Top 5/Lou Nanne In-Studio - Bumper to Bumper 10/7/25 Hour Three

Dan and Gaardsy do a quick Top 5 before Lou Nanne joins in-studio for another great hour of Wild talk and old hockey and life stories.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Top five at five time. Luigi is back in the house.
You just wrapped up a number of camp spots. Huh.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, they did camps for a new year. I love camps.
I love the right scream, I love the.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
How did you do to you got them all done
on the first tad.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
No today, it took me a long days, the longest
has ever taken me. Usually it is one.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
What the hell is that all about?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
My tongue got all tight.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now that'll happen.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think I ate too much.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
At lunch we put yeah, we have what do you
got going you specials?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes we do. Spaghetti meatballs is flatly out of this world.
I had my son Latino Military come in and I
saw that and all that, telling you I can't get
enough of it. Then the wedge cellar is great, the macademic,
the chicken is good. We got a number of different
things and different drinks and I'm lucky you got out
of there.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
How many containers of top to Tator do you need
for a nanny family compound? Good question. Fourth of July
Week twenty three. Yeah, yeah, that's surprising. That makes sense.
All Right, we get let's get some top five stuff going.
There's plenty of hockey year. Yeah, there's not a time
to get to. The Wolves have another preseason game tonight

(01:31):
against the Indiana Pacers. It's the preseason home opener. We're
all happy for him, so people can go watch that.
Here's what I wanted to get to though. This is
kind of interesting. Remember Bill Belichick kind of he's a
football coach at the University of North Carolina. Well, this
whole thing. He comes in, the AD's wearing the hoodie.
They've got balloons everywhere. He's got his old GM from

(01:53):
New England. Mike Lombardi is his new GM at North Carolina.
They're doing media appearances. He was just on the field
doing game day stuff, you know, flipping crap to Nick Saban.
It was like Louis and Mace last week with the crosstalk,
just bsing with each other. Well, part of the big
unveiling for Belichick was going to be this Inside Carolina
Hulu special that's been canceled after two and three start

(02:18):
that has not been going very well. They've decided that
they're not going to do they They're not going to
do the Hulu special anymore. And this is not the first,
but the second Inside Access documentary that has been canceled.
They were going to do one on HBO that got canceled,
then they sign up for Hulu and now it's people
don't really want to watch it, and it's a mess.

(02:40):
I mean, he's not letting them tweet pictures of Drake
may because he plays for the Patriots. That story true. Yes,
he's not letting scouts from the Patriots come scout as players,
which is also know that on the air. Yes, dress
I don't like them, they don't like me. Basically, it's bizarre.
It's none of it again. And I was pulling for this,
as you. I wasn't immediately saying this is stupid. No,

(03:03):
And I got a text yesterday from somebody saying, basically,
we don't realize how bad what he inherited was, which
may be true. And what the guy was trying to
say is going to take more than one year they
have like seventy five new place exactly, which is so difficult.
They're difficult, so maybe it will take time. But to
your point, when it's not, when it's going as badly,
I mean, basically the building was empty at halftime, they

(03:26):
were down, they ended up, they were down. Ultimately I
think they lost thirty eight to ten, but it was
thirty five to three to Clemson in Chapel Hill and Louis.
You know, this is when when it's going bad like that,
that's that is when it's harder to get away with
all the small you know, nonsense like well, don't talk
about Drake May because he plays for New England even

(03:47):
though he went to school at Carolina. You know, you're
supposed to be exulting in that and and bring it
to everybody's attention. So I I don't know what he's
what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
You know, as you get older and he's getting older,
just like but he's he's got to remember that as
you get older, really you would think you're anger tempers,
you would think, you know, you realize a lot of
it's just crap, and you just say, why would I
ever do some of the stupid and especially when you've

(04:17):
had such a great career at a place like New England.
Some of the things you might not like, but you
can't forget the success you had. And and basically it
made a movie. Is whether it was all him or
all fresh whatever, he's still part of it. And I
can understand you might not like somebody, but just because

(04:38):
you might not like somebody you worked with there doesn't
mean you you prohibit them from coming and do their job.
That's pettiness. I think when you get to his stature,
the pettiness would disappear you. You've got so much going
for you. This this flabbergasts me and just drives me nuts.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, and we're not going to get to watch it
on Hulu, so we'll just have to watch it forward
to that. Why not? Yeah, inside Carolina. Yeah, maybe somebody
else will pick it up. There's a lot of streaming service.
I was going to say, somebody funny of services. Dodgers
beat the Phillies four to three last night. They leave
that series two games to love. And we just talked
to Ron Coomer from Cubs Radio. How about the wheel play?
You hear about the Dodgers wheel play?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Was it nice? It's the best wheel play I've ever
seen in a key situation, bunt and everybody, everybody moves
into position, shortstop moves over to cover third. They gunned
down there. It's just it was about as well done
as one could imagine the old wheel play orchestrated. I
don't I'm not sure if we were very good at
doing that, although we may not. So few teams bunt anymore.

(05:40):
I don't even know. I'm surprised people even practice it.
You never know what situation is going to come up.
And the Brewers Cato Kalin's Brewers, Yeah, knocked off your
Cubs seven to three, and so they go back to
Wrigley tomorrow for Game three with the Cubs looking to
stay alive. Some games. This afternoon, the Mariners Tigers game
Game three has been delayed. That series is lightning one.

(06:03):
I don't know, I don't know. Did you see the
Who was it? Who was the analyst frustrated at all
of the lightning delays in college football?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
That was barstool Guy. David barstil Guy basically said, you
know what we should we should stop with these ridiculous
delays because if if you have to clear the stadium,
you could be walking basically back to your car and
she just still get struck by lightning. He just basically said, look,
here's what you have to look at. If you get
struck by lightning, it's just not your day exactly, but

(06:37):
you have to accept it. So that was a new
position on they're walking out there. That's true too. Yeah,
you're right, Yeah, I think they want you to take cover.
But yeah, because some of those delays have been lengthy.
I mean they got the first part of the college game. Yeah,
because the rule is every lightning strike resets the clock.
Oh is that right? So you could go and if

(06:59):
like eight to ten miles, so you know, it could
be in our hills and there's lightning and you can't
play it. Does We've had a couple really lengthy ones. Yeah,
his colleagues when he said that, yeah, they got of
barstool marriage. That's that in a nutshell. They didn't know
what to say. Yes, that was ridiculous. Blue Jays Yankees Tonight.
By the way, Blue Jay's lead that series. Two Games

(07:20):
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the keyword bills. All right, we got Louis for the hour.
Questions coming in fast and furious. A lot of them
are dealing with what we started this program with the
econor McDavid extension, which did stand out for all the

(07:40):
obvious reasons of twelve million dollars a year for two years.
We'll get Louis view on that. Lots to get to
regarding Minnesota Wild injuries, and the NHL season is upon us.
Louis reminding us that we got a game already on
ESPN because opening night it's triple header night as well.
So all of that and more with our guy Luigi.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
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Speaker 2 (08:22):
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indeed starts tonight. Uh, Louie, we got a lot of
news that we need to cover during the broadcast, but

(08:44):
before we do that, I want to play. Guardie has
a bit of sound that we want to play and
it's this came straight out of the NHL News archive.
And I'm not gonna introduce yet the other person in
this conversation. A most people listening will quit, and yourself.

(09:07):
You will probably recognize that person and yourself as well.
This is this particular bit of sound goes all the
way back twenty two, twenty five, forty seven years ago.
This goes back to nineteen hundred and seventy eight, and
in this case, you're kind of sort of being interviewed.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Let's listen, Chico resh with Louis Nanny, former player, former coach,
now the general manager of the Minnesota and nor Stars. Louis,
one of your main concerns now is hiring a coach.
Were you a winning coach when you played?

Speaker 6 (09:43):
I can't recall, actually, Chico, I ran into some difficulty.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
We didn't have enough games against you when you were
in a NETT. Besides that, I'd have.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
To say the basic problem I ran into was kind
I coached too long.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I was the winning coach for the first week.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
That brings back a storm may Louis. I think you
scored five goals in your career, Two of them were
against me, and three right here in the Forum.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, you know it's your fault. You never came into
the league till four years ago. And that's remarkable because
those five goals I got were.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
On six shots. I was hoping you stay around a
little longer.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
I could have hit one hundred.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, Louis, I'm lucky I'm still in the league because
the first shot I think I tried to stop on
you went in and with that start, you know there's
not much you can do after that.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, Chico, you're right, you're lucky.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
You're still in the league, and you're highly paid because
I just figured it out. Before I figured you average
twenty five shots a game. You played forty games year
that you know, a thousand shots a second of shot
that worked out a sixteen minute. If you look at
your salary, about one hundred two thousand, you're getting about
seven thousand dollars an hour.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Vastly overpaid. I can't understand why you're.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Working here for this a little bit of money.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Excuse me a favor.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Make sure you never make a trade for me.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, I'll tell you one thing.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
If you keep giving me any jabby here, you know
I'm going to trade the years.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Then you go far the Hockey News won't fight.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
Enough of this.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
We'll get back to stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now, back to.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Dan, you can fade it out. There is actually more
to it where he ended the interview too soon and
there's this silence and then she and and and the
other individual we should mention you know who it is,
a former Islanders goaltender Chico Rash with you. This was
during a nineteen seventy eight intermission chat. And then there's
this pregnant pause as he realizes, oh my god, they

(11:17):
want us to talk some more. So then he goes
back to you and tries to get you going again.
Do you have any recollection because all you guys did
was trade barbs, the whole thing back and forth. It
was tremendous.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I forgot about that. That's a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
In fact, I had just taken over the team in
February in this that was Standing Cup playoffs because right Montreal.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's it. It was in the forum. You're exactly right,
And how good was that that was? That was good?
That was goodacular.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Just think I actually worked the finals in that series
for Hockine in Canada, right, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Just I wish more of the interviews were like that.
Where it's just the two individuals, the interviewer in the interview,
just just trading barbs to the whole thing. Be better
than most of the interviews. Yeah, a lot more fun.
Oh that was that was good stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Chic was still living up her own Crosby Arrington.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
I believe so, no kidding? Yeah, well yeah, interest right guy,
that's a great guy.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Questions for Louis bratch on Brian Cafe in text line
is open at six four six eight six. In fact,
let me refresh because I know we got a lot
of new ones that are coming in as well. So
we started the program with the news that I think
broke yesterday on McDavid and uh he ends up doing

(12:34):
at least for now two years twelve million year, which
is not quite as much money while to pay Caprice off.
So were you There were some hockey people who predicted it,
but I still was pretty shocked and given, you know,
like I said, the timing of what the wild had
to do on capriceoft, it was rather jolting to see.

(12:54):
So what did you What did you make of the
McDavid decision.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Well, there's a lot of things when you look at
it that you can't compare Apple Sapples and Sapple STOREM
just first and foremost, McDavid's younger.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Say much for much Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
But secondly, he's the guy that runs the Edmonton Oilers.
Was his agent, he's now CEO of the Edmonton Oilers. Interesting,
so you know you're going to get a good deal.
So he just took over i think the team last year,
so there was no doubt that, you know, something was
working out favorably. Secondly, and the key the whole thing

(13:29):
is it's two years, right, yeah, and so he knows
that if he doesn't win a Stanley Cup and like
where he's at in two, well it's going to be
three years because this year he gets you know, he
plays on this contract.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
So it's actually three years.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, he's going to go where he wants to go.
And by three years, the CAP's going to be at
least one hundred and five one hundred and ten million
rather than eighty four million or whatever is now, So
he's going to be able to get in the twenties.
He's going to get twenty some million rather than twenty million.
He could have maxed out at twenty million right now.

(14:07):
Basically nineteen one, I think could I nineteen one, he
could have maxed out at.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
But he could have done nineteen one each of the
next two years too.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
They were going to take that.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
They wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
No, no, you know that's why the wild enough for
Caprice for short term. If Caprisof would have taken twelve
million for two years, they might have taken even then.
They don't want to risk.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, a lot of people have told me he did
this because he's This is his way of challenging the team,
the franchise where it is to make other moves.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's what I'm saying. If he doesn't, if he doesn't
win a company in three years, because he's got he's
got the one year from this year before that kicks in.
If he doesn't, then he's going to be gone somewhere.
He'll be gone to like Toronto, maybe Leaze for instance.
You know he's from there. You know how much they'll
pay maximum, whatever maximum is, and there'll be a lot
of teams with paying maximum. So if maximum at that

(14:58):
time twenty four million, twenty five million, when you look
at six years where you're ranking, you know right now
he's underpaid by say seven million, So he's underpaid for
two years by seven millions fourteen million. He's underpaid, but
it's helpful of the team, Yeah, definitely. But their team's
already good. They're close, that's true. I mean they've had

(15:18):
the finals last two years. So he's looking that he's
going to be able to make it up pretty close.
And what he gets from that is he's close. He's
right and knocking on the door for two years or
are we going to be able to jump over the herd?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So when I think it's the tweet I saw this,
I think from Pierre Lebron when he writes ninety seven
could have signed for the Max wants to win extends
for the same twelve point five million aa V of
is expiring deal. You don't agree with him. I mean
he's made to sound like he is that he is
making a sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh, he is making a sacrifice. He is making because.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Can't why could convinced convinced Caprice offt to make a
little bit more of a sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
David some Canada and Caprices from Russia. I think that
that has a little bit with you think And McDavid's agent,
as I said, was boss now and I'm telling you
I think Capriceoff took less than he wanted and it
was his decision or less than.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
The the agent.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
He could have pushed them and he would have won
that one by pushing him. I think Caprice's no, no,
that's enough, let's get it done.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Capriceoff was born on April twenty sixth, nineteen ninety seven.
Guards you we write that down, April twenty sixth, nineteen
ninety seven, that's the Caprice Off birthdate. Connor McDavid birthday,
let me look that up is January thirteenth, nineteen ninety seven.
So actually, I guess that would make McDavid a little older,

(16:47):
like three or four months. But you know what, very
close those kids must have played together. And I saw
Caprice Off playing the World Juniors on TV. I know
McDavid played that just Fanny. They might have been the
same tournament. And if they weren't, you realize Caprice the
tournament goal scorer. Really yeah, there you go. Well, I
hope he.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
They probably weren't the same tournament.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I hope he takes us to the Cup finals. It
would be nice to get to the finals, Louis, would
be nice to get them, Okay, but we already got
a bunch of injuries. Now, so what is going on?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't know. That's that's that's the underlying question all
the time. Is a team going to stay away from
injuries because that's so important when when you look at
all these teams, injuries are tough to stand, you know,
and especially the while they've had so many lately, and
we're starting off with guys on the injury list, which
is tough. Yeah, you got zu Corrella's maybe going to

(17:43):
be about two months, you got Brodein just coming back.
You've got storm Out. I mean, they're it's amazing. It's
just amazing to me.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Was it ATMs a back issue? I think correct which
a little bit, that's what they're reporting. Yeah, so what
was it? Do you think it was risky at all
bringing him back given that history?

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, if he's got it back, yeah history, Yeah, it's
always rescue with a back. Backs the worst worst injury,
I can tell you anything you want, but when it's chronic,
it's really Yeah, it's three D tough. You know, you
think you can get by with it, but you can't.
You're you're never comfortable, You're never in your positioning, your

(18:28):
whether your posture, and that is always difficult. I just
hope it's not a back injury.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Augustason signs a five year, thirty four million dollar contract extension.
You okay with that too much? What does that and
what does that mean for the phenom for the kid?

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, it's not too much for goaltenders that are in
the league after four or five years and and playing
pretty well. And Gustus and if unless something happens, he's
he's going to be the major guy. He's going to
have to play fifty to fifty five games at least.
And if he can play like he's you only had

(19:04):
one bad year since he's been here, and the other
one's been pretty durn good. And if the other kid
who's had a good training camp, well, stead, if he
comes through, you need a goaltender to come through when
your other guy just has a little rocky bit of play,
like Flurry would jump in there. If if us had
a couple of bad games and then give them time

(19:25):
to reset, and if and if Jeffer is able to
do that, which sure looks like in preseason, then the
goaltending should be okay, should be it could be really good.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Did we have to do this?

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Signed six years? Yeah? No, but again they're they're they're
looking at the cap and in the space they got,
we had, they had the room to do six million.
That's not high priced goaltending right now. You know, Goltons
make a heck of a lot more than that. And
and he's been in the league for a while, so
he's got he's got a history here, he's they're happy

(19:59):
with the they're confident what he can do. And I
have I had no problem with that six million. I
thought that was a good price to pay for a
guy that's should be your main guy and play fifty
to fifty five games.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Anyway, Well, so is there room? How's this going to
play out with the kid?

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Then?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
How how is this going to Is there room for
him when you've.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, when you when when I say fifty to fifty five,
we're still giving the kid over the thirty games.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
But I mean, he he was viewed as a prospect.
He's like, this is going to be a number one,
This is gonna be our number one goaltender. Yeah, correct,
but he isn't yet and he's got to prove it. Yeah,
And and so you're covering yourself, yeah, fact exactly.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And trust me, if he can prove to be that
guy and get more. You can move Gus, you can
make a trade, that's right true, and and you need
two goaltenders in this sleepue right now. When you get
to the playoffs, it changes a bit. But when you're
going a regular season and playing so many games in
a short period of time, and especially this year, but

(21:01):
you got three weeks off for the Olympics, these games
are really back to back so many times, and you
got to give your quotes and arrests and some of.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
These where's the where is it? Where's the winter? On Alans?
The final? Yeah, it's actually are you going? No?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was singing about it, but enough times.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, you've never not gone this time.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm going to stay at home and just watch on TV.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I know.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I just was in Italy and I'm going to go
back next year. But I don't want to go back
just to watch hockey.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
I'm enough times. Yeah, yeah, you have probably been there
a while the world.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I like. I like Milan. I really enjoyed Milan. One
time I was there, was staying hoteling. My wife and
I were looking at all these beautiful women going by.
She said, what's going on? I said, you know, what
Milan's is essentially the second fashion place in the world.
It's is Garrison and Milan. Then you go to New York,
you know, and and that was the fashion show, the

(21:55):
World Fashion Show was going on, and it's a beautiful city.
And my this is the funniest thing ever happened. One year.
Like I said, I've been there a number of times,
to Milan, but one year when I took my family,
Tadley and we we then dispersed after the week where
I had set up for him down by Sienna and

(22:16):
Silver Chili, and then then some of us went to
different places. Well, my wife and I and our youngest son, Marty,
and in fact maybe all the kids. We all met
back there and by the Duomo in the plaza, right,
and then my grandson Tyler was six years old, and
in the plaza was this old guy, probably my age,
probably in his mid eighties, and he's feeding the pigeons

(22:40):
and Tyler and he's got a big, big basket of
food for the pigeons, and he thrown on the floor
and Tyler's running around trying to catch the pigeon. He
can't catch a pigeon. So all of a sudden, the
old guy was real nice, and he hands Tyler a
handful of seed, and Tyler throws them all up in
the air and he land right in this guy's head.

(23:01):
And I'm telling you there must have been twenty pigeons
dive bombed this guy.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I'm telling you it's the last time that guy ever
give anybody any food to feed the pigeons.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
So Milan, Cortina did, yeaha Courtina, the US one, the
silver medal there in fifty six.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Mariucci was a coach, Was that right?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay? Beautiful in the Dolomites.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
It's got to be. It's beautiful card. But that's going
to be all the scheme. The hockey is going to
be down on Milan. So yeah, you know the Dolomites
that would have made it.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I didn't even know they could have the event if
you didn't attend it. I am confused. I never thought
it would this be the first one you No, I
know you did miss a couple.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
And I missed yeah, others. I've been the number of them.
But uh, you get to the point. I'm not going
to leave Florida go there and just back and forth
to a game. But I can get it on TV
and Joyce.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
You're hanging with Mace. Here's my here's your first Wild question,
and this comes from five oh seven guy Louis. I
think Rossie scores forty if they let him play with
Caprice Off all year. What do you think.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
He's capable of it? Five h seven year down Rochester.
That's pretty good. But yeah, he can't Rossie. If he
gets in the thirties, I'm still going to be very
happy because that's a lot of production. And as you know,
you know I was going to be playing with Caprice
off the Yeah, Hines moves those lines around. So but

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he's a guy you can depend on. History is something
you all should look at, and Rossi led the juniors
and scoring, so you always know he got the capability
to be a big score.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Another text, do you think the Wild would pursue McDavid
in three years a twenty one million year with the
higher cat that's Tim from Northfield. I would assume that's
wishful thinking.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah it is. And if McDavid has his druthers and
the Maple Leaves are still really capable of winning, and
he's able to go there and they can fit you know,
fit him in without losing the old team. Uh, he'll
be going to Toronto.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
So this is opening night. Looks like a good game. Uh,
Florida and Blackhawks to two about midway through the second period.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, but Florida'syill shooting him twenty one to say.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Is that right? Yeah? Dominant?

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Are the black Hawks are ever going to make a move?
I mean, are they are? They are? They primed to
make a big.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Not prime to make a big one. But they're getting
a good basic young guys. Yeah, and the Gophers have
two guys there from their team last Year's.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
All that's right.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
And Zelden defense is really going to be I think
he's going to be a real, real good NHL defenseman.
Look at la Combe that just signed a nine million
dollar contract with Anaheim, and you know, Favors got a
good one in a while and they and Oliver Moore
is there. I don't know if he hung on after camp,
but he's going to be there. They they essentially were

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talking to him like he's staying. In fact, Nick Felino
offered he's eighteen years old nine maybe's going on nineteen
right now and offered Househm, he said, you could stay
with me, kid, a fearior.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
So so this would be a good day. This is
a good day with another season, you know, beginning we're
embarking a new one. Gi what what is your what
is the lu Nanny state of the Game report?

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh? I think it's uh tremendous. I just I'm so
impressed by how the growth of the league has just
continue to get bigger and bigger every year. And markets
that weren't so good take a look at that detail market.
They're going to be a good team this year by
the way. They're going to fight the Wild for a

(26:41):
playoff position. That that just makes somebody else another threat
in the division, in the conference. And and he that
place is a wonderful place. I had my farm team
in Salt Lake Farewell. In fact that Imber, I think
you said that before. Yeah, And it's a beautiful area
and now the owner owns with the basketball team in
the hockey RNK. That's why they improve the building so much.

(27:04):
And I just think it's a it's a great market.
And we got so many good markets around the US,
especially now how the game's grown and it's just getting bigger.
The visibility is getting better, which means it's going to
be really really interesting when the next NHL contract comes
up for bid, because that's going to be the key

(27:24):
to the salary cap and where it goes. And and
right now, the uh, the excitement of it. I think
you're going to have a great Olympic championship. It's going
to be very competitive. And with that, I think it's
going to help you know the visibility of the game,
which means that people are going to bid more for
the rights. So salary CAP's going up, but they've got it.

(27:47):
Vetman's down. Unbelievable job. I'll tell you that from.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Where they How long has he been commissioner now? Nineteen
ninety three, sineteen ninety it's a good run. Yes, it
is ownership.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
In fact, I could see this great probably Leopold at
the annual meeting last year, and it was down in
at the order what was the name of the hotel
was in like just south of Manila, pan We're probably
it was used to be a four seasons Anyway, the

(28:19):
I think Greg Joel some of the writers that oh,
Gary's going to retire. He's talking about retiring. So it
came over of this big story and Gary hadn't said.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And anything, right, Yeah, so I'm sure who is the
who is the air apparent?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, I would hope it's Bill Daily, the number two guy,
who's been a fantastic, fantastic number two guy, and and
he's also very smart. Betman is the one thing they
say about Betman, and Bill Daley will tell you that
even everybody will tell you that he's always the smartest
man in the room. And that's that's key, and which

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surprised me because when they got when the NHL hired
he was the number three guy at the NBA. Remember
David Stern was in charge at that time, and in
the NHL went and got him rather than the number
two guy, which is now running the NBA, and the
NHL picked the right guy.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Clearly they did. Yeah, well we talked about this before.
Not everybody was on board and they started, all right,
what are we gett a basketball guy for? You know?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
They did, yeah, But a lot of that was because
older guys right the words and for that Norris and Jennings,
they weren't there at the time. Jennings wasn't and he
was dead at the time, I think. But those guys
the old guard you to really run the league. And
then the change when Geary came in, then he ran,
he runs the league.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Who is the team to beat this year?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
And you still got to say Florida, although you know
there's there's some good ones. Colorado's going to be good.
I think they're going to be good again. Dallas should
be good, Carolina is going to be good. They it's
it's again, who's going to be healthy? When you're going
through this, you have to remember a lot of these
teams like Florida have got a lot of players playing

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in the Olympics because they're so players from other places,
So there is going to be There are going to
be injuries. They're always are in the Olympics. Now, question,
you've never seen one where somebody doesn't get seriously hurt.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
And lot's going to do change a lot?

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Who's healthy? Yeah, very true.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh, let's do this. Let's get one more pause in.
We got time for Louis to hang to the top
of the six o'clock hour. A lot of good texts
are coming in six four six eighty six is the
Bradshaw and the Bryant text line. We'll get to some
more wild conversation as well, maybe some colleges, some people
asking for a little college talk and some good questions

(30:48):
there as well. We'll continue brought to you by our
good friends at Camp's. Louis back in a minute. A

(31:15):
lot of questions coming in Luigi. We got lou Nani
in studio till the top of the hour. Here's an
interesting one. Did Louis ever get fined? I think the
answer to that is obvious. I bet you got fined
a bunch.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, but a lot.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
But was it? What's the most you ever remember being fined?
Twenty five twenty five grand? What did you do?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
That was after the Boston game? And yeah, wild game.
I mean the North Storry.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Game could have paid for the Milan Olympics. Well, yeah
it could.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
But I didn't realize he was putting me on probation.
So if I behaved after a couple of years, immediately, yeah,
I thought I was dead, but he said, that's it.
Twenty five thousand, you're fine, young up on me.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
That was all. So you actually thought it was gonna
be worse. He thought there's gonna be yeah, but you know,
I just yeah, twenty five grands for that that was
a long time ago. That's pretty good money.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I know.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, no, I mean he put me on.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
He didn't say that was on probation.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
He didn't take it after Oh I see. He basically said,
if you if you act up again, then I'll have
the reason to take the twenty and say that.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Okay, he just that's it, You're fine twenty five because
he wanted sonomore night. They appear in front of him
the following day, I sing, it's good, and you make
sure the Boston's got sending and chievers.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
And there will Well, did you guys duke it out? No?
But we never went, never went. He wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
He got so mad at me. So that's the twenty
five thousand, you're not coming in and just.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
And that was it.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
But he never collected or no.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
No, Well if he did, he got it from the team.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
You didn't know any better. Does Louis know Geela France?
We had him in Roseville Hockey School in the seventies.
He came up in conversation a while ago. We're all
curious why he was even in Minnesota because he's not
from here.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, his friends are here. He's living in Louisville now,
oh okay, and he was just up here, Yeah, visiting
a lot of guys like cart Miller, Murray Winston had
just passed away. That a lot of guys that he
hung around. Bob Curry, they're still here and I think
he might have his daughters here. That's why he was
up visiting.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, are Boldie at seven mil ROSSI at five steal millions?
Steals enough to overcome the seventeen million dollar handcuffs and
allow the While to compete in the near term.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Hey, first of all, yeah, they're worth it, that's not
a problem. And there's no handcuffs. They still have five
million cap space. That's what people are forgetting. There's no handcuffs.
Every team's going to have a few expensive players. Fortunately
for the while they're expensive, other guys are all younger
and on their contracts and are already signed, so they're

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not like dry Sittles getting twelve million and Bouchard's probably
getting ten or twelve on Edmonton. So it's something when
if you were going to pay McDavid seventeen. So the
Wild aren't in that position yet, So they don't have
any handcuffs. And because of the way the cat's moving,
they're not going to have any handcuffs. The way things

(34:13):
are moving, right.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Now, Ray checking in from a beautiful downtown Hopkins. So
I don't know if it was beautiful downtown, but it
is Hopkins. He says, how long was training camp when
you were GM? Seems like the Wild were in camp
for about two days and exhibition games then regular season.
How can Wild management even you know, legitimately evaluate players
given the short window.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Well, that's that's a good point. We were in camp.
I think it was twenty six, twenty seven days, twelve
exhibition games twelve twelve. Yeah, and we used to we
used to get one off, you know, we'd basically have
one off. But and we went for camp for a
long time. We'd report around September fifth. It seemed like

(34:58):
we were we were in camp all September and then
they get dark October the season will start.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
So when you play twelve preseason games, did you guys
play them all?

Speaker 5 (35:09):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
What was there? Was there?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Load eleven? Usually play eleven? Really no no load management.
In fact, the worst part you talk about load management.
We go to camp. We weren't in shape, like these
guys are shape. Yeah, you know, so, uh, I think
punch him luck one time told the guys to be
ready for camp. Come and bring your golf clubs, you know,
but when you got to camp, they killed you. That's

(35:31):
the difference. These camps are easier than our camps. The
first Yeah, well you want to see hard camps. We
never touched the puck for the first two days. Yeah,
all we get in the ice for an hour and
a half to two hours and just skate and not skape.
Guys be throwing up all of these players, I mean
just se so they'd let you go home for lunch.

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So we get maybe an hour to lie down, lie
down and get back and then they punish you again.
And and you did to two day's all drew in camp,
not just one day. He might even have practice in
the morning, play at night against somebody. It was just
it was it was not good. I mean we weren't
good because we were in very good shape. But the
funniest part was, you know, we'd have guys and Blair

(36:16):
was always trying to be this innovative guy. And early
on we used to go up to Heliburton. On Terry
wondered why we go to Heliburton because he owned the camp.
It was a kid's camp or hockey school, and the
beds were like army corts and you know, I'm and
we're all in one room, like eighteen of us and
maybe even one kid. One. Yeah, they were like dorms.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Moose Vask who's Alma, was my partner. You know, he's
six three, two hundred and fifty pounds and he's on
these marble How could he sleep in his cot?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
So he put he put his.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
On the floor. He put the mattress on the floor.
I mean, I didn't have to sleep in the floor
because he couldn't fit in the cot.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
The cot was not big enough for his body. No,
And then you know, you weren't supposed to have anything days. Man,
you don't have any beer.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
And they.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
They'd have like one barn town it's off limits, and
they report the back to rent. Yes, we smuggled it in.
And and one night Goldie's coming along because he went
to get it, and he's coming down and Ren's got
his brother and his scouts and all that. You got
about five cars lined up on each side of the road.
There's a gravel road going into it. Because we're in a.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
You know, like a camp, yeah, really a camp.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
And all of a sudden it's you know, here you
are at eight o'clock at night, it's really dark and
all the lights come on. Here's Goldie come with a
couple of days of beer getting fined again, you know.
I mean we'd have taxi drivers drop it off in
the woods. That just you couldn't get anything to drink
those days. They didn't give you what my first my
first training camp, they wouldn't let me drink water when

(37:50):
you get thirsty. You couldn't have water dreaming practice or
a game. You could not drink water. Drink from the
Olympic team where you got all the good doctors and
everybody else. They hydrate you. And I went to get
some water, and jack horns, what are you doing. I
gotta get some water. You don't drink water, drink practice,
so you couldn't drink water.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh my god, think about it.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Oh my god. It was just so different.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
That's a long time ago. What was the percentage then
of teammates that smoked.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'd say sixty seventy percent.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
That's what I thought it was.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
In the locker room during the game. I mean, finally
the North starts. We were smart because we had a
big room. The second room we had nowadays, he got
all gyms, and then we used to have a pool table,
pink punk table. We didn't have any lights or anything,
and that's where the guys used to have to After
a while, we told them they they gotta go smoke

(38:47):
in the back room. They can't smoke around us.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's too good. That that was.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
That was just the way that was about it. No,
that was your back up, your backup goaltender was the trainer. Yeah,
a lot of times, you know, you know, like Lefty
Wilson in Detroit played a lot of games. Because there's one.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Were you ever? Were you ever a heater guy? I
don't remember smoker you ever?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Know?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
You never know.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
I'll see your cigar now.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
But yeah, not you or not no, because it was
very ordinary back then. Yeah, well pictures, I mean baseball
players you go into clubhouses all the time.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, Gump on the plane to smoke like Coagen. I
mean he was so nervous, He's just he's out with
a cigarette in his end.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Somebody wants to know whether there were ash trays on
the benches. Probably worked in the locker room. Had to
be ash trays, right, No, they put they what they
do in the cup. Okay, yeah, they couldn't be that. Yeah, well,
somebody's saying, you know, once upon a time there were
coaches who said waters for the week. Yeah, right, it

(39:52):
really is true that. So that was the thinking then was, yeah,
you want to we want to toughen you, but smoke
him if you got them. But smoke them if you
got them. Yeah, I mean, well Blair when you think
about it, well you mentioned.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Blair on the Here We're playing in Montreal one night
and they're all over us, and he turns around facing
the crowd behind the bench with the glass and puts
his hands up in the glass and he says, just
tell me when they score, just tell me when they store.
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Oh, that's that's too that's just that's just too good.
Those are the days. And by the way, how many
back in the day when you said players didn't work
out in the off season they had to get in
shape for the first couple of weeks of training camp.
How many of them had other jobs because then the
money wasn't that lowered. So a lot of them, that
was a lot of it was I'm working another job.
I don't have time, I don't to hire a full

(40:39):
I can't afford a full time trainer, and I can't
train because I got another job.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Well, I I was a unique guy because I did
work on the summer, but I had another job all
over for ten years. You know. I always thought that
I was only going to play three years in quit
and we'll go back to work. So I never wanted
to not work. So I signed that for contract was
as I said, it was a personal service contract, and

(41:04):
it gave the north Stars the right to sell me
to any company, and I had to go sell for them,
and the north Stars kept the money. So they did
that for the first three years, and then when I
worked on my own in the next seven years and
I got paid.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
You're always ahead of You were always one step ahead
even to be I mean, it's unbelievable. Even when you
were wearing those beautiful plaid blazers.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
I used to get those from Belliston's. I made it
deal with Bellisons for the state tournament. I get these
wild great store bell Man. God to love that store.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Jay Berrera, my dad used to I mean he would
buy out the store when he would come in. But
all kinds of stuff at Bellison's that was good. Yeah,
the blazer we're talking about was from some sound we
played earlier, you and Chico Rash. This was going back
forty some years Stanley Cup finals. We think right at theah.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
No, that wasn't the finals, So I think I worked
the finals, but I think I think that was the
first or second round.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Okay exactly. And you guys are just one upping each other.
Are just hammered around each other during one of the
intermission interviews. And the blazer I retweeted it. Now the
blazer you have on is just classic. This is timeless.
I think it's the word. Yeah. I want to get
one of those hats. I wish I did. Someone I
had I couldn't fit into it. Save travels, my friend.
You're heading out tonight, right, said tomorrow tomorrow exactly, and

(42:20):
we will hockey seasons back. So we'll talk hopefully next
week wherever you are. I think I'll be down so
so you might be in Florida by then. Gonna be
Blazers down.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
There Sacramento tomorrow, but then I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Well, everybody has their cross to bear, Louis. Yes, sorry
you had to go to Sacramento, but you'll get through it.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah, Well, do my work that's it.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Thanks Luis. Brought to you by Camps as always for
another big year, Luigi come back. A full half hour
yet to come, don't go final half hour of the

(43:06):
Tuesday edition of The Bumper to Bumper Program. Do we
think Kessler is back on the show tomorrow? Is he
back from speaking of Italy? Yeah? I think he is.
I never checked. I never texted him. Did he surface
with you or via any of the x any tweets
he sent out? I don't know about Twitter, but he

(43:27):
did text me Saturday morning. Was he already back then?

Speaker 5 (43:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Oh, In fact, I'll read you the text, so I'm
sure it's not privileged. It's not privileged. No. I was
doing the Gopher pregame show on Fox nine from outside
Ohio Stadium and he sent me a picture. Oh, they're
watching it. They found a place to watch it. Well,
just on the phone on Fox Local Ice, he said,
watching pregame show in a transit van along Lake Como
after leaving the Swiss Alps, is what he said. So

(43:56):
that was Saturday. I don't know if his bragging, his
usual brack, is what he was doing a little bit,
but it's nice that they're so locked in on the
Gopher pregame. So yeah, yeah, I guess that part of
it's true too. Danner Morgan now a part of the
Goper pregames. I saw that. Yeah, so good. Yeah he's
been He's just kind of moved right in. Huh. Yeah,
it's great. I had a couple of other texts I

(44:17):
wanted to get to hear. This is from the Midgie
bricklayer guy. That's an interesting moniker. So he worked with
an old bricklayer in the early nineties that used to
say water is a sign of weakness. I came from
the Middle East and we drank a gown a day.

(44:38):
That's the Midgie bricklayer guy. Yeah, it was. I mean,
how do you say it? It sounds preposterous now and
you know criminal, right, it sounds uncivilized. But it was
a different time, yes, and we were stupid, you know,
or or people. It was all in the aim of toughness,

(45:01):
it was, and I think we've learned there's still a way,
a way, an effective way to try to bring out
the toughness in all of us without deprid of water.
If that's not it. Somehow it became like, well, you
must be out of shape, because if you were in shape,
you wouldn't need water. It's crazy. That's the part I

(45:22):
don't get how that could have ever been developed as
a thing among coaches. And because they did have trainers
kind of, I mean they weren't obviously as as knowledgeable
or sophisticated, but they kind of were trainers. Right, you'd say,
I don't know who changed that. Who is there one
person we can look at and say they were ahead

(45:46):
of their time and said, we're all you guys are
all idiots attempting to punish athletes by depriving them of water,
not you know, uh, diet coke, not booze. That figure out.
But you can smoke during the game, that's it. But water.
I'm wondering if there was one. I mean, I remember

(46:06):
the old the original Gatorade commercials. That's what I wonder.
I do remember, though, did they start to turn might have?
They might have? And And was Gatorade because it was
it was formed in you know, at the I think
it was at the University of Florida exactly. But I'm
wondering if there's a coach we can say this guy
is a hero because he fought off this nonsense and

(46:29):
and and would refused to play this stupid game. What's
crazy about it now is most weight loss, most performance,
most just living. First thing they'll say is hydrations, like
number one. It's like hydration and sleep are the two
big things, right, JJ McCarthy just talked about it. I
don't nobody wants him to play quarterback anymore, but a

(46:51):
month ago he was the starting quarterback. Maybe he should
just be a team spokesperson rather quarter eight a PR guy. Yeah,
because Kos's bitter about talking now too. He yes, but
he said the number one thing he learned from Tom
Brady was hydration. The importance of hydration. Now Brady might
be the extreme.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Also, the guy looks younger every year. He won fifty
Super Bowls and he played until he was fifty two
years old. What's Brady's water of choice?

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Do we?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
It's got to be fancy. You've never heard of it. Yeah,
I'm sure I've never heard of it, And I'm guessing
he has it like pumped into his his his palatial estate. Yeah,
you know, special pipes, special pipes. Yeah, don't that no
one else could even afford or even understand. He's got
his own dynamic drips dot Com probably Yeah, he probably
has his own IV and he just he didn't even

(47:38):
need to drink water because he's always hydrated. Speaking of
the Wolves have a game tonight preseason game crewit I do.
I think the Pacers it's here Target Center. The other
thing is Sam Mitchell's coming to town this weekend. I'm
confused by it. I'm trying to figure out. I don't think.
I don't think he's coming into Saturday. Okay, I think
he's in at least in part because the Curious XM

(48:01):
Crew training Camp tour. They're doing the tour and they
don't go everywhere where the air, and I think it's
I think it's Isola and Mitchell coming in Saturday. And
I don't know if they're gonna do anything live or
they're gonna tape stuff, So I'm gonna I don't even know.
If I reached out to Isola again, he would acknowledge me,
because as sam as uh minisrtis said, he's you're pretty

(48:21):
much dead to him because I wasn't there for him
to do one interview because I had just gotten off
a flight to go to Kawai. Yeah, and it was
my mistake. I guess that I didn't return to you know,
I didn't respond quickly enough. Well maybe this is the time.
Well I'm hoping that you can all gather. Yeah, that'd
be nice. Barry the hatchet because the Wolves are going
to be good again. I think the fanas learned we're

(48:42):
gonna need to pump up our NBA coverage, and we
really got Sam. I will say, I am very curious
to see, you know, now you got NBA back on NBC.
I'm very curious to see what the tenor of their
coverage is going to be, because what I sense is
they want to kind of be the anti ESPN. They
they want to present a very different broadcast that I think,

(49:06):
at least in theory, they believe is going to be
less trite, a little less manufactured controversy, and we'll cover stuff,
but we're gonna we're gonna try to make it a
little bit more informative and a little less worried about
stupid stuff like what's going to be the legacy of
so and so that kind of thing. If the Wolves

(49:29):
lose Game three, what does that say about exactly exactly?
So we'll see where that, you know, I'm kind of
curious to see where that goes as one of their guys,
the kid. We saw him on Saturday and Columbus. He
came in and we chatted for a little while. What
a dude, That's what I've heard. I mean, what what
a dude? Well, they have an interesting mix of player

(49:50):
ex players. Jordan's got some role, but his role is
more mysterious. But they've got a bunch of I mean,
don't they have. Isn't mellow? I think car Mellows in
the group. I think Vince Carter's in the group. Scalabrini
is in the group. It's a very interesting mix. So
we'll see where that goes as we ratchet things up.

(50:12):
For sure, I had one other item that I wanted
to men something in my Marty from Richfield writes Dan Brady.
Everybody knows that Brady hydrates with reverse osmosis unicorn blood.
That wouldn't surprise me. No, I'm sure he's tried it,
at least at the very least. Correct. So we got

(50:34):
Vikings are off this week, right, correct? And the division
like the Bears are Monday night game, so it's gonna
be another thin week. Well, I assume the Packers are
back in action. They have to be and I don't
even know about the Lions. I'm not sure, but we
have the I hate Buys. I want football. I don't
want the Vikings to play every week. It's tough, but

(50:55):
I mean I know that's not realistic, especially after the
big road trip. We'll get to see for tomorrow. He'll
file a live report on the ten days. I think
he was there almost two weeks. Packers get the Bengals
and Lambo. Oh is that right? That's a tough one.
They'll kill him Flacco, They'll they'll sack him. NA played
Jake Browning. Yeah, yeah, I think that. Uh well, I

(51:18):
mean we arem assuming that that that Flacco is going
to start right away. I don't know if that's been
established it, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if
they do. They might be bitter enough with Browning to say,
let's just try uh somebody else as well. Lions at
Kansas City Sunday night, fool this week. That's a nice
little match. How about you doubted the Jags? They're pretty good.
It be case. Did you see how you did you

(51:38):
see the game winning scramble? Yeah? By what's the name
of the Jacksonville quarterback? Trevor Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence, Ill Hunter Lawrence.
The baseball play, Yeah, he falls down. Not his fault alignment.
I think it was the right guard tripped them trying
to pull out of there, and then he goes down
to the ground and found a way to score the game.

(52:00):
When we touched on, wasn't there a pick six that
Mahomes threw for one hundred yards in that game? I
think that's right. There was a pick six. The district
were up, Yeah, and then the Jags came back. He
had the city window. I don't know. Maybe it's uh,
it's starting to close one other quick Covenant clean up item.
As we predicted yesterday, Lebron James did not announce his

(52:22):
retirement today. I think everybody could kind of see what
was coming, that it was going to be a bit.
I think this is for It's a Booze connection, Yeah,
isn't it. I can't remember what I did. I know
we've been running updates on it today. I didn't even
click on it. Yeah, I knew, and I'm not mad
at all either. People were going crazy, like ticket sales
for the last Laker game through the roof the only
thing I thought I guess was possible was I'm going

(52:45):
to do the retirement tour, so I'm going to announce
this is going to be my last year. But it
looked pretty clear. I think most people saw through it
right away and it said this is going to be
the bit it's going it's going to be something commercial,
which is what it was. He'll definitely do the two though, right.
I would be shocked if he doesn't. He just and
I'm not ripping him. Everybody likes their attention, different doesn't. Yeah,

(53:05):
but he definitely likes the spotlight, right. I don't see
him just fading them all. No, in really unassuming fashion.
I don't think that's likely at all. Maybe I'll save
my WNBA item because it's likely to get links fans
going again, So maybe I'll save it for tomorrow. Let's
come back, wrap things up, remind you what you missed.
Very busy program today, very eclectic toy department show as well,

(53:29):
will give you details and set you up for tomorrow.
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(53:51):
that includes Adam Thielen who joined at three point thirty,
koumb dog Ron Komer at four thirty, Luigi in studio
for the usual fun with him that was between was
with us really the entire five o'clock hour, between five
and six o'clock, he did. He tell you where he

(54:12):
was going from here by the way he did on
his way to I don't know. Is this the grand
reopening or has it already been opened a little for
a while of Chee Cheese. Yes, it's been the rebranding
of Chee Cheese. They did a soft opening over the
weekend and now I think it's been open. Yeah, So yeah,
the Rojo at West End is now che Cheese. That's

(54:33):
exactly it. So we'll see how that's an interesting thing.
They are affiliated with Tavern twenty three, so there's a relationship.
There is a connection there too. So I'm sure he's
getting the fried ice cream fan and demand tonight after
we're done, and then it's Dan Patrick Knight. Tomorrow's show
is chocked full Kessler guards, he says, is back. He's
filing a live report from on his trip to Italy.

(54:55):
See how many fights he got into. Seaffert will give
us a li I report. I hope in studio, but
either way, on his trip to Dublin and London, he
got back yesterday. Okay, and then mace in your face.
I'm assuming from Fargo again. Exactly right. That confirmed. It's confirmed,
he texted me on Sunday. Okay, fair enough, he's become

(55:18):
Fargo guy. One hundred percent. Finish with this text. I'm
not supposed to tell people it's like fight club, so
don't save my number. But I completed the USMC Infantry
Officer Course in twenty ten in Quantico, Virginia. We had
one field exercise that was deliberate about denying us water
and show. It was called Human Factors fex It was fun.

(55:40):
We'd call for resupply. We get either one quarter or
what we requested or nothing or two days late. Great time.
It's all about understanding and combat. We cannot get all
the things we need in time that I get. Of course,
under those conditions, I understand that you may have to
test the individual so that they are better prepared for,
you know, not having access to simple things like like water.

(56:04):
I'd like to think it's a little different, however, on
a on a football field, correct very different, extremely different. Yeah,
at all levels. I would certainly hope you hear my
Hoosiers any shot they have Oregon the original spread, the
spread's moved from ten to seven seven and a half.

(56:28):
I haven't seen Oregon enough. Yeah, they're good. I think
they're legit. So it's there too, right, it's there. That's
a factor two thirty game, Yeah, and a big one
for the Hoosiers for all the obvious reasons they played.
You know, they got handled in two significant games against
significan opponents last year, right, Ohio State during the season

(56:49):
and then obviously Notre Dame in the playoff game, so
they you could argue need it, you know, even though
you know they certainly took care of business against l Illinois,
dominated them. But this is an organ's good. They're cut above.
Uh you got homecoming right that eleven? Yeah, a lot

(57:10):
of Gophers coming back for that one. The players, Yeah,
players like two hundred. Seriously is the number? Yeah, two hundred.
I had. I can't tell you how many texts I
had from our tweets from people when the Gophers went
up three to zero, say't better get ready, You're gonna
be on the air at five am. And I tried
to say, calm down a little bit. It was a
great first drive. It was I mean, they were ready,

(57:31):
it was clinical, I mean, and then he's out there conducting. Yeah,
he was almost had a touchdown. They get him to
punt in the first drive. And this is I'll be
self deprecating because all day I'm like, I just have
this weird feeling they're going to play well. And then
Penn State's losing to use esay and all this crazy
stuff is happening. We're watching the two thirty window. I'm like,
I just have a feeling they're going to play well.

(57:52):
That lasted tenutes. And then it was even text me
and goes, well, your feeling lasted ten minutes. I said, yeah,
well they still haven't allowed anybody to hit double digits.
I don't think they're really goosively, they're really good. They
didn't Gophers didn't play great. They played horribly. I thought, yeah,
but I don't I don't know that it would have
mattered in any case produce. I think a little more
uh beatable. Here's the month right here, at these next

(58:14):
four games. It's a big month long stretch. Nebraska Michigan
State on the road. This is equivalent to the Vikings
first five. Yeah, where you've got to take you got
to take advantage of it, and you have the opportunity
to to uh uh to indeed do it. So we'll
get to a lot of that with Mace on tomorrow's
broadcast as well. And well we're back, you know obviously

(58:38):
with Hockey upon us. Uh Louis it will be joining
us every week. Russo will once again be joining us
every week. He's joining Thursday five o'clock from Yes, what
else do I have this week?

Speaker 6 (58:52):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (58:52):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Patrick Royce he's going to join in studio next Monday.
This is sort of a leftover. We usually get them
on at the fair and it we ran out of
Daze because of some scheduling issues. So he's going to
stop by between four and five on Monday. His name
came up when we chatted with with Ron Coomer, and
as I said, I think I don't I don't remember

(59:14):
the date, but it's coming eight, his eightieth birthday. I
don't think he's doing a big production, at least not
that he's aware of. I don't know if anybody is
surprising him at this point. But yeah, still obviously pretty
much going strong. You're ready for the twenty twenty nine
Ryder Cup. It's no question about that. Can you blame him?

Speaker 4 (59:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (59:34):
How you going to the Wolves preseason game? I'm going
to miss it tonight, Yeah, I am too. Is it
Is it televised tonight?

Speaker 6 (59:38):
You know?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
I think I assume it's on the Timberwolves channel. Yes,
not on the fan, but on the Timberworld channel. Yeah,
I think, so let me double check. I would hope
we think. I think I think McDaniel's the only guy
not playing tonight, correct personal main guys. Yeah, so we'll
see how it goes. We had a good, uh half

(01:00:01):
hour plus with Mike Conley, who's definitely not given up
the position without a fight. That that, by the way,
can be very clear. So I'm I'm buying what he said.
What everybody you know, if you're gonna play him, you
got to let him have the ball more. That's the issue.
That's what makes this challenging because they're just ha ingim
sitting in the corner. That's really not getting, you know,

(01:00:22):
anything out of what he has left. Thanks for watching,
Thank you indeed for listening, and we will talk to
you tomorrow. Three