Wednesday: It’s Christmas Eve!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:25):
iheartapp Enjoy this podcast of the Andie Every Show. Yes, indeed,
it is the Christmas Eve version of the program. Today,
Shane and I and I think Tim Over on WI
are the only.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Ones in the building right now, Crickets.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Everybody else has left for the holidays, but we're going
to hold down the fort for three more hours before
we give it over to Fox and all the programming
that we'll have tomorrow and throughout the weekend. We've got
utsa football coming up on Friday afternoon on the Year
at five with pregame coverage from the Serve Pro First
Responders Bowl. We'll get to all of that coming up.

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Got a question for you to start the show, Shane Carter.
By the way, audio produce, audio disseminator producer. Are the
Spurs the best team in the NBA right now?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Absolutely? They are?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
And this ain't just prisoner of the moment Andy we
talked for in the show like that, We talked like
even building up to this moment, the depth that's being
made has made them a playoff contender.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, I don't think they're a contender. I mean I
think they're a championship contender.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
At this point.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was about to say, yeah, they've led their games
and are they could a championship contender? That the one
team that's really in everybody's way is the defendant champ
Oklahomas any Thunder. The Spurs are two and zero against them.
They went, they went for them, player for player. Then
only did they beat them last year? They I'm sorry
last night, but they beat them in the same fashion
that the Thunder and beating teams all year, and now
they've now the other teams have seen the way that

(01:42):
that they play against them, and that the Wolves played
against them last last week. The Thunder are very much vulnerable,
still a very good team, but everyone's starting to see
the vulnerability a little bit. And the Spurs matchup with them,
which means they can match up with anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Absolutely, absolutely the best I think right now if you
had the power rankings, and I don't know what the
rankings are, how you even judge all of that. But
the team that's the hottest and playing the best basketball
in the NBA right now is the Spurs. So seven wins,
seven wins in a row. Y, you don't count in
the New York game.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right, they don't count that as one against the win.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
That was the eighty third game that they're going to
play this.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Year exactly, So technically seven in a row. The Nick
game never happened.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
All right, So anyway, it's we'll get into all the
Spurs discussion coming up in the next segment. At the
bottom of the hour, we're going to hear from Corey Brooks,
he's the voice of Floor International, and give you a
preview of what UTSA can expect from the game against
the Panthers on Friday afternoon. It is a Wednesday, and
so we have our NFL picks with games on tomorrow.

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I've got this topic for a little bit later on. Okay,
do you like the NFL on Christmas Day?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I love obviously, I love football.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
But I think the problem that a lot of people
are starting to realize is, and the way they've been
unable to really incorporate, is that the NFL and really
sports overall have become so much more corporate to the
point that where now it's being overfed to us. And
I'm not even talking about like just from a traditional standpoint,
like oh, like the NBA on Christmas and this is

(03:11):
sacred and all that stuff like that. It's really just
because like now in every stadium you see logos of
companies everywhere, which is fine, that's money making, but it's
also got to the point where now like decisions are
being made, rules are being changed, everything else is being
forced for the sake of money being made. That now
college football, the NFL and NBA, which used to be
able to like enjoy in increments, is now being kind

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of forced to where you have to choose.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
And I don't like that as well.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Sports.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Here's two schools of thought for me on this, and
we'll talk more about this than the six o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Number One.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
When I was growing up, Thanksgiving was full of football.
You got the lions before you ate ate. Dear Christmas dinner,
you have you Wolf down your Christmas dinner and then
you watch the Cowboys, right, and usually the Lions back
in the seventies and early eighties sucked anyway, so you
didn't really care whether they it was the other team
that they were playing that you are more accustomed to
watching the Cowboys. Everybody was Cowboy fans. You watch the Cowboys,

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but there was nothing else on. That was your Thanksgiving
Day deal. But on Christmas Day you'd open your presence.
It was a nice day. You could go outside, but
most of the time in Oklahoma City was fifty degrees
or colder, and it was not if you were outside.
You couldn't be out there for very long with that freezing.
And you're sitting around and you may play with a
gift or something like that, but you're just kind of

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waiting for the data in. So you go do whatever
you're going to do. The day after Christmas, there was
nothing on TV. The NBA didn't play on Christmas Day
back that far back. In fact, most of the games
weren't on TV to begin with anyway. So I love
the fact that we have options now on Christmas Day
to watch after you get through with because basically, you
wake up, you do your Christmas Morning ritual, You open gifts,

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you wait around for three or four hours, you eat lunch,
and then everybody goes into a nap for the next
six hours. You get back up and you eat again,
and you go to bed, and you startle over the
next day. So now you have all these options. But
here's my problem with the NFL on Christmas Day, and
it's not going to change Netflix, and especially when they're
on Netflix or on Paramount or Prime or places where

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we don't traditionally go. And as we go forward over
the next many many years and decades, and we're going
to get used to watching games on things that are
not Fox or CBS or NBC. But I don't really
care to watch Kansas City and Denver, or I really
don't care to watch the Cowboys and the Commanders. Would

(05:27):
be a good game if they were playing for something,
But at this stage of the year, you can't flex
these games out to Sunday, which if these games were
all scheduled for Sunday or Monday, you could start flexing
things around week or two before, because you know those
games aren't going to be as relevant as some of
the other games. When you have a set schedule like this,

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you can't make other teams change on the fly. So
if I could change all three games on Christmas Day
on a moment's notice, that would be fine. And in
the NBA you play so many games to I mean,
the chrasp Maday just happens to be a day where
we're gonna showcase the NBA because we know that people
will watch it. It's entertainment, and we're gonna put the
marquee games together and if they're missing a player or two,

(06:09):
we'll live with it. But in the NFL, the Chiefs
are done, Denver needs to win the game, and they should.
The Vikings can't can't go anywhere, but Detroit needs a win,
so that's kind of important, uh. And the Commanders and
the Cowboys are playing for whoever loses gets a better
draft pick. So it's the the NFL doesn't have. When

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you get to this stage of the season, you're always
gonna risk that and that's why the networks have flex
games late in the year for both the Monday night
Sunday Night and what what the marquee games are gonna
be for Fox and CBS.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
And let's And also this kind of sucks for me
because you know, I'm a Cowboys fan and I'm a
Spurs fan.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
They're gonna play at the exact same time as each other.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
The Spurs are gonna tip off at at one correct
there one thirty tip yep, and the Cowboys are a
noon kick. So imagine, and I imagine in Texas there's
a bunch a bunch of Cowboys and Spurs fans who
want to be able to enjoy both, especially if you're
a mult Yeah, well you can't really do multi. You
of Netflix and this and the Spurs is gonna be
on AB.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
So you're gonna have to have like that iPad and
have your.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Phone on Netflix and the TV on ABC or something
like that. And I also just because I had a
bad taste in my mouth when h remember remember a
couple of years ago when the Ravens played the the
Texans during the Beyond, which was really just the Beyonce
concert which the at the Netflix remember remember that, uh
that that game was terrible because half the game was
a buffer sign It was a constant load, buffer and buffer.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
And that's my that's.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Because Netflix didn't know that how much Bandwide actually made it.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
They underestimated the viewership that was going to go in,
which is the same thing as people who watch like
Stranger Things or you know, other popular Netflix shows like Anytime.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like something like whatever it is, Triple It or Quadruple
are just get as much as you can ready for
the cow for a Cowboys audience. No, there were not,
They're not. Okay, uh, We're gonna get in a couple
other things. A little bit later on, Dak says he
wants more say and what the Cowboys are gonna do
with their roster between now and the draft.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't mind that.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, I don't mind it, but it's not going to happen.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
But a lot of teams over the years have kind
of relegated to their franchise quarterback on.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
How they want to think Jerry's going to do that.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I think so they did it with Tony Romo.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
They allowed Tony rome until I make decisions in terms
of like, oh I think they should get this.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I think, yeah, Well, there's two things on that, and
we'll get into this a little bit. Number One, Dak
is not a scout. He doesn't know what the best
college players are. But number two, Jerry listens to Jerry
and occasionally Stephen talks the amount of things and if
this were any of the other twenty nine teams, I
think dak would have a chance. It's this team. I
don't think he does. But we'll get into that, all right.
When you live in a public in a public spotlight,

(08:43):
no matter how public or how famous or infamous or
notorious you may be, you run us your situation into
people that like you and don't like you being critical
or hyper praising of you. And I've all he's found
it that very few people will go out of the
way to tell you that you're terrible at something. They

(09:05):
won't get especially to your face, but they will come
up to you a lot, and they genuinely mean it
when they give you some kind of accolade or praise.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
And so.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I think that you have to again, Kevin or Kevin
Durant has always been very very sensitive about what people
said about him, regardless of what team he's played for,
even to the point for at one point he put
out a fake Twitter account so he could respond to
the criticism himself of Kevin Durant being criticized.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, so I've always kind of felt like you are.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
In the spotlight where people have a popularity of you,
and you have to deal with people saying that you're
good or bad or indifferent, and you have to let
it go. And this is a situation we're facing with
DK Metcalf. Apparently, apparently this two game suspension is going
to cost DK Metcalf not only his game checks but

(10:06):
some bonus money that was due him because he got
suspended for his behavior and the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties that
resulted in that suspension. And I understand that we live
in a world now where people get very offended by
things that other people say about them. But if you're

(10:27):
a professional athlete and somebody says it to your face
in a bar or a restaurant or a parking lot,
that's one thing. Hopefully you have security with you to
deal with it, tamates or teammates or the owner of
the establishment. But any and I'm not saying, you know,
if somebody said something that was about his mother or
about it that was you know, racially insensitive or any

(10:47):
of that, that there shouldn't be some kind of repercussion.
But it shouldn't come from him because it's always going
to be. Well, we can't trust DK Metcalf because he's
a loose cannon. And as soon as somebody says something
about even if it's justified, which you can debate whether
what the justification is of things, but if somebody from
the stands calls you by your given name instead of
the initials you've chosen to go by, get over it.

(11:10):
And especially when you know there's money on the line,
you cannot let your.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Emotions go crazy. And it's.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I think that this is a lesson not only for
DK but for all of these athletes. At the end
of the day, that fan yelling at you is not you.
He may want to be you. He may in another
life he may have wanted to have the skill set
that you do. But you're the football player. You're the
one with the multimillion dollar contract. That person is just

(11:40):
a fan. And apparently this fan is going to hold
a press conference on Friday saying the only thing I
said was that I called him by his government name,
and I never said anything insensitive. And I applaud this
person because here's a guy, and I'm sure his name's
out there.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I haven't paid attention to what it is.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
But when somebody when a player said as that guy
yelled at me, called my mother this, and and used
a racial slur uh to me in the process of
trying to get my attention. And that's why I reacted
the way that I did. And the and the person
just has to sit there and take it. And I've
always said, if you're innocent of something, I know the

(12:19):
lawyers out there don't like to hear this because the
lawyers say, loose Lipstin's ship.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Shut up.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'll defend you. My plan is to make you not guilty.
This fan wants to be found innocent, not not guilty.
Oja was not guilty. That doesn't necessarily mean he was.
He was innocent. So it's there's a I think there's
a difference in the court of public opinion between not
guilty and innocent. And if you are accused of something
you did not do, you want to be proven innocent,

(12:44):
not not guilty. And and so uh I think this
is I'm glad. I hope I get to hear what
he ever he said, because you can't just make stuff up.
And then all of a sudden, the fan is the villain,
and especially when you're supposed to have the take the
higher road.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, by the way, the fans name is reported as
Ryan Kennedy, and he is going to host the press
conference with his attorney at hand. By the way, and
I'm gonna take a different approach to this, not from
a standpoint of like, oh, if someone said that's about
to my mama, I would react a certain way.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's that Andy, Let's let's.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Call a spade a spape. There is real racism in
this world. Correct, sure will be objective unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yes so.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
But there have been also multiple instances, unfortunately, of using
racism as a way to you as an excuse for
your behavior when it was in fact not true. This
isn't even the first time in sports where a player
accused a fan of racism and then other people and
even video evidence suggested, hey, no, actually this fan was
not that. I'm gonna take you back about ten years
to my university, Texas Tech.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Are you familiar with the player and by the name
of Marcus Smart.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, So he played at Oklahoma State in the year
where they came to the USA at the time, and
they played Texas Tech. And at a certain play, Marcus
mart drives to the basket, miss it and then runs
into a fan in the crowd. Now, video evidence suggested
that the fan, whose name was Jerry or said hey,
you suck. But Marcus Smart, who reacted and shoved Jerry
and got into his face, made a statement saying that

(14:07):
he had called him a certain word, which we won't
obviously say on the right at all and in general.
But that's that's unfortunately, as there is and listen, let's
not let's not be really all. There is real sexism
in the world. There is real racism in the world.
There are real incidents of like this happened all over
the country. In this case, unfortunately, this is this is
a this is a boy who cried wolf situation, and unfortunately,

(14:28):
all it does is it adds fire to the next incident,
which might be actual racism to come back in their
face saying, hey, just a DK was shown to be lying,
you must be lying as well, and that's gonna suck
for the next guy who was an actual victim.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I've I've been in arenas where fans get really, really
clever and are really funny and they never say anything
that crosses the line, and uh it is it's really good,
you know, rivalry type stuff or in this in the
spirit of the sport and then I've been in places
where people do cross the line. Yeah, but if you're

(15:02):
a player and somebody didn't cross the line, don't say
they did, just so that you can say face because
you know, you crashed into a fan or spilled somebody's
beer or whatever you did, get over it and move on. Now,
if the person did say it, you should call them out.
But I don't think that this guy in Detroit did.
And he's going to tell people I didn't do this,

(15:22):
and I'm going to try to clear my name this way.
I don't know how much the lawyers are actually gonna
let him say, but hopefully they let him say enough.
All right, Well, let's get into some Spurs conversation. I've
got a thought on the Michigan football job. They still
don't have a coach. We'll talk about UTSA and Florida
International coming up, and something about FanDuel from last night
as well, that was kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
We'll talk about all that coming up in the ticket