December 25, 2025 • 42 mins
Aaron Torres, Monse Bolanos and the crew deliver Xmas gifts to their favorite teams and athletes. Aaron Torres and Monse Bolanos believe the NFL is experiencing some karma while trying to steal Christmas Day from the NBA. College sports have a problem with athletes staying longer than 4 years. That and more!
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
We do hope everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
By the way, I should to mention it every time
coming out of a break, but hope everybody's having a
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Do we have Yeah, we have some people that have
tweeted at us. Everybody who was commented on our video
that was a big hit featuring Lee de lap Here.
Thank you to everybody who's commented we wish you all
up merry Christmas, but whack wombat? That's that's that's the
Twitter says, since Monci and Torres are cheating on their
respective co hosts, will we get a Dan Bayer's and
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Wooed?
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I know?
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gonna make an appearance later on.
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later on.
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What you don't know is, so, so tell how is
Dan gonna make an appearance?
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Speaker 4 (01:34):
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Who knows Buyer Best?
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Okay?
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Jmart Best later that hour, So that'll be really fun.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Stop that, kawhi laugh? All right? So we will be
doing that?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Was that.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Is?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That does not sound like Dan at all?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That is not.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
No, it does not That's not Dan. You're tripping. Somebody
labeled it wrong. That's it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
It was labeled wrong. Somebody messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's just Dan his most uncontrolled moment.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
What made him laugh so much?
Speaker 8 (02:12):
I don't know, but it's in the system still U
isn't it? Hello everyone, I haven't even said hi to
you guys. Yeah, hello Lee to lap Is in Chris prophets.
And guess what, this is the perfect time to bring
all of you in because it is Christmas. I was Sam,
give us a little music, and I'll tell you what
they say during Christmas time, Manci, it is better to
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give than to receive.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And so we are in the festive spirit, and this
is what we're gonna do. We're gonna hand out some
gifts to our favorite players, athletes and teams. I will
give an example, and by the way, people should tweet
in as well. Oh yes, what would your gift be
to your favorite team or athletes? I'll give an example.
Hopefully I'm not stealing anybody's, but the great example that
Manci gave. If we were giving a Christmas gift to
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Joe Burrow, it would be a.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Real line, a real o line for that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So that he can actually stay healthy, which is actually
a Christmas gift to all of us, because I think
all of us want to see him healthy. So we
are giving out Christmas gifts to our favorite athletes, our
favorite teams. You can tweet us at Air and underscore
Torres at Monty Blanio's. But Manzi, since this was your
brain child, I want you to go ahead and about
the first gift.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
And you know what, I do have gifts for even
my non favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh just so you know, I have gifts for everybody, Okay,
because it tis the season, right.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
So my first gift is going to go to Jackson Dart.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, I have a gift for Jackson Dart, and it's
gonna be a book called Concussions for Dummies. Okay, because
this guy thinks they're not a big deal. Sure, and
it's like, no, no, no, you have to protect yourself.
You are no longer in college. You are not playing
against grown men. And I feel like since he took
over the job, every week it's Jackson Dart is in
(03:58):
concussion protocol Jackson, and Dart has left the game. Why
because he's he wants to make the play. I understand
that you want to make the play. But if you're
not healthy and you can't stay on the field, what
play are you gonna make? Jackson Dart? So we want
to see you out there. I want to see what
you're capable of. But you need a concussion for Dummy's book.
(04:19):
That is my gift to Jackson Dart. When you said
Jackson Dart, I thought it was gonna be some play
on a blue tent. For real, I hate to say,
that's kind of what he's known for right now. Can't
stop putting his head.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Down and trying to run over people, which results into
a lot of injuries. All right, I got a couple,
but I'm gonna save him. I want to bring in Iowa. Sam,
you are up. What are you giving your favorite athlete
team whatever? This is not my favorite athlete or favorite team.
But I'm gonna give a shiny AFC Championship trophy right
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to Josh.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Great call.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
He can skip the line, just get right to the
big game and go win it so that we don't
have any more of this, Like Josh Allen, the Bills,
in their window of opportunity, get to the playoffs and
then they just can't get to the super Bowl. Obviously,
the Bills have never won a Super Bowl. I don't believe. No,
they haven't. And so get right to the game, skip
the line and just go play. And I mean I
(05:13):
picked the Rams, so maybe the Rams Bills go go
get there and get your get your Super Bowl for
the for the city of Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That's a really generous gift.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
As someone who was on air in this studio with
Ephraim Salaam during the meltdown yet again against Kansas City
last year, I think that's a great gift.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
That is a great gift.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So thank you, Thank you, Iowa, sam uh lead A Lap.
We know you're a Packers fan, but it doesn't have
to be the Packers. Well, I do have a gift.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
For the package, and luckily I have.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Two of these, but I'm only gonna give it one away.
I'm going to give them an a cl I'm gonna
give them one of my a cls because they could
use two. They could use one for Tucker Craft and
for Michael Parsons. But I'll let them decide.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Who they want. I would prefer, you know, I.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Guess it's a tough decision, but I don't know that's
a tough one because.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I want to make that decision.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I really don't.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
I'll let them decide, But if it were me, I
would say give it to Micah. He's just such a
difference maker. And you know they who was the golden
child for a few weeks this season so far that
the been the Packers that are now, you know Vine
for that seventh seed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think it would just give them that.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Boost, that that Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Spirit they need right now.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So what you're telling us is you love your team
enough to walk with a limp, but not be in
a wheelchair because you only want to give away one.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, you know what I would if I would.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, I would be in a wheelchair for a year
if I could have both of those guys back.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Absolutely, that's a good one. That's love Packers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a bummer as someone who has no skin in
the game, Like, really good story and you just want
to see all these teams competing at the highest level.
A theme of today's NFL games, which, by the way,
Cowboys up thirty to twenty three with fifty four seconds
left against the Washington Commanders. On the news desk with
the updates is Chris Prefet. Now, Chris, you're Alliance fan,
(06:58):
so I know you want Lead Lap to keep his
ACLS intact over there doesn't have to be the Lion, no,
But you know what, I'll.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Save the Lions for another time because I do want
to go to another one. Of my favorites and it's
a little off the branch, but bear with me. United
States men's soccer team, you have a very big World
Cup coming up here. You're already and you're already allowed
in because you are hosting one of three teams hosting
so three automatic bids, which is like, feels wrong, feels
absolutely wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But sure about the college football playoffs, you would never hear,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh man.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
But I want to give the United States some hitherto
unknown superstar to add to their roster because I or
either that or like if anyone's seen dragon ball Z
like a good time, a good time in like the
hyperbaric training chamber that allows them to get super strong.
Because I think there's gonna be a lot of hope
with this US men's team coming up here with the
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World Cup and everything, and everyone kind of casually tunes
in and there's always a few games they play well.
But this is not As someone who does a weekly
report for Frado on soccer, this is not a team
I have a lot of faith in that. Just they
will beat up on some small teams throughout the year.
They'll look good against countries that have no business in
the World Cup and they'll get to the World Cup
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and get completely outclassed and like, you know, it wasn't
that long. It was back in September. They're losing two
goals to Niel to like South Korea. Boligan's been a
cool addition for them out of nowhere, but like they
need someone. Maybe we can go give Mohammed sala like
a US citizenship or something.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
By the way, we do quickly have a final. Dallas
Cowboys got a Christmas Gift Day thirty to twenty three
win over the Washington Commanders Game one in the books,
Chris perffets Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Are up next.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yay, all right, I guess it's up to me. By
the way, that's good. By the way, have you seen
World Cup ticket prices at so far?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
There, they are insane.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
But yeah, it caused a backlash with a bunch of
fans because for people in the rest of the world,
they are not used to paying triple digits or higher
for for sporting events. So the.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I was hoping to take my father to a couple
of games out here, but uh, likewise, you have to
dig in some savings you look at like, yeah, like
the a lot of people in the United Kingdom are
really upset because they're paying a lot to get over
here hotels, and then if the ticket on top of
that and they want to follow, they want to follow
their country around, which means in the United States plane
trips between multiple cities. If for for the UK, for
(09:27):
uh for England.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
It looks like if you're going to be coming from
abroad to these World Cup games, like you're in the
elite economic strata, if you're going to be able to
go to these games, and that's just unfortunate because it
should be something that's uh accessible to the masses.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Very good, Well, Christmas gift to soccer fans, so extra
cash in the seriously all right, I'll do mine really quick.
By the way, Monty, I know you have a lots
of several Okay, we'll get to we'll get to one
more of yours. We'll revisit this. You can tweet us
at your Christmas gifts, uh Era and underscore torres Manzi Polanio.
So so what I am gifting my buddy Adam Silver? Okay,
(10:06):
I think he's the worst commission that I've literally ever seen.
I think he's actually terrible. I'm gifting him a little
bit of common sense and maybe because he's a cowardly lion,
a little bit of a heart. Yeah okay, and maybe
just get off the radar. Maybe it's maybe it is
a trip to Cancun, and just get off the radar.
Because what I do think is today, these Christmas Day games,
(10:29):
I actually think the NBA has a crop of like,
very likable, bright young stars. Victor Winn Banyama, who's playing today.
I know Shay is a little controversial with the follow
stuff whatever, but obviously he's easy to root for. Cooper
Flagg will be playing later today. And I just don't
trust Adam Silver to capitalize on it at all, and
(10:51):
he'll do something stupid now he wants to move the
playing tournament to fog out. Just stay out of the way.
Let the adults do their job market your stars correctly.
That is my gift to Adam Silver. I think what
it really is is just a log cabin in the woods.
Just get out of the way and don't screw up
this this young group of guys, because I think they
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are all very, very, very likable.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I hope that gift. He accepts it, but.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Do not agree some of the older guys.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It's like, listen, I love the older guys because I love,
you know, watching stuff Steph create till this day is
one of the best things.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
You can watch when it comes to the NBA product.
But I agree. There was like.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yesterday Dan Byer Are who were cheating on apparently Dan
Byer made We were talking about the NBA and he
said something.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I was like, huh, I never really thought of it
like that.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
How he said that kind of like a generation skipped
in the NBA, like the of you know where He's going,
you know, of passing the torch, like the Jahn Morants,
Zion Williamson, Oh yeah, that Jason Tatum, Like they're in
the middle that we've kind of like forgotten about because
of the old guys, because of the unks. But now
the new generation seems to actually maybe have the right momentum.
(12:04):
Victor Ian Banyama ye shake Gil just and you could
and Luca. You could put Luca in the younger generation.
But there's like a forgotten generation of players who just
did not get that torch being passed to them.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And it's two things.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
One to their credit the old guys have played well,
like beyond a reasonable amount of time. But I'll say this,
I and I don't want to be negative on Christmas
Day about the NBA, but like, I think it's hurt
the NBA where they have leaned so heavily into Lebron
and Steph and Kad Kady that they're just like they
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shouldn't have to be carrying the league at this point.
And I do think we're finally at that place where
is Wenby a household named today. No, he's really close, though,
I was gonna say, but gets to a Western Conference finals.
He's playing Luca, you know whatever. Like, like, I think
we're close, and I do think there's a good group.
And I think the important part too, is this group
(12:58):
seems like they're like ready to embrace, Like it just
seems like the right guys.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Cun's like there, Yeah, this was.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A tourist take from a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I go, everybody's like, who's the face of American basketball?
I was like, why isn't it Kate Cunning him Like, yeah,
awesome player, awesome game, and this is a little of
my college hoops coming out. I remember interviewing Kate Cunning
him when he was sixteen years old. It was like
talking to a thirty five year old grown man. Sweetest
kid ever, and he wasn't a kid. He was a kid,
(13:28):
but he wasn't a kid. And I'm like, he's literally
everything that you want, no disrespect. But like we know,
Anthony Edwards has some stuff going on off the court
that maybe like is it really like the face of
the NBA is type stuff. Jason Tatum's kind of boring,
he's quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm like, Caid's here and now he's really here. Number
one team in the East. Stats are off the chart.
Chris Purfett is giving up on the Lions. He's starting
a Pistons podcast right now, go ahead, we can.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Bring you in a second.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And also with the Pistons, like a team that has
a good history.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, you know, like it's and perfect can speak to
Detroit like the passion for it.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But exactly like it makes too much sense and I agree,
But I feel like he's part of it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
He's he's definitely part of it. I'm going to read
a tweet that was sent to us of a listener who.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Was gifting their favorite team, the Raiders, a great offensive
line that is Brendan Brody tweeted at US Merry Christmas.
That's his team a great offensive line. Honorable mention, he said,
a head coach who cares about his team fighting to
the finish and who acknowledges that tanking is cutting corners
and cheating.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
How about just to new everything everything from the stadium
and city because that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, that was another one. Like I go back to
the draft last year, Everyone's like, oh, Ash, I'm like,
you don't take a running back in with the fourth
overall pick if you literally need help everywhere?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Right? And Gino Smith was not the answer.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Perfect. Did you want to chime in really quickly on
the Detroit stuff? No, I was just going d basketball.
It's it's fun to have a fun NBA team again
and to do it in the style like I co
signed on everything he said on Kate like he's been,
he's he's he wears it all on his sleeve and
that's exactly what the NBA needs.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, he is one of.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
The few stars that is not playing today because coming
up here in a little bit, we have Cooper Flag
and the Dallas Mavericks against the Golden State Warriors. Right now,
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against the Oklahoma City Thunder and as mentioned, the Cowboys
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Speaker 5 (16:58):
Good.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I hope they are spending a lovely Christmas with their
friends and family and loved ones. Yep, Mazi has Christmas dinner.
She's speeding out of here the second that we are done.
I am, I did my Christmas dinner last night, so
today you have Okay, So I got the Tamala tamala
for lunch, but my wife makes lasagna, love and Tamali's and.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A lot of Pacifico's were that was part of it?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Is that is that the preferred beer that you're drinking
because your in laws.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Your wife is Latina.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
She's from Guatemala.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Though, so so what was I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Gyo gyo? I think that's the famous Guatemalan beer. I see, ok, okay,
it was so good.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
When I was in Guatemala, I drank a lot of them.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The pacificos is what they're drinking here, No.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You know, I think so, all right, little little confession
time here. Out of like the ten people that get
together for Christmas, I am, by far are the one
that drinks the most.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So like uh so, like it was just very nice.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We were at my wife's aunt's house and I think
her uncle knew that I liked to drink, so he's like,
let me make sure we have beer. And I'm sure
he probably was, like was given a list of like
two or three that I would prefer.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So i'll tell you what. Don't tell anybody. I know
we're on national radio. But he had a couple as well.
I saw the eyes get a little glassy at them.
I was like, I never said, I don't know if
I've ever seen you quite like this before, uncle Rob.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So my Christmases are very different than your christmases.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
They used to be like that and then everyone just
got old and responsible, and I'm like, I'm still the
one that's just trying to keep the party going.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I mean, I'm gonna tell you my mom and dad.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You said he were in Vegas all this week. I'm
so chuck.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I was in Vegas and my parents made to stop.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
My parents are not young and I but they're a
young hour and there, and they will be drinking after me.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
They will outlast me, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So jealous, So everybody used to be fun and do whatever.
I will say In defense of my wife, we were
in Nashville two weeks ago. I think she's still hung
over from that trip, so I'll defend her. She I
have not seen my wife drink like that on a
It was one night, but she had like the full
two day hangover, so she's taking a little bit easy.
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My sister in law the same. So so yeah, but
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
To you, Merry Christmas, Merry.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Christmas to Iowa. Sam Lee, Chris Preffett. They'll be joining
us here throughout the next two hours. And as always
we were saying this, we were filling into the previous
slot as well. Tweet us let us know how you're
listening to the show, where you're listening, why you're listening,
Are you at work. You can tweet us at Aaron Underscore,
Torres at Moncy Belognia.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I got a tweet for us. Actually, yeah, so Bartley S.
Hill at bart Meticulous is the twitter handle said, Merry Christmas, guys,
listening in the.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Backyard from Tampa.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Oh, I wish the Bucks defense at least one defensive
stop in the last two games for the love of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
We were gifting and we're still going to be doing
that in these two hours. If you want to tweet
at us gifting items to your favorite teams or just players.
You know what, I had something for Jackson dar a
concussion Concussion for Dummies book so that he relaxes and
stays healthy so he can actually play. You know.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
So, if you have any gifts that you want to send.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Out, let us know. Yeah, let us know your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We had a Lakers fan asking for a defense for
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yes, we had a Raiders fan asking for a great
offensive line.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Which I thought was kind of burying the lead of
they need to.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Do every everything right right.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh, how great is that? On the drive into Vegas
when you just see the stadium.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
It's really great. It looks good. It looks good.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Have you been a game there yet or no?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I have not been to it looks amazing though.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I've been at Team Mobile like four times in the
last six months, but I have not been.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
To the Raiders stadium.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Been to T Mobile but not the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
We've been to a night's game at Team Mobile. Oh
have you been?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, I've been to T Mobile, but not too Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, great place to watch.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
It is a game.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, Knights have the best intro in all of hockey.
Not that I've been to very many hockey games, but
it's pretty cool. So anyway, all right, So it's Christmas
and a couple of things. One, we are one and
a half NFL games in Cowboys took care of business
against the Washington Commanders thirty to twenty three, late first quarter,
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Detroit and Minnesota nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I bring it up because it's a very interesting
scenario with the NFL is that they kind of I
mentioned it when we were on in the previous time slot,
but kind of lucked into a situation on Christmas where
there was one year it was the coming off of
the NBA bubble season and they weren't sure if they
were to start on Christmas Day, the NFL puts this
(21:59):
Vikings Saints game on crushes in ratings, good game, whatever.
And then I remember the next year, I was on
Christmas Is on a Saturday, and I remember it was
Packers Browns. It was Baker Mayfield was on air. Baker
Mayfield was on the Browns, and so they were like
a story, you know, and the Packers with Aaron Rodgers.
And I remember saying at that point, I'm like everyone
(22:21):
on my social media timeline, everyone in my social circle
is watching this game. No one cares about the NBA.
And I was like, Oh, the NFL just hijacked Christmas
Day from the NBA. Well, fast forward, we have a
great oka. See San Antonio Spurs game on right now
with the San Antonio Spurs leading.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They it is officially over.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
It just happened.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So it did just go Finally, you're right one seventeen
one oh two. Should mention Cooper Flag and the Dallas
Mavericks are facing Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
In the next game. Jimmy Butler, so new versus old?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Love ye me, I know you do. I'm not a fan,
but it's so. But the NBA games are no doubt
more intriguing than the NFL games. By the way, is
that Kenny Smith that's walking around that barefoot?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't never okay, never okay
to walk barefoot.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
My Christmas gift to Kenny Smith has new shoes. Usually
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, but you brought up a great point earlier is
that I don't know if momentum is like permanently shifted
back to the NBA. But NFL the games are late
in the year. You're oh, I think it's inevitable. You're
gonna get beat up teams, right, you have essentially five
of the six teams playing today have been eliminated from
the playoffs. And I think to a point that you
(23:41):
brought up earlier, I want to give you credit, is
it'd be one game. If it's a third, it'd be
one thing. If it's a Thursday, we always have the
Thursday game. But three games on Christmas Day. I don't
know that it's having like the cultural impact that I
think the NFL thought it would have. And it does
feel like there's more buzz about the NBA games here
on this specific Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, this is just an eye opening moment for the
NFL that you can't have everything every single time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And it's like the oldest cliche that your parents told
you too much of anything is not I think it's
the cost cliche.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Ice cream is great.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Seven in the morning every single day, probably you shouldn't
be eating it for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
That's a perfect example, because that's what I think. That's
what we're seeing right now in the sense, I don't
know if momentum. You mentioned momentum. I don't think it
has completely shifted, you know, back to the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I don't think it ever will.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I just think that we are seeing that the NFL
can have a bad slate of games, and no doubt,
and a lot of things obviously factor into it, injuries,
the situation with the playoffs, all of the things that
the NFL wasn't prepared for.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Netflix was not expecting this, But you.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Got a little bit too greedy, and if you would
have just had one game, you still probably could have
dominated the day. But as we talked about in the
Last Hour air two hours ago, Arin, the reality is
that you cannot compare the day that is Christmas to
the day that is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
They're really really different. And again, NBA, you could just
have it on in the background.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
You don't have to pay attention to the whole We didn't, Andy,
don't you feel like, man, we saw the Spurs have
good moments throughout four quarters. I didn't watch the whole thing,
but it looked like the Spurs were gonna win just
because they kept pushing. They didn't take their foot off
the gas. And okay, so you could never get back
in it with the NFL. It's like I would have
to ask you questions, Wait, how did the Cowboys get here?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Who scored?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Like, that's what I want to watch it, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You could tell me Victor Win, Biyama haw a great
game off the bench, twenty two points, whatever, where I'll
be like, yeah, I can envision it. When it comes
to the Cowboys, I want to know. Okay, but who's
scored because it's affecting my fantasy team and I want
to know.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
You want to.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Watch the NFL a little bit more up.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Close in person, though, the NBA is not like that,
especially in the middle of the season when there aren't
implications like the playoffs or seating or MVP talk or
any like that.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
This is just supposed to be for fun, and that's
supposed to be Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Well, and it's the interesting point is to me, and
I was thinking about this so, like we said, Thanksgiving
you because football has been so synonymous with Thanksgiving, like
you just sort of build even if you're not a
like like my mom doesn't care about the NFL, but
she kind of understands, like, oh the cow the Lions
play here, the Cowboys play there, Like, well, have dinner
(26:23):
and the Cowboys game will be on in the background.
And I was saying about this way you were talking
the other day on the calendar that is synonymous with football. Besides,
obviously every Sunday is New Year's Day, and that's another
one where like you're on the couch, probably a little hungover.
You were certainly out late. Seriously you were out late. Yeah,
you wake up late. Nobody on New Year's Day has
(26:45):
like stuff to do. Nobody's like, oh, I got to
run to Grandma's house for our New Year's Day celebration.
So it's just kind of baked into the cake of like, oh,
this college football all day is like actually the perfect thing.
Like I go back to work tomorrow. I've had off
for a week. I just want to chill and it works.
And I don't get the vibe that the NFL and
that football specifically works on Christmas Day for the same
(27:07):
reason that you said. You know, we brought up the
point earlier. But people have kids. So you know, we
wake up on the West coast. That Cowboys game starts
at what ten am Pacific time? You know, something like that,
kids are opening gifts. You gotta go to Grandma's house.
You gotta come back from Grandma's house.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You you know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The kids are playing. You got to help the kids
put the toys together. The kids are playing with the toys,
the kids want to go outside. They It's just the
NFL is always going to be king. But it just
and I think, and I will say this too, and
I'm not even being sarcastic when I says I don't
think the Netflix thing helps either.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
No, it does not.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Where again, Grandma and Grandpa, you go over their house.
You just put on CBS on Thanksgiving. Oh there's the Lions,
you know, or there's the Cowboys or whatever. Here It's like,
I'm not even being sarcastic. We talked about this when
we were on in the previous slot. Is like I
went to put the game on and I was like,
oh crap, what's my password?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Twenty minute? You know, it took me twenty minutes to
figure out what the past.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's just I'm not saying that the NFL isn't awesome,
but for some reason, it's just not vibing on Christmas
Day the way that I would think that it would.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's of course it is awesome, it is king we
all know that, but it's not hitting the spot the
way it does on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
It's just not in the spot.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I almost wish all of these games weren't on today
because maybe I would have tuned in had you have
them on a different day.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
But today it's like, no even a sitting here. It's
like there's so many other things when I feel like
for Thanksgiving, everyone already knows how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like you plan around the games, like you said earlier,
you really do plan around the games. What games you
want to focus on the most. We're gonna plan a
lunch dinner around that.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, and here's the other thing too. I was just
thinking about, imagine if the games were good today, Okay,
imagine how frustrating.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
It would be that you can't actually watch them.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And then how about this, how much Sunday would suck
if you were just like imagine if the Chiefs were awesome,
but the Broncos were also awesome, and it's like, oh,
they played that big game on Christmas Day and I
couldn't totally watch it. And now you look at the
Sunday slate into a point that you brought up. We
are in whatever week seventeen right now there is what.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Essentially one game?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
What one you can't say with playoff implications, But I mean,
I'm just gonna let me just read off the Sunday
schedule to you right now.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'm just gonna read it. You just blind taste test o.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Cinci Arizona, How excited are you for that?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Six seven Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Oh my god, that's the one. Tyler Shuck, that's who
I want to see.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Indianapolis hosting Jacksonville. No, thank you, Miami with quitting.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You do want to see Philip Rivers? Hold on, that's
the one you're missing. We all want to see Grandpa Philip.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Rivers, say yeah, hold on, hold on, Dan literal father
time is still playing, yes, still playing?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
What else?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Patriots Jets?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I mean the Patriots are interesting, but.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
No, okay, the Jets are not even a little bit yeh,
no offense Ian Roddy who is our editor right now.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Seattle with Carolina, I guess is.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, sure because both of them, because Carolina is trying
to do something out of that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Also, that should be like the third best game of
that window, not the best game right right then, I
will say, you do have Philly Buffalo late obviously, and
then San Francisco and Chicago is the Sunday night game.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
So they did you even mention the Giants and the Raiders?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
How about this, there's only two games in that late window. Now,
it's going to be a great audience for Philly Buffalo.
Let's just hope we get a good game. But so
that's the other thing. So you know, listen, I think
we've made the point the NFL. You know, they're going
to be just fine whether they get a couple of
duds on Christmas Day. But it does just feel like
they kind of what do they say, bite off more
(30:43):
than you can choose or it's just like man dude.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's just like, yeah, hopefully this is a learning experience
for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I hope so well. I mean they'll still have games,
there's no doubt.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Of course, But on Christmas Day well.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And the other thing is too, I think it's inevitable
that when you get to week seventeen of the NFL
guys are going to be hurt. So it happens that
there's a lot of teams with a lot of injuries today,
headlined by the Kansas City Chiefs. But I think it's
I think it's going to be pretty inevitable that no
matter how good the games look, when the schedule comes
(31:16):
out in May or June or July, that there's going
to be a couple duds, just because it's not realistic
to have six teams fully healthy, fully functioning at the
highest level this late in the year.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah, but you only have one one game that's a dud.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Most people will still tune in, That's what I'm saying it.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah, you know, And that's the big thing here is
like you looked at the slate going into Christmas, Dan,
and you're likeugh, and then you looked at the it's
like that meme of that girl where she's in the
first one she looks like h throst out, and then
the next one she's like, oh, that was when you
looked at the NFL slate and then you looked at
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
So you're right, Oh, okay, the Alonza morning. You ever
see that one when he's on the bed.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yes, yes, yes, oh yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1 (32:09):
I have two big takes for the second round of
the college football Playoff. I think Miami Ohouse State. I
think Miami is gonna make things tough for Ohouse State.
I don't know if they can win. But here is
my real conundrum, and this is the same thing filling
out of March Madness bracket. I think the winner of
Texas Tech Oregon uh huh will beat the winner of
Indiana Alabama. I'm just not sure if I like Texas
(32:32):
Tech or Oregon in that game. So whoever wins that game,
I will have playing for the national championship. I'm leaning
Oregon right now, but I'm not one hundred percent sure.
So that's where I'm at. Do you know who you
like in the college football playoff? I mean, you're you know,
my vacation.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I'm in college.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
So proud of you.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
By the way, because I listen, I don't want to
put you on the spot. I would say growing up
you are more of an NBA, NFL kind of girls.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Next question, no question about it. Yes, Baseball, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
May yeah, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You great coverage of the Dodgers, and uh, you do
the show with Martin Weiss before me on Saturday. So
Martin Weiss and Monte Bolanio's five to eight Pacific, eight
to eleven Eastern, correct, and then I'm on an eleven
Eastern and I have to listen. I've seen you spread
your little college football butterfly wings over the last six
months or so, and so it's been awesome. You know,
(33:24):
you're you're you're diving in, You're breaking down Michigan's dog yard,
and you're, oh, Texas Tech. I don't know that's secondary
against the past attack of b YU.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You're just peppering me in the hallway with questions. So,
how have you enjoyed this college football season?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It's been a.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Lot of fun and I think part of the reason
it's been a lot of fun is because I don't care,
Like I'm not hurt by anything.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
And I also, like, you know, at.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The start of the season, Martin was like, you should
pick a team and like follow them. But I feel
like that's such a such a fraud, Like I can't
just pick a team that I root for with my
entire Like I went to kelse Fuller Jay there was
a football team there, you know what I mean, Like,
it's there's no real connection sure for me to just
pick a team and go for it from beginning to end.
(34:09):
So it's been super fun. I'm rooting. I'm rooting for
a couple of teams. Oh, I mean, guy, were rooting
for Indiana, for Nanda Mendoza, I mean I am.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
I'm rooting for Indiana. I'm also rooting for Ole miss Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, so let's this is a perfect segue, by the way,
perfect segue, by the way, Brandon Aubrey lining up for
a field goal to give the Cowboys a twenty thirty
to twenty lead.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Our guy, Brandon Aubrey just missed a field He miss.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Because he definitely beat me to get to the playoffs
in one of my fantasy football leagues.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
He's a cheat code. I can't believe he missed. He's
missed the last couple of weeks, a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
He did well, he just missed.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
There it is twenty seven to twenty Dallas with thirteen
thirty one to go in the second half or in
the fourth quarter. Excuse me, by the way, San Antonio
up fifty three forty six, five point fifty four in
the NBA game. All right, so we mentioned college football playoff.
We mention old miss Trinidad Chamblas. So there's sad story,
great story. There's a great story, but it doesn't I
(35:08):
don't get the vibe that you're happy with the potential
ending of the Trinidad Chamblas story. So let me just
set this up, and there's a lot of different directions
to go, but we can focus on Trinidad Champlains for now.
Is that for years, as somebody who loves college sports,
all I ever heard was, oh, college, these players are
being exploited.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Let them go, bro, it's so terrible.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Well, now with nil, the reality is, unless you're basically
like a first round pick in either of these major sports,
Major League, NFL or college NBA, and really, I don't
even think that's the case. You're probably going to make
more money in college. And so we not only see
guys so like, I'll give you a quick side example,
(35:52):
but there's a quarterback named Brendan Soresby from Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
He wou'd be like a fourth round pick Will Howard.
This was Will Howard a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
He's like, I can be a fourth round pick and
be on a practice squad, or I can make two
and a half million at Ohio State. Yeah, I'll go
to Ohio State and be the quarterback at Ohio State. Well,
we have that situation. Basketball is another situation we'll get
to in a second. But your guy, Trinidad Chambliss began
his career. It is a great story. D two fair
Estate decides to go in the portal and if I
(36:20):
understand it correctly, like Lane Kiffin and Charlie West Junior
basically saw film of him on Twitter and we're like, oh,
this guy's interesting, bring him in. He still he gets
the job. He keeps the job. He's been one of
the most impactful players in college football. But now he's
arguing that he deserves another year because of weird injuries
in this and that even though under the bylaws he
(36:41):
actually doesn't qualify, he's fighting for another year of college football.
And I just think he's a good metaphor for this
world that we live in unless you're one of the
as the kids say, unless you're one of those ones,
you're trying to stay in college sports. So anyway, I'm
rambling enough. You take it where you want to, because
it's a crazy world that we live in.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
It's a graz is a crazy situation and there's so
much to it. But I do think Trinidad Chamliss is
the perfect person to discuss this situation because I'm rooting
for him.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
The story is great, Are you kidding me? I hope
old mis gets far, especially because stupid line given. But
that's a separate conversation.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I'm rooting for him, But no, popping, you can't play
another year, Like, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
You can't, and I like you, you can't do it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Right now, I feel like it is getting blurrier and
blurrier between professional sports and college and that's not what
it should be. College should be an experience with the
expiring date, like once you start the clock that's it.
And I know COVID happened. We're past that. Don't tell
me you need another year because COVID.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
We are past all of that.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
You can't be twenty five years old playing against college kids.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
You just can't. And I know you're making more money.
I understand all that, but you know what.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Life is unfair, and it's just it makes pretty much
pretty much we're gonna be saying that, like college is
a minor professional league system, it's gonna be amateur professional.
That's where we're getting to aaron that is basically gonna
just be minor league?
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Is that just call it that? So calling to college
call it minor league?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, and it leads very interestingly to a story that
happened yesterday, which is crazy. Okay, So James Nase, you
know again to use a very gen z term. Not
sure if you're familiar with his game. Okay, that's more
of a shock term. I guess thirty first overall pick
in the twenty twenty three NBA draft because he was
(38:41):
so let me even backtram last couple months, there have
been certain schools that are pushing the boundaries of like
what is actually acceptable, like how far will the NCAA
allow this to go, okay, and so we have had
Basically it started with there's a bunch of European players
coming over and the kind of professionals, and they're twenty two,
(39:01):
but they're not gonna play in the NBA, so who cares.
And then what we were doing was there was a
couple guys in the G League that had never gone
to college, and so it was like, well, they're in
the G League, but they're not playing in the NBA
and they never got drafted.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I bring it up because on Wednesday, I know you
were in with Dan in this spot. I don't know
if you guys hit on this or not.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
We didn't.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Okay, So Baylor signed this guy named James Nausei was
drafted in the twenty twenty three NBA draft. Now he
has never played in an NBA game, but his rights
were owned I believe by the Timberwolves. He was actually
part of the Carl Anthony Towns Julius Randall trade. Correct,
he committed to Baylor and he is going to play
(39:40):
at Baylor. And so I will say, now I don't
really care because I could have told you five years ago, hey,
if you put in unlimited transfers. If you put in
unlimited nil, bad stuff is gonna happen. Crazy stuff is
gonna happen because coach just want to win. I don't
really care, but I do think they're probably he is
a line in the sand of a twenty three year
(40:02):
old who was drafted by an NBA team that is
now going to play college basketball this year.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And I'll tell you what, Manzi, I just I know
this for.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
A fact unless somebody stops this, and I don't know
who can stop it at this point, because the NCAA
has no teeth, they can't do anything about this.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
We're going schools are trying going to.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Try to get players eligible that have played in the NBA.
Like assume you're Manzi Blanios or I'm Aretrrez and I
got drafted fifty first overall and I played three games
last year and I'm back in the G League and
I'm not making very much money. Someone is going to
try to sign me. This is not going to stop.
And so to your point, I think we have officially
reached the point of critical mass where this is all
(40:47):
just one big glob of college sports with the NBA,
with the NFL, and uh.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
No, that's great. He's I don't know if he's twenty three.
I thought he was twenty one. But it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
He's twenty one and he got four years. That was
the other part too, Yeah, give him a year ago.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
What you're giving him four?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:08):
No, no, no, no, no, this is just okay.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Listen, any any college volleyball teams, Nita le Baro. I've
never played college volleyball. Can you can sign me? Why
can't I go signed her to.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Go play volleyball? I still play volleyball. I could, I
could do it. That sounds ridiculous, but that's where we're
getting to.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
It is, that's where we're getting to you already, and
it's I know, it's it's the money, eron the money,
it's the right like I just but you can't you
There has to be like a hard a hard.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
No.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
You can't keep blending this or making it great, Danga Pavia.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
You're responsible for all this.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
You can't keep Broadway. That's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
He's gonna play a seventh year. I bet he's gonna
find some loophole. There has to be like a hard
a hard line when it comes to college sports and
how many years you can actually play, and once you've got,
once you've left, you're thought.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yes, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
This guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
One, I want to continue this conversation because I think
there's a couple of side effects too. You mentioned dudes
twenty five, twenty six playing college sports. Here's what John
Calperry said a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
There are a lot of older gentlemen with beards playing basketball.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
In college right now.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
There are so you you know. The one that's crazy
is the the guy comes in Andre and he's waving
to his kids up in the seats, and you're like,
wait a minute, the guy got two kids. He's still
playing college basketball.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
He's using nil for his first wife's alimony and now
he's still playing college basketball. Are we nuts?
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
That was Jock Calperry on the state of college sports.
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cavino and
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome in, everybody, I want to Tours and Belgios Fox
Sports Radio. We're taking it till seven pm Eastern. Yes,
we are filling in for Cavino and Rich as well.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We do hope everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
By the way, I should to mention it every time
coming out of a break, but hope everybody's having a
very merry Christmas. Christmas I said it earlier, but we
know if you're listening to us, you're at work, you're
in the car. Always feel free to tweeted us at
Aaron Underscore, Tours, at Manzy Bolanios. Let us know where
you are, how you're listening and Manzi.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Do we have Yeah, we have some people that have
tweeted at us. Everybody who was commented on our video
that was a big hit featuring Lee de lap Here.
Thank you to everybody who's commented we wish you all
up merry Christmas, but whack wombat? That's that's that's the
Twitter says, since Monci and Torres are cheating on their
respective co hosts, will we get a Dan Bayer's and
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J Mart show to show them how it feels?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Wooed?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I know?
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So guess what though we do? Dan is kind of
gonna make an appearance later on.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That's true, He's kind of He's gonna make an appearance
later on.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
What you don't know is, so, so tell how is
Dan gonna make an appearance?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Well, we you.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
And I are gonna have a little competition, okay, cool?
Who knows Buyer Best?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What you don't know is we're also doing who Knows
Jmart Best later that hour, So that'll be really fun.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Stop that, kawhi laugh? All right? So we will be
doing that?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Was that.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Is?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That does not sound like Dan at all?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That is not.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
No, it does not That's not Dan. You're tripping. Somebody
labeled it wrong. That's it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
It was labeled wrong. Somebody messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's just Dan his most uncontrolled moment.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
What made him laugh so much?
Speaker 8 (02:12):
I don't know, but it's in the system still U
isn't it? Hello everyone, I haven't even said hi to
you guys. Yeah, hello Lee to lap Is in Chris prophets.
And guess what, this is the perfect time to bring
all of you in because it is Christmas. I was Sam,
give us a little music, and I'll tell you what
they say during Christmas time, Manci, it is better to
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give than to receive.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And so we are in the festive spirit, and this
is what we're gonna do. We're gonna hand out some
gifts to our favorite players, athletes and teams. I will
give an example, and by the way, people should tweet
in as well. Oh yes, what would your gift be
to your favorite team or athletes? I'll give an example.
Hopefully I'm not stealing anybody's, but the great example that
Manci gave. If we were giving a Christmas gift to
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Joe Burrow, it would be a.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Real line, a real o line for that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So that he can actually stay healthy, which is actually
a Christmas gift to all of us, because I think
all of us want to see him healthy. So we
are giving out Christmas gifts to our favorite athletes, our
favorite teams. You can tweet us at Air and underscore
Torres at Monty Blanio's. But Manzi, since this was your
brain child, I want you to go ahead and about
the first gift.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
And you know what, I do have gifts for even
my non favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh just so you know, I have gifts for everybody, Okay,
because it tis the season, right.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
So my first gift is going to go to Jackson Dart.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, I have a gift for Jackson Dart, and it's
gonna be a book called Concussions for Dummies. Okay, because
this guy thinks they're not a big deal. Sure, and
it's like, no, no, no, you have to protect yourself.
You are no longer in college. You are not playing
against grown men. And I feel like since he took
over the job, every week it's Jackson Dart is in
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concussion protocol Jackson, and Dart has left the game. Why
because he's he wants to make the play. I understand
that you want to make the play. But if you're
not healthy and you can't stay on the field, what
play are you gonna make? Jackson Dart? So we want
to see you out there. I want to see what
you're capable of. But you need a concussion for Dummy's book.
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That is my gift to Jackson Dart. When you said
Jackson Dart, I thought it was gonna be some play
on a blue tent. For real, I hate to say,
that's kind of what he's known for right now. Can't
stop putting his head.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Down and trying to run over people, which results into
a lot of injuries. All right, I got a couple,
but I'm gonna save him. I want to bring in Iowa. Sam,
you are up. What are you giving your favorite athlete
team whatever? This is not my favorite athlete or favorite team.
But I'm gonna give a shiny AFC Championship trophy right
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to Josh.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Great call.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
He can skip the line, just get right to the
big game and go win it so that we don't
have any more of this, Like Josh Allen, the Bills,
in their window of opportunity, get to the playoffs and
then they just can't get to the super Bowl. Obviously,
the Bills have never won a Super Bowl. I don't believe. No,
they haven't. And so get right to the game, skip
the line and just go play. And I mean I
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picked the Rams, so maybe the Rams Bills go go
get there and get your get your Super Bowl for
the for the city of Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That's a really generous gift.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
As someone who was on air in this studio with
Ephraim Salaam during the meltdown yet again against Kansas City
last year, I think that's a great gift.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
That is a great gift.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So thank you, Thank you, Iowa, sam uh lead A Lap.
We know you're a Packers fan, but it doesn't have
to be the Packers. Well, I do have a gift.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
For the package, and luckily I have.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Two of these, but I'm only gonna give it one away.
I'm going to give them an a cl I'm gonna
give them one of my a cls because they could
use two. They could use one for Tucker Craft and
for Michael Parsons. But I'll let them decide.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Who they want. I would prefer, you know, I.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Guess it's a tough decision, but I don't know that's
a tough one because.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I want to make that decision.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I really don't.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
I'll let them decide, But if it were me, I
would say give it to Micah. He's just such a
difference maker. And you know they who was the golden
child for a few weeks this season so far that
the been the Packers that are now, you know Vine
for that seventh seed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think it would just give them that.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Boost, that that Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Spirit they need right now.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So what you're telling us is you love your team
enough to walk with a limp, but not be in
a wheelchair because you only want to give away one.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, you know what I would if I would.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, I would be in a wheelchair for a year
if I could have both of those guys back.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Absolutely, that's a good one. That's love Packers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a bummer as someone who has no skin in
the game, Like, really good story and you just want
to see all these teams competing at the highest level.
A theme of today's NFL games, which, by the way,
Cowboys up thirty to twenty three with fifty four seconds
left against the Washington Commanders. On the news desk with
the updates is Chris Prefet. Now, Chris, you're Alliance fan,
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so I know you want Lead Lap to keep his
ACLS intact over there doesn't have to be the Lion, no,
But you know what, I'll.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Save the Lions for another time because I do want
to go to another one. Of my favorites and it's
a little off the branch, but bear with me. United
States men's soccer team, you have a very big World
Cup coming up here. You're already and you're already allowed
in because you are hosting one of three teams hosting
so three automatic bids, which is like, feels wrong, feels
absolutely wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But sure about the college football playoffs, you would never hear,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh man.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
But I want to give the United States some hitherto
unknown superstar to add to their roster because I or
either that or like if anyone's seen dragon ball Z
like a good time, a good time in like the
hyperbaric training chamber that allows them to get super strong.
Because I think there's gonna be a lot of hope
with this US men's team coming up here with the
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World Cup and everything, and everyone kind of casually tunes
in and there's always a few games they play well.
But this is not As someone who does a weekly
report for Frado on soccer, this is not a team
I have a lot of faith in that. Just they
will beat up on some small teams throughout the year.
They'll look good against countries that have no business in
the World Cup and they'll get to the World Cup
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and get completely outclassed and like, you know, it wasn't
that long. It was back in September. They're losing two
goals to Niel to like South Korea. Boligan's been a
cool addition for them out of nowhere, but like they
need someone. Maybe we can go give Mohammed sala like
a US citizenship or something.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
By the way, we do quickly have a final. Dallas
Cowboys got a Christmas Gift Day thirty to twenty three
win over the Washington Commanders Game one in the books,
Chris perffets Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Are up next.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yay, all right, I guess it's up to me. By
the way, that's good. By the way, have you seen
World Cup ticket prices at so far?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
There, they are insane.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
But yeah, it caused a backlash with a bunch of
fans because for people in the rest of the world,
they are not used to paying triple digits or higher
for for sporting events. So the.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I was hoping to take my father to a couple
of games out here, but uh, likewise, you have to
dig in some savings you look at like, yeah, like
the a lot of people in the United Kingdom are
really upset because they're paying a lot to get over
here hotels, and then if the ticket on top of
that and they want to follow, they want to follow
their country around, which means in the United States plane
trips between multiple cities. If for for the UK, for
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uh for England.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
It looks like if you're going to be coming from
abroad to these World Cup games, like you're in the
elite economic strata, if you're going to be able to
go to these games, and that's just unfortunate because it
should be something that's uh accessible to the masses.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Very good, Well, Christmas gift to soccer fans, so extra
cash in the seriously all right, I'll do mine really quick.
By the way, Monty, I know you have a lots
of several Okay, we'll get to we'll get to one
more of yours. We'll revisit this. You can tweet us
at your Christmas gifts, uh Era and underscore torres Manzi Polanio.
So so what I am gifting my buddy Adam Silver? Okay,
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I think he's the worst commission that I've literally ever seen.
I think he's actually terrible. I'm gifting him a little
bit of common sense and maybe because he's a cowardly lion,
a little bit of a heart. Yeah okay, and maybe
just get off the radar. Maybe it's maybe it is
a trip to Cancun, and just get off the radar.
Because what I do think is today, these Christmas Day games,
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I actually think the NBA has a crop of like,
very likable, bright young stars. Victor Winn Banyama, who's playing today.
I know Shay is a little controversial with the follow
stuff whatever, but obviously he's easy to root for. Cooper
Flagg will be playing later today. And I just don't
trust Adam Silver to capitalize on it at all, and
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he'll do something stupid now he wants to move the
playing tournament to fog out. Just stay out of the way.
Let the adults do their job market your stars correctly.
That is my gift to Adam Silver. I think what
it really is is just a log cabin in the woods.
Just get out of the way and don't screw up
this this young group of guys, because I think they
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are all very, very, very likable.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I hope that gift. He accepts it, but.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Do not agree some of the older guys.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It's like, listen, I love the older guys because I love,
you know, watching stuff Steph create till this day is
one of the best things.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
You can watch when it comes to the NBA product.
But I agree. There was like.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yesterday Dan Byer Are who were cheating on apparently Dan
Byer made We were talking about the NBA and he
said something.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I was like, huh, I never really thought of it
like that.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
How he said that kind of like a generation skipped
in the NBA, like the of you know where He's going,
you know, of passing the torch, like the Jahn Morants,
Zion Williamson, Oh yeah, that Jason Tatum, Like they're in
the middle that we've kind of like forgotten about because
of the old guys, because of the unks. But now
the new generation seems to actually maybe have the right momentum.
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Victor Ian Banyama ye shake Gil just and you could
and Luca. You could put Luca in the younger generation.
But there's like a forgotten generation of players who just
did not get that torch being passed to them.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And it's two things.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
One to their credit the old guys have played well,
like beyond a reasonable amount of time. But I'll say this,
I and I don't want to be negative on Christmas
Day about the NBA, but like, I think it's hurt
the NBA where they have leaned so heavily into Lebron
and Steph and Kad Kady that they're just like they
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shouldn't have to be carrying the league at this point.
And I do think we're finally at that place where
is Wenby a household named today. No, he's really close, though,
I was gonna say, but gets to a Western Conference finals.
He's playing Luca, you know whatever. Like, like, I think
we're close, and I do think there's a good group.
And I think the important part too, is this group
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seems like they're like ready to embrace, Like it just
seems like the right guys.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Cun's like there, Yeah, this was.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A tourist take from a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I go, everybody's like, who's the face of American basketball?
I was like, why isn't it Kate Cunning him Like, yeah,
awesome player, awesome game, and this is a little of
my college hoops coming out. I remember interviewing Kate Cunning
him when he was sixteen years old. It was like
talking to a thirty five year old grown man. Sweetest
kid ever, and he wasn't a kid. He was a kid,
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but he wasn't a kid. And I'm like, he's literally
everything that you want, no disrespect. But like we know,
Anthony Edwards has some stuff going on off the court
that maybe like is it really like the face of
the NBA is type stuff. Jason Tatum's kind of boring,
he's quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm like, Caid's here and now he's really here. Number
one team in the East. Stats are off the chart.
Chris Purfett is giving up on the Lions. He's starting
a Pistons podcast right now, go ahead, we can.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Bring you in a second.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And also with the Pistons, like a team that has
a good history.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, you know, like it's and perfect can speak to
Detroit like the passion for it.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But exactly like it makes too much sense and I agree,
But I feel like he's part of it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
He's he's definitely part of it. I'm going to read
a tweet that was sent to us of a listener who.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Was gifting their favorite team, the Raiders, a great offensive
line that is Brendan Brody tweeted at US Merry Christmas.
That's his team a great offensive line. Honorable mention, he said,
a head coach who cares about his team fighting to
the finish and who acknowledges that tanking is cutting corners
and cheating.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
How about just to new everything everything from the stadium
and city because that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, that was another one. Like I go back to
the draft last year, Everyone's like, oh, Ash, I'm like,
you don't take a running back in with the fourth
overall pick if you literally need help everywhere?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Right? And Gino Smith was not the answer.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Perfect. Did you want to chime in really quickly on
the Detroit stuff? No, I was just going d basketball.
It's it's fun to have a fun NBA team again
and to do it in the style like I co
signed on everything he said on Kate like he's been,
he's he's he wears it all on his sleeve and
that's exactly what the NBA needs.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, he is one of.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
The few stars that is not playing today because coming
up here in a little bit, we have Cooper Flag
and the Dallas Mavericks against the Golden State Warriors. Right now,
the San Antonio Spurs up eighty three to sixty eight
against the Oklahoma City Thunder and as mentioned, the Cowboys
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That's right.
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Covino and Rich. My understanding is the rare day off.
Usually they're always in for Dan Patrick, for Colin. I
am told that they took a much deserved Christmas day.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Good.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I hope they are spending a lovely Christmas with their
friends and family and loved ones. Yep, Mazi has Christmas dinner.
She's speeding out of here the second that we are done.
I am, I did my Christmas dinner last night, so
today you have Okay, So I got the Tamala tamala
for lunch, but my wife makes lasagna, love and Tamali's and.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A lot of Pacifico's were that was part of it?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Is that is that the preferred beer that you're drinking
because your in laws.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Your wife is Latina.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
She's from Guatemala.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Though, so so what was I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Gyo gyo? I think that's the famous Guatemalan beer. I see, ok, okay,
it was so good.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
When I was in Guatemala, I drank a lot of them.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The pacificos is what they're drinking here, No.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You know, I think so, all right, little little confession
time here. Out of like the ten people that get
together for Christmas, I am, by far are the one
that drinks the most.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So like uh so, like it was just very nice.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We were at my wife's aunt's house and I think
her uncle knew that I liked to drink, so he's like,
let me make sure we have beer. And I'm sure
he probably was, like was given a list of like
two or three that I would prefer.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So i'll tell you what. Don't tell anybody. I know
we're on national radio. But he had a couple as well.
I saw the eyes get a little glassy at them.
I was like, I never said, I don't know if
I've ever seen you quite like this before, uncle Rob.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So my Christmases are very different than your christmases.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
They used to be like that and then everyone just
got old and responsible, and I'm like, I'm still the
one that's just trying to keep the party going.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I mean, I'm gonna tell you my mom and dad.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You said he were in Vegas all this week. I'm
so chuck.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I was in Vegas and my parents made to stop.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
My parents are not young and I but they're a
young hour and there, and they will be drinking after me.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
They will outlast me, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So jealous, So everybody used to be fun and do whatever.
I will say In defense of my wife, we were
in Nashville two weeks ago. I think she's still hung
over from that trip, so I'll defend her. She I
have not seen my wife drink like that on a
It was one night, but she had like the full
two day hangover, so she's taking a little bit easy.
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My sister in law the same. So so yeah, but
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
To you, Merry Christmas, Merry.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Christmas to Iowa. Sam Lee, Chris Preffett. They'll be joining
us here throughout the next two hours. And as always
we were saying this, we were filling into the previous
slot as well. Tweet us let us know how you're
listening to the show, where you're listening, why you're listening,
Are you at work. You can tweet us at Aaron Underscore,
Torres at Moncy Belognia.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I got a tweet for us. Actually, yeah, so Bartley S.
Hill at bart Meticulous is the twitter handle said, Merry Christmas, guys,
listening in the.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Backyard from Tampa.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Oh, I wish the Bucks defense at least one defensive
stop in the last two games for the love of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
We were gifting and we're still going to be doing
that in these two hours. If you want to tweet
at us gifting items to your favorite teams or just players.
You know what, I had something for Jackson dar a
concussion Concussion for Dummies book so that he relaxes and
stays healthy so he can actually play. You know.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
So, if you have any gifts that you want to send.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Out, let us know. Yeah, let us know your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We had a Lakers fan asking for a defense for
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yes, we had a Raiders fan asking for a great
offensive line.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Which I thought was kind of burying the lead of
they need to.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Do every everything right right.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh, how great is that? On the drive into Vegas
when you just see the stadium.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
It's really great. It looks good. It looks good.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Have you been a game there yet or no?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I have not been to it looks amazing though.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I've been at Team Mobile like four times in the
last six months, but I have not been.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
To the Raiders stadium.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Been to T Mobile but not the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
We've been to a night's game at Team Mobile. Oh
have you been?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, I've been to T Mobile, but not too Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, great place to watch.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
It is a game.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, Knights have the best intro in all of hockey.
Not that I've been to very many hockey games, but
it's pretty cool. So anyway, all right, So it's Christmas
and a couple of things. One, we are one and
a half NFL games in Cowboys took care of business
against the Washington Commanders thirty to twenty three, late first quarter,
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Detroit and Minnesota nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I bring it up because it's a very interesting
scenario with the NFL is that they kind of I
mentioned it when we were on in the previous time slot,
but kind of lucked into a situation on Christmas where
there was one year it was the coming off of
the NBA bubble season and they weren't sure if they
were to start on Christmas Day, the NFL puts this
(21:59):
Vikings Saints game on crushes in ratings, good game, whatever.
And then I remember the next year, I was on
Christmas Is on a Saturday, and I remember it was
Packers Browns. It was Baker Mayfield was on air. Baker
Mayfield was on the Browns, and so they were like
a story, you know, and the Packers with Aaron Rodgers.
And I remember saying at that point, I'm like everyone
(22:21):
on my social media timeline, everyone in my social circle
is watching this game. No one cares about the NBA.
And I was like, Oh, the NFL just hijacked Christmas
Day from the NBA. Well, fast forward, we have a
great oka. See San Antonio Spurs game on right now
with the San Antonio Spurs leading.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They it is officially over.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
It just happened.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So it did just go Finally, you're right one seventeen
one oh two. Should mention Cooper Flag and the Dallas
Mavericks are facing Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
In the next game. Jimmy Butler, so new versus old?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Love ye me, I know you do. I'm not a fan,
but it's so. But the NBA games are no doubt
more intriguing than the NFL games. By the way, is
that Kenny Smith that's walking around that barefoot?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't never okay, never okay
to walk barefoot.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
My Christmas gift to Kenny Smith has new shoes. Usually
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, but you brought up a great point earlier is
that I don't know if momentum is like permanently shifted
back to the NBA. But NFL the games are late
in the year. You're oh, I think it's inevitable. You're
gonna get beat up teams, right, you have essentially five
of the six teams playing today have been eliminated from
the playoffs. And I think to a point that you
(23:41):
brought up earlier, I want to give you credit, is
it'd be one game. If it's a third, it'd be
one thing. If it's a Thursday, we always have the
Thursday game. But three games on Christmas Day. I don't
know that it's having like the cultural impact that I
think the NFL thought it would have. And it does
feel like there's more buzz about the NBA games here
on this specific Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, this is just an eye opening moment for the
NFL that you can't have everything every single time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And it's like the oldest cliche that your parents told
you too much of anything is not I think it's
the cost cliche.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Ice cream is great.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Seven in the morning every single day, probably you shouldn't
be eating it for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
That's a perfect example, because that's what I think. That's
what we're seeing right now in the sense, I don't
know if momentum. You mentioned momentum. I don't think it
has completely shifted, you know, back to the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I don't think it ever will.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I just think that we are seeing that the NFL
can have a bad slate of games, and no doubt,
and a lot of things obviously factor into it, injuries,
the situation with the playoffs, all of the things that
the NFL wasn't prepared for.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Netflix was not expecting this, But you.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Got a little bit too greedy, and if you would
have just had one game, you still probably could have
dominated the day. But as we talked about in the
Last Hour air two hours ago, Arin, the reality is
that you cannot compare the day that is Christmas to
the day that is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
They're really really different. And again, NBA, you could just
have it on in the background.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
You don't have to pay attention to the whole We didn't, Andy,
don't you feel like, man, we saw the Spurs have
good moments throughout four quarters. I didn't watch the whole thing,
but it looked like the Spurs were gonna win just
because they kept pushing. They didn't take their foot off
the gas. And okay, so you could never get back
in it with the NFL. It's like I would have
to ask you questions, Wait, how did the Cowboys get here?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Who scored?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Like, that's what I want to watch it, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You could tell me Victor Win, Biyama haw a great
game off the bench, twenty two points, whatever, where I'll
be like, yeah, I can envision it. When it comes
to the Cowboys, I want to know. Okay, but who's
scored because it's affecting my fantasy team and I want
to know.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
You want to.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Watch the NFL a little bit more up.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Close in person, though, the NBA is not like that,
especially in the middle of the season when there aren't
implications like the playoffs or seating or MVP talk or
any like that.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
This is just supposed to be for fun, and that's
supposed to be Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Well, and it's the interesting point is to me, and
I was thinking about this so, like we said, Thanksgiving
you because football has been so synonymous with Thanksgiving, like
you just sort of build even if you're not a
like like my mom doesn't care about the NFL, but
she kind of understands, like, oh the cow the Lions
play here, the Cowboys play there, Like, well, have dinner
(26:23):
and the Cowboys game will be on in the background.
And I was saying about this way you were talking
the other day on the calendar that is synonymous with football. Besides,
obviously every Sunday is New Year's Day, and that's another
one where like you're on the couch, probably a little hungover.
You were certainly out late. Seriously you were out late. Yeah,
you wake up late. Nobody on New Year's Day has
(26:45):
like stuff to do. Nobody's like, oh, I got to
run to Grandma's house for our New Year's Day celebration.
So it's just kind of baked into the cake of like, oh,
this college football all day is like actually the perfect thing.
Like I go back to work tomorrow. I've had off
for a week. I just want to chill and it works.
And I don't get the vibe that the NFL and
that football specifically works on Christmas Day for the same
(27:07):
reason that you said. You know, we brought up the
point earlier. But people have kids. So you know, we
wake up on the West coast. That Cowboys game starts
at what ten am Pacific time? You know, something like that,
kids are opening gifts. You gotta go to Grandma's house.
You gotta come back from Grandma's house.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You you know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The kids are playing. You got to help the kids
put the toys together. The kids are playing with the toys,
the kids want to go outside. They It's just the
NFL is always going to be king. But it just
and I think, and I will say this too, and
I'm not even being sarcastic when I says I don't
think the Netflix thing helps either.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
No, it does not.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Where again, Grandma and Grandpa, you go over their house.
You just put on CBS on Thanksgiving. Oh there's the Lions,
you know, or there's the Cowboys or whatever. Here It's like,
I'm not even being sarcastic. We talked about this when
we were on in the previous slot. Is like I
went to put the game on and I was like,
oh crap, what's my password?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Twenty minute? You know, it took me twenty minutes to
figure out what the past.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's just I'm not saying that the NFL isn't awesome,
but for some reason, it's just not vibing on Christmas
Day the way that I would think that it would.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's of course it is awesome, it is king we
all know that, but it's not hitting the spot the
way it does on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
It's just not in the spot.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I almost wish all of these games weren't on today
because maybe I would have tuned in had you have
them on a different day.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
But today it's like, no even a sitting here. It's
like there's so many other things when I feel like
for Thanksgiving, everyone already knows how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like you plan around the games, like you said earlier,
you really do plan around the games. What games you
want to focus on the most. We're gonna plan a
lunch dinner around that.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, and here's the other thing too. I was just
thinking about, imagine if the games were good today, Okay,
imagine how frustrating.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
It would be that you can't actually watch them.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And then how about this, how much Sunday would suck
if you were just like imagine if the Chiefs were awesome,
but the Broncos were also awesome, and it's like, oh,
they played that big game on Christmas Day and I
couldn't totally watch it. And now you look at the
Sunday slate into a point that you brought up. We
are in whatever week seventeen right now there is what.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Essentially one game?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
What one you can't say with playoff implications, But I mean,
I'm just gonna let me just read off the Sunday
schedule to you right now.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'm just gonna read it. You just blind taste test o.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Cinci Arizona, How excited are you for that?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Six seven Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Oh my god, that's the one. Tyler Shuck, that's who
I want to see.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Indianapolis hosting Jacksonville. No, thank you, Miami with quitting.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You do want to see Philip Rivers? Hold on, that's
the one you're missing. We all want to see Grandpa Philip.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Rivers, say yeah, hold on, hold on, Dan literal father
time is still playing, yes, still playing?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
What else?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Patriots Jets?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I mean the Patriots are interesting, but.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
No, okay, the Jets are not even a little bit yeh,
no offense Ian Roddy who is our editor right now.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Seattle with Carolina, I guess is.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, sure because both of them, because Carolina is trying
to do something out of that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Also, that should be like the third best game of
that window, not the best game right right then, I
will say, you do have Philly Buffalo late obviously, and
then San Francisco and Chicago is the Sunday night game.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
So they did you even mention the Giants and the Raiders?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
How about this, there's only two games in that late window. Now,
it's going to be a great audience for Philly Buffalo.
Let's just hope we get a good game. But so
that's the other thing. So you know, listen, I think
we've made the point the NFL. You know, they're going
to be just fine whether they get a couple of
duds on Christmas Day. But it does just feel like
they kind of what do they say, bite off more
(30:43):
than you can choose or it's just like man dude.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's just like, yeah, hopefully this is a learning experience
for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I hope so well. I mean they'll still have games,
there's no doubt.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Of course, But on Christmas Day well.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And the other thing is too, I think it's inevitable
that when you get to week seventeen of the NFL
guys are going to be hurt. So it happens that
there's a lot of teams with a lot of injuries today,
headlined by the Kansas City Chiefs. But I think it's
I think it's going to be pretty inevitable that no
matter how good the games look, when the schedule comes
(31:16):
out in May or June or July, that there's going
to be a couple duds, just because it's not realistic
to have six teams fully healthy, fully functioning at the
highest level this late in the year.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah, but you only have one one game that's a dud.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Most people will still tune in, That's what I'm saying it.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah, you know, And that's the big thing here is
like you looked at the slate going into Christmas, Dan,
and you're likeugh, and then you looked at the it's
like that meme of that girl where she's in the
first one she looks like h throst out, and then
the next one she's like, oh, that was when you
looked at the NFL slate and then you looked at
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
So you're right, Oh, okay, the Alonza morning. You ever
see that one when he's on the bed.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yes, yes, yes, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
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Speaker 1 (32:09):
I have two big takes for the second round of
the college football Playoff. I think Miami Ohouse State. I
think Miami is gonna make things tough for Ohouse State.
I don't know if they can win. But here is
my real conundrum, and this is the same thing filling
out of March Madness bracket. I think the winner of
Texas Tech Oregon uh huh will beat the winner of
Indiana Alabama. I'm just not sure if I like Texas
(32:32):
Tech or Oregon in that game. So whoever wins that game,
I will have playing for the national championship. I'm leaning
Oregon right now, but I'm not one hundred percent sure.
So that's where I'm at. Do you know who you
like in the college football playoff? I mean, you're you know,
my vacation.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I'm in college.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
So proud of you.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
By the way, because I listen, I don't want to
put you on the spot. I would say growing up
you are more of an NBA, NFL kind of girls.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Next question, no question about it. Yes, Baseball, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
May yeah, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You great coverage of the Dodgers, and uh, you do
the show with Martin Weiss before me on Saturday. So
Martin Weiss and Monte Bolanio's five to eight Pacific, eight
to eleven Eastern, correct, and then I'm on an eleven
Eastern and I have to listen. I've seen you spread
your little college football butterfly wings over the last six
months or so, and so it's been awesome. You know,
(33:24):
you're you're you're diving in, You're breaking down Michigan's dog yard,
and you're, oh, Texas Tech. I don't know that's secondary
against the past attack of b YU.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You're just peppering me in the hallway with questions. So,
how have you enjoyed this college football season?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It's been a.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Lot of fun and I think part of the reason
it's been a lot of fun is because I don't care,
Like I'm not hurt by anything.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
And I also, like, you know, at.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The start of the season, Martin was like, you should
pick a team and like follow them. But I feel
like that's such a such a fraud, Like I can't
just pick a team that I root for with my
entire Like I went to kelse Fuller Jay there was
a football team there, you know what I mean, Like,
it's there's no real connection sure for me to just
pick a team and go for it from beginning to end.
(34:09):
So it's been super fun. I'm rooting. I'm rooting for
a couple of teams. Oh, I mean, guy, were rooting
for Indiana, for Nanda Mendoza, I mean I am.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
I'm rooting for Indiana. I'm also rooting for Ole miss Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, so let's this is a perfect segue, by the way,
perfect segue, by the way, Brandon Aubrey lining up for
a field goal to give the Cowboys a twenty thirty
to twenty lead.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Our guy, Brandon Aubrey just missed a field He miss.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Because he definitely beat me to get to the playoffs
in one of my fantasy football leagues.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
He's a cheat code. I can't believe he missed. He's
missed the last couple of weeks, a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
He did well, he just missed.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
There it is twenty seven to twenty Dallas with thirteen
thirty one to go in the second half or in
the fourth quarter. Excuse me, by the way, San Antonio
up fifty three forty six, five point fifty four in
the NBA game. All right, so we mentioned college football playoff.
We mention old miss Trinidad Chamblas. So there's sad story,
great story. There's a great story, but it doesn't I
(35:08):
don't get the vibe that you're happy with the potential
ending of the Trinidad Chamblas story. So let me just
set this up, and there's a lot of different directions
to go, but we can focus on Trinidad Champlains for now.
Is that for years, as somebody who loves college sports,
all I ever heard was, oh, college, these players are
being exploited.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Let them go, bro, it's so terrible.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Well, now with nil, the reality is, unless you're basically
like a first round pick in either of these major sports,
Major League, NFL or college NBA, and really, I don't
even think that's the case. You're probably going to make
more money in college. And so we not only see
guys so like, I'll give you a quick side example,
(35:52):
but there's a quarterback named Brendan Soresby from Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
He wou'd be like a fourth round pick Will Howard.
This was Will Howard a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
He's like, I can be a fourth round pick and
be on a practice squad, or I can make two
and a half million at Ohio State. Yeah, I'll go
to Ohio State and be the quarterback at Ohio State. Well,
we have that situation. Basketball is another situation we'll get
to in a second. But your guy, Trinidad Chambliss began
his career. It is a great story. D two fair
Estate decides to go in the portal and if I
(36:20):
understand it correctly, like Lane Kiffin and Charlie West Junior
basically saw film of him on Twitter and we're like, oh,
this guy's interesting, bring him in. He still he gets
the job. He keeps the job. He's been one of
the most impactful players in college football. But now he's
arguing that he deserves another year because of weird injuries
in this and that even though under the bylaws he
(36:41):
actually doesn't qualify, he's fighting for another year of college football.
And I just think he's a good metaphor for this
world that we live in unless you're one of the
as the kids say, unless you're one of those ones,
you're trying to stay in college sports. So anyway, I'm
rambling enough. You take it where you want to, because
it's a crazy world that we live in.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
It's a graz is a crazy situation and there's so
much to it. But I do think Trinidad Chamliss is
the perfect person to discuss this situation because I'm rooting
for him.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
The story is great, Are you kidding me? I hope
old mis gets far, especially because stupid line given. But
that's a separate conversation.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I'm rooting for him, But no, popping, you can't play
another year, Like, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
You can't, and I like you, you can't do it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Right now, I feel like it is getting blurrier and
blurrier between professional sports and college and that's not what
it should be. College should be an experience with the
expiring date, like once you start the clock that's it.
And I know COVID happened. We're past that. Don't tell
me you need another year because COVID.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
We are past all of that.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
You can't be twenty five years old playing against college kids.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
You just can't. And I know you're making more money.
I understand all that, but you know what.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Life is unfair, and it's just it makes pretty much
pretty much we're gonna be saying that, like college is
a minor professional league system, it's gonna be amateur professional.
That's where we're getting to aaron that is basically gonna
just be minor league?
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Is that just call it that? So calling to college
call it minor league?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, and it leads very interestingly to a story that
happened yesterday, which is crazy. Okay, So James Nase, you
know again to use a very gen z term. Not
sure if you're familiar with his game. Okay, that's more
of a shock term. I guess thirty first overall pick
in the twenty twenty three NBA draft because he was
(38:41):
so let me even backtram last couple months, there have
been certain schools that are pushing the boundaries of like
what is actually acceptable, like how far will the NCAA
allow this to go, okay, and so we have had
Basically it started with there's a bunch of European players
coming over and the kind of professionals, and they're twenty two,
(39:01):
but they're not gonna play in the NBA, so who cares.
And then what we were doing was there was a
couple guys in the G League that had never gone
to college, and so it was like, well, they're in
the G League, but they're not playing in the NBA
and they never got drafted.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I bring it up because on Wednesday, I know you
were in with Dan in this spot. I don't know
if you guys hit on this or not.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
We didn't.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Okay, So Baylor signed this guy named James Nausei was
drafted in the twenty twenty three NBA draft. Now he
has never played in an NBA game, but his rights
were owned I believe by the Timberwolves. He was actually
part of the Carl Anthony Towns Julius Randall trade. Correct,
he committed to Baylor and he is going to play
(39:40):
at Baylor. And so I will say, now I don't
really care because I could have told you five years ago, hey,
if you put in unlimited transfers. If you put in
unlimited nil, bad stuff is gonna happen. Crazy stuff is
gonna happen because coach just want to win. I don't
really care, but I do think they're probably he is
a line in the sand of a twenty three year
(40:02):
old who was drafted by an NBA team that is
now going to play college basketball this year.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And I'll tell you what, Manzi, I just I know
this for.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
A fact unless somebody stops this, and I don't know
who can stop it at this point, because the NCAA
has no teeth, they can't do anything about this.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
We're going schools are trying going to.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Try to get players eligible that have played in the NBA.
Like assume you're Manzi Blanios or I'm Aretrrez and I
got drafted fifty first overall and I played three games
last year and I'm back in the G League and
I'm not making very much money. Someone is going to
try to sign me. This is not going to stop.
And so to your point, I think we have officially
reached the point of critical mass where this is all
(40:47):
just one big glob of college sports with the NBA,
with the NFL, and uh.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
No, that's great. He's I don't know if he's twenty three.
I thought he was twenty one. But it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
He's twenty one and he got four years. That was
the other part too, Yeah, give him a year ago.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
What you're giving him four?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:08):
No, no, no, no, no, this is just okay.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Listen, any any college volleyball teams, Nita le Baro. I've
never played college volleyball. Can you can sign me? Why
can't I go signed her to.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Go play volleyball? I still play volleyball. I could, I
could do it. That sounds ridiculous, but that's where we're
getting to.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
It is, that's where we're getting to you already, and
it's I know, it's it's the money, eron the money,
it's the right like I just but you can't you
There has to be like a hard a hard.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
No.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
You can't keep blending this or making it great, Danga Pavia.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
You're responsible for all this.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
You can't keep Broadway. That's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
He's gonna play a seventh year. I bet he's gonna
find some loophole. There has to be like a hard
a hard line when it comes to college sports and
how many years you can actually play, and once you've got,
once you've left, you're thought.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yes, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
This guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
One, I want to continue this conversation because I think
there's a couple of side effects too. You mentioned dudes
twenty five, twenty six playing college sports. Here's what John
Calperry said a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
There are a lot of older gentlemen with beards playing basketball.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
In college right now.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
There are so you you know. The one that's crazy
is the the guy comes in Andre and he's waving
to his kids up in the seats, and you're like,
wait a minute, the guy got two kids. He's still
playing college basketball.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
He's using nil for his first wife's alimony and now
he's still playing college basketball. Are we nuts?
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
That was Jock Calperry on the state of college sports.
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