4-15-24 Hour 3

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Back to Levac and Guz on ninetyfive nine and nine eighty AM Fox Sports
Radio. All right, time totake a little look at this NBA playoffs
picture. What's going on around?I was, I just I wanted to
look real quick. So the whatwas it? The final the final teams

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for the in season tournament? Right? Yes? So Lakers, Sons,
Nicks, Bucks, Kings, PelicanCeltics, Pacers, everybody kind of present.
Give those to me again, soyou go after So the quarterfinals is

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after the knockout round. The Lakersbeat the Suns, they're both present.
Lakers are in the play in.Suns are the sixties? Yes, yeah,
okay, thank you the way youset it up, I'm like,
wait a second, those teams aren'tin the play in the team to get
to the play and is what you'dsaid up for the most previous matchups?
Yes? So these are who wasthese are the Yeah? These are the
quarterfinal teams from the end season tournament. I just want to see how many

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of them are reappearing in the actualyou know what matters bracket. All right,
So Lakers, Soun's there, boxKnicks, that's two and three in
the East, Pelicans, Kings,uh, Kings are playing Pelicans are playing.
Okay, both in the play intournament, Yeah, play in Pacer

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Celtics. They're both very much alive. So so all right. I just
if it was all teams that aren'tlike, have no shot in the regular
season, I'd be like, hmm, you sure you want to do this
in in season tournament? Crap.Here's the problem with the play in tournament
or the playing the playoff, youknow, the NBA coast of the plane,
I'm calling it the playing well vack, You've always called it the play

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Here's what feels a lot different aboutit. Now. Everybody in these games
thinks they can win a championship.Like if we went back to March Madness
recently the NCAA tournament, it feltlike, all right, these guys are
barely in. Now we've seen teamslike VC you make a run out of
the first four all the way tothe final four. We saw that happen,
but that's rare where that happens.NC State had to win their commerce,

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so a little bit different. Theyweren't in the first four. But
you look at these eight teams startthe four in the East for the playing
which is tomorrow Sixers, Heat Hawks, Bulls. Yeah, one team NBA
Finals sixers, you've set up fora month plus now, really tough matchup.
Western Conference. People already think it'sall rigged for the Lakers and Warriors

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to play at some point or bothto be in the postseason. If you
were a fan of the Pelicans andKings, I would keep my money in
the pocket because if you want towager on some games coming up tomorrow conspiration,
you want to watch social media lightup about officiating tomorrow's year nights to
listen to that nonsense, because everyone'sgonna think the Warriors and Lakers will get
every single call the Uh well,remember the Heat made a huge run last

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year out of this too. Theyjust kept going so uh all right,
So whoever wins between seven and eight, they're the seventh seed. Correct,
Whoever wins between nine and ten hasto play the loser of the seven and
eight game to become the eighth seed. Yes, one and done. This
is the ultimate okay, winner,go home scenario. So right now as

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it's this, this is a toughpart. I don't feel like the bullser
Hawks can beat either the seventy sixers or the Heat, So I think
the East, it's gonna be.In a perfect world, the seventy six
ers follow the eight seed. Thatwould be awesome. Let the let let
the Celtics or the seventy six Yersknock each other out early. I don't

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want to correct you, but Ifeel like I want to perfect world.
The Sixers are out perfect world.They just get bumped somehow. To this
entire post, I said they're notgonna knock, but I saw I'm talking
perfect and somewhat realistic. Okay,you know what I mean. Yeah,
because in a in the perfect world, somehow the Hawks and Bulls flushed the
heat and the seventy six Ers,I don't see it happen. Maybe one

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of them, maybe, maybe justmaybe. But like I'm for where I'm
living, seventy six Ers versus Celticsmeans I only got to face one of
them. If it goes the way. It's kind of slotted right now.
You would believe the Knicks, AndI say I if you don't figured out
yet, we're your home for NewYork Knicks basketball. Fox Hors Radio ninety
five nine to ninet eighty. I'mgonna get the seventy six Ers first.

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I gotta get past them to geta piece of the next round, so
you could you could face seventy sixErs with Calves and Celtics something like that,
a combination of that. Yeah,I don't love it. It's not

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my favorite thing I've ever heard.Not my favorite thing at all. Well,
for the Knicks perspective, the work, I would say the worst case
scenario would be if you're a Knicksfan, still stick by this that if
you get the Sixers in the openinground, it's a very tough matchup.
You'd more so want the Heat justbecause the Sixers are then beat and how
good Maxi's been playing, That wouldbe a preferred matchups to the Heat.

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If you flip around to the twothree series after that, you get the
Bucks to the Pacers. A lotof people have been clamoring that we mentioned
this a little earlier in the show, that somehow it didn't work out in
their favor, that people have triedto manipulate their seeding. The Pacers are
good too, Like we've said this, maybe the whole winner. The Pacers
built this roster to think they canbeat anybody. So the idea that the

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Pacers are far easier like a sweepand it's a nope, that's not even
the case. Remember once too longago, the Pacers pushed the Cavaliaders with
Lebron to the brink of elimination.Pacers is a good franchise overall, it's
been competitive, But then you gotCleveland or Orlando. And really the only
reason people are hating on Cleveland Orlandothat four or five. The winner of
that getting the Celtics more than likelyis that they just haven't been around that

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long. Orlando's one of the surpriseteams of the NBA, and Cleveland was
active too, and they brought inplayers. So look, we could break
down this matchup as much as youwant, but there's no easy matchup for
the Knicks. Like nobody's severely injured, nobody barely got into the postseason.
Every matchup New York would have gottenthis opening round is difficult. I would

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say, all right, well wekind of did. We did a lot
of this early. So let's goover. Let's go to the west.
Let's go over and look at theWest. So so Gods is basically telling
you the Lakers are gonna beat thePelicans, the Warriors are gonna beat the
Kings, and then the Warriors aregonna beat the Pelicans, setting it up

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for Lakers Warriors first round of theplayoffs. You mark this down right now,
the cardin Dell. I No,not each other. I'm sorry they
would survive to the first round.I know our play of the day was
twenty minutes ago, but mark thisdown. Money line, money line.
I'm not gonna fool around with this. Lakers Warriors are both winning on Tuesday.
The Eastern Conference is on Wednesday,Warriors. I'm a feeling I'm gonna

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get minus money on that. I'mgonna hold the bet to one more day.
But yes, you heard me correctly. There's no chance in the world
that we're not gonna see somehow thosetwo teams in the expanded postseason. I'll
call it coming up. Or isit this one Lakers win? I'm sorry,
Lakers lose to the Pelicans, Warriorsbeat the Kings. They play it

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out for the eighth spot. No, no, uh, if you would
accuse, that could be the onlyway they actually see each other, because
if there's seven and eight seed,can you imagine if the seven and the
eight seed play it out for theWestern Conference championship to go to the NBA
Finals. There is a scenario thatcould happen. Yeah, I mean it

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could. And here's the wildest partabout Lakers and Warriors both getting in.
If you ask the fan base ofthat, they probably think it's great.
They're probably, of course, like, this is gonna be awesome. We'll
get in, We'll be in agreat spot. We'll make it happen.
I would say this involving the Lakersand the Warriors, would the NBA prefer
which one of these two scenarios thatthe Lakers and Warriors are both in.

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Again, I call it the expandedpostseason, Like the Lakers would get the
Nuggets, the Warriors would get thethunder or do or die for the season,
Like the scenario you're talking about thatthat somehow, some way you get
that Lakers Warriors winner, take allgame. I don't think that would be
their preference. I think they preferthat if they got five games out of
it. Yeah, but what ifyou can't, they're not gonna see each

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other. There was a scenario wherethey could have faced off like that nine
to ten or that seven eight.They probably would have liked that better where
they didn't have to manipulate that.I know I'm getting a conspiracies and being
cynical and everything else. But theseare huge franchises. These are like marketable,
worldwide franchises that might not be inyour postseason but star players, all
right, but for them to faceoff in an actual series, I'm just

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gonna give you the Lakers, right, Yeah, So the Lakers beat the
Pelicans, Yeah, of course theyI that can happen one hundred percent.
Like Lebron goes out and decides towin. He won a game you know
in Zion's look good, But lebronS's were winning. We're gonna win,
and they go to the seven seenin a rematch of the Western Conference finals
from last year against Denver. You'renot being I don't think so so I

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can. But but if the Pelicanswin, the Pelicans now go against they
get the firing line against that againstthe Denver Nuggets, you're guaranteed that game.
Should the Warriors win, you're atleast you're guaranteed one. I know,
and in a in a in awinner take all situation, Lakers already

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won the n season tournament. Whatdo they need this for? They already
they hung up banner. They're good, They're seasons good. They run.
They already won it. They hungup banner one season before you dropped that
line on We've win in two hoursbefore you dropped that on, I was
looking at the n season tournament nowversus That's why I was looking at it,
because promise you're gonna tweet that andhashtag Laker nation or something or Lake

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show you had a viral tweet wasit this year about the Raiders had the
right fifty five thousand or some wildpolice unless someone's I've done that? How
did that? How did I notget Freezing Cold take on that one too?
Because it was One of the friendsasked me what the Raiders gave up
for Devanta Adams and I said,losing. They gave up losing And then

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like I think one person called meon it. That's it. I think
that's all. Please please says theydid that train? What is it?
Three two head coaches? Yeah,don't don't be funny and tag freezing Cold
takes for the fact that's not there. I mean, I don't famous fame.
I'll take it, all right,Brown, it was I mean,

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plus, you put that one outthere. I felt good about it.
I was wrong. I was alittle wrong, all right. I just
I think Denver, like Denver beingthe two seed, Okay, that's whatever.
Denver's still gonna Denver's gonna be inthe finals, right. Oh.
And this is where it gets thetoughest for me, because I'm thinking of

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my head, like do we forceourselves now to make our NBA finals prediction?
But it really has an impact onthe top seeds like Boston, Denver,
Oklahoma City is wild to say thatout loud, Still, the Knicks,
all of this stuff. I don'tthink you can even make a finals
prediction without knowing the matchups. Itwould sound such like an obvious statement.

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But that's how tight that NBA playingtournament is this year. But the Sixers
give the Knicks, no doubt,a tough matchup. The Sixers would give
the Celtics a tough matchup. Wesaw one seed go down last year,
We saw upsets happen, so Iwill hold my NBA Finals pick. I
know you're talking about the Nuggets,and I believe they were at nine to
one the last time I saw themfloating around in some spots. Denver seems

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like the favorite to win it all. The Clippers are in that mix too,
because they have three Superstars, soLA should be considered for that,
especially if they get that semi finalmatchup with Oklahoma City where just talent versus
talent doesn't seem like it's in favorof the Thunder but Boston's numbers, I'm
waiting. I know that's a cheapboom. I will wait to get my

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NBA Finals pick because there's way toomany what ifs still floating around in the
NBA. Which maybe that's the answerto this, like that's why they did
this. Like in the past,there was of all the sports, college
football, take them away because theyreally don't count in this because they didn't
have a playoff. The sport wesaw the least amount of parody when it
came to the postseason was the NBA. This is what they wanted. They
wanted more teams in play for moregames that mattered, especially with the regular

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season that struggled, although to theVack's point, they did crowd of in
season tournament champion. Right it's over. This does make the NBA playoffs more
fun in comparison to twenty years agoand thirty years ago. I'm I hate
the season tournament. I hate itwith a passion. And then when you
hung up Banner. I don't know. I don't I don't want you to
know anything. It's it's I dolike the talent, and obviously it's gonna

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be a fun year, especially ifyou get a healthy embid. You know,
you get a healthy Lakers squad.I don't remember who was. It
was one of the loud yelling showsin the morning where they were basic no,
not not on. I want tosay it might have been four letter.
I was in the house that wasdoing stuff and I heard it from

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like I had the TV on theother room and I heard it. It
was basically, the Warriors are theare the chiefs of the NBA, Like
you let Mahomes get into the postseasonand then he came and he took his
title. If you let Steph Curryget into the postseason, he's gonna come

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take his title. Ooh uh,you know, I I know where they're
going with that. But I wouldflip that and actually say it's the Lakers.
I would say the Lakers are thechiefs of the NBA, because if
we just mentioned the Lakers got allthe way to the Conference finals, the
Lakers have gone further more recently.I know we made a joke about the

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Ncason Tournament, but they did winit. Like they competed against everybody,
they did win it. They stillhave a guy named Lebron who Lebron's final
game? What was it like?Twenty five, eleven and seventeen? Anthony
Davis is healthy, So I getwhat they're saying. I probably would I
kind of like to take, butI just slipped the Lakers into it.
The Warriors look beat up. TheWarriors almost look like we're good. We've

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done enough. We're fatigued. Haven'twe shot enough three pointers? My arm
actually hurts. Hasn't Draymond got enoughtease? Haven't we done enough? For
you people that change basketball? SoI would actually agree with that if you
just change the different team in that. I think the Lakers are more of
a threat than Golden State. Imean, we'll find out, because that's

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what you've been you're jonesing for thatmatchup. I mean, like it would
be pretty amazing. And if youwere able to take these play in teams
right, and they and they advanceand they play each other on one side,
because we've seen Miami go from allthe way we've seen and now if
we could see the eight seed andthe seventh seed meet up at some point.

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Obviously, I don't want that inthe Eastern Conference. I've very,
very fond of the two seed inthe Eastern Conference for a lot of reasons.
But like that would be if ifthat be the case, then doesn't
the NBA have to look around andgo, Okay, hold on a second,
how do we do this? Becauseif we start having like all these
runs from that play in experience,like you know, is it simply they

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they lift their candles faster, theytheir engines already in full speed. It's
they're ready to go when they runinto these other guys were coming off a
couple days rest. Like do weneed to do we need to adjust like
I would like, I would liketo see a forced adjustment to the playing
games because the playing teams are sodynamic in the tournament. I would say
that depends on what teams make thoseruns for real. Like the NFL,

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we used to hear that with thebye week that the team who actually was
the top seed within the conference wouldactually suffer. We saw that the Titans,
I believe in the AFC when theBengals beat them, and there wasn't
I want to say it's the Falcons, and there's no way the Falcons could
keep loan it that. We sawthat one postseason where the top number one
seeds got the they both got beat. It didn't work out. But more
recently we've seen teams the Eagles inthe Chief Super Bowl from two years ago.

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They were both the number one seeds, so we've seen back and forth.
I get your point here where it'slike, is the playing game benefiting?
Because you take that even further ifteams start fighting out that finishing seventh
through tenth is actually beneficial, especiallyin the NBA World Watch how fast guys
start not showing up the games.You think you had an issue before with
guys resting and load management and everythingelse. If you told someone of the

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analytical world that you benefit from beinglower, oh gosh, no one tell
the alien Adam Silver. He wouldnot be happy about those guys realizing that
information. I'm I I just likesaid, I like chaos when it comes
to stuff, and ever since theyruined the early part of the season for
me with that play in season tournament, now I want I want them to

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please you. Masters, my friend. No, I'm sorry, I don't
mean that. Yeah, No,I totally mean it was. I'm bored.
I'm bored with the Masters. No, I'm bored with the Masters.
We'll discuss next right here. FoxSports Radio ninety five nine and nine eighty
backing guys on ninety five nine FoxSports Radio. Hello, friends, So

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tradition, like unlike any other,the Masters, I kind of I was
in and I wasn't this time aroundlike I was in because I took the
chalk early. I took Scheffler towin the whole thing. So I felt
pretty good about that the whole time. Hey, that's cashing a ticket golf.
It's not always that easy. Well, not to mention like I early
enough that it was like four toone, you know what I mean.

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So it was it was decent.I'll take that. Every time there was
one of those profit boosts for thatround, I throwed out on him again
another ten twenty bucks. And soyou know it was nice, it did
well, but I still like Ihaven't caught on to this round of golfers
the way I did the previous groupslike the Tigers and the John Daly's and

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the Michelson's and the Bubba Watson.And I know, I know a lot
of those guys are still swinging clubs, but to not have them on the
leaderboard, the personalities don't feel asstrong to me with the modern golfer.
Here's the comparison here. You know, I'll give it a weird shout out
because I actually shouldn't. But thishas been one of the most controversial takes
of Scotti Scheffler over the last fortyeight hours. Maggie Gray had said,

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the reason people aren't responding to ScottieScheffler is he doesn't have enough riz.
What is this riz? There's hottakes, you know, hot take Tommy
likes a good old fashioned hot take. That one's too hot for me.
That riz, which I believe isanother term for drip, which I believe
is another term for just fashion,how you carry yourself, borderline charisma.

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Now you know, the further alongwe go here, I think we can
find this riz. I think that'swhat it means. Yeah, because well
I've got to how you dress,how you present yourself might be the reason
why people aren't attracted to Scottish,the ability to charm and WOOI person.

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I had to look because I feltout a YouTube rabbit hole over this weekend
and I yelled up by my kid. And you know, if you're not
alone in the car or wherever kidsare around, careful with this one.
There's some it's it's like a there'reusually that thing called chat roulette. Oh
god, where's this going? Yeah? No, no, it's bad.

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So there's a new site that doesthis stuff. And again I don't even
know. I just sat on YouTubeand it was something like Kermit's got that
riz, So I clicked on.I was like, what is this?
And it's somebody using the Kermit theFrog puppet and when girls show up,
it hits on them and whenever theysay what he doesn't like, he holds
up a cucumber. Oh no,yeah, and it's a big fan of

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fruit and vegetables. I see,I see it all right. I laughed
like a small child, like Ilaughed, So I like, there's no
reason for it. It's only minorlyfunny, but it it crushed like the
one girl's like, you just ruinedmy childhood. I started, I just
I lost it. So when yousaid Riz, I know you're talking about

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golf, all I could think ofwas Kermit and his RIZ and I was
like, please tell me, Rizzdoesn't isn't more. It's just charmed,
That's all it is, all right, But here's what sums up Scotty Scheffler.
In the mask, I was like, how quick can I get it
back to the other get out her. I don't know where the Kermit thing
was gonna go. I said,vegetables and fruits. I think I've covered

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so bad. It was so bad, I can't help it. Here's Scotty
Scheffler. You and I kind offelt the same way about the year's Masters,
where you had the favorite dominating goingto the second nine. I want
to make sure you use the Master'sterms. I believe you can get banned
if you call it the back nine. There's a great article up about that.
I believe it's at the Ringer aboutthe rule actually be Front off of
Sports, about the rules you haveto follow when you're a broadcaster. Describing

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the Masters and I could lose yourjob if you don't. There's a nice
plug for them that he is NicoleJokic. Scottie Scheffler is Nicole Yolkic of
golf. And what I mean bythat is, if you caught the post
round press conference, if you heardhim getting the green jacket everything else.
They asked him about it, andbasically, to sum it up, he's
like, guys, I want togo home. I'll just be honest.

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I just want to leave. Youknow, this doesn't define me. I
got other important things I gotta getto right now, like the birth of
my kid. So let's just kindof hurry this thing up. I know,
I know there's another cut out there, Like Jaylen Brunson joked around too
that the og come on, let'sgo hurrying out. Like what Nicole Jokic
went viral after he won the championshipwhen dmac who I know, he's got

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some upstate New York tess. Ibelieve it's Darren McPhee. Darren McGhee,
you and I both met him,and I feel bad. I don't remember
his last name. That he hadasked Jokic about, Hey, what do
you think about the parade? Andhe had no idea what he was talking
about. He looked around and he'slike a parade. He's a gang.
Have state till Tuesday. Oh,come on, I gotta stay a couple
more day. I don't want to, Like, that's what these guys have

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become. And I feel like andmaybe the back you got a different redo
on this time, dude, Likethis feels so unique to people that they
are so honest and so candid wherethey're like, honestly, guys, that's
a job, Like my wife's aboutto give birth. I feel like,
honestly, guys, I like myhorses better, Anthony rendon Man. Baseball

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is kind of long. It doesdiscourage sports fans die hard, hardcore,
Like, what do you mean youdon't care about this as much as I
do as a fan. You should. But that's why Scotty Scheffler didn't really
connect like others in the past,where he's kind of got this mindset.
It's like, I don't know.I mean, this is cool and everything,
but I gotta go, what's like, my best guy, Scheffler,
he's the favorite. He's the bestgalfer in the world right now. So

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I'm watching him. He's intriguing tome. Then then I'm a Brooks Kopka
fan, so he's he's intrigued.I like, I like how he hits
a Jen Rahm, John Ron plusnine. I think Kepka is plus nine.
Uh. And then the most intriguinggolfer in the world, Tiger Woods,
is the last guy to make thecod. He's plus sixteen. So

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it's like I'm missing some of whatLike, oh, there's VJ singing Tony
Fenaw down there too. Like theseare guys a little bit of personality,
two of them that I'm used toLike these guys, don't Sheller uh lud
big Oberg. That's you know,bold choice spelling your name with an A
and want us all to call itO like a bold choice. I get

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it. Tommy Fleetwood, Max Home, I mean that was fun to watch
him meltdown. Colin Moore Co Howardlike there these guys, Bryson D.
Schambau. The most exciting thing aboutBryson D. Chambeau is he's a nerd
who learned to lift weights and he'sslow, so other people get mad at
him. Like that's there's not alot of you know, storylines to single

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it's not as exciting like if youif you told me I could go to
the Masters, I cancel your club. I can go to the Masters,
walk around whether they have the speciallike lemonade or whatever you can have,
like yeah, nice prices, they'relike still the same prices these years ago.
Or I'd go to Top Golf withTiger Woods and John Daly. I'm
going to Top Golf with Tiger Woodsand John Daely. I'm going right now.

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I'm picking up some of the tabbecause I think that'd be hysterical,
like I almost I just I thinkthere needs to be a point where we
go, all right, those ofyou who are really interesting but uh but
really aren't that good anymore? Comewith us. Where are we going top
Golf? Come on, We're gonnahave a blast. It's be awesome.
We're gonna put it on TV becausethey're doing that indoor golf league that's coming.
That is gonna happen. Yes,And you know what, I like

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where you're taking this take here withthe Masters, because I let off talking
about how broadcasters can be fired fromtheir jobs for saying things that the Masters
don't like. I don't know howmany people realize this in front office sports
get Another plug here that the Mastershas a one year deal every year with
CBS and ESPN, so it's notlike they have a ten year deal.
One year. So if you don'tfollow the rules of saying how great we

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are and how prestigious we are,and how this is the greatest event you've
ever seen and hype it up theway we want to hype it up.
We let women vote, you letwomen even golf. It was a twenty
twelve nineteen ninety was the first blackperson was allowed to Like, those numbers
are wild to think about in twentytwenty four that it's not been that long,
but that's what happens. Like,But the point you're trying to make,

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I think Levac and I think thisis scary for the future of Augusta
is that when you start thinking sofull of yourself so up at the Augusta,
you are gonna start tuning some fansout of the new era of fans
where it's like, God, youguys take yourself that serious, huh that
you're zooming in on the blades ofgrass and telling us how wonderfully it could
be a turnoff for the younger sportsfan. Well, just there's not the

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personalities aren't there? The kid,the young kid who made the cut and
was golfing with Tiger. That wascool, that was really cool. Actually,
speaking of women, did I can'tthink of her name? A female
reporter won the media raffle and shegets the play, She got to play
Augusta. She never golf before.How much does everyone else in that room

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hate her? Like they've been dyingto play Agusta their whole lives. They
probably play, you know, twicea week. Yeah, here you go,
and it's like, oh man,she shouldn't even a lot of golf
here, as they were thinking.I'm sure, but like, like for
me, no, again, Iwas just there's there's a I don't mean
this racially, but it's a it'sa term. It's almost like they've whitewashed

(27:30):
the personality off of golf. No, that's exactly the right term. That's
exactly right, because I I liketo I like to relate to some of
these people, like like Xelatorus.The fact that he looks like the caddy
from Happy Gilmour. That's funny tome. But that's that's where it's where
his entertainment ends, you know,at least, like I said, Brooks
kept us out there having a blast, like he's taking pictures with his smoking

(27:52):
hot wife. He's doing like Ican follow him. That's dude's living the
way I don't want to live.But most of these guys are so worried
that they're going to offend somebody becauseof the way the world is. It's
so fun. Is there any blaneto be tossed? Live golf sway and
hear me out on this because youdo this every single day. You work
for the Arena Football League, youwork for the Albany Firebirds, you're a

(28:12):
team president. And the product thatis Arena Football is an alternative product to
the National Football League. A lotof times people want to be the straight
competitor rather than an alternative, andmost occasions the alternative can make that bigger
product better for the future. Whereyou looked at Live, and yes,
of course Live wanted to be acontender. But when Live would start offering

(28:36):
alternatives of things that maybe the PGain't didn't do, mikeing up players,
shorter holes, showing more personality,figuring out ways in which people could say,
oh I want to root for oragainst this guy, you would have
thought maybe the PGA would have usedmore of that stuff. I didn't see
it from the telecast that I saw. Maybe more diehard golf fans did.
But you wonder if sometimes it isif there is competition, everybody from a

(28:57):
presentation stand point has pick up theirgame, not visually. Arguably the Masters
is the best event, but yeah, make other fans care about it.
And you and I both felt thesame way that the winner. Maybe it's
more so on Scotty Scheffler didn't feellike he drew that connection nationally. And
I wonder too how much the feedsinto this, like this is like a

(29:18):
stupid conspiracy theory, but like knowingthat this guy flat out said, hey,
there's more important things in my lifethan playing Augusta did how much did
did like the Masters? Go?Yeah, we don't need we don't need
to focus on him. Well he'swinning, Yeah, but he might walk
away. But but but he's thebest golfer in the world. Yeah,

(29:38):
but know that Ober guy's pretty cool, isn't he? How bad did you
think Augusta want to say, Wow, that's weird. We did get a
call. Your wife's in labor.You gotta go right now. Oh,
her name is Stacy. Oh thisis a different name. I thought you
said Susan. That's our fault.Oh my gosh, Scotty Scheffler left.
Everybody, come on, get uphere, amateur. We'll fix your score.

(30:00):
It's a plus, gonna a minus. Yes, I'm with you.
People who actually care are here.It's great. We're so happy, and
it's it's weird, like I justI couldn't get as into it as I
normally do. Paid a little attention, but you know it also, day
three is the day that you know, you really watch Tiger's already out of
it. Yankees had a doubleheader.There was a lot going on besides that.

(30:22):
That was was more important in myworld, which is weird because one
of my favorite things to do thistime of year, where I'm starting to
get a little like cabin fever,is to put the masters on, open
a window, even if it's alittle cold, you know, or light
one of the candles are supposed tosmell like grass, and literally just sitting

(30:45):
there and be like, it's notthat cold out, it's not that terrible.
I've stayed in New York has asummer, it does It's gonna start
now, like it literally like we'lltry to like trick my brain. I
think it's a beautiful day out tryingto get those like sun endorphins going.
Very Dacy and I are not onthe same page most of the time.
I say we mostly are. Thisis an all timer today because I did

(31:07):
the same thing this weekend, thesame exact thing, not to the open
the window and convincing myself the weatherwas good. Because I got Kevin fever.
On Sunday. My wife was outdoing a bunch of stuff with boys.
I was back West was napping,so I was with him. But
I got to a point Of'm like, I gotta get out of this house.
Saturday. It did stuff Friday,I'm like, Sunday, I gotta
get out. So I got allthe boys ready, got everything. We're

(31:30):
going outside. Boys, Dad,it's raining notes not no, no,
no, no, everybody. Wewent right in the backyard. Sure enough
it's raining, and I'm like,no, no, no, it's not
really raining. That fine, startd redead. We gotta get them back.
Yet I did everything I could haveconvinced myself it wasn't even actually raining
outside because of how bad I hadKevin fever. One of my daughter's favorite
memories is run around jumping in mudpuddles, like that's what we used to

(31:52):
do, like everyone's pactyah pig.No, No, she wasn't around yet.
It was the only pig my housewere bacon at that point. No,
it was it was. She lovedit like it was one of those
where like we were having a roughdays, a bad day at school.
It was it was there was therewas no smart reason to be running around
in the rain and the puddles,and that's all we did. And we

(32:13):
found every puddle at the apartment complexwe used to live at, and we
stomped in every one of them.And if maintenance went, hey, can
you not do that there, We'relike, I can't hear it. Ah,
then we run away. It's oneof her fair memories. It was
great. So, yeah, yougot you go on the rain once in
a while, Yetta do it playthrough the rain, Scottie Scheffler. Yeah,
golfers, that'd be more entertaining.We'd like it. Some of that
wind was impressive. Some of thatwin man, Like, I wish it

(32:36):
was it was windy every time Iplayed golf, because I mean, I'm
not gonna have a good score.So at least then there's a reason for
it, you know what I mean? Likeh what happened all of that?
Every time we've got GOLs like twentymile for hour, goss Man there everywhere,
you can't. I don't know whathe's gonna do. He's just every
every day it looks like he swiing'sgetting a little better. But then no,
there's those twenty twenty thirty miles priorgust Is Papa about an hour.

(32:58):
It's crazy, the big ground forhim. Yeah, what are you gonna
do well? Thatac Augusta. It'sa it's a thing tradition unlike any other.
Yeah, it's ridiculous. That's allthe time. And then there's the
and then there's all the flooding ofoh it rains, no, no,
of beer and his belly. It'sthe floods every time. Elevation ten thousand.
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(33:19):
I went over there. They puta logo on it. Good to go
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a kind of kind of I thinkI think the only reason they know I
don't is I don't have the passwordto get into the other offices. I
can only get into the print shopand the one studio. I can't get

(33:40):
anywhere else. It's it's it's crazy, but I hey, I mean I'm
over there because they do a greatjob with everything. So like when it
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that gets your U your stuff infront of everybody else, the se O,
all of that. Then with theprint shop, I'm in there.

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(34:45):
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Elevates your brand today with elevation tenthousand. Listen, Yeah, I
could use it. Yeah, Isaw this on social media. We need
your help. This kind of tookoff a little bit. We got a
lot of people who liked this comment. When do you think about sports and
the masters? Are there certain daysthat you just have to nap during a

(35:29):
sporting event? That's right. Thistook off over the weekend. What are
the top five sports naps? Whatare those events those days that and I
have a list for you. Ilove that you have to nap. Listen.
I don't want to do this.It has happened. Oh, it's
Lavak and Guz on ninety five nineFox Sports Radio. So you've been telling

(35:50):
me in the commercials that my MIC'sa little hot today. She's so much
louder in here than I am,like so much, like that was my
fault again. Oh, I don'tknow if people have been touching the I
don't know what happened over there.It happens periodically, she like yells at
me. I think it's because sheknows. You know, I'm ready to
take that next step. The show'sgot to take that. You know,
everybody's got to take that next step, now, you know. I like

(36:12):
how immediately I wanted to blame somebodyelse, like I've only hit that button
about ten times today, Like I'msure somebody at g Y over the last
Saturday or Sunday, what's your name, Rachel, I saw her sneak in
and hit a button. I sawit. She was like, you were
you looked out the window quick andshe like came in like a ninja and
just hit it real quick. Don'tforget to It's tax day. Yeah,

(36:34):
I know we mentioned a few timestoday, but since we are towards the
end of the show, let's remindeverybody tax Day. Get your taxes in.
My kid did hers like without me, so, like she's still I
can still claim her because she's incollege and like causes me debt. But
like she usually I anytime I claimher, I usually bring her stuff over

(36:55):
to my my tax guy, andhe does hers too. She goes,
now, I don't need it toshare. It's easy. It's like,
all right, let's see what yougot. So she did. She was
like, I still got some moneyback. I'm like, because you're poor,
Like, yeah, what this countryis about? Yeah you should,
but you know, now you seeif she did, right, let's see
how that goes. But yeah,so it's tax Day. But what this

(37:20):
weekend for me? It was?It was a bit odd. I had
a lot going on. I hadthe memorial services for my good friend Anthony
Lawless rest in peace and we loveyou buddy from the Hero of the Special
Olympics. Really wanted to serve hiscountry in the military. Just great,
great all around guy. Uh.Seeing his family cry when they're usually the
happiest people on the planet broke myheart. But that was so that was

(37:43):
that I was also I was battling. I don't mean like dismiss that,
but I know everybody knows Anthony.So it's like it's like, you know,
okay, good, yeah, youdon't get me. I don't care.
A lot of people mentioned across socialmedia he got a lot of love
this weekend. That kid fought hisass off. Its whole life had great,
great adopted parents, great adopted brothers, a phenomenal family, just phenomenal

(38:07):
people. It's just another reason Isay whatever because I might cry. We
don't need that. I also wasbound some kind of cold. So when
this thing is we're about to talkabout that you want to talk about I
have a completely I think I havea completely different list. And I've always
fought the Mount Rushmore as I've alwaysthought the list or whatever. But I

(38:29):
think, because this is stupid,I'm in like, if this was your
Mount Rushmore of New York Yankees,I don't want to do it, but
do you Mount Rushmore of sports betters? I might do it, you know,
but now what is it? Sogive me the give me this?
What is this? What inspired meabout this list? When I looked at
I was like, you know what, I want to have this happen Because

(38:51):
my buddy at sir Bert said,wow, I just took a two hour
nap, and then I saw thispop up. I'm like, wait a
second, are people taking naps acrossthe country today? Because Cole on Twitter
wrote here are the top five sportsnaps. Here here's his list. We're
gonna go five to one. Histop five sports naps NFL Draft Day three,

(39:12):
So it's like rounds five through sevenSelection Sunday, Rivalry Week in college
football, Saturday, Thanksgiving Day,and the Masters Sunday is a top five
sports nap? Now begain wait waitdid I miss this? When did Thanksgiving
no longer become the number one sportsnap? So what happened? So quickly?
I had to start thinking about mytop five sports naps? And I

(39:35):
immediately texted you I believe levac aboutwhere my NAP's ranked. So you can
let us know at WOFX nine eightyon ex Twitter, Fox Sports nine eighty
dot com and now freshly minted onInstagram OFX nine eighty. We we just
found we just realized it's twenty ten. When did I don't know when Instagram

(39:58):
started. Feels like we feels likewe really just jumped right on it.
You know what I'm gonna go findis that that that gift or that meme
of us wherever he was doing theblack and white and was like, we
did it like a month late andwe just had we had a blast with
it doing it a month. I'mgonna find that. I'm gonna bring that
back out, get on a trendbefore somebody else does, right, Never
too late to hop on a socialmedia tray something like that. All right,

(40:22):
So wait, so what are yourSo? Do you want to read
coal Coal's Coal's list again? Onemore time? We'll go five to one.
Draft Day three in the NFL SelectionSunday, College Football Rivalry Week,
Saturday, Thanksgiving Day Master Sunday.Okay, the Draft Day three, I

(40:44):
would love to, but this yearthat's the home opener for the Firebirds,
So that ain't that ain't gonna happenfor me. As a matter of fact,
Day one or two probably gonna happenfor me. Neither. Uh So,
that one's off my list. SelectionSunday off on I I thanks even
like I think Masters is the onlyit's the only one I have left on

(41:05):
this list. All right, youthat's a great tease, and I want
to know what the rest of yourlist is. I'm gonna go first,
though, Okay, because you setme up here. This is more conventional
than what I'm sure I guess.So all right. Number five on my
list here on best sports Naps isround of sixty four Thursday at noon,

(41:30):
So selection Sunday off the list roundof sixty four because my thought process is
the games will tip off, youfall asleep for that afternoon nap around twelve
three, you get up at two. You really haven't missed anything. Somehow
you got time off of work.So that one falls in at number five.
I'm having a feeling that in thenext year to three that might go
up the list, so I'm gonnatry to take that day off as often

(41:51):
as possible. All right. Numberfour on this list is college football Saturday,
but not college football rivalry week,college football week one. So now
week zero, like the first weekyou get all the teams like that first
September, cause that you can gofrom noon until midnight. If it really
falls the right direction, you mightget that like Labor Day weekend, and

(42:15):
if you really get it right,you might have that fantasy draft that same
weekend. So you tell the wife, the fianza, the girlfriend, Hey
i gotta go out of town,or hey I'm hanging out with my buddies,
or hang I'm busy this weekend,and you get a nap. You
get a lot of beer in yoursystem, you get a lot of on
it. So that's number four forme squeezing a nap. There number three
NFL Draft Day three. I thinkit's a fantastic call here by Cole.

(42:37):
You know the players are coming through. Nobody really knows what you're actually following.
Sometimes the NFL Draft coverage actually doesn'tknow what they're following. So that
locks into three Master Sunday number two. Now that you've got Paramount plus and
CBS, you leave golf up,you fall asleep, you wake back up.
It's still going on. But theall time number one one, the

(43:00):
king of sports naps is Thanksgiving Dayremains is the champ cannot be beaten.
You time up that nap right aftertheir early dinner to get like right around
like three thirty, maybe maybe fouro'clock before the Cowboys and whoever kick off
and get up around six. SoIONE say that's too late of a nap,
guys, I would say, no, it's not thanks Giving Day nap

(43:22):
number one of the sports naps.Who So I think I think I'm gonna
put I'm gonna put Thanksgiving is fivefor me? Oh what, Well,
there's a reason I have obstructive sleepBabney. As you know, I see
a grave sleep center in boss theSpa, so like, I can't I

(43:44):
can't fall asleep if there are peoplein the house. It's a mental thing.
I'll lose. I like, I'llmaybe for a minute, you know,
like if everybody's around, you'll hearme. Here we go like so
it's it's not relaxing to me.Now. The reason I'm putting it back
on list is because the kids areolder and everything like that. I there's

(44:06):
shifts at my house, like thefamily will come through and say hi,
or they won't come through it all, which works too. But then like
the kids will be there for awhile, we'll eat, we'll do whatever.
They'll go away. They'll come backlater. If they go away and
come back later. Yeah, I'mout. It's done. It doesn't matter
what else is happening. I'm out. And then I'll wake up and I'm
like, hey, guys, wantplay some jack box trivina? What do
you want to? Like? What? Like? I'm in? So that's

(44:28):
so Turkey Day is is five forme just because of the extremely loud story
and they like, I can't imaginegonna put my mouthpiece into coming back down
Like that's not that's not how napswork. I think four for me is
a Yankee doubleheader hot hot day,dark room may see h especially if I

(44:49):
did some yard work before first pitch. So now I'm a little a little
worn out, you know, kinda tree down or something, came back
in, got ready to watch theYankees, watched through the game. Done.
That's that's for Just to add tothat. By the way, someone
say that's the best time to havea beer as well, the post yard
work beer and nap. That's adouble combo right there, especially coped beers

(45:10):
relaxed. Now now I'm out.Now it's done. Uh. Three Any
NFL Sunday four o'clock kick if theRaiders aren't on, So if the Raiders
kicked at one. They're a nightgame or whatever, four o'clock games.
Red Zone goes on, drop thedrop the volume, three to five.
I'm toasted, the true witchy nowexcept yeah, Masters, I'll put Masters

(45:35):
at two because of the green,Like how green that lawn is. Is
so relaxing now that the TV's likeyou can you can see like a flea's
butt pimple. How the TV's areso good just seeing them clean the grasses
and the relaxing in the twelfth holelike that works, Hello bugs, butts

(45:59):
number one for me, a sportsnap is actually an any day nap.
I'm a grown damn man. Isleep and I want so. I've got
this amazing Shay's lounge recliner. Ifany of the animals in the house curl
up on me, gone nine night, cat, Gone night night. We

(46:20):
have one hundred pound dog named Whiskey. He's he's he's probably over a hundred
now. He has he knows wordslike certain words like I used to be.
I was like he's just a baby. He'd come lying. He would
lay on me like yeah, geepaugets it. Leave me alone and stop
yelling. Now if you tell himhe's great, he gets so excited.
If I tell him he's great,he will come and lay on me,

(46:43):
nuzzle his head and like thanks,and then yeap, sleep time. So
I can't tell him he's great unlessI'm ready to take a nap. So
give me those rankings again. You'refive through one. Thanksgiving is the fifth
just because I'm allowed to snore ifthere's people in the house. Can't do
it header during a hot summer daywith the AC on dark room. Uh.

(47:04):
Then number three any NFL Sunday,like four o'clock ish, especially if
you and I were out hosting forthe ones with no Raiders, if the
Raiders aren't on till later that dayor whatever, I'm going down two masters.
It's a tradition unlike any other.And then number one anytime I feel
like it. I'm a grown damnman and I own my own house.
Universal nap. Yeah, yeah,like it, like they'll be. I

(47:27):
will be perfectly honest with you.There were times during this this this NBA
season, in this college basketball season, then I'd be like, man,
I really kind of want to sleepin this chair down here. I'll just
take a nap and I will gofind any game and just put it on
low in the background that way incase the kids came home or somebody came
like, whatever, Hey, whatare you doing? I just watched a
game, just watching it. Whatgame's on? I don't know, sportball

(47:50):
like, that's that's what I woulddo. Clearly, you and I are
in different parts of our life becauseis your number one is I'll do what
I want. I'm a grown damnband at number five? Is it?
Hey? Thanksgiving? People have stuffto do. Mine. I think I
have to remind everyone. Mine arenot planned naps. It's when my body
shuts down and tells me you're goingto sleep. Because if I told my
wife with two kids under four yearsold, hey, I think I'm just

(48:12):
gonna a quick two hour nap inI wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be
alive for say to do. I'mbeing a very long nap that I wouldn't
get up from. So, yes, literally are our setup. So now
we get these naps. Why Igot divorced too, because I was just,
yeah, I'm going to take anoup. What do you want me
to do? It's a grown downmen do what I want. That's wrong
my mantra for a long time.I do what I want. Just imagine

(48:35):
my tell my wife that I like, yeah, West is in sleep and
hang on, I'm getting a littlenap in You got this right, keep
sleeping. Those eyes aren't good open. So you take the kid. You
get the kid nap with you.Now you're on your way. Now you
got an excuse me, sleep onmyWhat do you want me to know?
I thought you could use the quiet, so I just fell asleep too.
Well, you've got a while.By the way, one more time WFX

(48:55):
nine eighty on Twitter and on InstagramFacebook is well, well, we will
give you shout outs about the topfive sports naps. The Masters made me
think of it. These tweets mademe think of it. We both had
the Masters in there. So ifyou took a daptor and the Masters,
we are not judging you. Ifanything, were applauding you. You did
it right. Do what you want, like you it's your life, live
it, you know what I mean? Like that's I think that's what people

(49:16):
miss on these things, Like that'sthe nap is a big part of life.
The older I get, I stopdoing it and then all of a
sudden, I honestly like now thatI'm kind of getting control of the sleep
happening because of the INROEP Center.Now, I'm like, oh, I
love an app now, so it'sphenomenal. My brain is always flying,

(49:37):
So anytime I can get to shutdown for thirty to forty minutes, sometimes
an hour, sometimes three, younever know, it's a nap sneaks up
on you. I'll never nap therein an Albany FireWolves game. I'll tell
you that though the albody FireWolves oneregular season game left to go, it
is on the road, It iscoming up in three forty five. You
know, it might be five totwenty this week. We'll keep you posted

(49:58):
if you follow us on the podcastside Spotify. The iHeart app might be
at the five o'clock Albera on Wednesday, the Albany Firewolf Coach Player playoff push.
You'll find out more about that.But again, continue with just one
regular season game left to go tofollow the Albany FireWolves on social media.
Alb FireWolves Interact, have fun,have a great time with this team.
Shout out to Doug Jamison. Ifyou don't know what record he's said over

(50:21):
the weekend, you can find outthat on their social media platforms and get
that gear Albany FireWolves at T shirtand more. Root on this local team
doing some great things. Vack andI excited for their playoff push. You
should be as well. As thisteam represents the Capital region. It is
the Albany FireWolves. Man pack thehouse, as they say, that's that's
what I like to see. Allright, it is that time. We

(50:45):
are in the GT Toy studio.That's Toys with a Z and it's time
to get on out of here.Don't forget this week. Flock you at
the Corner Bar and Grill on CentralAve. And then it makes his debut
Saturday morning right here on Fox SportsDAIA ninety eighty nine. AM. Good
job guys on that one. Thankyou for that. And uh also we'll

(51:06):
be at Mohawk Honda on Thursday forthe grand opening. Yes, right Thursday,
the grand opening. Cannot wait.We've got Nick's playoffs this Saturday as
well. We've got great things.We got a packed week. We cannot
wait to bring you to all.But it is uh on to Tuesday.
It's on the Cavino and Rich Nextlevack. Oh they still they're still around.
Huh that's all right. Wait ahang in there, boys, wait a,
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