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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was a straight up football scorer last night watching
my Reds. Hell yes, and it was game one of
a three game set. The Texas Rangers got their ass
kicked in Cincinnati, a great American ballpark last night. Let
me tell you, it was really nice. And we're talking
fourth game into the season now, but it was super
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nice man watching that happen. And I know you weren't
watching Chuck no no, but that's okay. I mean, but
it was a straight up clinic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm glad the Reds won, but let's see what happens
this next game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a big score. Of course it is.
And there's no way they keep up that kind of momentum.
I understand as far as the scoring goes, but it
was good to see that because the offensive production, all
that does is feed and create positivity and all of
those things that you need to begin to It's a
very long season, we know that, as far as games
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go in Major League Baseball, just like hockey. I mean,
it's so many games, but it's ebb and flow. And
for them to do that coming off of losing to
the Giants in that three game set, you know, they
they lost two of three there so that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's just good about the Wompons the same way I
do with the buck guys during football season. You know
it's great, but especially the younger and more inexperienced team
members are, the more I worry about. I don't get cocky.
You know, you had a great score. That's wonderful to
look at, but you got a long season to go.
Let let's not go out there thinking I'm excellent and
(01:37):
I can't be beating and all that stuffed face.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And there was a lot of guys who have been
there for a couple of years, so it's not like
you got brand brand, brand new guys that are just
into the league and have some false sense of whatever.
So there he is or there it is. And I
was saying there he is because I'm punching him up.
He's the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Bob
mcgu I get joining us. Now what's up?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man? You're gonna hold your breath for the next one
hundred and fifty eight games.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I knew that was coming. I love you, man, nothing gett.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Opening day is opening day and then come find me
a playoff time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, no, I understand what you're saying. You know, and
you bring up an interesting thing because clearly between now
and then there are a lot of games that have
to go by, There's no question. And it brings me
to the question I was thinking about as I was
getting ready for the show today and because there was
this couples are using March madness prenups to stop fighting.
(02:39):
This is a literal story that I was reading and
I was laughing, and I thought, you know, who would
be a perfect guy to ask about this would be
one Bob mckelligan. And do you like with your wife?
I mean, how does that work as far as because
I know you're a sports guy. Clearly you and I
share an affinity for the Steelers, and I know you
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you know you're from Pittsburgh and you I don't know
if you're a Pirates fan or what have you, but
I know you're a sports fan. How does she deal
with that? Because I started looking at what reading this,
reading this thing about couples using march madness prenups to
stop fighting, I mean, do you are you following march madness?
Because I really don't. I do take a break as
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far as basketball goes, and my wife puts up with it.
But if it's not hockey, it's baseball. It's both on
some nights. Then it's football, and it's college football. I mean,
there's there's a lot going on. And my wife, she
is a saint, she's an angel man dealing with that
stuff because it's not her first choice.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh you let her control your remote?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, not necessarily, sometimes I do sometimes, but yeah really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's Saturday mornings basically because we'll end up watching the
No No, No, Pioneer Woman, the Kitchen, you know, stuff
on Food Network. See I like that stuff. I kind
of do too, quite frankly. Yeah, but I mean, how
did your wife do?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I mean, she okay with it, never asked, So.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You just do it?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You almost the testosterony. Yeah, you know what. You know
what happens. It goes Chuck Norris, research Blazer, It goes
Chuck Norris, then it goes Bob mcgalligate right below Chuck.
It just slightly below, just barely below.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, Like I have to watch this Calgary Colorado game
because Colorado will be here Thursday.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So is that what you use is at the angle?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's just truth? Truth always prevails.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right right? I love it. I love it. I don't
know if I believe you, But I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh, she's good about it. I'm I'm just kidding. She
she likes sports. Basketball is the one that we Ironically,
her family was a basketball family. Her brothers you know,
played and one of her brothers was really good at
high school basketball players. So they were a big basket
cake ball family. But that's what we watched the least
because I find it to be the least entertaining sport.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Same with me. Same with me. I am exactly the
same way I could.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I don't bet, so, you know, and I'm not
even in an NCAA pool this year, so I have
zero interest.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Right. I don't give a flip about NBA. And I
really don't follow college unless OSU is doing something, which
again I don't really follow college because they're not doing
anything yet. Again this year, i'll go.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll go once in a while. It's something different, but
it's not like I scour a schedule and say, oh
my god, I've got to see this basketball game.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, just watching the highlights and so forth. I've had
more of a throw watching the college women this year
in the tournament than the guys. Their excitement is just
so high it's so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Chuck said it. You said it, man, Women's basketball got
you going?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Who said, yes, I said it. The NCAA Women's tournament has.
There's more excitement, more genuine enthusiasm there than I think
for the show boats on the mail side.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean fair enough, I guess. I
you know, I do know that your son pitches. I
know he plays baseball, so I know you're a big
baseball fan. So yeah, I mean it's the same with
my saying.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You mentioned I'm a Pirates fan, so I haven't been
excited relevant for years.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Quite frankly, neither of the Reds except for Ellie de
la Cruz, and they had a little blip of excitement
last year, and yeah, he's so on and so forth.
But I don't know, man, It's just I get excited
this time of year because everybody has that renewed hope
except you, of course, because you're a Pirates fan.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh it's over already. They lost like three games in
a walk off to the Marrow. It's ober. You know.
I said to you about what are you going to
get excited about one hundred and fifty eight? Like, I
have zero excitement yeah, I don't need to watch one.
I know it's going to happen. They have no payroll. Yeah,
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one guy I watched once every five days to watch
Paul Skins pitch. Yeah, that there's nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know. What's exciting for me though, is Stone is
a Reds fan and he plays the game now too,
and it's just fun to kind of have that thing,
that common denominator with him, an eleven year old and
he's his excitement and and so on, and him going,
you know, just talking about it. It's just the connection
that is made. And much like hockey when he goes
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with me to the games and such, we watch him
every time they're on. We watch the Jackets and it's
just fun. I mean, it's just one of those things,
just a connection with my son in addition to everything
else that surrounds all the fanfare with it too. So yeah,
it's fun exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, that's that is the best part about it. My
son doesn't like our baseball talks because they're usually what
was that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, I've heard you though, Yeah, I've heard you. You've
told me things that you've said to him. I'm like,
you better sleep with one eye open, man, What do
you do. It's good. Lord, you're a jackass.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
For the most Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Anyway, throwback.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I like to call the throwback other than the jacket.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, sure, whatever you need to call it to make
yourself feel good. Man. The Preads are in town tonight. Now,
this is what I don't know. Is there such thing
as a trap game when it comes to hockey, because.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You're not when you have to win seven to ten
to have a realistic chance making the playoffs, right, So
yes there is. But if you're in a playoff spot
and you're you know, if you're trying to you're trying
to better your position or something like that. Tennis a
trap game. This is a must win game, simple as that.
So your thoughts did a game that on paper if
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you were just to play it on paper, would you
win out right? Absolutely sure, you guys think. But they
have nothing to play for it. They'll be very loose tonight.
They lost last night in Philly, so yeah, it'll be uh,
it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We can go back a couple of games. I tecked
with you after the Canucks and the Jackets winning a
shootout seven to six. They were down three nothing. I
was like, they can't keep doing this knock it off
with this come from behind stuff. You only have so
many of those in the magic well if you will,
and it's this ain't the time of year to be
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having to summons that or what have you. And I
love your text right after that, and I can't read
what I sent you because well, I'll get thrown off
the air and I'll get probably arrested. But I did
end with it. What a gutsy w you go, Oh
it was something. I'm not sure what, but something is
what you replied when it was a mess. You're right,
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but they ended up somehow pulling it off. Then go
to Ottawa, and so what were your thoughts on how
they was? Was that just it was the next night
it was they traveled, but I mean what I mean
three to two, it was close. They got down again.
I'm like, oh man, they you know, when they don't
score the first goal, it seems like it turns into this,
I don't know, this big mess. But your thoughts on that,
(09:57):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Remember when they scored the first goal. It's been weeks now.
The Ottawa game was, look, you're the deck stacked against you.
You play, you have that kind of an emotional game
that was a long game on Friday night. Not just
that it went to a shootout, but there were thirteen goals,
so it was a long game for hockey. You don't
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get in when you go to Ottawa. First of all,
I don't know why when people ask me, what's your
least favorite place, and I don't know why Ottawa doesn't
jump to my mind first, because it is the absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's like twenty degrees the other night or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't care about that, Okay with going from seventy
to twenty, I don't care. But it's a forty minute
ride from the airport to the hotel. The rink is
not even in the city, it's in a different town,
and the hotel there's nothing around it. The rink sucks,
and there's a car dealership and a tanger outlet near
the rink and that's it, and it's just it is.
(10:54):
I would I would find it hard to want to
play there. If I were a player, I'd be like, ah,
give me the next option. So anyway, but you go
there and then look, it was a playoff game. It
was fast at the beginning, and I thought the Blue
Jacks reacted well to it. But again, as you said,
once they fell behind and it got to be three
to one, you can just see the frustration from these
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guys like Ken Johnson and Crew Marchenko and they can't
find room to scape. Marchenko then found a sliver and
he got a goal, and then you know, they turned
it up a little bit after that. But it's just
the process that these players have to learn how to
fight through the adversity, and that's what they're trying to
do at this time of the year, and it's not
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been easy for them.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So we know that traditionally the Jackets. It seems like
this year, if we're going to look at the overall,
the thirty thousand foot view at hol and the Jackets
do really well. So tonight, do you predict a Dare
I ask it an easy win for the Jacket?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, okay, nothing's going to be easy for this team.
If you think between now in April seventeenth, you're going
to get one of those five to one butt whoopings,
you're not. It's just not gonna happen. This is They're
all going to be hard because you know, even a
game like this one tonight where Nashville has struggled to score. Well,
the Blue Jackets know about that. I think these guys
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have so much pressure on themselves to try to, you know,
to win, and then it's like, you know, the young players,
Adam Pantilly, Oh we're not scoring, so I've got to
do more. Well, you know the old thing, less is
more at times, and the human nature is to try
to do something extra and that works against you in
a lot of situations in this game. So this is
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not going to be easy tonight. Nothing's going to be easy.
Next ten are going to be battles the entire way.
All you can do is, you know, for them they
can they just have to go out and give one
hundred percent effort and do the things they know make
them successful if they do them right. It's really simple.
But then you start losing and you get away from
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those things, and then that makes things worse. So so
don't start losing. I guess, like you said, score the
first goal, do something different. They've had a lead. What's
your lead been in the last two weeks, They've had
a lead of literally twenty three seconds. That's it. That's
how much they've been ahead of the opposition.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So that gets old. That gets old as a player,
and like you pointed out the frustration and you can
see it too. You're right. They're smothered.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't have any room at all. Soon as the
stick is it's like pu pup, pup, pup pup. I
mean there's no there's like no letup whatsoever from the
opposition right now. And yeah, that can that can wear
on you, you know, each time you jump out there
to skate and you're just dealing with that the whole
couple of minutes that you're right, Yeah, if you're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Good, if you're a good wide receiver, you're going to
have two defenders on you at the critical time of year,
in the critical games, right yeah. And this is no different.
I mean, the guys that are the bigger threats to
score are going to draw double coverage every single time
they have the pucket. They're not going to have the
room to move. So it's you know, it's very similar
except in football, somebody's trying to throw the ball to
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you in here. As soon as you get the puck
on your stick, that's when they're jumping it, trying to
steal it away from him. So it's, uh, yeah, it's
it's just tough. That's that's the time of year. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Is everybody going tonight? Is anybody not healthy? Because I
didn't I didn't. I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Dante Fabreau comes back tonight. He did not play in
Autowa the other day, which, yeah, it didn't really follow
up the defense. I mean the guys that played did well.
But he plays on the top pair with Zach Warinski.
He's pretty uh instrumental and making things seamless there. So
it's going to have him back tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Elvis is gonna go and so yeah, the jacket seven
o'clock tonight, Nashville Predators had nation wide arena. I'll be
in the house and uh and you'll hear me screaming
man from down in my section. I promised we're.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Getting those texts all God help me. If it's five
to one Blue Jackets, I'll get the text you told
me this wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, I'll be up there going, hey, come out and
let us in. My daughter's with me. We're over here
to bug you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We're gonna come up and see if it gets to
that kind of a lead man.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well that's good. Yeah, true security knows that.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, make sure they know. Will you please keep him away?
Radio voice for the Columbus Blue Dug Bob mcgelligan, Chuck
can come with me, he knows this year. It's bad
because I only have a couple of games left. But
plus he doesn't like me that much. Well, it's not that,
it's just uh, I mean, I don't know if he
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really want Do you really want to go to a game?
I would love to go to a game. You would, yes,
I have no idea, he said. Don't say no.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Food free drink, like you'd be like the Roman emperor.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, I'll make sure to wear toga. They'll bring the
grapes for us, so we feed this like, Yeah, it's fun.
Bob mcgalligan, Bob, thanks for chomping on with us. Have
a good game today. You see you, brother,
It was a straight up football scorer last night watching
my Reds. Hell yes, and it was game one of
a three game set. The Texas Rangers got their ass
kicked in Cincinnati, a great American ballpark last night. Let
me tell you, it was really nice. And we're talking
fourth game into the season now, but it was super
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nice man watching that happen. And I know you weren't
watching Chuck no no, but that's okay. I mean, but
it was a straight up clinic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm glad the Reds won, but let's see what happens
this next game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a big score. Of course it is.
And there's no way they keep up that kind of momentum.
I understand as far as the scoring goes, but it
was good to see that because the offensive production, all
that does is feed and create positivity and all of
those things that you need to begin to It's a
very long season, we know that, as far as games
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go in Major League Baseball, just like hockey. I mean,
it's so many games, but it's ebb and flow. And
for them to do that coming off of losing to
the Giants in that three game set, you know, they
they lost two of three there so that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's just good about the Wompons the same way I
do with the buck guys during football season. You know
it's great, but especially the younger and more inexperienced team
members are, the more I worry about. I don't get cocky.
You know, you had a great score. That's wonderful to
look at, but you got a long season to go.
Let let's not go out there thinking I'm excellent and
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I can't be beating and all that stuffed face.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And there was a lot of guys who have been
there for a couple of years, so it's not like
you got brand brand, brand new guys that are just
into the league and have some false sense of whatever.
So there he is or there it is. And I
was saying there he is because I'm punching him up.
He's the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Bob
mcgu I get joining us. Now what's up?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man? You're gonna hold your breath for the next one
hundred and fifty eight games.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I knew that was coming. I love you, man, nothing gett.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Opening day is opening day and then come find me
a playoff time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, no, I understand what you're saying. You know, and
you bring up an interesting thing because clearly between now
and then there are a lot of games that have
to go by, There's no question. And it brings me
to the question I was thinking about as I was
getting ready for the show today and because there was
this couples are using March madness prenups to stop fighting.
(02:39):
This is a literal story that I was reading and
I was laughing, and I thought, you know, who would
be a perfect guy to ask about this would be
one Bob mckelligan. And do you like with your wife?
I mean, how does that work as far as because
I know you're a sports guy. Clearly you and I
share an affinity for the Steelers, and I know you
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you know you're from Pittsburgh and you I don't know
if you're a Pirates fan or what have you, but
I know you're a sports fan. How does she deal
with that? Because I started looking at what reading this,
reading this thing about couples using march madness prenups to
stop fighting, I mean, do you are you following march madness?
Because I really don't. I do take a break as
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far as basketball goes, and my wife puts up with it.
But if it's not hockey, it's baseball. It's both on
some nights. Then it's football, and it's college football. I mean,
there's there's a lot going on. And my wife, she
is a saint, she's an angel man dealing with that
stuff because it's not her first choice.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh you let her control your remote?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, not necessarily, sometimes I do sometimes, but yeah really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's Saturday mornings basically because we'll end up watching the
No No, No, Pioneer Woman, the Kitchen, you know, stuff
on Food Network. See I like that stuff. I kind
of do too, quite frankly. Yeah, but I mean, how
did your wife do?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I mean, she okay with it, never asked, So.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You just do it?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You almost the testosterony. Yeah, you know what. You know
what happens. It goes Chuck Norris, research Blazer, It goes
Chuck Norris, then it goes Bob mcgalligate right below Chuck.
It just slightly below, just barely below.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, Like I have to watch this Calgary Colorado game
because Colorado will be here Thursday.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So is that what you use is at the angle?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's just truth? Truth always prevails.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right right? I love it. I love it. I don't
know if I believe you, But I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh, she's good about it. I'm I'm just kidding. She
she likes sports. Basketball is the one that we Ironically,
her family was a basketball family. Her brothers you know,
played and one of her brothers was really good at
high school basketball players. So they were a big basket
cake ball family. But that's what we watched the least
because I find it to be the least entertaining sport.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Same with me. Same with me. I am exactly the
same way I could.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I don't bet, so, you know, and I'm not
even in an NCAA pool this year, so I have
zero interest.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Right. I don't give a flip about NBA. And I
really don't follow college unless OSU is doing something, which
again I don't really follow college because they're not doing
anything yet. Again this year, i'll go.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll go once in a while. It's something different, but
it's not like I scour a schedule and say, oh
my god, I've got to see this basketball game.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, just watching the highlights and so forth. I've had
more of a throw watching the college women this year
in the tournament than the guys. Their excitement is just
so high it's so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Chuck said it. You said it, man, Women's basketball got
you going?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Who said, yes, I said it. The NCAA Women's tournament has.
There's more excitement, more genuine enthusiasm there than I think
for the show boats on the mail side.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean fair enough, I guess. I
you know, I do know that your son pitches. I
know he plays baseball, so I know you're a big
baseball fan. So yeah, I mean it's the same with
my saying.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You mentioned I'm a Pirates fan, so I haven't been
excited relevant for years.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Quite frankly, neither of the Reds except for Ellie de
la Cruz, and they had a little blip of excitement
last year, and yeah, he's so on and so forth.
But I don't know, man, It's just I get excited
this time of year because everybody has that renewed hope
except you, of course, because you're a Pirates fan.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh it's over already. They lost like three games in
a walk off to the Marrow. It's ober. You know.
I said to you about what are you going to
get excited about one hundred and fifty eight? Like, I
have zero excitement yeah, I don't need to watch one.
I know it's going to happen. They have no payroll. Yeah,
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one guy I watched once every five days to watch
Paul Skins pitch. Yeah, that there's nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know. What's exciting for me though, is Stone is
a Reds fan and he plays the game now too,
and it's just fun to kind of have that thing,
that common denominator with him, an eleven year old and
he's his excitement and and so on, and him going,
you know, just talking about it. It's just the connection
that is made. And much like hockey when he goes
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with me to the games and such, we watch him
every time they're on. We watch the Jackets and it's
just fun. I mean, it's just one of those things,
just a connection with my son in addition to everything
else that surrounds all the fanfare with it too. So yeah,
it's fun exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, that's that is the best part about it. My
son doesn't like our baseball talks because they're usually what
was that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, I've heard you though, Yeah, I've heard you. You've
told me things that you've said to him. I'm like,
you better sleep with one eye open, man, What do
you do. It's good. Lord, you're a jackass.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
For the most Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Anyway, throwback.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I like to call the throwback other than the jacket.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, sure, whatever you need to call it to make
yourself feel good. Man. The Preads are in town tonight. Now,
this is what I don't know. Is there such thing
as a trap game when it comes to hockey, because.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You're not when you have to win seven to ten
to have a realistic chance making the playoffs, right, So
yes there is. But if you're in a playoff spot
and you're you know, if you're trying to you're trying
to better your position or something like that. Tennis a
trap game. This is a must win game, simple as that.
So your thoughts did a game that on paper if
(08:37):
you were just to play it on paper, would you
win out right? Absolutely sure, you guys think. But they
have nothing to play for it. They'll be very loose tonight.
They lost last night in Philly, so yeah, it'll be uh,
it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We can go back a couple of games. I tecked
with you after the Canucks and the Jackets winning a
shootout seven to six. They were down three nothing. I
was like, they can't keep doing this knock it off
with this come from behind stuff. You only have so
many of those in the magic well if you will,
and it's this ain't the time of year to be
(09:13):
having to summons that or what have you. And I
love your text right after that, and I can't read
what I sent you because well, I'll get thrown off
the air and I'll get probably arrested. But I did
end with it. What a gutsy w you go, Oh
it was something. I'm not sure what, but something is
what you replied when it was a mess. You're right,
(09:33):
but they ended up somehow pulling it off. Then go
to Ottawa, and so what were your thoughts on how
they was? Was that just it was the next night
it was they traveled, but I mean what I mean
three to two, it was close. They got down again.
I'm like, oh man, they you know, when they don't
score the first goal, it seems like it turns into this,
I don't know, this big mess. But your thoughts on that,
(09:57):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Remember when they scored the first goal. It's been weeks now.
The Ottawa game was, look, you're the deck stacked against you.
You play, you have that kind of an emotional game
that was a long game on Friday night. Not just
that it went to a shootout, but there were thirteen goals,
so it was a long game for hockey. You don't
(10:18):
get in when you go to Ottawa. First of all,
I don't know why when people ask me, what's your
least favorite place, and I don't know why Ottawa doesn't
jump to my mind first, because it is the absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's like twenty degrees the other night or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't care about that, Okay with going from seventy
to twenty, I don't care. But it's a forty minute
ride from the airport to the hotel. The rink is
not even in the city, it's in a different town,
and the hotel there's nothing around it. The rink sucks,
and there's a car dealership and a tanger outlet near
the rink and that's it, and it's just it is.
(10:54):
I would I would find it hard to want to
play there. If I were a player, I'd be like, ah,
give me the next option. So anyway, but you go
there and then look, it was a playoff game. It
was fast at the beginning, and I thought the Blue
Jacks reacted well to it. But again, as you said,
once they fell behind and it got to be three
to one, you can just see the frustration from these
(11:15):
guys like Ken Johnson and Crew Marchenko and they can't
find room to scape. Marchenko then found a sliver and
he got a goal, and then you know, they turned
it up a little bit after that. But it's just
the process that these players have to learn how to
fight through the adversity, and that's what they're trying to
do at this time of the year, and it's not
(11:36):
been easy for them.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So we know that traditionally the Jackets. It seems like
this year, if we're going to look at the overall,
the thirty thousand foot view at hol and the Jackets
do really well. So tonight, do you predict a Dare
I ask it an easy win for the Jacket?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, okay, nothing's going to be easy for this team.
If you think between now in April seventeenth, you're going
to get one of those five to one butt whoopings,
you're not. It's just not gonna happen. This is They're
all going to be hard because you know, even a
game like this one tonight where Nashville has struggled to score. Well,
the Blue Jackets know about that. I think these guys
(12:13):
have so much pressure on themselves to try to, you know,
to win, and then it's like, you know, the young players,
Adam Pantilly, Oh we're not scoring, so I've got to
do more. Well, you know the old thing, less is
more at times, and the human nature is to try
to do something extra and that works against you in
a lot of situations in this game. So this is
(12:34):
not going to be easy tonight. Nothing's going to be easy.
Next ten are going to be battles the entire way.
All you can do is, you know, for them they
can they just have to go out and give one
hundred percent effort and do the things they know make
them successful if they do them right. It's really simple.
But then you start losing and you get away from
(12:54):
those things, and then that makes things worse. So so
don't start losing. I guess, like you said, score the
first goal, do something different. They've had a lead. What's
your lead been in the last two weeks, They've had
a lead of literally twenty three seconds. That's it. That's
how much they've been ahead of the opposition.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So that gets old. That gets old as a player,
and like you pointed out the frustration and you can
see it too. You're right. They're smothered.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't have any room at all. Soon as the
stick is it's like pu pup, pup, pup pup. I
mean there's no there's like no letup whatsoever from the
opposition right now. And yeah, that can that can wear
on you, you know, each time you jump out there
to skate and you're just dealing with that the whole
couple of minutes that you're right, Yeah, if you're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Good, if you're a good wide receiver, you're going to
have two defenders on you at the critical time of year,
in the critical games, right yeah. And this is no different.
I mean, the guys that are the bigger threats to
score are going to draw double coverage every single time
they have the pucket. They're not going to have the
room to move. So it's you know, it's very similar
except in football, somebody's trying to throw the ball to
(13:56):
you in here. As soon as you get the puck
on your stick, that's when they're jumping it, trying to
steal it away from him. So it's, uh, yeah, it's
it's just tough. That's that's the time of year. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Is everybody going tonight? Is anybody not healthy? Because I
didn't I didn't. I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Dante Fabreau comes back tonight. He did not play in
Autowa the other day, which, yeah, it didn't really follow
up the defense. I mean the guys that played did well.
But he plays on the top pair with Zach Warinski.
He's pretty uh instrumental and making things seamless there. So
it's going to have him back tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Elvis is gonna go and so yeah, the jacket seven
o'clock tonight, Nashville Predators had nation wide arena. I'll be
in the house and uh and you'll hear me screaming
man from down in my section. I promised we're.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Getting those texts all God help me. If it's five
to one Blue Jackets, I'll get the text you told
me this wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, I'll be up there going, hey, come out and
let us in. My daughter's with me. We're over here
to bug you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We're gonna come up and see if it gets to
that kind of a lead man.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well that's good. Yeah, true security knows that.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, make sure they know. Will you please keep him away?
Radio voice for the Columbus Blue Dug Bob mcgelligan, Chuck
can come with me, he knows this year. It's bad
because I only have a couple of games left. But
plus he doesn't like me that much. Well, it's not that,
it's just uh, I mean, I don't know if he
(15:24):
really want Do you really want to go to a game?
I would love to go to a game. You would, yes,
I have no idea, he said. Don't say no.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Food free drink, like you'd be like the Roman emperor.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, I'll make sure to wear toga. They'll bring the
grapes for us, so we feed this like, Yeah, it's fun.
Bob mcgalligan, Bob, thanks for chomping on with us. Have
a good game today. You see you, brother,
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