July 2, 2026 • 45 mins
Dan Barreiro opens the show wondering if the "replay terrorists" are happy now after the US soccer team got jobbed by the officials with a red card in their World Cup knockout round. We open "Dr. Dan's Inbox!"
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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pre fourth of July technically pre third of July edition
of the Bumper to Bumper program, also known as the
Afternoon ardvark As hosted by the A Hole in the Afternoon.
My name is Dan Barrero, former instane Retch newspaper the
Twin Cities guards.
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He produces the.
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Show, and uh, we are on holiday tomorrow. I'm actually
off Monday as well, but it'll be so to be
best of on tomorrow's broadcast, which means we got a
lot to wedge in between now and six thirty this evening.
And that is my vow, that is my plan. Many
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on your way to the cabin and stuck in that
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the Brainerd area. You had to you just had to
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Lunani among others, the beautiful people are there laughing at you.
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That's what it is. Piece of cake.
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If you'd like to participate in what end might end
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Inbox scheduled for the bottom of this hour. JG at
k f a N dot com. Many of you are complicit,
and I think you know it. I don't know if
you'll loan up to it, but you are. For years
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I have been lectured, mocked, ridiculed, and lectured some more
about how instant replay in all of its forms will
change everything, that it will mean a sort of sports
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officiating nirvana. Basically, a tolosa would set in. Every bad
call would be fixed, every non call would be reversed,
and we would live happily ever after in a world
in which we would never have to.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Worry about the wrong call being made. So that's what
I was told.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's why we had to keep adding to the machinery,
no matter how much extra time it might take, no
matter how much it might cost. We got all the
money in the world, We got all the technology in
the world, four K, eight K, thirty two K, whatever
it is. We got to use all of it, and
we'll all be better for it. How do you feel
about that? After last night in the World Cup? You
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feel vindicated when it comes to var replay. You feel
like the right call was made because we've got the
mechanisms in place to be sure that a player doesn't,
in this case, wrongfully get expelled from a game. Thrown
out of a game, meaning also he will not be
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available in the next game.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So I hope you raise your hand and owe up
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Brash On Bridan Kfin text line six four, six eighty six.
Because what we learned yet again last night is that
there is no such thing as officiating nirvana. It doesn't exist,
never will, never has. And we have to again decide
is how much do we want in the name of
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And I know the text they're coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, they got to write some of the time. Let's
just say they get it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Write thirty two percent of the time, or thirty two
percent of the calls get end up in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Isn't that worth it?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, not for all the extra time, all the teeth gnashing,
all the hyperventilation that's involved. No, I think it's got
to be one hundred perc that or nothing. And look,
I'm not a great soccer mind, but I can't the
soccer people who I think are try to be objective
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say that the foul on Balligan.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Is how we pronounce his name. I think, so who's
is He's unbelievable? Is what he is?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Was a the a wrong call, an overcooked call, and
a call that should never have taken place in the
first place. And obviously, maybe we're so good now that
it won't matter against Belgium. Maybe we are attaining a
status where we say, because of the a Poschatino, that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Just another problem for us to address. We'll deal with it.
We don't love it. Maybe that maybe we're that good.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But I don't think we're haughty enough to believe that
we don't need all the horses that we are accustomed
to get us the best chance to go as far
as we possibly can. And so if we lose to Belgium,
And by the way, did you I didn't realize last
night when the game changed Belgium the two goals they
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scored to come they were down two nil, weren't they
in like the eighty sixth and ninety sixth minute?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They was very late.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It was a pretty dramatic comeback for soccer, is it not? Yes,
for any sport really, but especially soccer. Where was I
If we lose that game, that will be the lament.
We'll never know what Baligan, given how talented a striker
he is, how that might how he might have tipped
the balance in our favor. So are there any analysts?
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And by the way, I feel a little bit guilty
leading the show at the controversy because to a certain extent,
I don't think it gives proper credit to the victory.
Last night, I thought for backdrop for post game drama
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emotion scene, even though all we did was advanced to
the Sweet sixteen, it's pretty hard to top what I
watched the celebration, the singing Who's number eight? For US
number eight? There was a point postgame postmatch celebration where
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number eight is. It's in the camera shot. He's he's
kind of by himself and he's looking straight into like
two sections of the crowd that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Is serenading him. Really it looks like him, It's not
just sim but that's how it appears in the picture.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Kenny, the look on his face, well, I actually couldn't
see the look on his face because his back was
to the camera. But he's he's raising his arms up.
He's kind of shaking his head back and forth, like
he can't believe the memories he is getting at this moment,
this scene, what.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It represents to him, I don't know if he talked
about it after. I don't know how it works in
the like in the Olympics. As a media jackal. I'd
go to something called the mixed zone.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's where media jackals go to interview athletes, the mixed zone,
and sometimes you're at the mercy of who stops at
the mixed zone.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So I don't even know if he's if.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He articulated any of this, but as he's occasionally turning
a little bit towards the camera, the look on his
face like I can't believe any of this. I can't
believe this scene. I want to soak it in, I
want to drink it. I want to get drunk on it.
Is what I want to do. Tremendous, absolute, tremendous scene.
So I don't just want to make it about the
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replay terrorists who should be ashamed of themselves today after
all the lecturing they've done to me. Based on the
way it I think, I don't know are we allowed
to appeal?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't even know what the rules are. Can you
appeal that kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, that's where I wanted to go because I think
the way we wiggle out of it, and I put
myself in the category that you're talking about, I'll raise
my hand and I'm not going to say I knew
you were going to go down on this I heel,
but I knew you were going to go down this angle,
mostly because of Seaffert's brilliant tweet.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes, well that's what that was my insprent, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I believe it as one of the basically saying we
need to abolish insto replay.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's the box, or that's.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The way I think we're getting out of this box
is there has to be a better appeal system. And
apparently there is an appeal system, but it's not great
for how the US want to go about it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So I can't remember exactly why, but there's a reason.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
There's a reason why it might not be the greatest
or the easiest way to appeal in Some people have
already said there's no chance. But then I read that
the way that they instituted the replay technically was not
how they were supposed to by using the slow motion. Yeah,
and they're not supposed to use this slow motion and
they did, so could you appeal on that? That's what
I don't know, But anyway, that's the way I think
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we will go out.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You love, but you love slow motion elsewhere it's used
all the time here, which to me is part of
the problem because that's not when the.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Adjudication takes place.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It takes place full speed, which is why I think
all of that ends up being a little deceptive. I
don't want to go too far down that road, but
it was a controversial finish that was more easily accepted
at the time, Yes, because we won.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, right, if.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We'd have lost somehow, it would have been bad with
that as the backdrop. So right now, like I said,
we're in the rarefied air thinking nothing's going to stop
us as we get closer to our next match, which
I think is Monday, correct.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Monday night in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, unbelievable, be absurd, is what it will be against Belgium.
It'll start ramping up. Especially if we struggle, it'll be
put all on him because it was a.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Like I said, it was, I almost wish, you know, it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Was further along in the tournament because but I think
now some of the singing has just become fan tradition,
World Cup tradition, and the team tradition.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They got their own songs that they liked. It like
the singing.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They're all singing and including Mauricio the head coach.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Was it was the best part. Yes, it was the
best part. I was lost in it as well. My
sons are asking me why I'm tearing up, and I'm like,
cause I'm an American, that's all a human being. I'm
a human being. It was magical. The whole thing was magical.
Good job by Fox multiple times. Obviously, you let the
music play and you could hear it when it's on
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the field, but even when they send it out to
the post game and they're trying to get you know,
Landon Donovan's thoughts or Carly Lloyd's thoughts on and the
crowd just won't let them exactly, so they just have
to shut up and they but drop Stone, right, I
think is the main host. Good on him to understand
that we don't need anybody's thoughts right now.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We just need the scene and the vibe. And it was.
It was magical. That's the word I keep going back to.
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It was that good and uh and even more for sure.
Uh the best tweet I've seen that attempts to sort
of size up the entire World Cup phenomenon the way
it's played out thus far in the tournament through what
North and South America.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dean Phillips, did you see it?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, the World Cup is the medicine America didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It needed that? Does that not tell the whole story?
He's right on, except I think we knew we needed it. Yeah. Maybe,
And I'm glad it's here.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You are listening to Barrero.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Lawyer Tom's got stuff for both of us. Don't forget
the inbox in just minutes email guards e JG at
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Speaker 1 (13:26):
Dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Let me get to the first one that was for me,
wasn't it Layer time?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah? Dance Ironic?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You use the word nirvana in your drivetime diatribe about
video review assisting referees officials with their decisions, because your
argument is apparently that if an improvement isn't perfect, that's
not worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is called the Nirvana fallacy.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Video review isn't perfect, that's much better than we had before,
that's worthwhile. Lawyer Tom, I respectfully would say, you're wrong,
and I disagree because what you're allowed to say, because
obviously it's not all or nothing. There are some correct
calls that get reversed. Clearly, I'd be a fool to
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think otherwise. The question is what does all of at
what price? Do we get even that percentage? And for me,
if the percentage isn't higher, and it isn't, it isn't ask.
I mean, every time there's one one guy says slam
dunk and somebody else on the other who their team says,
not even write bad call, the percentage is not high
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enough for me to accept esthetically what is done to
our games. And I think what is done to our officials,
I don't have any question. It affects them the way
they go about their business, They second guess themselves more,
et cetera. So I understand it doesn't have to be
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all or nothing, but in terms of delays, in terms
of taking away the moment.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Too much of the time various sports.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I remain firmly on my side. Now, this one's from
lawyer Tom to you. All right, Dan Phillips is right,
And he wasn't saying that we didn't know we needed medicine, Guardie.
He was saying we knew we needed the medicine, we
just didn't know what the needed medicine was, which I
think was the Dean Phillips plinty.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I like it. So it's not about the money, it's
about what the money represents exactly he knows. I mean
he of all people, he knows, he knows we needed something.
I got it. And I think what he's saying is
who knew that it might be the World Cup? Right?
It's a good observation. That's that's why I.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like, That's why he's a lawyer. And I've been in
this box for the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You think I might have something to do with it.
I think it has a lot to do with it. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You can pare it down to just that, the ability
to actually understand the astute observation Dan.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
At the risk of making this political and I hate
to do with the World Cup? Do you think there's
some of the left who are cheering for the USA's
ouster asking for a friend? This is from Oh my gosh,
what's eight five eight five nine, eight five nine.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't know eight five nine. I'm kind of curious, now, sure,
I is any question there's some who are northern Kentucky.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I mean, it's not anything I lose any sleepover, to
be honest with you, But yeah, I I there might
be some on the far right who do for what
for reasons that we don't even understand.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Well, you can find it exactly, you can find the
reason why they they live in these these bubbles, these
worlds where that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Just gets invented, does it not? It does?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, Yeah, I mean it's it's it's it's very pos
Speaking of politics, could the president pardon Balligan?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Interesting point?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Now, he I don't think it would matter, but I
that I'm not sure that would stop him from trying.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well that people were clamoring for that last night because
didn't he win some type of FIFA award or something
he did before? Yes, so why can't he use the
power of that office.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The word was FIFA to get what they wanted from
the country. That some in the board room was smart
and said, man, you got to suck up to him. Yeah,
you got to make him seem like he's the greatest
person ever. Well, I'd used that muscle ever, so it
flex that muscle. Maybe that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
People might buy more of those coins that he's made
him a billionaire again.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Soccer fin I unbelievably read that if the US was
able to get to a formal appeal with FIFA, they
stood a chance of the red car suspension being pushed
beyond the upcoming match with Belgium, meaning presumably later if
they later round.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But do you want to do that? I think you
take the game, you play the game in front of you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, yeah, Well what was the people were trying to
get Brendan sorosby the Texas Tech Quarterbacks lawyer. Yes, to
file some type of injunction and then have the hearing
after the World Cup like they were trying to do
for Soresby and the gambling stuff. That's how you do it.
You just keep kicking the can down. We did it
with the Williams Wall Kevin and Pat Williams. We just
get the star Caps thing. Yeah, that's just keep kicking
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it down the road and then eventually it goes away
and then he can play against Belgium.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I guess that's possible.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It does seem a little weird though, that a call
this controversial the World Cup comes every four years because
it is controversy, and I've heard soccer people say, hey,
I don't like it, but technically it is the right call.
You got to protect the players. And then I've heard
other people that say, awful, not even close. You can
find your opinion on it. But for it to be
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this hotly contested, to be able to have that lever
to go by the way you're out for the next
game too, For something that happens once.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Every four years, it just seems extreme. That's when it's
not obvious. When it's obvious, I get it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But when it's not that obvious, it feels like there's
got to be some type of middle ground and reason
reasonable minds could come to that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm kind of worried about my other country, Espanya. They're
up one nil on Austria, but I don't know, I
mean they they they haven't appeared as dominant as I
like to think of the Roja always is.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Maybe maybe they say we don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh, you know, we're gonna win. But you know, something
silly happens. They're only up one at this point. They're
about to almost sixty three minutes into this round of
thirty two game. This is the first of three today,
is it not. I think there's two more. I think
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Coming up one later this afternoon, in one this evening.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, Portugal, Croatia is at six o'clock, and then late
night Algeria and Switzerland and Vancouver seven six three, Guy Dan,
not only not only does this situation allow you to
shake your fist at var, but also your other favorite topic, gambling.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The REFU called the red card Klaus.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Does that mean, like with some of the great soccer players,
there's some great referees who just have a single name.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He's just known as Klaus. I guess, I guess. So
he seemed like a vet.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Was called to testify in a twenty twenty three Brazilian
match fixing probe over suspicious betting on cards in a
Tombines versus Landrina Series B game.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
During that trial, Brazilian teams requested he not officiate their games.
I'm not making acquisitions, but suspicious. Now, keep in mind
his moniker is total Richard guy. Maybe they take that
into consideration. Sure I didn't know anything about that backstory.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
No, I didn't. That's way too complicated.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
When we talk about all this stuff going on in
the NBA right now, there is not perhaps no more
sport maybe boxing at times, that has been more corrupted
by the gambling and by the fix scenes es than soccer.
Right because there's so many leagues internationally, there's so many
ways to gamble. There's always a game, a match to
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bet on or something to bet on. And soccer's had
their scandals too, they have, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Tom from Savage notes the you know Country Roads, that's
become one of the songs that I think the fans
sing right, or maybe it's the team as well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I never liked that song. I in fact, when it
was big, I despised it. I think there's a lot
of people in that camp. But yet in this context,
it's hard not.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I think, you know what I'm saying, because it's just
because of the shared deal everybody seems in on and
everybody seems because look, maybe a lot of the people.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Were singing it don't like it either, But.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's almost it's almost as if the song itself becomes irrelevant, yeah,
to the act itself.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Right at its time, somebody treated this last night. At
its time, at its peak, it was not seen as
a great song. It was not included in any of
the great song lists or songwriter lists. But it's on
a bit of a run because it was University of
West Virginia or West Virginia University, that's one of their
songs that they play.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Spain just score again. I don't know how much.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
In Wimbledon, tou Nail just went up sixty fifth minute.
Now that's the lrojo I remember, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
West Virginia on their College World Series run kind of
got this song going again and it was magically again. Yeah,
whether it was in Omaha or whether it was in
Morgantown when they did it. Then ESPN stayed with it
a bunch Oregon. I know because I was out there.
They play it. It's not one of their flagship songs,
but they played a lot and the whole crowd sings it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And now it has become this bit for the US
men's soccer team and their fans that it is great.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And I don't know what it is about it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Because of the tempo, because of the words, yeah, because
of the ramp ups at different times.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, it's a combination of things. It's great. Eight one
oh guy, eight one oh. We're getting some interesting area
codes today, a lot of cabins eight one oh.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Lefty here not rooting for the US to lose, But
I hate the thought of Trump taking credit for the
win if somehow the US does win. Plus he's being
allowed to hand over the trophy this year. Is that true?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I don't know. I would imagine he would. Yeah, he's
the host country.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Will he be handing over the trophy in the reflecting pool?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It doesn't look too good right now. There's algae, that's right.
They got some problems there, hea.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
A one O is Michigan, Michigan Flint, home of Trent Tucker.
Interest were here on.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh so we got people all over, so that wouldn't
be up country right now. Have you ever been to
Upper Peninsula?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And I'm I'm dying to get there. Everybody raves about,
don't they. We almost did it last year. Ye are you?
Are you a Door County guy? I've been there. I
don't think I've ever been to Doorka. It's fine, I've
been there.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I'm jealous of the Creasols right now because they're rolling
through like dead wood, and you know, the Black Hills
and everything in South Dakota. We did that a few
years ago. I have fomo with that. But yeah, up
is on the list.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This might be my favorite text early.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
This is from five oh seven guy natter Tot from
North Minneapolis. I hope I'm pronouncing that name correctly. Unless
you can see a front angle the US player giving
the opponent a side, I can't understand how you could
think this malicious or intentional. He had to go past
the left leg, which was in the front stop on
the right angle, which is behind his head. He couldn't
have literally known where that leg was until you see
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him buying it up from this bring it up from
the side. Initially horrible call. I kind of like the show.
He's brilliant. Well that's good. Yeah, that's actually probably more honest.
He's saying, Yeah, I don't love the show, but I
kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hopefully we can win the over one day. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
All right, let's make.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
This bottom of the hour pause, unless you want me
to go to forty two to give you more time
to get letters.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, we've got We've they've responded. We've got some really
good ones, and I know that some are going to
come in during this break.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We've got some.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
In the beauty of them, they're they're so multi layered
and there from people that you can tell don't kind
of like the show, they love the show, and they
get the show at the show and That's what I'm
excited about for at least a couple of these that
we'll do next.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Bumper to.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Interesting observation from six to one to two guy listening
to the first half hour plus of the program, I
think I found common ground for the far left and
the far right. If the far left wants the US
say to lose, they are happy Baligan is suspended as
of now.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
For the next game.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The far right is also happy because Baligan is a
birthright citizen and we know how the far righties feel
about that. So with Baligan being suspended, both the far
left and the far.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right have some common ground. There. You go, well, stated
to put together fourth.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One quick Mike Conley question for you. Yes, can we
rightly and legitimately blame his departure to the Boston Celtics
on the Southwest light rail debacle. I bring it up
because he has said a couple of times, you know what, I.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Want to take the subway to work. I want to
take the train to work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, if the Southwest light Rail had been done on time,
it still isn't running, is it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I don't think no. Next year, we hope maybe Conley
would have been on Maddie.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Would have gotten that out of his system, or there's
gotta be some form of true chu transportation we could
have found for him. It's not going to be like Boston,
not gonna be like New York Subway, not gonna be
like Chicago and the l But I want to blame
it on It's another reason to be annoyed with our
bureaucracy here. The Southwest Light Rail blew our best chance
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to keep Mike Conley and his family in town.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I know, just saying they're doing test runs on it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I remember seeing the Fox nine story about that you
may see a train can't wait go up and down
the track.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I think tech. Actually he lived more the other direction,
but he was not on the route.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Nevertheless, Yeah, I thought that the chief shot was worth it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's worth it in any case inbox.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Now, don't forget Russo on a little maneuvering by your
Minnesota wild.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Is it the is it the move before the big move?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That's one of the questions being raised.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, and then Levell giving us some Thursday time today
because tomorrow is at best of he is scheduled for
five thirty Classic level.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
By the way, I asked him yesterday. What time works best?
He said, anytime? I said, okay, great work around Russo
got the inbox. Text him today five thirty. Nothing haven't
heard from Just it's just perfect. There you go, it's
just perfect levelle.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They're pouring in.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
This is where I always feel bad.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We beg for him, and now a lot of people
are gonna be left just dooring in and out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
We're gonna we'll see.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I haven't read some of the most recent submissions, so
we'll see if they make the fourth of July weekend cut.
But we've got some good ones. Dear doctor Dan, you
may have heard them. Looking for my next gig. Have
been a high performer in the past, still have a
lot to offer. Recent departures of Jay Randall and n
Reed have left some big shoes to fill. Luckily, I've
got really big, if somewhat strange.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Looking feet, Doctor Dan.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Lots of people think I may want to take my
talents back to s Beach to rejoin the m Heat,
but I've been there, done that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Similarly, i have deep.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Roots in Ohio, but I've already done a couple of
tours of duty there. I'm looking for a challenge, Doctor
Dan and has always been a big fan of A.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Edwards.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Would love to get a boats what about on el
Minatanka would love to do my thing. So next June
we can have a parade down ep Avenue. Could you
give me the number for T Conley or C.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Finch.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And I'm also gonna need a country club membership. Could
you please put me in touch with M.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Sauce. This is from L. James. Well, here's the interesting
thing about the L. James story.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
A debate broke out the other day on the program
between Rosen and Common about what if, somehow Lebron would
end up here, would that be bigger even than when
when b Far.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Showed up in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I think the Rosan opinion was yes. I think the
Common opinion was no. I lean Rosen's way. For this reason,
football is always king in this town. The Far story,
the b Far story, was beyond enormous that first here,
although we didn't know what was gonna go as well
as it did.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Right, That's what we have to remember. But here's why
I think the L.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
James story would actually be bigger. It would be such
a monumental, stupendous, off the charts upset that I think
it would actually be on its own plateau, even if
the sport itself doesn't carry the same weight in this
town as obviously does pro football, but around the country.
(29:31):
L James coming here, like I said, it would be
what give me an upset, give me a famous upset
in history. It would be like the Miracle of Lake Placid, right,
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It would be because.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Nobody they Okay, that's a cute little story, and they're
gonna hang in there because the Lebron James people say.
L James people say, yeah, well, we'll listen to anybody,
and we haven't eliminated anybody yet technically, and they all
say that's kind of cute, and they pat us on
the head and they go. Nobody in their right mind
thinks there's any reason to believe he's coming here. And
(30:00):
I think there's some truth to that, yeah, regardless of
whether the fit is there or whether.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
There's certainly a place for him to play. So I
think L James.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Dipping his toes into Lake el Minnetaka, I think that
would be the greatest sports.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Upset in the history of Minnesota sports.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I think you're right. The farm thing was a rumor
for two years. Right, there was a build up to that, Yes,
and there was. He wanted to come here the first
time before he had to go to the Jets. Right,
he got traded to the Jets. I think so there
was a build up. There was a time we kind
of knew that was in the cards. This one would
be completely out of left field.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Be fun.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It's time for.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Box Dear doctor Dan, What a glorious day for Minnesota sports. Finally, Finally,
after years of carrying the burden of being the only
high octane athlete in this town, I've got a running mate,
a true partner, A guy who understands that life is
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about pace, tempo, speed, pushing the limits. Somebody who doesn't
spend all day stuck in first gear. My new co pilot,
el Ball, a guy who can keep up with me.
Somebody who sees it opening and immediately attacks it. He
understands that offense is best played at one speed, fast,
very fast. Occasionally, your honor, I'd like to plead my
(31:30):
case fast. We both heard phrases like reckless citation and
court appearance and responded with can you be more specific?
The Wolves wanted to play with more pace? Well, congratulations
and welcome to the Great Wide Open. You just acquired
the NBA's version of cruise control set somewhere between questionable
decision and state trooper. For the first time in my
Minnesota career, I don't have to carry the fast guy
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torch alone. No, this isn't from a Edwards. Sincerely yours,
Jay Addison.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, you know, I've actually received a couple of tweets
in recent weeks days basically since the l Ball acquisition
along these same same lines that it's Jay Addison that
we are hearing about. I can't wait for this deal
to become official so that then we can get, maybe
(32:22):
from the horse's mouth, more detail on you know, are
you gonna leave all your race cars back in wherever?
I don't know if he's got a place in Charlotte. Yeah,
I have no idea. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe well, no,
he'll rent a Maserati, right, and he's just as capable
of doing some damage with what he rents here as
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opposed to what he owns.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You'd like to think I asked this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Question of a highly placed source yesterday, might have even
been earlier today.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Who is the t wolves babysitter now?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And there is we really don't have one right, We
don't right, And it wasn't so much what you know
at this point in his career, m conley was gonna
be able to do on the court, but just more
being around. On the other hand, you could say, in
all honesty and seriousness, at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You got to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The kids have to figure it out on their own,
maybe a little guidance and a whisper here and their helps,
But in the end, you can't you know, if you
have if you need babysitters for you know, twenty eight
year olds in that sense. Now, none of these guys
are that old yet. But if it keeps going on
like this, then there's nobody who can kind of come
to the rescue. Right At some point they have to
(33:39):
figure the thing out.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I have no idea of.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
L Ball, Like when he has his first press briefing.
Will he address all this if will he be asked
about it? Will he address this this seriousness question? Does
it make him defensive? Does he laugh it off? Does
he say it's silly?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't know. I'm very curious to now he handles
those kinds of questions.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Now he's gonna get all the ones about the fit
in the All twenty two and thinks usage and.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
How much he likes Aunt going way back. Yeah, he's
gonna get those. Oh, you probably rants unless secrets there
less secret. Yeah that's true. We need Kevin secrets. Rant
them out. Yeah, you doctor Danna.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
It was fourteen years ago to the weekend that we
changed everything for the team on your favorite side of
the river, so much so that the m Wild are
still kind of paying the price. Once upon a time,
this team couldn't get to the first round and would
have killed to have the streak that they did between
twenty fifteen and twenty twenty six. Anyway, a lot of
you all complain about the lack of action this week
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for the Wild are the same ones that don't fully
appreciate everything we did for the team. And Christmas colors
Christmas in July will never produce stockings as full as
it did in twenty twelve, and a lot of you
simply need to.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Accept that fact.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Two identical deals on the same day was color, collaboration
and intentionality before it was fashionable in this market. This
from thirteen years time seven point six aav times two
our Suitor and z Perizy postscripts on the last letter.
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Somebody's asking a fair question.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Does Lamell? Does l Ball have any sick dogs? Is
he a dog guy?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
L Ball?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't know, no clue.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
We'll find out later, yeah, or will we We've never
found out about Jay Addison's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I mean we've talked over the years about the lore
we've attached to the July fourth announcement and how we
both came into work that day. Happily, it does feel
like another life, a lifetime ago, doesn't It was because
this is such a new iteration of the team at
the time, it felt like everything.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
At the time, you could argue that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It did really cement the program as not in terms
of winning, but in terms of and respectability and in
terms of I think convincing the fans.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna hang around for this thing to see
where it goes. It never got to where it was
supposed to with the two of them. That I still
to this day believe has more to do with the
fact that that that group of prospects never.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Got as good as we had been told they were
going to be because PRESI and Suitor were not superstars.
They were good players right even at their you know,
at their at their height. So but it almost feels
quaint to think about that now because to such a
a certain extent we've graduated way past it. They are,
(36:38):
you know, even the money is now in the rearview mirror.
You could argue that technically, though, it still might have
contributed to the lack of extra funds we might have
had because.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You have to make some moves in the interim.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Perhaps that that that's still hamstring your chances to spend
the money you want to now.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
But there were more, there were much more innocent days.
When it comes to a state of.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well how about this, This one just came in and
it kind of goin sides with both of our first
two topics, and I guess we'll have to have a
discussion on this.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Dear doctor Dan, the fourth of July is coming up.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Are you ready to come in again for an emergency
bumper to bumper show. It's been fourteen years since you
had to run into the studio on a fourth of July.
I figure it's high time to do it again. El James.
Now I'm gonna be four hours away in Wisconsin. I
won't Yeah, same thing. I came all the way to Wisconsin.
I guess we'll have to stream yard. We could stream yard. Yeah,
(37:31):
I guess we're gonna happen. I say stream Yard made
everything easy these days.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You don't have to bring equipment for stream yard, right, No,
you just fire up the laptop.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So you have to have a laptop with you. No,
you do it on a phone. You can do it
on a phone. There you go. So I think.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's the problem committing to it, James.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
If it's l James, I have no problem committing to it.
I think we have to Now.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What if it's what if it's kao c announces that
the silliness is over. Kay Murray will be the starting
quarterback at the start a training camp. Is that worth
an emergency meeting?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I don't think So.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You can do a video for your Twitter. Probably just
do a video for your Twitter. Yeah, we'll move on
with El James. Yeah, we gotta go.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Yeah, God, yes, doctor boh, you're doctor Dan.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
You know what, even though we let m Zucarello walk,
we got b Coleman. He's an American and O Mata,
who I can trade for an American?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Spin wins. Yeah, they're up three.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
They just scored again and now they're running there there,
Now they are running up the score. They're frollicking, they
are taunting the Austrians. I saw two Austrian players almost
come to blows earlier. That's the level of frustration caused
by tiki taka by La Roja three mil Espanya just
a few minutes away from advancing to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But I rudely interrupted, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Even though we don't have picks in twenty twenty seven,
twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty nine, we still have
plenty of assets to get d Larkin and Jay Hughes
and re signed Hughes. And by the way, M Dumba
is still a hell of a player. Do I think
Ky Capriestov's contract is too much? Well, doctor Dan, maybe
we'll save that question for n Jersey. When Kay Patel
(39:15):
is drinking from the cup outside t reads, you'll see
not be here.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
If it were only that easy, if it were all.
Who was that famous actress? She looks famous to me.
Did you see her? You aren't looking, damn it. I'm sorry,
I'm watching with that.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
That's okay, I understand, I understand somebody will be watching
a beautiful woman who is a famous actress whose name
now escapes me.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Cheering on La Roja.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Not this beautiful woman, but a different beautiful woman. A
lot of beautiful women cheering for Spain in this crowd.
This game is in Los Angeles, Californy.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
By the way, Yeah, that makes sense. Well we'll find out.
We got Russo at the top the hour.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We did make a deal, we got rejected again in
a couple of different ways.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yes, Tuesday, as we talked about with Luigi. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I go back and forth in terms of my level
of optimism. I'm just fascinated that now even Louie has said, well,
if we have to Unlarkin, we have to give up
the goaltender of the future, he might be willing to
move on. That is it that maybe it is that
easy just to get a veteran to start the season
(40:35):
until gush Buss is back up the speed physically and
his field.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I don't know. I see to me it has to
do with more. Okay, is Larkin good enough?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's not so much I'm against the concept of including
Volstead a deal. I might be convinced of that, but
I had been led to believe by hockey people, including Louie,
that he wasn't sure Lark and was at the high
enough level good, but not at the high enough level
to say, yeah, I'll play my final card, which would
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be the goaltender of the future. Penelope Cruz, Thank you.
A lot of people saw it. Oh who was there? Well,
you know she's married to I think still is the
Javier Bardem.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Good for demanding actor, Good for both of them. I
love this one.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
I love this so many layers.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Hey, doctor Dan, thanks for talking about me recently.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
You might have seen that I am now sponsored by
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I could probably get you pairs.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Since you seem to be having troubles figuring out how
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A couple of tips. Go to ESPN and click on
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If it says CBS, Prime, Peacock, et cetera, it's on
those channels or platforms. If it says Ion, you can
watch that for free on tub If it doesn't say anything,
it's on Victory Plus.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I'm sorry, but go ahead. Free apps you can download.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
That way you can watch my potential MVP season and
by the way, as of today, all Star Starter season
and very entertaining style of basketball during something you call
the abyss not much Abyssie at Target Center.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Right now, doctor dan oh Miles. I think for the
first time have we had a box office bump that
is provable.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I don't know with the rookie because we always draw well.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
We draw our I don't think we do we open
up the upper deck now I don't remember. Yes, we
do postseason I know. Yeah, Well, you know what they're
doing now. This is a brilliant idea they're calling it.
I don't have the exact phrase, but it's it's basically
bet on the ring ticket deals for the rest of
the season. You can buy an upper level season ticket
(42:54):
two hundred and fifty dollars each.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Okay, so per ticket. Here's our mass. So you and
I buy, we buy two that include the postseason. But
you'd have to buy your tickets for the postseason. But
you can get them. But if they win the w
NBA Championship, you either get your money back what or
they push the credit to next for next season season tickets.
(43:18):
I looked into it there mid court kind of half
play off the second deck. Yeah, it's a good idea.
It's a great idea just to get people in.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, I guess is as we get closer to the postseason,
it'll be it'll be a a seeable, provable Yeah. Jump
even for a team like you say that has tended.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
To draw very very well, isn't it though?
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Is a Golden State that basically is the draw story
of the century?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, the expansion team, I certainly need a bigger arena. Yeah,
I know, what's that all about the expansion? The fact
that there's a lot of people in San Francisco and
women's basketball is clearly on the Riots. There's a lot
of places like that. Some of the other expansion teams
have been like that. Vegas is an expansion team that's
been like that, and now they won a bunch of titles.
So not expansion, but a team that moved into the market.
(44:04):
So we should wrap it up to stay on schedule.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
We got, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
We have Russo Walker our gal rights. Will l Ball's
father be a bump a bumper regular? That's an interesting question.
Do we want to participate in that madness? We probably
would have to consider it once, wouldn't we? Or are
we participating in the delinquency of the audience?
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Me?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
He's so over the top, But yeah, I would be
tempted once. I don't know that i'd want to make
it a regular thing. And I don't even know if
he's gettable, although I would think he probably would be
right once the everything becomes Yeah, he's available.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
We'll talk about that later. Russo around the corner questions
for him.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
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My name is Dan Barrero, former instane Retch newspaper the
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Speaker 1 (00:47):
He produces the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Show, and uh, we are on holiday tomorrow. I'm actually
off Monday as well, but it'll be so to be
best of on tomorrow's broadcast, which means we got a
lot to wedge in between now and six thirty this evening.
And that is my vow, that is my plan. Many
of you are already at the cabin based on what
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I saw on four nine and four heading north, you're
on your way to the cabin and stuck in that
miserable traffic because you had to have a cabin in
the Brainerd area. You had to you just had to
or that direction. Yeah, at least last that direction Walker. Meanwhile,
Lunani among others, the beautiful people are there laughing at you.
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No problems on thirty five. I bet piece of work.
That's what it is. Piece of cake.
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he could use some submissions right now.
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Writers are on vacation.
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Apparently they got there on their way to the cabinet
or already there too.
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JG at kfan dot com.
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If you'd like to participate in what end might end
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Inbox scheduled for the bottom of this hour. JG at
k f a N dot com. Many of you are complicit,
and I think you know it. I don't know if
you'll loan up to it, but you are. For years
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I have been lectured, mocked, ridiculed, and lectured some more
about how instant replay in all of its forms will
change everything, that it will mean a sort of sports
(03:05):
officiating nirvana. Basically, a tolosa would set in. Every bad
call would be fixed, every non call would be reversed,
and we would live happily ever after in a world
in which we would never have to.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Worry about the wrong call being made. So that's what
I was told.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's why we had to keep adding to the machinery,
no matter how much extra time it might take, no
matter how much it might cost. We got all the
money in the world, We got all the technology in
the world, four K, eight K, thirty two K, whatever
it is. We got to use all of it, and
we'll all be better for it. How do you feel
about that? After last night in the World Cup? You
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feel vindicated when it comes to var replay. You feel
like the right call was made because we've got the
mechanisms in place to be sure that a player doesn't,
in this case, wrongfully get expelled from a game. Thrown
out of a game, meaning also he will not be
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available in the next game.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So I hope you raise your hand and owe up
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Brash On Bridan Kfin text line six four, six eighty six.
Because what we learned yet again last night is that
there is no such thing as officiating nirvana. It doesn't exist,
never will, never has. And we have to again decide
is how much do we want in the name of
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And I know the text they're coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, they got to write some of the time. Let's
just say they get it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Write thirty two percent of the time, or thirty two
percent of the calls get end up in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Isn't that worth it?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, not for all the extra time, all the teeth gnashing,
all the hyperventilation that's involved. No, I think it's got
to be one hundred perc that or nothing. And look,
I'm not a great soccer mind, but I can't the
soccer people who I think are try to be objective
(05:11):
say that the foul on Balligan.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Is how we pronounce his name. I think, so who's
is He's unbelievable? Is what he is?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Was a the a wrong call, an overcooked call, and
a call that should never have taken place in the
first place. And obviously, maybe we're so good now that
it won't matter against Belgium. Maybe we are attaining a
status where we say, because of the a Poschatino, that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Just another problem for us to address. We'll deal with it.
We don't love it. Maybe that maybe we're that good.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But I don't think we're haughty enough to believe that
we don't need all the horses that we are accustomed
to get us the best chance to go as far
as we possibly can. And so if we lose to Belgium,
And by the way, did you I didn't realize last
night when the game changed Belgium the two goals they
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scored to come they were down two nil, weren't they
in like the eighty sixth and ninety sixth minute?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They was very late.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It was a pretty dramatic comeback for soccer, is it not? Yes,
for any sport really, but especially soccer. Where was I
If we lose that game, that will be the lament.
We'll never know what Baligan, given how talented a striker
he is, how that might how he might have tipped
the balance in our favor. So are there any analysts?
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And by the way, I feel a little bit guilty
leading the show at the controversy because to a certain extent,
I don't think it gives proper credit to the victory.
Last night, I thought for backdrop for post game drama
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emotion scene, even though all we did was advanced to
the Sweet sixteen, it's pretty hard to top what I
watched the celebration, the singing Who's number eight? For US
number eight? There was a point postgame postmatch celebration where
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number eight is. It's in the camera shot. He's he's
kind of by himself and he's looking straight into like
two sections of the crowd that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Is serenading him. Really it looks like him, It's not
just sim but that's how it appears in the picture.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Kenny, the look on his face, well, I actually couldn't
see the look on his face because his back was
to the camera. But he's he's raising his arms up.
He's kind of shaking his head back and forth, like
he can't believe the memories he is getting at this moment,
this scene, what.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It represents to him, I don't know if he talked
about it after. I don't know how it works in
the like in the Olympics. As a media jackal. I'd
go to something called the mixed zone.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's where media jackals go to interview athletes, the mixed zone,
and sometimes you're at the mercy of who stops at
the mixed zone.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So I don't even know if he's if.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He articulated any of this, but as he's occasionally turning
a little bit towards the camera, the look on his
face like I can't believe any of this. I can't
believe this scene. I want to soak it in, I
want to drink it. I want to get drunk on it.
Is what I want to do. Tremendous, absolute, tremendous scene.
So I don't just want to make it about the
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replay terrorists who should be ashamed of themselves today after
all the lecturing they've done to me. Based on the
way it I think, I don't know are we allowed
to appeal?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't even know what the rules are. Can you
appeal that kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, that's where I wanted to go because I think
the way we wiggle out of it, and I put
myself in the category that you're talking about, I'll raise
my hand and I'm not going to say I knew
you were going to go down on this I heel,
but I knew you were going to go down this angle,
mostly because of Seaffert's brilliant tweet.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes, well that's what that was my insprent, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I believe it as one of the basically saying we
need to abolish insto replay.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's the box, or that's.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The way I think we're getting out of this box
is there has to be a better appeal system. And
apparently there is an appeal system, but it's not great
for how the US want to go about it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So I can't remember exactly why, but there's a reason.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
There's a reason why it might not be the greatest
or the easiest way to appeal in Some people have
already said there's no chance. But then I read that
the way that they instituted the replay technically was not
how they were supposed to by using the slow motion. Yeah,
and they're not supposed to use this slow motion and
they did, so could you appeal on that? That's what
I don't know, But anyway, that's the way I think
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we will go out.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You love, but you love slow motion elsewhere it's used
all the time here, which to me is part of
the problem because that's not when the.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Adjudication takes place.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It takes place full speed, which is why I think
all of that ends up being a little deceptive. I
don't want to go too far down that road, but
it was a controversial finish that was more easily accepted
at the time, Yes, because we won.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, right, if.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We'd have lost somehow, it would have been bad with
that as the backdrop. So right now, like I said,
we're in the rarefied air thinking nothing's going to stop
us as we get closer to our next match, which
I think is Monday, correct.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Monday night in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, unbelievable, be absurd, is what it will be against Belgium.
It'll start ramping up. Especially if we struggle, it'll be
put all on him because it was a.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Like I said, it was, I almost wish, you know, it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Was further along in the tournament because but I think
now some of the singing has just become fan tradition,
World Cup tradition, and the team tradition.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They got their own songs that they liked. It like
the singing.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They're all singing and including Mauricio the head coach.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Was it was the best part. Yes, it was the
best part. I was lost in it as well. My
sons are asking me why I'm tearing up, and I'm like,
cause I'm an American, that's all a human being. I'm
a human being. It was magical. The whole thing was magical.
Good job by Fox multiple times. Obviously, you let the
music play and you could hear it when it's on
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the field, but even when they send it out to
the post game and they're trying to get you know,
Landon Donovan's thoughts or Carly Lloyd's thoughts on and the
crowd just won't let them exactly, so they just have
to shut up and they but drop Stone, right, I
think is the main host. Good on him to understand
that we don't need anybody's thoughts right now.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We just need the scene and the vibe. And it was.
It was magical. That's the word I keep going back to.
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It was that good and uh and even more for sure.
Uh the best tweet I've seen that attempts to sort
of size up the entire World Cup phenomenon the way
it's played out thus far in the tournament through what
North and South America.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dean Phillips, did you see it?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, the World Cup is the medicine America didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It needed that? Does that not tell the whole story?
He's right on, except I think we knew we needed it. Yeah. Maybe,
And I'm glad it's here.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You are listening to Barrero.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Lawyer Tom's got stuff for both of us. Don't forget
the inbox in just minutes email guards e JG at
k f A N.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Let me get to the first one that was for me,
wasn't it Layer time?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah? Dance Ironic?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You use the word nirvana in your drivetime diatribe about
video review assisting referees officials with their decisions, because your
argument is apparently that if an improvement isn't perfect, that's
not worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is called the Nirvana fallacy.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Video review isn't perfect, that's much better than we had before,
that's worthwhile. Lawyer Tom, I respectfully would say, you're wrong,
and I disagree because what you're allowed to say, because
obviously it's not all or nothing. There are some correct
calls that get reversed. Clearly, I'd be a fool to
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think otherwise. The question is what does all of at
what price? Do we get even that percentage? And for me,
if the percentage isn't higher, and it isn't, it isn't ask.
I mean, every time there's one one guy says slam
dunk and somebody else on the other who their team says,
not even write bad call, the percentage is not high
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enough for me to accept esthetically what is done to
our games. And I think what is done to our officials,
I don't have any question. It affects them the way
they go about their business, They second guess themselves more,
et cetera. So I understand it doesn't have to be
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all or nothing, but in terms of delays, in terms
of taking away the moment.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Too much of the time various sports.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I remain firmly on my side. Now, this one's from
lawyer Tom to you. All right, Dan Phillips is right,
And he wasn't saying that we didn't know we needed medicine, Guardie.
He was saying we knew we needed the medicine, we
just didn't know what the needed medicine was, which I
think was the Dean Phillips plinty.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I like it. So it's not about the money, it's
about what the money represents exactly he knows. I mean
he of all people, he knows, he knows we needed something.
I got it. And I think what he's saying is
who knew that it might be the World Cup? Right?
It's a good observation. That's that's why I.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like, That's why he's a lawyer. And I've been in
this box for the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You think I might have something to do with it.
I think it has a lot to do with it. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You can pare it down to just that, the ability
to actually understand the astute observation Dan.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
At the risk of making this political and I hate
to do with the World Cup? Do you think there's
some of the left who are cheering for the USA's
ouster asking for a friend? This is from Oh my gosh,
what's eight five eight five nine, eight five nine.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't know eight five nine. I'm kind of curious, now, sure,
I is any question there's some who are northern Kentucky.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I mean, it's not anything I lose any sleepover, to
be honest with you, But yeah, I I there might
be some on the far right who do for what
for reasons that we don't even understand.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Well, you can find it exactly, you can find the
reason why they they live in these these bubbles, these
worlds where that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Just gets invented, does it not? It does?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, Yeah, I mean it's it's it's it's very pos
Speaking of politics, could the president pardon Balligan?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Interesting point?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Now, he I don't think it would matter, but I
that I'm not sure that would stop him from trying.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well that people were clamoring for that last night because
didn't he win some type of FIFA award or something
he did before? Yes, so why can't he use the
power of that office.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The word was FIFA to get what they wanted from
the country. That some in the board room was smart
and said, man, you got to suck up to him. Yeah,
you got to make him seem like he's the greatest
person ever. Well, I'd used that muscle ever, so it
flex that muscle. Maybe that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
People might buy more of those coins that he's made
him a billionaire again.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Soccer fin I unbelievably read that if the US was
able to get to a formal appeal with FIFA, they
stood a chance of the red car suspension being pushed
beyond the upcoming match with Belgium, meaning presumably later if
they later round.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But do you want to do that? I think you
take the game, you play the game in front of you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, yeah, Well what was the people were trying to
get Brendan sorosby the Texas Tech Quarterbacks lawyer. Yes, to
file some type of injunction and then have the hearing
after the World Cup like they were trying to do
for Soresby and the gambling stuff. That's how you do it.
You just keep kicking the can down. We did it
with the Williams Wall Kevin and Pat Williams. We just
get the star Caps thing. Yeah, that's just keep kicking
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it down the road and then eventually it goes away
and then he can play against Belgium.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I guess that's possible.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It does seem a little weird though, that a call
this controversial the World Cup comes every four years because
it is controversy, and I've heard soccer people say, hey,
I don't like it, but technically it is the right call.
You got to protect the players. And then I've heard
other people that say, awful, not even close. You can
find your opinion on it. But for it to be
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this hotly contested, to be able to have that lever
to go by the way you're out for the next
game too, For something that happens once.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Every four years, it just seems extreme. That's when it's
not obvious. When it's obvious, I get it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But when it's not that obvious, it feels like there's
got to be some type of middle ground and reason
reasonable minds could come to that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm kind of worried about my other country, Espanya. They're
up one nil on Austria, but I don't know, I
mean they they they haven't appeared as dominant as I
like to think of the Roja always is.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Maybe maybe they say we don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh, you know, we're gonna win. But you know, something
silly happens. They're only up one at this point. They're
about to almost sixty three minutes into this round of
thirty two game. This is the first of three today,
is it not. I think there's two more. I think
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Coming up one later this afternoon, in one this evening.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, Portugal, Croatia is at six o'clock, and then late
night Algeria and Switzerland and Vancouver seven six three, Guy Dan,
not only not only does this situation allow you to
shake your fist at var, but also your other favorite topic, gambling.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The REFU called the red card Klaus.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Does that mean, like with some of the great soccer players,
there's some great referees who just have a single name.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He's just known as Klaus. I guess, I guess. So
he seemed like a vet.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Was called to testify in a twenty twenty three Brazilian
match fixing probe over suspicious betting on cards in a
Tombines versus Landrina Series B game.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
During that trial, Brazilian teams requested he not officiate their games.
I'm not making acquisitions, but suspicious. Now, keep in mind
his moniker is total Richard guy. Maybe they take that
into consideration. Sure I didn't know anything about that backstory.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
No, I didn't. That's way too complicated.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
When we talk about all this stuff going on in
the NBA right now, there is not perhaps no more
sport maybe boxing at times, that has been more corrupted
by the gambling and by the fix scenes es than soccer.
Right because there's so many leagues internationally, there's so many
ways to gamble. There's always a game, a match to
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bet on or something to bet on. And soccer's had
their scandals too, they have, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Tom from Savage notes the you know Country Roads, that's
become one of the songs that I think the fans
sing right, or maybe it's the team as well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I never liked that song. I in fact, when it
was big, I despised it. I think there's a lot
of people in that camp. But yet in this context,
it's hard not.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I think, you know what I'm saying, because it's just
because of the shared deal everybody seems in on and
everybody seems because look, maybe a lot of the people.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Were singing it don't like it either, But.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's almost it's almost as if the song itself becomes irrelevant, yeah,
to the act itself.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Right at its time, somebody treated this last night. At
its time, at its peak, it was not seen as
a great song. It was not included in any of
the great song lists or songwriter lists. But it's on
a bit of a run because it was University of
West Virginia or West Virginia University, that's one of their
songs that they play.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Spain just score again. I don't know how much.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
In Wimbledon, tou Nail just went up sixty fifth minute.
Now that's the lrojo I remember, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
West Virginia on their College World Series run kind of
got this song going again and it was magically again. Yeah,
whether it was in Omaha or whether it was in
Morgantown when they did it. Then ESPN stayed with it
a bunch Oregon. I know because I was out there.
They play it. It's not one of their flagship songs,
but they played a lot and the whole crowd sings it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And now it has become this bit for the US
men's soccer team and their fans that it is great.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And I don't know what it is about it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Because of the tempo, because of the words, yeah, because
of the ramp ups at different times.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, it's a combination of things. It's great. Eight one
oh guy, eight one oh. We're getting some interesting area
codes today, a lot of cabins eight one oh.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Lefty here not rooting for the US to lose, But
I hate the thought of Trump taking credit for the
win if somehow the US does win. Plus he's being
allowed to hand over the trophy this year. Is that true?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I don't know. I would imagine he would. Yeah, he's
the host country.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Will he be handing over the trophy in the reflecting pool?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It doesn't look too good right now. There's algae, that's right.
They got some problems there, hea.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
A one O is Michigan, Michigan Flint, home of Trent Tucker.
Interest were here on.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh so we got people all over, so that wouldn't
be up country right now. Have you ever been to
Upper Peninsula?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And I'm I'm dying to get there. Everybody raves about,
don't they. We almost did it last year. Ye are you?
Are you a Door County guy? I've been there. I
don't think I've ever been to Doorka. It's fine, I've
been there.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I'm jealous of the Creasols right now because they're rolling
through like dead wood, and you know, the Black Hills
and everything in South Dakota. We did that a few
years ago. I have fomo with that. But yeah, up
is on the list.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This might be my favorite text early.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
This is from five oh seven guy natter Tot from
North Minneapolis. I hope I'm pronouncing that name correctly. Unless
you can see a front angle the US player giving
the opponent a side, I can't understand how you could
think this malicious or intentional. He had to go past
the left leg, which was in the front stop on
the right angle, which is behind his head. He couldn't
have literally known where that leg was until you see
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him buying it up from this bring it up from
the side. Initially horrible call. I kind of like the show.
He's brilliant. Well that's good. Yeah, that's actually probably more honest.
He's saying, Yeah, I don't love the show, but I
kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hopefully we can win the over one day. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
All right, let's make.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
This bottom of the hour pause, unless you want me
to go to forty two to give you more time
to get letters.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, we've got We've they've responded. We've got some really
good ones, and I know that some are going to
come in during this break.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We've got some.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
In the beauty of them, they're they're so multi layered
and there from people that you can tell don't kind
of like the show, they love the show, and they
get the show at the show and That's what I'm
excited about for at least a couple of these that
we'll do next.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Bumper to.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Interesting observation from six to one to two guy listening
to the first half hour plus of the program, I
think I found common ground for the far left and
the far right. If the far left wants the US
say to lose, they are happy Baligan is suspended as
of now.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
For the next game.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The far right is also happy because Baligan is a
birthright citizen and we know how the far righties feel
about that. So with Baligan being suspended, both the far
left and the far.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right have some common ground. There. You go, well, stated
to put together fourth.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One quick Mike Conley question for you. Yes, can we
rightly and legitimately blame his departure to the Boston Celtics
on the Southwest light rail debacle. I bring it up
because he has said a couple of times, you know what, I.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Want to take the subway to work. I want to
take the train to work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, if the Southwest light Rail had been done on time,
it still isn't running, is it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I don't think no. Next year, we hope maybe Conley
would have been on Maddie.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Would have gotten that out of his system, or there's
gotta be some form of true chu transportation we could
have found for him. It's not going to be like Boston,
not gonna be like New York Subway, not gonna be
like Chicago and the l But I want to blame
it on It's another reason to be annoyed with our
bureaucracy here. The Southwest Light Rail blew our best chance
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to keep Mike Conley and his family in town.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I know, just saying they're doing test runs on it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I remember seeing the Fox nine story about that you
may see a train can't wait go up and down
the track.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I think tech. Actually he lived more the other direction,
but he was not on the route.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Nevertheless, Yeah, I thought that the chief shot was worth it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's worth it in any case inbox.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Now, don't forget Russo on a little maneuvering by your
Minnesota wild.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Is it the is it the move before the big move?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That's one of the questions being raised.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, and then Levell giving us some Thursday time today
because tomorrow is at best of he is scheduled for
five thirty Classic level.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
By the way, I asked him yesterday. What time works best?
He said, anytime? I said, okay, great work around Russo
got the inbox. Text him today five thirty. Nothing haven't
heard from Just it's just perfect. There you go, it's
just perfect levelle.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They're pouring in.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
This is where I always feel bad.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We beg for him, and now a lot of people
are gonna be left just dooring in and out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
We're gonna we'll see.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I haven't read some of the most recent submissions, so
we'll see if they make the fourth of July weekend cut.
But we've got some good ones. Dear doctor Dan, you
may have heard them. Looking for my next gig. Have
been a high performer in the past, still have a
lot to offer. Recent departures of Jay Randall and n
Reed have left some big shoes to fill. Luckily, I've
got really big, if somewhat strange.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Looking feet, Doctor Dan.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Lots of people think I may want to take my
talents back to s Beach to rejoin the m Heat,
but I've been there, done that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Similarly, i have deep.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Roots in Ohio, but I've already done a couple of
tours of duty there. I'm looking for a challenge, Doctor
Dan and has always been a big fan of A.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Edwards.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Would love to get a boats what about on el
Minatanka would love to do my thing. So next June
we can have a parade down ep Avenue. Could you
give me the number for T Conley or C.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Finch.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And I'm also gonna need a country club membership. Could
you please put me in touch with M.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Sauce. This is from L. James. Well, here's the interesting
thing about the L. James story.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
A debate broke out the other day on the program
between Rosen and Common about what if, somehow Lebron would
end up here, would that be bigger even than when
when b Far.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Showed up in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I think the Rosan opinion was yes. I think the
Common opinion was no. I lean Rosen's way. For this reason,
football is always king in this town. The Far story,
the b Far story, was beyond enormous that first here,
although we didn't know what was gonna go as well
as it did.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Right, That's what we have to remember. But here's why
I think the L.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
James story would actually be bigger. It would be such
a monumental, stupendous, off the charts upset that I think
it would actually be on its own plateau, even if
the sport itself doesn't carry the same weight in this
town as obviously does pro football, but around the country.
(29:31):
L James coming here, like I said, it would be
what give me an upset, give me a famous upset
in history. It would be like the Miracle of Lake Placid, right,
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It would be because.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Nobody they Okay, that's a cute little story, and they're
gonna hang in there because the Lebron James people say.
L James people say, yeah, well, we'll listen to anybody,
and we haven't eliminated anybody yet technically, and they all
say that's kind of cute, and they pat us on
the head and they go. Nobody in their right mind
thinks there's any reason to believe he's coming here. And
(30:00):
I think there's some truth to that, yeah, regardless of
whether the fit is there or whether.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
There's certainly a place for him to play. So I
think L James.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Dipping his toes into Lake el Minnetaka, I think that
would be the greatest sports.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Upset in the history of Minnesota sports.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I think you're right. The farm thing was a rumor
for two years. Right, there was a build up to that, Yes,
and there was. He wanted to come here the first
time before he had to go to the Jets. Right,
he got traded to the Jets. I think so there
was a build up. There was a time we kind
of knew that was in the cards. This one would
be completely out of left field.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Be fun.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It's time for.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Box Dear doctor Dan, What a glorious day for Minnesota sports. Finally, Finally,
after years of carrying the burden of being the only
high octane athlete in this town, I've got a running mate,
a true partner, A guy who understands that life is
(31:08):
about pace, tempo, speed, pushing the limits. Somebody who doesn't
spend all day stuck in first gear. My new co pilot,
el Ball, a guy who can keep up with me.
Somebody who sees it opening and immediately attacks it. He
understands that offense is best played at one speed, fast,
very fast. Occasionally, your honor, I'd like to plead my
(31:30):
case fast. We both heard phrases like reckless citation and
court appearance and responded with can you be more specific?
The Wolves wanted to play with more pace? Well, congratulations
and welcome to the Great Wide Open. You just acquired
the NBA's version of cruise control set somewhere between questionable
decision and state trooper. For the first time in my
Minnesota career, I don't have to carry the fast guy
(31:51):
torch alone. No, this isn't from a Edwards. Sincerely yours,
Jay Addison.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, you know, I've actually received a couple of tweets
in recent weeks days basically since the l Ball acquisition
along these same same lines that it's Jay Addison that
we are hearing about. I can't wait for this deal
to become official so that then we can get, maybe
(32:22):
from the horse's mouth, more detail on you know, are
you gonna leave all your race cars back in wherever?
I don't know if he's got a place in Charlotte. Yeah,
I have no idea. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe well, no,
he'll rent a Maserati, right, and he's just as capable
of doing some damage with what he rents here as
(32:43):
opposed to what he owns.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You'd like to think I asked this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Question of a highly placed source yesterday, might have even
been earlier today.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Who is the t wolves babysitter now?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And there is we really don't have one right, We
don't right, And it wasn't so much what you know
at this point in his career, m conley was gonna
be able to do on the court, but just more
being around. On the other hand, you could say, in
all honesty and seriousness, at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You got to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The kids have to figure it out on their own,
maybe a little guidance and a whisper here and their helps,
But in the end, you can't you know, if you
have if you need babysitters for you know, twenty eight
year olds in that sense. Now, none of these guys
are that old yet. But if it keeps going on
like this, then there's nobody who can kind of come
to the rescue. Right At some point they have to
(33:39):
figure the thing out.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I have no idea of.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
L Ball, Like when he has his first press briefing.
Will he address all this if will he be asked
about it? Will he address this this seriousness question? Does
it make him defensive? Does he laugh it off? Does
he say it's silly?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't know. I'm very curious to now he handles
those kinds of questions.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Now he's gonna get all the ones about the fit
in the All twenty two and thinks usage and.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
How much he likes Aunt going way back. Yeah, he's
gonna get those. Oh, you probably rants unless secrets there
less secret. Yeah that's true. We need Kevin secrets. Rant
them out. Yeah, you doctor Danna.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
It was fourteen years ago to the weekend that we
changed everything for the team on your favorite side of
the river, so much so that the m Wild are
still kind of paying the price. Once upon a time,
this team couldn't get to the first round and would
have killed to have the streak that they did between
twenty fifteen and twenty twenty six. Anyway, a lot of
you all complain about the lack of action this week
(34:44):
for the Wild are the same ones that don't fully
appreciate everything we did for the team. And Christmas colors
Christmas in July will never produce stockings as full as
it did in twenty twelve, and a lot of you
simply need to.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Accept that fact.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Two identical deals on the same day was color, collaboration
and intentionality before it was fashionable in this market. This
from thirteen years time seven point six aav times two
our Suitor and z Perizy postscripts on the last letter.
(35:16):
Somebody's asking a fair question.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Does Lamell? Does l Ball have any sick dogs? Is
he a dog guy?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
L Ball?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't know, no clue.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
We'll find out later, yeah, or will we We've never
found out about Jay Addison's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I mean we've talked over the years about the lore
we've attached to the July fourth announcement and how we
both came into work that day. Happily, it does feel
like another life, a lifetime ago, doesn't It was because
this is such a new iteration of the team at
the time, it felt like everything.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
At the time, you could argue that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It did really cement the program as not in terms
of winning, but in terms of and respectability and in
terms of I think convincing the fans.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna hang around for this thing to see
where it goes. It never got to where it was
supposed to with the two of them. That I still
to this day believe has more to do with the
fact that that that group of prospects never.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Got as good as we had been told they were
going to be because PRESI and Suitor were not superstars.
They were good players right even at their you know,
at their at their height. So but it almost feels
quaint to think about that now because to such a
a certain extent we've graduated way past it. They are,
(36:38):
you know, even the money is now in the rearview mirror.
You could argue that technically, though, it still might have
contributed to the lack of extra funds we might have
had because.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You have to make some moves in the interim.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Perhaps that that that's still hamstring your chances to spend
the money you want to now.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
But there were more, there were much more innocent days.
When it comes to a state of.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well how about this, This one just came in and
it kind of goin sides with both of our first
two topics, and I guess we'll have to have a
discussion on this.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Dear doctor Dan, the fourth of July is coming up.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Are you ready to come in again for an emergency
bumper to bumper show. It's been fourteen years since you
had to run into the studio on a fourth of July.
I figure it's high time to do it again. El James.
Now I'm gonna be four hours away in Wisconsin. I
won't Yeah, same thing. I came all the way to Wisconsin.
I guess we'll have to stream yard. We could stream yard. Yeah,
(37:31):
I guess we're gonna happen. I say stream Yard made
everything easy these days.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You don't have to bring equipment for stream yard, right, No,
you just fire up the laptop.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So you have to have a laptop with you. No,
you do it on a phone. You can do it
on a phone. There you go. So I think.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's the problem committing to it, James.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
If it's l James, I have no problem committing to it.
I think we have to Now.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What if it's what if it's kao c announces that
the silliness is over. Kay Murray will be the starting
quarterback at the start a training camp. Is that worth
an emergency meeting?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I don't think So.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You can do a video for your Twitter. Probably just
do a video for your Twitter. Yeah, we'll move on
with El James. Yeah, we gotta go.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Yeah, God, yes, doctor boh, you're doctor Dan.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
You know what, even though we let m Zucarello walk,
we got b Coleman. He's an American and O Mata,
who I can trade for an American?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Spin wins. Yeah, they're up three.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
They just scored again and now they're running there there,
Now they are running up the score. They're frollicking, they
are taunting the Austrians. I saw two Austrian players almost
come to blows earlier. That's the level of frustration caused
by tiki taka by La Roja three mil Espanya just
a few minutes away from advancing to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But I rudely interrupted, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Even though we don't have picks in twenty twenty seven,
twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty nine, we still have
plenty of assets to get d Larkin and Jay Hughes
and re signed Hughes. And by the way, M Dumba
is still a hell of a player. Do I think
Ky Capriestov's contract is too much? Well, doctor Dan, maybe
we'll save that question for n Jersey. When Kay Patel
(39:15):
is drinking from the cup outside t reads, you'll see
not be here.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
If it were only that easy, if it were all.
Who was that famous actress? She looks famous to me.
Did you see her? You aren't looking, damn it. I'm sorry,
I'm watching with that.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
That's okay, I understand, I understand somebody will be watching
a beautiful woman who is a famous actress whose name
now escapes me.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Cheering on La Roja.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Not this beautiful woman, but a different beautiful woman. A
lot of beautiful women cheering for Spain in this crowd.
This game is in Los Angeles, Californy.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
By the way, Yeah, that makes sense. Well we'll find out.
We got Russo at the top the hour.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We did make a deal, we got rejected again in
a couple of different ways.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yes, Tuesday, as we talked about with Luigi. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I go back and forth in terms of my level
of optimism. I'm just fascinated that now even Louie has said, well,
if we have to Unlarkin, we have to give up
the goaltender of the future, he might be willing to
move on. That is it that maybe it is that
easy just to get a veteran to start the season
(40:35):
until gush Buss is back up the speed physically and
his field.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I don't know. I see to me it has to
do with more. Okay, is Larkin good enough?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's not so much I'm against the concept of including
Volstead a deal. I might be convinced of that, but
I had been led to believe by hockey people, including Louie,
that he wasn't sure Lark and was at the high
enough level good, but not at the high enough level
to say, yeah, I'll play my final card, which would
(41:07):
be the goaltender of the future. Penelope Cruz, Thank you.
A lot of people saw it. Oh who was there? Well,
you know she's married to I think still is the
Javier Bardem.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Good for demanding actor, Good for both of them. I
love this one.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
I love this so many layers.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Hey, doctor Dan, thanks for talking about me recently.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
You might have seen that I am now sponsored by
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Speaker 1 (41:40):
I could probably get you pairs.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Since you seem to be having troubles figuring out how
to watch my games.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
A couple of tips. Go to ESPN and click on
the game.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
If it says CBS, Prime, Peacock, et cetera, it's on
those channels or platforms. If it says Ion, you can
watch that for free on tub If it doesn't say anything,
it's on Victory Plus.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I'm sorry, but go ahead. Free apps you can download.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
That way you can watch my potential MVP season and
by the way, as of today, all Star Starter season
and very entertaining style of basketball during something you call
the abyss not much Abyssie at Target Center.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Right now, doctor dan oh Miles. I think for the
first time have we had a box office bump that
is provable.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I don't know with the rookie because we always draw well.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
We draw our I don't think we do we open
up the upper deck now I don't remember. Yes, we
do postseason I know. Yeah, Well, you know what they're
doing now. This is a brilliant idea they're calling it.
I don't have the exact phrase, but it's it's basically
bet on the ring ticket deals for the rest of
the season. You can buy an upper level season ticket
(42:54):
two hundred and fifty dollars each.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Okay, so per ticket. Here's our mass. So you and
I buy, we buy two that include the postseason. But
you'd have to buy your tickets for the postseason. But
you can get them. But if they win the w
NBA Championship, you either get your money back what or
they push the credit to next for next season season tickets.
(43:18):
I looked into it there mid court kind of half
play off the second deck. Yeah, it's a good idea.
It's a great idea just to get people in.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, I guess is as we get closer to the postseason,
it'll be it'll be a a seeable, provable Yeah. Jump
even for a team like you say that has tended.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
To draw very very well, isn't it though?
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Is a Golden State that basically is the draw story
of the century?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, the expansion team, I certainly need a bigger arena. Yeah,
I know, what's that all about the expansion? The fact
that there's a lot of people in San Francisco and
women's basketball is clearly on the Riots. There's a lot
of places like that. Some of the other expansion teams
have been like that. Vegas is an expansion team that's
been like that, and now they won a bunch of titles.
So not expansion, but a team that moved into the market.
(44:04):
So we should wrap it up to stay on schedule.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
We got, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
We have Russo Walker our gal rights. Will l Ball's
father be a bump a bumper regular? That's an interesting question.
Do we want to participate in that madness? We probably
would have to consider it once, wouldn't we? Or are
we participating in the delinquency of the audience?
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Me?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
He's so over the top, But yeah, I would be
tempted once. I don't know that i'd want to make
it a regular thing. And I don't even know if
he's gettable, although I would think he probably would be
right once the everything becomes Yeah, he's available.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
We'll talk about that later. Russo around the corner questions
for him.
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