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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Talk seven ninety He's wex. I may see we
are taking you into I hope it's not a rainy weekend,
but it's rainy right now if you're out there, Houston,
so stay safe. But in the meantime, got a lot
to talk about here on a Friday edition of the program,
namely your astros getting back to work, we hope tonight
the Cincinnati Reds hosting them for a three game weekend

(00:22):
set before they'll come back to Houston and get reacquainted
with one of their division rivals in the Seattle Mariners.
But first things first, got the opener tonight, actually not
even tonight, technically today will pre empt the end of
our show, so we'll have astros on deck for you
before you know it. And I listen last night. I

(00:44):
knew there was going to be a get together again,
because you know that's how the playoffs go. Game two
between the Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder, and I
figured there would be some sort of commentary about the officiating,
at least in some way, shape or form. But as usual,
I underestimated how much it would become the story of

(01:06):
the game, even though it shouldn't have been. The Lakers
got worked for the second straight game, and I don't
even think it had much to do with the officiating.
But yet it's always the story, and that's again going
to be the NBA's problem, I suppose, until somebody does
something about it. Yet I don't think they ever will.
So I don't know what's more frustrating right now, trying

(01:27):
to watch the NBA product or trying to see the
Astros attempt to pitch their way to a victory. I
can't decide. It's rough right now in these sports streets,
I don't think so. Hmm. That's because you aren't emotional
about anything. Ever, that's the difference between us.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, the reason why it's difficult to watch the Astros
product is because it's not really good at what they're
trying to do. You're trying to get people out, and
you're trying to score runs, and you're trying to win games.
They're not good at it right now. Yeah, so that
makes it difficult to watch. But what makes the NBA
product difficult.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
To I don't have any issue whatsoever watching the NBA.
A lot of people do. Yeah, the dumbs, they're not
dumb because they disagree with you. They don't like watching
official is so freaking bored. They just have to tell
you that every single day. No, it's not the it's
not the media. It's the players that play in the league.
If they're saying that, and there's a lot of them,

(02:20):
you can't just ignore it because you disagree with it.
Not ignoring it, Yeah you are. You don't want to
talk about that, ever, let's talk about it. No, you
don't want to talk about it. I'm here. The least
thing you want to talk about less is Diana Russini. No,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean, I'm amazed how many If they want to
make it better, that's one thing I wish they did.
That's all I'm getting at. Well, the same person who
said we'll get to it next segment. Okay, do you
want to talk about the Astros here?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, we can talk about the NBA. But I don't know.
Rush you with your rundown. It's fine. Rundowns are made
to be not scripted. But yeah, Astro was with the
day off. Astros reds tonight, two afternoon games this weekend
for what it's worth, and then they'll be back for

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the Mariners, who they don't have it together in the
sense that they're this bold, dominant team is actually reading
an article this morning about how crappy the American League is,
Like I don't I'm paraphrasing.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
They double the amount of over five hundred teams since
we talked about it yesterday because hadn't played yet.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like that was essentially the headline of the article without
saying as much. I'm paraphrasing, but it was basically like
the Al's terrible right now because they're.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's why right now? Well, why would you leave it
only at right now? What's gonna happen? What's gonna change?
Who's where are all these players? Like Detroit's missing some pitching.
What's gonna make all these other not very good teams
so good?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Like if the Astros were healthy, I don't think they
would be as bad, but they they would probably still
be just above five hundred.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Biggest supporter of the Astros maybe works for the Astros,
this hypothetical person, the Astro is gonna win eighty eight
games this year, ninety ninety one.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Maybe I would kill for that. Well, that would be awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
But so if everybody was back and playing great, they'd
be eighteen games over five hundred, by the end of
the year, so they'd be four and a half games
over five hundred today, forty games in like these teams
that are if you're hovering around five hundred, that's where
you're probably gonna be. Somebody's gonna put a big run together.
And that's why people are pointing at Seattle unfortunately, because

(04:29):
they have the pitching that suggests they could do it
and the offense that they think isn't quite as bad
as their performance has been.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
But it's the same guys. You're now just telling them
all of a sudden, forty the next one hundred and
twenty games, they're gonna figure it out. That is a possibility,
and it is obviously it's all good news, Like this
negativity about the AL is actually good news for Houston.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Only if they don't fool themselves. This happened in the
in the Dray and McClain years, the late stages. Oh well,
maybe we're not that bad, maybe we can You're bad,
you're out of talent, you've not done a good job
of replenishing that talent, and the fact that you're staying
in the race is less about you and more about them.
So I don't know how this group will view it

(05:09):
because clearly it's an entirely driven group of owner, management,
general manager, players, everything. It's been a lot of years
since that that was there. You're going to put this
team together, Hopefully at some point, we'll say July, Hunter
Brown will be pitching, Christian Xavier will be pitching, Josh

(05:30):
Hater will be closing, Jeremy Pania will be playing shortstop.
All those things are in place, let's say, and hopefully
everybody else that is in place currently is still in place.
Obviously other than Carlos Couric is not coming back, so
and Brian A. Brave has figured it out. Of all
those things happen, what do you think this team is

(05:50):
going to do? Where do you think they go from that?
They would have to put an extremely unforeseen run together
to win the division, probably to make the playoffs. Maybe
they could still make the playoffs in a wild card situation.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
But again, as much as we're we keep pointing the
division is the only way they can get there, well,
the wildcard race is no different than the division race.
The team's leading this division versus the teams in the walk,
they all have the same record, A game or two
above five hundred, A couple games bellow five hundred, there's
really no difference. So it's it's comical at best what
this standing situation says. But that's good if you want

(06:26):
to be entertained. I don't know if it's good for
the long term. I really don't think it's relevant to
the long term.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Relevant.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
What's relevant to the long term is if the Astros
decide we have two franchise cornerstones to build around with
Jordon Alvarez, Jordon is under contract, and as much as
it's going to be brought up the next two months
till the trade deadline, I do not think there's any
scenario that's team driven that sends your on Alvarez traded

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anywhere else. If he for some reason goes to them
and says, you, I don't want to be here anymore
and I'm just not gonna I'm not gonna work here anymore,
forces their hand, which never happens. Right, But if they
decide that which I think they already have long ago
had nothing to do with this season, and then decide,
not only do we want Jeremy Panion Hunter round to

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be a part of the future, and they want to
be a part of the future. We're gonna pay them
to be a part of the future, something they simply
have not done with many players. They certainly haven't done
it with any players once they've reached free agency, and
they've done it with a couple of players on this
young side of their ARB years career, and they'll pay
them by out some of those years. If they decide that,
then they really do intend to keep things open, the

(07:37):
window open to compete for greatness, to compete for a
division type, to compete for a World Series, and then
they have to hope that Okay, while they're the cornerstones,
then maybe Kevin Alvarez has someone we can count on
in twenty twenty seven or twenty twenty eight, and maybe
Xavier Nine's is someone we can count on.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
In those Kevin Alvarez not like a made up name,
I mean, because it's your Don's cousin.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
I Look, they had a few games this spring training
where the lineup red why Alvarez adding second, k Alvarez
badding wherever it was, And I thought it was something
I would love to see at the major league level
at some point sometime. If they really believe that and
there's still much more to be done. This June draft
is just as important as the last one because they

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might have actually found some players that belong at the
top of a prospect prospect list, not just the astros
list that's barren. And if they can do that, then
then maybe there is an opportunity going out and getting
outside free agents at the deadline. They've they've done that
a lot, and the years that have come more recent
they've not really They've they've gotten players, but they were

(08:41):
adding Hey, sus Sanchez, not Garrett Cole or not Justin
Verlander or Zach Grienky. It's been a lot different their
plans and even filling in the gaps, even the Montero
Engraveman deal. You know, we've got we're a great, great team.
We've got a hole in our bullpen we'd like to
shore up.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
So they go and do that.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Y You know, when you add Leiano that these were
really good teams. Either there's a piece here or a
piece there, or even though we're awesome, we're gonna get
the biggest piece out there. That's not the that's not
the rent district they're living in right now.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know what's interesting about the draft this year, as
it is the only major sports draft in America that
happens in season is in Major League baseball. Obviously it
happens in season for the players that are being drafted
the college baseball season. Right, it's double It's crazy. But

(09:32):
here's the thing on this. I went from, well, if
you do fire Dana Brown, do you trust who's going
to be basically facilitating that draft? Like, in other words,
if Dana Brown loses his gig before June when the
draft happens, do you trust who's in charge to draft
the players since that person will have been left behind

(09:53):
Dana's gone. I've gone from that to do I want
Dana Brown running this draft? Because I have question marks
about assessment, which is his. That was his mo coming
in here. That's why Jim Crane hired him.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're worried about his assessment of minor league talent or
major league talent.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yes, now I'm sick.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
There's a different minor league league what he signed in
the offseason.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Right, Minor league talent is what's in their system. But
your ability to determine whether or not that minor league
talent will become major league talent. I guess once you
do draft them and him.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I think you're okay acknowledging baseball's the toughest.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh, it's super super. It's way more risky than the NFL.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Like if I'm trying to tell you, we need to
segment the NFL draft from the top twenty picks and
then leave twenty one through thirty two for a whole
other category, because we just lump them all into. Oh,
you had a first round pick, how come he didn't
work out? Because twenty six other good players went first,
then we got number twenty seven. Like in major league baseball,
this second pick in the draft might not play major
league baseball.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
And actually oftentimes doesn't.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
The tenth pick in the draft might be out of
baseball couple of years.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's just it's wild, ude.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's because you're taking he hit six seventy five at
Archbishop Saint Stevens Edwards High School private school league in
whatever state you're talking about. Who was he hitting the
ball against where he got hit six out of every
nine at bats? How did he hit fourteen home runs
in their eight games?

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Like? What's the competition level?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
And you know, where's the hole in his swing that
somehow Clint Eastwood didn't find it's crazy. So there's a
little bit difference here and there. But to that point
we want to get into that a little bit is
we'll probably have to stay into it throughout this entire
rest of the time that the season goes on. Is
there really a good reason to say you want to
make a change for all the reasons you just put
out there? For sure, there were those game twos in

(11:46):
the NBA last night, those particular series did not get
any closer. I actually got further apart, both home teams
winning convincingly in one case. The game where we'll get
into probably more less convincingly in the other case, and
that's the one that includes James Harden, both of which
will be topics here on the program this afternoon. We

(12:07):
will get you into the Astros on deck show that'll
come your way just after four o'clock. They've got a
just after five o'clock first pitch for their game with
the Cincinnati Reds. Team they don't see, haven't seen there
and beaten there very often. I'll have a season debut
facing the Astros on the mound, and I know you'll
find it hard to believe there's gonna be something new

(12:29):
from Mike Rossini and Diana Vrabel later on during this program,
well played cannot wait on the A team, all right.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
There are two schools of thoughts here fuck here on
the show. One is that the NBA has a product problem,
and a lot of people are looking at it that way,
at least as it pertains to one team, in particular,
the best team in the association. In the other train
or school of thought is that if you think that

(13:00):
you're dumb, we established that in the first segment. Now
I have the former WEX has the ladder. Now we
will discuss because the Lakers are down oh two and again.
I want to preface anything that is said about or
talked about and played from an audio standpoint in this
segment by saying, nobody, and I mean nobody feel sorry

(13:23):
for the LA Lakers in any way, shape or form.
They have long had a free throw advantage. Statistically, year
after year after year, they're right at the top of
the association. They're the first or second every single season.
Doesn't matter who's on their roster or where they go,
or how good they are, They're constantly shooting more free
throws than everybody else. That is indisputable. It's not something
that can be argued or kind of talked away because

(13:45):
you think that, you know, people are just trying to
make it look like something or another. That is a fact.
Last four or five seasons in particular, they're right there
at the top of the league when it comes to
free throw attempts. Who's been on the team the last
four or five years. Yeah, that's the funny part about
l America. The Goat, La Fraud, Aron Flop, the Akron Hammer.

(14:08):
Are you making up nicknames again, Benjamin Buckets? Oh my gosh,
this is a valuable waste of l train. Keep going.
I'll tell you when you're getting warmer, the ice cold,
the Little Emperor. I don't make any of these up.
Somebody needs to documented you're reading somebody who has made
them up. King James, Okay, King James Lebron, even though

(14:29):
that's blasphemous if you're a Bible type, Uh it is. Yeah,
the version of the Good Book, not some stupid idiot's nickname.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
He bounces the ball and throws it through the hoop
and we go Papa, It's okay.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Does he wear a crown like having? That is his nickname?
His subjects. I'm not offended by that. See what what
you would call the subjects I would.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Call seals, Damon Jones, Daniel Gibson's Ilgauskas, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bos,
Anthony Davis Shall I continue not Alpera and Shingoon not
been teammates yet.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
There's still time. There's still time. He might get traded
at Cleveland, which one of them, Shingoon? Lebron's not getting traded.
He's gonna sign there. Donnie Mitchell, Don Mitchell, we have
Don Mitchell. He's done on the phone, all right, in
all seriousness. Last night the che hoolm grin flop. Let's

(15:27):
just isolate that one. That's it's crazy. Tell people what happened. Well,
he is defending. I can't remember who was Lebrondre oh
DeAndre at And that's right funny that that should be
the player that was involved, since there was a similar
situation involving the Rockets series and Deandre's making his move
in the post and there's a move, there's not contact,

(15:50):
and then there's a beat and then oh I got
shot out of a cannon. He falls backwards and grabs
his face and they call f out.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
So Staan van Gundy was on the call, and you
know Eddie Johnson from his days here and he works
Phoenix broadcaster yep so Stan went on and on and on,
replay after replay, replay after replay, replay after replay, and
kept saying, there's no contact above the shoulder by the head,
and look at where Chad is holding. This is absolutely ridiculous.

(16:18):
Is a total flop. You know they're looking at it.
They reversed the call and his partner Iron Eagle pointed out,
are you still actually a little upset that they said
the foul occurred before the contact above the head and
neck area, because that's what the official said, who said,
though this is a foul on home grin because he
can he make he committed the foul first and that's

(16:40):
the foul and stays he didn't really even respond to it.
And Eddie Johnson took a video and screencap of that
and quote posted and said similarly, you know this is outrageous.
There's no contact there and this guy is just acting
and flopping and I don't have his exact words, and
a few people, because it's on social media, have the
opportunity to comment. Nobody could comment to stand. He's on

(17:03):
television and they said he hits him in the shoulder
with his shoulder right in the face.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Are you are you kidding? Are you joking? Are you blind? Now?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Chet absolutely flopped and the officials upon review absolutely got
it then correct. But there was definitely contact to his face,
probably not even foul worthy, but different and just like
you said, different, I don't know how questioning different things
like he clearly made contact with Chet's chin, his face

(17:37):
with his shoulder of consequence. I'm not debating. We can
debate how much content, but it did happen. And multiple
different people I just pointed out two of them are
continuing to say there's no contact.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
There's no contact where Chet was holding his face. Well
that's kind of the point. Why is he holding his face?
He got hit in the face, Well, he got hit
in the chin, not the face. That's where he was
holding it before. We've written to semantics about this. But
here's the thing. There's two things here. Actually, one is
the amount of contact that constitutes a foul to begin
with in today's NBA versus when real men played, Let's

(18:12):
just put that out there. It's very inconsistent, very inconsistent
and I was told by the league office once upon
a time they were gonna start punishing floppers. Do you
remember that, because the last time I checked, it's still
in the rule book. You're supposed to get fined like
five grand per flop, and I have yet to see
it in the last like I don't know, three seasons minimum. Well,

(18:35):
first of all, it's not a punishment. It doesn't what
is a punishment supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Deter the exactly is zev no picked. It does not
occur during the game, so it does not impact players.
This is what I talked about with a stupid uh
hip drop tackle. If you're not gonna call it in
the game, and then you're gonna go review it and say, hey,
you got fined eleven and forty three dollars for this
hip drop tackle. Oh you mean the one that my
team benefited from that nobody got penalized for during the game.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Also about the other player to the sidelines for the
rest of the Joe, find me all you want. I'm
not gonna stop. I know what's interesting. Didn't Joe get
fined for comments about it? Huh, but then rescinded because
they were wrong about what's come This is what's hilarious
to me in both that situation in the NFL and others.
There are others examples in the NFL and in the NBA,
and frankly in Major League Baseball. This happens. We will

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never consistently enforce this rule that's supposed to clean this up,
deter whatever you want to call it. We will consistently
take money out of people's pockets who talk about it.
That's insane to me. Yeah, you should.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I think a player should be fined for flopping, but
they should be penalized during the game for flopping. You
you literally stopped the game to review the play. Okay, Well,
then can you not also determine you believe the contact
wasn't enough to draw that kind of reaction. Okay, yes,
So give the Lakers a free throw on top of
the regular foul call. Whether they were in the penalty

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or not determines the free throws. But give them an
opportunity to score a point, an actual to turn. Maybe
more than that if you really want to stop flopping.
But that was just one play in particular. The game itself,
I think was one that had the Lakers looking for
that word consistency you know, Lebron gets fouled in this
way offensively and nothing was called. And player on the

(20:17):
other side gets fouled offensively and he's wearing a thunder jersey,
big O kc all over it and after the free
throw line he goes JJ Reddick not happy about it.
It was very clear that they weren't happy about it.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
During the game.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know, Reddick basically said give me a technical. When
he was screaming in Ben Taylor's face, saying call the foul.
He grabbed his own player, Jackson Hayes, to display the
foul that occurred that Ben Taylor did not call, and
screamed at him three times in his face, call the foul,
and Taylor didn't want to give him a technical and
walked away, and then JJ said it again, so he
teed him up. They had a long conversation after the game,

(20:53):
which I think most people have seen now. Austin Reeves
speaking to John Goebel after the game after Goebel yelled
at him during the game. All this stuff is super rich,
So I don't mind talking about it at all because
it is delicious and rich because of who it's coming
from and what they're saying. So we'll give it its

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full body. It's full a lot of focus.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Here.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
We're a basketball show. Sometimes we're a baseball show. Sometimes
we're a Mike Vrabel show. Sometimes we're are the home
for you know, Yankees Radio with a home for Dallas
Sports right here in Houston. So we got Best of
X coming up, and I'm afraid of having that only
be where we visit the family feud with the story

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that won't go away from our airwaves. I feel like
it probably deserves a bigger, better segment than just Best
of X. But all this stuff runs together. We got
to get to what was said after the game, JJ
Reeves and others including SGA. We will do that as
we continue, but we will dip inside the Best of
X and we will play the feud for those that

(22:00):
know what that is.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Here we go again the eight on Sports Talk Stevin ninety. Now,
I'd say both of us are family feud fans, But
if I were to slot which one of us was
way more of a family feud fan, especially the Steve

(22:24):
Harvey variety, it's definitely not the one talking right now.
It's the other guy in the chair across from me.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, Family feud through all their previous hosts, Dick Dawson,
Ray Combs, may he Rest, Lou Anderson, et cetera. There
wasn't an unbelievable difference in the program.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It was pretty standard, typical run of the mill game
show stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes, know what happened.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yes, Richard kissed all the guests and that was seemingly
a little bit much not for the seventies, and then
the new host's later host didn't, and that seemed more.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, I can buy into that.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
But the game itself and the questions that were asked,
they stayed with the time, so to speak, and that
was that. Nothing much more to it. It's very very
different now and it is definitely Steve's show. Not good,
not better, not worse, It's different and they are very
very clearly eliciting answers from their families right out of

(23:24):
the bedroom, NonStop, all day, I mean all of it.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
One hundred people surveyed.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Top six answers on the board, name something your partner
would do with the lights out and you in the room,
in your bedroom on the bedad.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
They make it anymore naked. People surveyed it's it's it's wild, yeah,
and it's you know it's viewed.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
It works, so I I do. But it's a fun
game to to, you know, make fun of and have
your own variety of.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
What it's great for. It's great audio for us. Somebody,
Do we need an explanation from you because you probably
know a little bit more about this. I know this
is an old clip because they all are, and she's
just the gift that keeps on going.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Oh, we're talking about Mike Rabel and Diana were seeing
If you didn't arady know, yeah, obviously, And we're going
to play the feud, the barstool feud?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
How long ago was it? And that was my other
question is but I knew I thought it was Barstool,
but I wanted to confirm that that was the source
of this content. Why were they playing this? Was this
during COVID? It looks like something people would have been
doing during COVID, even though it probably it probably wasn't. Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
I mean, I'd have to do even more research, which
I'm happy to do.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
But I could not tell you when it emanated from.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
But it is a Barstool product or Busted with the
Boys Bros.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Or part of it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
At nine panelists offering their answers all on zoom uh
your friend Dennis Kelly among them different one will the
busted with the boys themselves. A PFT commentar was a
part of this group and a handful of others and
one female participant among the nine. Her zoom name reads

(25:08):
Rassini and the person in the zoom box is Diana Rossini.
And so they asked a bunch of questions. Now, the
answers that were given that are already on the board.
Top nine answers on the board are sleep and swim,
think hard, and sneeze. Those were the answers given by

(25:31):
others that landed on the board. Is among the top
answers to the as we have not yet given you question?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Answer to the number one.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Swim, two, think hard, five and sneeze seven out of
nine choices. I guess Diana somehow came up and was
offered the question and offered her response.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Okay, Diana's what is something you might close your eyes
to do?

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Do you have sex with your husband or wife?

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Is from.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, Family Feud Kids. What would you do with your
eyes closed?

Speaker 4 (26:07):
You have sex with your husband or wife?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Family Feud Kids? Again, Diana, what would you do with
your eyes closed. You can't say sleep, swim, think hard,
or sneeze. Those answers are already shown up on the board.
What's your answer?

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Have sex with your husband or wife?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Is from.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
She answered, it's done. That's the Did I leave out
any important information? Yes? Say yes? Yes?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
One of the other nine people on the zoom participating
in the game, his handle is Mike space Vrabel, and
the person in that zoom box is, in fact Mike Rabel.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
All Right, snore would have been appropriate, roll over, stretch.
I'm trying to think of things that aren't having sex
in bed?

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Do you have sex with your husband or wife?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Again? This is from I mean, I'm gonna say this,
and I'm not saying it for effect. I'm not saying
it lightly. And I really do believe this at this point,
because we've been at this topic for how long now,
how many weeks has it been? I'm asking, uh huh,
she's a nymphomaniac. What There's no way she's not see that.

(27:24):
Every clip of these that we've seen, and there's like
a bazillion she's talking about sex. It's not just like
haha a little bit, it's every one of them. She
talks about sex all day long? How did she ever
have time to be an NFL insider when she was
constantly thinking about You just said it. She's alive. No,

(27:47):
there are people that walk through life every single day
and have other thoughts. That's one of them.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Two one, two five seven ninety. If you want to
let us know what you're thinking about, especially females.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Everybody know on the planet that knows anything about science
and biology that men think about it way more than
women do, unless your name's Diana Russini and you're basically
a dude, not a girl who hangs with the dudes.
And she's the cool chicks because that the mind of
a fourteen year old dude. She is all day long.
That's what she thinks about. She is killer Mike's song

(28:19):
Adidas all day I dream about sex. How's that going? Oh,
it's a great beat. We could play it. We're still
in that window where we can do that. They bump
back with that Josh.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Media setting she's in, yep, very male dominated, and obviously
the subjects one she's covering is one hundred percent male.
She's not yet gone into an NFL locker room, and
Mike dominated a player who was not a male. Any
questions there, All of them so far have been uh so, yes,
she's And in this particular setting, there's nine people playing.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
The feud, and by the way, eight of them aren't women.
Everybody on the planet not named Asante Samuel agrees with me.
What was he up to on the old spot? He
was just a excusing what happened because he's done the
same thing.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
How come we didn't This is like, how is this
not best of X? Because he's not involved with Diana
and Mike that we know atly, So we just didn't
didn't use it.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Doesn't mean she hasn't thought about it, because I'm sure
she has. Yeah, I didn't get all of his answers
out there. I did. I did.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Second pull one out that I thought we might fit
in there. But you know, Diana is what she is. Yeah,
you found she's been on a lot of interviews, that's
the thing. Maybe they've just found the ten so.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Far fifteen, fifteen, fifty, fifty, seventy five where she said something.
You haven't gotten to the right number yet, sixty seven,
I said bazillion earlier, so keep counting. By the way,
I would like I would like your oral description wow
of Mike Vrabel's reaction when she said this, since he

(29:51):
can't see it on the radio, but he definitely there's
been clips where people have painstakingly zoomed in and tried
to kind of, you know, depixelize the picture so you
can see. He just shakes his head in utter amazement, awe, guilt,
and then he speaks. What does he say?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I don't know, but yeah, he shakes his head like,
I know. We've kept this a secret already for how long?
And this has come on in hindsight?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Is it not impressive that like anybody didn't say anything
because clearly people knew.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, I've had a couple of conversations with people off
the air, here, just anywhere, because a lot of people
are talking about this. It's it seems like a lot
of people did know. I can't even tell for sure
who in either of their families is among those people
that did know. It became public and now more people
know clearly, and a lot of parts of the story
have become crystal clear to some it is I can't.

(30:52):
I am very much in disbelief of where this story
has gone, because we talked about it yesterday. Even though
I'm not sure why, and I don't know when we
will talk about it again. It seems like something new
comes out almost every day of whatever level relevance, and
there's a reason for.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
That, But there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
There's no reason to dive back into the only thing
that football related still matters. Why is he is his
job in jeopardy at all?

Speaker 1 (31:19):
It's getting there. I don't think anything that has surfaced
since the very very beginning has made any bit of difference.
Albert Breer went out of his way to say that's
not the case about the Patriots and specifically Robert Kraft.
But I just I'm telling you, by the time training
camp rolls around, he's not gonna be the coach of

(31:40):
that team. It's a training camp that's a lock. So
you're thinking, what do you mean when you say going
to be the coach? Still he's he there? Letting him go?
Why actually he's going to resign? That's wow. They're going
to frame it, frame it. Yeah, why would he step away?
They want to pass there? We want to pay him

(32:01):
to coach the team, going to tell him that they'll
either fire him or he can quote leave on his terms.
But you're not going to coach this team under what grounds?
It might not be permanent, but he ain't coaching the
twenty twenty six Patriots. Why did they tell you they
were letting you go because I kept dipping my pen

(32:22):
in a company inc But they already know that. Here
he is, but it keeps embarrassing company ink at somebody
else's company again. I want to know who has this
stuff because they're clearly sitting on more. This is a
as they call it, a drist sitting on I finally
found this clip on YouTube and this is nothing exactly's
fun when she's pregnant, Oh man, not really that fun

(32:44):
eating and then there's really low down, dirty skeezy cheating.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
All right, there are levels to this. Three segments in Friday,
Anything Goes the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
The eighteen is the eight team Sports Talk seven nine.
We'll take a break from the Diana Russini and Mike
Vrabel conversation to get back to another just nauseating subplot
in the world of sports. The Oklahoma City thunder have
made things so bad that they are attempting, even though

(33:20):
it's not totally working, to make the Los Angeles Lakers
a sympathizing figure. Is that an accurate assessment of the
second round of the Western Conference in the NBA. I
mean that's part of the role that the Lakers are
trying to play now. Yeah, the Lakers the first or
second in the last four or five seasons in a

(33:40):
row in free throw attempts in the NBA, not just
the West Yep and Austin Reeves in addition to Lebron
James and Luka, Doncic is always right near the top
of that list. He was the ringleader of the crying
last night after JJ Reddicks things that just blew my mind,

(34:01):
multiple things, JJ Reddick, when you.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Have sex with your husband or white? When you have
sex with your husband.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Or white, did you slip and say that Diana, that
was an accident? Here's JJ Reddick. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
I mean, I sarcastically said the other day they were
the most disruptive team without fouling. I mean, they have
a few guys that foul in every possession and all
the good defenses do. But SGA gets like a I
don't even know a touchdowl. I guess on the drive
there was a stretch of four straight possessions. Our guys,
you got absolutely clobbered trying to make an entry pass
to Jackson and Jalen Williams is grabbing his jersey with
both arms hard enough to play, You've got to be

(34:36):
able to just call it if they found and they do cound.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Okay, all of that is hilarious. All of that is
in part hilarious because of who it's coming from. But
that's not even the most offensive thing. He said, I know,
I don't even play that well because I'll just read
it for you because it's so bad. Unless you have it.
I don't have it. I thought it was in there.
I did too. This is a quote from LA Lakers

(35:04):
and Lebron James head coach JJ Reddick. Lebron has the
worst whistle of any star player I've ever seen. I mean,
I've been with him two years now. The smaller guys,
because they can be theatric they typically draw more fouls,

(35:24):
and the bigger players that are built like Lebron, it's
hard for them. He gets clobbered. He got clobbered again
tonight a bunch and that's not like a new thing,
that's not specific to this crew or this series. He
gets fouled a lot, and it doesn't get called. The
guy gets hit on the head more than any player
I've seen on drives, and it rarely gets called are

(35:48):
you kidding me? Jj reddick. This guy gets more whistles
than anybody in the history of the game, MJ included.
And if he doesn't, he still tries to because every
time he goes remotely near a backboard, he crashes to
the ground like he's been shot by a nine millimeter handgun. Yeah,

(36:09):
our shotgun.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I had the research team working on something with Lebron
or anti aircraft missile before I heard this comment. Before
Game two. It was while the Rockets Lakers series was ongoing,
and we obviously watched it very closely, and there were
a handful of plays. The Jabari Smith play where Lebron
sought him out as teams were going from the back
court to the front court and ran into him, and

(36:33):
there was a play where Jabari has called for the
foul because he then grabbed him, with a play where
Lebron led with his face shoulder into a men's face
and hit him with elbow and men Thompson again fouled
him as the call went this is when Lebron his
team had the ball, and then there's a bunch of

(36:54):
other other instances So I'll set it all up by
asking you this. Lebron James been with as since the
twenty twenty season, twenty nineteen twenty season, all those seasons
until now. It's played in the playoffs most of those years,
not all, but most of those years. Last night he
played in his sixty first playoff game with the Lakers.

(37:16):
How many times do you think he's fouled out in
those games?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Zero?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
How many times that's correct? How many times do you
think he's been called for five fouls and so they've
had to manage his minutes? We got a pulling like
last night, SGA got a fourth foul early in the
third quarter, so he had to go to the bench.
How many times do you think Lebron's had five fouls
in a game as a Laker?

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Zero? That is also correct. Let's go down to four.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
How many times in sixty one games do you think
he's had four fouls in a game?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Five? That's too high. See you see where we're going
with this.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
It's there's the focus on what almost everybody says about this,
not just JJ and not just Lebron, and not the
thunder or anti thunder is there. They're just taking half
the game. Lebron James, if you're watching how he plays,
is an absolute hacking machine because he knows he can

(38:05):
get away with it, and it's an officiating problem, just
like all these flops are, just like these offensive fouls are.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
He go. He runs people over NonStop when they have
defensive He's one of the best whistles in the league exactly,
and the best of your What a bad whistle does
is it hurts your team. What a star whistle does
helps your team. He can play every minute of every
game he's ever played in with the Lakers and the
playoffs because he can't foul outs, not foul out close

(38:36):
because they will not allow it to happen no matter
how many times he fouls. Why because he's good for revenue.
And until somebody can, like poetically show me how that's
not the case, Adam Silver or anybody in the league office,
or anybody who is a diehard Thunder fan that's part
of the punishment panel referees Association. Yeah, I'm not even kidding.

(38:59):
That's the that's the case now as we speak. I'm
not gonna hear this argument. He didn't even have the
worst whistle in the entire Rocket series that went to
a men Thompson. A men Thompson was getting assaulted time
after time after time. Lebron was getting an enorm In fact,
one game he's shot like over twenty free throws? Did
he not?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I don't think he got twenty, not a lot nineteen. No,
But you're also left the word out star, whistle for
a star, and that a men.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Thompson exactly are, and that is we're just a fan
watching Pistons games. Now, if you're a casual or if
you're a diehard, that's a fundamental problem with the NBA.
That's well precedes Adam Silver and frankly precedes David Stern.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Right, So what this should point out and we'll get
to that length of how long this problem has been
going on. If it's the Lakers that are complaining about it,
it's a rich but it's also be everybody in the
league at all stages of we get hosed, we get benefits.
Nobody's happy with how the league's games are being officiated,
and it would be nice if the league not just

(40:01):
said they cared about it or even does care about it,
but put something in place where they thought would show
because of how it becomes officiated that they do care
about it and it does impact the people watching, It
does impact the product. You're gonna hear even more from
the media as these series continue and Oklahoma City continues playing,
because the media is gonna keep telling you nobody wants
to watch this team play, and to a certain extent,

(40:24):
it may be a fan related belief also, and we'll
kind of find out as it goes from here. Unfortunately,
we didn't talk at all about the basketball because they
have given us too many other things besides the basketball.
The other series that happened last night, we'll get into
a little bit later on the show. Calves Pistons, Pistons
up two oh, Lakers are down two games to none.
The Thunder are still undefeated this postseason.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, we'll tell you why if you're a Rockets fan
you should root for the Calves to fail.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
We'll tell you why, if you're a Rockets fan, why
you should root for the Calves to fail.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
James Harden specifically. Oh, no way, there's some irony there.
We'll get into it next. It's Friday afternoon here on
the A Team. Get you ready for Astros Baseball a
little early today. We'll be in the Astros on Deck
show one hour from now as they take on the
Cincinnati Reds first of three at the Great American Ballpark.

(41:14):
Astros will have Altuve, Alvarez, Perettis, and Walker going one
through four, Cam Smith, Bryce Matthew Zach Descenzo, Christian Vasquez,
and today's shortstop is Nick Allen. That's the lineup that
will support Mike Burrows and his efforts to beat a
guy who hadn't beaten anybody this year. He also hasn't
beaten beaten this year because he hasn't pitched yet this

(41:34):
year at the major league level. Nick Ludolo will make
the start for the flailing, failing Cincinnati Reds of late.
They were once twenty and eleven.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
They are now twenty and eighteen, having lost seven consecutive games,
including getting swept out of Wrigley Field, where the Cubs
essentially never lose. What the Cubs are doing this year
with Bregman is what I thought the Red Sox were
going to do last year with Bregman. I'll say it again,
and this time I think will actually be right. Alex
Bregman's not playing anywhere else in his career. He will

(42:06):
finish things out and enjoy his time as a perennial
competitor or contender.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
With the Chicago Cubs.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Cubs have gotten off to a fantastic start and are
absolutely rolling games of interest the nineteen and eighteen Division
leading Athletics. They get their series started in Baltimore an
evening game. Your Texas Rangers ac are facing those Chicago
Cubs in Arlington twenty six and twelve. The record for

(42:38):
the best team in baseball, which is either the Cubs
or the Yankees who share that same record, or the
Braves who share that same record. I think we got
to at least tell you who the Angels are playing,
because we can't mock them until they're definitively worse than Houston.
They have the same record. They're in Toronto tonight, and

(42:58):
your Seattle Mariners will be in Houston starting next week.
They are in Chicago taking on the White Sox. That's
the baseball slate tonight. We'll get deeper into all that
as we get into the Astros on Deck show.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
They did make one roster move of note today.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Logan Van Why will be with the team and ready
to pitch if called upon starting tonight. Already told you
that Jason Alexander was sent back to Triple A following
his performance, but really because he pitched period. They knew
he would not be available for several days, so they
wanted somebody who would be available. He is back with
the Space Cowboys and Van Why will probably make his

(43:34):
season debut sometime during this series with the Cincinnati Reds.
Dustin Harris, who was one of the players they dfa'd recently,
was outrighted to Triple A but has elected free agency.
Two more NBA games tonight were into Game three in
the Conference semifinals. Last night we had two teams moving
to two games to none lead in their respective series.

(43:56):
The Detroit Pistons took down the Caves and the La
Lakers fell big, as they normally do to the Thunder.
Five times in their six meetings they've lost by at
least fifteen points counting their regular season meetings. Tonight's game threes,
the seventy six Ers and their Joe Lmbat injury situation
down two games to none to the Knicks, who will

(44:18):
be without Oganna Nubi, who's been awesome this postseason, very
good on both ends, and the Wolves will see which
team takes the lead in their series.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
It's one to one. Wolves host the Spurs jeer Anthony
Edwards talking about how crazy it's going to be in
Minnesota tonight. Uh No, he was just basically saying that
place is going to be going nuts. He was subliminally
sending messages to the Timberwolves fans to rattle that French
stick and the rest of his teammates with their noise.
I liked it.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Don't doubt for a second the Wolves fans will be
very good tonight.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Well, it's hard not to when you have a guy
like that leading the charge for you, even if you
have a French stick of your own on your team.
He plays, this is true. He plays decent defense against
Victor win Binyama.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Yeah, I'll at least note neither of the two players
in the nixt sixer series. I mention should have officially
been ruled out yet, but I would anticipate no og
and it's probably fifty to fifty on Joel.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Only.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Knicks fans are hoping that James Dolan has ruled out soon,
but that's not gonna happen. Ah Okay Rookie Minni Camp
Rookie Mini.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Camp Day one, Rainy Open to the media today, not
the rest of the weekend, probably just be tomorrow. But yes,
I was over there today, and yes it rained throughout,
and yes they were outside, and then you walked out.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
I did walk out.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
There's a World Cup events set to take place over
at their facility, so having us walk back over after
what we would normally do, walk back over and take
care of interviews inside the workroom over there, it's not
the best way to do it. So there's a temporary
tent for the media for the next several weeks before

(45:57):
they get to training camp, and we'll use that.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
So that's what I walked out of.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
We're in the parking lot, so plenty of time between
there and when I arrived at my vehicle. I do
see some reliant park signage up on some of the.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Marquees, not on the side of the stadium quite wait
quite yet, No, but NRG Stadium is also not on
the stadium. It's just a nameless buildings.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
It's going to be referred to for the World Cup
as Houston Stadium, and that's really the same thing as
in all the American venues that it's going to be
in is, except they won't be called Houston. They'll be
called the city that they're in stadium.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Are they putting the old logo back on there?

Speaker 2 (46:33):
My understanding is yes, okay, because that's what I saw
today on the Marquee at not Murworth in Kirby, the
street next to the purple lot in Kirby, whichever, the
one that you drive in to go to.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
The hall talking about, but I can't think of it.
That Marquee looked like it was radier to roll. But yes,
was over there today.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
I got the chance to see who they actually brought
in beyond their rookies. They announced their undrafted rookie signing
class just before the practice began. They also had eight
players in on tryouts, which included both a kicker and
a long snapper, so they could again use part of
the field that nobody else was using. Don't know that
either one of them will be competing for anything, but

(47:11):
they usually could have made their way into offseason practices.
They also had two quarterbacks out there, and we were
wondering if Graham Mertz was going to be one of them,
as was he earlier this week when I talked to him,
he was not the two quarterbacks out there. Clayton tune
mentioned that yesterday Aaron Wilson had reported he was going
to get a try out with the Texans, and Ky
Horton the other quarterback, a six y four to six

(47:33):
y' five quarterback who last was with Washington. Before that,
he was quarterbacking Willie Fritz team in Tulane, spent several
seasons there with him, but really didn't see a lot
of college football playing time. And I can't tell you
what either one of them looked like today because the
time that we were out there was basically all of
you guys that are out here today, Caden McDonald, Caitln Rutledge,

(47:56):
everybody that's here.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
You guys are way behind.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
We are on the prectice field today to teach you
what an NFL practice is going to be like. When
we go through the beginning of practice and we're going
through our position drills, you don't know what we're doing
until we teach it to you. And that's what they
were doing today, teaching them literally how to line up
for some of the defensive line drills they were doing,
where to hold the pad when your friend on the

(48:20):
offensive line is running into you, and what his technique
needs to be. This is what they were doing with
all their players today. They were all separated into their
position groups, so the almost the entire time that we
were out there for.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
So you had the two tight ends they had main
Marlin Klein being one of them.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
They were in their area working with the tight ends coach,
new tight ends coach. You had three running backs out there.
One of them is a tryout player, Evan Hall. The
other two undrafted free agent signings. No Whittington, and I
think most people's favorite name out at rookie mini camp
Josh Pittsenberger. He was out there as well, one of

(48:55):
the hopefuls at running back, and everybody else as described
in their positional groups. When we spoke to Jamiico, Ryans,
Caden McDonald, and Kielan Rutledge in that order, usual stuff
from Demiico. These guys are behind, they're all excited to
be here.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
You know. Ran into a Fabechi Hua woo in the uh.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Concourse on our when we got out here today. Big dude,
always smiling, gave.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Me a hug.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Thought he was gonna knock me over. Didn't realize how
strong it was. A Couple of media laughs followed. He
just talked about there are the guys we thought we
were getting. These guys are eager to get out there.
I want to see these guys willing to and capable
of learning.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
He said.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
It was pretty nice at their first meeting. All these guys,
they've got their notebooks out, they're sitting in the front row,
their eyes are up, they're all attentive. And he told
them that he told us, he told them, you guys
need to remember this. This is what it should always
be like. He should always want this, and I definitely
want this in return. Rutledge I thought was pretty interesting
when we asked him about Cole Popovich, his offensive line coach.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
What's he like, what's it like working with him?

Speaker 2 (49:57):
And we were close enough to their workout we could
hear what was being said and how Cole's teaching them
and talking to them and working on their technique with
them here at the very very early stages of their
NFL practice time. And he said, he's all ball, just
the way I like it. Want to be coached hard
by him, and I'm sure it's going to be a
great match for them. And he also talked about how
well prepared he thinks he is because of being because

(50:19):
of where he was.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
He was at Georgia Tech. His head coach was a
former offensive lineman, and we've heard from Coach Key here
on the station since that draft pick was made, and
again his guy, he was extremely supportive and positive about
what he could be here. I think that may go
without saying.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
And then when we talked to Caden McDonald's, he was
super complimentary about the group he's working with, as in,
I've got total belief in whatever they're telling me to
do along this multi millionaire offensive line. I got fifty
million to my right, I got forty million to my left.
If I just follow what they're doing, follow what's being taught,

(50:57):
I'm in a great spot. He really thought it was
a good place for him to be. His draft night
was obviously well chronicled because he was the last one
in the green room asked to stay by the commissioner
for day two. And I think we all saw why
it meant so much to him to have that conversation
with Goodell and then to have it pay off for
the Texans to get him.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I was on a thirty visit with the Texans.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Obviously liked the possibility that he would be here, and
when he got to day two, and knowing the Texans
had an early pick on day two, he thought even
more strongly that he may end up here. Certainly feels
like he's in a good spot and to the work
of Will and Daniel on his side, he goes, I
want to go out there and make sure they're in
second and long and third and long, so Will and
Daniel and those guys can get after it. Also said

(51:39):
he wants to win a Super Bowl, be first team
All Pro, and Rookie of the Year in year one.
He said, I've written them down. These are realistic goals
for me. That would be a lofty and amazing achievement.
Sure what, don't think it's gonna happen. A lot of confidence,
don't mind that at all.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Who's the last guy that came out of nowhere relatively
speaking to win Rookie of the Year. I have no idea, like,
is there even somebody like that? Or are they all
praying me?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
First and second round picks are almost always because they're
gonna be on.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
The field almost immediately or on the radar.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Well, they're going to win because they go out there
and they either they're that type of player or a
quarterback that maybe they get the reps, got on the field, well,
they earned the reps and they played at a high level.
And it's rare that, like who's the last non first
or second round pick that saw immediate playing time here
and earned the right to stay out there. It's just
it's fairly infrequent. I would say CJ and Will winning

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it the year they did the twenty twenty three season.
They came from the opposite of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
They came from the top of the the top three picks,
if you will, all right, we'll leave it at that.
There is still a plenty to get to that we
need to cram in before the end of the show.
Still more fallout from the okc LA situation. Plus we
have more NFL news. It's actually nice, like as in

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next week we're going to know a whole lot more
about travel plans and things of that nature for the
twenty twenty six NFL season. We'll do that when we
return gam Sports Talk seven ninety get into Astros on
deck at the top of the hour. In the meantime,
some NBA news and notes and X It's a magical
day on Thursday. The NFL announcing today that the schedule

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will be released for the NFL season coming up a
week from yesterday. Get excited.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, Thursday of next week. Wednesday of next week, they'll
get the remaining announcements on international games taken care of,
and then the full schedule like you mentioned, will come
out on Thursday. I'm sure all the awesome and I
mean it social media and creative departments that have been
all over this and I'm looking forward to what they produce.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
We already know the teams obviously who the are playing.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
We know that they've got their six games inside the division.
Their five other visits come from the Ravens, Bengals, Bills, Cowboys,
and Giants. Their six other excursions go to Cleveland Pittsburgh,
LA for the first of their two games in LA
because they'll be back for the Super Bowl. They've got
the Chargers during the regular season, and then trips to Philly, Washington,

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and Green Bay round out their nine game road slate.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
So they'll go see Deshaun m HM. They'll go see
Aaron Rodgers provided he's healthy.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
They'll see Justin Sorry, They'll see Madison Beer's boyfriend. They'll
see Channel Views Jalen Hurts. They'll see Jaden Daniels and
they'll see Jordan Love all road.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Are they going to Uh? You said, Jalen Hurts Philadelphia
coming here. I just ran through their road schedule. I know,
but I can't. I can't remember what she said.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Channel vieuse Jalen Hurts road schedule, so he's coming here. Nope,
they're going to Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
That's the road schedule, you said, Jalen Hurts' road schedule. No,
I'm not giving you the Eagles schedule. I'm giving you
the Texans schedule. The Texans road schedule has Philadelphia on it.
Simple question. I know, if you get all pissy about
it over there, Okay, geez man, it's Friday. Lighting ups
Francis all right, speaking of lightening up, Austin Reeves should

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probably lighten up complaining about well, first and foremost, the
summit that he called at mid court at the end
of last night's loss was spectacular.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
A million times in the past. I've said way where stuff.
When we were doing the whole tip ball and there
was switching spots, I wanted to get on the other
side because they had a guy on those. I was
just trying to make an advantage the whole time that
was going on over there.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
I don't think he said much to them.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
I hope have nothing stepped him and said.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Something the day with grown.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Men, and I just didn't feel like he needed to
yell on my face like that. I told him that
I wasn't disrespectful. I told him I did that's him first.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
I got to tech him.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
I didn't get a text.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
He knew he was.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
All that felt disrespectful. You know, they're going to grab
and hold and make their top five and basically all
the defensive stats and twenty third or twenty fourth or fouls.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
I just the visual of a group of Lakers players
having a like a conference with the officials after getting
blown out on the road in a playoff game is
so laughable. Yet, like we've been talking about the visual
plural that came out of that game and many others

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this year, and the amount of people that are talking
about what the OKC thunder get away with on both
ends of the floor is like it's not just a
little whisper or even a growing rumble. It's like a
loud into the megaphone every time they play a game.
Now people are talking about it.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
You have no margin for air, certainly not the number
of errors that the Lakers made. Another twenty turnover game.
And yet this is, you know, one of the biggest
reasons why they think that they did not win. It's
part of it. I'm not denying that at all. It
was Actually, it's definitely a competitive game. It was competitive
right up until the point Shay checked out in the
third quarter.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
They went on a twenty two what run for twenty.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Two to four run with him on the bench, so
blown out for most of the second half.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Yes, they had the lead in the first half. It
was a close game for the first twenty five, twenty six,
twenty eight minutes or so. But what I took from
what Austin Reeves said is you're in a bad situation
because you're a player and they're the officials.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
The same in every sport. You know, if I had
done that to him, I would have gotten in technical.
You have done that to him countless times. You played
seventy games this year with playoffs, sixty five whatever the numbers,
so you probably did it sixty five times. Scream their
heads off and curse sometimes at the officials, and the
officials look at them. They jog down court together. Uh huh,

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uh huh, uh huh, And then you just go about
playing the game. Every time you yell at an official,
it's not a technical foul. If it was, we'd never
finished game, and it never on. It's they They say things,
whether they're the words or not, but the manner in
which they're delivered is technical worthy all the time. But
they now know that, well, I'm not going to get
a technical for this, and you know, sometimes the officials
should let them say their peace. And you heard Reeves

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say the reason why I didn't get a technical is
because you knew it was wrong. You know, he screamed
in my face. He thought it was I thought it
was disrespectful. Come on, man, you're screaming their face. You
NBA players screaming their faces so all the freaking time,
for forty eight to three hours.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
That's why this is disingenuous, first and foremost, But secondly, like,
look who you play for, like you're constantly and who
you play with.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
I actually think taking their jerseys off in this discussion
and is why it's a thing. Why what you keep
saying is reality.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
They just told us it doesn't even matter that they're
the Lakers. They know that they're getting hosed. Like, we
don't disagree with the Lakers, right, we disagree with the
way that the game is being officiated. And you know
what JJ said in his opening comments last night, to
echo the comments he made during the week, He was
trying to make sure people understood how sarcastic he was being.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
This is a really good defensive team. You know, you
got to be amazed at how they're able to defend.
They are and they don't foul. And nobody, I don't
know that everybody realized he was joking. Yeah, that's they
foul non stop. They grab a hold and foul.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Now I know you can't call them all. It's the
Pistons approach back in the nineties, real quick, because I
want my blood pressure up, apparently going into the commercial
break and it's only fifteen seconds. I there's one thing
to get this kind of treatment on both ends as
you flop your way to another MVP. But to say
this after with a straight face by SGA is absolutely gross.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
The way basketball works, usually the more physical team and
the more the team that imposts, there will more just
wins man. That's probably why we went tonight. Probably while
we won last game, we did a good job, especially
in the second half, offy playing our stile of basketball.
Get physical, pressuring them, make it things uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
It's accurate. You're up at the Canadian ass out of
here with that crap.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
They push people around, Like JJ said, they're physical, they
foul all the time, and now do the other end.
The team that does that usually wins. He's like, Yeah,
we're gonna foul all the time. They're not gonna call
all the time, and I'm gonna get whistles and we're
gonna win. I mean, it's just like take what they're
gifting you, which you don't need because you're already like
nobody is disputing that they're the best team in the

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NBA without these calls. Now they're getting these calls. Like
I thought the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Warriors were nauseating back in the day, they're they're rapidly
eclipsing the Golden State Warriors because they're just so arrogant
about it. Yeah, we know we're gonna get all these whistles.
You're not gonna do anything about you the fans, you,
the officials, you Adam Silver, what you Weinberg? Yeah, seriously,
you want us on that wall.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Well to remind you of yesterday's program when we opened
with some sound that you could have heard on the
A Team all season long.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Regarding the Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
We'll get into it a topic that you could have
heard here on the A Team for probably a decade,
and I think people are just now catching on the
other series that went on last night.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
That's next, the Funny Team Sports Talk seven ninety. I
did not anticipate you wanting to talk about Eastern Conference
playoff basketball today.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Wex it's a shame that this is all that they
can get out of this series, where Donovan Mitchell is
gonna end up in the same postseason situation he's been
in his entire career.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
May or may not be his fault.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
They're not the better team and they're gonna go home,
and most people are gonna look past his work in
this series.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
He was okay last night. He was definitely their best player.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
They came up short, fourth quarter was close, but Detroit
pulled away late. Key Cunningham is by far the best
player in this series, and it showed he's been phenomenal
in his entire postseason career, beginning last year first time
he made the postseason, and then continuing this year through
their troubling first round series, but they've also now won
five games in a row, the first final three games

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of the series with the Magic and now the first
two games in their series with the Calves. Evan Mobley
was exceptionally unproductive, and the player they went out and
thought would help elevate their play played very poorly again,
especially down the stretch, especially with his awful turnover which
gave him four turnovers against his three made shots. That

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has become a topic around the league. Again, we're talking
about James Edward Harden Junior, better known as Jimbo Slice
or Saint James or the system you see when you
saw Honeybun the other series.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
I'm thinking Eastern Conference basketball. That's a separate category for
me than James Harden, who will always be his his
own category here in Houston for obvious reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
When he was here in Houston, they made countless playoff runs.
They reached the Western Conference Finals twice. Their exits from
all of their series, it seemed like, other than the
series against Golden State where Chris Paul got hurt, it
seemed like a lot of their exits were Man what
a bad showing as this series ended by him specifically,

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and it oftentimes was draped atop his shoulders.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I tried to it wasn't always just him, No, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
But at that point in time, as opposed to current
day James, he had no peers. He was the best
player in the series in all of those series Pro
Bowl teams, so he was an MVP candidate during all
of those seasons. He was an elite, elite, elite player,
and I've always described it from my eyes and what
I've seen, and it had continued in all of his stops.

(01:03:49):
Since I'm not going to sit here and tell you
that James Harden is not a good postseason basketball player,
because you can't have all these forty point games and
thirty point games and monster efforts and my team won
by twenty because I was freaking awesome. You can't have
all those games and say stuff like that, but you
can say, as the series seemed to drag on and
in far too many games, from a total standpoint, just

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a counting standpoint, I can't believe this strong of a
player has this many bad NBA Playoff games. Most of
them happened later in the series. This was just Game
two and now he's had back to back games where
he's had more turnovers than field wals. And that was
the conversation they had on inside the NBA. It's not
the only weight to determine the quality of play, but

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this is a especially in Houston, a little bit less
so in Cleveland. But they brought him in to run
the show. They had a point guard and they got
rid of him, so they could have James Harden.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Us Garland Like, would Darius Garland have them up in
this series right now? No? No, that's not really the point.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
If you only want to talk about James, if you
want to talk about the you know, the basketball, that's fair.
That's why I kind of let into it with beyond
Donovan Mitchell.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Everybody else was bad. Yeah, was bad.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Jared Allen was bad. James Harden was bad. You're not
gonna win a playoff game when that many players.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
But James or a Donovan Mitchell is slowly getting the
James Harden reputation and he wasn't something you would point
to is why they lost that game last night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Uh, he's not doing a lot with his postseason career,
I think as a fair statement, even though how many
times did you expect him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
To, well, is he the best player in this series
like James always was? No? Well, there there's the difference
right there, right for starters, So don't treat him like
James Harden yet that's his reputation going back to Utah.
This guy can't win in the postseason as an underdog, right,
that's the difference. Like this is why and again I'll
just put.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
An underdog in every series that he's lost. But more
often than not that's been the case.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
He's got an interesting contract situation and that's a big
reason why a lot of people, which I didn't really
I guess when when people were writing, hey, the Rockets
are maybe potentially interested in these big fish this offseason,
and they would say the usual names, Giannis Kawhi, Leonard.
I put Jalen Brown out there, and then the very

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next day he made me look like a genius because
of what was going on with him. But so now
can we out of fourth? Donovan Mitchell was a name
that was attached to them, and I just didn't understand
it until I really started to look at his contract
situation and their situation. So what's the contract situation? He's
gonna be a free agent after or in the summer
of twenty seven, meaning, because this is how things work
in the NBA, if they exit with a whimper in

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the second round and Cleveland starts thinking about, I don't
know if I want to max out this guy, maybe
we want to go in a different direction. Well, maybe
he's available so that you can get something for him
as opposed to him walking for nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
So it's the same as the next couple months go by,
We're talking about Milwaukee and they're Cleveland Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam,
and they wanted some clarity on this before the draft.
They can in October, they could sign him to that
Megamax deal of two seventy five for four, and if
they don't, he becomes a free agent after the twenty
seven the upcoming season, just like Donovan Mitchell. So I

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think there's some concern that they may be heading that
same place longer in the tooth. Yeah, and he has
you know, talking about Donovan Mitchell, he's not as old
and he obviously has not had nearly the injury issues
or current concerns. He's been in Cleveland four years. The
reason why they traded for him. I still can't believe that,
by the way from Utah, it's got so fast and
gave up all those picks to do so, is not

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so they could sit around in purgatory. We're not one
of the best teams in the East and were constantly
going to the playoffs. They've won a couple of postseason series,
they haven't made it to the conference finals, and they're
not going to make it to the conference finals again
this year. They've made different moves around Donovan Mitchell. Obviously,
Evan Mobley's developed, while Jonovan Mitchell has been there since
they drafted him. They've brought in James harden Over, a

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younger player who they thought was part of their core,
and Darius Garland in an effort to get them over
the top in a year where now they're not even
having to go through Boston, who's our already out and
they're not in any better of a situation. When they
acquired him, Detroit was Houston of the Eastern Conference, an
absolutely terrible twenty win franchise, and now they're light years

(01:08:12):
better than Cleveland. All while Donovan Mitchell has been there,
Cleveland is probably thinking and I would be too, he's good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
We're never gonna win with him. If the Rockets could
get him and not part ways with Shingoon and still
have Fred and Kad.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Sounds like a fantasy basketball trade. Well, how are you
gonna get him?

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
You gotta give something on You're gonna give up a
lot of draft capital, which is not gonna be good picks.
But then why we preach Shepard? For sure? So Shepherd
Jabbari in multiple firsts and maybe like you're throwing a
Clint Coppel somebody that for the numbers to match money wise,
Cleveland can't get a better deal than that. Maybe they can,
but it's not just about getting a better deal. The

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team has to want to trade with you. And like,
if you're Milwaukee and your options are Jalen Brown and
Donovan Mitchell, which one is better for you? Not just
the player itself, but the relative to the roster they're
coming from where other things would be coming back. And
that's where I think, you know, maybe Milwaukee would go

(01:09:19):
the Jalen Brown route. That's all made up, it's all conjecture.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
It's all Jalen Brown, jannisno Dakompo, Donovan Mitchell and who
was the fourth player I already forgot, Uh Kawhi just.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Run down the list.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Jalen Brown will be at the top of everybody's list,
right m hm, Jannis is probably next.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Donovan Mitchell. Probably after trade those two for each other
and let the Rockets get Donovan Mitchell and put them
with KD. It could happen. I would not be upset
if after the dust settles, that's what happens this offseason
because of all the made up scenarios we've talked about.
You know, I'm a huge Donovan Mitchell fan, had been

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for a long time, and he's exactly what they're missing
right now in all all accounts, all of the various layers,
you know, and it just you're not again that made
up trade. I don't know if it would work. I
really don't know. Like when they start actually negotiating for
this trade that's not happening that we don't know about.

(01:10:20):
I'd be very interested interested to see if after the
dust settles and that trade is made. We're all saying
what we said about Dylan Brooks. I really wish they
hadn't included insert player in this deal. If Jabari Smith
leaves but Donovan Mitchell's here, I'm not mad at that.
I'm sorry. I like Jamari.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Nobody would be except for Jabari and his dad and
their family.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
The only player. Honestly, I'd be upset about walking out
the door. Though as a men. If Shingoon is what
it takes to get this done and then you've got
to figure it out from there, I still say do it. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
We'll leave it at that on that NBA topic and
remind you got a chance to win tickets. Next segment
with Jack Johnson playing at the Woodlands Pavilion, and a
few things to wrap up this show on the NFL side,
on the Major League Baseball side, and one note on
the NBA side coming up next. Thanks to get to
here in this final segment of the show before we
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Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
I will do that momentarily.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
We've got tickets to give away here and I got
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We have not gotten to yet. Those tickets one pair left.
We've been given them out all week to go see
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Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
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Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
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Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
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Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
There is a certain NBA head coach won't name him,
who said his star player gets the absolute worst whistle
in the NBA, and it's not even close. He gets
the worst whistle of any star player. Who was that player?
It's kind of a trick question if you think about it.

(01:12:50):
So the answer to the question is the player, correct,
not the head coach. But I don't want to say
the head coach because if I do, it'll be very obvious.
It should be obvious anyways, if you've been like I
don't know, awake for the last twelve hours, but I
just you know, it's it's the fact that it's a
trick question is because it's so Just think about it
like this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Pretend you'd never listen to the A team, so your
life's awful, but you never listen to the A team.
You didn't listen to us today you're not paying any
attention to the current state of the NBA, the playoffs,
anything like that. Just think to yourself, what player do
I think it's a star does not get calls and
by the way, and think about it sarcastically, and maybe

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you'll come up with the answer.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
This star player gets this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Player gets the worst whistle of any star in the league.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Can laugh when you hear me say it, Which player
is that? Yeah? Completely unrelated. I just watched the chet
Holmgrin play again from last night. Yeah, it's not that
he didn't get hit, because he did, right, it's the
pause then exaggerated reaction that makes you know when he
did have some contact, it was like a pillow. It was.

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It was a lot of acting, a lot of it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
I believe Ian even said something about his work and
some of the mobile phone commercials that he's been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
That's a good thing to bring up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
So as we await the winner, there were a couple
of notes I wanted to mention. Do you know who
the third highest paid running back in the NFL is
third highest paid? Saquan's first Christian McCaffrey is second based
on average annual value?

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Is not doing to Montgomery? Far from it. I'm trying
to think. It feels like it should be an obvious answer. Well,
it just happened today. Oh well, then I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Bryce Hall has agreed to a long term deal to
tote the Rock from Geno Smith bro. That is listen,
this is what NFL players do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
This gives me my money.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
I don't care if we're good or not. I want
my guaranteed money and then we'll figure out the rest later.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
And I'll tell you what. I can't fault any NFL
player for that thinking that you've brought up many many times,
specifically when a Texan went to Cincinnati and they were
going to suck. I believe well, and think about this.
Do I want to play, especially a running back?

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Do I want to play for the Jets this year
under the franchise tag and then see what happens? Or
do I want to play for the Jets this year
under a long term deal and still have the freedom
to be a malcontent and have my agent help get
me out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Because more of the money was guaranteed a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
They might be in a little bit better position, and
it gets fifteen point twenty five perts a forty five
million dollar deal over ten years.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Franchise would have netted him what this upcoming season twenty
a little less than that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Okay, I mean, but there's no security in that, correct,
And you're a running back now he's only going into
his fifth year, but still it's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
The fact that he's a running back is why this
is even more pertinent in what you're saying, which is
that they're always going to take the bag whoever's offering it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Yeah, and this probably won't last very long. Those running
backs that are in a position where it's time for
them to get extended. I believe Bejeon Robinson and Jamiir
Gibbs could be due fat extensions this offseason. They will
most likely they might pass everybody one of the two
of them, and then the other one would pass them.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
One of things that you know is that Breescee Hall's
team will not pass anybody in win totals. They're gonna
suck again, probably the Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Je Go Smith drops back to pass, fakes the handoff
to Breecee Hall, pitches it to Garrett Wilson. On the reverse,
he pitches it back to Geno Smith, gets a block
from Kenyon Sadik and throws deep down the field to
Omar Cooper.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
If they were playing the Texans, Will Anderson would have
baptized three of those players ago in that sequence.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Maybe Breese Hall posted this after the news. Broke cried
for the first time since I tore my ACL. This
day really hit different for me man and again I
said he was only going to his fifth year, but
he has an ACL injury in his past already. Yeah,
so it's obviously of concern.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
I uh, I don't know that any other team in
the league would have given him this deal. I'm serious
when I say that, especially in light of that injury.
But the Jets, the Jets or the Jets and the
players like, yeah, I have to take it. Trust me,
I get it. I thought breist Hall had a good
chance of being a Texan once upon a time. Twice. Actually,
I thought they were going to draft Line. Oh yeah,

(01:17:27):
the draft too. I forgot about that. Ended up taking
Jalen Petrie. I think they're doing all right. I think
alright too. But yeah, good for him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
I had a basketball note for you on our way
out the door. A one hundred and fifty three players
decided to respond to this question via the Athletic Player
Poll Anonymous, you're the NBA commissioner for a day? What
change would you make? Three different responses had the most votes,
each of them ten. Ten responses that gave this as

(01:17:59):
what they would change. Do you think you can guess
any of the three that finished first?

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Well, none of them involve closing your eyes while you
have sex with your wife. This is a National Basketball
Association polls does not family feud with barstool. Yes, right,
something about flopping rule changes in favor of defense was
one of the number one answers. Okay, I feel like
it's obvious.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
It's obvious to me because of you. It's something you
believe in that that you would change reviews.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Nope, I don't know. No back to backs. Oh yeah,
and fewer games. Well, the fewer games is never going
to happen because of the owners. But the back to
backs could absolutely happen if you just extend the season
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Yep, no back to backs. Ten of one hundred and
fifty three votes were for that, among the most often
requested change. I think that's again, well, there's only one
hundred and fifty three votes total, and other people voted
for expansion penalties for referees.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
That a four point line. I actually love that too,
considering how many people launch thirty five footers and very
few of them should.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Be end Betting relationships also got an answer or too.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Nobody likes it, but that's what should happen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Is Astros on deck is literally on deck next tier
on the eighteen, the A team

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