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Knicks beat the Celtics in a STANKY game. What's the impact for this month's playoff game Aaron Boone calls Yankee pitchers "capable"? UFC 300. Is this card worthy?

Episode Transcript

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Two opening Fox Sports nine eighty ninetyfive point nine. Fact it's Lovak and
guys on the Voice of the CapitolRegions Sports Fan Fox Sports ninety five nine
and nine eighty. Oh that onehurt like the drill noise. My ear

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is killing me. I think I'msick. Guys, and you maybe coming
here in the rain and do this. How dare you? Oh damn you?
Evy Friday, have a Friday,everybody. Thank god Tgif I wrote
that I made that up, thatmeans thank god, it's Friday. Very
excited to tell everybody that one.How's it feel to caution me away from

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what ended up being a very bigwin, a stanky win for me and
my beloved New York Knicks last night. And listen, I know I see
you Celtics fan. I see youover there, like one eighteen one oh
nine. You're like, yeah,but we didn't care. H Your crappy
coach said that they were the Knicks. You're desperate, then the three Seeds.

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You're not desperate at the three seed, kid, you use your words
better, and you played you guys. You guys played out there like let's
let's be real. Thirty two minutesfrom Tatum, twenty five for Porzingis,
twenty nine for Holiday, twenty ninefor Brown. You played you, guys,
and you lost to the better team, and one eighteen to one oh

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nine does not show the truth ofhow bad the Knicks beat the Celtics last
night. The Knicks, you callit stanky if you want, guys.
Hell of a win for the Knicks, very good for the next when it
comes to the playoffs. Boston madea lot of excuses, although the excuses
have some truth to them. Youmentioned my warning to you if you wagered

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on that game last night. Bythe way, Boston in the fourth quarter
decided to show up too. Theystarted pouring onto it. I don't know
if they didn't realize what the spreadwas or how it will happen. All
of a sudden the fourth quarter theystarted care sort of. So I use
the adjective stanky yesterday. That's thatgame was gonna stank, not smell stank.
Fathers will understand this, especially fatherswith toddlers right now or newborns or

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infants when you are in the diaperchanging phase. I have found myself to
be My wife has said this tome. Happy birthday. By the way,
less manly when I'm changing a diaper, because I thought, for my
entire life I had a strong stomachuntil I started changing diapers, and I
will gag. She questions your manheadwhile you're changing a diaper, because I'm

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gagging. I'm gagging. I neverpuked. I never like I'm not a
puker. I thought I had astrong stomach until that moment. I mean,
historically speaking, men weren't. Reallywe're not supposed to change diapers.
Ah. So I bring up thatanalogy in comparison because there are times where
I've changed both my son's diapers andI don't know what to expect in this.

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Okay, I might gag, Imight not. I might be fine,
I might be manly, I mightnot. That is the Nickson Celtics
last night. You open up thatdiaper, You didn't know what was going
on. You didn't know who wassitting, who was starting, who cared
who didn't, with the playoffs spent, what in the world was happened the
back? Even though you got yourbet right and I'm happy you cashed it,

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there were a few times, ifever, during that game where I
thought I felt confident what was gonnahappen next. That was like a bad
movie last night. It was.It was a bad movie. I didn't
know what the storyline was. Iwas getting lost halfway through. It smelled,
but you cashed and it was agood win for the next to the
end result. The finish was good. But boy, I was very confused

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by a lot of that game lastnight. Fourth Morton Niche like, down
care whatever, Boston, however youwant to you and I don't know.
Boston outscored the Knicks one the fourth. I was saying, Boston tried making
it close in the fourth, butmaybe it's because they cared. I don't
know, because they they were embarrassed. They got pushed a rabbi. Little
Jalen Bronson. He's the best player, man, He's awesome, He's the

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MVP. He's all right. Thirtynine points right, He would have become
only the second player to have threeforty point games in a row in Knick's
history. You know, the otherone was Carmelo. You're correct. There,
it is feeling good there, itis now. He's ever you know,

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Brunts has had two forty point gamesand then a little later two forty
point games. Melo's ever done thathe did that three and that was it.
That's the best he could do.Todler talking mellow talk and a Friday
Shaw. I'm in my wheelhouse,baby, I'm feeling good, poop and
Syracuse. No, so this iswhat guys knows about. It's all.
It's all he understands nowadays. Butno, this, this this next team

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as currently constructed. I like thema lot. I have a lot of
fun watching oh Gianobi out there.He twenty six minutes. Don't let's not
let's not overdo it on the dude. We don't need him to beat some
scrub team from Boston. H prescireusto chew out there when he needs to
be went deep into the four endof the bench for the Knicks. Think
about that too. That's not alot. Like Tims will go two of

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the bench, maybe one, whatever, you know what I mean. Like,
there's a nice he'll play six players. I'll play seven, eight,
but nine, baby, let's go. It's big, big, big.
The win for what the Knicks didagainst the Celtics, the impact of it,
the influence of it will be felteven more potentially in the next three
days because getting that went over Boston. If Boston let's say, for instance,

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was closer in the standings to Milwaukeeor New York or Cleveland. But
of course the scheme would have hadfar more of an influence somewhere they could
stand. But now with the Knicksgetting Chicago and Brooklyn tonight control their own
destiny. Can we use that phraselike if the Knicks went out hit fifty
wins on the season, they putthemselves in a position I think is the

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best for themselves going forward. Yeah, I mean there's a lot to do
with that. I just the Celticsare There's a number one. That's that's
what matters. And I think,however it ends up with it feels like
the Celtics Knicks rivalry is real,which it hasn't felt like that in a
while. Like that's you Miami,New York. Yeah, that's that's been

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there. You know, the heatand the Knicks, that's where there.
But there was a point where everytime anyone from the Eastern Conference walked down
to the court at Mattersburg Garden,it was it was it was real.
You know, Jeff Van Gundy couldbe hanging off a dude's leg at any
minute. You didn't know what wasgonna happen next. It could get it
could get crazy. The Miami versusKnicks, that one's still here. Hawks

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Knicks has gone away more because theHawks haven't really been that much Pacers Knicks.
Eh, it's kind of around.It's not anythink, but the one
that matters. Nick Bulls was alwaysfun with that was because you're you know,
you're going to Jordan and stuff.The one that matters is next Celtics,
Like New York versus Boston. That'sthat's what New York versus What was

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you like? So if like likeyour your your skecu little sister of Boston,
that's like that would kind of bekind of like what, you know,
like twins, you know, ifthey were twins New York and then
that one over there that doesn't getinvited to public things, that's what.
That's what over there, you know, chomping or gum with a marb Red
just hanging out of her mouth,That's what it would be. So longer

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than when I thought I was gonnaturn into Brooklyn, like it was more
hipstery New York versus New York.That's not really a riflery though, even
though they're playing tonight. I can't. Well, there's much more of a
spin on the Boston rivalry than theBrooklyn Rifley, Well, in Brooklyn wants
the rivalry. Yes, New Yorkdoesn't even know who you are. This
is the thing where Boston is kindof for a time has forgotten who the
Nicks work, because the Knicks haven'tbeen there to bring you that. Like

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you know, post Alan Houston eventhat the short windows were mellow had them
scoring a little bit, you know, the real Celtics, real Knicks.
You gotta go back to like thenineties, the same with the Bulls and
all those, but like this one, this is a team where the more
they try to convince you in Bostonthat they're not scared of the next,
the more clear they are. JoeMizula is a moron. I'm sorry that

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we're playing teams that are more desperatethan us. The three seed is not
desperate, like you know what I'msaying, Like it's not like, oh,
there's no desperate. They might followthe playoffs, they clinched, they
clinched on your against you. Well, you know what, like that's a
maybe he just chose the wrong word. Maybe he thought he was no,
we're playing teams that are way moredesperate, No desperate, How are we

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desperate? Were desperate? In Gameseven? Our NBA coach is just not
allowed to admit they're sitting guys becauseof the sitting rule. Like no one,
no one's fooled by this. Andif you but everybody, everybody played
though, guys, I read itfor you're coming up over this weekend,
we're gonna get including tonight, We'regonna get some matchups of teams that are
gonna start taking dives versus team thathave a real playoff implication and how those

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games are gonna play off for allthe franchises. I don't think that was
the full strength, full board Celticteam. Here's what could have happened.
Here's what I think realistic. Areyou saying so they did Their coach didn't
get them motivated to play because theyplayed guys, they were out there.
I get that, but I can'tsay it wasn't the real Celtics team.
When Tatum, Perzingi's Holiday, Whiteand Brown all played, I would find

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it unlikely that in the postseason we'regonna see the Celtics down by twenty plus
points at halftime. Again, that'sright, I would say that's gonna be
unlikely. But that doesn't mean theydidn't play their players. They got out
classed. Here's what I think whatwe're outclassed by the next last. Yes,
the Knicks played better. The Knickswere better than the Celtics listening.

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But here's what I think would havehappened. If the NBA didn't install these
you can't sit your stars rules,they would have sat everybody like they trotted
out there, they had the uniformon, they played, they got their
minutes thirty two to twenty five,twenty nine, twenty nine, twenty nine.
That's not sitting, bro. Ifthe Celtics had sat their starters,

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if they had sat Tatum, ifthey had sat Brown, they would have
got fined. All right, I'mnot saying those while those guys were on
the court first quarter thirty two,twenty nine, thirty seven nineteen. Second
quarter, let's two point differential.While those gentlemen were on the court,

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Jason Tantum was minus thirty. It'snot good for Zingis minus fourteen, Holiday
minus twenty six, White minus twentynine, Brown minus twenty nine. That
was when the starters were playing.I told you yesterday that if the Knicks
beat the Celtics, and they did, we would leave the show with it.
I will give the next credit.That is a big victory for the

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Knicks, especially if they can knockoff Brooklyn tonight and even more so if
they clip Chicago on Sunday. Thatcould be the start of what could be
a really nice setup for New York. But if I had money invested,
will say in the Celtics. Let'ssay the Celtics. I bet they're numbers
less than plus four hundred right now. I bet they're sitting around like two
forty two to fifty to win theNBA Finals. If you got the Celtics

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at like two forty two fifty towin it, you lose. Ooh.
I was gonna say, I wouldn'tbe nervous about the bet from last night,
Like I wouldn't cash out my bet. I would still have the Celtics
as the NBA Finals favorite, likedepending on if they get Philly, which
maybe is why you're taking a littlepause on the action on Boston. Must

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have had them before. They justthey're losers, That's who they are.
They're excuse makers. You you comeafter your game like last night and say
they are more desperate than we are. You're you're an excuse making loser.
They're a loser franchise now they're notwhat they once were. That's all there
is too. I'm sorry, Isorry, I hurt everybody's feelings. What
about the numbers of the act.They're being called the greatest analytical scoring team

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of all time by NBA Reddit theBoston Celtics. Okay, how'd that work
out for the Boston Bruins a yearagoing hockey and the Kings last season as
well? Yeah? Plus one sixtyfive? Who what? Sixty five?
Yep? Whoa? I thought thatat least would have again. I went

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to twenty two forty and I thoughtwe maybe we see action the other way
after the Knicks beat him, andthe Knicks had that much of elite one
sixty five in pro sports. Itake back my take. Do not bet
the Celtics at won sixty five.That's outrageous, choking. What's sixty They
are gonna choke, That's what they'regonna do. That's what happens. My
friends. Jalen Bronson was the bestplayer on the court last night, and

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he will be in when they playin a best of seven just the Eastern
Conference Finals. Just to offer upthose other numbers. Plus three hundred I'm
doing fan duel here, plus threehundred for the Nuggets, plus nine hundred
for the Clippers, sixteen hundred forthe Thunder, seventeen hundred for the Bucks.
The Knicks down at thirty seven toone one, whoa, I get
the mast. It's part of theSuper New York Parlay. Remember I have

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the nextest part of the three teamparlay next to win it all. Rangers
win it all, Yankees win itall. I got the I got the
magic listed it here at two andten to one when I bet. When
I bet the Super New York Parlay, the Knicks rolling plus twenty three hundred.

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Julius reinnl has that much of animpact on this team. Huh,
according to the wagers, according towant you to believe. That's what they
want you to believe. Gosh,huh not me though, I'm not falling
for it. So we're not gonnabet on the magic at two ten to
one. No no, no,no, thank you, no thank you.
Listen. I'm telling you. Itjust feels good, feels good to

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watch the excuse machine that is thatis the fabled city of Boston. Just
make up excuses on why they lostand then have you fall for it.
They arrested it. No, Ididn't rest nobody, and they sucked when
they were out there. The knicksare better or more motivated than wanted more.
What happened halfway through this is Ithought I had changed the diaper and

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Yankees rained out tonight definitely changes thingsjust a wee bit on how things
are lined up for them. ButI saw a quote from Aaron Boone that

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was it was like it wasn't afull like duh for me, but it
was definitely one of those like likewe we've done this been a bunch of
guys where it's like what did youwhat did you want to say? What
did you think was gonna come outof his mouth? In this situation he
was asked about the the rotation anddid he did he expect to start a

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rotation to pitch as well as theyhave, you know, considering Garrett Cole's
out, a lot of guys werehurt before. There's all this stuff going
on right Aaron Boone quote, wefeel like the guys were running out there
in our rotation right now are verycapable because you know what I always want,
honey, How was that capable.Even the ones coming off tough seasons

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or injury or whatever are not farremoved from being at the top of their
game with a track record. Solike, basically I knew all along we'd
be okay, all right. CarlosRodwan, he used to be pretty good
at a bad year. Stip backhere, You let that go. You
shake it off, just just liket Swizzle, says Taylor Swift. Just
shake it off. Just take itoff, uh Nester Cortes mustache holding down

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a little bit. We'll figure outthe rest. Don't worry about it.
Like all these you're lying though you'relying. You know you panted a little
bit. You know you had topant a little bit when you realized that
you were gonna run out in thegames. Marcus Stroman was potentially your race.

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Carlos Rodan was potentially your raise.So there's your there's your two top
billing big name pitchers. If guys, if I asked you to give me
two guys who have lights out acetalent but will one hundred percent mentally skip
a game or a season, arethere guys much higher on the list for
you right now than Carlos Rodan andMarcus Stroman, Sorry, Yankee, No,

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no, those are the first twopop Yeah. Lelisaica was he wasn't
a starter, but he always Ialways thought he could be. But you
know, Louise Hill is coming outthere, all these all these guys who
have gone out there, there's noleast as supposed to be on the starting
like it wasn't supposed to be inthe Bronx. Like a lot of these
guys, weren't you supposed to bethe Bronx. Nester court has like he

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locked it down. Now, couple, you can't tell me that the two
times in a row, Nester Courtshas went out there and looked like batting
practice. The first thing, You'relike, everybody relaxed. He's very capable.
He's very campable, you know whatI mean. Like, so it's
it's you can say that when you'reten and three, even if you were
three and ten, you can't unlessunless you just know you're getting fired and
you're just like whatever, you can'tgo out and go Oh these guys they

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suck. Oh, these guys arehorrible. Do you ever heard of Garrett
Cole? Yeah, we have him, he's hurt. And then Carlos Rodan
is kind of a lottery ticket.So we're hoping we wanted, uh,
we're on to sign some guys inthe off season. Everythinks we have unlimited
funds. So this is where weare right now. I don't know if
they did this to you at SouthCounty High School in your old English classes,

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but when I got to old English, yes, that's what I draged
class as I got older at SallyHigh School and into the Great Hobart College,
which is fundraising right now. No, I'm not giving you any money,
Okay. I saw your letter thatthese English classes would tell you.
These famous authors f Scott Fitzgerald,Jane Austen, they would intentionally put in
certain words in certain phrases because ithad more than one meaning that it actually

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was like a deeper it's in nowmodern day like easter eggs is what this
would be called. That film directorsput something in because it's going to connect
to something later on. It hasthe bigger meaning. I think Aaron Boone's
word capable probably wasn't meant to beone of these deep meaning words that authors
and directors use, but it isthe perfect word to describe what's going on
with those pictures because as usually theydo. Laid out here, right,

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Okay, they're not going to winthe cy Young. None of these guys
are Garrett Cole. None of theseguys really have Strowman. Maybe five years
ago you could have made argument he'sgot a great future ahead of him and
could be a top picture. He'sprobably plateaued and could have maybe one or
two seasons right around the average ofwhat he's done in the past. Capable
is exactly the word. Hey,we need you guys to go out there
and not blow the season, notblow the game, not blow the division,

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not blow a playoff spot. Weneed you to be good against Houston,
good against Miami teams who have beenplayoff teams, and we think we
got a good enough offense that wecan figure it out. Just be capable
professional pitchers. We're not asking forall star bids. Kate perfectly phrased and
New York look, we're doing itright now. New York media sports fans

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dissect a way in which a manager, coach, player says certain things capable
perfectly phrased by Iron Boone in mythought, but let me all right,
let me do this three right.So Area president Howard Grinder is interviewed by
Times Junion and they go, whatdo you were you expecting the afternoon show

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to actually, you know, beas successful as this, and he goes,
we knew they were capable, orwe knew they were great. I'm
okay, I don't. I don'tthink capable as an insult. I don't
think it's not an insult. It'snot an insult. It's a placeholder.
It's a placeholder, can go eitherway. Capable means yeah, we always
thought they'd be capable. I mean, if you think about it, uh,

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neither had been on the air intwo years, but they were doing
things that was whatever. You know, like if this station hasn't had local
in seventy years, they haven't hadan afternoon drive shown even longer. They're
capable of handling that burden. Iwould say that's a compliment, but it's
you see, but again, capableof head of the burden h the rotation
right now. We feel like allthe guys were running out there in our

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rotation right now are very capable.No one strives are capable, Like you
know, I never I don't wakeup in the morning and go so capable
today your wife or husband said thatto you. Yeah, honey, it
was I capable. Yeah, that'sprobably the way marriage because you were a
capable husband my father. Hey,how how was that for you? I

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mean, you're capable of a goodtime. I just like I said,
It's just it's if you told GarrettCole he was a capable starter. He
probably throws seven hundred pitches in battingpractice the next day trying to get ready
to get better. Like, butyou know that, like Garrett Cole is
far better than eybody else than thisrotation. Okay, if yeah, yeah,

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if capable is not the word,no, it is the word,
right, Okay, Okay, I'mjust saying I don't know if you were
taking offense as a Yankee fans.Oh no, no, I thought it
was brilliant. I thought I thinkI think you are right. But but
like it's it's being used by likeNew York media, New York City media
as like a compliment and everything elsewhere. It's like in all reality,
it is, it's exactly what yousaid, like, hey, I just

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I need to survive. I needyou guys not to wear out the bullpen.
We need. Garrett Cole will probablybe back in I think May,
late May, the thinking something likethat this week, who knows what to
say next week? All these thingstrade deadline will probably bring in some arms
just you know, just go outthere and just pitch, have some fun.
But in all reality, too likeif by the end of the year

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you're still calling everybody capable, Idon't know if that's what you want.
You need, Carlos wrote down tobe more than capable. You need Nestor
cor Test to be a little morethan capable, Luis Gill and everybody else.
Yeah, I'd be capable. Youguys be capable all the day long.
I need rock Star out of Coal, I need two Pitcher at worst
out of rodeout. And I needNestor core Test to show at least show

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me flashes of what he was lastyear. I wouldn't want to be called
capable. If if Howard was asked, President Howard was asked, what do
you think of jeffil back in theafternoon, he's capable of good shows?
Sounds to me like I don't dogood shows, or I occasionally do a
good show. I want to belike he's knocking out of the park,
he's killing it, he's the best. Now I'm frightened to buy. How

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often in my career someone's called youcapable, he could be a program direct
Okay, wait before you, beforeyou do it, it's fine, before
you do well, hey, nothere, by the way, not here,
no, not here. If thatwas the case, Like like President
Howard was talking to whoever, Hey, what how do you feel about bringing

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in Tom Goslowski. I I Ias your's the third as your your new
program director for w g Y andw f X. Yeah. I feel
like he's capable of those positions.Okay, Well that's different. You haven't
done it yet, so cable isa compliment. But if you've been doing
it now, if he went he'scapable of the job, that feels that's
a placeholder. That's a I keep. He hasn't wowed me, and he

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hasn't disappointed me too much yet,so we'll let it keep going. All
right. I feel better now,all right, Thank you for I do.
Because a lot of the times I'vebeen called capable, it's before I
was offered the job. Okay,and that goes to Syracuse and Geneva another
places. Okay, that that makesme feel. Coaches have said that a
lot too. I think he's capableto play that. All right. That
feels better now every time I'm like, I think guys just capable of being

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a good co host. You know, one day he'll do it. I
just just feel like you need toupdate my Twitter bio once called a capable
sports radio host, and you wereyou, Stuart Smally, the old daily
affirmations outside Alive. Yes, I'mgood enough, I'm smart enough, and
gosh, I an't people like melike I wouldn't. I wouldn't expect me
to be like I'm capable enough.Whatever. No, man, I got

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this, I got it. Yeah, yeah, like we're good exactly,
Like if I was one of thosepictures. I'm one hundred percent given bout
a hard time like that, I'mcapable of being a good picture. Let
me know when to actually achieve it. I'll make my day. Just because
he said, g y, mymind jumped to politics, like there are
some people who won't call politicians capable, like they'll fall down going to the
stage getting things done. Capable ofActually that's probably the only world where capable.

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It's like, no, no,no, that's a different discussion than
what those guys just had over there. Cable all right, hold on,
if you're if you're if you're aRepublican and you're talking about Republican and you
call them cabolets and insult. Ifyou're talking about a Democrat, you go,
he's capable. That's your I don'twant to say anything nice about him
because he's on the other side.However, he's kind of good, so

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I'll just say I'll leave a placeholder. It's a placeholder. But again,
they're playing so well. I thinkpart of this bothers me today because I
really was hoping to chill out andenjoy the game tonight. But they're Cleveland
strikes again. Thanks a lot everythingfrom Cleveland that sucks. Andy gel Oh,

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I was talking about Ajowski, thephenomenal one. You think I would
insult Andy, you're on your mind. I love Andy, and he's the
person who decides when I drive.Dude, you think I want to I
pull up tomorrow in a Chevy Sonic. Let's say the windows are tennic because
I'm wearing black. I shouldn't havesaid what I said about Cleveland. They

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played pretty good. They got outthere. I actually I will say this
though, the put the capable togetherwith the rain delays and the only the
only reason that this one doesn't.It's a double header tomorrow. Like every
one of these games, you canpush back till later when Garrett Cole is
gonna be healthy, push him back. Go ahead. You think ten of
three is good? What happens whenyou have an actual ace. Let's let's

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Gaz has been just almost dry heavingwhenever he talks about UFC three hundred today.
I think he's I think you're underestimating. I think I don't think you're
aware how capable of this card isbeing great perfectly distract Next right here on

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Fox Sports Radio ninety five nine,nine eighty. Now back to Levac and
Guzz on ninety five nine and nineeighty AM, Fox Sports Radio, Pat
Sports Weekend Masters, you've got whatthey're retiring Strawberry's number. Yes, Yankees

(29:51):
now with the double Hatter tomorrow,Nick's Masters. As just said that first,
did you hear the Masters of thisweekend too? My top four form
just washing election every York or something. The NBA. Did you mention the
NBA. There's a lot of NBAgames, hockey, hockey, but UFC
three hundred, three hundred, bignumber, flat number. They like to
be to do good things on theflat numbers. They're all about that.

(30:14):
If you noticed that, like thetwo fifties, bigger than ever now three
hundred, I have not also shoutout to the fire rolls and patroons.
Uh, you know what, Iwant you to go first here. I
don't want to be negative on thisfront. I want to be positive.
UFC three hundred, the flat numbersyou mentioned it, it's usually historic stuff.
I want to be quiet about UFCthree hundred because you're a flight fan.
I'm a fight fan. I'm I'msorry, I'm a professional fight broadcaster.

(30:37):
That's right, voice one of thevoices of Cage War sixty five at
River's Casino Resort, Like, that'sright, thank you very much. Did
do that last week? Fat JoRuggan police, if you could now please?
Uh, well, what did yousay? They said? They've they've
labeled this is what the greatest fightcard of all time in the history of
the UFC. That's why I'm gettingfrustrated by this. I've read that it's
the great I get it. Likeyou and I both believe that like one

(31:00):
and two hundred and three hundred.When you have those, they should be
monumental that the fighters on these cards, because of those flat numbers, will
captivate the sports world and be unbelievableto me. And maybe it's because it's
I've said this before to you,a harder sport to follow than before because
so many people are kidding. Iwas gonna go first, go ahead.

(31:23):
I thought you set me up forit. Now I would No, I
stopped to go ahead. You up, I told you, man. I
woke up with this earache before eightam. I yelled at two people.
I didn't mean to yell at them. I was just like, like,
hey, what are we doing withthis? I'll try you you shut up.

(31:45):
Well, it's funny before you toldme they build it as the biggest
card of all time. I waslooking at like the early prelims, the
Cody Garbage in the first fight ofthe evening on the undercard, like barely
on thee Yeah, gosh, soso, and he's a heavy underdog to
Davidson and Figurado. But then alsoBobby green Is the second fight with Jim

(32:09):
Miller, Jess ca Androd Is inthe is in the third fight of the
night. We're our guests on theshow, by the way, well,
seeing that's that's the early prelims.If you go Cody Garbrant, Bobby Green,
Jessica and Trod. Like if youwatch mixed Martial Arts, you know
one of those guys or or orthat wonderful woman and they've they've headlined either

(32:35):
a Fight Night or UFC number event. That's the early prelims. Then you
get into the prelims, Holly Holmesin there fighting Kayla Harrison like, okay,
all right, what's going on overhere? Aljamaine Sterling, the style
vendor is in is in the prelims. We're not even at the main car,
Yo, and we've got we've gotHall of Famers, Sadik yusaf is

(32:58):
in is in the prelim you getin the main card, and this kind
of backs up your argument, Iwill say, because like a lot of
people like they're they're learning Cody,Barndage, bo Nicle, like those the
first there's more star power in theearly prelims than the first part of the
main card. You know, hearingthose names we're familiar with. And I

(33:21):
mentioned that, like we've interviewed beforeon the show, a lot has changed
in the fight game in the lastfive years, eight years, host COVID
or those familiar names who have gonethrough their entire careers as UFC fighters.
You're right, people are familiar withthem. But that's what's made mixed martial
arts difficult. Is it feels likethe drop off when you're good, you're
good, you're bad, you're bad, and how competitive it's gotten. Like

(33:45):
the names you just listed off,there have been champions, they have,
as you said, headlined cards,and we're not we're not at the pay
view yet. And and the problemis to this and I'll definitely let you
say who the pay per view peopleare, well, thank you for ship.
We'll find out if this gets themover the top. Is it gonna

(34:05):
be a get overnight for some ofthese guys, like he's a pro wrestling
term there where it's like if peoplelike me may not be it's familiar with
these people who are headlining the UFCthree hundred. Is this the night where
they take that next step in theircareer and become familiar names like many you
just mentioned O when you when yousaid I was like I was saying Cody
Garbern. I mean that that's athat's a finger. That's a fingernail fight,
and my figuring out, I meanhe's holding on with his fingernails now,

(34:28):
trying to stay on on relevant cards. All right, So the main
event Bonacle Cody Cody Brundage, CharlieCharles Olivera versus Armine. I can't I
could never say this guy's name.Uh that's a championship fight, by the
way too, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know if it is actually

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Olivera no longer has the belt.My gosh, man, it's tough sport
to follow, all right, buthere we go. This This means there
will be no matter who wins thenext fight, they will not be the
biggest star in the cage. JustinGaichee versus Max Holloway for the BMF belt,
which means the Rock is gonna bein the cage handing the winner of

(35:12):
the belt. And there's nowhere theRock looks more uncomfortable than when he hands
out this belt because he wants tolike he's in a cage, he's in
a ring. He's like his Ithink his instinct are trying, you know,
no matter what your name is.Also in gaiche snaps, it starts
choking them. Wait, wait,wait, I can't believe that's still a

(35:34):
thing. I thought the BMF beltwas just a dz mazviital thing like they
were gonna do that is the gimmick, and it was gonna go away because
gay Chi won it. I thinkshe's defending it that. I can't believe
that is still an actual bet.They break it out every once in a
while, like like so basically,like Max Holloway and Justin Gaigie are not
in contention for the real titles rightnow, but they're two Those are two

(35:55):
names. If you're a fight fan, that's like one of those ones.
Like if you and a couple ofyour bodies are big fight fans and you're
sitting around having a call beers,Yeah, but what about gay Chee Holloway?
That would be awesome. Like thisthis is a video game fight.
This is you match it up inthe video game. So like I think
that's what it is. It's likethe BMF fight is the These guys aren't
in contention for the real belts anymore, but people still want to see these

(36:15):
two fight. The star power isgigantic because Max Holloway is a bad bleeper,
but he's not like I don't thinkof him the same way I think
of Gai Chee like I feel likejustin Gaigie has his name tattooed on himself
because he didn't know how to spellit. But he'll fight and then real

(36:36):
oli uh Oliver who you mentioned earlier. He had the belt, got stripped
of the belt because he missed waitGechee wanted but he couldn't win it.
Then there was a vacant belt.He lost the fight for the viacant belt.
So I won't do the lineal thing. But there's a little lineal involving
him. So no one keep theirpants up now Zangwi versus jan Zian,

(36:59):
So this is like, this isher about. These are two women who
I listen. If I wasn't afraidof being canceled, I would say that
Jan if you, if you putYan in front of me, I would
have to really consider what her pronounswere like, I would have to be
like, are you you might belike physically she's more she's more physically dominant

(37:22):
than most dudes I know, andso and so, and I believe I
was gonna say I believe her opponentDina White told you and I. She's
fighting Dana White, that she wouldbe the next breakout star in the UFC.
He told the step back in twentytwenty, and that's the under that's
the that's the undermine event. Thelight heavyweight made event title fight is Alex

(37:45):
Pereira versus Jamal Hill, Jamnettle Hill, Jamel Hill from s NO. I
don't think Jamel Hill's fighting. Thatwould have been an interesting fight. I
do. I have nothing on thatfight. That is one of the reasons
why I'm not thrilled about UFC threehundred. I think the casual fan doesn't

(38:06):
know either one of those two maineventers that you have seen, you have
seen. Diehard fan might know,and maybe this is the moment for both
of them. But that main event, how people buy tickets, why they
buy tickets and everything else that isnot making me posit you So the T
Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, no to pay per view. Isn't

(38:27):
John Jones better than both of them? Still? I hate Jones, I
do. I don Jones's most boringfighter. But that's the problem with the
fight game. Like at least theUFC in this card, like they're gonna
tell me, one of these guysis the best light heavyweight in the world
and the best light heavyweight in theworld John Jones, and John Jones might
be the best heavyweight in the world. So it's hard for me to buy
the beast two or the best.Well, there's two problems with John Jones.

(38:47):
He is now the most boring fighteris he just wants to land.
You get a couple points with atakedown and he's fine. And also,
uh, you know that that phraseI made up the best ability is availability
or when I that, no,you didn't I invent he is not available.
He's never available for a million reasons. So he is not the best

(39:08):
light or heavyweight because he's never available. I'll give you a storyline for this
that will actually get me excited.Okay, this is my biggest takeaway from
all of it. Mark this namedown, put it on your phone.
I want This isn't my play ofthe day, but this is my favorite
thing of the whole night. BoNickel will be the breakout star. He
is the first fight on the payper view. I've seen him fight on

(39:31):
other events before. He was onthe Jones card at two eighty five.
He won that fight in the firstround. He won another fight in the
first round in less than a minutewith a knockout. The last time he
fought, he was on the DanaWhite Show. Guess what happened? Two
first round finishes. They want topush him. He's at one eighty five.
So if you want the star ofthe night, if you tell me,

(39:51):
guys, six months from now,two years from now, five years
from now, what was the biggestthing that happened at UFC three hundred,
the next star in the UFC willbe born that night with bone Nickel.
That's my takeaway from us, andeveryone from the masters will be there,
all right. Listen, twenty eightyears old. I would have liked the
better if he was twenty four.But I'll deal with the age. Why

(40:14):
are you? Why are you suchan ageist? You don't think they put
twenty eight is pretty old to pushas a star in a fight game.
You know, like twenty three,twenty four, you got about six seven
good years out of park. Youget to your mid thirties in the fight
game, it can crash. Sixseven years pretty good. I mean it
is. If he literally you needat least five, right, because that
gives you five five fights that givesyou your your major title victory a trilogy.

(40:39):
And then uh, and then youlose the fight in a monster fight.
That's almost a perfect arc. Youhave to have a good rival put
the trilogy. Yeah, you know, you win the belt trilogy, lose
the belt. You gotta have someaction in it too. It's always gotta
be high paced if you're getting thattrilogy. But remember too, like like
maybe it's because no, because youyou probably were just starting to watch mixed

(41:01):
martial arts when Randy Gutore and andall those guys like the George Sant Pierre,
they they had all been a littlea little longer in the tooth,
but they still were the best fightsall night. Every time I got to
see George Saint Pierre in person atthe garden. Yeah, like again,
maybe Saint Pierre four years earlier,maybe Saint Pierre in his prime. Like

(41:22):
you're talking, it didn't do anythingfor me, you know how. I
like my fighters. I like himtalking trash, I like him going over
the top. I like a bunchof action. Saint Pierre was also very
much an artist, is almost theway to describe him. Like very much,
yen. When it came to mm a mixed martial arts fight the
Avengers. It's pretty good, allright, So yes, I forgot that

(41:44):
was him. Let me ask themost important question about UFC three hundred,
and you could let us know atWOFX nine to eighty on X on Twitter,
Facebook, social media, the iHeartapp money question. Are you forking
over money for UFC three hundred?Like if you said down and said it's
Saturday night, you're at the LevacFollies? Are you hitting up purchase?

(42:04):
Follies is like a dance? Oh, just a fole. It's always been
a folly. Yes, I've saidto you a million times. I've always
said follies to you, I know, every and we have the same exact
conversation every time. That's folly becauseAlaska was Seward's folly because when he bought
Alaska for seven million dollars, theythought he wasted all that money. So
my hope is that one day buyingmy house will be the kind of financial

(42:30):
boon that the country only Alaska is. Oh, that's where it all came
from. That's what it means.Yeah, when you say Lovak's follies,
which I thought never, I've neversaid mentally, I thought you were saying
that because follies, to me soundslike a time of laughter and fun and
entertainment. A folly is yeah,it's a flight of fancy. It's a

(42:50):
it's a mistake, usually good oneat the Lavac folly f O L y
correct. Would you purchase UFC three? Will you? I'm poor? I
don't buy it? Okay, No, I mean we're trying to IF's coming
over, if anyone wanted to comeover and watch it? Yes, I
usually go to a friend's house towatch if I watch it all, you
know, or Ford Orange. Sometimesyou just go to Ford Orange, get
some wings and watch it. No, it's my answer, by the way,

(43:14):
well, because you don't ear cheap. I mean, if we're being
honest, I don't like the card. I think they all stink except Bo
Nickel. I'll watch that. Youdo not think they all stink? I
saw your eyes light after Cody Garbranda couple other names. He's a very
good fighter. I don't know ifI'm forking over sixty bucks for him?
All right, what's the last thinghe paid sixty bucks for? I paid
for a UFC event? Oh gosh, I want to say I paid for

(43:37):
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