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we jump right in Game five of the Eastern Conference
semis US playoff. Stress man, these teams keep having oh

(01:05):
my goodness, all this every single day. Late in the
third quarter, Yes, this game's gonna end late, three minutes
to go. Piston's holding on to a seventy seven seventy
three lead over Cleveland. So far, it's been a big night.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
For KD.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Cunningham, he's got twenty nine finally have a night's shooting well.
And for the Cavaliers. Okay, okay, okay, okay, We're only
through three quarters and I know he's gonna turn back
into the other Playoff Harden. James Harden's having a big night.
Twenty two points, three assists, three turnovers. I've said, I
just throw the turnovers in there.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Because you're a hateful individual. Twenty eight minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, okay, Well we got the fourth quarter, and just
this is the time, and this is the time in
James Harden's career, whether he was twenty two, twenty five,
twenty seven, or thirty seven, where an end of the
second round, end of the round, into the second round,
end of the second round, this is where I play
really well. But then I got really tired in the
fourth quarter. So I'm just saying, James Harden is playing

(02:08):
well the first two games. Playoff Harden, last two games,
played really well. Tonight so far, really well, got the
fourth quarter to goal. But I'm giving him credit. Give
him the credit. I'm not gonna be that guy said,
oh no, he's either.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
As a good three week period suddenly you're the chestiest
guy in the world. You are that guy. But I'm
saying Harden is playing well, He's playing well so far. Guy.
You packed his bag and were ready to ship him
out of town, literally putting him into a shipping container.
And now all of a sudden, you're the chestiest, haughtiest
guy in the world and you're throwing slings and arrows
on the name of the beer A real question. Yeah,

(02:45):
go ahead, you hand him that angel's hat that he wears.
I did not the halo on top. Is that special?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah, the halo with that that's pretty cool. I like
that one. I had one of those, and then it
really got soiled and had to be tossed and Harden's
kind of got to do it tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Give me even more for now, more credit for now,
because Donovan Mitchell has been missing an action in this game.
He's got ten points, three out of eight from the floor. Like,
I can't believe the game is this close. If you
told me Donov Mitchell into the third quarter ten points,
I would say, Oh, this is gonna be one of
those games where the Pistons are going to the fourth
quarter up one oh eight to sixty four and the
and the Cavaliers are like, yeah, we're putting it away,

(03:20):
get ready to come back in game set.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Strew's with seventeen off the bench, Allen tell Allen, uh,
he's got to pick things up. He's got fourteen. But
with Donovan Mitchell, every time he touched the ball, it's
it's like the raptors coming after you in Jurassic Park.
There's two of them. Yeah, so it's get the ball out.
And it's been physical like on both sides, and then
that's been the curiosity as to how it'll be called

(03:43):
once we get to the fourth quarter, because they're letting
Tom beat the hell out. Oh yeah, yeah. They definitely
hard and roughed up a bunch, and Mitchell even before
getting rid of the ball on the double, he's getting bodied. Conversely,
on the other side, you've seen a lot of it,
Cleveland running out after the jump shooters and sometimes while
they're not in the landing zone, the fly by with

(04:04):
some arm in whatever is it being called. We'll see
if the final thirteen and a half minutes are called differently.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
This is one of those nights where Adam Silver read
the report today that hey thirteen for what thirteen percent
more fouls are being called in the playoffs, and the
regular season is a big thing. He calls it, Hey, guys,
tonight late layoff, let him play. Look it's Cleveland and Detroit. Okay,
everybody expects to be physical, layoff the fouls, don't don't
keep sending guys to the free throw liner. Right, Let's

(04:30):
have tonight be one of those nights.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Great. Thanks. So far, a total of thirty eight free throws,
twenty three for the visiting Cavaliers, seventeen falls for the
Pistons against ten just ten falls for the Caves.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now I'm gonna say this because obviously, whoever wins this
game huge leg up, one win away from winning the series. Yes,
if it's Detroit, Cleveland goes home with a chance to
send it to seven games. If it's Cleveland, wow, Detroit.
Eventually they're gonna run out of steam at some point.
But you know, you ask me here, like, Okay, who
am I rooting for?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Who am I rooting for in this series? Because the
beginning of the playoffs I would have told you I
don't want to see the Pistons at all. I want
to see the Pistons zero percent. Because watching the regular season.
The way it went, you saw who played well contender
wise against each other. Right, the Knicks played well against
the Celtics, did not play well against the Pistons. Celtics

(05:23):
and the Pistons were different. The Knicks played well against
the Spurs. They did not play well against the Thunder.
The Spurs played well. So you see where the matchups go.
Going into the play I would say, you know what,
I wanted zero part of the Pistons. Right, they're young,
they're deep, they already lost them last year in the playoffs.
This is going to be a hunger the thing for them.
Right now, I don't care who we play. The Knicks
are going to the finals. They have a great match

(05:46):
against the Cavaliers. Right, another series with James Harden trying
to carry the load, and Unobe looks like he's coming back.
That was the big news today that the Knicks are
going to get him back for the next round. I
don't see the Cavaliers even putting up a fight against
the Knicks and the next just because the matchup is
so good. But now, okay, what about Detroit. I'd love
to play Detroit because you know what, they look like

(06:07):
they're running out of gas. I mean, when you get
to the end of the last round, beginning of this round,
where they were still winning games and they weren't playing
great basketball, it was, okay, this is what good teams do.
They find a way. Cad Cunningham was finding a way
to drag the team across the finish line to win
the series against Orlando, to get the two nothing lead
in this one, even though they weren't shooting well. But now, okay,

(06:29):
we're deep into the series now and it's best of three,
and still the Pistons are not playing nearly to the
level they were at during the season. They just look
to me like a team that's running out of gas.
And I will take that running out of gas team
in the Eastern Conference Finals all the way through. I
am not scared of either of these teams, and I
will be really surprised if it's not the Knicks in

(06:50):
the finals, regardless as to who they play.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, watching look, styles, make fights, all those cliches that
we can throw out best of seven series. Will the
offense continue to operate as it has? Pistons hung their
hat on playing great defense all year, not a great
offensive team. Nobody's ever declared them that it's Cade Cunningham
and then you're hoping one or two guys find a

(07:14):
little bit of lightning in the bottle on a night
to night basis as that number two, number three score,
and it's just an aggregate team effort. But it's all
predicated on playing good defense. With the Knicks. Yeah, they
played better defensive late and some of that we go back.
If you want to go into the full metrics of
the final month of the year, you got a bunch
of teams going, how do we get to the top five?

(07:37):
We lose right cook, So you know, and like the
Lakers fifteen and two runs same thing. How many Eastern
Conference teams were you playing that that they got nothing,
they got no skin in the game, or Western Conference
also rans all that to say. You know, Mark Wise,
he's in with us at the news desk today and
he goes, all right, little lead for the good guys,

(07:58):
as he before he went in to do his top
of the Hour up there, I go, they're no good
guys here until they play the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
No, no, no, no, no, they're all the bad guys. They're
all the bad guys. The Knicks are the good guys.
The Knicks are holding the bleeping NBA playoffs up like
Atlas holding up the world. You want Oklahoma City and
Cleveland in the NBA Farmals, but they are like Atlas,
they'd still be playing. We don't we don't need to
be right, well, we don't don't need to play.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
What do you want? The only thing I got right
now for the Knicks is Karl Anthony Town. You want,
I'll give you sixty thousand dollars if you pulled the
scene a WrestleMania patch. Okay, bitch is about half of earthy.
He ain't ain't paying sixty four that's one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. But but I got sixty thousand for
you now in cash. So maybe other people will have
that cash. Oh yeah, yeah for a card like that.
Yeah there's other cards, but and other buyers that that

(08:47):
will swoop in if nothing else, Just to say, it
might be another guy on an opposing team, might be
you know, Kate Cunningham, or it could be James Hardenson.
I'm going to frustrate the hell out of him by
buying this card out from Hundering. But the Knicks are
here to save the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're looking at a Final four of Oklahoma City San Antonio.
Right now, Cleveland has the lead, eighty four to eighty
Cleveland or Detroit and the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Who's there to save the playoffs? The Knicks.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
The Knicks are there to save the playoffs. Love them,
hate them, and everybody loves them. Their America's team. Everybody
loves them. What they're They're the little engine that could.
I mean, I mean they don't get.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
In New York with a lot of little press and
they over and celebrity road that gets more time than
you don't than the actual playing time of the game.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
You really don't understand how much it is to overcome
the pressures of winning in New York. Like they are
really a success story when you think about it.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean you really want to dive into it. They're
not overcome those fifty three years if utility.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Ah, they're not some big sentinel or hey, I'm a
big protector, a big galactus showing up.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
What did you think of the cele sentinel? Is any
good the void?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Bob? I know the Knicks are here to save the
NBA playoffs. They're going to save the playoffs. Are they
gonna come out to the flash? Gordon theme song when
they're going in the layup line.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Nicks, Ah, Freddy's not with us might have commissioned a reboot.
I think we could AI that. I think I'm sure
you can send some money, although there's is no AI
here on on Fox Sports radio and radio app. Yeah,
well as long as you're not Yeah, it's not as
long asre not making money on it. Like you could
do that for like a fun little thing. I think,

(10:28):
right mix, we are a profit profit profitable uh operation
here there.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I like the Dana White AI line because now he's
doing a lot of stuff with A. You know, this
is in advance of the big Ronda Rousey Gina car
this weekend, and they talked about AI and everything.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
He says. He was hey, and he.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Said something to the effect of, hey, you, I got
people working on the A. I'm not doing that myself
in my basement like A I is okay because I
have people working AI. I have actual people that I'm
employed that are using the artificial intel.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
And then he proceeded to evisceraate all the people that
have helped build his business and made him a billionaire
by saying they're useless and they've never done anything, so
data White not exactly the best of moments for him.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
We're not cutting jobs. I have people working on the Okay, okay,
well yeah, okay in theory, yeah, but it's not like
I'm taking one job out and replacing it with one
job and it's still a zero something.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
That's not really the case. There you go. Anyway. The
Knicks are are currently in hibernation. The Knicks. That's what
this series is all about. You know who I feel like.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now, honestly, Knicks are off tonight. I feel like, what
am I tell you about Yankee fans, Like Yankee fans,
especially like my dad. Yankee fans feel like the Yankees
are the only team in Major League Baseball and everybody
else exists. So the Yankees have teams to play, right,
That's the only reason the other teams.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
But that's where the Knicks are right now, Like, really,
the rest of the NBA exists. Who's gonna play the
Knicks in the next round of the playoffs. Who's who's
gonna play it in Oklahoma City?

Speaker 4 (12:04):
In the Knicks? Okay, let's see, let's see.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Let's see if SGA gets the free throw line as
often as he likes to against the Knicks in the
NBA Finals.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
I ain't worried about fire on you. Yeah no, I mean, look,
that's why he's living up now. He don't because he
knows that he's getting Galou lead and taken out at
the knee sporting the Eastern Conference finals. I'm living it
up on top right now, living it up on top.
I got I got a lot of off days, man.
I remember the time below gets getting longer and longer.
Those springtimes get shorter in haighties down by. You want

(12:34):
you want to eighties?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Don't let her go back. You know who loves the
fact the Knicks are off every day? My wife, because
I like, what do you want to do to? Yeah,
whatever you want. I don't have to worry about being
locked in today. The Knicks are gonna be off for
a week.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
We're good. What do you want to do? This wouldn't
be starting going nearly five o'clock anyway, do you like?
It's a noontime, no start? Damn, I mean it's an
early start today. She I can't do any of the
laundry or the lawn work, and that that's just sitting
there with the flies. He knows what time the game starts.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
She just knows that during the day, you're only gonna
get so much out of me, because mentally, I'm locked
in on the Knicks. Did you run, I said Tom
with an M. I mean that that's it. I mean,
that's uh, that's that's what you're gonna get from me.
Like maybe we could do one little errand maybe we
could do but like if you think we're gonna go
have lunch and go to Costco and then go to

(13:24):
Trader Joe like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, that's too much.
But the game's not for the five hours. I know,
but I'm locked in. I'm locked in on the Nick nowadays, Like, Hey,
what do you want to do? Let's go what do
you wanna do? Let's go to Trader Joe's, let's queeze
in Costco, Let's go to Target. Let' let let let's
get everything.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
What do you wanna do? Let's go get a car washed.
We can go do that today. Yeah, let's call I
got time, man, I got a week? Is that the
saddest thing? Jason said today? Eight seven seven, No, And
how about a prescat swolling home at Fox Sports Radio, Jason.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Smith, Mike Carmen right now eighty five eighty five early
in the fourth quarter, Cleveland and Detroit the winner a
big three to two advantage. We'll have more on this
game coming up next, but straight ahead, we got some
big news out of the NFL. As the schedule leaks,
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
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Speaker 4 (15:49):
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Speaker 1 (15:51):
Bes friend Mike Harmon, But it was a j Ewing
scoring from third on a base hit. New York is
now undefeated in the Ewing Era. There is no magic
the Knicks cannot pull off. Met's bring up a guy

(16:12):
named Ewing. They're two and zero. That's all you need
to know right now. It's all you need to know,
the Ewing, the new Ewing Era in New York, all
because the Knicks have decided to touch the rest of
the sports world with their golden ferry dust that they
just sprinkling everybody like Lebron when he does the powder.
That's the Knicks are doing right now?

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Are we sure that that's healthy for people all these years?
Oh well, breathing all that in on the front row?
Are you breathing it in? Maybe? I mean it's there.
I mean, he's got to go somewhere into your lungs.
Are using talc at home? Many?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know?

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I mean, I'm just asking the question if over the
course of a forty one home gates plus playoff games,
it's a lot of inhaling of if you are Lebron dust,
if you are the same person. But that's what I mean.
Those are the same people in that same You're also
right all right of this? Yeah, what I mean, those
folks have been breathing that in for a lot of years.

(17:07):
I didn't well, I didn't. I didn't see what I
did there. I didn't think you could go that dark
with with the powder celebrated. He's a villain on every level,
don't you know. I did it go to the absolutely.
I always thought it was stupid anyway, but you add
that to it. But yeah, the Mets having the the
great and glorious opportunity to take advantage of the fact
that the Tigers are not good and are nearly as

(17:31):
bad as they are. But suddenly me's only eight games
under five hundred. Buddy, Yeah, all of a sudden, all
the long road begins with the first step. It doesn't
matter to me.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
This is what like, the Knicks are carrying the entire
sports world right now, so that that's where that's like
your opinion.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Man, there's a million stories in the Naked City.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
So we got more NBA on the way a Cleveland
Detroit tied at eighty nine a piece seven minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. But we are now less
than twenty four hours away. It really were about about
twelve to fourteen hours away from the NFL's schedule release.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
And we've been getting leaks all week long, little teasers
from the teams on their social right up with what
they might be leaning towards, giving you right. Sometimes we
got from some teams, we got what looks like what
week one is going to be. We got the entire
international schedule today. The Jaguars may as well be living
overseas for the month of October. They have two games overseas.

(18:30):
Does this should this be part of the equation and
factored into the development of Trevor Lawrence. Now there's a
amount of time he spends overseas during an NFL season. Eh,
we don't really have a home.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Uh now before we get to some of the games
that that are really interesting. It's you know, watching this
week and seeing the leaks coming out and seeing that
every couple of days is Oh, here's what we're gonna get.
We're gonna get a game. Here's the overseas games. Right now,
we're getting a Wednesday night before Thanksgiving game, right So
just an overarching point I want to make here, and
I know you're gonna love this.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
It's like I feel like the NFL.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Is a memorabilia like the biggest memorabilia house in the
world that has decided I want to make more money.
So I'm gonna just start selling off just little bits
and pieces of my empire. Gonna sell off some really
big items because individually they'll bring in a.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Lot of money.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Now, I still have a lot of items. I'm not
liquidating myself, right, I'm not gonna do it. Kind of
like what we saw with the Jim Ursay sale, all
the stuff that went on sale ago, all the crazy
memorability had and.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Spoken were Matthew Perry auction that's going to benefit a
lot of treatment centers and such. But yeah, that kind
of kind of idea.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
But this like where here's a memorabilia house, Like, okay,
we have so much, so much stuff here, let's start
making We need more money for whatever reason, we.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Want to buy more memorab and so hey, we're gonna
have the sale.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're gonna sell off like you know, hey, twenty five
or forty of our biggest items and we're still gonna replenish.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
We're gonna make the money.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
And I feel like that's what the NFL is doing, Like, hey,
we have two hundred and seventy two items.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh yeah, that we have and that's the full catalog.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
We have two hundred and seventy two items we can
we're gonna sell off, right, And we're at the point where, yeah,
we can sell off twenty or thirty of those items
and and and and make money on it and be
able to say, well, we can replenish this in a
year when we add another week. So let's just say
we sell off twenty five of these. You make a

(20:33):
lot of money, Oh, but you're losing this the inventory. No, no,
we're gonna add a week eighteen, So we're gonna add
another sixteen games to our schedule.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Everybody wins.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Like the NFL is just saying now, yeah, we're gonna
continue to make all this money by parsing up because
we saw that. Oh wait, you'll pay one hundred million
dollars for one game. Amazon, You're gonna pay one hundred
million dollars for a Black Friday game. Oh okay, we
can sell more than this, right when the NFL? When
When when the Clippers got bought for two billion dollars
was the biggest game changer in business in sports in

(21:02):
the last decade plus because this is where everybody knew, oh,
what I have is worth way more money than I
thought it was.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Well, we remember we were on air and people were
the lamentation sandled Wow, they grossly overpa. It's like these
things don't come up for sale. It's like the ersa collection, right.
That's why every one of those pieces that came up there,
they were never gonna be sitting like a Cobaine. This
a the red piano from Mountain John whatever, like these
are one of a kind things.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh here we are so they're gonna sell these off,
and they realize, oh, well, if Amazon's gonna if they're
gonna pay one hundred million dollars for a game on
Black Friday, what's someone gonna pay for a game the
night before Thanksgiving? What's someone gonna pay for a game here?
What's someone gonna pay it? And now you're seeing so
many more games just get kind of piecemealed out, and
that's really the future of streaming. Yes, we'll get to

(21:50):
a point where a streamer is gonna say we are
gonna overwhelm you with money and we're gonna get the
rights to the AFC.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah, that'll happen, right.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Roger Goodell even said yesterday a couple of days ago,
was asked about it, would you ever go to streaming?
And he said, we'd have to be completely blown away
by an offer to go to streaming, right, We'd have
to be completely blown away.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
In other words, numbers and come back to us.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
But you also have to worry about fans and saying, hey,
I have to pay for money for all of these games.
But this is kind of the way the sports is going.
So to talk about what the future of the NFL is,
this is what it's going to be it's a couple
more international games, it's going to be a couple more
games getting sold off, a couple more games on streaming
a year because they realize we can all make so
much money off of this just by giving out dribs

(22:31):
and brands. We don't have to say, hey, we have
an eight game Thursday Night package, right, which they do,
but we don't have to do that. We could just say, hey,
you want a game here? What about this game in December? Oh,
we got a Christmas Day game for you. We have this,
we have that. And you see all the different ways
the NFL is putting these games out there. It's like,
this is now what they're going to do, right are
we are? We We're a ways away from a streaming
giant saying here is one hundred billion dollars for rights

(22:55):
to NFL games for the next five whatever it is.
We're ways away from that. And again you have to
worry about alienating fan base. Now I gotta pay for it.
You know what, what's what would Amazon do or what
would Netflix do? How much would it be to buy
that for a year? That would that would be a thing.
But for now, that's kind of how the next few
years are gonna go. Every year is gonna be We'll
sell out a couple more. We'll sell a little bit more.

(23:16):
We'll sell a little bit more because the NFL can
do it again. You have two hundred and seventy two games,
you have a big you have a big memorabilia collection.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
You can say, hey, you know what we can we
can we can.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Liquidate some of this and everybody's gonna be happy because
they're all making money, and we can just replace it
with games the next year and they we'll get week
nineteen at some point, who knows, well, nineteen weeks. The NFL,
We're just gonna keep doing this. They're a big memorabilia out.
I'll give you my spreadsheet.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I've been doing that the last couple of months, rebuilding
with Jordan's and Otani's and when Mayamas. But all of
that to say, uh, you know, maybe we can get
the October thirtieth game. It's not quite Halloween, it's actually
National Lemur Day, it's Devil's Night. I mean, there's lots
of ways you can sell these things. To your point, yeah, well,
we'll keep expand the calendar and the schedule and as

(24:03):
much as folks may bemoan it, and you hear players
complain when they realize they get nearly fifty cents on
the dollar, the complaining disappears a little bit, and the
concessions are usually just a here's another practice. Now. I
would argue that we've had the dissolving of what is
a cohesive game in a lot of places because of

(24:24):
some of those concessions that have been made off of
extra practice times, paded practices, going to the wayside, et cetera.
But when the money just keeps flowing in, and for
the streaming side, right, remember you always get the in
the local market. We still get that accessibility, right, even
when it goes to a streamer, it's like, oh, it's
still available in the home market. So everybody gets taken

(24:48):
care of in that regard, and so long as it's
packaged with another service, that is quote necessary, which is
why the Amazon thing just always makes sense. So even
if it's a couple more dollars, your Amazon Prime one
hundred and fifty million households in the US alone or
more at this point, yeah, subscribe to it to get
packages delivered the next day, same day, whatever. So you

(25:11):
already are getting a service, so you don't feel like
you're getting nickel dimed because you're not subscribing to something
you wouldn't otherwise use, right, right, Like if you don't
care about Netflix and their original programming or their cadre
of all of their collected works, you don't care if Apple,
you're you're not a big fan of your friends and
neighbors or or Ted Lasso or Margo's got money problems

(25:33):
it's renewed for season two, then you don't care. You're
you're not going down that road. But Amazon uniquely positioned
in that way, so wouldn't be surprised to see them
move the the math around to make that work. But
the point being, as long as there's a value proposition,
folks will grouse. But guess what you want your NFL. No,
of course you'll show up.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
And they're also going to say, well, how much do
we need to increase charges? We need to do like
if we have a four dollar increase, people are but okay,
what you're gonna.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Do then is and it's gonna be great for Amazons.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
They're gonna say, well, people are then gonna make even
more choices about what they're streaming. You know what, I'm
i gotta pay for Amazon because I want the games.
I'm not gonna buy HBO Max right or I'm not
gonna you know, I'm not gonna have that. And then
suddenly these other entities that don't have the sports packages
are in tons of trouble.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
That's the next big thing for.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Streaming services that are gonna survive, because not all of
them will survive. You's already seeing some start to combine,
some to change names. You're seeing like it's kind that
gets a little unwieldy in the legal easey. But everything
else is sort of the same. Everybody puts out original programming.
They have money to do their own movies. They have
money to put out their own original shows and streaming shows.

(26:43):
They all have hits. You know, getting the movie catalogs
is a big deal. But what's gonna be The next
thing that shows you who survives and who doesn't is
where are these sports packages going to go? And people
are gonna have to get So we're gonna have to
get the NBA. We're gonna have to get here. We're
gonna have to survive. I'm getting the NA on the WNBA.
We have to survive on getting going all in on
college football, going all in on the NFL, like that's

(27:06):
gonna be the next big deck clearer for the streaming service.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's funny because it's really just history repeating itself because
I could speak to it directly. Went back to the
onset of the NFL network. I had a show that
was going on as part of what was called the
Football Network, and they were in negotiations and this would
have been lower tier college games, but they got jacked
up in prices because everybody recognized, even all those years ago,

(27:33):
and think about how many years ago that is, that
that live programming for sports was the only thing that
you were going to keep printing money on, and so
the rights costs went up huge. The place I was
on had our show streaming as part of Spike TV
back in the day was Baywatch reruns in commercials and
US Yeah okay, and if you were drunk I heard.

(27:54):
I was really funny.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was like the true TV of years ago, all
those years ago, four runner true. Hey, we can do
a show like we could get a whole network like this.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Which so we did. We did a fantasy and gambling
show and all that stuff, and it was all finding good.
And then all of a sudden, it's like, oh, no,
we're gonna have the NFL network because they were negotiating
for all the NFL films and John Fazenda and all
of that programming. I was like, no, no, no, we're
gonna keep that. So you just wasted tens of millions
of dollars on the lawyering to acquire said fees. And

(28:23):
now we've decided we're not gonna give it to you.
We're gonna do our own thing with it. But now
we're in that same space of fighting and funneling that
information and those content pieces down. So yeah, it'll be
curious to watch. I mean, look, they're gonna make money
or already selling it make money. We're having the first
Thanksgiving Eve game. You think we're not gonna have another
game like that. Of course we're gonna do it. No

(28:44):
where's Thursday, Friday or holiday. People get Once you hit
the Wednesday of Thanksgiving. Once you at four o'clock, it's
a holiday. Everybody leaves work early. You're in holiday mode. Right.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
People are back from college, they're going out watching games
and bars like that's gonna be a game. Now we're
gonna have the thanks Giving Eve game. We're gonna have
three games. On Thanksgiving, we have the Black Friday.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Halfway to St. Patrick's. That is the anniversary each and
every time.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
You know, that's the thing that's what makes Thanksgiving a
tough week because I have the butt fumble on things
and then I have the fail Mary in the in
the Black fri Friday.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
It's gonna be tough. And the beauty of it is
because we also commemorated as the actual dated happened. You
get to celebrate it twice. Yeah, yeah, great. Ye.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't know about celebrating it. No, I don't though
I don't think I'll ever accept that.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
I never will commemorate.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
It's one of those things that happened, and I'm just
gonna understand it happened, but it's not really gonna exist.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, you can't let it define you. It's like all
different things in your professional and personal lives. We all
have wins, we all have ties, and and every once
in a while you take a short term l you
need to figure out how to capitalize off that learn
for the next time it go much like have we
seen another butt fumble? Since no, everybody learned their lesson well,

(30:00):
I mean in a larger for thirty years.

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Speaker 1 (30:27):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with someone who is breathing a little
bit easier in the last couple of minutes. It's Detroit
native Martin Weiss.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
He has what's trending, that's true. It's Kay Cunningham. Just
puts a three pointer. I'm sorry, has to buy his hairs,
got my guys mixed up. Just puts a three.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Pointer down the hair man the hair listen. I mean,
Tobias Harris has had a playoff run. It's remark it's
really remarkable. One of the last two games, this one
thirteen points. Didn't break that twenty point streak of last
game in Game four, but twenty points like he just
didn't do that ever in his career, and all of

(31:03):
a sudden on this playoff front. He has two minutes
and thirty seconds left here in the fourth quarter. Detroit
has a nine point lead one ozh three to ninety six.
Cad Cunning him with thirty seven points and the four rebounds,
nine assists and as you just missed another jump shot,
Dannis Jenkins came off started this game for Duncan Robinson.

(31:24):
Duncan Robinson unable to play due to back sore this
Jacins has seventeen points, outscoring Donovan Mitchell West fourteen. Mitchell
had twelve at the end of the first half, only
two second half points this one game after setting or
tying I should say, the second half record for a
point scored in a playoff game with Sleepy Floyd James

(31:45):
Harden has twenty seven points, Evan Mobley with twelve. In
the NHL third period winding down, the Minnesota Wild have
a three to one lead over.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
The Colorado Avalanche.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Colorado leeds that series three games to one, so Minnesota
looking to go ahead and extended Major League Baseball. Bottom
of the top of the ninth inning, the Rangers lead
the Diamondbacks three to two.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Two to two tie between the Astros and the Mariners.
On top of the eighth.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
Bottom of the fourth, the Cardinals lead the A's one
to nothing. Dodgers and Padres. I'm sorry, Dodgers and Giants
are scoreless currently, and uh the Cardinals have a one
I'm sorry I just said that.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Cardinals with the one nothing lead over the A's. I know,
I know, you're you. This would be me if I
was watching the next right now, I saw the ball
and then going back the Yeah, no, there's a.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
Point game now, not just over ninety seconds left. James
Harden driving down? Are walking down? I should say, not
very much driving. But I'm hoping that he misses this
jump shot. Fellas, take it away from here, save me
from myself.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
All right, what this guy hasn't he barely left Toronto
left round one and here he goes. Okay, all right,
then get back to you.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Hey, breathe, man, breeze. I know if you know this,
I love right here. Evan Mobley. Those are his first
points in four weeks. Yes, first point? Uh one oh three,
one oh one with a minute to go in the
fourth quarter, the Pistons with the lead over the Cavaliers.
They just missed a three, so Cleveland's got the basketball

(33:10):
and what's looking to be a very tired James Harden,
who was still having a good night, leading the charge
up the floor for the Cavaliers. But again, it's still
a two point lead for the Pistons with forty five
seconds left to go. What are we talking about next?
Are we talking overtime? Are we saying good things about
James Harden with no qualifiers? Are the Pistons one game away?

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Keep it right here?

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Speaker 4 (34:44):
Well.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
After a Piston's miss gives the ball back to the
Cavaliers for the final possession, Donovan Mitchell decides, I know
I'm four for fifteen. Just give me the basketball, and
this is why we are in overtime range.

Speaker 7 (34:57):
Let's just can't get away six seconds Betchell on the drive.
Betchell William's hand shut down, come behind by Thompson, he
falls down, comes out of pounds.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
The Pistons want a.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Foul calls, but they're just saying out of bounds.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
No fouls called.

Speaker 7 (35:17):
Bang.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Mike Breen on the call, so we are going to overtime.
Both sides actually wanted a foul call. The Pistons actually
wanted more time on the clock. The Cavaliers were looking
for a foul call. Donovan Mitchell got into trouble with
the ball and he was doubled and he had a
tough time getting through the defense. But he got to
a point where, hey, okay with with with one with

(35:38):
one or two seconds left where he could pull up
for a nice fifteen footer except Thompson from behind knocks
the ball out of his hand. You're not going to
get a foul call on that. The ball goes out
of bounds, and now we are just beginning overtime. Uh,
just over four minutes left to go. Cleveland with the
first bucket they lead at one oh five to one
oh three.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, as you heard Breen say on the call, you
had Alan that looked like he got into the legs
of Thompson with about a second left on the clock
before the ball went harmlessly out of bounds. There was
a moment where it's like, are they going to review this?
Like nope, they called it overtime, let's go and moving on.
But yeah, when when Mitchell went into the lane. Look,
they've done a great job being physical and double teaming,

(36:18):
and he hasn't had any of the sight lines to
pass out of really, so decided to take the dribble
of the lane. Found what he thought was a bit
of open space. Uh, but it's like a parking mirage.
There is a car there when you turn the corner.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now I'm gonna shock you. Yeah, I'm gonna shock you.
You thought what this is?

Speaker 4 (36:36):
No? No, no, this is gonna make people really mad.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, but you know why not? I'll say it. Uh,
and I'm being completely honest. I'll be completely honest. Uh
why didn't Why didn't they make sure Harden took that
last shot?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Wow? Well, I mean, look, superstar wanted the ball. I
mean he didn't Scotty pipping into Tony Kukoch this thing.
He said, No, no, no, I may not hit a shot,
but I got one in me. Jason.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
All you say is James Harden stinks he's done playoff hard.
Yeah yeah, yeah, but like you know, he's having a
big game and and maybe you wanted him to take
that lesh.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
He's also now a little salty as he shoots an
air ball but gets kind of hit a little bit
by Tobias Harris and he's looking for the file.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
We go to a television time out. No, we're just
gonna run a clear out for uh Donovan Mitchell.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Maybe you wanted to give the ball to James Hard
so angry one of the top ten scores in NBA history,
put some respect on his so.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Amuse myself with that. All you've said is out, James Harden.
You know how it's gonna end. Yes, yes, all these
things I know, but wow, that I don't know. I
wouldn't give it because it was it was funny you yell.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Oh, James Harden. I'm like, he knows it was Mitchell, right,
angel you? But yeah, wearing the angel hat. That will
the futility will rub off on. Yeah. You know what,
he's gonna play against the Knicks, and he's gonna for
like thirty five and no, no, come on, Harden is
gonna be if they win this game. And then he'll
run circles around Jalen Brunson, two of those guys tripping
over their tongues by the third. You know he's gonna go.

(38:09):
This is really this guy. I got a guard.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I'm just gonna stand in one place to be fine,
like would be good since he's hurt, Like, I just
stand right here. I'm just gonna stand here and he'll
he'll go buy me. At some point, I'll knock the
ball out. You wanted to give that shot to Harden.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
I'm just saving Look, Donovan Mitchell said, it's I'm the captain.
Now he went to make his playing Well it didn't.
It just didn't work out quite so well. Just like
the rest of his Knights, he's been good from the
free throw line when he's gotten there though.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, oh no, no, Look it's been a bad night
for Mitchell. I still get Look.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
What is he oh for seven? Oh for eight from
three point range?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, he's he's Yeah, I mean, even though he's having
a bad night, you want to get him there.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
The Cavaliers are challenging the ruling on the court now
with a four point lead, James Harden did one of
his patented I'm gonna take a three and kick the
defender and fall down, and so now the Calves are
calling this for challenge, hoping that they get it reviewed
and reversed, and instead Hardens at the free throw line
for three free throws, which Hey, why not, right, this
is something that can really just push the game. You're

(39:10):
talking about a potential five point swing if you wind
up getting this overturned. So you know, go eteid four
point lead, you be look at a seven point lead, and
that's when the Pistons will get the basketball back. So yeah,
I get trying to go through. I don't know that
you're gonna get it, but I get trying to pull
off this challenge.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
And they did not, as Detroit will inbound the ball,
miss their last nine shots, as the graphics man tells
us or a woman whoever's putting those up gives us
in Cleveland on a hell of a roll. Going back
to the end of regulation.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
They are on a nine to oh run to close
the game and then to begin overtime. So now it's
a thirteen to oh run in the last three and
a half minutes of this game for the Cavaliers that
have brought them back into this. Like, this is what
I mean when I say, hey, as a nick fan,
don't I don't. I'm not afraid of either of these teams,
because again, the thing about the Pistons, they look like

(40:04):
they are just absolutely running on fumes and especially the
end of this game, they got they got nothing going
on offensively, Cad Cunningham, can't find any space, they get
an offensive rebound, can't get a good shot off.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
They look like they are just running out of gas. Yeah,
it's been Cunningham and Jenkins for the most part. A
little bit from Tobias Harris, as we talked about a
bit earlier, but otherwise scoring at a premium and for
you all you're caring about as a talk show host
here at Fox Sports Radios, we go deep into the night,
and as a Knicks fan, you just want more free basketball.

(40:37):
So again, these guys are falling down. By the end
of the.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Third overtime, we're all winning right now, we are absolutely
And we got a goal in the Colorado Avalanche game
in the final minute and a half of regulation to
set all.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Right, we got let's go. We have both games in overtime.
I know Tony's pitching it. He's got a shutout.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah if he blows that, but yeah, Frostburg's gonna throw
a chair at you, man, just watch out.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Well, it's not like I'm saying he's gonna hit a
home run tonight.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Whoa.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Yeah, let's not get crazy he's not hitting too.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
I mean, if I can speak that into existence Insteadenly,
he's back in the line pad for the Dodgers. Just
make sure you stay if it goes bad worse.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
I'm taking like the Beatles saying Frostburg is gonna come
in here and there's gonna be some things that happen.
Big stuff out of the NFL. Next review and rule
the two pointer to make it a two point game.
It looked like he was going for a lob, but
it had to be let go to the rim because
it was too close and it would have been offensive goaltending.

(41:41):
And instead it ended up being a misshot, like he
did a floater where it looked like, all right, he's
going for the the alley oop, and instead you see
the big man pull off the rim and it falls
harmlessly back to a Detroit possession. And I am twenty
five seconds away from having to give all kinds of
flowers to James Harden.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Yeah you will.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Maybe maybe I could just take credit for inspiring him,
because what I tell you after Game two playoff, Harden,
this is what happens to the guy every I've seen
in his career. Now he's had three of the best
playoff games he's had in the past. I don't know
decade these.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Three games in a row. Here free throw line.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I was able to get to the free throw line
in the last possession now shooting to give the Pistons
or give the the Cavaliers what could be a four
point lead to twenty five seconds left to go. He's
gonna wind up with thirty points in the game. I'm
gonna have to say good things about James Harden Man.
I don't say a lot of good things about James
harden He's gotta be careful in our space.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
We got a lot of guys that take credit for
people's accomplishments and successes along the way. So we looked
that's traveled territory.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
He just made one out of two. He missed the
second free throw, but got his own rebounds.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
He's a wizard.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
And now he gets fouled again and he's going to
the free throw line like he missed it long and
you could tell hardin New right away, Okay, this is
too long. Except the Pistons they have been doing a
lot standing around and they've been I mean this entire
the end of regulation. Over time, they're out of guaess
like this Pistons team looks like it's like we're done
playing right. They're not doing the little things needed. They're

(43:10):
lazy turnovers in the backcourt, like I said, after a
Donovan Mitchell three, a horrible inbounds pass that turns into
a Mitchell layup, and now not getting up there and
getting the rebound when it's still a one possession game
for you like that, it's just so embarrassing for the Pistons,
and again for a team that you thought, with the
young legs they have, they're gonna be a team that

(43:31):
kind of rolls through the playoffs. No, they're showing you
that everything they've been doing that maybe they might be.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Out of gas here.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
And we are five seconds away from getting ready to
preview the Cavaliers and the Knicks because they're gonna go
back to Cleveland up three too.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Look at you all of a sudden, now you're on
board the Cavaliers, big possession, some misshots and finally a
rebound and a file with three point four left. But
you know all of that, the lack of effort in
the lane. You had two guys on the blocks that
made no effort. When James Harden got the rebound on

(44:06):
that free throw, miss, goes back to the line, makes
one of two, and we go back the other way.
But it's just those flat footed moments, the thinking that
James Harden, maybe they were listening to you. Pistons were
listening to you, and it's your fault, your pistons, that
you led him to that point and you predicted all
this greatness. And then they got rope and doped into thinking, hey,

(44:28):
Harden's got nothing left. He ain't getting off the free
throw line if he misses, and instead he snares his
own rebound that comes along, and it's your fault.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
I mean, well, look, maybe James Harden's gonna say after
the game, Hey, you know what, I really had to
take a take a really hard look at myself after
those two games because I hear Jason Smith just absolutely
killing me on this.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
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Game two.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, I mean, look, that's the thing about this is
why I talk about, Hey, maybe we're previewing and now
it's a final. The Pistons go down at home. The
Cavaliers are gonna go home with a chance to end
this series. Like the Pistons, they just look done. And
that's it's a tough thing, right, It's it's a tough thing.
They just look done, and it's sometimes it happens very quickly.

(45:27):
But watching their playoff path they come in regular season
was awesome, and you know, listen, I gotta give all
our guys credit. Like Rick Bucker would come on the
show and say, you know, the Pistons regular seasons one thing,
are they gonna be able to do this through the playoffs?
And I'm like, you know, they're exactly what they need.
Everybody's young, they don't know what they don't know. They
come at you in waves. They go nine deep coming

(45:50):
off and Kate Cunningham is playing like a superstar man.
The Pistons. They're gonna be a tough out. They're gonna
be really, really tough, and then they nearly get bounce
in the first round. They don't really play great basketball.
But they played good enough, and then at some point
you would think that, hey, if you're that good a team,
you're gonna hit that level of excellence that you had
during the regular season. But they haven't. And it's just

(46:13):
it's stuff like the effort that we saw, right, the
effort not getting up there for the rebound on the
free throw for James Harden right, the horrible turnover, the
struss I mean, the lazy inbound that wound up getting them,
getting them too, you know, an extra bucket here, like
all of these things, and then down the stretch in
the fourth quarter, they couldn't get any anything going offensively.

(46:33):
The last possession, Kay Cunningham can't get a great look,
he can't get by one defender and has to settle
for a fadeaway jumper like he looked cook. Even though
they got the offensive possession, there was a lot of
standing around offensively, and then it was a bad shot
that turned it over to the Cavaliers. They couldn't make
a shot at the end, so we wind up going
to overtime. But you're talking about a nine to zero
run to end regulation and then winning the game the

(46:55):
way they did here in overtime where they just look
like we just have to outlast the Pistons because they
look done. And it's really hard to think that in
the middle of the second round a team looks done,
but they look done. You usually get to the conference
finals when a team looks like, hey, we're out of gas.
We had this big run, but we're not doing But
now the Pistons look done, and I don't know, can
they really go into Cleveland to win Game six or

(47:18):
should we just start previewing the Cavaliers in the knicks Now.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
Well, I can tell you this as we get into
the post game, and certainly a lot of it was
fourth quarter and overtime damage at the foul line. But
I have absolutely no doubt that Bickerstaff will once again
go hard at the officials as Cleveland shot thirty eight
free throws Pistons twenty at home. Yeah, in a big,

(47:43):
big game that you're not getting to the file line.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
But I will say watching the game, how often did
the Cavaliers try to get to the hoop all the time?
How often did the Pistons try to get to They
settled because they were exhausted, because I had to. They
settled for a lot of jumpers and you're not getting
to the free throw line when you're hey, I'm going
to give you a jab step and fade away and
hope that you you know, it's not SGA where they're
gonna blow the whistle on you just because you picked
up your dribble. Like, watching this game, I can see

(48:09):
where the free throw disparity is because watching what the
Pistons try to do, they couldn't do anything like. So
you settle for when that happens. You settle for bad jumpers.
You settle for fifteen footers and that are contested or
you don't have the legs on them, you miss short.
All of these things.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
You watch them. The Pistols, Oh, they still won the
battle of the points and the paint. You know, the
what is it? The pyrrhic victory ten point margin in
that regard outpaced the Cavaliers with a twenty three to
seven fast break points margin, but again, free throw line disparity.
Eighteen more attempts thirteen point makes four point win on

(48:47):
a night where Donovan Mitchell was for the most part
terrible until he needed a big steal and the bucket
off a bad inbound play that ends up helping to
seal this game for the Cavaliers, Like this is one
that you feel you stole if you're the Cavaliers and
you're feeling pretty chesty going back home. You know when

(49:07):
I talked last round and I said, hey, after this
big win, I'll take the Pistons to win this game.
But I don't care how many points. Right when they're
gonna close out the magic because the magic had done,
I'll give me whatever the point spread is. Give me
the Pistons in game seven. I feel that way going
into Game six, Give me the Cavaliers and lay the points,
Like what, what are the Pistons really gonna show up
after this on the road at where they where they

(49:29):
look like they're just like, hey, the end of the
season's here.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
We gave it our best shot. Just not happening for us. Right,
we're ready to go home. We are ready to pack
it up. It's it's two fifty five and everybody's looking
at the clock and in school and they know that
the bell is coming, and they got their books packed
up and they got one foot out and the chair
start to slide. You wait for that bell to hit
three o'clock so they can get to the get to
the school yard and get hold like that's what the

(49:52):
Pistons look like.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
We're ready to go three, two to one. Obviously, the
absence of Duncan Robinson weighs big out with the the
back issue. Had had a terrible game four. Uh, so
that was also in the offing for him. A guy
that shot forty five point six for the year forty
one percent from three point range. So one of those

(50:14):
spot up shooters and a guy that you'd come to
rely on who was unavailable to you. Will see if
his status changes. Obviously, now we're we're looking ahead to
the next game, going back to Cleveland. We'll keep an
eye on the the odds and ends of things as
they become available.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
And I'm gonna say this now, and you foresid your
Detroit Piston as you picked them, I got them as
far as they got to do something for themselves here right, Yeah,
but you said finals.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
Yes, this isn't even close.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
I need them to do something for themselves. I need
them to be the number one seed to get to
the Eastern Conference finals so I can say, hey, look
out close. I am to my Spurs Pistons prediction from
before the season that was.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
One hundred to one. If you got the offer, you
don't even get a cash out at this point. You
get enough. But but but I want to be positive.
There's some positivity I have to give out here.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
And there's gonna be no qualifiers. Okay, no qualifiers. Okay, sure, No,
I think there'll be a qualifier.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
I can totally. I can read your mind as to
where you're there is there is no qualify.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
There is no qualifiers if you can read his mind, Mike,
how many hamburgers?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
No? No, no, no, no, well three and a half if
someone will want over, Hey, I'm saving my hamburger for
Tommy Burger's eightieth anniversary on Friday. Hamburgers are eighty cents chili.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, let's go Tommy Burger, the best big thing. Hey,
Tommy Burger original Tommy Burger here in Los Angeles. Eightieth
anniversary coming up. Friday Burgers are eighty cents apiece. It's
the best chili in the city. It's the best chili
I've ever had in my life. I can't Is that
right Friday? Oh yeah, the chili is so good. It's
so good, and I just get it with onions and cheese.
It's so good. Oh my god, I just want to

(51:54):
dip my hand. I can grab it out and just
put it. It's like dipping your hand in ice cream,
except it's chili. Just put it in your mouth. It's
so good.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
But that was disgusting that I was actually and I
was actually doing it with my hand.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
How I would eat it, how you'd eat it? Because
you're completely taken away because you had the beans thing
from Tommy with Anne Margaret, which was actually odd and whatever.
But it's Ann Margret. Now you have the image of
you rolling around in chili. But I do have to
set jackass. I feel pay me, I'll do it. Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I'm sure there's an everybody's get sure there's an only
fans account where if I roll in chill, roll around
in food and talk about the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
No sure, Sure. Guys doing an ode to Jalen Brunson
while sliding around again in raw onions money trouble tells
me I could do anything on only fans. Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Thirty points tonight for James Harden leading the way at
the end. They should have given him the ball in
the last play. In regulation, hits the big free throws
gets the big rebounds, A thirty eight and six night
for Harden. James Harden was the difference. He has been
great the last three games for the capt I.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Thought you were going to crush the fact that he
was only eight of twenty one from the field, especially
with that little running thing that I as I described it,
that I'm pretty sure was an LU. But it goes
down as a misshot and an opportunity that would that
would have been potentially a dagger if that had fallen.
He had a big there's and there's no qualifiers. I'm
talking no no qualifiers game not even his six turnovers.

(53:26):
He had got matched his six assists. He was the
best player on the floor. And he has been great
the last three games. There are no qualifiers. Let's see
if he does in game six. There are no qualifiers
for James Harden for this