One Week to Know Stuff: NBA Draft Day Countdown, Stephen A. Smith's Solitaire Addiction, & Another NHL Szn Comes to a Close

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Like bean Lie.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lie Lie.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, I guess that means it's our turn light the beam.
We're back all together in the room once again for
a Wednesday night edition of the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
As always, I am your host, Sam Freeze. The voice
you heard there is the Cap himself joining me once again.
Where we find ourselves seven days away, officially one week

(00:35):
away from the NBA Draft, an NBA draft that we
feel like is absolutely going to be transformational for multiple teams.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
This time, this time next week, we will know stuff.
We will know that is eric, but we will know
our direction of the team. We will know stuff. We
will know stuff. That's that's that's the new mantra. That's
the new mantra. Here we one week until we know stuff.
Every every day is we're a week away from knowing stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But no, it's also National Go Fishing Day. Okay, fine,
it's Juneteenth Eve.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
There you go, there, we go, there, we go.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
That one more than a throwaway pr holiday one.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Actually we're celebrating.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It is a federal holiday. Man. We get we get
the barbecue and do things on the federal dime.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's so funny though it still feels like like it's
not it's still not treated like most federal because we're
still getting like I saw the city put out this
long you know, and then at the bottom it was like,
but don't worry, your trash and recycling will still run
as normal. So not everyone gets the day off to celebrate.
When that's wrong. When word of slavery being illegal finally

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hit Galveston, Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Something's wrong here.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know what, the godmother of June teenth lives.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
She lives up in Dallas. She still is actually with us,
she is still among us, still in yeh man. What
is her name, Mavis?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I can't think of it now off the top of
my head, but yeah, she she usually goes every year
out to the Juneteenth, uh you know festivities up there
in North Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
The parades right right.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I mean, it still amazes me that, like even on
MLK Day, that San Antonio has one of the biggest
MLK marches in America, if not the biggest, right Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, I think every year they op Lee, not Mayvis Ople.
I was thinking of Mayvas Staples. I was like music Week,
her music month.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm still celebrating, uh no o, miss Ople, Lee of Dallas,
the godmother of Juneteenth. Now we got a lot to
get to On this Wednesday edition main segment, we're going
to talk the biggest news of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think the sale out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Out of dude. I just heard that like two hours go.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, Lakers are on the verge of being sold to
the Dodgers owner. Also have some stephen A. Smith talk
that I avoid it on Monday, but he's responded, and
I think it. I think there's more to talk to
than just you know, hating on Steven A, which is
easy and not good content. There's actually more to talk

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Speaker 1 (05:38):
I'm used to it. I'm just sitting here watching our
and I'm like, hey man, we're matching. Look at our
red shirt.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
We are we are matchie matchie. There's uh, there's I
will say mine is Mine is a little less vibrant,
at least a.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Little faded on.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, I don't have the I don't have the chain
the chain game as you have.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I remember when when we we were in when I
was growing up, when we all hit like junior high age,
was all of a sudden when a couple of my
friends started trying to bust out the chains, the chains,
and they're you know, they're terrible.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Like was it like human links or was it like
total like the bigger the better.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
It was not the bigger the better because or the
smaller it was. It was very It was more of
a like a very thin chains.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was like the parents were like, I'm not paying
more than one hundred dollars for a chain.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think these chains were like found at Goodwill's and
just thrown on to try to You had like the
goodwill random shirt from the rival high school one town over,
some random chains that somebody's dad was wearing.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
In the eighties, I had one year where I had
that the one line neck choker, black choker during my
Manson night phase.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know, just the now look choker on a guy.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
These days slimmed me down.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Not so good, not so good choker on a girl
these days. It still works.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, you know the wife he tried to like
wear a choker back in the day when it started
getting stylish, probably when Kylie Jenner one of them to
start wearing it, and I'm like, man, don't.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Do what the twenty year olds are doing. Please.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I was like, come on, man, you're thirty five years old.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I think that I think that argument can go both
ways because it also I don't want to be reminded
sometimes that you're thirty five years old, because that means
I'm thirty six.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I'm a year older.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
So if you want to do something to try to
be younger, I fully support it.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
No.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Our besides, chains.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Never really infiltrated the glen Rose fashion scene.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But puka shells. Puka shell that was a huge that
was a huge player.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Was the puka shells the same thing as as little
like where I know the puka shells were the ones
that were flayed laid flat.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But what was the like the little white shells.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, like was like a complete circle.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh that were like the like shark t through whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I kind of just loop all of those in as
puka shells or limp biscuit concert attires, salt life. Yeah, yeah,
it all, it all kind of blends together.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
The National Fishing Day. We have salt life and puka shell.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, there you go, National Fishing, National Go Fishing Day.
I read as I was doing my show research to
figure out what throwaway bullshit holiday it was, and I
read a whole article about the This is on the
National Go Fishing website and it started with fishing is

(08:45):
one of the oldest activities known in human history.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's yeah, so is gathering berries.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Right, So b July twenty third, National Hunter Together. No,
I'm kidding. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Now this get into Forging Day National foraging Day, Oh.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I guarantee you there's one of those.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, last night, what I watched I think the biggest
sports obviously on the TV last night was the final
game of the hockey season. The Florida Ice Cats, once
again back to back, now raising the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
They won five to one.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Last night in a Game six in Florida, which we
talked about it on Monday. I was really hoping we'd
get to see a game seven in Edmonton, but Florida
very quickly shot down though that looked like.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
A regular season game the way they were like playing
the fast there was no fast paced this and like,
I gotta give it up to Florida's goalie. Man, he
had some incredible saves. You know, I don't know what
the total was, Big Bob Bobrost that dude had. There
was some there was some sure, there was like some
sub shot goals one in there, but like, man, that

(10:01):
guy just was on it. And then you had Edmonton
having like pee wee style goals. Shot I like scored
on him, but like Edmonton did not seem like they
had the same energy as Game one even but even
in the Stars, like they seem like they just played faster,
played harder, And it makes me think, is it the

(10:22):
mid Like it's not midfielder. What do you call the midline?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Uh like your forward?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
We got to the mid the old guy that was
the enforcer that went down with the dislocated.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, their other high hymen. Yeah,
they're other kind of thirty.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah. I think that just changed the whole aspect of
the game. You know, like they because as I guess
someone told me on the on the television, the telebox
that he was their enforcer. Man, he was the one
who set the tone, and now that he's not in there,
it just seemed like they care of like lack of
basical type this stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, I think it's it's so easy to it's so
easy to immediately say, you know, McDavid didn't do enough,
or Edmonton didn't show up.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
McDavid still had seven points this series. It's not like
he was a total no show.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
And of course they're gonna double and trip. And that's
the thing.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
The way Barkoff defended McDavid all series, I think that
you know, viewing watching those games from a star's perspective.
That's something the Stars don't have on the roster, a
guy that can play center like Barkoff, where he is
a true, absolute stud two way player. I think the

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closest you would say they probably have his rope. A
hints maybe Wyatt Johnson is the guy that's developing into that,
but he's still only twenty one, twenty two years old. Sure,
but the way Florida could just have Barkoff stick to McDavid,
that to me is what allowed them to control the series.
And I it's the same thing seemingly every year that

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Dallas has. You know, last year, playing Edmonton in the
Conference finals, they can't get past Skinner, but then as
soon as they get to as soon as Edmonton gets
to the finals, Florida handles Skinner and forces Edmonton to
change goals.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, it happened again this year. All of a sudden,
Dallas makes.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Skinner look great in the Conference finals and then Florida
just dismantles them to the point where Edmonton was flipping
back and forth from you know, goalies depending on the game.
But yeah, it's it's one of those years where at
the beginning of the season, if you had asked consensus

(12:48):
NHL media who the best two teams in the NHL were.
I think majority of them would have said Florida number one,
Edmonton number two.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And they were the same in the Stanley Tip they.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Had been in it last year.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Both teams got better on paper, you know, the Stars,
Jim Nil, the Stars GM had an amazing season, making moves,
you know, the Ranton In trade at the deadline, and
you know, if any team besides Florida had won the Cup,
I think Jim Nil would have won GM of the Year.

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But you know, Florida going out and getting Brad Marsham
at the deadline from Boston and then seeing the impact
he had in the Stanley Cup finals and every series
along the way. It feels like Florida's GM is probably
headed for a nice trophy himself. Just a well constructed team.

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And if you look at the Vegas odds already for next.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Year, I'm the favorites.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's it depending on which book you look at, their
either clear favorites or tied with.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Colorado.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who's in there, like who's in their conference that can
like compete with them because they just manhandled everybody. Yeah,
it's kind of it's it's like an Eastern Conference Western
Conference type thing where it's like you knew Lebron was
gonna make the championship every year, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, it's it's a little similar to the you know,
to the NBA, where like the East has obviously the
best team overall, but the West is probably deeper and
harder to go through. You know, Toronto in the East
is always good, but always they're the Dallas Cowboys. Solid

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in the regular season, massively underachieve in the postseason. Uh,
you know, Florida's Tampa Bay there, Florida rival there, They've
been there in the you know, they had their own
run before Florida's.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Gone on theirs.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, they won a couple with Vassilevsky as their starting goalie,
who was unrest pre COVID. It was actually that who
beat the Stars in the twenty twenty final in the
COVID Bubble.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
In the bubble. Nice.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
So those are the two teams in Florida's division that
you know they like. This year, Florida finished behind both
of those teams in the regular season, Yeah, and then
just ran through everybody in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Seems like they're kind of like the Patriots where it's like, eh, well,
you know, we might have some hiccups, but when it's
playoff time, we turned that switch and we know we
can turn that switch.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, that's you know, it feels like it feels like
more so than any other team right now. They because
that switch is not an easy switch, Like it's it's
easy to say that and you can it's easy to
reference teams that.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Have done that.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, but that is such an exception to the normally
to the rule, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
The very few teams, very few in any sports can
like pull that switch. We got what the Patriots could
do the switch, and then any Lebron I would say,
Steph Curry even when they had the down years, they
could have done.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I think the best example is the heat the Heatles
with Bosh, Wade and Lebron where all of a sudden
as soon as you got to the postseason, yeah, oh
with the Big Three.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, I thought I was thinking of Jimmy Butler, but
I was like, I think that was just more like coincidental.
But yeah, very few, like baseball, like I would say
back in the day, the Saint Louis Cardinals with poolholes,
they could turn that switch.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, that was That's a good example, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
But like very rarely do you ever get that team
where it's like if they if they creep in, we
can put the spurs on there.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I think.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, and I was about to say, like, notice the
trend among all those is Belichick spoils Riley. Yeah, Tony
LaRussa Popovich coaching.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
I think that's coaching. I think that's exactly what got elite.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Paul Maurice is showing that he is probably the upper class,
the highest tier of his generation of NHL coaches.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Now back Stanley Cup champion.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
As you told me, he's making moves back and forth
throughout switching lineups.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
And he's a fun one too because his first NHL coaching,
his first head coaching job, dude, I want to say
he was like twenty nine or maybe thirty thirty one.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
He was super, super young.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
He was a he was a not a like generational prospect,
but he was a dude that was destined to play
in the NHL but then had a career ending injury
in his early twenties when he was still playing junior.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So he just became that NHL.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Now he jumped right into he jumped right into coaching
and started working his way up. But he was I
mean he was named the Yeah, dude, he was twenty
eight years old when he was named the head coach
of the then the Hartford Whalers, who are now the
Carolina Hurricane.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
The Hartford Whalers.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's one of the greatest they I mean, granted the
fact that Hartford ever had a professional team. Attack is
Connecticut right across the right, across from you know, all
the major Northeast cities up there. But they Yeah, he
was twenty eight and had got the job because the

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person that owned the Hartford Whalers when he bought the Whalers,
he had owned the minor league team, the like juniors,
Canadian juniors team that Paul Maurice had had developed, grown
up in and then had become had started coaching for them.
And so then he said, look, I know you're only
twenty eight, but I need a coach and we believe

(18:54):
in you, so.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Get it done.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, so one of the you know, gets to lift
the trophy again. I did read they already broke the trophy.
We had, uh, we already.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Had a crack in the in the base and a
massive dents in the trophy, which.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
That trophy gets beat up more than anything.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh that's yeah, that's nothing new.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
For see the hat, we had a new era hat.
It's the one hundredth anniversary, so.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
We had the stars when they won the cup back
in ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
There's you can do. You can do a lot of
show research going down that road. They they might have.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
All, oh didn't they all do something. They might have
all put some bodily fluids in the cup and that
thing went to bed. It's like my fantasy football trophies.
Those those sleep with me sometimes.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
I think it also got thrown off the roof into
an empty swimming pool at one point.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
That trophy's a woyeur.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that trophy.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
That trophy was passed around by the Abbot brothers because
Pantera was so tight with the team back then. But yeah,
saw some of the saw some of the footage of
them already celebrating with it. I guarantee you two thirds
of that team didn't sleep last night. They were That's
one thing about hockey players. Even if you don't go hard,

(20:17):
if you don't know anything about hockey, just know that,
more than any sport probably.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I think in the entire.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
World maybe maybe a like a World Cup trophy, maybe,
but I don't think there's a professional athlete that is
not playing for his country, playing for a club. I
don't think there's a professional athlete that wants to win
a trophy as bad as your average hockey play NHL player.

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That thing hockey people go hard.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Man, Like I was working the door one time when
they I think it was when the Dragons that they
used to come into uh said, like said hangar when
it first came open all the time, and they were
the rowdiest bunch. I'm talking Jaeger bombs, Jaeger bombs, Jaeger bomb,
and then all of a sudden, a prelude tool later

(21:08):
there was an arm wrestling contest going on and they
kept bugging me and bugging me and bugging me, and
I'm like, dude, you're five foot seven.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
He's like, well, I played for the Dragons, and.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I was like, I know you play hockey, man, I
see you every every other day. And I end up
tearing his tendon in his arm, and I felt so bad.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
He was like, I don't worry about it. He was
real cool about it, and with his arm just dangling
the rest of the night, but he kept he kept drinking.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well that's the other thing.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Now that the season is over, we got the list
of different injuries that guys were playing through, and you know, uh,
what was Kachuck's injury. I think he's been playing with
some kind of muscle tear for the last you know,
a couple of weeks, now three four weeks.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
So is that what hockey does is like where they
like just give out be like, oh, by the way,
this is all the injuries we had.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
So they don't but hockey has the most generic injury standards,
Like they're not nearly as tied into the betting side,
so they don't give they don't have nearly as much
pressure to give injury reports and detailed injury reports. So
like a guy could literally have his head cut off

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and they would just say upper body injury. So it's
either it's either upper body injury or lower body injury.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's all you get.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
You don't get any timetable timeline. And so at the
end of every season you get, you know, what turns
out to be an upper body injury was actually a
you know, separated shoulder or something just absolutely insane, But yeah,
for Stars fans, they I think I saw them their

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fifth in the in the odds for next year that
I was looking at, because you got Florida, Colorado, and
Edmonton all expected. Colorado has like nineteen of their twenty
three players under contract for next year, so even though
they lost Ranton into Dallas, they're still expected to be, yeah,
really good next years.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah. And then the other team, car Waltz speaking of
the Hertford Whalers, Carolina is the other team that Vegas
has ahead of the Stars in most of the consensus
odds I was looking at.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
But the Carolina they played the Florida right before.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Correct, Yeah, so that's your He's got Molly WAPs exactly, kind.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Of like kind of like Dallas did with Edmonton in
a lot of ways. It I think it's clear Florida
is so far ahead of everybody else. And then there's
that group of Edmonton, Carolina, Dallas, and I guess Colorado.
Even though Dallas beat them in the first.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Round, how is their cap?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Like it seems like the more they're winning, the more
people are going to be demanding money.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
So it's funny you say that.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
So Sam Reinhardt, the guy who scored one of the
goals last night. He actually believe won the Finals MVP
as well. He's an unrestricted free agent and it's the
first time in like twenty years that the Finals MVP
is hitting the open market.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
So Florida is gonna have.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Some They're not gonna have the exact same team. They're
gonna have to make some moves.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
They're gonna lose some pieces for sure, especially because they
brought marsh end in at the deadline. They'll have to
fit his salary under and I think that probably takes
them out of the Rhinehart sweepstakes. But hockey's weird too
because they they have a salary Cup like every other
league you're familiar with. But there are a lot of
ways to legally circumvent.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
It, okay, so like it's like signing bonuses for football, or.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Like putting a guy on injured reserve just to make
a signing and then activating.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Right, there's a lot of the Dallas Vegas does it
all times.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Vegas is the best at it, which I it's one
of those. It's it's like getting mad at a rich
man for not paying his full taxes, like, but it's
not illegal. Like, if you have a problem with it,
change the law, change the rules. Like if I'm a
Vegas fan, that's.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Probably change the rules. But I've got my lawyer over
here trying to stop you.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
A thousand percent that's usually how it plays out. But
all in all, I mean we've talked about it a
lot when the Stars got eliminated. It you know, having
a team that you root for make the conference finals three.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Straight years, Buffalo bill in it very we're.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Getting close to that and thinking forward to next year,
when's the last time like Atlanta Braves, maybe that made
it to a championship series four straight.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Years during the Yankees, Yeah, in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I mean, who is uh like the odds of Dallas
making it back to a conference finals for a fourth
straight year? Man, I think I think we're in for
a bit of regression and kind of a I think
between not a rebuild or anything, but a resetting next year.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Do you think you guys would get the only thing
I could see that could like put that spark is
new coach.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well that they will have that because they did fire Debor. Yeah,
and Debor was the coach that took him to all
three conference finals. So I uh had.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
But as much as that can be a spark, I
think it's also you know, the fact that Debor had
as much success as quickly as he did feels more
like the exemption than the norm.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
It seems like the players were like out playing the coach.
May can we say that? Can we can we put
that like that, like the talent was superior than the coaching.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I think we'll know the answer to that when we
see what a new guy does with the group. With
the current group, But the way Debor managed the injuries
this year to even get them to a conference finals,
I think it just I think it comes down to
the way he handled the Ottinger situation at the end.
I think if he hadn't said what he said about Ottinger,

(27:20):
he would have had a better chance of still being
the coach.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
But also I was reading a lot.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Of the player exit interviews were kind of suggesting they
were unhappy with them.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
We were ready for a new voice in the room.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
So if you're if your players are telling you that,
it's kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Ones not hyping me up this one, you know, not
utilize me the way I think I need to be utilized.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, as crazy as it sounds that millionaire professional athletes
would need motivation like that.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
I think, amen, I think we've seen we're all human.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's exactly right. Up comes on those I'd start wrecking stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, the hype levels are unrecognizable. Elsewhere. As we closed
the book on the NHL season, I've been enjoying my
You made fun of me on Monday about my addiction
to the YouTube TV quad boxes squad box.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
God man, it's so much info. Okay, So first of all,
you can't be paying attention to all of.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
It, well I don't. First of all, when they first
came out, it was quad boxes for college football games. Yeah,
so it's great.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, because you got thirty seconds in between unless they're
like running fast pace, but then just bop around. Your
eyes can naturally go back and forth.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, you see a big play in the bottom left corner,
you go check it out and then go back to
whatever game exactly. So that was perfect for me. I
never thought it could get better than that. And then
they rolled.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Out the news, the cable news quad boxes.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
So then I had my Fox, CNN, MSNBC and BBC
all four, and I thought, so maybe it can get better.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's like getting worse because you actually gotta listen to him, like,
what are you seeing? Does a talking to headges them?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, I like to see if if a certain guest
I usually I leave it on BBC, and then if
a certain guest is on one of the you know,
American stations, I'll flip over to see what.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
They're lying about.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
So you switched for the guests, Now, I was what
I was about to ask you. I was like, now
if you see them starting to get a little a
little more exaggerated, is like, is that well? Perfect to
go down there and see what this argument is about.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Perfect example, Texas's own Will Caine had the raging Cajun
Jimmy Carrville earlier, so I had to check in on,
you know, Caine and Carville arguing with each other. So
that was that was a guest where I just so
again the cable news quad boxes were now like that

(29:54):
was my daily routine, wake up, turn the news on,
start checking it out. So then they started giving me
the local quad so I can get all of our
local affiliates all at the same time, you.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Know case at KBB, you know WI whatever I am
here to tell you, I didn't think it was possible to.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Get any better.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
But they now give you full control over the quad boxes.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh, now the future is.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Us.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
I wake up and I throw it on.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I picked two of the news stations depending on what
hour of the day it is. And then now I've
had one of the boxes on the Club World Cup
because those games start first game each day is at eleven,
like today I watched Real Madrid play the Saudi Arabian champion,
all Al Halal.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
And then the fourth box. Fourth box I.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Reserve for food Network because Food Network is my it's
my absolute probably most watched TV channel.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
So so so let's so, let's get so the perfect
quad box for you is a sport, food Network, a
news station, and then the fourth one.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Is so I like, I'll tell you, I like two
news stations because I want to get because I want
to I want to get the balance.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I want to get one from each perspective.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Let me think of this my perfect quadbox. Of course,
I'm gonna have to have a sport on there. Then
I'm probably gonna have cops on one. That's that's a
good one.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
That's always.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Give me, give me twenty four, give me twenty four
hours of cops and if anybody wants to go down
a rabbit hole, watch some of those earlier season of Cops,
and like what they did was we're in a better place, folks.
We're in a better place. That's all I'm trying to
tell you. Then I would probably do, oh, a Marvel movie,

(32:03):
just you know, get the action.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh yeah, like a like a t N tier TVs.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Let's playing something one of those old movies. And then
I probably throw it on like a news like I
like like BBC.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, I uh, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I was about ready to get rid of YouTube TV
ever since because they dropped the Rangers a couple of
years ago, and there's.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Man like, no, no, no, no, Spurs, like they got
to change that.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
There's not a lot of value. Like now, the whole.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Reason we switched to YouTube TV in the first place was,
you know, obviously cut the cord, save some money. But
now with all of the audition, I'm paying one hundred
dollars a year to watch every Ranger game on Victory Plus.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Because I can't get them on YouTube TV anymore. Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
You know, the Spurs were on whatever Ballys became what
fan Dual Network or whatever, and now at least some
of their games are on Fox Sports Westwest. Yeah, the
old days of Fox Sports Southwest.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
At this point, I'm paying more now than I was originally.
But I don't know any better options besides YouTube TV.
So I feel like they've kind of got me backed
into a corner.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
But I like out of all, like I tried all
the options, Like I sat there and like whenever I
do something where I make like I feel like a
big decision where it's gonna affect like over a certain
period of my you know, life, like a year or something, like,
I'll sit there and.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Do the research direct TV app I used to be on,
so you're a do your own research.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, And I was on Sony PlayStations.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Uh, vie funny use that for a while.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
That was the best one. And they basically YouTube TV
took over its model. So and now they made it better.
And even whenever you do like certain like Walking Dead
has like a dead hand that goes there that like
is the prompter for where you go.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh for yeah, yeah that's it. For the hockey, it
was the Little Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, I'm like, look at you YouTube.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I was like it randomly when like Steph will be
watching something and like it'll be like, you know, like
Bachelor in Paradise or something, and I forget and I start,
I go to change and it's like a rose, Like
it should just be a bottle of rose, or like
a passed out white woman, just as the as the marker.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
On the bottom bottle of a penicillin.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly some boner pills for the Golden.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Bachelor, brought to you by Bluetoo Man.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Got some, uh actually have a Golden Bachelor tie in Earlier,
there's a new trailer out for It's Always Sunny.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Talk about that in the Lightning Round? Now did that?

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Did that the Golden Bachelor Love Island happen?

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yet it's about to, as the roommate predicted.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
And I've been waiting, like I was, like, cause I
told you i'd watch it.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
But like she's been saying so ever since they started
having the old people on there as the Golden Bachelor,
she was saying, like, just wait till they invite these
old people to the beach where it's like Bachelor, it's
just gonna.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Be all respect, because we don't want respect on the
Love Island.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
No, I think it's we want.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
We want drama, we want smashing, we want hookups, we
want you know.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
I think you're gonna see some old cougars praying on
young guys. I think it's gonna be. Yeah, it's gonna
be a diabolical uh, to say the least.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
She's like my four one k's and the eight digits.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
I voted for.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
I'll pick her.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I voted for Carter and Reagan.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
She's that old. I see both perspectives.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I thought you meant, like, that's then the name of
one of the bachelors.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
No, no, no, I was like, you voted the lady
is so old, she just voted in five decades, four decades.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
But then yeah, so that's the afternoons. And then I've
been who talked a little bit about it. I've been
watching some of the Gold Cup Mexico. It plays here
in about half an hour to night. They play sur Nom.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
And that should be an absolute destruction, especially after they
had Yeah, I had a bumpy road against the Dominican Republic,
and then USA plays tomorrow night again. So still kind
of keeping my eye on that.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
It's it's a rough look right now for I don't
know if y'all have watched any of the games or
seen what the stadiums are looking like. You know, FIFA
for this Club World Cup reserved or rented however you
word it. They're using NFL stadiums in a lot of
these cities. So like, yeah, Miami had the opener, which

(36:55):
they were able to fill because it's inn It was
Inner Miami.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
So it's Messi Suarez.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
You know, busque, all of the all of the old
guys that Inner Miami has. And then you know, like
PSG played in the Rose Bowl in LA that was
a good crowd, real Madrid today was a good crowd
in Miami.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
But they got to pick places with like non artificial grass.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well it's it's the problem is like the Chelsea LAFC
game was played in Atlanta in the Falcon Stadium, and dude,
I bet the crowd wasn't There's no way the crowd
was over twenty thousand people really in an NFL stadium.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
So it just looks Chelsea awful. It's not.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Wow, there's just not a especially like LAFC. They have
a few, you know, they have lories and drude, but
there's no yeah, go with.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Like like a big Latin American.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's the thing, you know. That's why Miami in LA
are the only two that like, even uh, New York had,
I can't. It was Dortmund. It was Dortmund versus somebody
in New York and it was like eleven and eleven
o'clock kickoff noon in New York. There was nobody. It's
on a on a Monday, like a noon on a Monday,

(38:15):
people are working. Show up.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Now, you're not good.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Not for the German Club, German Club. No, I think
FIFA that Germans I think.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Massively overestimated the draw for these games. And it also,
you know, doesn't help that tickets are one hundred plus
dollars for random opening around friendly Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
There, it's I will give them this. The team the Gold.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Cups, well, the Club World Cup Gold Cups just as
bad too, though, those games Like right Now Coast, when
I was driving out here, I was watching Costa Rica
play the Dominican Republic and Jerry World.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
I again, I don't know what the actual attendance number is,
but if there were five thousand people in Jerry World,
and like the visuals of it, it looked like it
looked like a COVID match. It looked like twenty twenty
where it.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Looked like a certain parade that just went on.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
No one had no one.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
There were a quarter of a million people there, Sir,
I don't know what sources you saw.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
No, it's my eyes. It is well that you can't
trust those, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
There was my vision anymore.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's interesting obviously with the World Cup being here next year.
I'm really really curious. Of course that's going to actually
be a legitimate draw.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
I feel like that's going to be just me. It's
shaping up. It very well could be because there's.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
That, and then twenty what is it, twenty twenty eight
Olympic Games in La, So we're about to get, you know,
two straight years of No.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
I'm just I'm just thinking of like they already told people,
like what was it the Gold Cup? Concaft told uh
politely asked our government do not send ice agents to
the games?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:16):
And you know, like yo, man, And I was like,
you know, what's gonna happen when the World Cup shows up?
Like people like you don't think I think some people
would try to sneak into this country to watch a
World Cup game? Like people are crazy soccer fans are crazy, dude.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Yeah, and it's not just the fans either, Like you know, specifically,
a Bocus junior Argentinian team, one of their defenders was
not allowed into the country to play in this FIFA
Club World Cup because he had he had never been
charged with a crime in the US, but he had

(40:53):
been mentioned and in not involved because he wasn't charged
with the crime, but he had been.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
A person of interest, probably.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
A person of he was in the group of other
people that got charged for a crime.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I can't remember. It was like it was some kind
of association.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Yeah, and so he didn't get he didn't get charged
or uh, you know, deported, but it was enough.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Now he can represent his that is I don't.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Know if they ever made I know Bocaz was trying
to get him in.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
But I also I think I think that we're gonna
I think you're gonna see multiple stories like that.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I mean, look at look at our professional athletes, like
no offense. Like if we had the rule like other
countries had the rules that we have, half the NFL
can't go. Oh for sure, yes, half the NFL couldn't go.
Like they're like, oh, you have an assault charge. You
aggravated assault battery on a wife. Oh, you punched your mother.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
It is always funny when you when you see like
compare other countries, you know, like immigration policies like that
and think, you know, like if you're like, what's his
name Caruso? Yeah, like Alex Caruso because he had the
one time he got arrested for pot in college Station

(42:17):
after the Lakers won the Bubble Championship and then he
immediately which is also kind of weird, immediately ran back
to college station to party in the fratt and sorority
houses when he's late twenties. But he's a college station
Brian kid, I get it, Okay, whatever, Sure he had
a girlfriend, Sure, but he gets the pot conviction. And
now you know how many countries would he not be

(42:39):
allowed to travel to because of a previous drug offense.
So I mean, I think it's you know, it's it's
extremely relative when you're comparing. It's very apples to oranges
comparing one country to another. But yeah, we might be
in for some chaos with chaos. Had some baseball on

(43:01):
the TV as well last night. Rangers lose six to one.
There's not a whole lot to talk about. They couldn't
get any any hits with runners in scoring position. And
Josh Smith, who was named the AL Player of the
Week on Monday, well, ever since he was named ALE

(43:21):
Player of the Week, he's been scratched from the lineup
back to back games because of a nagging injury injury.
I no, no, not a bit right, no, not a
Cassianos benching. But he's I think it's an eight nagging
ankle injury. So he's been out of the lineup. Rangers
can't score runs again. Jack Lyder struggled, which I mean

(43:45):
looking at this, looking at this patchwork Rangers rotation. If
you had told me Patrick Corbin would have a better
season two months into the season than Jack Lder is having,
I would probably tell you this whole operation is fu bar.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
But you know, the.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Lighter gone off the rig, right, But you.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Know, Lighter struggled last night, Corbin pitching the night and
the Rangers are still now a game below five hundred.
I saw, we talked mentioned Otani. I didn't didn't get
to see any of the debut because by the time
I turned the game on on the pitch count, which
makes sense, was you know, eighteen months since his last

(44:29):
appearance on the mound, still hit.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
That ball miles an hour and still.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Hit one hundred miles an hour in the first inning
from the mound. He goes one inning, twenty eight, twenty
eight pitches, a bit struggled as you might expect, struggled
a little bit with location only through sixteen strikes, one
earned run.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Not my MVP. Well man, we're not going to talk
about it. There's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Uh, your your team doesn't play in the NL.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
But yeah, o tani As you ends up staying in
the game and Dodgers win it as they put some
runs on the board after he got pulled, and then
your Yankees.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
As I made my notes.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
It was twenty seven straight scoreless innings and then I
saw they went.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Two more before Jazz.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Jazz got us a home run. Cody got is a
home run. We're on the stretch right now where we're
so in our head about this five game losing streak
and you know, losing to your hated rivals Boston. We'll
do this too sometimes where it's just you make the
stupidest mistakes. I'm sitting here watching right now in Volpi

(45:44):
or gold Gloves. Shortstop had a sure thing double play
to indianing not to get a run to keep it
to too and he just fumbled the ball just straight,
just air and he couldn't even get an out, but
luckily we got out. The theme is three to two.
We got two one zero. I was bottom of the eighth.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Let's make this happen. Do we still feel like Volpe
is the stud prospect he was.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Originally framed to be. He I mean trout same high school.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Yeah, no, he definitely he's not lived up to the lore.
But defensively he's still one of those top tier defensive
going to win a Gold Glove already as well. Like
he I mean he was hot in the beginning, Like
he still hits for power, but he has not taken that.

(46:35):
Like what we wished the kid that we sent packing
that we got from Chicago, who am I thinking of?
He played second base? Uh, we got him in the.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Man.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
It's funny how as soon as you leave the team,
I don't even remember you.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
You're dead Tea.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
But Milkie Cabrera, that's where that's what I'm thinking of,
where it's like you have so much potential. And this
is where I said, it's so hard for baseball to
these number one prospects don't always work out.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Actually rarely do they rarely And it's like your.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
It's Jerkson Profar that it's twelve years later, he makes
his first All Star team on his fifth team he's
played for.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
And you got Aaron Judge, the number one MVP vote getter,
buy a million, you know, by more than a million.
He didn't start until he was in his mid twenties.
Like he didn't have it, you know. And if you
could tell from like his rookie year, he cranked out
fifty five, but that's because new one like knew the
hey go down and away from this guy, and he's

(47:41):
always swinging. And then he fixed that. But now whenever
he gets into his funk again, he starts swinging at
those sliders and those those splitters that go down and
just drop down in a way, and it's like he
gets in that funk, you know, and it's just it's
just man, baseball is that eight inches in between your
head between your years.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, more so than like it's so other sport, you know,
it's that is nasty.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
But Carlos Stan, I mean, I know, John Carlos Stan,
he's hitting five hundred. Man, he's back match.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
It's played, it's two games, it's but it's two for four,
he's five hundred. Yeah, it's all in. That's like a
typical politician. It's all in how you frame it. He's
a five hundred hitter. He's the best hitter in baseball
this year at least two for four.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Well, look look at look at like so baseball is
so crazy and like this is what this year? Why
Judge was ridiculous with his stats and now no one
ever was doing what he did. He's gone through his
first little slump where he's strucken out and have you
seen his average tank?

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yeah? What down to three seventy.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Yeah, three seventy. He was, he was, he was, he
was cruising yar four hundred And that's just five aims
of not having your best stuff.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
You know how I know Judge was slumping because over
the last week and a half I've been.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Well that too.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
One, yes, that, But to Marcus Simeon, who has finally
come out of his terrible slump to start the year.
Over the last ten days, Marcus Simeon has a higher
slugging percentage than Aaron Judge, which was something I was
telling myself to make me feel better about the Rangers.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
So, uh, just just so you.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Know, yours don't Marcus Simeon no way better hitter than
Aaron Judge. If you only look at the last ten
days worth of evidence.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
You are out of your elen.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Level one to ten.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Obviously, your team just went almost thirty innings without scoring
a run.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
What's the overarching concern.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Level as you view them as a World Series CONTA
obviously obviously, So what's the concern level of how far
off the paper?

Speaker 1 (50:04):
I am not I'm not. I'm not too concerned A
because this we have sixteen games in sixteen days, all right,
so this is our longest stretch. This is this is
it is like we're not going to have another stretch
like this. We were playing contenders, we played our rivals.
We're playing tough teams, Kansas City Royals. That was I

(50:24):
don't know if you remember back in the playoffs last year.
It was a great say yeah, it was a great series.
We were chippy with each other. Jazz Man he hates him.
Some third hit that third baseman. I can't remember him,
but like he's like I'm about to go. Like when
he got tagged hard and right and right on top
of the head, and he said, if he does that again,
I'm throwing.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Yeah, the Royals are underachieving because Bobby Witting Junior is
not having nearly the same year as he did last year.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Yeah, and so we got you know, this is the
toughest part. And then we got the All Star break
and where we can sit there and get some days
rest up. We got Hill. We got Carlos stand back.
He's hitting, that's good. We got Lewis Hill. Luis Hill

(51:10):
is supposed to be our number three starter. He's starting,
he's starting to do simulated games, so he's coming back.
We got a couple of bullpen people that are starting
to get So we've been injury ridden. And there's a
reason why Aaron Boom got selected as the All Star
coach because from what he has.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Done, he's not alone either, He's not.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, he got Joey Joe Joe Torri and Cleveland Cleveland
Indians as the backup coach. And uh so, from what
the Yankees have done with the injuries, especially to Garrett
Cole before the season even started, we have overachieved big time.

(51:55):
You know, if you told me, I think at the beginning,
at the beginning of the season that Judge was coming
off injury. John Carlo, we don't even know if he's
gonna play. Hill went down, Snid went down. We're bringing
up two rookies to go be our starters, our fourth
and fifth starters. No, I would have been like, man,
we're gonna be We're gonna be fighting for a wild card.

(52:17):
But we're leading the division. We're fourth in the league.
You know, it's like fourth in all of baseball, not
just just not the American League. I think we're still
second or third, but I mean, shit, Philly's been had
a nine game losing streak and they're still up there
in their division.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Yeah, I think you've slipped. I think the Yankees are
back down to like six the overall best record, because
I was looking at it earlier because.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
The Tiger, the Tigers are.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Starting to like that number is, and the Tigers are
twenty games over five hons.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
They gotta come back down to earth.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Sometimes you keep expecting it.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
That whole American League Central outside of the White Sox
is pesky to say the least. Yeah, my Rangers, I
mean six games out of the division, but only a
game and a.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Half back of the wild card. With the pitching staff
they have in the UH.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
I think the big potential yeah, and especially I mean
for you as a Yankee fan. You know the Yankees
are going to make moves, oh yeah, at or before
the deadline, so you know supplements are going to come eventually.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Right now, we have we with We had Ben Rice
who has been playing first base. We put him in his.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Catcher's about he's about to be your catcher because that.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Ball, that guy, that guy can hit just as hard
as judge and standon you know, and like it's the
hard hit balls that get us you know, uh seemingly
infield out into a single, yeah, or seeming the single
into the outfield to a double.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Thinking about you know, the Yankees, y'all know you're a buyer.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
You know you're going to be making moves.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
The Rangers, I feel, are still despite not being far
out of it numerically, I think the decision makers are
still seemingly trying to decide what are we are?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
We buyers? Are we sellers?

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Because all of a sudden, if the Rangers decide our
farm system isn't top ten anymore, we need to replenish
there are guys that teams like the Yankees would.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Be we have we have three starters that just sit
the bitch like that's right, Like we can't like Wells.
We got Wells, DJ le Mayhew and John Carlos in
today and you can mix and match any one of
those and it's hard. Like even they brought it up
on Uh, they brought it up on the Yankees you

(54:45):
know podcast. I mean you had a Paul o'neos say man.
Without having the same lineup day after day, it's it's
hard to you know, get comfortable, you know. So I
think we need to get to that this this is
our lineup ninety percent of the time.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Yeah, trim a little fat streamline, get some consistency and
some repetition in.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Some bullpen, yeah, you know, and maybe shoot for an
ace like obviously Cabrera went out with Oswaldo. Cabrera went
out with that horrible leg injury. They say he might
be able to come back, but like we we could
be going after a third baseman. Put Jazz back a second,

(55:27):
and then we might be going after a starter, you know.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
See, And that's where you know, thinking about the Rangers
obviously with the starting pitchers they have. Now this one,
you know, Evaldi locks in. Well, it's not going to
be a gift. It was going to be a high
asking price if they do decide to be sellers because Evaldi,
if I think, if there's any starting pitcher on the
market available for a team that actually has championship aspirations,

(55:55):
Evaldi is has shown that his postseason grit and ability
to show up for the big moments with Boston and
then with Texas. You know, two he's a World Series
icon for Boston and for two teams. And so you know,
if if you're looking to replenish a farm system, that'd

(56:17):
be a little sharp stick.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
That would be uh huh, that would be a little
sharpstick coming to the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Yeah, it wouldn't be the first time. Yeah, I mean
it wouldn't. Then it won't be the last. I hope
the Rangers don't. I mean, obviously, I hope they don't
become sellers. But as many MLB the show franchises that
I've run, I know, once the once the prospect copboard
gets bear as it is for Texas, you got to
do something to replenish it. And you know, moving a

(56:44):
guy like Uvalde, Texas' zone, Alvin zone, like that would
be like that.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Picture in Pittsburgh. You know we can go for that.
What schemes? Yeah, well, you know, honestly, just like any.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
The dump truck.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
I was about to say, it's just like any Tampa
Bay's stud pitcher over the last twenty years. I mean,
it's only a matter of time for somebody pays an
insane amount either on the open market or Pittsburgh moves
because they know they're not going to be able to
resign him. Yeah, it's we're getting close, obviously, once the

(57:24):
NBA Finals potentially could be over tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Night, now night, so did so? Is this a the
main segment?

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Hold on? Hold on?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
The NBA Finals could be over tomorrow night. NBA Draft
a week from tonight. So really in a week we're
about to NHL season ended last night. By the time
we sit in the room on NBA Draft night, the
season NBA will be over as well. I guess we'll

(57:53):
have first round Wednesday night, second round Thursday night. But
then it'll be all you know, free agency trades, which
we'll still check in on. But we're about to get
to the full Baseball has my full attention. Part of
the summer.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
And comes right around all start break. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
The other part of that is I started prepping for
our NFL Division previews we're going to start doing in July.
As I figured, as we talk baseball, as we watch baseball,
we can start trying to think about some NFL storylines
and start looking at Yeah, we'll look at we'll make it.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Exactly exactly. But the only other thing I had in LG.
You might be able to help me with this. I
don't know if if you've ever signed up or been selected.
I actually got selected to do a play test on
an upcoming video game.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Done that you've never you've never like, so you're.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Like a tester to see if something's best stuff. So
it's a Grandma's Boys very much.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
So yeah, I uh, you know, I normally I don't
want to say too much bad about the company, because
they did. I did finally get selected after trying for
multiple years.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
The the the Satan of sports games e A. Sports
A has been working like four or five years now
on a new skate.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Skateboarding game.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
You're going to say, NBA.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
I was like, they just need to give up on that.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
No, God, no, no, I wouldn't any like play testing
for NBA, for Madden or FIFA or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
I feel like doing a play test would just be
like playing the current version because.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
It's it's the most biggest ripoff of gaming history, buying
the game every year for our roster of bingos.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
That's what I loved Madden five With the hit stick, you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Actually got innovations, you actually got something new added to
the game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
The When I was in college, some of the most
fun I ever had, absolutely lit playing video games was
playing skate one, two and three, like those skate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Games were it was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
It was I remember one of my roommates, uh, one
of a roommate where we actually literally built a half
pipe in the backyard in Stevenville, Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
That was so did Yeah, yeah, but it would it
didn't work.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
I was more I.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Was more of a twenty inch BMX kid than skateboard
once I got tall and in junior high, yeah, we
built on halfpipe and he he was the kid who
introduced me to skate and obviously you know, growing up
it was all Tony Hawk.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Oh yeah, because it turned from button mashing to actually
doing it with with the analog exactly. I was all
on skate dude.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
It was so fun and the way like having him
who actually skated every day, him like teach me how
to play the game and like actually like a.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Pop shove it you actually almost.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Show exactly and so like I fell in love with
the game and it was the realism compared to Tony
Hawk was such a clean like it. It didn't feel
like it was a skateboard game like Tony Hawk, but
they felt like two different genres almost like one is arcade,
one is real like a sim like a simple Yeah,

(01:01:36):
you would say.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
You would sit there and hit like a nine stepper, like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
The difference between like Cruising USA and Grand Turismo Forza
or something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
You know, Tony Hawk, I could sit there and get
a combo going on for about ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Yeah, just uh, just manuallying and grinding.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Yeah, fifteen different eighteen different tricks on a grind. Now,
I'll tell you this is this an old head move.
Were you able to ever pull off the nine hundred
in the school in the original Tony Hawk? Yeah, do
you remember what you had to do? You had to
starve on the very very time that roof. Yeah, hit

(01:02:15):
that grind all the way on the side and then
go all the way through to the back pool, and
then you hit that back pool and you could pull
a nine.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Hundred man simpler times. Have you did you play? Well?
You'd probably like them.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
They've they've re released Tony Hawk one and two, and
now they're re releasing three and four.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I just don't think my fingers are arthritic down. Yeah,
it's it's not the same.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Yeah, I uh so this The EA has been working
on this new skate game for half a decade, probably longer,
and I've been trying to get in on their playtest
list and I got the email today that sometime start
the week of July second, they're gonna are they're opening

(01:03:01):
up new waves of playtesters.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
So I bet you need to bring that. Can we
can we? Uh twitch that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
See that's the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Problem you can't because I think I think we can
because I was in the questionnaire. I was specifically asked,
you know, do you have a streaming platform? Are do
you plan on streaming it? And I said yes, and
I haven't read anything yet, but.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
They gave they gave you the go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I've got the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Access so far and starting you know, early July. And
the cool thing is apparently once I get access, I'll
have it the rest of the time until the game
is actually ever, if it ever is eventually released.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
So there's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Right exactly. I don't think I get kicked out. I
think I'm finally like I've just been in line for
the team and you got.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
To bring the systems. I'm not going to send you
a seat.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
No, no, it's all I'm old.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
School like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Yeah, so I uh like, let me borrow the game
something too. Yeah, yeah, here you go, or go rent
it from Blockbuster. Yeah, I something to look forward to
now this summer. I would be lying if I wasn't
actually genuinely, really really excited about getting selected for that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
So I'll I'll keep you all updated.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
I want to play that one man, because like I'm
I'm excited because I have actually do I guess one
of my you know, the chatship individual the A I
have been on an algorithm of skate videos and then
like going down a tower or something and I'm like,
what skate is this? You know, like what number?

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Yeah, it's starting to there's starting to be more clips
that are leak leaking out from the So.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
That's so that's the news skate is that's coming out. Okay,
so I think so, I've been seeing it on Facebook
and I g.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
So there's another game that came I think it's called Session,
and I picked it up for a minute, but it
was kind of a train wreck, so I didn't spend
a whole lot of time on it. But besides that
also played way too much Grand Theft Auto yesterday with
that new update coming out. But let's jump into the
main segment tonight, because had some pretty shocking news out

(01:05:18):
of nowhere dropped this afternoon where for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
The first time, potentially it's hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
But the bigger news was the fact that, for the
first time since nineteen seventy nine, Jesus, the Bus family
will not be the operating owners of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
They're going to sell to the.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Actually the guy who owns the Dodgers, what's his name,
Mark Walter selling for ten billion dollars in billions, which
Bill of course the Cowboys fan and me says, I
went and looked back up the most recent Forbes list
of expected values, and the Lakers are selling for a

(01:06:08):
couple billion, billion and a half more than Forbes had
them listed at and Forbes had the Cowboys listed at
ten point one billion.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
So now I one if that had anything to do
with that, asking.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Presser, Well, I think the bigger question is now, like
if Jerry put the Cowboys on the open market right now,
with the stadium, with the facilities, the Star and Frisco,
all of that, dude, that's a twenty billion dollar valuation,
fifteen billion?

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
What was them? What was the evaluation? So like, was
it sold twenty percent more than what it was evaluated at?

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Thirty percent more more? Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
The I guess by percent you would have said the
Laker they had them listed at seven point one and
they sold for ten so.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
So rough not a twenty billion, so I would see.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
But that's what I'm saying. That's the Lakers, I know.
But the NBA team, the NFL teams are.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
All just by nature fifteen bill. Yeah, I think that's
probably fair. I mean, and that would be your thirty
sell it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, actually, don't sell it.
I love. Yeah. I was about to say thank you
for thank you for picking up what I was goutting down.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
I got put I'm wearing red over here, nineers red.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
You could get twenty billion dollars tomorrow if you just
sold the team, don't do it just and I did.
It's kind of weird, though, out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Keep that Arkansas water falling going.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
The uh you know, now we've got the Lakers sold
for ten billion last month, it was the Celtics sold
for six point one billion, and then of course Mavericks
the team sold before that for three point five billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
So it makes me wonder if these NBA owners might
know something.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
The rumors with Cuban was he needed the money. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
The rumors with the Boston guy was he was old
and he wanted he wanted to cash out so he
could just his inheritance for his family.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Are they like building their bunkers and mountains?

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Now, that's what I'm saying. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
What I'm saying is like something like they know something.
Why all of us it's going to take us ten
years to get this mansion in the mountain and keep
my family safe from nuclear destruction?

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
After the Lakers just trade for Luca and increase there
but no one cares about the Yankees quit being distracted.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
The Lakers trade.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
For Luca and increase their value. It's a weird time again,
Like Cuban had Luca and sold Now Geenie, they trade
for him and they sell it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Uh yeah, man, something's going on. Something's in the water,
and it ain't the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
I wonder they're locked into their they're locked into the
media deal. So it's not like I saw Klay Travis
and Mark Cuban arguing about NBA ratings versus his radio
show ratings all on social Yeah, it's stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I live too much online.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
But it's like the ratings don't matter when the contract
number or when the when the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Media rights deal is already locked in.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
I mean, it could hurt them in the next round
of negotiations, but I don't think it's I don't think
it's like those three owners are seeing the league crumbling
or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
It's just weird franchise. You got the Lakers in Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
The two franchises that are the lynch pins of NBA
modern history.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
Yeah, Like, I mean, how many Epic.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
And the Max are still a team in a top
five market, granted without the same history or anywhere close,
but still a top five media market, top three media
four media market with Dallas. Now with that Luca, No, no,
that that team that well, now the Cooper flag just
makes it right back in.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
See, we'll see what happen on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
But yeah, like I like how you talk about any
kind of mystery of Cooper flag.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Okay, well we'll see what happens there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
The kid literally should be attending his high school prom
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
The score than you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
It just roasted me. He love to hear it. I
love to hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
We suck again.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
I think for if you're an LA fan, there's probably
some level of well, the excitement that you know, you've
seen what this Walter dude has done with the Dodgers.
You've seen their willingness to spend on the team.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
God, but like, how like how do they keep it
under like he has prolonged it for So maybe is
that why he did the contracts like he will did
it is because he knew he was in He was
trying to purchase the Lakers and he needed the available money,
so he wasn't doing signing bonuses. I don't think he

(01:11:03):
was doing delayed contract I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Think money is a is any hindrance to this ownership
group because this is what this is what his his
diversified holding company. You know, a jerk off way of saying,
this is what this Hudge fund rich guy owns. Right, Yeah,
he LA Dodgers, now, LA Lakers, Galaxy, LA Sparks Premier

(01:11:27):
League club, Chelsea Professional the big one coming up that
he's a primary owner in the new Cadillac Formula One
team that is joining Formula one next year. So the
dude owns as ownership group and Chelsea a Formula one team,

(01:11:48):
the Dodgers and the Lakers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Now, so now he's got all of our He's got
the whole country's attention with some type of sport.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Yeah, I don't think most the whole world, world attention
if yeah, the whole world again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
Formula one?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Yeah, oh wow, Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
I don't think the Lakers are going to one of
the one of the Dallas. Uh friends I have was
telling him it's it's because Genie Buss knows Luca's not
going to sign the extension in twenty twenty six, so
she's trying to get I was like, dude, you're just
not just yeah, it's not gonna sign.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Of course he is. Of course he is. It's the Lakers,
it's the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
I mean, he's going to be he's the king already,
like how judges the King of New York is the
king of.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
And especially with Lebron seating the spotlight by the time
Luca's up, now it's it's it. I think anytime, you know,
the most valuable team in a sport, in their respective
sport gets sold, uh, there's a lot of questions to
ask because it does seem out of nowhere. The other
weird thing is similar to the MAVs when they sold,

(01:12:57):
it was still said, well, Cubans still going to be
the governor and still gonna be the represent the representative
at you know, own owner meetings, governor meetings whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Genie said, Yes, Genie.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Is, they're saying the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
And I bet, I bet she actually does stay, unlike
Cuban who was told no, no, no, we're not.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Like she she it was like, I mean from what
I saw from TV and everything, but like she's so
locked in and that reminds her of her dad, and
she was Daddy's little girl.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
And that's why I think.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
That's why I think she truly cares about that team
more than anybody out there. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Yeah, that's where that's why I think they'll keep her
as the you know figurehead God Rest his soul. The
other the bus Genie Buss is an interesting one to
begin with because are you familiar.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
You know she's partnered with j Moore.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, the old comedian the comedians sports, right, it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Was all what was that the best damn sports show
period for a while. He's done a lot of stuff,
but like that, So yeah, it was that was a
good That was a good era of sports show. That
was back when it was everyone. It was again like
we were talking about inside the NBA. It was more
like a podcast just to hang out and less of
a you know, stuffy suit like stephen A.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Smith, Like we're going to talk about yeah exactly, like
exactly what's going on exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Yeah, none of that. No, her and Jay Moore have
a really interesting arrangement.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
So they open maybe maybe it's.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
La everyone is the They live in the same building, huh,
but they have it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
Three story like hyper exclusive apartment.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Building, right, so he has like a man caves floor.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
It's even better there's he has the whole bottom floor,
she has the whole top floor. And then there's just
another random rich person that lives in between them. So
what she and she's talked about this on podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Before, Like do they know them?

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
No, I mean they do now as right as a tenant,
right because I think she owns the building too, and
so like she'll come down to the first floor and
they'll hang out, watch a movie, have dinner. But at
the end of the night she goes back up to
her top floor and he sleeps on the I say

(01:15:34):
all this to suggest relationship.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
I mean it's it's I mean, you got a buffer
you got a buffer floor for some loud noises.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Exactly. I don't think loud noises. I think she's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Probably checking the security cameras if she hears anything.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
But I always, uh, I will not give you the
ring code.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Yeah, uh, it always when you ask. You know, how
do these relationships of the ultra wealthy and famous survive?

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
It's because of crap like that. It's because of.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Like I'm a full component of separate beds, you know
what I'm saying, Like I toss and turn, you know,
I don't need anybody getting there except my puppies, you know,
like that, But they curl up on my feet, you know,
they know they're spot you know. But like, yeah, like,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
How about separate apartment units separated by a stranger in
the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
I have a type attitude, sir. I'm like, I'm like,
we live one life. Why do we want to deny
ourselves any pleasure?

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
I think looking at Jennie Bussy the forever it was her,
it was the neked picture of her with the basketball
covering everything as her social media avatar, I think that's
changed now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah, it's Genie Buss.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I don't you act like I have like sit here,
she's she's so, she's I mean, I guess she's it's law.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Some show research a little do a little research here
in a little while. Yeah, you mentioned Halliburton h strained calf.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Strained calf is what they said.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
Zero fill goals in that game five loss, ended up
with four points from the free throw line, but with
the strange calf.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Man like, there has been three four series that have
been played like that. We're stripped from us this year
to be all time greats. You know, Taydum going down,
Steph going down, Lillard with the blood clot Give me

(01:17:40):
I'm missing one other thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Another major one. It feels like now Halliburton with the
strained calf. Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
I think that's I think I'm I'm missing one. But
like it's just I feel like this was an injury
plagued year man, and it's gonna be more of the
same conversation. Do we need eighty two games? Do we
need eighty two games? Are we even locked in on
NBA during football season? You know, you can start ramping

(01:18:14):
it up, you know, in December, do the like, let's
start out with the playing game. Yeah, let's start out
with the playing game. Let's get in, let's get their
juices flowing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
I think the you know, the answer to me has
always been start the season in early December and then
extend it through August.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
So they at the playing game. But the tournament, yeah, yeah,
the end season tournament. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
I think the getting out of them because here the
other problem is as much as you try to get
out of the NFL's way, the NFL is just gonna
do whatever they're they want to do. Like they're they're
having Christmas Day games now when for years it was
ever the NBA owned Christmas Day in Christmas is basketball. Well,

(01:19:04):
now it's both of them are football and New Year's
Day is college football. So you're you're you're not gonna
You're just not gonna beat football. But at least if
you started in December, you're still having the bulk of
your season being played outside of the football window, and you'll.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Catch half those half those people's teams that are already out.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
Yeah, team is when your team is thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Yeah, I you. I have long pushed back.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Against shortening the season.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
I don't think there's no you know, when when we
think about hockey that plays eighty two games, a much
more physical sport, much faster sport.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
But you gotta think they're gliding. They're not sitting there
putting the vibration on their kneecaps everything. They're not making
those cuts on their tendons and stuff. And as they're
pushing away from the ice, there's a give they liked
God rest his soul. Sports science guy.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
You know, he could sit down brink usay, he could.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
He could attest to this that, like, while hockey looks
way more physical and these guys are absolutely some of
the toughest people in the world, you can't do like
it's totally different from being tough and then tearing your
acl there's nothing you can do. That's not a toughness thing.
That's just physics. Yes, science.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
I think the I think the rush to say the
NBA needs to play less.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Games overall, it doesn't necessary. While you might be right, and.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I'm just saying they got robbed of great series this year,
but why.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Eighty two games have been the case for fifty years?

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Fifty years?

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Yes, how many seasons?

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
What what's the persons occurrence of this eighty two games?

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
I thought it was a little less. It's like the
mid seventies. I think it was the late seventies.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Well, I mean, I guess we are in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
I heard someone talk about like Back to the Future
was made, you know, he goes thirty years into the past. Well, now,
where's however the future was made?

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Right now? They would they would be going back to
nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Hey we got Hey, we got the ad screen that
sits there and goes out at people that looks like
it's three D.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Where's my hoverboard?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
We were both off. It was actually later. It was
actually earlier than I said. It was sixty seven, sixty
eight when the NBA switched to eighty two games.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
So is that the merger all of that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Yeah, all of that being said, it feels more like
an overreaction to a statistical anomaly that we had all
of these injuries versus something that we can expect to
see every year.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Like I don't think next year we're.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Going to see three teams lose their best player in
the middle of a playoff run.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Well, we're not gonna see that because those players aren't
going to be back until the late of the running.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Well, the only one would be Tatum there. But I
think the you know, especially the you know, like Lillard's
blood clots, I don't think that had anything to do
with eighty two games. Wemby's blood clots. That's not eighty
two games. I know there's some people out there listening,
like I know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Exactly what that had to do with. I'll tell you
it's the Fauci out you though.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
I just don't think the injuries are necessarily directly correlated
to the amount of games. Like it feels like there's
if anything, I would much rather see the league be
more lenient to player rest than penalizing it, because I
would rather see them keep the eighty two game season.

(01:22:48):
I'm worried the NBA is going to say, now, look,
we see your injuries. We know y'all want more time
off during the regular season, but instead we still expect
you to play every game, so we'll lower the season
to seventy two instead of eighty two. And I would
just rather see them keep the eighty two because the
other thing, it's like baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Like we have the split in well he only did
it in.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
One hundred and twenty one game season, and it's like, okay, well,
like it's hard to are there's no consistency anymore, and
for the league for the most part, like, yeah, the
Celtics won championships before there was an eighty two game season,
but there were eight teams in the league.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
Like it's I'm just thinking, like I like.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
The consistency of the record book dating all the way
back to the late sixties with baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
And with like baseball, hockey and like those just they're
not as physically demanding with the bigger, faster athlete. Football
and basketball are consistent to the bigger, better athlete.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
But let me ask the injuries.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
So one of those sports you're suggesting should lose ten games,
the other sport keeps adding games and the injuries are
just as prevalent. But no one, there's not nearly as
much of a concern about the injuries in one sport versus.

Speaker 1 (01:24:10):
The other because you know who they market, the quarterback,
and you know who's the most protected, the quarterback. Sure,
but I think again, as long as they can market
the quarterback, you know, they protect him, they feel like
they can still put that product on the board and
it's next man up. If we just if we got

(01:24:30):
rid of the artificial turf, you know, how much how
much injuries would not be uh, wouldn't be?

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Look a look at.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Soccer that they're they're they're running around there is no break,
you know, for forty five plus minutes. But it's the
fact that they have they spend a million on the grass,
which is also sewn in with a little bit of
artificial Yeah, you know, and why can't we just like
it's I'm talking like a million, a million, a hal half.

(01:25:00):
These owners can't ending up a million and a half
to save their players. There's star players that they make
money on. Who Hey, oh Tom Brady went down, what
happened to your ticket sales? I bet you lost more
than a million?

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Yeah, the Matt Castle Impact. Yeah, Brady missed the whole season.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
So it's like there's things to do that are just
seem straight, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
What like Real Madrid just installed an entirely new underground system.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Of how they are heating system.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Yeah yeah, and it grow and then they rotated up
to the It's insane. It's called aquaponics. Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
And we have a whole nother podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
Yeah, that's how you hit, That's how you grow the
best grass for soccer pitches of course, or the football
for the best pitch in the world. Yeah. I just
I hate to hear the rush to lower game lower games, Yeah,
because it's to me at the end of the day, like,

(01:26:05):
yes we lost Tatum, Yes we lost Durant in an
NBA finals a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
And it could because they were playing hard. But it's
still like in October, who who is locked in on NBA?

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
Now, Now that's the bigger. The bigger to me is
don't don't eliminate games.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Why not stretch all the way into September if you
have to, and give more games or more days between games.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
The finals of the NBA being the end of July,
right before preseason of I would.

Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
Say even further, I would say NBA finals have them
literally as like training camp.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Is openings like August.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
So we started the NBA as in December, like a
little bit before December.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
You need what right now, it's October to June.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
The end of October. Yeah, so you have November December,
So I mean one month push. You know, that just
seems like still eight months the low of July that
we always talk about that we're sitting here watching OTAs
in baseball. You know what I'm saying, we could be
getting prime NBA action and maybe give them like a

(01:27:20):
like right before the playoffs, give them a two week off,
rest them like rest everything. We want your best.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Yeah, treat it like the NFL does the last two
weeks of the season when you've already clinched a playoff spot. Again,
I think, but that would require the league allowing teams
to do that, because now, if you sit stars like
that at any point in the season, it's a major fine.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
That's why I'm saying that, not like sit them during
the game, give them a week off, give them like
the whole NBA a week off.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Oh, more like like an All Star Break.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Yeah, exactly, have an extra All Star break.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
You know, that's an interesting idea, Have a week in
between the regular season and the postseason, just to potentially
get if guys are close to being healthy, then they're
not fighting through injury.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
To look at the bubble, that totally changed. You think
the Lakers were gonna win if they didn't get a
month off. No, Anthony Davis has already hurt. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Well, Anthony Davis was already hurt, and he was also
on the verge of being hurt again. Because that's just
Anthony Davis real quickly, I hear it closing out the
main So let's talk to steven A because LG I
sent you a couple of clips. I thought about talking
about this on Monday, and stephen A is about the

(01:28:41):
same way as like every episode we talk basketball, we
could talk steven A, every episode we talked football, we
could talk Jerry. There's always something to bitch about, yeah,
and it just it's not good content to me to
continually be bitching about the same things that you know
are not going to change. And stephn A firmly falls

(01:29:04):
into that category. So during Game four of the NBA Finals.
He got someone up in the triple deck, zoomed into
his camera, zoomed into the screen of his phone, and
saw that he was playing Solitaire. And of course my

(01:29:25):
first reaction is, well, it's surely surely this was taken
during halftime. Oh wait, no, he's on the halftime show,
so it couldn't have been that. Surely this was taken
between the first or the second quarter, in between quarters,
or during a TV timeout. And of course this was

(01:29:46):
steven A's response on social media. He said before we
got video evidence, he said, yep, that's me. Who would
have thought I can multitask, especially during timeouts. Hope y'all
are enjoying the NBA Finals. This is going seven games now,
which doesn't look like that's gonna be true. But so
he says, defends himself by saying he's playing during timeouts. Yeah,

(01:30:11):
well then we got this video that showed otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
So you can see in the video that's Oklahoma City
fast break. It's not during a time out, it's not
in between quarters. It's literally during Game four of an
NBA Finals, as one team is on a fast break,
it's the most exciting potential moment.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
So so I'm gonna play Devil's advocacate. Yeah, I wonna
play Devil's Advocate. His head doesn't look down, he looks
like he's watching the game, and the screen's open. So therefore,
after the fast break, he's just probably waiting for a
time out just to go back down. I'm just saying this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
I think your phone locks a little quicker than that.
First of all, if he's that, so, that means he's
touching it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
With choose your shlock.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
You think these you think these professionals have the lock
screen go on for like thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
I think they have it way shorter because they don't
want people looking at their phone.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
I think they have it open up all the time
because they're always looking at new content.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
Always looking at solitaire. It's not checking sources. He's playing solitaire,
so we can Devil's Advocate. Yeah sure, But also yeah,
you have it open during why even right?

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
And why lie? Like? Why lie?

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Because this is now nowadays, and this is this is
a playbook that works, not just it works in all
forms of media. Accountability is now persecution. No one is
held accountable and instead it's you're just attacking me for
no reason and I'm going to tell you. I'm gonna
to lie and tell you you're wrong, even though there's evidence,

(01:32:03):
like you were saying like you saw it with your eyes. Well, no,
you can't believe your eyes because that is actually not
evidence to push for any level of accountability, because asking
for accountability just means you're being persecuted now. And secondly,
this was his response, which was right in line with

(01:32:27):
what I would expect.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
And I ask, if you're the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Why do you keep doing business with ESPN at the
link that you do?

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
They hate your product.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
During the NBA Finals, they talk about Dak Prescott's legacy
on morning shows.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
They tell me.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
About his job because he was like he was AI
because he was the Philly reporter when AI came up
and he got the most access to AI.

Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
But that was thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
Yeah, but I thought I thought the would trying to
fire him over something, and then he was suing ESPN
and they end up backing down and giving him the contract.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
Now that I don't I don't remember. That doesn't vaguely sounds.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
Famil vaguely sounds smoth. I'm gonna have to be fact
checked on that one. But I believe you know, I'm
not gonna say it's a DEI hire or anything like that,
but like he he put pressure on ESPN for something
that they were doing wrong. And ESPN was doing a
lot of wrong back then, you know, firing people for
no reason.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
See, that's the thing that drives me crazy. Like you know,
the even if the league, the league doesn't care, because
the league, I take that back, the league wants Steven A.
Smith because they drive he drives up interest the fact
that ESPN fires guys like Zach Lowe or other NB

(01:33:52):
like really good NBA journalist, NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
Reporters JAML Hill to actually pay Stephen A the equivalent
of a six man salary in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
This was his response when he went on Serious XM
on one of the shows I think it was Leglar's show, uh,
and talked about the incident.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
I can ask you a question.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
I should also be playing a little game on my phone,
that's right, like I'm doing so yeah, I mean, what's
going on here? And I was. I was doing what
the hell I always do. And for those out there
who don't like it, kiss my ass. When I'm watching
the game. I'm watching the game. If there's a break
in the action. It could be a dead ball, it
could be a time out of something like that. I
could play the damn thing for two seconds. Somebody is

(01:34:35):
standing over me upper deck, zooming in on my phone,
watching me and saying, Oh, he's playing Solitaire. He's not
com he's not focusing on the game. I watch over
one hundred games a year. I want TV every morning
for two hours, ten hours live every day. And that's
just one job. That don't count, count down, that don't

(01:34:56):
count Sports Center, that don't count all the obligations that
I have. And I'm sitting there and getting a little break,
and I like I want And I mean if I said,
if this halftime, I might go on my phone for
two minutes to play Solidity. At the end of the game,
before a game, I do the safe thing.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
Damn it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
If you had had a little break in between, I
might have been Brandity again because I like the game.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
How did you do that particular game? I want that
particular It could be what a suck up question? That is, well,
how'd you do in that game? Well? I won that game?
Like if he had lost it, what was what's he
gonna say? There? Like a little question, such a suck
up question.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
Also on his originals behind the screen and asked that question.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
He got community noted when he said, like it was
during a time out, and it was like Stephen was
on Solitaire on his phone while.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
The game was being played. Keep playing at LG.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
That's what I'm saying. They don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
I'm looking at the solid. Hey, god, I work.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
I could be about porn at an NBA Finals game
that I'm supposed to be giving analysis on. It could
have been worse. It could have been porn. I could
have been watching some girl getting railed.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
It's so it's so stupid, and the stupidest thing about
the point is this the point? It literally it does everything,
It does everything he wants. It gets reactions like this
again going back to we could always talk exactly there's accountability.
Is just you persecuting me for being myself. I watch

(01:36:42):
one hundred games a year, Well that's your job. And
and at the end of it, it was just solitary.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
It could have been porn, like what are we even doing? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
What are we even doing?

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
And then then during again during the NBA Finals, they
do a segment about the Memphis Grizzlies, which Jahn Morant
responds just randomly tweets out talking about the grizz more
than the finals, and it was after they had just
they had made the Desmond Bane just saw that man.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
But Steven A.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
Smith had also talked about how specific players had told
him they didn't want to live in Memphis and didn't
feel safe in Memphis. So then Stephen A replies, so
this is what we're doing now, jaw, I recall talking
about the finals, but the grizz made news because of
band getting traded and your possible extension coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Would you prefer I go into details about what the
hell has been going on in Memphis? Well, what the
hell's been going on in Memphis.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Is the crime rate has gone down two years concurrently,
But again that doesn't fit your narrative, or even more,
why players haven't why players have stated they're not interested
in going to Memphis, or even more details more in
all caps, or would you like me to leave well
enough alone and let the great beefs of Memphis address
it on their own. He also loves to use the

(01:38:00):
term peeps and tweets your call I'm all ears.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Like a as someone who has spent like out of
all my life. I like, my dad lived in Memphis.
I went up there every summer for probably six years,
seven years, and I washed cars on the car lot.
And I'll tell you one thing. There's not a white
person there washing cars on a car lot during that

(01:38:25):
Memphis heat during the summer, except me at fourteen years old.
And yes, there are horrible parts of town North Memphis.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
If you ever seen hustle and flow.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
That they ain't lying. Man, I got like, the one
thing Memphis doesn't have is turnarounds. We're so used to
turnarounds here. And I'm going to pick up my dad.
I get lost in the north woods of Tennessee, and
finally about an hour later, I come into I see
the Mississippi River, so I know, just follow the Mississippi
south and I'll know where I'm at and I can

(01:38:58):
get back home. Well, having to go through North Memphis
and having to stop at the first gas station I
saw and about forty people not white, stopped talking and
looked at me.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Unnecessary detail, no.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
Scary, scary detail, Like if you ever been in North Memphis,
know your place. You know what I'm saying. And yes,
nothing happened to me, man, and I was sixteen years old.
They could have jumped me. They could have done that.
But like and any place that's impoverished, like Memphis and
you gotta go from government down, there will be crime.
But that place has been building up slowly for the

(01:39:35):
last twenty years. I've been going up there, you know,
to go visit family and Beal Street is one of
the funnest places on earth. The stadium is right downtown.
There is no reason an NBA player besides it being
a small market and maybe some frustration with the front
office because of like, look they traded away Gasol to

(01:39:57):
the you know, to the Lakers, Powell, you know, not Marcosol,
but like they just haven't made good moves and they're
a small market. But to blame it on the crime
rate is absolutely ridiculous. Even you got you got German Town,
which is like Stone Oak over there, and that place
is beautiful. There is beautiful spots of Memphis, and there

(01:40:18):
are ghetto spots in Memphis, and that's how you know,
you know your surrounding.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
And that's how every major American cit And where's this
energy for Detroit, where's this energy for New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Where's this energy for.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
San Antonio? In certain parts of town, all.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
All of those three cities I named, I have a
higher murder rate than Memphis. Like it's it's not it's
not good to be arguing, well, our murger rate isn't
as high as yours.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
Because it's it's But again, it just feels like.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
Social economics has nothing to do with fancy NBA stars.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
They're not the.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
Ones getting robbed. And like, if we want to talk
about the rash of robberies and stuff like that, I
didn't hear any Memphis star getting robbed, you know what
I'm saying, from their house getting looted.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
No, we have a We get a random cartel hit
in North Star once or twice a year.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
And I mean it's just like they are no way,
shape or form is the crime, especially downtown on Beal Street,
unless you're walking at four o'clock in the morning down
a dark alley, and you're probably the problem, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Yeah, if you find yourself walking down a dark alley
at four a m. That's not like whatever happens.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
To you, you did, you don't deserve it, but you
put yourself that you're trying to find trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
Yeah, you know, you know what I'm saying, Like it
just feels.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Like such a trying to find something, such a selective shot. Yeah, exactly,
Cherry Street in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Yeah, it feels like such a selective response to that
job out.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
That's such a cop out. Man, Like I heard like
Memphis is. I'm like Memphis was no more dangerous than
San Antonio, no more dangerous in LA that I've been
to San Diego, South San Diego near Tirjuana, Like it
gets rough down there, you know, like everywhere has got
the rough parts, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
And also everywhere has the stone oaks or.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
The dominions I don't know, heights or whatever. Yeah, everywhere,
like and there's very like there's icon ofy I mean,
you got you know, Elvis's house, you got Beal Street,
like I said, which is like you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Got the best pro pyramid.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
Which has a which has a wall Burgers in there.
That place is actually kind of fun. I went there,
you know, you get to see the big old list.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
It was good. There's a lot I want to stay.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
I watched you get Yeah, I didn't know there was
hotels there until like I went in there and finally
took the kid cause I had that brought the kid
there and I was like, I was like, we're going
to the pyramid. I was like, this is where they
used to play. I went there when they played basketball.
You know, that's where the Grizzlies played. And I went
to a concert there, and like I walked in there
and I'm like, is that a hotel room? And you

(01:42:59):
can the hotel room up a little pyramid man and
go to the very top. It's very beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
I just I mean as good to see that muddy Mississippi.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
It's a good it's a good for you. That observation
deck they have up there.

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
I I again, like when steven A Audio, Steven A.
Smith audio comes across, I usually ignore it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
And for some the clure that was the most uncultured
crap I've ever heard of my life.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Well, again, it feels like he's clearly shaping up some
future aspirations in some form. Whether he actually does go
down the political route.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Is he's clear he's doing more appearances.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
On uh, you know, conservative leaning podcast and having more
which again I think I think that is actually great
because The biggest problem I think we have right now
is that people don't actually talk to each other.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
So if it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
Real authentic conversation, that's great, But I think a lot
of this is more posturing than authenticity, which is kind
kind have always been his mo.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Steven is on time out from the barbecue for a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
Yeah, just for a minute. Lastly, before we move on
to the lightning round. We talked a lot Monday about
the KD trade and I thought it would be done
by now we are sitting here, so update. I think
a lot of the reason why it's not done is
because apparently Minnesota and Toronto have kind of stepped back
a little bit and said, look, he's making it clear

(01:44:29):
because we talked about how Kd's agent and people around
him are talking to certain media members and the Spurs
front office is talking to Shams and other media members
and they're you know, trying to build leverage through the media,
which is which is what the NBA does more than

(01:44:49):
any other league. Well, it seems like Kadi's winning that
leverage struggle, that leverage battle right now because him saying
making it own public that Minnesota and Toronto are not
gonna get extensions from him if they trade for him,
which only leaves san Antonio Houston really maybe Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
And did you hear that Houston has his brother there
who is a coach or like an assistant coach.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Houston still feels like Houston feels like the team that well,
like we talked Monday, they still.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
They still want Castle or are number two, which and
we're not gonna give it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
To him, right and if even if you even if
they take that requirement out of the deal and still
ask for SOHND, I still don't think the Spurs are
necessarily ready to pull that trigger either.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
We'll take like you don't get another one pick. I
think they're going to take a one pick away.

Speaker 2 (01:45:47):
Someone's going to blink because KD is gonna get moved.
And I think the team that blinks is going to
be a combination of the Rockets make their package just
a little bit better. And the Sons say, all right, fine,
we'll take it like you've. All you've got to do
is be san Antonio's offer and we'll we'll do the deal.
So we the weight continues. But and here's what I

(01:46:09):
think about it. Oh well, yeah, yeah, I mean we
talked Monday. How much does it actually.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Move the needle?

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
It'd be fun to watch for three years, it would
be I mean, let's see what we can do. But
like I think I'd be a little bit more excited
to see what we can do with our youth.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Yeah, and be patient the youth. Yeah. Uh. Well, I
had one more note of talking Lebron who talked a
little bit about ring culture.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
But let's do the lightning round starting off. I mentioned, uh,
talked a lot of baseball in the first segment, but
we didn't talk a lot of college baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
We have.

Speaker 3 (01:46:52):
There was a lot of concern that Pat Hallmark, the
UTSA head coach who just led them to their most
successful season ever, a lot of concern that he might
be on his way out. And then we got direct
reports that San Diego State was actually in contact with

(01:47:14):
him about their open job.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Well, fear not.

Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
He signs a four year a new four year contract
to stay at UTSA. Oh it is a massive, massive raise.
I think he goes from he goes from like one
hundred and eighty thousand up to three hundred and twenty
three hundred and forty thousand, so huge rais.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
We have a custom baseball park for them out there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Well now it's the bird Bath. Still could use some improvements,
some money in there, so that's that's the other part
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Though he got commitments from the university specifically for.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Some NIL funds and some.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
Developments of the facility, So Hallmark stays. The other college
baseball note I had earlier today, Coastal Carolina out of
the Sun Belt are now the first College World Series finalist.
They will be in the Final Series.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
They won their twenty sixth straight game today. That is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:48:13):
What is the record. I'm like it we got to
And that's.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
A good question because you see it a lot like.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
If they went out, that's gotta be close.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I remember a few years ago Dallas Baptist team had
won a shit ton of games in a row. But
normally with these small you know, Coastal Carolina from the
Sun Belt, normally it's you know, they're beating up on
their smaller conference teams. Still good teams, but not you know,
you're not playing an SEC Big ten, Big twelve schedule.

(01:48:46):
You're beating up on the Sun Belt teams. But then
Coastal they haven't lost a game the entire tournament run.
I mean all those A lot of those twenty six
are well, not a lot, not the majority, but you
know the last run of those twenty six have all
been in the tournament. So we know one finalist. As

(01:49:08):
we wait to see Arkansas and LSU playing each other tonight, saw.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
LSU yep, LSU has walked it off.

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
So there is a LSU versus Coastal Carolina for the
College World Series.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
There you go, all right, hit me ALG you time.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
We have one of our greatest R and B artists
is alleged that another plot to kill him.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
He got rushed to the hospital for an overdose. He
is saying he is being plotted on to get killed
by TMZ, the most trusted source. Yes, and this is
the second time. And it's some guy named Bop or
Mop or something like that in there who has said
I'm going to kill you. And he kept on being like,

(01:50:01):
let me get out of here, let me get the.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Early release, sure, early release.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
But you know, like, yeah, he gotta rush to the
hospital for a drug overdose and he said there's a
plot to kill him.

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
Are you referencing R Kelly?

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
R Kelly?

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Okay, okay, all right, I didn't see this.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
R Kelly all right, all right, he.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
Was he was good.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
Trapped in the closet. That was a banger.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
No, R Kelly is want to leave?

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
I can.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
R Kelly is one of the greatest examples of separating
the art from the artist.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
Yes, it's uh.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
Have you tried to hear him? Try to read well?

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
But I just remember the interview with Gail King where
he melted down.

Speaker 1 (01:50:40):
How young is too young?

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
You have to ask?

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
You're already losing hit me, lg alive, you're coming with me?
Other TMZ related news one of the chefs that I
have seen the most on Food Network and Burrill dead
fifty five. Yeah, so they found her unconscious in her
Brooklyn home, unresponsive, unconscious and was doa upon arrival to

(01:51:10):
the hospital and fifty five.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
You always what did they what did they classify it? Nothing?

Speaker 3 (01:51:16):
Nothing, No cause of death given yet, and no issue
of suspected.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Foul play either.

Speaker 3 (01:51:25):
So it kind of feels like there's still might be
waiting on some toxicology reports and whatnot to try to
figure out if it was a you know, a sudden
cardiac event or if you know, there potentially.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
Was something else that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
I I long fear the like random brain aneurysm. So
anytime I see someone that is, you know, wasn't reported
in bad health and only fifty five years old, granted,
and she looked she was like the female guy Fieri.
She had the same like bleached hair with wild ass
like that she was a rock star exactly, and so

(01:52:03):
maybe it was, uh, maybe there was actually rock star.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Living behind the scenes, because fifty five is you know,
I'm I'm almost I'm almost forty, Like I say, I
said the number fifty five a lot differently than I
used to. Yeah, a little concern hit me.

Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
Olog all right, we had a Florida man, Florida man
making appearance banned from an aquarium attempting to baptize an
octopus in the name of the deep Ones. This man
jumped in to the aquarium, snatched up an octopus, held

(01:52:44):
it above his head, and performed an ancient sea write.
And he kept calling it brother Paul, Paul, Brother Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
I think my favorite detail of this is the name
brother Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:52:58):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
Yeah, like this guy's.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
Fall on the road to Damascus.

Speaker 1 (01:53:03):
So he got so he's no longer welcome at this acquarium.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
Oh no, way, no, no, that's a good old that's
a good old Southern baptism me. Man, you know, do
you remember the do you remember the guy who jumped
He got butt ass naked and jumped into the aquarium
at the at the bass pro shop. And the worst
thing about it is like.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
Didn't get like a bacterial infection?

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Well I don't, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
Whatever infection he might have gotten was not worse than
the public uh, the public shame of everyone laughing at
his little tiny, a.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Little you got a little tackle, a little little bait on.
It looked like a rubber worm lure. It was. That's
the worst hit me, lg Oh, little bit of NFL
related move or news here real quick. Cowboys cheerleaders getting
a four hundred percent raise. So what is that like?

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Thirteen hundred dollars world.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
So I have it tracked here.

Speaker 3 (01:54:05):
So they got two they had in twenty nineteen, they
were getting paid two hundred dollars a game.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
It's ridiculous how much he got paid.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
So at that point there was there was a lawsuit
to that. Four of the girls' former cheerleaders had filed
against the team, and that got settled and part of
that settlement like it wasn't it wasn't one of the
sexual lawsuits that would follow That one was just a

(01:54:35):
pay us more lawsuit. So it got bumped from two
hundred to four hundred and twenty nineteen. And then in
twenty twenty two, when a former PR guy, Rich Dalrymple
was caught allegedly videoing the cheerleaders changing in the in
the locker room.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
Then what was that video called?

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
Then we got a no, their settlement that came out
that didn't bump up their total pay, but it guaranteed
them like they were now getting actual like salary. It
wasn't just a contract work because they were right.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
You know why they tend ninety nine them so they
didn't have to No, no, they didn't have to give
them Super Bowl rings.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Oh well yeah that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:55:23):
You're not part of the team. Well, independent contract.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
I haven't had to worry about that lately, Yeah, didn't.
But now they will be getting sixteen hundred dollars a game,
so they're going right on dan. Yeah, yeah, it's going
to be close to a six figure salary now.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
And they're like, you get all your money from appearances
in the calendar and all this other stuff. Do it for.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
You're not going to get to dance your whole life.
You're only going to be young, don't You're the passion.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
Of don't talk to these millionaire football players. Don't you
dare go out with them and set up your life
exactly like the glitz and glamour that you always want.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
The other NFL news I had this something else I
don't normally get real turned up about or torked up about.
The NFL released an all quarter century team. So we're
talking the best fifty three man roster from the year
two thousand until this year. Take one guess on who

(01:56:26):
the starting running back is on the quarter century team.
I will give you five guesses.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
Dude, don't tell me it's immitt Nope, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
No quarter century.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
I know. Just I thought they'd do something stupid like that.
The quarter century best running back I would have to
go Adrian Pearson.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
Not even on.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
So they did three running backs and one practice squad
running back.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Not even in the top four. No Adrian Peter.

Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
Oh okay, let's go what other two thousand Derrick Henry.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
So Derek is the third string running back. The second
string running back is an active player right now to
McCaffrey's number two.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
And then you got one that's not an active quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
Neither of your starter or your fourth string practice squad
guy on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
Marshall lt lt is your practice squad guy. And Marshall
fowk Nope, this one, I guarantee you you will know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
I'm never gonna get it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Chris Johnson's that's a really really good guess. And it's
someone who had a similar two thousand yards three years
of excellence.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
And then Jamal Now you're getting really really close. Not
Jamal Charles, but the guy who did it right before,
Jamal Baltimore former he was at Baltimore first and then
went from Baltimore to the Chiefs former Texas Longhorn priest.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Home Priest Holmes.

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
That is who they have as the starter.

Speaker 1 (01:57:57):
I mean he was the quarter He was a UD
but for like three years, so the three this is
what they say, the three year.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
Other running backs might have had longer peaks, but none
of them can match the three year period that Holmes
had from one to three. In Advanced d way a
Dyar Metrics for Total Value, which is just one of
these nerd analytics where they so the three seasons that
they say were unmatched. In two thousand and one, he

(01:58:27):
had the fifteenth highest overall value running back season in
league history. In two thousand and two he had the
second highest, and in two thousand and three they had
he had the third highest ever.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
Say he set the touchdown record.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
Touchdowns and he the you know he had like well
he had basically like he averaged like sixteen hundred yards
rushing in each of those seasons, but also had receptions.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
I would still have them and Adrian Peterson.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
Not be exactly like exact.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
The longevity, the just pure beastiness. And we're not even
talking about Marshawn Lynch. It's just because Marshawn Lynch, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
He played James.

Speaker 3 (01:59:09):
There's a few names that you could you could come
up with or even roster with.

Speaker 1 (01:59:13):
The Frank the third running back yards.

Speaker 3 (01:59:17):
Yeah, like I said, I don't normally get to and
the receivers, we could do the same thing because they
were about the same quality. Hit me, Hit me again, LG.
Couple more before we get out of here. I mentioned
one of.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
My favorite shows, Drop dropped the trailer earlier today. It's
always sunny will be premiering July night, and and other.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
So we were talking Golden Bachelor. Apparently Frank is gonna
be on. Frank is going to be the Bachelor.

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
I dropped my magnum condom on the ground here. Oops.
A lot of shows like The Wars, Bang Wars.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
My spare time entertainment News, the something else. I'm excited
about the long awaited third installment of Danny Boyle's Zombie
years later. It is one on Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (02:00:18):
Oh man, I think that's scary movies. Give me, I'm
gonna watch that one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
It's one of the ones. I'm a big too, but
that's one that I am willing to face my fears on.
And then LG hit me one last time.

Speaker 1 (02:00:32):
Oh give me one more.

Speaker 2 (02:00:34):
Well, you're closing it, I thought, uh, all right, go
for it. Local News to close it out here.

Speaker 3 (02:00:41):
We did get a reschedule of Shakira's concert that's coming
down July fifth.

Speaker 2 (02:00:46):
Now, so yay traffic, celebrate, Celebrate July fourth, and then
go to the Shakira concert the next day, fifth, July fifth. Yeah,
it's gonna be quite a circus down there.

Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
But have you all been following this story of someone
putting muscle relaxers and banana bread down in Pleasanton, oh Man.

Speaker 1 (02:01:10):
Someone was just selling banana bread the other day.

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
It everywhere and I've never man all of it, right,
So they were apparently selling it at the local at
the water Burger down trying to.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
Hook them so they can sell more of it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense because it's
not like it wasn't like the specific drug that was
used wasn't one that's like.

Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
It. They put it in with the battery. Yeah, but
it's not.

Speaker 3 (02:01:34):
It's not a one that you would necessarily want to
get people hooked on because it doesn't have a whole
lot of streak market.

Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
There's not a.

Speaker 1 (02:01:45):
Meth and oxy.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
You gotta think just banana bread, don't poison, make it go.
I don't need to be sitting in a more turno
at two am, closing the bar down and having the
guy selling me banana bread was zana.

Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
That would be the best banana bread ever, all right,
hit me, LG, No, sir, I didn't like it. No,
I like this one. See uh see if you got
me cued up here, LG. Me and the puma, we
uh we gave you a little Oh, we told you,
UH gave you a little teaser about uh one of

(02:02:23):
my friends arm wrestling him on Sunday night. Let's see
if we got the video of it. And oh and
I and I only shoot in the best quality of video.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
No one, what a shame. LG is not gonna have video.

Speaker 1 (02:02:41):
All right, this is one of those whale videos. We
were going to tune this up for Monday on the
on the other one that we also talked Monday, because
I couldn't get the exact facts off the Raphael Devers
conspiracy theory about the uh. The the group that owns

(02:03:03):
the Boston Red Sox also owns.

Speaker 2 (02:03:07):
Liverpool. They own, they own a bunch. It's a Fenway
group and they.

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
Just and they just signed a two hundred and fifty
mili that might go to three hundred mil midfielder and Liverpool.

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
Yeah, so they can spend money there.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
They might have got rid of that three hundred dollars
Rafael Devers thing. And now Devers is on the tune
of I'll play first base.

Speaker 2 (02:03:30):
I don't don't care. It is funny how quick he
was willing. How do whatever the team needs?

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
Yeah, I'm all in, all right, Well, LG get us
out of here tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
Lucky you, Lucky Lucky.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
This one my pride Another night, NBA Finals Game six
tomorrow night. Also, if you're not doing anything, my buddy
from Austin his band is playing at the Starlighter tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
So I believe what type of music we got.

Speaker 3 (02:03:55):
It's like like indie festival, rock festival rock. Southbound is
the name of his band. They think going on sometime
around ten, So I will be out there tomorrow night.
If you want to follow along on x at Biggest
Puma Instagram, Biggest Dot.

Speaker 1 (02:04:11):
Puma Instagram, The Captain two one zero.

Speaker 3 (02:04:15):
Until next time, y'all have a great weekend. Be safe,
speaker on that TikTok peace perpetually.

Speaker 2 (02:04:24):
Kids. What do we say about drugs? Yeah,

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