May 30, 2025 • 26 mins
Sean Brace and Sam Oshtry talk #NBAFinals MVP odds, #CFBPlayoff chatter, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yeah, we're having some fun here. Sam Austen from the scorer,
Sean Brace with you here. Philly's just won Game one
five four over to the Atlanta Braves and are roll
in game two coming up six forty five. Great pitching matchup,
Wheeler versus Chris Sale. Phillies are a little bit of
a favorite. We'll talk more about that game once again.
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Draftings Sportsbook minus one to fifteen favorites here minus one
oh five for Chris, so seven and a half is
your total in that one. We were having some fun.
As far as college football, you know, look, it's ninety
eight days away from the Eagles and the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I know that date.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I also know that college football kicks off a week
or so earlier before that game. So we are, you know,
probably about ninety days away from college football, if not
even less. But Penn State and Villanovo we'll be matching
up again this season, two powerhouses.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Now, that's that that matchup took place two seasons ago,
if I'm not mistaken. And Penn State's a tough team.
You're talking about the overall number one ranked team right
now at some places a lot of expectations, but you know,
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when it comes to tasty treats in the summertime. Sure,
when you hear the ice cream truck coming around. It
gets your attention, right, like what was a Pavlog's dog
right here at the end of the bellhead and you're like, uh, well,
Rita's is the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
For me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I drive by Aritas and I just heard the commercial.
I might have to hit one up a little bit
later today because I got to try that Sharkleberry one
that they have going on right now With kool Aid.
I'm a sucker for the red kool Aid flavor. I
love it. So I had Rita's over the weekend. Of course,
when you have a kid, it's easy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You want to go to Rita's.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Sure, get the nice little small one, perfect size for
my daughter Kendall.
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Any ice cream? Do you?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Are you an ice cream guy?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm actually not ice cream guy. I'm a water ice guy,
which is whys is for me? I love me some
Rita's so I don't eat ice cream. I eat water
ice during the summer and it's gray. I love the
root beer and lemon combination. Yeah, the best form its best.
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. I actually had the cherry and lemon over the weekend.
That's yeah, lemon. You can never go wrong with lemon water.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, it's a perfect it's a you know, it's a
nice combination, cleans the palate right, not too overpowering. You
can mix it in with the cherry. You can mix
it in with all the flavors. Like you're saying, a
blueberry all that. That's my daughter's go to blue raspberry.
Wife is mango jlati nice. It's just a state. I
ordered three. Bring it back, give me the carrier, am all.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It would be nice if the weather flipped the little
A dude, what is going on with this?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So already the weather is like overcast, cloudy, rainy, still.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Rain tomorrow, ridiculous rain tomorrow, unbelievable June Man's yeah, we
need to heat it up a little bit around here.
I'm ready to sweat. And I do know this much.
There was sun shining today, it says Bank Park. I
don't know if it's still shining right now. It looks
like it is outside. We don't have windows in the studio.
But like you said, man, I'm happy that they're able
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to get these games in because it was a little
worried there because there was definitely what a rain on
the horizon over the next four days after that game
was canceled last night, so I was worried about today.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So it's good that they're able to get that in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
With that being said, like I said, Game two coming
out six forty five, first pitch, Zach Wheeler versus Chris
Sail This evening, NBA Basketball rolls on. We shall see
if we have another team in the NBA Finals. We
opened up the show talking about how dominant the Oklahoma
City Thunder have been all season long, and of course
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what they showed us last night with a lumping of
the Minnesota Timberwolves and just destroying them one twenty four
to ninety four. And honestly, I think the finals score
made it even a little closer than what the game
really was. It was just a blowout from start to finish.
The big story, though, I would say, from the NBA
world right now, is the series price and what they're
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throwing out there. Oklahoma City Thunder is listed as a
minus eight hundred favorite versus the Indiana Pacers plus five fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If the Pacers are able to get there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And to compare it contrast, I bring it back to
last year where the Celtics, where everybody had the Celtics
winning the NBA Finals, taken on the Dallas Mavericks, a
team that was somewhat lucky in some people's eyes to
get to where they were, and the Celtics were only
like minus two to twenty favorites to win the NBA Finals.
It's just crazy, like, is Oklahoma City that much better
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than what the Boston Celtics were. I know it doesn't
work like that, but it's interesting to get into that conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You do rarely see prices this long for an NBA Finals,
even if it is lopside a matchup, which it is,
assuming it's it's pacers, Thunder really doesn't thunder whoever, It'll
be a lopside and matchup. But minus seven hundred is super,
super lofty. You don't see that often. I would have
thought it'd be more closer to to minus four hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I mean that's what you see for first round series.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Like a first round series, when it's like a one
eight or two to seven, you see a minus seven
hundred minus eight hundred favorite. So the fact that the
Thunder Laying that in the NBA Finals tells you a lot.
But again, I can't blame odds makers because the Thunder
or that dominant though, that's suffocating defensively, and there's I
can't see the Knicks or Patiers.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Having any chance of beating them.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, And we were talking to Julian other from DraftKings
Sports Book get into ways that we can wager on
the NBA Finals, even from an Oklahoa city perspective, and
that's where you gotta go ahead and start digging. And
DraftKings has a ton to choose from, whether it's the
series spread, series, total games, exact games, correct score, so
on and so forth. And they will continue to add
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right here over the next week or so. Too early
to get into the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
MVP.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Is it SGA's award, simple as that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I gotta look at what the odds are there
minus five seventy five.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean, there's it's not worth playing that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Jalen Williams isn't worth a little flyer at forty to one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, Like, there's really no way to Thunder win that
series without SGA averaging the most points per game, leading
the team in almost every statistical category, which is really
what the voters look at for the finals.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
VP.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
If you're going to play something, I think you'll have
to see who the opponent is and it'd probably be
worth playing it. On the other side, like if it's
the Knicks, then it's gonna be jaylen Brunston. If the
Nicks somehow pull off an upset, and you're gonna get
even better price than you would for the Knicks to
win the series. And if it's the Pacers, it'll probably
be Tyrey's Halliburn, but there's a chance could be Pascal
Siakam Is, a chance could be an Aaroni Smith, So
it'd probably be worth playing a player. On the other side,
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then it would be worth playing another Thunder, because if
the Thunder winning the finals, it's gonna be an SGA series.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Sam covers it all over at the score. It does
a great job. Be sure to follow him on all
things socials as well. Back to the college sports world,
and we hit on this a little earlier, but I
want to bring it back up and get into a
bigger discussion because the NCAA president Charlie Baker said today.
According to front Off of Sports, one of his top
priorities is expanding March Madness.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just hearing that people are already rolling their eyes. Peop
were like, all.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, come on, man, how many is too many? He
said quote that would be the goal to try and
do this for next year. So they all want to
hit the gas pedal immediately on this to go from
seventy two to seventy six teams. Now, from what I understand,
and again I was anti adding to this at all.
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Now sixty eight understood. When they did go to seventy two,
I get it. I didn't really like it. But at
the end we understand the all mighty dollar controls all.
But what they want to do with seventy six, if
I'm not mistaken, is get an extra day, get an
extra afternoon of play. And at the end, right like,
isn't that a good thing? Isn't that you know, been
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a official for US sports fans out there that want
March Madness on another day, another afternoon?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think people are overreacting like they do to change,
Like that's what we do as a society, and definitely
as a sports society, as we overreact to change, even
if it's minuscule change. Like when you see a score
bug switch on TV from one score bug to another,
everyone freaks out on the timeline, sixty eight to seventy
two teams is not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's just call it out it is.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's really not like I think people freaked out in
two is eleven when it was changed from sixty four
to sixty And guess what is it changed the fabric
of March madness.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I think if you go massive expansion like a sixty
eight to an eighty something, or I remember it was
like sixty they were talking about one hundred plus at
one point a couple of years ago, that would be drastic,
and that would be ridiculous and just that would be unacceptable, frankly,
because you would change the fabric of the tournament. Sixty
eight teams to seventy two teams are getting a few
more games out of it, and for the NCAA's purposes,
They're doing it for their pocketbooks. I mean, just more games,
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more AD revenue, more TV revenue, more money, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So you get it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
From the NCAA's perspective, expanding four teams is not that
big of a deal. It's not going to change the
fabric of the tournament. I don't really see value in
it from the fan and the consumer perspective, Like the
NCAA tournament is perfect how it is. Why switch something
like if it's don't if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
But you got to look at it from from the
vensay tournament's perspective, or the NCAA's perspective, or they want
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more money, and if they can get more money out
of a few more games, adding four more teams is
not going to change the entire tournament. So everyone needs
to kind of take a deep breath. Everyone's gonna watch
it still. Everyone's going going to enjoy it still, and
it won't be that big of a deal if they
just add a few more teams to this tournament.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, I'm right there with you, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Everybody wants to freak out and be upset, and you know,
come on, but when it comes to March that first week,
we're not going to be saying anything other than where
is the nearest television exactly and give me a beer. Look,
and change is going to happen in college sports across
the board, switching years and get out over to the
football side of things.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know that their their plan is to bump into
sixteen teams from the original twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That we just had.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Was that this year or is that going to be
in the future. I don't think it can be this
upcoming season. I think it's going to be the next year.
I don't think they get hit the gas pedal like
that to go to six team, but who knows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The one change they did make for this year, which
was the right change, it's the Boise State rule is
that they're seeding at one through twelve, so it's gonna
be twelve just based on the ranking instead of conference
champion winners are going to be seated one through four
and the rest are seed of five through twelve, which
was the right move because Boise States not have been
a four seed.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In this past tournament. So that's the right move.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's what everyone knew was going to happen after the
first year of the twelve team tournament didn't work out
as it should have based on that seating. So that's
the right move, and I think that's gonna work out
well moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I agree with that, and that's the change that I
would like. I just was talking about this on Tuesday,
where I was saying, look, Lane Kiff came out yesterday,
and if you're wondering where all this conversation is coming
from in college sports, you got the press conferences going
on in the conference press conferences that are happening.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They yeah, so all the Sea coach are speaking, it's
going to be a newsworthy cycles.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Lane Kiffin heads he doesn't want to see automatic bids.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
He doesn't want to see that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He said, you know what, well, that's because his team
would have been in that's without that automatic bid. But
he doesn't deserve any benefit of doubt because his team
should have been in and they sold a few games
down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And what I would say is, I think it's difficult
because you have to find a way that it's like
uniform every single season. In my opinion, one man's take
that you know, these big conferences are represented, they are
always going to be better if they're they're the level
of competition is so much better in the SEC and
in the Big Ten versus other conferences.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We have to realize that bit fair about it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So I am fine with the four and four from
the Big Ten and from the SEC. If that's what
they choose to do. However, I think that they need
to expand it and maybe even look at going more
than sixteen.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But how much is too much because I know then
it becomes just oversaturated with middling teams that don't have
a right to be in there. You're gonna have more
blowouts and that's just not gonna be a good product.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I think toll is actually perfect amount.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I get and four from two conferences, and that doesn't
mean that that's all they're getting. That means, okay, they're
locked in with four. Potentially you could get five from
the SEC, so on and so far. But I think
that I think they deserve it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think the Big ten SEC are the best team
best conferences year after year, so I think they deserve
to each have four teams apiece.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But they go from there. You don't see the ACC getting.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Better, getting better, not necessarily. All the money is with
the SEC in the Big Ten. I don't see any
pathway the ACC is getting better unless Jordan Hudson is
running the program over there in UNC. She's bringing in
some recruits. That's the only way that ACC is getting better.
All the money is with the SEC and the Big Ten.
She's on the sideline. Yeah, she's calling, calling the defense.
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Those two teams, those two conferences can continue to get
better because all the money's with them, and they're continuing
to expand, and with nil and everything, how much they
can pay their players. The revenue shanking is gonna come
with that. It's just gonna help those two conferences. So
eventually what those two conferences want is just an ACC
and Big Ten Invitational.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't think that's good for the sport.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't think you should completely eliminate the Boise States
of the worlds from the Mountain West or the ACC
teams like Clemson. So I want to incorporate those aspects
while also putting the best teams in there. And those
best teams come from the Big Ten and SEC. So
I think that's a reasonable approach to at least four
of those teams from each conference and then fill it
out with maybe some other Big Ten or SEC teams
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if they're deserve it and worthy of it, or some
Mount West teams, some other conference teams.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, you know again, I'm all about more football, more games,
the better, and I realize a lot of people are like,
all these blowouts doesn't matter for my money. I'm sitting down,
I'm enjoying it. Probably probably find a wager or two
on it again. Penn State Boys State. We were watching
that game, right, was Penn State Boys State.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, you know, like I get it. Some of these
games weren't the best games all good, and I think
with the re seating or the way that they have
changed things, I think that's going to help out competition.
I don't know if sixteen is enough. I think they
might need to expand it. Maybe not one doublea twenty
four or twenty six whatever they have, but sixteen plus
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I think they might end up doing a little bit
more than that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I know that the ultimate goal right now is to
get the sixteen teams.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I mean, I will say, if you look at last
year and you put sixteen teams in, you got Alabama
in yep, you got Ole Misson yep, you got South
Carolina in yep. Like that's pretty electric, especially how those
third seasons finished and how those teams were where they
were worthy of being in the twelve. They just lost
some crucial games late and in South Carolina's case early
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that that.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Knocked them out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But that's pretty electric if you have three of those
SEC type schools that have really good teams and could
make runs in a tournament like setting.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So I get it from both the perspective gives for me.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's just like it's usually when you try tweaking at
more and more and more, it doesn't really work out.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's a little Oliver place here on a Thursday, having
some fun with Sam from the score sitting, and of
course we talked to all Things NBA to open up.
But over to the NFL, speaking of press conferences that
are happening in the world of college sports NFL. We
have OTAs players that are missing, veterans that aren't there.
Kirk Cousins is missing from OTAs down in Atlanta, and
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he's fun Diggs. It didn't make this week. He was
at last week. He showed up, made a great appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Hello, every probably do.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So much time at Foxbury. You gotta you get yourself
to Mia.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One from inside the Insiders here Jordan Renaon from ESPN
covers the Giants. Abdul Carter speaking of Penn State, he
will wear fifty one, number one fifty or excuse me,
jersey number fifty one for the Giants.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And of course.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We were hearing some word out there that he hit
up Lawrence Taylor to get fifty six. And it brings
to a bigger conversation where you are seeing these things
happen and more and more, and these old school players
that have their jerseys retired are like, you know what,
I don't care if he wants to wear my number,
that's fine. Now, not all the guys that have their
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jerseys retired I would say that, but there are some
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
If the number is retired and you are a franchise,
you cannot allow somebody else to wear it, Like stick
to your guns. I'll give you a perfect example, Sam.
I hate when people make a decision and then then
decide a week later, or maybe this case, you know
twenty years later that they want to change their mind.
White Marsh Township is now back having their fourth of
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July parade.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Sam.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
They canceled it three weeks ago for whatever reason it was.
And I'm on the outskirts of White Marsh whatever, I
don't really care you want to cancel parade whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I like, I they cancel it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Canceled it basically because of the chief of police was
having a little gut gut feeling about everything that's going
on in the world. And you know, look, there are
there is a lot of a lot of recklessness, a
lot of people that are out of control, a lot
of people, a lot of bad things that are happening,
no doubt about it, but out of fear.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Essentially, that's no way to live. You can't live like
that none whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So then all of a sudden he comes out there,
and you know, they have the supervisors. There's five supervisors
that I believe voted on it. All five of them,
off of going off of what the chief of police said,
voted no, all right, we're going to cancel the parade.
Were like, yeah, chief of police comes to you and says,
I don't think we should have this. You know, I'm
probably gonna listen to the chief of police if I
have to vote, understood. Anyways, My point is this, they
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made the decision to cancel it, then all of a sudden,
everybody's losing their mind, as you should expect. You're canceling
a fourth July parade, that's happened for years, for decades
because of a gut feeling. So now they're wondering, is
there a real presence of something happening here? Why aren't
you telling us, Oh, there's not, but you're canceling it
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just because of gut field.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now all of a sudden, it's back on.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It's awful pr by the liter Bowl, White Marsh Township
over there. That's why I head all over to Lower
Maria Narbirth July fourth Parade.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Shout out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Then they do to great July fourth Prade every single year.
Oh you have one conci too. Everyone has a nice life.
Why are you cancling July fourth grade the fireworks? It's
it's you have to celebrate the times you you can
celebrate in your life and holidays like that's probably the
best holiday of the year, July fourth fourth. How could
you ever cancel something because I gut feeling? Because the
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things you hear in the news, that's just fear bongering
getting to you.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's an awful way to live.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He referenced the parade in Chicago, where there was an
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, that was that's a major major city. He brought
up Free I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then now, like in the back of my mind
that you put a little bit of a target on
this parade a.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Worse now, I wouldn't even go to that three like
I'd go with Konchock in the lower Marin of narbirth Brie.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I mean, I'll be down the shore. But for anyone,
anyone here who does a good Fourth of July party
down the shore.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I haven't been to Prayed a long time, but I
get after on the July fourth as per usual. But
the beach, the fireworks on the beach, any beach you
want to go to avalon album ac any beach down.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't think I've ever done Fourth of July down
the shore. I can't remember if I had.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Last year, I was at h Q two. Have you
ever been there? Oh? Yeah, that's a good time. It's
a good time. Ye.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Sam is still recovering from Memorial Day weekend down the
shore where he's hanging with Cooper Dejan.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, he was hanging with the whole all the Jersey shore.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Speaking of inside the Insiders that he was lined up
on the outside at the other cornerback opposed Quinnon Mitchell,
which is a great thing to read to here to see.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You gotta get him out on the field as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Defensive Player of the Year listed both Coop and quinnyon
fifty to one on Draft Kings sports book.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Cooper's a little too eventful of an off season for me.
But quin God, he is, he is. He's awesomel quinn Yah.
I mean, this is a really young secondary, really young,
and they're banking on them after they lost a lot
of defensive pieces. I don't know how much they're gonna
get to the past, get to the quarterback as much.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's a really young secondary they're gonna rely on. But
we'll see. I look at Coop man. I watched him
playing basketball. Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, he's super let throwing dunks down. I think his
team won the three point competition. Kids, he's the chosen one.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He is.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He don't have to get a Cooper. I might have
to get a Cooper Dejean Jersey. I don't blame you.
I was looking up Cooper Jean's name. First thing came
up with Cooper dejen girlfriend. But don't have to go there.
How is that the first thing that comes up on Google?
I don't care about his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I care about I care about his contract, his jersey,
his stats, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Google Man.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
All right, here's the deal. Once again. Sam does a
great job over at the score. We opened up talking
out things NBA. We need a winner before we get
out of here. Sam, for tonight's game, whether it's a prop,
whether it's a side, whether it's a total. But I
do want to put this out here. Raheem Palmer does
a great job for FanDuel. He put this tweet out
last night. With the Oklahoma City Thunder now listed at
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some shops as high as minus eight hundred over the Pacers,
it will be the biggest Finals favorite since the twenty
seventeen eighteen Warriors were a little bit over one thousand
favorites over the Cleveland Cavaliers, maybe his second biggest finals
favorite over the last twenty four years. The Thunder are
essentially in Shaq Kobe Lakers territory in terms of finals pricing.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think that says more about the facts of who
their opponent is. And look, this Thunder team, like we
talked about, they're historically great, defensively, historically great net rating.
They're not gonna lose. But I do think that that
says something about their opponent. That obviously would be favored
over the Celtics and even over the Cavs, but that
would be a way shorter price. It is interesting like
that that Warriors team, the Thunder have a better net
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rating than that Warriors team. I would never consider this
their team better than that twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen Warriors
team Kevin DuRane, who was just absolutely unstoppable with Durant,
I will say the last time the Thunder were actually
in the championship, a lot of people don't remember this.
They were favored over the Heat in twenty twelve. They
took Game one, they did, and then they I believe
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they lost four.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah. Yeah, So they were favored.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
In that series minus won seventy five over the Heat
because Lebron hadn't won a title yet. But this was
the Big Three coming off that finals lost to Dallas
the year before. So the Thunder have been here thirteen
years earlier and they were favored, but they weren't this
substantial favorites. So it's it's pretty shocking they're this big
of favorites. But again, I get it. I get how
dominant this team is, and I get their opponent. Either
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opponent Nicks or Pacers will not match up.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, man, what a fun finals that was?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Like that you could sit there and say you didn't
like Lebron and but you were watching. Everybody watched, Yeah,
everybody tuned in. And that Maverick series was great. I
remember watching a LBI. I believe that was the day weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then you know used to be earlier. Yeah, yeah,
and then for the OKC series. A guy used to
work with Joe Eunice who was the chosen one when
it came to U sports wagering on the NBA. He said,
and I remember it like it was yesterday. He said,
Miami will lose Game one and they won't lose a
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game from here on out. Serious nailed it, absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You bet that?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah? Oh yeah, I bet it, And I was I
tailed every one of his plays did really well on
that one.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
All right, Sam, good for you. What do you got
cooking over at the score? There a lot of NBA stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
UH Today wrote actually went deep on why the thunder
or excuse me, the potential series prices of the thunder verse,
the Pacers verse, first the Knicks and why the Knicks
would actually have better chances according to the odd makers
over the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Good questions.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So a lot of went deep on that, and just
a lot of basketball and NBA stuff as the playoffs
continue to.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wind down, all right, and then one more a winner
for tonight where you yeah, Nicks, nix minus four Knicks,
it's up to four and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Four and it still give me four and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I think the Knicks actually get a comfortable win, which
they rarely do.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They won easily a Game six against the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Other than that, every single one of their wins this
playoffs have been incredibly tight, going back to that opening
series against the Pistons. I think the Knicks actually get
a comfortable win. They win by by ten plus tonight
over the Pacers, and right back to Indiana. Game six
and they use it potentially could be a game seven.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I don't want to see that. I don't think I do.
I don't think I do seven.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You want to see games?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, Because I think the Pacers right now will be
able to at least compete with the Okahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
If they got a seven game series, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because also the Pacers. The whole thing
is depth. Like, the whole thing is depth. Anyway, even
if they had only two days rest.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
In between games, it would be a big drop off
into that next to six, seven, eight, nine, ten player, Like,
I need.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The starting five to show up against Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I get.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I'm just saying their minute sload isn't that great, so
so they won't be like that tired I supposed to
the next. If the Knicks get got through game seven
and somehow winning seven games, they're to oh my god,
they might get swept.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, they won't win a game.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
They might get swept. And if maybe have available players.
Let's not forget that Cat is not healthy tonight. Now
he's playing, but he's not healthy. Iss a knee confusion.
We'll see how that.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you're still believing that the Knicks get the job
done without I.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Think they do all right at home. I think they
do all right.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, let's sam Ostric. We'll see if he's right. We'll
talk more about it tomorrow. Brand new Dilly ticket at
three pm. I'll be live in studio. Hopefully we get
a little sunshine in our life. Philly's coming up at
six forty five recap all that got a few.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Members from the Gambler Gang on tomorrow show. Looking forward
to recapping everything for you at three pm.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Good luck on all those plays, and if you miss anything,
once again get everything available over at FOXPHL Gambler dot
com
Yeah, we're having some fun here. Sam Austen from the scorer,
Sean Brace with you here. Philly's just won Game one
five four over to the Atlanta Braves and are roll
in game two coming up six forty five. Great pitching matchup,
Wheeler versus Chris Sale. Phillies are a little bit of
a favorite. We'll talk more about that game once again.
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Draftings Sportsbook minus one to fifteen favorites here minus one
oh five for Chris, so seven and a half is
your total in that one. We were having some fun.
As far as college football, you know, look, it's ninety
eight days away from the Eagles and the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I know that date.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I also know that college football kicks off a week
or so earlier before that game. So we are, you know,
probably about ninety days away from college football, if not
even less. But Penn State and Villanovo we'll be matching
up again this season, two powerhouses.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Now, that's that that matchup took place two seasons ago,
if I'm not mistaken. And Penn State's a tough team.
You're talking about the overall number one ranked team right
now at some places a lot of expectations, but you know,
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Also during the commercial break, I am just a sucker, Sam.
I when I drive by Aritas, I have to stop.
I have to stop. And there's nothing better, nothing like
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when it comes to tasty treats in the summertime. Sure,
when you hear the ice cream truck coming around. It
gets your attention, right, like what was a Pavlog's dog
right here at the end of the bellhead and you're like, uh, well,
Rita's is the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
For me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I drive by Aritas and I just heard the commercial.
I might have to hit one up a little bit
later today because I got to try that Sharkleberry one
that they have going on right now With kool Aid.
I'm a sucker for the red kool Aid flavor. I
love it. So I had Rita's over the weekend. Of course,
when you have a kid, it's easy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You want to go to Rita's.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Sure, get the nice little small one, perfect size for
my daughter Kendall.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Rita's.
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Make sure you're checking out what they have to offer.
They're always mixing it up, and make sure you check
them out. Rita's ice dot com for a location near you.
Any ice cream? Do you?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Are you an ice cream guy?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm actually not ice cream guy. I'm a water ice guy,
which is whys is for me? I love me some
Rita's so I don't eat ice cream. I eat water
ice during the summer and it's gray. I love the
root beer and lemon combination. Yeah, the best form its best.
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. I actually had the cherry and lemon over the weekend.
That's yeah, lemon. You can never go wrong with lemon water.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, it's a perfect it's a you know, it's a
nice combination, cleans the palate right, not too overpowering. You
can mix it in with the cherry. You can mix
it in with all the flavors. Like you're saying, a
blueberry all that. That's my daughter's go to blue raspberry.
Wife is mango jlati nice. It's just a state. I
ordered three. Bring it back, give me the carrier, am all.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It would be nice if the weather flipped the little
A dude, what is going on with this?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So already the weather is like overcast, cloudy, rainy, still.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Rain tomorrow, ridiculous rain tomorrow, unbelievable June Man's yeah, we
need to heat it up a little bit around here.
I'm ready to sweat. And I do know this much.
There was sun shining today, it says Bank Park. I
don't know if it's still shining right now. It looks
like it is outside. We don't have windows in the studio.
But like you said, man, I'm happy that they're able
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to get these games in because it was a little
worried there because there was definitely what a rain on
the horizon over the next four days after that game
was canceled last night, so I was worried about today.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So it's good that they're able to get that in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
With that being said, like I said, Game two coming
out six forty five, first pitch, Zach Wheeler versus Chris
Sail This evening, NBA Basketball rolls on. We shall see
if we have another team in the NBA Finals. We
opened up the show talking about how dominant the Oklahoma
City Thunder have been all season long, and of course
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what they showed us last night with a lumping of
the Minnesota Timberwolves and just destroying them one twenty four
to ninety four. And honestly, I think the finals score
made it even a little closer than what the game
really was. It was just a blowout from start to finish.
The big story, though, I would say, from the NBA
world right now, is the series price and what they're
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throwing out there. Oklahoma City Thunder is listed as a
minus eight hundred favorite versus the Indiana Pacers plus five fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If the Pacers are able to get there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And to compare it contrast, I bring it back to
last year where the Celtics, where everybody had the Celtics
winning the NBA Finals, taken on the Dallas Mavericks, a
team that was somewhat lucky in some people's eyes to
get to where they were, and the Celtics were only
like minus two to twenty favorites to win the NBA Finals.
It's just crazy, like, is Oklahoma City that much better
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than what the Boston Celtics were. I know it doesn't
work like that, but it's interesting to get into that conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You do rarely see prices this long for an NBA Finals,
even if it is lopside a matchup, which it is,
assuming it's it's pacers, Thunder really doesn't thunder whoever, It'll
be a lopside and matchup. But minus seven hundred is super,
super lofty. You don't see that often. I would have
thought it'd be more closer to to minus four hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I mean that's what you see for first round series.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Like a first round series, when it's like a one
eight or two to seven, you see a minus seven
hundred minus eight hundred favorite. So the fact that the
Thunder Laying that in the NBA Finals tells you a lot.
But again, I can't blame odds makers because the Thunder
or that dominant though, that's suffocating defensively, and there's I
can't see the Knicks or Patiers.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Having any chance of beating them.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, And we were talking to Julian other from DraftKings
Sports Book get into ways that we can wager on
the NBA Finals, even from an Oklahoa city perspective, and
that's where you gotta go ahead and start digging. And
DraftKings has a ton to choose from, whether it's the
series spread, series, total games, exact games, correct score, so
on and so forth. And they will continue to add
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right here over the next week or so. Too early
to get into the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
MVP.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Is it SGA's award, simple as that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I gotta look at what the odds are there
minus five seventy five.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean, there's it's not worth playing that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Jalen Williams isn't worth a little flyer at forty to one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, Like, there's really no way to Thunder win that
series without SGA averaging the most points per game, leading
the team in almost every statistical category, which is really
what the voters look at for the finals.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
VP.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
If you're going to play something, I think you'll have
to see who the opponent is and it'd probably be
worth playing it. On the other side, like if it's
the Knicks, then it's gonna be jaylen Brunston. If the
Nicks somehow pull off an upset, and you're gonna get
even better price than you would for the Knicks to
win the series. And if it's the Pacers, it'll probably
be Tyrey's Halliburn, but there's a chance could be Pascal
Siakam Is, a chance could be an Aaroni Smith, So
it'd probably be worth playing a player. On the other side,
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then it would be worth playing another Thunder, because if
the Thunder winning the finals, it's gonna be an SGA series.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Sam covers it all over at the score. It does
a great job. Be sure to follow him on all
things socials as well. Back to the college sports world,
and we hit on this a little earlier, but I
want to bring it back up and get into a
bigger discussion because the NCAA president Charlie Baker said today.
According to front Off of Sports, one of his top
priorities is expanding March Madness.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just hearing that people are already rolling their eyes. Peop
were like, all.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, come on, man, how many is too many? He
said quote that would be the goal to try and
do this for next year. So they all want to
hit the gas pedal immediately on this to go from
seventy two to seventy six teams. Now, from what I understand,
and again I was anti adding to this at all.
(08:38):
Now sixty eight understood. When they did go to seventy two,
I get it. I didn't really like it. But at
the end we understand the all mighty dollar controls all.
But what they want to do with seventy six, if
I'm not mistaken, is get an extra day, get an
extra afternoon of play. And at the end, right like,
isn't that a good thing? Isn't that you know, been
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a official for US sports fans out there that want
March Madness on another day, another afternoon?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think people are overreacting like they do to change,
Like that's what we do as a society, and definitely
as a sports society, as we overreact to change, even
if it's minuscule change. Like when you see a score
bug switch on TV from one score bug to another,
everyone freaks out on the timeline, sixty eight to seventy
two teams is not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's just call it out it is.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's really not like I think people freaked out in
two is eleven when it was changed from sixty four
to sixty And guess what is it changed the fabric
of March madness.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I think if you go massive expansion like a sixty
eight to an eighty something, or I remember it was
like sixty they were talking about one hundred plus at
one point a couple of years ago, that would be drastic,
and that would be ridiculous and just that would be unacceptable, frankly,
because you would change the fabric of the tournament. Sixty
eight teams to seventy two teams are getting a few
more games out of it, and for the NCAA's purposes,
They're doing it for their pocketbooks. I mean, just more games,
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more AD revenue, more TV revenue, more money, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So you get it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
From the NCAA's perspective, expanding four teams is not that
big of a deal. It's not going to change the
fabric of the tournament. I don't really see value in
it from the fan and the consumer perspective, Like the
NCAA tournament is perfect how it is. Why switch something
like if it's don't if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
But you got to look at it from from the
vensay tournament's perspective, or the NCAA's perspective, or they want
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more money, and if they can get more money out
of a few more games, adding four more teams is
not going to change the entire tournament. So everyone needs
to kind of take a deep breath. Everyone's gonna watch
it still. Everyone's going going to enjoy it still, and
it won't be that big of a deal if they
just add a few more teams to this tournament.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, I'm right there with you, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Everybody wants to freak out and be upset, and you know,
come on, but when it comes to March that first week,
we're not going to be saying anything other than where
is the nearest television exactly and give me a beer. Look,
and change is going to happen in college sports across
the board, switching years and get out over to the
football side of things.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know that their their plan is to bump into
sixteen teams from the original twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That we just had.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Was that this year or is that going to be
in the future. I don't think it can be this
upcoming season. I think it's going to be the next year.
I don't think they get hit the gas pedal like
that to go to six team, but who knows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The one change they did make for this year, which
was the right change, it's the Boise State rule is
that they're seeding at one through twelve, so it's gonna
be twelve just based on the ranking instead of conference
champion winners are going to be seated one through four
and the rest are seed of five through twelve, which
was the right move because Boise States not have been
a four seed.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In this past tournament. So that's the right move.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's what everyone knew was going to happen after the
first year of the twelve team tournament didn't work out
as it should have based on that seating. So that's
the right move, and I think that's gonna work out
well moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I agree with that, and that's the change that I
would like. I just was talking about this on Tuesday,
where I was saying, look, Lane Kiff came out yesterday,
and if you're wondering where all this conversation is coming
from in college sports, you got the press conferences going
on in the conference press conferences that are happening.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They yeah, so all the Sea coach are speaking, it's
going to be a newsworthy cycles.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Lane Kiffin heads he doesn't want to see automatic bids.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
He doesn't want to see that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He said, you know what, well, that's because his team
would have been in that's without that automatic bid. But
he doesn't deserve any benefit of doubt because his team
should have been in and they sold a few games
down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And what I would say is, I think it's difficult
because you have to find a way that it's like
uniform every single season. In my opinion, one man's take
that you know, these big conferences are represented, they are
always going to be better if they're they're the level
of competition is so much better in the SEC and
in the Big Ten versus other conferences.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We have to realize that bit fair about it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So I am fine with the four and four from
the Big Ten and from the SEC. If that's what
they choose to do. However, I think that they need
to expand it and maybe even look at going more
than sixteen.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But how much is too much because I know then
it becomes just oversaturated with middling teams that don't have
a right to be in there. You're gonna have more
blowouts and that's just not gonna be a good product.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I think toll is actually perfect amount.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I get and four from two conferences, and that doesn't
mean that that's all they're getting. That means, okay, they're
locked in with four. Potentially you could get five from
the SEC, so on and so far. But I think
that I think they deserve it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think the Big ten SEC are the best team
best conferences year after year, so I think they deserve
to each have four teams apiece.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But they go from there. You don't see the ACC getting.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Better, getting better, not necessarily. All the money is with
the SEC in the Big Ten. I don't see any
pathway the ACC is getting better unless Jordan Hudson is
running the program over there in UNC. She's bringing in
some recruits. That's the only way that ACC is getting better.
All the money is with the SEC and the Big Ten.
She's on the sideline. Yeah, she's calling, calling the defense.
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Those two teams, those two conferences can continue to get
better because all the money's with them, and they're continuing
to expand, and with nil and everything, how much they
can pay their players. The revenue shanking is gonna come
with that. It's just gonna help those two conferences. So
eventually what those two conferences want is just an ACC
and Big Ten Invitational.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't think that's good for the sport.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't think you should completely eliminate the Boise States
of the worlds from the Mountain West or the ACC
teams like Clemson. So I want to incorporate those aspects
while also putting the best teams in there. And those
best teams come from the Big Ten and SEC. So
I think that's a reasonable approach to at least four
of those teams from each conference and then fill it
out with maybe some other Big Ten or SEC teams
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if they're deserve it and worthy of it, or some
Mount West teams, some other conference teams.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, you know again, I'm all about more football, more games,
the better, and I realize a lot of people are like,
all these blowouts doesn't matter for my money. I'm sitting down,
I'm enjoying it. Probably probably find a wager or two
on it again. Penn State Boys State. We were watching
that game, right, was Penn State Boys State.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, you know, like I get it. Some of these
games weren't the best games all good, and I think
with the re seating or the way that they have
changed things, I think that's going to help out competition.
I don't know if sixteen is enough. I think they
might need to expand it. Maybe not one doublea twenty
four or twenty six whatever they have, but sixteen plus
(15:20):
I think they might end up doing a little bit
more than that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I know that the ultimate goal right now is to
get the sixteen teams.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I mean, I will say, if you look at last
year and you put sixteen teams in, you got Alabama
in yep, you got Ole Misson yep, you got South
Carolina in yep. Like that's pretty electric, especially how those
third seasons finished and how those teams were where they
were worthy of being in the twelve. They just lost
some crucial games late and in South Carolina's case early
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that that.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Knocked them out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But that's pretty electric if you have three of those
SEC type schools that have really good teams and could
make runs in a tournament like setting.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So I get it from both the perspective gives for me.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's just like it's usually when you try tweaking at
more and more and more, it doesn't really work out.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's a little Oliver place here on a Thursday, having
some fun with Sam from the score sitting, and of
course we talked to all Things NBA to open up.
But over to the NFL, speaking of press conferences that
are happening in the world of college sports NFL. We
have OTAs players that are missing, veterans that aren't there.
Kirk Cousins is missing from OTAs down in Atlanta, and
(16:28):
he's fun Diggs. It didn't make this week. He was
at last week. He showed up, made a great appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Hello, every probably do.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So much time at Foxbury. You gotta you get yourself
to Mia.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One from inside the Insiders here Jordan Renaon from ESPN
covers the Giants. Abdul Carter speaking of Penn State, he
will wear fifty one, number one fifty or excuse me,
jersey number fifty one for the Giants.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And of course.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We were hearing some word out there that he hit
up Lawrence Taylor to get fifty six. And it brings
to a bigger conversation where you are seeing these things
happen and more and more, and these old school players
that have their jerseys retired are like, you know what,
I don't care if he wants to wear my number,
that's fine. Now, not all the guys that have their
(17:19):
jerseys retired I would say that, but there are some
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
If the number is retired and you are a franchise,
you cannot allow somebody else to wear it, Like stick
to your guns. I'll give you a perfect example, Sam.
I hate when people make a decision and then then
decide a week later, or maybe this case, you know
twenty years later that they want to change their mind.
White Marsh Township is now back having their fourth of
(17:48):
July parade.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Sam.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
They canceled it three weeks ago for whatever reason it was.
And I'm on the outskirts of White Marsh whatever, I
don't really care you want to cancel parade whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I like, I they cancel it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Canceled it basically because of the chief of police was
having a little gut gut feeling about everything that's going
on in the world. And you know, look, there are
there is a lot of a lot of recklessness, a
lot of people that are out of control, a lot
of people, a lot of bad things that are happening,
no doubt about it, but out of fear.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Essentially, that's no way to live. You can't live like
that none whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So then all of a sudden he comes out there,
and you know, they have the supervisors. There's five supervisors
that I believe voted on it. All five of them,
off of going off of what the chief of police said,
voted no, all right, we're going to cancel the parade.
Were like, yeah, chief of police comes to you and says,
I don't think we should have this. You know, I'm
probably gonna listen to the chief of police if I
have to vote, understood. Anyways, My point is this, they
(18:46):
made the decision to cancel it, then all of a sudden,
everybody's losing their mind, as you should expect. You're canceling
a fourth July parade, that's happened for years, for decades
because of a gut feeling. So now they're wondering, is
there a real presence of something happening here? Why aren't
you telling us, Oh, there's not, but you're canceling it
(19:07):
just because of gut field.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now all of a sudden, it's back on.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It's awful pr by the liter Bowl, White Marsh Township
over there. That's why I head all over to Lower
Maria Narbirth July fourth Parade.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Shout out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Then they do to great July fourth Prade every single year.
Oh you have one conci too. Everyone has a nice life.
Why are you cancling July fourth grade the fireworks? It's
it's you have to celebrate the times you you can
celebrate in your life and holidays like that's probably the
best holiday of the year, July fourth fourth. How could
you ever cancel something because I gut feeling? Because the
(19:38):
things you hear in the news, that's just fear bongering
getting to you.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's an awful way to live.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He referenced the parade in Chicago, where there was an
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, that was that's a major major city. He brought
up Free I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then now, like in the back of my mind
that you put a little bit of a target on
this parade a.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Worse now, I wouldn't even go to that three like
I'd go with Konchock in the lower Marin of narbirth Brie.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I mean, I'll be down the shore. But for anyone,
anyone here who does a good Fourth of July party
down the shore.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I haven't been to Prayed a long time, but I
get after on the July fourth as per usual. But
the beach, the fireworks on the beach, any beach you
want to go to avalon album ac any beach down.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't think I've ever done Fourth of July down
the shore. I can't remember if I had.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Last year, I was at h Q two. Have you
ever been there? Oh? Yeah, that's a good time. It's
a good time. Ye.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Sam is still recovering from Memorial Day weekend down the
shore where he's hanging with Cooper Dejan.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, he was hanging with the whole all the Jersey shore.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Speaking of inside the Insiders that he was lined up
on the outside at the other cornerback opposed Quinnon Mitchell,
which is a great thing to read to here to see.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You gotta get him out on the field as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Defensive Player of the Year listed both Coop and quinnyon
fifty to one on Draft Kings sports book.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Cooper's a little too eventful of an off season for me.
But quin God, he is, he is. He's awesomel quinn Yah.
I mean, this is a really young secondary, really young,
and they're banking on them after they lost a lot
of defensive pieces. I don't know how much they're gonna
get to the past, get to the quarterback as much.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's a really young secondary they're gonna rely on. But
we'll see. I look at Coop man. I watched him
playing basketball. Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, he's super let throwing dunks down. I think his
team won the three point competition. Kids, he's the chosen one.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He is.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He don't have to get a Cooper. I might have
to get a Cooper Dejean Jersey. I don't blame you.
I was looking up Cooper Jean's name. First thing came
up with Cooper dejen girlfriend. But don't have to go there.
How is that the first thing that comes up on Google?
I don't care about his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I care about I care about his contract, his jersey,
his stats, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Google Man.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
All right, here's the deal. Once again. Sam does a
great job over at the score. We opened up talking
out things NBA. We need a winner before we get
out of here. Sam, for tonight's game, whether it's a prop,
whether it's a side, whether it's a total. But I
do want to put this out here. Raheem Palmer does
a great job for FanDuel. He put this tweet out
last night. With the Oklahoma City Thunder now listed at
(22:12):
some shops as high as minus eight hundred over the Pacers,
it will be the biggest Finals favorite since the twenty
seventeen eighteen Warriors were a little bit over one thousand
favorites over the Cleveland Cavaliers, maybe his second biggest finals
favorite over the last twenty four years. The Thunder are
essentially in Shaq Kobe Lakers territory in terms of finals pricing.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think that says more about the facts of who
their opponent is. And look, this Thunder team, like we
talked about, they're historically great, defensively, historically great net rating.
They're not gonna lose. But I do think that that
says something about their opponent. That obviously would be favored
over the Celtics and even over the Cavs, but that
would be a way shorter price. It is interesting like
that that Warriors team, the Thunder have a better net
(22:56):
rating than that Warriors team. I would never consider this
their team better than that twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen Warriors
team Kevin DuRane, who was just absolutely unstoppable with Durant,
I will say the last time the Thunder were actually
in the championship, a lot of people don't remember this.
They were favored over the Heat in twenty twelve. They
took Game one, they did, and then they I believe
(23:17):
they lost four.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah. Yeah, So they were favored.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
In that series minus won seventy five over the Heat
because Lebron hadn't won a title yet. But this was
the Big Three coming off that finals lost to Dallas
the year before. So the Thunder have been here thirteen
years earlier and they were favored, but they weren't this
substantial favorites. So it's it's pretty shocking they're this big
of favorites. But again, I get it. I get how
dominant this team is, and I get their opponent. Either
(23:42):
opponent Nicks or Pacers will not match up.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, man, what a fun finals that was?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Like that you could sit there and say you didn't
like Lebron and but you were watching. Everybody watched, Yeah,
everybody tuned in. And that Maverick series was great. I
remember watching a LBI. I believe that was the day weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then you know used to be earlier. Yeah, yeah,
and then for the OKC series. A guy used to
work with Joe Eunice who was the chosen one when
it came to U sports wagering on the NBA. He said,
and I remember it like it was yesterday. He said,
Miami will lose Game one and they won't lose a
(24:18):
game from here on out. Serious nailed it, absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You bet that?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah? Oh yeah, I bet it, And I was I
tailed every one of his plays did really well on
that one.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
All right, Sam, good for you. What do you got
cooking over at the score? There a lot of NBA stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
UH Today wrote actually went deep on why the thunder
or excuse me, the potential series prices of the thunder verse,
the Pacers verse, first the Knicks and why the Knicks
would actually have better chances according to the odd makers
over the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Good questions.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So a lot of went deep on that, and just
a lot of basketball and NBA stuff as the playoffs
continue to.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wind down, all right, and then one more a winner
for tonight where you yeah, Nicks, nix minus four Knicks,
it's up to four and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Four and it still give me four and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I think the Knicks actually get a comfortable win, which
they rarely do.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They won easily a Game six against the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Other than that, every single one of their wins this
playoffs have been incredibly tight, going back to that opening
series against the Pistons. I think the Knicks actually get
a comfortable win. They win by by ten plus tonight
over the Pacers, and right back to Indiana. Game six
and they use it potentially could be a game seven.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I don't want to see that. I don't think I do.
I don't think I do seven.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You want to see games?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, Because I think the Pacers right now will be
able to at least compete with the Okahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
If they got a seven game series, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because also the Pacers. The whole thing
is depth. Like, the whole thing is depth. Anyway, even
if they had only two days rest.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
In between games, it would be a big drop off
into that next to six, seven, eight, nine, ten player, Like,
I need.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The starting five to show up against Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I get.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I'm just saying their minute sload isn't that great, so
so they won't be like that tired I supposed to
the next. If the Knicks get got through game seven
and somehow winning seven games, they're to oh my god,
they might get swept.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, they won't win a game.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
They might get swept. And if maybe have available players.
Let's not forget that Cat is not healthy tonight. Now
he's playing, but he's not healthy. Iss a knee confusion.
We'll see how that.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you're still believing that the Knicks get the job
done without I.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Think they do all right at home. I think they
do all right.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, let's sam Ostric. We'll see if he's right. We'll
talk more about it tomorrow. Brand new Dilly ticket at
three pm. I'll be live in studio. Hopefully we get
a little sunshine in our life. Philly's coming up at
six forty five recap all that got a few.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Members from the Gambler Gang on tomorrow show. Looking forward
to recapping everything for you at three pm.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Good luck on all those plays, and if you miss anything,
once again get everything available over at FOXPHL Gambler dot
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