6-24-24 Hour 3

The Knicks may have to do this for the first time in 4 years
Discussing the Firebirds loss to Billings and the final week of AFL regular season action
Play of the Day discusses online dating and Goz doing something he hasn't done since 2020

Episode Transcript

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BC opening Fox Sports nine eighty ninetyfive point nine. Fact. Now back
to Levac and Guz on ninety fivenine and nine eighty AM Fox Sports Radio
over the weekend, I almost gotgot. It was almost like a Ballsax
sports What the other fake on theNew York porch, Yes, all those

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ones that used to get us ortry to get us. It was.
It was a woj bomb. Itwas that the Knicks were close to a
green to like it was a fouryear, like one hundred and twenty million
dollar deal or whatever it was withwith Og Andnobi, which in all reality
probably not a bad deal based onthe way the NBA deals go. So

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I'm free and I look at itlike it was it was at Im Woje.
Wait wait that's not his name,just the picture. I'm guessing too,
right, Yeah, it's that's howthey always get you. But it,
you know, got me to think, like, Okay, how bad
do you want Og? Because Imean you definitely want him when he's healthy,

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but he didn't stay healthy very longwhen they when he was out there,
they were they were a different team, and I was and like I
literally started having all these money questionsin my head about the Knicks because we
you know, we've been talking aboutstraight long so sure enough, today New
York Post has a whole article ifthe Knicks do indeed want to keep O
g and Anobi Isaiah Hartenstein and runit back, so to speak, with

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the majority of the guys who wereon this year's roster, They're gonna have
to do something that they have neverdone. While Leon Rose has been in
charge of the team four years.Leon Rose has has run the Knicks in
that time. He's spoken twice fouryears. I don't know anybody he looks
like or sounds like in this point, I know what he looks like.

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Do you do you have a guesson what they've never had to do with
under the uh under the leadership ofLeon Rose. Hmm, okay, if
we're talking about an executive making adecision, you're talking about contracts. We're
talking about a young Nick roster whoeventually is gonna have to pay people.
I don't think this is how itworks anymore, but I could be wrong.

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So I know it changed a littlebit after COVID with a new TV
deal. Does this have to domaybe the luxury tax? Four years under
Leon Rose, the Knicks have neverpaid the luxury tax. WHOA, all
right, I just got it.Look at that. So the number one
media market in the NBA in theworld, a team that is always i

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mean massive square gardens, almost alwaysfull, and not only not paying luxury
tax. He's had them so lowin payroll they've collected money from the luxury
tax pot. Should we explain theluxury tax? Is that if you I
mean, okay, yeah, letme explain it real quick for those who
might get really confused about what we'retalking about here. So we know in
the NFL you have a salary camp. We know in baseball there's no salary

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camp. But for a while therewas we'll call it a ceiling and a
floor that teams were trying to getforced to spend their money. The NFL
did the same thing. There wasyou have to spend your money, you
can't sit on it. But theNBA has a salary camp. But if
you go over, your ownership grouphas to pay a luxury tax. So,
for instance, the kings of thiswere the Warriors. The Warriors got
Steph Curry and Klay Thompson and RaymondGreen and they had a great roster.

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But what always gets forgotten about thatWarrior dynasty is how often they were having
to pay the luxury tax and theirownership group was willing to do it because
they thought to give them a championship. Now millions upon millions of dollars.
This is not your usual taxes ofthe end of the year, like oh
oh my tech. No, thisis never viewed as buying a championship,

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but it's about as close as youcan get to that. If you want
your guys to stay on your team, you got to pay up well.
Also, so it's that, yeah, it's basically keep your own players,
which is because you can't. Youcan't willfully go over the luxury tack.
Like if you were a free agent, guys, and I was, I
was three million away from the luxurytax cap there, but I need to

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give you twenty million. I can'tsign you. I have to sign you
at the three million, or onceyou're in then I can give you a
raise. There's all like there's littlelittle ways to do it. So they've
never had to pay the tax underthe four years under him. And then
there's actually another level. There's asecond tier to the tax, which then
restricts movement, takes away some ofyour mid level exemptions, your ability to

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make certain trades. So it's like, here, pass more money because you're
paying more money for a good team. Oh and by the way, since
you like your players so much,you can't have any others. Like that's
like, it's kind of weird.It is weird. It feels like the
goal of that is to have parodyin the NBA that you just can't hog
all your good young players and havea dynasty for eight to ten seasons.

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It does force ownership to make moves. However, they do make it so
you can pay your players, yourpersonal players, more than anyone else can
pay exactly right where. It helpsyou market the area, so there's less
move and so you can create starson certain teams. So all right,
so they've they've It's interesting when youthink about it as a Knicks fan.

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Yeah, you haven't been great.You've gotten better over those four years.
Each year, I'd say they gota little better. But you did it
in a way that almost no onesaw coming. You're the Knicks. Your
stockpiled draft picks. The Knicks don'tdo that, And you didn't pay you
didn't overpay players. The Knicks don'tdo that Leon Rose is an alien.

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Here's the problem. You ready forthis one? What if I told you
my belief is the only reason thehobbit has left him alone is because he's
not He's making money and not spendingextra money. And the second that this
year to keep Precious to Chew hasgotta get a new deal. If you
want to keep Mitchell Robinson, Ithink he's twenty seven million dollars this year

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you got to give. You gottapay og and andob. You gotta pay
this week, guys, right now, your luxury tax shows up. Now,
Hey, Leon, it's James JamesDoland. Guys like to check.
Hey, I'm here. I've seenyou spending money. It's like it's like
sating Beatles uice three times. NowI'm here. It's the grossest, worst,

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one of my least favorite sports conversationsbecause I always believe in like,
our team will do whatever it takes. We're gonna do it. You know,
there's that passionate prod in your teamyou root for, and more so
in professional sports than college. Thishappens that of does my ownership group care
about winning? Do they care likethe A's or people question their care The

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Clippers. There's certain franchises you cansay over the course of history of does
this ownership group care about winning ordo they care about making money. I
want to disagree with you. Iwant to say no, James Dolan will
go all in and try to wina championship and I'll spend a bunch of
money. But what I've learned aboutmany of these businessmen, you are far
more likely to have that guy orgirl back their money and say I didn't

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get into this to lose money.I got in this to make a ton
of money and not spend. Ratherthan spend, because we know who the
spenders are. The Yankees have beenspender. Steve Balmer has been a spender,
post Donald Sterling for the Clippers.We know the guys who want to
spend, the Padres have done it. I want the Knicks to be one
because every offseason we thought they'd bringin a bigger superstar. But they've got

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some players. Now, I wonderwho's gonna be the breaking point. Who
will it be. Will it beog will it be Brunson for a second
deal, Will it be a rookiethey get in the draft four or five
years from now? Who will bethe one that James Dolan does the knock
for. That's what I'm intrigued by. Well, and I think I think
he's okay spending money. History tellsus he's alright spending money, doesn't mind

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spending money. But my fear isthe reason he's been so quiet, Dear,
I say, almost aloof is becauseyou're not spending money. And I
think that's one of those things whereyou're under the radar because the Rangers are
spending a little bit of money,but they're it's hockey. They don't get
paid as much as the NBA.Now, all of a sudden, when
you start spending the money, yousmell that my wallet empty, and I

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want to go say hi, Iwant to be a part of this.
And I think that's where the pressurecomes in of to this point, Glad
Leah, run the team the wayyou want to run the team. People
like me right now they're leaving mealone. I got other problems to deal
with. I used to be friendswith Harvey Weinstein. Now I'm writing songs
like I never liked him, LikeI got problems. You handle this,
and now all of a sudden,it's gonna be overspending money we're about to

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win. I want to be inmy seats. Where's Charles. Let's make
sure Oakley's not allowed in the arena, like, like, let's go.
He's so depressing for Nicks fans.If they get that close, the ownership
halts it. But I don't reallythink they halt it. I just think
he'll be very present, which willruin a lot of the good vibes,
because again, he's just there's I'veheard really good things about him from people

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I know, like we've talked toI said, I know, we've talked
to and then like you just seeand you hear him, and it's like,
geez, how can how can soand so and so and so like
him so much when he just liveswith his foot in his mouth as much
as harmonic? Yeah, like,what are we doing here? Did they
do something for him? They werelike their buddies with her, They got
really good seats, did they?Or did they just they happen to experience

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the good days? Of course,my mind goes to the media mindset of
like I don't even think he's agood interview. I don't know if i'd
want to hang with James Dolan's notgonna tell you the truth. No,
never get tell the truth. Sowe'll wait and see him. It's interesting
with the Nicks pull off, thedraft coming up, and then the free
agency really kicks it and we getgoing from there. Uh, the bad
guys don't forget. What is asure thing and very good and cost effective?

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talk Firebirds look back. You've waitedall so long. Let's talk about the
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Crows, Thomas Rhett Victor, It'sLovak and Guz on ninety five nine Fox
Sports Radio, oh Man, ohMan, Heartbreaker for your Albany Firebirds Saturday
in Billings, Montana. I wantto I want to start with the good

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stuff. I I really I wishI had gone Billy the nice arena,
look nice, nice arena, lookgood broadcasters. I thought I did a
very nice job. Broadcast team.I thought was the best non Firebirds team
I've heard this year. I thoughtthey were really really good. I thought
they were fun, playful, theyunderstood the assignment. Like you know,

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there's a lot of times you haveto talk through the entire halftime show because
otherwise the music will bleed through.Yes, and then we will lose the
right to broadcast. Uh No,I thought. I thought, there's a
lot of good stuff, a lotof really really good stuff, and man,
oh man, Billions is a goodteam. They are a talented team.
Man, They're well coached. Theydon't make a lot of mistakes.
That was a defensive matchup for alot of that game. I thought,

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I thought we still, I thoughtwe should have won. I actually feel
like we did win. I wantto get to that. I don't want
to I don't mean to cut youoff. I just had day jih we
like a champ. I don't meanto cut you off, but there's a
lot to that. I just wantto get Billions their love too, because,
yeah, going into that game,you and I previewed it on Friday
Show. It's been talked about alot across social media. A lot of
cross fans were following Arena Football Leagueaction this season. I don't think you

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and I are storyline we covered onFriday was far off from what people questioned.
Was Billions kind competition strong enough?Was Billions the team just because of
how it laid out schedule? Wionsthe biggest benefit from that? Did they
just flat out have the talent?To hang with teams like Orlando, Nashville,
All Bania. Were they on thesame level? Now? Is that

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a lot of East Coast bias?Yeah? But Southwest Kansas showed up to
all but he got their butts kicked. So the question was can Billings hang?
Are they that good? What they'rereally good? Now? Beck,
I will volley it back to youbecause for those who did not catch Firebirds
Outlaws, I would say a wayto sum up the finish of that game

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was very similar to what happened atthe end of the West Texas game,
the Miracle on salth Pearl Street.Very a lot of similarities between those two
finishes. Yeah, and if thatwas just the case, like if we
just got bit by a team thatdid what we did but did it against
us, I would I would besalty, I would, but I would,

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but I would, you know,congratulate them, and I want to.
I want to. I want topoint this out. The very first
thing I did, before I reachedout to any of our guys to see
how it went, I reached outto Steve Titus, the owner of the
Billings Outlaws, and said, man, hell of an after a great game,
enjoy the win. I really hopewe get the running back. So
so just so we're clear, nothingI'm about to say is in reflection to

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Billings, because I think they youknow, the answer, my answer to
every question we were just talking aboutis there. They are equal to the
task. I would like to knowwho does their stats, because then we
never got them, you know,but these are things you can fix.
These are things you can fix.I'd rather have everything else be right first
than get it's fine. I justwant to clarify something. By stats,

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you mean who was actually gonna suitup for the team that day? No,
No, I mean there's no stats. Okay, the home team does
the stats. Yes, So nowwhat I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go
on my interns, Joe, who'sgonna go and he's gonna do the stats,
and we're gonna load him in.I The only reason I asked that
is because that is a huge dealin arena football. When pregame, you
want to find out who's playing forwho and what position. And we saw
the adjustments of iron Man and everythingelse that if they tried keep I'm glad

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we clarified that. They hit meup on Wednesday looking for the roster.
I'm like, guys, I can'twrite, I cannot get our coach,
coach where has been very clear?First of all, we didn't know our
roster on Wednesday because we have somany little like nagging injuries, nothing,
nothing so severe that if it wasa must win, they would keep guys
out. But we got guys whoneed who need a arrest. But two,

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if you're not sending me your officialtwenty one man for game day,
I'm not saying your mind the rulestwo hours before kickoff. So there's gazership
involved. But people are like inthis league are acting like, no,
no, you gotta send it tous. Now. I'm like, bro,
here's my here's my twenty four active. This is what you get.
But no, no, no stats. So we'll fix that. But that's

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again, these are all fixable things, uh my, And I want to
do this right, Guys, didyou watch the entire game? I watched
a majority of the fourth quarter.As you know, it was a very
wild weekend for Old Ghazi Bear.I'm gonna do this because I feel like
this is a teachable moment, eitherfor me or for the league. What

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happens in that final minute of agame if the offensive player goes down to
an injury and stops the clock.Isn't there a ten second runoff? You're
saying the team who has the injuredplayer does not have timeouts for a method
for them to stop the clock.Correct ten second rounds. That's a great

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question. Or they don't want touse their timeout, they can still do
the wrung I guess, or theycan lose five yards to ten second run
off. There should be some typeof result of if the clock is stopping
because of this, that's it givestoo much of a favorite advantage to that
team. No, ten second rounds. None. What was your position in
high school? I played defensive endin center? Okay, in your life,

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have you ever seen a nose tackleget a defensive holding call? You
know what? Love, credit toyou for holding that in for sort of
two hours. I know we didthe kickstarter thanks to TDTA. No and
especially an arena football and indoor football. And No. A defensive nose tackle,

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which is different than a defensive tackle. Old school nose tackle over the
center is the term I usually thinkof nose tackle. I don't know if
I've ever heard of a nose tacklegetting a holding call. If anything,
I'll have you take a one stepfurther. If there's any position on a
football field besides quarterback, it's thesecond least likely position to ever get a

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holding call. Quarterbacks never going toget a holding call, running backs could,
and pass protection wide receivers the secondleast likely position on the field to
ever get a holding call of thenose tackle. Okay, and I've watched
it and it was called on onMelvin Hollins, so I look at it.

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Melo was kind of getting blown upa little bit on that play.
Nope, now it didn't matter becauseour ends, uh hick Bottom and McCollister
were in there, had and itwas a sack which would have pretty much
ended the game. Pretty much wouldend of the game. Hollands gets gets
a defensive holding at the nose tackleposition. So let me ask you another

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question. You know, because youyou played far more recently than I have,
you know, is there such athing as center eligible? Like,
is there a chance there center wasabout to go out on a because I
thought it was tackle and they hadto be uncovered, they'd be covered.
I didn't know that maybe maybe itwas center eligible. Okay, So so

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let's go back to the Melvin Hollandsscenario of him getting blown up. There
are defensive schemes that are set upfor that position to take that because like,
let's think back Warren SAP's not thebest example, but I think people
understand this example of the Vince Wilforkis a great example. Vince will Fork
used to eat double teams, sopeople would fly off Aaron Donald. Aaron
Donald like, great, there arecertain guys who hate your stats might not
reflect it, but you needed thisdouble team so the guys on the edge

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can go make a play. Soyeah, like there's gonna be some tastes
where those technical gets destroyed. Toyour question about center eligible, yes,
there is a play in football.I remember it because it was our trick
play called I used to We usedto call it Rocket Power Special and after
the Nickelodeon show. So the centercan be eligible on a play if they're
the last man on the line ofscrimmage. So, for instance, let's

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say this are uncovered on theide,right, I think a better scenario would
be sort of the swinging gate.If people know what I'm talking about.
If you watch football and you seean extra point where the centers by himself
and the entire teams on the farleft. Technically, if they're the last
person on the line of scrimmage,that center is an eligible receiver for that
play. So the odds of theanybody in arena football running a that are

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eligible. I knew at the pointyou were trying to make. Yeah,
no, is there is there ascenario in football where the center can be
eligible? Yes? I don't think. With the game on the line,
they say, here we go.We're gonna bring up with guys Ran and
his Pop Warner football team. It'stime for Rocket Power Special. By the
way, that play never worked becauseit was designed for me and usually screwed
up the snap. Thank you,thank you for thank you for that.

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They were coming clean. So basicallylike those two things, and and here's
the deal. I get it.I say a lot of things. Coach
Ware has been very, very boisterouslately. I get it if you don't
like us. But man, thatthose two calls completely solid. And there
were other like little things I noticed, But these are things I don't really

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like. These two things I've askedyou, I feel as though are very
technical and warranted questions, and they'renot. They're not me insulting the referees.
They're not me insulting, they're measking, like, what in our
rule book is wrong that allowed thesethings to be calls. Because they're not,
they shouldn't be called. Well,let's go back to the game against

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West Texas, right, for thosewho didn't remember that game, West Texas
was gonna run out the clock alreadyhad no timeouts, but all of these
defense step up the Firebirds stop themfor three negative plays that stopped the clock.
But if this was in the rulebook that an injured player can go
down and there's no runoff, CoachHollis could have just had the guys fall
down every play. They could havedone that. So there have already been

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scenarios this season where this has playedout, which is discouraged. I think
number one of those two scenarios helaid out is far more concerned than anything
else. And one other thing,I'm not trying to get this guy in
trouble. We both like him.You mentioned coach where he's been a pretty
even keeled guy. He's getting testedthis season, that poor guy so much.
Check the blood pressure for coach ware. I know he sided off on

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social media. I don't know ifthe post is still up. It was
a public post. I believe mhm he I don't think he's gonna get
upset with me sharing this. Ibelieve he said something along the lines of
he's coach football for a long timeand he's never seen a call like that
ever in game. Average again,the nose tackle getting a defensive holding,
and and like and then I'm looking, guys, I'm trying. I'm like,
okay, hold on, who elseis out there that this guy thought

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was Melvin Hollins. Nope, youknow what I mean? Like, no,
no offense, no, Like,like, okay, so Marvin Ross
was wearing seven, but Marvin Rosswasn't. It wasn't even in physical contact
with a player, So forty sevenwasn't out there. I don't know.

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Again and and then like all right, this, how do I do this
one? Oh? Listen, Ihave a message I want to read out
loud to you. Did you happento notice the expression on the referee's face
when he was forced to call unsportsand like conduct on Billings because they wouldn't
get off the field for the lastplay of the game. He looked disgusted
that he had to make the call. He looked disgusted. And again it's

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just you know, maybe it's justa hey man, I just want to
go home. But you know what, dude, you're the ref like you
gotta do this, and we Iwill give a pass to the refs on
this level. It has been sucha weird year, like the rules have
changed during this season. That's notsupposed to happen. But these are standard
rules, right, So so that'swhy I'm asking them, and I'm asking

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them publicly because Billings is too goodof a team. Albany is too good
of a team to have glaring situationswhere we can look at it and go
that doesn't you changed the game.You changed the game, not not Harker
the quarterback, but a great dayfor Billings, not Medlocke, who has
had another great game for us,Like you changed the game. You did.

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So that's like where that's where Iam. We'll see how it goes.
But and again, young league,the refs are are are being they're
brought in from certified you know organizations, stuff like that, but maybe some
of them aren't able to keep upwith the rule book. Well, and
I don't want to defend the repsbecause I think there were some calls there.
But but I mean, I thinkwe should. I think it's fair

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that way. The rules have changed, like that's the hardest part about it,
or like we could say they haven'tdone a good enough job about following
the rules. It's very difficult tosay, here are the rules. We've
learned. We've decided to change therules mid season. Now, that's that's
not a shot to the league,right, things had to change. Everything's
changed, but those two and inparticular the ten second run off, It

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was so impactful in that game.Now, look, somebody from Billions.
I know we're on the podcast side. We appreciate everyone listening on that side
too. Someone a day from nowor two days from now might tweet at
us and say, hey, thatwas a mistake on the broadcast side,
or that was a mistake out Okay, if it's a mistake, that's a
massive mistake. And yeah, andagain game and it sucks. Though again
it sucks because I do not wantto say anything away from Billings, but

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that those those two in particular,and you know, look there was other
calls, and there's been other callsa lot of games, and we benefit
from and some have artists and whatever. But those those two changed the entire
complexion of the game for me.Kit help me with the math here and
we could save this later in theweek, unless you have something else you

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wanted to say. Okay, becauseBillions in Salina play this week, I
believe I have Billions in Salina playingthis week. So if Billions in Salina
play this week, there is ascenario that if Billions loses, they would
be at seven to two, andif Albany loses to Orlando, Selina would

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jump on. But so there isa scenario this week that if Orlando beats
Albany, I consider the Pretors tobe the favorite in that game, and
Solina beats Billions, and Solina beatsBillions, that means we would have three
losses. That's right, and Billionsin Solina we get the home playoff games.
And I don't want to reset arant I did last week, but
for those who might have missed it, I will reset it here again,

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and I'm sure it may not bethe last time I do it this week.
I know I'm paid by the alreadyFirebirds. I know on the broadcast
of the team, I know I'msitting across from the team President. But
whether you root for Alby or youdon't, this team potentially can lose out
in a home playoff game because theytook a tougher opponent. Teams didn't want
to play them, and the endall of be all could be they had

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to play arguably the second best seamand maybe by the time the week worlds
around the best team in the leaguemultiple times, and it may cost them
a home playoff game. I lookat that Orlando game and I'm like,
who's this benefiting? And oh,I'm not trouble for it, Like,
seriously, who is it? SoOrlando gets a playoff spot, but they
want a playoff game, and I'msure how the records work out that they've

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already clinched that four or five game, But if so Lina loses and they
win, then it gets a littlebit more complicated. But they're still gonna
be on the road no matter what. They probably don't want to be in
the play in game. They wantto get out, but their win percentage
would be benefiting this. Albody's like, why are we doing this game?
Can I get so? Can Iget Witchita? Can I get Washington?

(27:02):
Anybody else can benefit us in thisspot? Going for Look, there's a
lot of moving parts, there's alot of things that have happened this season,
everything else. But we've hit thispoint of the season where it's like
already has a chance to be thenumber one seed, to have a home
playoff game, and because other teamsdodged them because their schedule got stacked,
there's a scenario that plays out thatit could come back and button which is
super frustrated. Well how about ohthis too, because again it comes down

(27:25):
a winning percentage. There is notanother team and we said Southwest Kansas Storm
is the only other team who's playednine games so far. Okay, so
Billings has played eight. They're sevenand one, and listen, whatever happened
in that game, they sure ashell gain my respect. Like I thought
they were good, now I thinkthere now I see a lot of reasons

(27:47):
why they're as good as they are. We've played nine, we're seven and
two. Celia's played eight six andtwo. Orlando's played seven five and two.
You know, they said Southwest KansasStorm is still alive four and five,
nine games, National Cats seven games, three and four. So we
play Orlando this weekend, we win. We're eight and two, we're set.

(28:10):
We lose, We're seven and three, no one else will be We'll
have a record like ours because weplayed more games. We have played the
toughest schedule, hands down. Andyou know, listen if you want to
call me a cry baby, becauseI'm looking at a couple of calls,
Okay, but it's my job,like, this is what I do,
and it's actually this job, noteven the team president job. It's this

(28:30):
one. It's Levac and gods,this is what I do. So it
just and it stinks, and it'sjust I want, I just I just
want everything to be fair. That'sall I want. I hate that West
Texas backed out. Love love ZachBug. I will uh that dude,
that Anthony Carr dude. A lotof his report very good off of Zach

(28:52):
Bug when he talked fantastic. ButI will point out one thing I didn't.
This is the smallest little critique.This is not start a fight.
I didn't feel like it was obviousenough that the people that wrong Zach are
no longer in this league. Idid feel like that needed to be more
clear, and I don't know ifI don't know if that was made clear
enough by Zach I don't know whatever, but I want to be very clear

(29:12):
when you when you see all thatstuff, when you read Zach's comments,
you're gonna feel for Zach because he'sbeen through it. But I will point
out that the people who wrong Zachhave been flushed. Dump's coming up in
a little bit. Sorry, justcould help me. That was, you
know, well well reported, Ithought, except for I would have liked

(29:33):
a little more clarity in the Hey, there's a reason ly Hutton's gone.
There's a reason for all games hasgone. I'm like, dude gone.
Like they may be living with Stremskyand Bird. I don't know like where
they are. Just to clarify becauseI know he's getting brought up a bunch
of the last few weeks. We'venever questioned his work. We just said

(29:55):
it was one tone. It wasnegative, that's all. Like we knew
it was good. We never oncesaid it was bad. I never I
didn't know who he was. Okay, I never said it was bad.
I just said it was one toBut yes, like this is a weird
week, That's the way I'm gonnaphrase it. And I know it's Monday
right now. A lot can changeto now and Friday and kickoff this weekend
and down in Florida. A tonof things are gonna happen, probably as

(30:15):
we get closer and closer to thepostseason. But it is not the mood
I thought you and I were gonnabe on Monday. I thought we're gonna
talking about playoff scenarios. Is who'scoming to all butany and what games kickoff
and what the chance? This haschanged a lot of things. I'm a
little bummed for Capital Region sports thingsbecause there's not a lot of clarity right
now. But welcome to what shouldbe considered as exciting. It shouldn't be

(30:36):
considered depressing or said it should beno exciting enough. We're going to the
final week of the regular season andthere's a lot of scenarios that can play
out and all, but he's stillin the mix for a championship. And
look, man, I'll tell you. I'll tell you it's just with all
the changes we have gotten the poopyout of the stick a few times,
we're gonna do everything we kind ofto not get the poopy out of the
stick moving forward, and somebody's gonnaget it, you know what I mean.

(30:56):
It's just somebody who's gonna get it. We just happen to be a
team strong enough to handle it forthe most part. But now it's like,
okay, listen, I got enoughpoopy stick over here. No more
poopy stick for us, all right, new shirt, no more poopy stick
for us. We'll back guys,No, we just we're excited. We'll
we'll And then Jesus, there wasa mix up with the boss last night.

(31:19):
What do you mean? So theguys left Billings, Montana. Would
have been five o'clock am our time. That's their hotel. So that's the
hotel. They get to the airport, they're flying out because like it was
three am in Montana. At theairport, they fly out like two hours
later, so it would have beenfive seven am. They're on a plane.

(31:44):
They had the only way to getthat group here. They had to
go through a bunch of places theydidn't getting delayed, so by the time
they get to the JFK, somethinggot screwed up. So then we had
to find a bus to get Ohmy god, these four guys went through
yesterday. Our team. They foughttheir butts off on the field. They
fought to the whistle and then didthe marathon of all marathons to get back

(32:06):
here. So I guys, andI was dude, I I was almost
in tears on the phone when coachWare called me, but we don't we
don't have a bus right now,because I was just like, dude,
I know we had it sorted,and just it was stupid. It's clerical,
it was nothing. There's there's nobad guy. But it was just
like, these guys go through somuch to kick ass for us and to

(32:29):
have it go down the way itwent down. Like me, I'm upset
because I love this team. Theseguys are upset because they bleed for this
team and then they had to gothrough all that and then you know,
credit he wouldn't want me to saidmy court called where it was like here,
here's my stuff. Go buy youguys dinner. Get them set up,
like make sure they have make surethey make sure it's a good hour

(32:50):
that they're waiting for everything to getback together. But it was just it's
just one of those. It wasjust one of those man heartbreak across the
board. But again, season's notover. Big game coming up, get
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(34:15):
this far that we haven't had achance to talk about yet. Coming up
next. Especially I don't know what'sgoing on in the room next to me.
I don't really know this. Not'ssmooth, Yeah, smooth. That's
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Capitol Regions Sports Fan Fox Sports ninetyfive, nine and nine eighty. It's

(34:37):
a dumpy dump sometime. Everything thatdoesn't make the show falls down. Here.
Guys, you have like big boldletters that you have not one,
but two two potential dumpers today,I think I got three, levac Oh,
let me make it get don't getdon't get greedy with the dumps.
Let me make it about my onetoday. That's what God's intended. You

(34:58):
know what? One just got cutoff a day just too just to today.
Uh something happened today. It happenedlast night for the first time since
November of twenty twenty. To Gosh, I love her so much. I
want to beat her. I meant, never I know what, you ma,
I'm at home. He was fiveminutes, Matt, does it?

(35:20):
Never mind? Our anniversary was yesterday. I love my wife. Happy six
years. No, what happened forthe first time is November twenty twelve of
the anniversaries that happens. Is thatwhat you're telling us? All right?
There was two years Fine's like Christmas. There was a moment God is like
Santa the year. I thought aboutsaying it as a joke to her,
but I don't think she'd get thereference, which would have been funnier,
and I would have just been funnyfor me, like just to say,

(35:44):
like the joke to her about thegirl, you know what? Never mind?
All right, So November twenty twenty, it's the last time my face
has been clean shaved. My face. I do not have a beard,
not even like a little five o'clockshadow, not a little scruff. I
am cleaned shaved. This is thethird time in the last six years I've
had no facial hair on my face. My wedding day, which was six

(36:07):
years ago Sunday when you and Idid a no shave November charity event for
Duke's barber shop. We'll give themthe shot out. There's a fantastic charity
eving. We are part of thefamily. That's right. And today now
I texted you for the reason whywe just got done talking about the Albany
Firebirds, and I know you're firedup about it, but I thought about
growing a playoff beard, like that'swhat I wanted to say today. You

(36:27):
know what, there's a lot goingon with the Firebirds. The playoffs are
around the corner. It's pretty coolwhen Dan Duva's the one I think about
for the Vegas Golden Knights when theywon the Stanley Cup last year, when
the broadcasters would do the playoff beard, I thought that was pretty cool with
the players and the ordnership and theexecutives. No, that's not the reason
why I shaved. So I don'tknow how everybody else shaves, but I

(36:50):
so I shaved half the face andthen do the other half after. So
I have a wonderful razor I'm usingand the battery died, Like no big
deal. We'll find the charger.Lost the charger, So there I am
with half the face shaved with nocharger. Like, gods, you gotta
have a backup razor. I would, but my beard was kind of thick,

(37:10):
so I kind of like took itdown. So I couldn't at this
point find another razor that would havehad to sing dimensions to cut my So
I'm either going in with a halfshaved like this is one level, this
is another level. Or I hadno other option. I tried every other
option. I had to do it. So that's the reason why I lost

(37:30):
my charger, and like razor,I had to shave my face. I
uh yeah, I fixed my beardtoday too. I went and sat in
a chair my guy Sean over atBernie's barber shop. Clean me up.
That's that's what you do. That'swhat this is what adults do. Guys.
You go and get your hair takencare of so you don't come in
here looking like dimple chin McGee,like you know, come on, now,

(37:52):
what are you doing. I don'teven know who you are anymore.
You can't pay for half a facethough, you don't do that. I
shave when I shave, Now Ishave the cheek line and the neck the
rest of it. At Sean's problem, Sean, Sean fix it. And
then I feel like I look prettygood today. You look like you're hiding
from the law. You look likeyou. Yeah, you you look like

(38:16):
you're just like you know what,I don't. I don't want to look
like me anymore. I want tolook like a large version of young me.
I went back to the old schoolrazor. We'll use that twice in
the last god knows how many years. So sales teams listening, Hey,
it's goy's here for razors. Youoccasionally shave your face once every six years.

(38:37):
Well, I'm the person for you. Do you like it? Do
you feel weird? What do you? At one point, I'm like,
hey, I look younger, becauseyou know, everyone a little younger,
a little bigger. My wedding wassix years ago, and I was like
clean shaved. I'm like, man, I had so much more hair than
you were like starving yourself back thentoo. You don't really want to compare
those two pictures. Some my buddieswere sitting pictures the wedding. They're like,

(39:00):
wow, everybody looks the same.Guys, he looks so much younger
with the clean shaved face, AndI'm like, you know what I would
look younger with a clean Don't tryto talk yourself into it. Just admit
you lost your charger for your racer. Just don't try to just own it.
You don't know where you're charging.What are you gonna do for the
next one did say she was disappointedin me that I didn't understand how I
lost the razor, Like, howdo you lose the chart? Probably probably

(39:22):
a hotel in Vegas. Oh mygosh. Most of those razors have like
they're like standard chargers you just need. That's what I thought. But I
could have plug into my cell phone. All right, here's my other dumb
Maybe the fack I'm doing back toback here, I'm not getting off way
yet. I haven't flushed yet.Are people if you're a sports fan,
do people still get magazines? Like? Is the whole magazine thing done?

(39:44):
I guess we talked about sports willTrade earlier in the year. I'm not
talking so much about sports illustrade,but maybe maybe people for a while at
Sports Willstories. But today my copyof the Phil Steel College Football Preview has
arrived. Every July the first weekI buy a fantasy football magazine. So
in the past, pre kids onthe beach, I have a few cold

(40:04):
drinks, read, not have thecell phone in my face. I would
actually read the magazines trying to figureout the fantasy football landscape. And for
the Phil Steel magazine, I tryingto figure out who's gonna get in college
football? Am I buy myself?Am I truly on an island? Please
at Tom Goes t ymgo is easy? Am I the only one who's a
sportsman who continues to buy magazines toread up on for previews for seasons?

(40:27):
Am I the only one left?Leveck? Have you ever bought a fantasy
football magazine and within the last fiveyears? Oh five years? Probably not?
Or like any other like you know, Team Preview, Raiders Media Guide?
Am I am I getting on aplane And have I been cheap and
not paid for Wi Fi? Yeah? Then yes I bought it. Yeah,
because that's what like that one yougot too? Like that? I

(40:49):
kind of like those ones. LikeI like the fantasy football previews. I
like the college football previews because itgives me I can go back and reference
it. I go, I takesome notes in it. I don't ever
go back. I can read thenotes, but once I write it down,
I kind of remember it a littlebetter. So no, I don't.
I don't hate it for that.It's I think it's okay for that.
But you're getting to a point whereyou're not going to find it.
This is not gonna happen. Imean the newspaper. I picked up the

(41:13):
newspaper here like a week or twoago when I came in early to hang
out with Doug on WGY, andthe newspaper is like the size of like
one of the you know, oneof the flyers that uld be inside the
newspaper. Like if I had todeliver thirty or forty of these, I'd
be fine. When I was akid man, there were times I thought

(41:34):
my head was gonna pop off becauseI had two bags on, one over
each shoulder. I thought it wasgonna pop my head off. So like,
the newspaper's going away, magazines aregoing away. It's all going away,
buddy, it's all going away.I'm I'm by myself. Then I
think I like that mass. Iustill love getting the Fantasy football magazine.
I still do. I'm still gonnacontinue to do it. Yeah, Phil,
Still I'm a little newer too,because I just didn't always gonna put

(41:57):
I love it because it's every team. He is such a dork, but
it's great. You go so muchworks put into this thing. All right.
So those are my two dumps.I'm still in the magazines. I'm
gonna still buy him. I'm donewith the newspaper. I don't want to
be the guy at the beach.I love how I act like I'm going
to read any of it. Theonly chance I've been to get is in
the car driving his place. Whenyou have kids at the beach, there
is no relaxing. It's please donot jump into the ocean, Please do

(42:22):
not bother other people, stay withinsight. That'll be my vacation resting time.
But I'm gonon enjoyed. That's nextweek. Remember I was, I
was youngest of five. It waspretty much like, maybe he won't make
it back, you know. Thatwas that's what they did. He'll be
more room in the car. Yeah, Chris was still get a lot cheaper
as my mother. My mother usedto call me an oops baby, which

(42:43):
took me forever to figure out whomeant I was. I was a mistake.
I saw this article today when Iwas prepping for the show and it
gave me. Have you ever seenthe movie Wally Wow? The machine?
Yeah, robot and like all thehumans like fat lazy things that just are
just do nothing, just lay aroundall that get and get served. Yes,

(43:06):
this is where we're headed. Andthis story tells it makes it all
too clear. This It was asSouthwest knew something or other pulled a thousand
US adults about dating apps that theywanted, like have you used them last
year? All this other stuff.Seventy eight percent of adults are quote burned

(43:30):
out with dating apps. Okay,I just want to be clear. Dating
app was invented because you were burnedout with going to the bars. You
were burned out with going and peopletalking to you in public. You were
you were burned out with finding otherpeople who were single and had similar intentions.

(43:51):
So now they made like you.It's basically mail order idiot, like
you can I want someone who doesn'tsmoke, who likes wall but also each
chicken wings uh and isn't sportive versewhatever. Boom and then they go,
whoop, here are the people withintwenty five miles? And you know,
I feel a little saucy. Imight drive here's fifty miles. Like that

(44:13):
burns you out? That burns youout. We're never We're screwed. My
poor thumb, Oh my god,I sweat drive carpal tunnel. Women are
only slightly more burned out than men. Eighty percent of women feel burned out
on some level, compared to seventyfour percent of men. But that I
mean, like for women, Iget guys are gross. I can kind
of get that. Gen Z ismost likely to say they always feel some

(44:37):
level of dating app exhaustion because like, like, I'm I don't what am
I my gen Z? No,I'm gen X. I think I'm gen
X. Like I'm thrilled I canmail order people. That's great. Users
also admit to lying on the apps, with twenty one percent. Best thing
they lied about their age men twentythree percent, a little more likely than

(45:00):
women at nineteen to tweak those overs. Why would you like line out your
age is stupid. That's a stupidone. I don't get it is if
if you want to start a relationshipwith somebody, these are things I'm so
naive about that I really need guidanceon. Like, so if you find
someone you like, your thing isgonna lead off with oh yeah, out
of the gate side line, right, so you're a liar out of the
gates and like as if they're nevergonna fight. How de youep been going

(45:22):
in? Five years? Ten years? In a relationships the age is easy
to prove, Like you're easy.Your idea is gonna come out at some
point somewhere or whatever. Other commonFIBs U income, hobbies, hobbies and
interest, employment, dating history andeven current relationship status. Else people are
just creeping. The odd part aboutthose other examples though, and I guess

(45:45):
age is the same. But inall serious it's like those those can all
change. Your hobbies, can changeyour interests, can change your job,
can change your income, can changeright like you you could say, hey,
I was doing this and now wegot together a year later. I
actually not a good enough excuse.I just can't imagine people like when the
relation kip gets going and they're likeone of these seventy percents of people who

(46:06):
are feel Exhamnston, Like, ohgod, they're still here. How about
the twelve percent of a lie abouttheir height, Like what I thought that'd
be way higher. I thought that'dbe fifteen percent for men eleven for women
only fifteen. I would have givenyou seventy. Well, I mean,
how does again? That's another one, like, yeah, six' five
dude walks away, he's like fourelevens ah, what Like where'd you measure?

(46:30):
What'd you measure from? I wouldsay dating apps are worse than sports
rosters when it comes to the height. Here's how it would lay out the
height on a dating app, justguessing, just guessing from knowing sports rosters.
And this goes from high school allthe way to pros. There is
nobody, nobody on a dating appwho's five foot eleven. If you're five

(46:51):
ten, you're six foot on adating app. Five eleven doesn't exist.
If you're five to ten on adating app, you're five eight. If
you're five eight on a dating app, you're five five. Like that is
a run. Now, that's howa roster would do it in sports.
And if your fiance, a girlfriend, a sister, whoever run those stats
back, I guarantee you I'm spoton. No five eleven dudes on dating
apps. If you're five to ten, you're five eight. If you're five

(47:15):
ten, you're six foot. It'sall lies eighty percent. But I've got
the osteoporosis. Since I've put thistogether, that's what happened. I was
six six, now i'm six too. With shoes on what they oh oh
barefoot? Oh sorry, I didn'tunderstand. Uh. Tender is the most
popular forty percent of people used thatlast year. Plenty of Fish thirty eight

(47:35):
percent, Bumble twenty nine, eHarmony twenty one, Okay, Okay,
Cupid and Hinge both seventeen percent.I think like the okay Cupid is like
like, okay, Cubid, Igive up? What do you want?
Like, I don't, So yougot everything. So people are already again,
this is done because you were burnedout with the way dating happened,

(47:55):
and now people are burned out withthe dating apps. I will I'll tell
you in the god's honest truth,I am way cooler in person than on
the apps. So I don't I'veI've bet I've made a lot of friends
on the apps. But usually it'slike if I'm like, hey, let's
date and see where it goes,They're like, well, I already ordered
the China pattern for the for thewedding, or if I'm like, wow,
I'm having a really good time maybewe should have no more offen woh,

(48:17):
back off, buddy, It's allright, I'm good. I don't
want to do this. I'm gonnawait till I meet somebody in real life.
Plus, I don't really like dating. It's I don't. I am
burned out with it. I madeone human? How many you want me
to make? I'm not goz.I'm not gonna make fifteen humans. Guy's
on third, I'm making his thirdhuman. They've only they just got a
minivan. How many more humans youthink they're gonna make? Now, wicked

(48:37):
Wiki, we don't even need thedating app. No, we should have
just disrected. Yeah, gods,this dating app was lunch room. That
was what it was. Where didyou first meet the lovely Jordan? And
they might have been the lunch room. Guy's looked up from his Pizza Tuesday
and said, I'm gonna marry thatreally tall, awkward woman one day and

(49:00):
she went, no, you're notThomas, and then living together ever since
Pizza Tuesday. It's Taco Tuesday.You know that it was before. It
was a different time. It's adifferent times, just like the app.
I changed different hobbies, different interests. Then, right, it was a
different time. I mean, whatdo you want to do? All right?
So there it is. That's theye. I just like I saw
that digging something. I like theseones. I like I like to I

(49:21):
like surveys, surveys has but peopleare were screwed. Seventy eight percent of
people done with dating apps. Thatmeans it's time for me to make my
move. Hey ladies, Hello ladies, uh G T Toy Studio Toys,
the Z. It's time for usto get on out of here. Yes,
Tuesday edition of the show coming uptomorrow. I have no idea who's
up next. This A lot oftoday's been all over the last case.

(49:44):
You know what rich we're on,Like the morning Jeff Schwartz was on LaVar
Arrington. Somebody's gonna talk into themicrophone after us. I have no clue
who it's gonna be. We're goingto be a surprise at you. I'm
pretty certain it's not giving no onerich though. Yeah, so maybe maybe
we'll like it. All right,watch your hands, don't touch your face.
It is Fox Sports Radio ninety fivenine and nine. Eight. Guys,

(50:06):
hit that one.