcohol, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Fourth by a mile like me.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's all And apparently that's all Israel does, and he
drinks some espresso to get over the hangover.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, I didn't know this was a mount rushmore
for Dan Bayer.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I apologize.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
So if this was going to be an alcoholic beverages,
I was actually going to pass off the judging duties
to Iowa Sam because it would be worthless.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There was a golden ticket today. Oh wow, H two O.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
Who doesn't love a delicious glass of ice cold water?
And if someone would teenagers just have gone simple and said,
you know what, who turns down water when they come
to your table and say would you like some water?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
No one says no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
I mean I turn it down if I have a
glass of Angel hair pasta. That's I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So there was there was a lot at steak here.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Isy.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Yeah, you're fourth when seventy five percent of it is
is alcohol. I know that may not make me popular
with the masses. It's just the way that things are.
Pbr pbry asap was something my relatives love to say
growing up, just not to me. And having the angel
food pasta in my smoothie, the angel.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Hair postaed my smoothie. Yeah, that work.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Still your third on this snock until you try it,
I said, I mean.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Hey, Taylor, this feels familiar.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
This is this.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Is magic Bird right now and Mike match.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
So it comes down to this.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
It comes down to the one person who has no
alcohol in their drinks in any of them, or the
one who picked one. But they picked some really really
good drinks. Who doesn't love a nice tea or a
nice sweet tea. Maybe h throwing a little raspberry tea
in there. I think it covered all of them. That
was Mikey milkshake, chocolate vanilla, whatever, They're delicious. Yeah, Sprite.
(21:37):
If you would have went Mountain Dew, Mikey, you would
have been number one. But you didn't. You went Sprite,
your number tenant.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I met Mountain Dew.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
Taylor is the winner of today's mount Rushed a delicious lemonade.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
The nemesis the Shirley Temple.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
That's the upsetting party about this.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
You let Shirley Temple win.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Damn Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Can I ask you a question? Would this have suaded
you if I told you earlier today that Taylor said
he would not trade Jalen Brunson for Victor Wending Dama
straight up today he went to put on the poll.
By the way, Nick fans, only would you trade brunts
in for Wenby?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Today?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Just today?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Today, today, only, Dan, when you're done with your weekly
softball game, do you and the guys go grab a
bunch of Shirley Temples?
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Sit around around for everybody Shirley make a rounds. I
would say that if Taylor By saying that, I thought
he would have drink all of Izzy's lists by the
time that he said that, because it was heavily filled
U with the with the alcohol. I was surprised chocolate
milk didn't make it. Who doesn't love them nice class
of chocolate milk? What about orange juice? Huh yeah oj
(22:44):
yeah my list and.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Some of us like to drink pasta. Yeah, but you
know what we should know, dan By? Now just keep
it simple, guys. That's it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It's honest, very cheap, very meat and potatoes.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
That's the Midwest of amost all of these things, little
side of garlic bread?
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Can I can I defer to Sam or Jason on
as they drink alcohol? Would is He's roster have been
better if I actually drank Jason Stewart, Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I really like these choices.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I really like the Old Fashioned was a great, a
great choice, but it was so far off Fire's radar.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Solid Margeria does anything with tequila in, it's gonna get points.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Variety in there and the type of alcohol.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Come on, I know, but he's right. Though we left
out water.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I should have switched Look, my big mistake was switching
out I should have taken out coffee and put in
the espresso martini, and then I would have had a
consistent force them.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
It would have been perfect.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
And guys, I'm pretty sure John Day has actually gone
on record and say he does not drink water, So
he would be one guy be like, no, I don't
want water, no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
He drinks dit coke.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Does he drink pasta?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let's go to Al who's in Albuquerque. He always is,
Go ahead, Al, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
Heyst got say is the nineteen time?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Long time?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Is he?
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You're a man a for my own heart with those
drink selections, You're you're the winner here.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
But I'm calling in to damaged.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Yeah, but you know, slowly, day by day calling in
to provide just a quick update on the Stanley Cup
playoffs since there's a lack of hockey coverage here and
I got to share this important breaking news item courtesy
of the Athletic who did a piece today on Vegas
Golden Knights forward Brett Howden. He's been lighting it up
the past two weeks and they reached out to his
junior's coach up in moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and he provided
(24:41):
this quote. He said, some guys play hockey, and then
there are hockey players. Brett Howden, he's a hockey player. Yeah, guys,
if that's true, that's big news.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yes, it is right, Yeah, right. The fact that there's
a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
No, it's so true. Even yesterday playing softball. Some guys
are softball players. Some guys us play softball.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I'm the latter.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yes, yes, that is breaking news. Thank you all.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I mean that's big stuff.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Is that only? Add?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Okay? Thank you al. There's a difference.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There are people who play hockey and there were hockey players.
Taylor not a hockey player. Shirley Temple open bar Wedding,
not a hockey player, but plays hockey a little bit.
Speaking of playing, how does softball go for you?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Hottest team in the league.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Who stude.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yes, we were intimidating. We were so intimidating that the
other team didn't have enough guys.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
They had the.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Forfeit or they did.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I mean we ended up scrimmaging anyway, So we have
some you know, some play by play here, but it
was definitely a win by forfeit. And now we are
two and zero in our last two and are on
a rule.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
So is he The most confusing part is not only
did the other team not have enough people, the other
team didn't have a single person show up. The team
that we scrimmaged was a team from the game previously.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
It just stuck around.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Was like, hey, we just finished a game, we'll play you,
and then Stu, we play this team.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah we destroyed it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, hang on, that makes so much sense because the
team we were scheduled to play was two and one, right,
and so I was like, this team's coming up, and
I was like, there's a lot of.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Dominicans on this team. There's no way this team should
be winning.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Hat yeah too, I saw that guy with a Nicaragua
hat and I said, oh no, we're gonna have a
problem game.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
So you figured that the Dodgers of your softball league.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It seemed I guess it seemed like they weren't speaking English,
which is already terrifying, like if they're just speaking Spanish
the whole time. And yeah, early on, I was like, Okay,
I see this group. It's gonna be a bit of
a problem. But we put up what six in the
first inning, and it was just we were coasting Stu.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
You know, the key to a good softball game, you
got to put up a crooked number in that first inning.
And when we put up a seventh spot, Yeah, they
were playing catch up the rest of the night.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But this team stuck around to play a second game
against you guys like they would just didn't.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
I tell you they were all Dominican.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Yes, this is what they do.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I mean, Jim Ratts and I can't stand those guys.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
First one in, last guy's out.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I mean, they're always there. They just they're waiting for
a game. I mean they're there now right.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
They're the guys that know how to turn on the
lights at the park right when you're there and you're
like we need lights, They're like, I know how to
do it.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yes, yes, they lock up the gate. Correct.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Now the first question, I know everybody's wondering, how did
Ian do well? He actually had a few opportunities. I'm
gonna let Taylor take it from here.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
But it wasn't a real game. You were just hanging around.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's a great points to you, right, because at the
very beginning, everybody's like, oh, we're not taking any walks.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
This is a scrimmage. We're just gonna go.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And it's just like by the middle of the second inning,
I was just like, everybody's taking this sou serious like it.
We're taking his like treating It's like it's a real game.
But how did he end?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Taylor?
Speaker 9 (27:43):
So Ian was on base in that first inning, stew
and somebody hits the ball to the outfield. Yeah, And
I'm screaming at Ian from first base. You're scoring, you're scoring,
and he's running at third and I go, go, go, go,
when I could clearly tell he's dead.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
He's dead by a mile Jesus I was.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I was sending him into the lines then telling him
to go, and then he he he gets tagged out
a mile before, and he's looking at me like that
was completely your fault. And I'm now I'm laughing because
this game doesn't count. We're up seven to nothing already.
At this point, of course, he's mad at you.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I mean, you're the only person in that body could trust.
He's not looking.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
He has to trust you.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
So then we go out in the field and one
of the first balls gets hit to him and he
canicorn like, couldn't be easier, doesn't have.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
To move love a can of corn, he says.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
He loses the ball on the lights and the ball
hits off like his stomach.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
With his stomach, I thought it was the back of
the glove. I thought it just hit the glove and
fell down.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, I don't even think it made contact with his
glove and made contact with his body.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
But Stu, we figured something out. We're now running a
staggered in the outfield, and the stagger is scrimmage.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yes, this is a fake game.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I mean instead of having instead of having four outfielders
just spread across the outfield in left field and left
center field, Ian is about fifteen feet in front of me,
so he doesn't have to worry about going.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Back because Andrew Jones is behind him.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm trying to cover any ground because me and Ian,
both have two noodle arms, So any balls that get
hit either left or to the right is going to
be an automatic double because we can't physically make that throw.
So now we're just trying to take one thing out
of the equation, and that thing out of the equation
for him is having to worry about going back. And
he made one of the best catches I've ever set.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
But well, you're adding this part of the equation, the
threat of being smacked in the face by a line
drive by almost every righty hitter.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, but sometimes you got to minimize a guy, you know,
you just got to minimize what it is he does
and just have him focused on one little space of.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
The field to catch her. Yeah, go ahead, Dan, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
I also I don't know, Ian, but I would also
think something that Taylor said that I just think is
off base that he was maybe mad that you sent
him home. I think he was just mad that you
didn't allow him to rest that third. It's not that
he was called out. He just wanted to stop running
then instead of more down the baseline, like he just like,
let let me just stop here, and instead you sent him.
That's probably the reason why he wasn't happening a mile. No,
(30:16):
he takes the light.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm telling you, Dan, it's what you're saying sounds logical,
But he takes the light and making the saltball season
a misery.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
He does.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He doesn't want him to succeed. He wants to have
the best stats on the team.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I mean, now that we got our een update, the
real eye of the team Israel.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, hold on has nothing before we get to to
I go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Well, my question is for Taylor about Israel. I mean,
with all the expectations, you got to keep both feet
on the ground.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
And speaking of keeping both feet on the ground, he
jumps wings.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, I never jumped. I never jumped.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Secondarily, Taylor's not answering is he had a walk?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Well walk? I think everybody wanted to know if I
got my first hit. Yes, no, I did not.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
However, I got one at bat Okay, and it's the scrimmage,
I'm saying to myself, of course I'm swinging at everything.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
And so the first pitch was like way inside to.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The point where I'm just like, I'm gonna take two
steps back and swing at this thing anyway, And so
I sort of took a step back and sort of
swung through it.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Whatever I missed it. It was a terrible pitch.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
And then I'm like, all right, at least just give
me something to hit. And this guy just I mean
he basically threw balls that barely were off the ground
and bounced in and I'm just like, I literally can't
swing at those and I have to take my base.
And then they had a second basement over there who
was just talking saying something.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I was like, dude, you think I want to walk?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
And then Stu I saw is he's worst fear almost realized,
what's that?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So I'm approaching my second at bet right, he's approaching
his second at bat.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No one walks off, the walks up the softball at
BET's terrified.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I mean, so he's doing it's softball.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
The score at this point, we're probably up like fourteen
to three, like we are. We are dominating this team,
and we're running out of time. And some people are
terrified of spiders. Some people are terrified of you know, rodents,
what is he Gutierrez is terrified of you? Hear somebody
(32:16):
in the behind the backstop watching the game, go is
that is he? From ESPN and right away, right away,
right away, as is he's walking into the at bat circle.
I hear Anthony go, oh no, this is this is
worst case scenario for.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Someone recognized him.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Now there's an expectation, someone thinks he's a good athlete
because you worked at ESPs.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
So I hear the two guys on the other side
of the fence ask the Empire, and then the Empire
just says something is like he basically asked him to
yell my name.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
It is real.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And then I turned around. I was like, oh god,
here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
And so I'm walking toward at the gate and I
and I was like hey, and they go, did you
work for ESPN.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I worked there for
a long time. Like oh, that's it.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And I got right not turn around because you don't
want to see this. He goes, now, let's see. And
the second I start to walk toward the plate, my man,
the umpire, my savior comes down and says.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Time, I've never been no more at bats.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Today And I was just like, I'll see you guys
next week. It is weird.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You work at ESPN and there's an expectation that you're
John Kronked.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Yeah, no crooky,
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