April 11, 2024 • 22 mins
The Mavs are Southwest Division champions and will play the Clippers in the first round of the playoffs! Will Luka win MVP?? What does Dirk think about Luka? Cody Bradford was great again for the Rangers last night! The Stars have a big game against Winnipeg tonight! Then we find out what day it is?
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Taker Rhyme and Julie James roy C. I think Julis just stumble onto a
new segment. You may have aI don't know man segment one every couple
of weeks. I love it.Have your ay Ding, It's the Speak
Easy on ninety seven one, theFreak and I don't know man segment every
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couple of weeks. I don't knowif we let's let's workshop this. If
we had an I don't know mansegment, where does it go? I
mean, you just you'd have tohave something going on in your in your
brain that day that you just don'tknow. Man. I kind of like
this idea. We all have alot going on in our brains. I
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know we do. Yeah, Ithink at the moment though, you don't.
I don't know, man, Ijust think that, Yeah. I
think it's a great starting point forsomething. Do you have an I don't
know man today, Mike, Idon't have a I don't know, man.
I might have it. I justthink that, yeah, yeah,
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or I might not Hell, Idon't know. Yeah, yesterday it was
like, I don't know, man, I didn't know. Marcus Simeon,
Yeah, that was one I didn'tknow. He's Black. I don't know.
I never really thought about it.If you just asked me like Marcus
Simeon White or Black, I Ikind of thought like Greek or something.
Oh no, it might have beenan. I don't know man earlier.
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I don't know man. I don'tknow mom or dad. Hell, I
don't know man. Oh Man.Well, there's one thing I do know,
man, and that it's time forthis Julie Sports Desk. Hy everybody,
It is Julie at the sports desk. The Rangers are playing right now,
so we have that going on andthroughout the sports desk. Everybody has
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my permission to react to the Rangergame as it happens. It is the
sports desk. I won't be madat you. Looks like the Rangers.
Yeah, down a run right now. John Gray on the hill for Texas.
We never lose. John Gray starts. It's been so good, not
too bad so far. Today alittle day game, and then the Rangers
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are going to head out of townto Houston, I do believe. Yeah,
I got a three gamer with Houstoncoming out with this, Yeah,
and then Detroit, so that ishappening as we speak. We'll also have
an Andrew Kissner start today too,right, I'm dhing it's an Evan Carter
day off. Indeed, all right, Wyatt and left field, he's back
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from his big day off. Yeah, back from his big day off,
Evan's day off. But let's startwith the Mavericks because that's what everybody's talking
about today. The Dallas Mavericks wentinto Miami last night, a tired Mavericks
team, and we're able to takecare of the hated Miami Heat one eleven
to ninety two on the road,and they are division champions once again.
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Divisions are weird because I was like, yeah, we won the division.
We're gonna be a five seed,and I believe the Clippers are gonna win
their division. They're gonna be thefour seed. So the top three seeds
are all in a different division.It is weird. Why does it matter
if you win your division then becauseyou can hang a banner? Okay,
we did it, because you cancelebrate If nothing else happens great in this
Maverick season, at least you cansay that this team was division champs.
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And I do think other things thatare great will happen in this Mavericks season.
But it was their fifth division title. And now with this win over
Miami, they have won fifteen oftheir last seventeen games, which is just
insane. If you think about wherethey were a few months ago and we
weren't sure what this Maverick season wasgoing to look like, and they looked
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like they needed a lot of help. They looked like they couldn't play defense.
We heard Jason kidds saying defense isour best offense and all that.
It was like, our offense isour best defense the other way around,
like, yeah, we're just gonnaoutscore everybody, and they are playing defense
now and they are Does that meanthe Jason Kidd do you think he was
just basically telling the front like Ihave who I have, we can't.
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Yes. When he was saying thatwhere it's just like I'd love to say,
we're gonna play better defense. Lookwho's on my team. That was
his like passive aggressive way of saying, bring me somebody, bring me more
people that can go give me aguy. Then they get Lively in the
draft and Gafford and Washington at thedeadline and it's like, okay, now
ask me about defense. Yeah,we're happy to try to do it well.
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All the strings that they pulled inthe front office, really really worked
for the Mavericks. They won theirfiftieth game of the season last night.
Now they're fifty and thirty with twogames remaining. And yes, we will
be playing the Clippers in the firstround. That is confirmed. It's gonna
be a best of seven series againstthe Clippers. This is gonna be the
third time in five years to openthe first round of the playoffs with the
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dress Clippers and the Mavericks looking forsome revenge because those first couple of times
didn't go too well. So theClippers, when's the Mavericks next game?
Mavericks schedule, because you need thereis a possibility if they go oh and
two and the Mavericks go to andoh, suddenly we're the home team,
but we played before them. Sothe Mavericks is going to play the Pistons
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tomorrow at seven point thirty, andthen the Clippers will host the Jazz after
that. It could get interesting.So the magic number for the Clippers to
have home court advantage in this seriesis one. Yeah, any combination of
the Mavericks of one Mavericks loss orone Clippers win in the last two games
for each team, if you're theMavericks tomorrow. Do you send everybody out
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there and go bust your ass towin a basketball game? How important is
it? I mean, in theory, if you win that game and then
the Clippers lose, they would haveto lose that night, and they would
have to lose their next game,and you'd have to win your next game.
But then you get home court.Okay, it has to be two
and oh versus zero and two.Let me put it this way. Then,
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how much do you fear the Clippers? Ah, I don't fear the
Clippers. If you told me Icould have home court, I would certainly
think that that would be worth tryingto get. But I think the odds
are that if you put all youreggs in that basket, you're like,
let's go win these last two gamesand put everything on the line. They're
just gonna win one of their gamesanyway and it's not gonna matter. So
if I were the MAVs, Iwould probably be approaching these next two as,
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Yeah, you guys will play,but you're not gonna play forty three
minutes. Yeah, we're just goingto keep our rhythm, play basketball,
and we're gonna rest. I thinkthey will approach it. You know,
we want people to like get coldjust sitting out for a few days.
Too. I'll play a little bitof playoffs. So and I feel like
too with Kyrie and Luca at thispoint, they've earned obviously. I think
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it's a very open conversation with thehead coach about if they want to play
and how they're feeling and all ofthat, and so I bet if they
want to play, they will,and if they don't, they won't at
this point. But yeah, we'regetting ready for the Clippers once again.
And man, the fun is aboutto begin for Dallas. Okay, let
me ask you this then, sure, what values more or what's more valuable?
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What do you value more rest forthose two or the possibility of home
court advantage. If you told meyou if it were set up that if
the Maps win both games, theyget home court advantage, I would go
for it. But because you don'tcontrol that if they win a game,
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it doesn't matter. I value therest over home court advantage. But if
it was, if the fate wasin their hands, I would probably say
I value the home court advantage.Let's go bust our ass in both games.
But I don't think they're gonna getit anyway, so I'll take the
rest. Yeah, it'd be greatif they did. Always good when you
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can open a playoff series at homein front of your fans, just kind
of go off and set the momentumfor the series and all of that.
So we'll see what happens. I'mhappy that they're here, So I don't
know either way. Glad they're here. Glad we're talking about playoffs for the
Mavericks and we will be facing theClippers. And if you watch the game
last night, you might have seeneverybody wearing the Provy MVP shirts ahead of
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the game. I didn't understand.I didn't Well I knew what MVP was
obviously, but the Provy I didn't. But it means the real MVP.
So this is all of the Mavericks'ssaying that Luca needs to be the MVP,
and they know that he is currentlynot, you know, leading the
pack for that honor right now,and so they thought, hey, this
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is a national TV game, howabout we all wear these T shirts that
are getting the word out even moreadvocating for our teammate who should clearly at
least be in this conversation more thanhe is to be the MVP of the
in the NBA this season. AndI think that's kind of cool that they
had all these T shirts made andthat they were rocking them before the game.
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Apparently PJ. Washington said they askedif they could wear him during the
game and got and got squashed onthat idea while playing, yeah, or
while on the bench during the game. Probably on the book, Yeah,
probably on the bench. Love it. They just had provy MVP and their
number on the back and they goplay m H. Yeah. They all
were asked about it. Kyrie saidit was a statement that they stand by.
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Kyrie said, we all know howspecial this season was going to be.
We know how special this year wasgoing to be based on our practices,
what Luca was doing showcasing that allthe time. He's been more vocal,
challenging his teammates, challenging me,and doing it in his own way.
And I think that's the true signof an MVP. So yeah,
Luca of course leaves the NBA inscoring right now. He's second in assists,
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second in threes, third and tripledoubles tied for seventh, and steals
sixteenth. In rebound He's shooting fortyeight percent from the field thirty eight percent
from three. I mean, comeon, man, why are we all
having to wear t shirts that sayprov MVP on them. It's a little
bit frustrating, But I love thathis teammates care that much about this,
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which obviously kind of secretly tells you. That tells you that Luca cares about
a lot too. Sure, sure, you know, like he's aware,
Like when people ask him after agame or whatever about like a stat or
did you know you were? Didyou know you had? He's always like,
yeah, yeah, yeah, he'skind of poiet on it. Like
I genuinely believe that some athletes donot follow those things at all. Yeah,
Like, and maybe that's just becauseI've mostly covered hockeyen and hockey.
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If they do, they really don'tlet you know that they do. But
you can tell with Luca that hetracks this stuff and he's all over it.
And of course he wants to methe MVP and he should. There
was a funny kind of clip lastnight on ESPN. It was of Dirk.
He went on I think it waspostgame and he was asked about Luca,
and I liked what he had tosay. This relationship that you have
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now developed with Luca is one that'sspecial, right because watching a guy embark
on the world of history that you'vemade, that you've basically set a bar
of. Tell me your feeling ofreceiving the conversation of you know, goat
like or his potential to become orbe How does that make you feel?
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Man, I'm so mad. Yeah, he's breaking every one in my records.
Man, it was over. Itrailed for him, obviously, I
got to know him. So mylast year was his first year in the
league, and you know, itwas just great to see him, get
to know him a little bit.And I think we saw that in year
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one that the sky's the limit forhim. But I honestly didn't think he
could go there. I mean,the way he has no offensive holes in
this in this in this game,he can do it all. He can
shoot the step back, he cango both ways, he can post,
he's got the mid range, he'sgot the flow, he's got all the
horse shot. I mean he's he'sgot he's got the full back horse shot.
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And he's been tremendous to watch everyyear. I'm saying, this kid,
cat can't possibly get better. Andthen sure enough next year it comes
back with more in his repertoire.And it's been he's been. It's been
incredible to watch his first couple ofyears in the league get better and hopefully
mass fans enjoy him for a longlong time. What's a horse shot of
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cool? A horse? Horse shot, A whole horse shot. Okay,
yeah, like all the crazy shotshorse a horse yeah, okay, Yeah,
that was kind of funny. Hedidn't take it where I thought he
did. Interesting too that he saidI knew he was going to be good,
but I didn't know he was goingto do all this. Like after
playing with him for a season,even Dark is shocked to what Luke is
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doing right now, and he is. He's getting better and better and better.
He really bad stuff all the time. I heard follow up during the
game last week when Lucas shot athree that banked in, and he's like,
just so you know, that's onpurpose, Like he's that if he's
at a certain angle, he feelslike his best shot is to put it
off the glass from three, AndI'm just like, okay, it's like
he's got to keep himself entertained becausehe's too good. He's too good at
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regular basketball. He has to comeup with all of these crazy trick shots.
I did hear stan Van Gundy onI forgot whose show it was on,
but he was. He said,yeah. He was like, uh,
Luca is the best offensive player I'veever seen. I saw that too.
That's that's pretty good price. Theywere like, you saw Michael Jordan,
right, well, man, like, ye sure did. Crazy people
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are scared to say it. SoI love when I hear people actually saying
it. You don't need to bescared. That's how you feel. He
ain't wrong, you agree, Yeah, yeah, I mean he could be
the best player, best offensive playerI've ever seen too. I've seen.
I saw Algin Baylor, I sawWilt Chamberlain. Yeah, if you put
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him in a different time period,And it's not fair because in this time
period, you can be his sizeand be the primary ball handler, like,
he could play any position. Hehas a post up game, yeah,
and the back and play in thepost. He can played whatever you
want. Yeah, And back thenthe game was dominated by Biggs. Yeah,
he'd be down there, back tothe basket making hook shots. It's
amazing and I can't wait to seewhat he and this Mavericks team do in
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the playoffs this year because he finallyhas the perfect wingman. So it's going
to be a lot of fun.I will take a quick buzzer here,
Grooby. So the Rangers are inaction right now, as we discussed,
and they also played last night andthis was a really good, much needed
victory for the Rangers, who tookcare of the A's by a final score
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of six to two, and areally good outing for Cody Bradford. One
more time. This could be thereal deal, you guys. He allowed
one run in six and two thirdsinnings last night with seven strikeouts. Quite
strong once again. Yeah, atthe moment if you get old wats his
butt ready to join your starting rotation. I don't know who's out, but
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I know who it's not talking about. Lorenzen. Yeah, yeah, when
he's ready to rock and join therotation, Cody Bradford ain't. Now.
Yeah, maybe it's Andrew Heeney orJohn Gray, but it ain't Cody Bradford.
Wait. Well, the gray Wolvesput pitching right now and they're still
in the game. They're down onenothing, but it's the top of the
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fifth and the and the gray Wolvesthrown seventy eight pitches already. Okay,
so he's going to pitch five innings. Yeah, right up out of there.
Yeah. Hey, that's not abad start. No, I would
take that performance. He's in tworeally bad ones before that. Yeah,
but it was another really good,good game for Cody Bradford. Man.
That guy's got some stuff. Thatguy's got some stuff, and he's got
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an idea of what he's doing outthere. Yeah, it sounds like really
good. He's not shocked by whathe's doing. He was working hard at
you know, changing up his pitchesand including different pitches in the off season,
and it's working kind of like heexpected. He has back to back
quality starts now, which are thefirst two in his young career. And
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Michael Lorenzen, like you mentioned,Jeff is let's see, he is going
to have one more rehab start inRound Rock and then he should enter the
rotation within the next week. Sothat's I mean here, pretty soon we'll
probably sort itself out the way majorleague pitching works. Yeah. Probably.
Will Sures are apparently moving faster thanexpected following the off season back surgery,
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and they're looking at late May forhim as well. So not bad some
good news and Rangers pitching world.We'll take it. We will take it.
I will also take a quick buzzerhere. The Dallas Stars have a
rather large game tonight at home.They are welcoming Winnipeg, the Jets to
the Double AC. Dallas currently infirst in the Central Division and the Western
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Conference. It's they're ten to oneto zero in their last eleven games,
firing on all cylinders. And thisis going to be a big one with
the division rival tonight going down atthe American Airline Center, and all of
this is really big, of coursefor playoff positioning and trying to figure out
how the Stars are going to finishtheir season. Man, it would just
be really cool as well. Ifthey're able to win that President's Trophy with
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the best record in the NHL,that would be kicking Wow, that would
be kicking the best record in theNHL. I hope they can do it.
And this is a big one tonightagainst Winnipeg. Let's check it with
her. Oh, guess what dayit is? Guess what day it is?
Huh? Anybody Today's National Eight TrackTape Day? Mike, do you
have any eight tracks at the house? I do not what time period was
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eight tracks. Eight tracks were likein the mid to late sixties when there
was a preponderance and them probably ranthrough the endo the probably mid to late
seventies, maybe about a team yourrun. There was that the step after
records like it was vinyl and thenand then eight tracks, and then you
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got into cassettes. And so ifwe played an eight track today, would
we hear it and be like,God, it sounds like crap? Probably
okay, because they say they sayvinyl is a better sound, right,
Yeah, a lot of people,A lot of people prefer the certain characteristics
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of vinyl, maybe from the standpointof it being a throwback to the to
what recorded music used to sound likewhen they played records and stuff. You
know, it's kind of a throwbackfor a lot of people. I don't
know. I think it it allhas one characteristic or another. I understand
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why they like vinyl because vinyl soundsreally warm and and it's got something that
the others don't. But I alsolike CDs too. You know, CDs
sound crystal clear, and you canhear a lot of things, mostly on
behind end that you didn't get before. When's the last time you played a
CD. I've done it recently.Here, okay, yeah, you have
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a CD player in the home,Yeah, I do? And record player
right or no? Yeah? Ithink I've got a record player, record
player, CD player, take.I don't have many records. Do you
have a CD player walkman that youtry to fit in your pocket while you're
go on a walk? Now?I don't do that. I never had
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one of those. I remember beingyoung. I remember that I'm gonna go
for a jog and I would jama CD Walkman into my pocket, just
jogging along, using two hands tohold your walkman in front of you.
Here we go, Today's National Cheesefond Do Day. I don't know what
that means, but it looks good. It's like a fountain of cheese.
Oh my god, a fountain ofit. Yeah yeah, yeah, It's
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like what you got the big meltingpot that you take your little piece of
bread on a skewer and you dipit in and you roll it and it's
all gooey. Fondu is French forfountain. Perfect Allegedly, could you imagine
Is that a lie? Yes,it's a lie, damn it, I
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was right. Allegedly, Could youimagine holding a found a fondue fountain bowl
of cheese while going down a twistyslide that's covered on top into the water.
Yeah, it's combining the two greatestthings in the world. I actually
got We need to make that happenfor you. I will do it on
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your birthday. I was in uh. I was in McKinney, Texas the
other day, right after we hadtalked about how much I love pool slides
that do twisties and have a coveron top, and I saw two of
them and they were so big,and I wanted to go. But I
don't know what the place was,and I don't think I'm welcome, but
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I would love to go there.I'm sure they've to have you. If
you're out there and you own atwisty slide making business, why do you
think you'd be welcome. Is itsomebody's house or something? No, some
sort of I don't know what.I wasn't paying too much attention. Oh,
a water park. It must havebeen a water park, but it
was just two big old slides andthen the I don't know, but nobody
was there. Maybe they're not open. I hear you love water parks.
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I do, well, it's complicate. I have a complicated relationship with water.
I don't like water parks. Iwould love a water park if it
was my water park. Like,what was the movie of the real rich
kid that just had like six flagsat his house when we were younger.
There's a movie rich, was itRichie Rich? Yeah? I would love
to have that. But like,I don't want to wait in line.
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I don't want other people going tothe bathroom in the lazy River just me
I would want. I don't wantall the people, but I do love
a water park. So is thereany truth to the rumor that you're planning
on celebrating your birthday at a waterpark? Yeah, what everybody's saying.
I don't know yet, but maybemaybe I will. Okay, let's move
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it along. Coming up next,it's time for Jeff's bucket of crap,
and we need to treat this OJSimpson news with proper reference. We'll do that next
Taker Rhyme and Julie James roy C. I think Julis just stumble onto a
new segment. You may have aI don't know man segment one every couple
of weeks. I love it.Have your ay Ding, It's the Speak
Easy on ninety seven one, theFreak and I don't know man segment every
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couple of weeks. I don't knowif we let's let's workshop this. If
we had an I don't know mansegment, where does it go? I
mean, you just you'd have tohave something going on in your in your
brain that day that you just don'tknow. Man. I kind of like
this idea. We all have alot going on in our brains. I
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know we do. Yeah, Ithink at the moment though, you don't.
I don't know, man, Ijust think that, Yeah. I
think it's a great starting point forsomething. Do you have an I don't
know man today, Mike, Idon't have a I don't know, man.
I might have it. I justthink that, yeah, yeah,
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or I might not Hell, Idon't know. Yeah, yesterday it was
like, I don't know, man, I didn't know. Marcus Simeon,
Yeah, that was one I didn'tknow. He's Black. I don't know.
I never really thought about it.If you just asked me like Marcus
Simeon White or Black, I Ikind of thought like Greek or something.
Oh no, it might have beenan. I don't know man earlier.
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I don't know man. I don'tknow mom or dad. Hell, I
don't know man. Oh Man.Well, there's one thing I do know,
man, and that it's time forthis Julie Sports Desk. Hy everybody,
It is Julie at the sports desk. The Rangers are playing right now,
so we have that going on andthroughout the sports desk. Everybody has
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my permission to react to the Rangergame as it happens. It is the
sports desk. I won't be madat you. Looks like the Rangers.
Yeah, down a run right now. John Gray on the hill for Texas.
We never lose. John Gray starts. It's been so good, not
too bad so far. Today alittle day game, and then the Rangers
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are going to head out of townto Houston, I do believe. Yeah,
I got a three gamer with Houstoncoming out with this, Yeah,
and then Detroit, so that ishappening as we speak. We'll also have
an Andrew Kissner start today too,right, I'm dhing it's an Evan Carter
day off. Indeed, all right, Wyatt and left field, he's back
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from his big day off. Yeah, back from his big day off,
Evan's day off. But let's startwith the Mavericks because that's what everybody's talking
about today. The Dallas Mavericks wentinto Miami last night, a tired Mavericks
team, and we're able to takecare of the hated Miami Heat one eleven
to ninety two on the road,and they are division champions once again.
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Divisions are weird because I was like, yeah, we won the division.
We're gonna be a five seed,and I believe the Clippers are gonna win
their division. They're gonna be thefour seed. So the top three seeds
are all in a different division.It is weird. Why does it matter
if you win your division then becauseyou can hang a banner? Okay,
we did it, because you cancelebrate If nothing else happens great in this
Maverick season, at least you cansay that this team was division champs.
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And I do think other things thatare great will happen in this Mavericks season.
But it was their fifth division title. And now with this win over
Miami, they have won fifteen oftheir last seventeen games, which is just
insane. If you think about wherethey were a few months ago and we
weren't sure what this Maverick season wasgoing to look like, and they looked
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like they needed a lot of help. They looked like they couldn't play defense.
We heard Jason kidds saying defense isour best offense and all that.
It was like, our offense isour best defense the other way around,
like, yeah, we're just gonnaoutscore everybody, and they are playing defense
now and they are Does that meanthe Jason Kidd do you think he was
just basically telling the front like Ihave who I have, we can't.
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Yes. When he was saying thatwhere it's just like I'd love to say,
we're gonna play better defense. Lookwho's on my team. That was
his like passive aggressive way of saying, bring me somebody, bring me more
people that can go give me aguy. Then they get Lively in the
draft and Gafford and Washington at thedeadline and it's like, okay, now
ask me about defense. Yeah,we're happy to try to do it well.
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All the strings that they pulled inthe front office, really really worked
for the Mavericks. They won theirfiftieth game of the season last night.
Now they're fifty and thirty with twogames remaining. And yes, we will
be playing the Clippers in the firstround. That is confirmed. It's gonna
be a best of seven series againstthe Clippers. This is gonna be the
third time in five years to openthe first round of the playoffs with the
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dress Clippers and the Mavericks looking forsome revenge because those first couple of times
didn't go too well. So theClippers, when's the Mavericks next game?
Mavericks schedule, because you need thereis a possibility if they go oh and
two and the Mavericks go to andoh, suddenly we're the home team,
but we played before them. Sothe Mavericks is going to play the Pistons
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tomorrow at seven point thirty, andthen the Clippers will host the Jazz after
that. It could get interesting.So the magic number for the Clippers to
have home court advantage in this seriesis one. Yeah, any combination of
the Mavericks of one Mavericks loss orone Clippers win in the last two games
for each team, if you're theMavericks tomorrow. Do you send everybody out
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there and go bust your ass towin a basketball game? How important is
it? I mean, in theory, if you win that game and then
the Clippers lose, they would haveto lose that night, and they would
have to lose their next game,and you'd have to win your next game.
But then you get home court.Okay, it has to be two
and oh versus zero and two.Let me put it this way. Then,
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how much do you fear the Clippers? Ah, I don't fear the
Clippers. If you told me Icould have home court, I would certainly
think that that would be worth tryingto get. But I think the odds
are that if you put all youreggs in that basket, you're like,
let's go win these last two gamesand put everything on the line. They're
just gonna win one of their gamesanyway and it's not gonna matter. So
if I were the MAVs, Iwould probably be approaching these next two as,
(06:29):
Yeah, you guys will play,but you're not gonna play forty three
minutes. Yeah, we're just goingto keep our rhythm, play basketball,
and we're gonna rest. I thinkthey will approach it. You know,
we want people to like get coldjust sitting out for a few days.
Too. I'll play a little bitof playoffs. So and I feel like
too with Kyrie and Luca at thispoint, they've earned obviously. I think
(06:50):
it's a very open conversation with thehead coach about if they want to play
and how they're feeling and all ofthat, and so I bet if they
want to play, they will,and if they don't, they won't at
this point. But yeah, we'regetting ready for the Clippers once again.
And man, the fun is aboutto begin for Dallas. Okay, let
me ask you this then, sure, what values more or what's more valuable?
(07:14):
What do you value more rest forthose two or the possibility of home
court advantage. If you told meyou if it were set up that if
the Maps win both games, theyget home court advantage, I would go
for it. But because you don'tcontrol that if they win a game,
(07:34):
it doesn't matter. I value therest over home court advantage. But if
it was, if the fate wasin their hands, I would probably say
I value the home court advantage.Let's go bust our ass in both games.
But I don't think they're gonna getit anyway, so I'll take the
rest. Yeah, it'd be greatif they did. Always good when you
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can open a playoff series at homein front of your fans, just kind
of go off and set the momentumfor the series and all of that.
So we'll see what happens. I'mhappy that they're here, So I don't
know either way. Glad they're here. Glad we're talking about playoffs for the
Mavericks and we will be facing theClippers. And if you watch the game
last night, you might have seeneverybody wearing the Provy MVP shirts ahead of
(08:20):
the game. I didn't understand.I didn't Well I knew what MVP was
obviously, but the Provy I didn't. But it means the real MVP.
So this is all of the Mavericks'ssaying that Luca needs to be the MVP,
and they know that he is currentlynot, you know, leading the
pack for that honor right now,and so they thought, hey, this
(08:41):
is a national TV game, howabout we all wear these T shirts that
are getting the word out even moreadvocating for our teammate who should clearly at
least be in this conversation more thanhe is to be the MVP of the
in the NBA this season. AndI think that's kind of cool that they
had all these T shirts made andthat they were rocking them before the game.
(09:05):
Apparently PJ. Washington said they askedif they could wear him during the
game and got and got squashed onthat idea while playing, yeah, or
while on the bench during the game. Probably on the book, Yeah,
probably on the bench. Love it. They just had provy MVP and their
number on the back and they goplay m H. Yeah. They all
were asked about it. Kyrie saidit was a statement that they stand by.
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Kyrie said, we all know howspecial this season was going to be.
We know how special this year wasgoing to be based on our practices,
what Luca was doing showcasing that allthe time. He's been more vocal,
challenging his teammates, challenging me,and doing it in his own way.
And I think that's the true signof an MVP. So yeah,
Luca of course leaves the NBA inscoring right now. He's second in assists,
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second in threes, third and tripledoubles tied for seventh, and steals
sixteenth. In rebound He's shooting fortyeight percent from the field thirty eight percent
from three. I mean, comeon, man, why are we all
having to wear t shirts that sayprov MVP on them. It's a little
bit frustrating, But I love thathis teammates care that much about this,
(10:11):
which obviously kind of secretly tells you. That tells you that Luca cares about
a lot too. Sure, sure, you know, like he's aware,
Like when people ask him after agame or whatever about like a stat or
did you know you were? Didyou know you had? He's always like,
yeah, yeah, yeah, he'skind of poiet on it. Like
I genuinely believe that some athletes donot follow those things at all. Yeah,
Like, and maybe that's just becauseI've mostly covered hockeyen and hockey.
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If they do, they really don'tlet you know that they do. But
you can tell with Luca that hetracks this stuff and he's all over it.
And of course he wants to methe MVP and he should. There
was a funny kind of clip lastnight on ESPN. It was of Dirk.
He went on I think it waspostgame and he was asked about Luca,
and I liked what he had tosay. This relationship that you have
(10:54):
now developed with Luca is one that'sspecial, right because watching a guy embark
on the world of history that you'vemade, that you've basically set a bar
of. Tell me your feeling ofreceiving the conversation of you know, goat
like or his potential to become orbe How does that make you feel?
(11:18):
Man, I'm so mad. Yeah, he's breaking every one in my records.
Man, it was over. Itrailed for him, obviously, I
got to know him. So mylast year was his first year in the
league, and you know, itwas just great to see him, get
to know him a little bit.And I think we saw that in year
(11:43):
one that the sky's the limit forhim. But I honestly didn't think he
could go there. I mean,the way he has no offensive holes in
this in this in this game,he can do it all. He can
shoot the step back, he cango both ways, he can post,
he's got the mid range, he'sgot the flow, he's got all the
horse shot. I mean he's he'sgot he's got the full back horse shot.
(12:03):
And he's been tremendous to watch everyyear. I'm saying, this kid,
cat can't possibly get better. Andthen sure enough next year it comes
back with more in his repertoire.And it's been he's been. It's been
incredible to watch his first couple ofyears in the league get better and hopefully
mass fans enjoy him for a longlong time. What's a horse shot of
(12:24):
cool? A horse? Horse shot, A whole horse shot. Okay,
yeah, like all the crazy shotshorse a horse yeah, okay, Yeah,
that was kind of funny. Hedidn't take it where I thought he
did. Interesting too that he saidI knew he was going to be good,
but I didn't know he was goingto do all this. Like after
playing with him for a season,even Dark is shocked to what Luke is
(12:48):
doing right now, and he is. He's getting better and better and better.
He really bad stuff all the time. I heard follow up during the
game last week when Lucas shot athree that banked in, and he's like,
just so you know, that's onpurpose, Like he's that if he's
at a certain angle, he feelslike his best shot is to put it
off the glass from three, AndI'm just like, okay, it's like
he's got to keep himself entertained becausehe's too good. He's too good at
(13:09):
regular basketball. He has to comeup with all of these crazy trick shots.
I did hear stan Van Gundy onI forgot whose show it was on,
but he was. He said,yeah. He was like, uh,
Luca is the best offensive player I'veever seen. I saw that too.
That's that's pretty good price. Theywere like, you saw Michael Jordan,
right, well, man, like, ye sure did. Crazy people
(13:30):
are scared to say it. SoI love when I hear people actually saying
it. You don't need to bescared. That's how you feel. He
ain't wrong, you agree, Yeah, yeah, I mean he could be
the best player, best offensive playerI've ever seen too. I've seen.
I saw Algin Baylor, I sawWilt Chamberlain. Yeah, if you put
(13:52):
him in a different time period,And it's not fair because in this time
period, you can be his sizeand be the primary ball handler, like,
he could play any position. Hehas a post up game, yeah,
and the back and play in thepost. He can played whatever you
want. Yeah, And back thenthe game was dominated by Biggs. Yeah,
he'd be down there, back tothe basket making hook shots. It's
amazing and I can't wait to seewhat he and this Mavericks team do in
(14:13):
the playoffs this year because he finallyhas the perfect wingman. So it's going
to be a lot of fun.I will take a quick buzzer here,
Grooby. So the Rangers are inaction right now, as we discussed,
and they also played last night andthis was a really good, much needed
victory for the Rangers, who tookcare of the A's by a final score
(14:37):
of six to two, and areally good outing for Cody Bradford. One
more time. This could be thereal deal, you guys. He allowed
one run in six and two thirdsinnings last night with seven strikeouts. Quite
strong once again. Yeah, atthe moment if you get old wats his
butt ready to join your starting rotation. I don't know who's out, but
(15:01):
I know who it's not talking about. Lorenzen. Yeah, yeah, when
he's ready to rock and join therotation, Cody Bradford ain't. Now.
Yeah, maybe it's Andrew Heeney orJohn Gray, but it ain't Cody Bradford.
Wait. Well, the gray Wolvesput pitching right now and they're still
in the game. They're down onenothing, but it's the top of the
(15:22):
fifth and the and the gray Wolvesthrown seventy eight pitches already. Okay,
so he's going to pitch five innings. Yeah, right up out of there.
Yeah. Hey, that's not abad start. No, I would
take that performance. He's in tworeally bad ones before that. Yeah,
but it was another really good,good game for Cody Bradford. Man.
That guy's got some stuff. Thatguy's got some stuff, and he's got
(15:45):
an idea of what he's doing outthere. Yeah, it sounds like really
good. He's not shocked by whathe's doing. He was working hard at
you know, changing up his pitchesand including different pitches in the off season,
and it's working kind of like heexpected. He has back to back
quality starts now, which are thefirst two in his young career. And
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Michael Lorenzen, like you mentioned,Jeff is let's see, he is going
to have one more rehab start inRound Rock and then he should enter the
rotation within the next week. Sothat's I mean here, pretty soon we'll
probably sort itself out the way majorleague pitching works. Yeah. Probably.
Will Sures are apparently moving faster thanexpected following the off season back surgery,
(16:33):
and they're looking at late May forhim as well. So not bad some
good news and Rangers pitching world.We'll take it. We will take it.
I will also take a quick buzzerhere. The Dallas Stars have a
rather large game tonight at home.They are welcoming Winnipeg, the Jets to
the Double AC. Dallas currently infirst in the Central Division and the Western
(16:59):
Conference. It's they're ten to oneto zero in their last eleven games,
firing on all cylinders. And thisis going to be a big one with
the division rival tonight going down atthe American Airline Center, and all of
this is really big, of coursefor playoff positioning and trying to figure out
how the Stars are going to finishtheir season. Man, it would just
be really cool as well. Ifthey're able to win that President's Trophy with
(17:22):
the best record in the NHL,that would be kicking Wow, that would
be kicking the best record in theNHL. I hope they can do it.
And this is a big one tonightagainst Winnipeg. Let's check it with
her. Oh, guess what dayit is? Guess what day it is?
Huh? Anybody Today's National Eight TrackTape Day? Mike, do you
have any eight tracks at the house? I do not what time period was
(17:45):
eight tracks. Eight tracks were likein the mid to late sixties when there
was a preponderance and them probably ranthrough the endo the probably mid to late
seventies, maybe about a team yourrun. There was that the step after
records like it was vinyl and thenand then eight tracks, and then you
(18:07):
got into cassettes. And so ifwe played an eight track today, would
we hear it and be like,God, it sounds like crap? Probably
okay, because they say they sayvinyl is a better sound, right,
Yeah, a lot of people,A lot of people prefer the certain characteristics
(18:27):
of vinyl, maybe from the standpointof it being a throwback to the to
what recorded music used to sound likewhen they played records and stuff. You
know, it's kind of a throwbackfor a lot of people. I don't
know. I think it it allhas one characteristic or another. I understand
(18:48):
why they like vinyl because vinyl soundsreally warm and and it's got something that
the others don't. But I alsolike CDs too. You know, CDs
sound crystal clear, and you canhear a lot of things, mostly on
behind end that you didn't get before. When's the last time you played a
CD. I've done it recently.Here, okay, yeah, you have
(19:15):
a CD player in the home,Yeah, I do? And record player
right or no? Yeah? Ithink I've got a record player, record
player, CD player, take.I don't have many records. Do you
have a CD player walkman that youtry to fit in your pocket while you're
go on a walk? Now?I don't do that. I never had
(19:36):
one of those. I remember beingyoung. I remember that I'm gonna go
for a jog and I would jama CD Walkman into my pocket, just
jogging along, using two hands tohold your walkman in front of you.
Here we go, Today's National Cheesefond Do Day. I don't know what
that means, but it looks good. It's like a fountain of cheese.
Oh my god, a fountain ofit. Yeah yeah, yeah, It's
(20:02):
like what you got the big meltingpot that you take your little piece of
bread on a skewer and you dipit in and you roll it and it's
all gooey. Fondu is French forfountain. Perfect Allegedly, could you imagine
Is that a lie? Yes,it's a lie, damn it, I
(20:25):
was right. Allegedly, Could youimagine holding a found a fondue fountain bowl
of cheese while going down a twistyslide that's covered on top into the water.
Yeah, it's combining the two greatestthings in the world. I actually
got We need to make that happenfor you. I will do it on
(20:47):
your birthday. I was in uh. I was in McKinney, Texas the
other day, right after we hadtalked about how much I love pool slides
that do twisties and have a coveron top, and I saw two of
them and they were so big,and I wanted to go. But I
don't know what the place was,and I don't think I'm welcome, but
(21:07):
I would love to go there.I'm sure they've to have you. If
you're out there and you own atwisty slide making business, why do you
think you'd be welcome. Is itsomebody's house or something? No, some
sort of I don't know what.I wasn't paying too much attention. Oh,
a water park. It must havebeen a water park, but it
was just two big old slides andthen the I don't know, but nobody
was there. Maybe they're not open. I hear you love water parks.
(21:32):
I do, well, it's complicate. I have a complicated relationship with water.
I don't like water parks. Iwould love a water park if it
was my water park. Like,what was the movie of the real rich
kid that just had like six flagsat his house when we were younger.
There's a movie rich, was itRichie Rich? Yeah? I would love
to have that. But like,I don't want to wait in line.
(21:55):
I don't want other people going tothe bathroom in the lazy River just me
I would want. I don't wantall the people, but I do love
a water park. So is thereany truth to the rumor that you're planning
on celebrating your birthday at a waterpark? Yeah, what everybody's saying.
I don't know yet, but maybemaybe I will. Okay, let's move
(22:18):
it along. Coming up next,it's time for Jeff's bucket of crap,
and we need to treat this OJSimpson news with proper reference. We'll do that next
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