Mike Lane: ACC Head on the Warriors' high-profile clash in Vegas

The Warriors fans are out in full force, with the ACC's Mike Lane spotting team jerseys everywhere in Vegas.

He joined Piney to discuss.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Mike Lane is general manager of the Alternative Commentary Collective. Mike,
I sent you an email this week. I got an
out of office reply. It said that you're traveling for work.
That's a bit of a street, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hey, Hey, hey, hey, hey hey, it's worked, Tony, Tony, Yeah, yeah,
you have to go to Vegas. You have to have
with the Warriors. It's work related. Okay, that's work related.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's a tenuous link. But I think we can get
away with it. How has it been, Oh, mate, I'll
see what.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Like we knew, I thought that i'd go to Vegas.
I've never been to Vegas before, by the way, which
might shock you, but I've never been. And I thought that,
like the NRL, the Warriors you've had, would just be
a drop in the ocean of what happens in Vegas.
But I'll tell you what. I have not walked ten
meters without seeing a Warriors jersey single, that bucket hat

(01:08):
hat's that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. There are Warriors
fans everywhere, the odd Penrith fan and hardly Emmy camera fans,
so that's going to be pretty effict When were at the.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Stadium, I've seen some bit of croakiness in your voice.
What have you been up to the last few days personally.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well, look for legal reasons, Pony, I'm going to say
I've haven't been up to much, just been out a
couple of shows, you know, might have slept, a couple
of pokeys went. I went to an NTL game. But
apart from that, Pony, everything above and all above board,
all above board.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
The ice hockey games play the ice hockey game. So
is that the the is that Bill Foley's team.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Did you go and watch this ta, yes, yes, the
Golden Knights. We watched the Golden Knights place Chicago. Oh man, Americans,
I'll tell you what they know how to do sport, like,
oh my god, that was It was basically twenty minutes
of hockey and then there's twenty minutes where they go
off where you go and drink beers. Then they come
back on, they do twenty minutes more of hockey, then

(02:09):
you drink more beers to twenty minutes while they're off,
and then there's twenty minutes of hockey.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's it's great.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I do you know what, Piney, I'm out. I'm moving.
I'm moving to the States. I'm not coming home. Tell
my wife, wring my wife. Piney, you're a good man.
I know you're a good man. I've known you for
a while. I hope you can trust you. Can you
call my family, Call my wife, Tell her everything will
be okay. I'll be home in a bet, but not

(02:36):
for a while.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I don't know whether right should be given that responsibility, Mike,
but leave it with me. Mike Lane, General manager of
the ACC The Alternative Commentary Collective clearly sampling everything that
Vegas has to offer it.

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