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June 18, 2025 38 mins


The boys tell it like it is.. From Saquon's 2025 workload to the ineptitude of the WNBA to the dominance of Le Pantere to the - I actually forget what else we discussed although I do vaguely recall that $10 billion dollars changed hands during the taping of the show and not a punk nickel went to improving it's content, aestheics, or the overall sine curve rythm of the thoughts expressed on the minutes within that none of us will ever get back Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yeah, that's the big dog on low again. Everybody. Welcome
to another episode of the Philly Pulse, Your City Sports Speed.
I'm your host, Joe Staysack, along with Coast Michael Warren
Sean Lockner in the house.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
What's up, fellas, what's going on? It's like eighty something
inhumid and someone's overdressed with a.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Sweatshirt, little bet, little bet?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
So are you just paying like two hundred dollars a
day for air conditioning so you can lounge around in sweatshirts?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
And I've done it. Joe's house is freezing the other night,
the other night when I can have a shawl. The
blanket man, your house is cold, and he goes, oh shit,
I forgot.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You wouldn't hear. You wouldn't expect this from a guy
with a Disney Princess castles in his background. But I
do like my blankets. I like being chilly, and.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I like that coldness.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And I'm not embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Who's ready for some hardcorese sports talk.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, all right, listen, I'm gonna hit you with Eagles
because it's not a lot going on. Yep, Sekwan Barkley.
This is a concern a little bit of a concern
his workload last year. I know we talked about it
a little bit, but you'd really know what it is.
His workload last.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Year total touches, I mean he's had carries.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
It was got second most ever ever by anybody. Well
for the four James Wilder played for the Buccaneers who
just hit the playoffs. I remember four hundred and ninety
two touches one year. Anyway, Barkley, four hundred and eighty
two carries. You know about the curse, the curse three seventies,
curse of three seventy. If you hit three seventy, that

(01:35):
magic number, your shot the next couple of years, unless
your name is Derrick Henry, all right, like Larry Johnson,
Eddie George, all those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
DeMarco Murray. When the Eagles got to make eight.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Ninety two, it has seven something the next year and
only played two more seasons after that. Well, Barkley, including
playoffs second most all time for eighty two, had a
wonderful year. You guys concerned about this at all?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Coming on?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I was concerned about him last year when we got Saquon,
I was like, I love the idea. Is he gonna
stay healthy. He already had health concerns. They it's worth
it if they only get that one year out of
him at that level.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm not expecting that again.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I would put I'm not a gambling person, but I
put money that that's not gonna happen again.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I don't think it will either.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
But and he's on the Madden cover.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Did they this guy's got a lot of curses on
him this going into this year? He just just two
diloicapter Did they double down on him? And and like, listen,
they're gonna be in a playoff push, all right? You
can you only go to Will Shipley and aj Dillon
that many times and then you need twenty six. He
averaged twenty touches a game last year, didn't even need

(02:39):
them all the time. And he's one of the few
guys I've ever seen that can score at any time
from anywhere on the field, like Deshaun Jackson is rookie
eight touches, eight touchdowns from fifty or more. When you
have a guy that you have to know where he
is at all times, and even when you do, he
still can bust one for seventy yards. That's how valuable
he is. I don't think it's going to happen again.

(03:01):
That was an amazing year. No one's ever rushed for
two thousand and twice. Derek Henry came close this year.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
But do they dial back a little bit or do
they dial back until they need him?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Should they or will they? Remember they had this issue
with Westbrook when he was in his prime. They would
go and think, we got to limit them, we got
to limit him, And after games, Andy was like, I know,
but when you're in the course of a game and
you need to dial something up, what am I supposed
to do?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I want to go to him, That's what I'm saying,
So I don't. It's football. What are you saving him for?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, apparently get it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
They gave him two more years on top of the
three years. I get twenty million a year, highest paid
running back. When they need him, I'm sorry, you gotta
call his number.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, agreed. He's apparently resting right now where there's like
a a fence football activity. He put up a fence
so he doesn't want anybody to He's probably.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Doing it himself too, I'm sure, totally, yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Totally, absolutely. Bo Jackson is probably helping him too.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, I think but you know what. He also hinted
subtly that maybe he's only going to play another couple
of years. If that's the case, hand off the twenty six.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, here's the thing. It wouldn't shock me that that
extension he signed this is it wouldn't shock me.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well that's four more years, I mean two more plus
the three. I'll take four more years of twenty six. Listen,
if he never touches the.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Ball again, I'll retire his number.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I worship the fence he puts up, seriously. I worshiped
that friend forever in all time. That was the most
unbelievable year, got us all super Bowl phenomenal stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I say, honey, honey, that guy that's got that next
thing on, that weird guy with the christ he's outside
back again.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Joe. Just tell your girls not to put toilet paper
on his fence, Like just skip it, go to the
next tower, for.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
They know what their friend is. The one who pointed out,
like I was like, you know, Saquon is around here, Julia,
I go for her, and my daughter goes, yeah, oh
I didn't tell you that. Yeah she knew that like
a year ago. What it lives right next to her. Okay,
whatever I thought. I stalked him, all right. I thought
the Phillies a little bit. And one five or six
last night, Lozardo he kind of pitched. You know, it

(05:11):
kind of worked pretty fast. I wanted to I heard
he wanted to watch the Panthers. Wouldn't it huge? Yeah,
huge Panthers fan. Apparently it was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
John Kruck came. They mentioned in the beginning of the show,
you know, uh Lozardo being a huge uh BLARTI Panthers
fan coming back home starting against his former team. He
was interviewed before the game and you know, said it
was a little weird, you know, keep on looking over
at the Marlin's bench when he realized he had to

(05:40):
walk over to the Phillies bench instead after every out,
but said that he was going to work rather quickly
because he was eager to watch the Panthers win the
Stanley Cup. And Kruck tongue in cheek is what he
hoped because as he fell fell apart.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I gave up four on runs five and I really hope,
I really hope he was. By the way, nice job
by the Panthers. They just I know it was tied
to too and they that epic comeback and game shush,
that epic comeback by the Oilers are game. I don't
even know how they won two games because when the
Panthers decided to play since that game they tied, they

(06:17):
outscored him ten to three the final two games and
they scored twenty eight goals in this in the series,
which was a record. Like they destroyed them and it
was too too. Going back to Edmonton, what did you
think of that performance? Because you know how harder is
to get to the finals. They've been there three straight times.
They've won too. That's that's dynasty.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
So they might be there again.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Next year and nobody deserves it more than the fans
of Sunshine Florida. I mean to think about it.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Both carps in six years, by the way, for Florida.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Florida, because Tampa Bay was for a while, I mean
Tampa Bay. Just to give anyone an idea of anything
outside the Buccaneers for them, because even that probably took
him a while until they won. You mentioned James Wilder.
There's a reason he got four hundred and ninety two carries.
They couldn't do anything else here, take it nothing here.
When the Phillies played were about to start the World
Series against Tampa in two thousand and eight. I remember

(07:06):
reading an article online from the Tampa Bay Times, which
is their newspaper down there. It was like ten bullet
points of things to know about baseball. It was like
how I'd explained it to my nine year old daughter.
I couldn't believe. I was like, is this really the
education they need for my God, your team's in the
World Series and you guys don't know what a double
play is.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
It was fun. I covered out. I went down to Tampa.
It was a different experience than the next year when
we coupled played the Yankees, completely different experience. They had
us on every morning show they had and like they
almost like wanted us to educate them on baseball. It
was We're gonna beat you guys, and you're not.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
But that's well, Joe tell us, because I've heard that
sometimes a play can have more than one out.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
You mentioned that.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's crazy. The Panthers, I'm just
I just pulled something up from our how Kevin kinkaidd
crossing broad Their cap situation next year is pretty damn
good and they only have like three major free agents.
Who is the Anthers, So the chances of them doing

(08:16):
a three peat, holy shit.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
And it's the biggest three peat that no one will
ever know about, the biggest, the best kept three peat.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
The tax free three pat right.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's a shame because when you do get into hockey,
it's such a fantastic sport.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
The Cup presentation is outrageous. I'm sorry, it is outrage
even if you're not a hockey fan, that big silver
thing you only see a few times a year. They
actually have a guy on full.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Time shall yeah watches the stories that man can tell.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
He tells I mean, right, But they did a nice
job Marshawn Tarashenko. They kind of developed the cons winner.
What was his name? That was last night, Babosky number
nine at fifteen goal anyway, Shamu, Sam Bennett, thank you.
They're so deep because the other side you have McDavid

(09:12):
in dry shaddle and after that epic comeback disappeared. That's
all they have really, they don't have. Goaltending was not
good by either Hitim or the backup second time in
a row making them to the finals. But you know
they had to come back from three games to none
down when the Panthers kind of right their foot off
the pedal. Then they shoted to play in Game seven.

(09:34):
But what do you do if you're Edmonton? I mean
with you have two of the greatest players on the planet,
but you don't have the team around it, because the
Panthers were just deep and they just kept coming at
you and waves and waves.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
You're right, Joe, and you said that weeks ago, and
you're right. The more I was watching, I was like,
stays act right, Like they just they're just too much.
And I think you like him to liken them to
the Devil's like maybe twenty five years ago, where it
was not necessarily fun to watch, but you just can't
beat them. I remember some Dutch guy I knew years
ago would say it about Germany in the World Cup.

(10:07):
He's like, they're not good, but you can't beat them.
And I was like, kind of how I feel about Florida,
Like there's nothing it's gonna stand out or flashy, but
they're just too much.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Facially, when you pull the goalie with six minutes left,
what's that either pulled right?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Amazing stuff? Hey, another champion could be coordinated tonight. Oklahoma
City thunder. And here's why I want to bring them up,
not only because they're one game away, and even if,
even if Indiana was really healthy, it does seem like
Oklahoma when they're home, there's always like a ten point
I know Indiana and you know I kind of always

(10:47):
shrinks it and they get close and sometimes stage and
epic comeback. But Oklahoma City is clearly, in my opinion,
the better team. They built a team. They didn't have
to tank, they didn't have to go through the process.
They been in the finals twice in a little over
a decade. They've built it from scratch. Why can't the
six Er do anything like that? Remember they were in

(11:08):
the finals against a couple of years of Dallas a
long time ago, and then during the finals again it
looks like they're gonna win one. Sixers kind of their
only way to kind of develop a team was the
the process with Sam Hankey. Can the Sixers not put
something together? I know that the drafts coming up in
a few days, talking about guys from Rutgers, not the

(11:28):
kid from Duke. What are your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I feel like they get in their way all the time,
all the time, decisions, bad decisions, all the time, and
then when they they always make the decision three years
late to the party, you know, like, oh, oh, three superstars,
it's the way that we have to win the NBA title. Yeah,
let's let's try to do that. Let's try to get James.

(11:53):
Didn't work, Paul George, Oh he played one game. Okay.
Oh look now the NBA is real, real young and
winning young, and you know, our fearless leader comes out
and says, oh, we need to get young. Well, no shit,
you got to get young, Like, come on, I.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Just there's plenty of people that think that, not just
Embid personally, but that a seven to two superstar isn't
the way to go anymore. I can, but you can
make the argument. I'll make the argument against it. No
one else has an EMBID. I don't care. He's better
than Cat went healthy.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of course, we saw the best that we saw the
best of Embiid.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I know it shocked me.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
It would shock me if he is anywhere close to
what he originally was next year and the years to come.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I mean, the are we at the moment? I felt
like when the Sixers got rid of Larry Brown and
I just thought, so now we're just gonna watch iverson Rod. Yeah,
I think we're at the moment where we watch him rot.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
No.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think it's a shame because I'm a big Embid fan.
I mean, yeah, he's a little goofy.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
But I it sucks. I mean again, here's another player, Okay, Alan, Alan,
one of the greatest basketball players ever played for the
for this team TV every night, absolutely, but didn't take
care of himself, didn't work out like you should have,
didn't maintain his body, Kate a healthy body. You can
make the argument then bead is doing the same exact

(13:16):
thing with.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
A body that can't handle it to begin with. Yes,
and is a lot of weight and on on the joints.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
And they coddled him. They coddled him, they babied him
because it was a baby, and it just they're getting
their own way. I hope they make the right decision
draft night. I mean, it sounds with the whole acet
Bailey thing. It sounds like they want to stay away
from him, which I think is the right thing.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Trust your gut.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, I really liked VJ. Edgecombe, but I do love
me some Trey Johnson. Oh man. I just think I
just think having that tall point guard with Maxie Man.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Maybe Cooper flag falls to three.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
You don't know, maybe no, maybe maybe a video of
him taking a hit from like a mask or something
will come out, you know, yeah, yeah, maybe Tonsil will
repeat and he'll drop right to us. But then, of
course as he walks up, he trips and breaks his
ankle and he's out the first year.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hey tell him he could take the first year or
two off.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Do you like Chick fil A?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
I want to go back to hockey real quick. He's
going to leave me another story. But we're talking about
this and hockey just doesn't get his due. And I know,
I mean, you guys seem to like it. I have friends,
close men that really like it and we laugh about this.
It doesn't It doesn't offend me. But I don't get it.
Like I live in the same country everyone else does,
and speed, physicality, quickness, athleticism, it's to me. I don't

(14:54):
I don't get it, like you go a little north
and everyone loves it. Why doesn't it get to play here?
And I'll tell you why? Uh I say this. I
watched Colin Cower today for an hour. I didn't see
a mention of it. There was Caitlin Clark all over
the place, and I'll get to that story in a minute. Yeah.
I text a friend of mine who I always text
doing the handschecks, it's my favorite tradition. And he says

(15:16):
he said this last night. By the way, he's on
a cruise somewhere in the Atlantic, and uh, where's it?
As he goes right in the middle of the cup skate.
ESPN Caribbean switches over to Padre's Dodgers taking to hockey
right where they presented the cup. That's typical.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well you make you actually make a good point. So speed, power, skill.
These are North American sports values, right. This is not
so with soccer. One of the things that Americans don't
get and never will get is the diving. It's part
of it. The Europeans, the South Americans, they just do
it better. It's part of the culture. It's the way
they play. We had to exchange students in high school

(16:00):
that played on our soccer team and they just they
dove like it was breathing to them. They just know
how to do it. We don't do it right, We
don't value it. Could you imagine if every time Leshawn
McCoy got tackled, he rolled around and grabbed his ankle.
That's wouldn't make any sense to us, the same way
it doesn't in soccer, But you would think we value
strength and speed fighting for God's sake. They let you

(16:23):
do it.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Let you do it in the sport.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
It's not like unless you unless you pull up what's
a Todd Bertuzzi Brashier and Bertuzzi? Is that was that
right there?

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah? Yeah? And where you have like actual police charges
filed because you use the stick in a way you
probably shouldn't have.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Marty mcsquires against the back into seventy Joe Washington got
the rest of them after the game, Celaski, it was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Americans should fall in love with it. I think maybe
it's the weather thing because even where we are, so
we're Philadelphia area people, some people play hockey, but I
think Penn State didn't get Division IE hockey until ten
years ago. Joe, is that right?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah? Recently they were club.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
They were a club team, which trust me, no one cares.
But they got they got do you want to? They
got good really quickly, really good.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I mean yeah, you get stitched up and then you
get right back on the ice and you're you're wearing
your right Absolutely. I think it used to sell. But okay,
so it did. I agree with you, Sean, or maybe
we were into it. It was it seemed to share
more because we were into when we were younger. I
don't know what UH necessarily lost me.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Maybe it was back when I was collecting hockey cards
so I knew who the guys were. Is it how
they market their players? Is there something psychological to having
glass between the fans and them? Are they faces not recognizable?
I'm asking, I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
There's helmets, Like my dad used to say that when
they started wearing helmets, because they early days, you have
Malich with the hair. I mean you Kelly with the hair.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Who was the last one.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Well, they're Craig mctabat, mac tv Lin Dross's boy. So
that ever, that never made a thing to me. I
could see the guys with their helmets on it, but
some people said, yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's It's still better than a face mask in football,
and they don't have a problem.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think they hurt themselves when Batman pulled out of
the ESPN deal.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, but they're back.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
I mean, oh yeah, but now they're back. But okay,
it doesn't happen overnight to bring it right back to
where it was.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
I mean it just felt like it went like it
was weird.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
It was on that land. Remember it was on a
Lance Armstrong for a while.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, it was on Versus. Remember versus.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, that's a good one, good call.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, And.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
They don't get Okay, so is it the chicken or
the egg? Are they not on network TV because they
don't have the fans or they don't have the fans,
so they're not on network TV.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's a good question. I don't know. It just never
seems to get.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
And it's a very expensive sport to play. Yes, I
mean it's just it is very very expensive. But my
cousin's play, My cousin's play. My one cousin's a goalie.
He still plays for like a men's pickup league in
the area. Now, my my, well, it's my cousin Joren. Uh.
She her son's play, and I mean she's she was

(19:23):
a hockey mom. I mean she traveled all over for
those kids.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
So I went to I went to a Flyers, my
first sports playoff game ever, it was Flyers was a
Maple Leafs when Ray Emory was the goalie, and my
friend's nephew was there who had played in high school,
and I was talking to him about it, and he's like,
do you know what ray Emory's pads cost? And I
was like, he's about thirty five hundred dollars that's what it. Now.

(19:49):
That's pro level. But I'm telling you there's not a
huge at the high school level. The probably they're probably
two grand Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Absolutely, But you have to you have to play the light.
I mean, to be a fan. Skates aren't expensive. Oh
tell you it's expensive. You know you have to play
at midnight sometimes four in the morning. Sure.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Again, I mean, here's the thing, Joe, if you're to
do you have to play to be a fan. I
think when you play, it continues your fanship.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well you appreciate it, yeah, yeah, the weird But the
thing about hockey, though, it also draws people that never
played because they're fascinated by how someone does these things
on skates.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
I remember, gosh, when Hugh Douglas it was Comcast Sports
Net where I think Ron Burke took him to his
first hockey game. And the two of them watched it
together and it was like a two minute interview piece.
It was one of the funniest things ever.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I can tell you there's a big difference when
you see it live versus it is one.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Of the greatest. Yeah, sitting up high, sitting up high
to watch the play develop.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
So that's what I told my daughter when sixty dollars
to sit at the top row last January. No, yeah,
you could see everything, the walls right behind his daddy.
She said, I'm kind of scared, I'm gonna fall. I
was like, you know what, back off, I bought all
the tickets. Your uncle Chad can buy you a sprite
or something. There is something that you guys haven't seen this.
I'm gonna send it to you because I have a
screenshot of it. It is hilarious. Do you do you

(21:17):
remember that there was a years ago one of the
Blues series was just I mean, I couldn't care about
the Blues or whoever they were playing, just absolutely brutal.
And this guy on Twitter, this black guy on Twitter,
clearly had never seen hockey before, and they're following his tweets.
Have you seen have you? Did you ever hear about
this now, Okay, I'm gonna send it to you. It

(21:38):
is hilarious. And the guy is talking out on Twitter
what he's seeing. He's like, yo, y'all white people have
been saying, you know, we've been hiding hockey from me
all these lit and he got all into it, and
they're so thrilled. This guy's into it. All the Twitter
people are retweeting, he's blowing up. And so at one
point toward the end of the game, the Blue the

(22:01):
Blues pulled the goalie and the dude, damn always said
fuck it and left.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
That's great, I got it.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
So going to Gloria Run remember the Gloria Run in
that twenty nineteen It was somewhere.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Around there before. And the Blues reached out to him
to offer him tickets for the next playoff game, and
he goes, damn, this is awesome. I'm gonna go. He goes,
I gotta ask you white people, like, who do you wear?
Is it cold out there? I don't know, I've never been.
And this guy everyone fell in love with this dude.
He's all into hockey, and it was so fun for
everyone to see someone that knew nothing about it and

(22:38):
become a fan right on Twitter. But they always said
the goalie said fuck it and left my brother and
my cousins, And I still say that stuff like Dan's left.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
We're breaking news on the podcast. We do what we
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to see Mark Walter, the CEO diversed holding company t

(23:08):
WG Global. Genie Buss will continue to serve in her
role as Lakers governor, but they're selling the majority ownership.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I think they've been crying for that for a while
out there, haven't they.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I don't know. I wasn't really paying attention when I
saw that come across. I was like, wait a minute,
did I read this right? And I was like, whoa well, speaking.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Of ownership, that reminds me of another team because you
mentioned Genie Buss. Did you guys see the story about
Ursa's daughter? Was it Kathleen mm hm ers or whatever?
And I guess she's been doing it even in the
last year before Ursay died. She'll be on the sidelines
with headphones on, listening to all the coach chatter. Oh

(23:51):
really yeah, And she was like, and now from her perspective,
I get it. She was like, well, it helps me
understand everything, to see what actually happened during a game,
and so I can it makes helps me do my
job better as an owner. I thought, okay, that makes sense,
and then Steichen was like, no, it's great. You know,
she listens in. She doesn't talk, but she listens in,
so she knows everything. And I'm thinking, dude, you have

(24:12):
to say that. I guarantee when she takes that headset off,
You're like, is she gone?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Right?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's got to come off as micromanagement to some degree?

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
She does, Like first of all, even though the most
astute football isn't going to know maybe that language of
the verbage it's I can might be able to decipher
a little bit of it, but she's going to be
lost listening to that. I think that's a little, like
you said, micromanaging. How's that going to help her do
her job?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Are you buying that it helps her do her job?
Or do you think that's her way.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Of explain to me how it helps her do her job?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
She said. She made some comment about well, then that
way I know certain things and think, well, is that
money we don't need to spend on certain and I
was like, oh, oh, now you're gonna get your all.
Just yeah, that's the part of the story I read
and I thought, oh, you lost me.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're looking.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
I was just gonna be funny and say she is
an Ursay and we all know that hersays have been
known to say some crazy things.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, you know what, he's in the universe. We love though.
After he died, so many people, players, players.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Come out Yeah, no, I'm not sure. Absolutely, I'm not
taking anything away from him, you know, but.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, but he did go a little nuts I think
in the last few years with some decisions.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
And well Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz made the Eagles go nuts.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, but I mean usually when someone passes away at
a relatively early age. I mean, he wasn't ninety eight,
right exactly, and when you know, everyone's trying to be
respectful and like, you know, hey, he lived life to
the fullest. That means he was getting hammered a lot
on a variety of narcotics and alcohol.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
That, but we kind of do with so who knows
what some of the times he popped off and said
things that they have been under the influence of something.
I mean true, you know, drunken Facebook happens.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Before we wanted. I got to get to this story
because I got a little juice by this, because I
love Caitlyn Clark. Did she scuffle last night? Turned around?
But she there was a scuffle with her and some
of her adversars. She played against one poke in the
eye and another girl knocked her down, and then she

(26:30):
she busted out like a thirty five three point row
for it was cool. It was like I was into it.
You know, I don't usually watch I started watching when.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
She became You and everybody else.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, pretty much. She's fine. I know you're not a
big fan of what's her name played for.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
L angel I can't.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I'll give you the floor if you want.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
You don't. There's not enough time in the day, you
know what to leave Angel Reese alone right now and
stay on Caitlin Clark. I'm I'm just bewildered and a
little bit angry at how the WNBA has managed this
Caitlyn Clark thing. I don't know how to it can
be more.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
She's your golden goose.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
If she there was Teams that have expanded their stadiums
to fit more people for when she comes to town,
and we're all trying to pretend like, oh yeah, but
Diana Tarassi was so I don't care about Diane.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
No one cares about Diane.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
No one cares about Cheryl swoops. I'm sorry. I'm not
saying you weren't a good player. This girl changed the
difference between people watching and people not watching. And I
don't want to hear you sit and complain we don't
get paid enough. Save it. You left her off the
Olympic team because she's not put her at the end
of the bench. I don't care. If you're trying to

(27:44):
grow your sport and grow it globally, why would you
leave her off the Olympic team. That's so stupid. Why
are you dumb? Girls? Yeah, you are dumb if you're
out there trying to hurt her. She's the only reason
someone comes to watch you.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Thank you, Yeah, only reason you're.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Like, I'm looking at it right now.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
But they're so afraid to be disrespectful to the women
that came before her. It's kind of like I mentioned
I think a few weeks ago about the quarterback of
the flag football team saying, well, these NFL guys just
think they can come in here and play, and it's like,
you know, it's you know, it doesn't help. They didn't
do anything to help build it.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Build what.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
The WNBA is the same thing? Build what oh this is?
Build this Big League was? This Big League was build
in the back of Cheryl Swoops and Sue Bird. No
one cares. If we're gonna sit here and say that
the average person doesn't in a sports bar does might
not know who Connor McDavid is. They definitely don't know
who Cheryl Swoops and Sue Bird, Diana Tarasso, don't care.
Maybe Rebecca Lobo because she was kind of hot. That's

(28:44):
the extent. And but they have to, like they put
up this facade. They have to pretend that we're all
great and everyone some of you they are. Some of
them are great players. But there's a difference between like, Okay,
Angel Reese stinks she's terrible, but people watch because of
the around her. Right, you need that, you need Okay,
Sidney Crosby is an all time brand, but he's a villain.

(29:07):
You need the villains, and Angel Recei even said of
weeks ago, I have no problem being the villain good
because that's the only option you got. She's currently trying
to patent the term me bounds, not knowing it's a pejorative.
She's just so dumb and clueless. She's an easy villain
to have. I mean, those tickets on the sky game,

(29:29):
the sky Fever game went from seventy five dollars a
ticket to twenty when Caitlin Clark got hurt and was
announced she was going to miss two weeks with a quad.
I mean, how do you not notice these things? This
is money? You want money, this is financial. She is
the golden goose. And you know what, now you're starting
to hear about some of the up and coming players

(29:50):
because more people are watching. It's funny how that works. Sorry,
I said I would be.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
There wasn't enough time. There was enough time.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I fellas, it's not my strong suit.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Fellas. The Lakers got sold for ten billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Well, the Clippers went for two ten billion.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
That's about right.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's the largest sale of any professional sports team.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Right. So Jerry says he's lot down in uh fort Worth.
He's worth about twelve billion, ten twelve billion.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
And a lot of that value comes from owning the stadium.
Which is that's why the Redskins were so for so long,
the number one franchise I think in sports over man
you and I'm going back twenty five years whatever, because yeah,
they owned the field and a lot of these I mean,
like even still in Cincinnati, because that's how we do
things in Cincinnati. We leased from pay corps. Open. I

(30:46):
want to know what Mike Brown's bank account, like, his
personal bank account looks like.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is it how old is that football stadium in Cincinnati
pay Corps.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I don't know what it's it's it was. There
was there a stadium between that riverfront.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
No, but that was built around the same time Lincoln
Financial Field was right.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Probably it looks it looks pretty new, but it needs
it was kind of like, no I know that, No,
I know that.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
But is there talk that they want a brand new stadium.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well, it has to do with the lease at Peikoorps.
So a lease runs out after this season or next season,
and they're trying to get the state and the county
to chip in for it. Hamilton County, which everyone knows
very well. I'm kidding. I write about this stuff all
the time. I know about local Ohio politics now because
they just chipped in. Ohio just chipped in for Cleveland,

(31:39):
and Cincinnati's like, yo, got another team here, and so
they're working something out there, trying to get the lease extended.
There was talk of the random rumors they might move
to Saint Louis, which was garbage. Florio from Pro Football
Talk suggested maybe for a year they share a stadium
with the Bears. It'll get worked out. There's too much
to lose for everybody, but they want renovations and I

(32:03):
still don't get that to me. If I want to
see a game, I mean, people still go to Fenway.
So now Fenway. I went to school up there, So
Fenway's great to go to a game. One of the
best places to go to a game. If you were
a Red Sox fan, would you go there forty times
a year? Then it gets to be not cool anymore.

(32:25):
It's not a real convenient place, but it's old wooden
seats that are not like the When Jacob's Field came
out in Cleveland ninety four, they were like, oh, the
seats are actually angled toward home plate to make it
was like, oh my god, this is crazy Fenway. You
are probably sitting behind a support pole in a wooden
seat and you're going to pee in a trough when
you go to the bathroom. Has anyone been to Fenway?

(32:48):
Is it still peeing in troughs?

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I've been by. I've never been to it.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I Michelle and I tour. We did a stadium tour there, gosh,
two years ago. Yeah, it was really cool. It was cool.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
It's a great exp I used to live around the
block from it, so I could walk over. But I
was in college who didn't have money for tickets, so
you walk around outside.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Right, That's what I did. That's more ways to the.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Fifth inning and catch a scalper for ten bugs.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
It's at this point, all right, so let me get
the Dodgers now on the Lakers and the Dodgers payroll.
I don't know how they do it. They just keep
buying assets. And can they turn the Dodgers into it
or the Lakers into what the Dodgers are a team of?
Like all star Like if you watch the game last
night with the Padres, they started playing beanball and Padres like, well, listen,

(33:40):
you guys have a roster of all all stars, so
it doesn't matter who's up in the line. We're just
gonna throw it. Everybody get that through. We're just you're
all all stars, so you're all targets. You know, with
the Padres you got like two guys. No, but I
mean they're all and then of course Tany got hit
last night. But I mean, can the Dodgers now on
the Lakers and they turn that team into it?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So to answer your question without answering your question, I
think that obviously there's one big decision they have to make. Yeah,
does Lebron have to go? How do we do it?
And by the way, if Lebron goes, I promise you
Brownie's right behind.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
No way you can't.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
How do you give it to Bronni's taking over.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
He's going forward.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yes, he's passing the torch to his son.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Scored five points for us, supergod.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's my that's my part too, to my father's day
saying that I wrote I'm going to write about Bronni
and Lebron switching, taking the taking the torch.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah, from thirty three points a game to three lable
so that I'm sure that those discussions were had a
million times before they signed. Whatever they were buying is
what do we do with Lebron there's a plan in place,
and is he up after this year? Is he on
a series of one years?

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I thought he was up every year here, Well, I'm
not exactly.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I think he's I think he's got an opt out
every year.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, they have those kinds when you're at that level,
you tell them what you're gonna they give him a
blank check and be like, okay. Handed to Sheila in
the h R H.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, they're not going anywhere. I mean, they're even with Luca.
I mean, do you see him. Do you see him
posting some stuff? He's him working out. He posts his
own stuff like he's at the gym. Luca, I love it.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Hanging out with Ben Simmons, working on his working on
his shot.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Say this, whatever they do, the NBA is better off
when the Lakers and Knicks Celtics are a relative.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Absolutely, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, this PACER's thunder scrap is not gonna last.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Meanwhile, the Knicks are still looking for their coach.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, take your time, I want to.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I'm gonna let's let's roll final thoughts because we got
to wrap my final thoughts. I think the Knicks rehire
Thibodeau going forward.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
That's my that's it's so funny you say that, because
I was wondering if they would do the same exact thing.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
They're gonna hire Thibodeaux again, something, bring them back, Bring
them back? Any final thoughts for boys before we get.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Going final thoughts over here? I got pacers in five.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
I got because I laughed with Sean about this. But
I'm I'm not really tongue in cheek when I shaid it.
Every time I see McConnell in the game, he doesn't
like miss she doesn't make mistakes, she does everything right.
He was he He was running around the other night
in the NBA Finals saying, they can't guard me. TJ.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
McConnell was yelling, they can't art me.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
You're talking to a McConnell fan.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I always thought he was killing it and he put
what's his name back in the game with a with
a bum calf who didn't score a field goal. Haliburt.
I mean, you know he's their star and he couldn't play.
McConnell was killing it. I like your team points in
like eleven minutes. Every time I see him, does everything
like right, Like you know what I mean, Like you seign.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Him to the max. Sign him to the Max Joe.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
If he didn't go to Princeton, he should have Like
that is typical.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Like right, he's totally a pedi career guy.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Away, not gonna dunk on anybody, but he knows how
to run a pick and roll the right way.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
He'll kill you in little ways. We'll just kill you
because he plays basketball. Like you know where bird grew up.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
My final thoughts, Yeah, my final thoughts.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Looks for Hickory. What's that your final Hickory, Hickory, Hickory.
Jimmy Chitwood, Jimmy chip would my final thoughts.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
The Flyers opened up as plus ten thousand to win
the Stanley Cup. Place it a dollar gets me ten
k I'm glad you mentioned that.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
I just have to say this just kind of it's Vegas,
but the Pacers are You have better odds of betting
the Pacers to win next year than you do right now.
And they're in the finals and they've won two games tonight.
Not kidding. The odds are better next year that the
Pacers winning than they are right now.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
And maybe they know where Lebron's going.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'm taking my talents Indiana.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
He loves the bright lights of Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Bring it on, Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Five passes, five passes, all right, we gotta go for
the Philly post. I'm just stage like Michael Warren Sean Lockner.
We'll catch here, appreciate it later
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