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Over under six and a half goals in this one, because well we know the play is going to open up. We've had a couple of breakaway opportunities for the Panthers. They've laid out those really cool rats towels this morning. I mean, that was that was really a nice play. A lot of rots in Florida, Mike, There's no question about it.
Yeah, but wait, you know, but here's the thing though, Like like.
The I'm talking the ones that rat people out, Oh okay, and there are a lot of them on Staten Island in places where no one knows because you know that's where I lived.
Yup it down to Florida and had them fed to the lions.
Statn Island is the highest highest place on the East Coast as far as uh uh you know, feet above sea level, which means there's lots of places to bury people.
So it's kind of it's got of what I learned growing up. We're right here, We're on the highest point of the east.
What great does that come in? Is that one of those filler things at the end of the year at school, it's like, here's some factoids you need to know how you doing.
I'm I'm mister, I'm mister soprano. Welcome to kindergarten. First thing I'm gonna tell you. Never rat on your friends. That's the number one rule.
What aren't we gonna learn about? Reading?
Reading and writing are coming soon? Never rat on your friends, right, let's say it.
Say it.
We're gonna say it until you guys know it coming out of the out of your eyeballs ready. Never rat on your friends? Good, okay. Number two? Always keep your mouth shut right, we notice, right, okay, keep your mouth shut right.
We don't around.
Okay, very good. Let's repeat after me with that. Always keep your mouth shut, never ride on your friends. Isn't that from Goodfelt? You'll get out right now. I will bury you someplace no one's going to ever find you.
Well.
The third would be to claim you're along the lines of shoeless Joe Jackson. You don't know how to write when they say you got to write that statement out?
Yeah, yeah, so he got What does that mean when we that's all I got?
We went, uh, I.
When we were looking at elementary schools for so I'm going back aways now I'm going back like twelve years looking for element na twelve yeah, about twelve years. So I'm looking for elementary schools. And we saw this one school that we kind of liked.
We're like, okay, we're go looking.
We're looking around, and we go in and we get to go and talk to one of the teachers and a really nice guy. Everybody liked him. And he you know, he's you know, he's got all the stuff. He's like a surfer. He had like, you know, pictures of he's a older guy, and he had pictures of surfing, you know, surfboards up in his uh uh in his room, really laid back. I kind of like the guy. And then he says, you know, English is my special team. We do a lot of this, a lot of rioting on this. Oh that's great, that's great, he is.
You know, we do too. He goes, I'm not really good at it. Ha, but we do it. And I left and I just wait and.
I just wait, and I said, I just said, wait, you're not good at kindergarten math. And I said it like in a half joking tone, but half says, dude, I'm not asking you to teach calculus, like you're not good at teaching kindergarten math. And there was the X right over that guy's name in that school. Where was the X right there? Okay, if you have to kindergarten math, I'm not very good at it. How could you struggle teaching?
Come on?
Man?
But at least he put it out there right away. How pissed would you a bit if you'd gone to this school? And then all of a sudden you're realizing, wait a minute, my daughter's teaching the class.
How's math? What's math? Math class? Well, you don't do math? What do you mean we don't do it don't believe in What do you mean you don't believe it's an extra recess period instead?
Oh?
Oh great, great, great, Well kay, I still can't believe. I still can see the guy sitting going, you know how you do math? I'm not very good at it. I'm like, oh, wow, dude, you're telling me you're not good.
I can't do kidd but I am coloring inside the lines at a fifth grade level.
No, no, I mean, really, can you get to the number five? I mean, I don't think you do anything more than five when you start teaching kindergarten math. I think that's a big number.
Oh okay, that's it. You're done at some next level stuff.
That's a very thorough and well I mean expeditious way to weed people out.
There's no question about that. So, uh, we'll have more kindergarten math throughout this.
No, that's good because you you're gonna have to rack up a lot of numbers here in this Dodgers padres.
Oh yeah, yeah, what was the over under?
I know, but it's already Dodgers podres is to two bottom of the first inning. Like, this is bigger than kindergarten math. There there'll be more runs in this team than you get the numbers you get to.
First. Yeah, I know this year, right, it's like, hey, yeah, big second week in June, big series.
All of a sudden, they're gonna play ten straight games against the division opponents.
Right now, teams are battling to be the second best team in the National League. Like this is a really big series. I mean this in the second best team in the National League is a big deal. Man, Like, hey, you means you're almost You're right below the fan You're right below the best. Oh, that's the best team in the National League. That's the best team of the now.
He was trying to play the tell me you're a Mets fan without telling me you're a Mets fan.
You know how you do that much. I'm just celebrating June.
That is well, there is that over under was eight on this one. So we're halfway home already in the first.
I'm just saying this.
You know, we're going by what's going on right now, and this is what's happening.
I mean, the show is tonight.
I mean that is uh and right now for all of our affiliates nationwide and the global iHeart Radio application.
Yeah, it's it's right now.
And yes, the Mets are are That is a nice looking Uh it's like it's ever been worn Mets hat.
Oh no, this well, this because this is my special one. I don't wear this very often.
This is my London twenty twenty four because this is the series that turned things around for the Mets last year. So you're trying it's my special oojo going off day hat. It's my off day hat, like a hey off day. Hey, I'm playing big right now. You know, everything is good, best record of the National League. Like where my special my Mets?
Yeah, well he's living in the past. You know what. I like winners, that's my thing. I like winners. I want winners. Fan and a Jets fan.
Well okay, well let's let's just let's let's just okay, you open the door.
Oh no, that's good. Look.
But what means that I'm coming through and I got a baseball bat, and he's got a club.
And who knows what Mary's carrying? I don't know.
Uh.
Well, here's where.
I'm going to start the show, the little bit of a left turn for you, and I'm gonna say, boy, I was wrong, was wrong? At seven o eight already West Coast. I'm always okay saying I'm wrong. I'm always okay saying when I'm wrong.
He says a lot of things are going to be wrong.
A lot.
It doesn't happen that often. My my track record of predicting the future is really good. Like I mean, like greatest in Vegas. Like I could go and be like the guy running away and why have we done that? Because I like doing this better. I gotta dress up in suits and have to do that for like, yeah, yeah, that's the thing I got. Yeah, I mean, oh, the guy in the sweatpants. Mean, that guy in the sweatpants breaks the future. But I get it.
It doesn't matter in the sweatpants what you want. But if you actually could make this happen, you'd literally have to do it for like a month, and then you never have to be seen again. You could be on an island, you know, hanging out by Clooney.
Yeah, no, that's true.
I actually do have a cool guy in sweatpants story that I'll tell later in the show. But it's not me. It's somebody else, that's right. No, No, no, no, no, cool guy, no, famous famous media star, famous guys.
I got it.
It could it could be good, gentlemen, But I was wrong. None of that very often. But I was wrong because I told you, boy, this Knicks coaching search is going to last through the finals, into the beginning, maybe into the draft, not in the beginning of free agency, because teams want to know I wanted who I'm coming to play for. So but they're gonna take you know, they're gonna enjoy this little bit here. They're gonna enjoy being the destination, being the big story. But after the news today, the nixt half their Okay, we had heard the end of last week, potentially Jason Kidd could be someone the Knicks want to talk to about their head coaching job. Friend of the show, Mark mark Stein had that story. He's gonna join us tonight and you know, in a couple hours of talk about it. Right, So that's a big deal. Why, Hey, Jason Kidd, Jalen Brunson, Jason Kidd, Jannis right, all of it. Jannas still loves Jason Kidd, all this stuff. And Jason Kidd has had a really successful coaching career in the NBA. One hey, he's made it further than Tims has. Right that Tim's been coaching nine years in the league. Hey, that would be something, But are the Are the MAVs really gonna want to lose somebody else big to the Knicks? Right after the Knicks just basically walked in, picked up Jalen Brunson and just, you know, kind of peeled out. It's like showing up when you're hanging out watching a movie with your girlfriend and this guy comes in and says, hey, you ready, and she leaves and he peels out of your driveway, and then you got to see the tire staying on your driveway forever. And every time you walk outside, you go, that's the guy that just drove off with my girlfriend. That's just like the guy coming back to you for your next girlfriend, saying, hey, you're ready. You're gonna let him do it again? Like I said, there's not How are the MAVs gonna do this? The only way right and the only again I hate this say I told you so, but this out predicting the future is I said? The only way is if Jason Kidd somehow lets it be known he is open to talking to the Knicks, or there could be some kind of mutual interest. Well, what was the mark Stein Report today, there is mutual fascination slash interest between Jason Kidd and the Knicks.
So Jason Gidd really miss Jalen Bronson. This is only what it comes down to. Maybe he hates Cooper Flagg. Hey, I don't want to coach Cooper Fleagg, but he was talking about that kid from Duke because he can't say his name yet even though they have the number one pick.
It makes no sense. The dumbest thing the NBA million.
You wouldn't be some you'd be stunned some of the things the NBA and the NFL have that they they really want.
We really don't want you to talk to Hill. The Hills they want to die.
Patman going on broadcasting yelling at a guy because he talked about state sales tax in Florida being an incentive for players to go play down there.
That's not a thing, dude. When When I When I when? I'll just tell you this one quick story before I get to the back, Chason Kidd, is that one time we were at NFL Network when I was there and we were doing some kind of some kind of draft preview, fantasy draft preview show. We were talking about players and where they would fit fantasy wise on certain teams. Right, And we started talking and I forget who it was. I forget the player we were talking about, but Bucky Brooks is gonna be on the show. We're sitting here, we're talking about who this player is at and then all of a sudden, like I didn't know this, but like Bucky and a couple people going, yeah, well, how are we gonna say this? How are we gonna say this? And I'm like, what we talk about? Well, I'll tee it up and say this, you know this is and yeah, I don't know that we could say that. And then they decided to say we could say, you know, maybe a certain and I'm just throwing this out there, maybe a certain quarterback from southern California is going to be that guy for this team. And I'm like, so we can't say the guys and even though he's going into the draft, all this like data there was. I can't tell you some of the stories people would tell me about NFL owners who would say, don't say these guys' names before the draft. These are not just guys that are sitting in college like they have two more years ago. These are guys who are entering the draft that are in the draft, well, and they can't say in the draft, right, so it's not like we can't say his name.
So like, hey, you.
Shouldn't have said that guy was still available in the fantasy draft.
I might have been able to get him because we can't say this quarterback's name.
Like a lot of time, I know they had the bet rule that you had to deal with the best thing at.
Least I kind of understood this, like we can't say the guy's name. Really, he's not like so that that's I mean, that's so that's that's that's.
Where Jason Kidd has kind of been with in this. Yeah, and like but as we talked about, right, Spolstra, that got a lot of run. Thanks to all of you for posting that and retweeting that.
That was great. I still want Spolster.
But but I mean between spol Kid, I mean, they're all guys you have to ask permission for. But why not shoot big Yeah? Right, you just fired a guy after giving him an extension. Kids one year into an extension, so.
Well, all bets are and the thing is now you also know because Jason Kids not going to let it be known he's interested unless he wants the gig. And this is where if you're the mag you're gonna go. Man, they're gonna do it to me again like the guy in Top Gun. I want some butts. That's another fly by, I want some butts. Right, he comes in, he coaches the Mavericks, They trade Luca Right?
Is he really up for that?
Now?
Am I up for whatever? This?
This craziness is. Even though Cooper Flagg is coming, Am I up for this? Because this was really bad? He wouldn't signal he's okay with going unless he's ready to go. And if you're the Mavericks, I get how you could say, we don't want to give you permission, But do you really want a guy coaching your team that you don't that he doesn't want to be there? Of course not, So you're gonna have to fi. They're gonna figure out some kind of trade. It's not gonna be Karl Anthony Towns for Jason Kidd, but there's gonna be some kind of of maneuvering where the Knick's gonna have to give stuff up to get him. But this doesn't happen unless the Knicks get Jason Kidd. Jason Kidd doesn't put his future coaching future with Dallas at stake unless he knows I'm getting to the Kicks. The Knicks don't put this out there and now this going on unless they know they're getting Jason Kidd. This is not like I mean, this is a big day. This tells me that the Knicks coaching search is basically done and it's just gonna be the Knicks and the MAVs haggling over whatever the price is, the you know whatever, some kind of deal, whatever it's gonna be, that's they're gonna haggle over. But now after this happens, this doesn't get this far unless it's going to happen. So Jason Kid's gonna be the next head coach of then.
Well, the beauty of it, and also it unravels and solves some of those well heretofore unsolved mysteries in terms of timing and who knew what and when. As to the Luca donchen strade, we can always talk about the Laker part and folks can deny what they knew, what they didn't know. But from the Maverick side with Jason Kidd, now it makes more and more sense that he had no idea any of that was going down because he took this stiff upper lip and we looked at the roster, and I was intrigued by it. Like, obviously a lot of risk in terms of age, health and everything else when you talk about Kyle and Anthony Davis, and certainly it bore out that way, But it was a squad with Clay Thompson as well. They're like, all right, this could be interesting, and then you win the lottery and you get Cooper Flagg. But this still floats out. That means you're still having I want the access to the months of text messages and transcripts of phone calls of still fighting that battle months later after Luca was traded away. So yeah, it certainly lends itself to a all right, we need we need to break up and peel out of the driveway.
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So Aaron Rodgers is a Steeler for one year and thirteen million. Now what Kirk Cousin says He's coming to mandatory mini camp? Now what one person to answer those big questions and more? Joins us now the original triple Threat. You can hear him on one O five seven in Baltimore. Read him at the Washington Post. You can also listen to him here on Fox Sports Radio with US and on Odyssey. He is longtime friend of the show Jason locking Forward. Jay, what's happening man?
How are you?
I'm doing well. Hope you are as well. And if you catch me every day, pretty much every day, that's pretty much noon Eastern and pretty much nine specifics. Oh one of that where I'll be breaking down our favorite plays of the day along with some other established handicappers. And so far, so good with that. We've kind of been crushing it.
So can you add another couple of jobs? I feel like you're slacking.
Oh touching, I'm looking for Mark. Okay, I'm looking for Mark.
That's Syracuse cheap man, Eyracuse.
Bill just came in today that that alert from the Burs's office. That's probably a beautiful thing. I was somehow, I have myself convinced that was on the other side.
Of July for it.
But no, that was today. What are you?
What are you class in ninety ninety six? Right?
I am ninety six ninety six.
So did the letter say, hey, congratulations alumni Jason outay, Hey, by the way, we need some money.
It doesn't anything. It's just say you get an alert and it's just going to your mid slice and your Versus account has been updated. And then you go in there and you kind of squint and peak with one eye, and then you look at it, and then you look at the five twenty nine and what's left of it? We'll say one of that?
All right?
So if you were betting now that he's here, Rogers is in. He signed one year, thirteen million. Maybe he's engaged, maybe he's married, maybe he's not. If I said to you, how does this play out this season for the steel is, what would you tell me?
I mean, look, he's better than Mason Rudolph. He but he's not good and he's got no allegiances there whatsoever. And it's an arranged marriage that he delayed as long as you possibly could. So I don't think any of that bothes particularly well for them now that they are an established team. This is not the joke ass check. Sorry. So, like, I don't think it's going to undermine them the way it did there. You know, Like this is very different than him knowing that he had Salah under his thumb from the Gidda up and doing everything he could to undermine that guy and make that as messy as it could be. I don't think he's got that sort of malson is hard for Mike Tomlin, at least not yet. It probably it probably accrues pretty quickly with him. But so like, I don't know, like they're in the hunt every year and it's a good defense, and like I don't know, you know, everybody makes the playoffs now or everybody's you know, pretty much in it unless you're the Jets, you know, around around Christmas. So I think it'll feel like a lot of Steelers seasons. I think Mike Tumblin's going to be very accustomed to this. Like the last three years of Ben Roethlisberger, it's a lot like this, A bunch of passes into the slot, you know, five to twelve yards downfield and a guy kind of patting his stats at the end of his career, who every once in a while wi on courk a few throws to make you remember what was But guys, he does not want to get hit anymore. He will throw the ball into the ground in half a second rather than risk anything to do anything of particular, you know, expertise, what do they do every year? You know, I think it just will be another Stealers season where they're right around five hundred. You know, at some point in the season, maybe they get three or four games up, and then at some point in the season they'll be, you know, right around five hundred, and they'll have something to play for in the final two or three weeks, and that'll be that they're not going to go anywhere in the playoffs. Heat there's not going to be a Peyton Manning type exclamation point towards the end of this guy's season. The last one of those was his last MVP, which is further and further in the real review. Maynor because it.
Kind of feels like we're hitting the stage where we do with the NBA the regular seasons all finding good What are you doing in January and for Pittsburgh that hasn't been a lot.
Know, but it's still a.
Lifetime contract for Mike Tomlin unless he decides to lead, right, I don't know.
This could bring the whole thing down. Now if this goes worse than this, if this goes like it did last year, where we're talking at week ten and it's like, wait a minute, how could you know Garrett Wilson and Briest Hall and all these guys have been better with Zach Wilson than they are you know what I mean with Anon Rodgers, Like if we hit Defcon five and he's ripping people on McAfee and he's taken shots at ownership and nobody, you know, the rest of the locker room thinks he's a third and guys individually now are losing money because of him because you know, they're not being in position to make place and he's playing favorites and whoever his lazard becomes, you know, that guy gets like in the interpersonal politics spell out onto the field. Like if that stuff happens, then I think my tom has cooked because like Tomlin risked his reputation to put his football operations on hold until the middle of June for this guy. He basically had his offensive coordinators spinning his wheels for months waiting for this guy to get to town. And they bring in that calf, and you know, most of the offseason, all the way up until mandatory mini camp, he will have never spent any time around the new quarterback. You know, like the whole thing is pretty messy. Now again, I think we'll play decent enough football, and they're well enough coached, and they have a defense, and they have a great special teams and a great kicker like and the Margins are swimming this league, so all that probably keeps them afloat. But if it doesn't, and if he checks out around Thanksgiving, you know, basically says you could play somebody else. We saw them sick of getting hurt and kind of starts inferring that on his Buddy's TV show, then I think ownership is going to have to look at like Tomlin and be like, hey man, we told everybody that expectations were raised and this had to be a different year, and now we look like a joke. Now we look you know, this must be what it feels like to wake up and be Woody Johnson. Every day. I don't like it, you know, so do I think he could torpedo? I think he could, because there's no way you're gonna tell me. Omar Khan goes into Tomlin's office as as coach. I just got off the phone at his agents, and look, just give me two or three more weeks, and I think I can get him here by Eastern Hey, coach, I know it's you know, good Friday, and I said, I thought he'd be here, but but look, just give me another month, you know what I mean. Pretend you're running a football team in the interim, and I think I can get the quarterback here, you know, by by Memorial Day. Oh hey, coach, Look, I'm really really like, boy, I think July fourth is really solid. Like I can solidly tell you you'll have Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback by July fourth? Is that is that okay with you? Like that's That's not what's going on here? This is this is five thousand Tomas. No.
And here's the thing, Jay, is that we talked about this last week and and I'm with you.
If this doesn't work for Tomlin, like that's it.
Like you can only get so many chances to try to build a team, you know, when when you're trying to pick a quarterback. But what's crazy to me is that is that he's been okay, hey, with the guys he's trying to pick, has been justin Fields and Russell Wilson and now and now it's waiting for Aaron Rodgers.
Like if you're gonna go down, hey, go swinging.
Hey.
We spend a lot of money because we believed in Sam darl Or we believed in another guy.
Hey, right, that stuff I would get.
But this is like, hey, I'm okay with potentially getting booted out after shopping and the clearance been for a quarterback for the last four years.
Yeah, it's kind of odd and like when you look at how they're built and what their strengths are and like in the real term, short term, and that's what we're talking about when we're talking about Ben Roethlisberger three years after he's already cooked, but we keep running them out there, and we're talking about the Russell Wilson thing they tried last year with Fields for one year and then this it's all about trying to win this next sleeping game. The best six games fan for me, the most sustainable, the one that looked like it was on an up swing, and especially with what the run game was, Sparks starting to do in the red zone to meet with the four and two south the field right, remember, and he just he started to play some of his best football when they cut his kneecaps off because nobody other than Mike Tomlin wanted to see Russell Wilson now. And then that was good for four to six weeks, and then the wheels fell off, and then unfortunately Field got hurt, and then you know, there was no going back. But like, the odd thing to me is I would have just brought Fields back.
I mean, that's what I mean.
I would have just gone ahead and said, look, him and Warren together in the pistol is going to invigorate our run game. It's going to help our offensive line out. We're going to be a ball control defense because I mean a ball control offense, because that's what we need here. And like he was starting to cut down on the turnovers, and I think the best thing for them was to make you defend the quarterback in the run game, and now they've gone so far from that. To a guy who, like I told you we'll just throw it into the fifth row or throw it into the ground in two points, you know, two seconds that he doesn't like the way that play is developing, and he says it might result in him getting crushed, and I just I coupled with there's not going to be enough big plays to DK medcalt to offset the negative runs and the spiked balls, and I just I just don't buy it. I don't think like him coming in this late with Arthur Smith. To me, that's just really like that's a middle singer to their offensive staff. And if I'm those guys, I'm not feeling great about this. Whereas you wouldn't have to put up an a in FBS with with justin Field.
This is true, all right?
Well, now he's Jason's guy there with the New York Football Jets.
Let's go to another veteran quarterback.
It looks like Kirk Cousin is going to show up for mandatory mini camps and and say and try to shop his wares once again.
I mean, how does this play out?
How uncomfortable thing is going to be for Michael Pennix and for the folks around that yeah office, he's got to.
Show up Hey, look at me. I'm making more money than that guy. And if you want me to just stand here and hold a clip for it, I can. But I'm not going to violate my contract. I'm not going to forfeit anything. And yeah, if you think this is awkward, then you should be getting saw my salary and get me out of here. I mean, at this point, I think they've you know, they've undermined themselves in terms of getting obviously clearly getting something done before we get to camp. And in the end, they're gonna have to eat the money that they didn't want to eat to move them regardless. Now, I'm sure the owners thinking a couple of quarterbacks get hurt, you know, and contending themes, and I might, I might have a market, but I just don't think that these other guys are going to want to pay the whole the whole salary, you know, whether it's now or whether it's because they their quarterback is hurt in August. So I I don't know, man, I don't I don't see it. And I think he needed to get ahead of this. Like I can remember people, how many reports are there about oh, somebody's looking at Tannehill somebodys looking at Tannehill, like last year all year, Ouk, did anybody remind me, did anybody sign Tannehill? You know what I'm saying, Trade Kirk Cousins was before everybody signed their freaking quarterbacks and drafted their freaking quarterbacks. Like the time to do it was the combine, for God's sake, when you should if you know what you're doing, you start figuring out that, oh, you know what, jam donold not doesn't have what he thinks she's gonna have, and you know what, Stafford doesn't have what he thinks she's gonna have, and he might have to go back to LA And so you know what, now.
The time to just eat, like eat seven million to save fifteen million and get Cousins out of here and get something for him. Because at fifteen million dif we're.
Going to be like I can sell that to my owner, Like yeah, we should give up whatever, pick up a four that moves to it two if he played twelve games or more or whatever. But like that shit is sale and these guys are not in the business of picking up twenty five million dollar players in the summer. It doesn't happen a lot of the teams use a cash budget. Hey, GM, this is what you got once you ring that credit card up. Good luck. You're looking at the waiver wire and you're looking at that minimum deals. So I don't know, man, your guess is as good as mine.
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Martin Wise, what you got for us?
The Tampa Bay Rays just made an error in the bottom of the tenth inning to tie the game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa.
It's not eight to seven. Oh wait a second, they got just ridical. You know what.
The score didn't update, you know, maybe it's still seven to eight to seven. All right, there we go eight to seven. I'm sorry. At runner advanced to third base, it looked like, no, yeah, it's eight to eight. They haven't updated it up here everything, but it says eight to eight. On the scoreboard anything. I just watched the guy cross home good.
You're good, you get hey, let me let me pass Gal Siakam here, you're.
Good, bro.
I'm going through a tough time here.
I love the extra inning says Tampa Bay eight Boston seven.
Will go on and two out in the tenth.
The scoreboard all the actual game and will be extra innings has four screens at four games going at once. The scoreboard in the game says eight to eight. But that's so small because I'm looking at a small screen, Like, did I really say eight to eight? Then ESPN finally updates with the actual score. It's eight to eight. MLB Extra Innings needs to go ahead and get this thing together. But you know what, They're going to go on to the top of the tenth inning with the score eight to eight. Interestingly enough, we will see uh excuse me, Roman Anthony. That's actually him, Roman Anthony, not Greece Anthony or France Anthony Roman or Greg Anthony.
Right.
I just want to say one one thing, Mark, I think that this last like like night liss, like sixty ninety seconds. Maybe glasses maybe you know this is when the screen get small, screen gets small. Yeah, you gotta find a way. Screen is not gonna get any bigger. I've been fighting, I've been fighting a couple of years, all.
Right, but still MLB extra inning still has an updated to score, so you know, finally, finally, all right, now here we go. You know, I'm gonna go ahead and turn over here because I don't know if I could trust the rest of these. Okay, the Dodgers with a five to three lead in the top of the third.
Legitment, Okay, thanks over the pod race.
Angels lead the A's four to nothing in the fifth inning. Arizona with a one nothing lead over Seattle and the fourth thing that one is on FS one. The Falcons and quarterback Kirk Cousin expected to attend the team's mandatory mini camp this week, despite his desire to be traded to a place where he's gonna be able to play. The Packers released cornerback jy Or Alexander. The Bengals let go a veteran linebacker Jermaine Pratt.
Nick Chubb as his physical finally signed.
A officially signed a one year deal with the Houston Texans, and the Indianapolis Colts announced a new ownership plan following the passing of Jim Irsay.
His three daughters will each have an.
Ownership stay Carly Ers Gordon, the owner and CEO of the franchise. NBA News Cavaliers Guardarius Garland will miss the start of next season. We need four to five months to recover from toe surgery. Remember that toe hampered him in the postseason. The Atlanta Hawks are hiring Pelicans GM Bryce and Graham to be their senior VP of excuse me basketball operations. The Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark will miss her fifth straight game tomorrow night against the Dreams.
She's got a quad strain.
Fever coach Stephanie White says the team is going to take their time with her.
And in the Stanley Cup.
Final series tied one to one this one, Brad Marsham put a goal in with just like under a minute into the first period, and it has been all Florida since. Five to one Florida over the Edmonton Oilers with just under.
Twelve minutes left in the third period.
Just double checking they are still playing at Fenway Park. It is official eight to eight in the top of the eleventh All.
Right, thanks you much, Mart, Coming up next we got the play of the day.
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When you are racing to Omaha, you get to be the play of the day.
Who outs the two two ground ball to first ball game? Murray State has done it. Upset in Durham, the Racers race on to Hall.
Oh.
ESPN TV on the call, this is where they needed Kenny Mains, we could say, and we're racing to Omah. It sounded like almost like the broadcast when in the fifties when they would like like try to pretend they were doing something live and they would play like two bats hitting each other. Like that's what it sounded like, that bad sound effect of the ground ball. Ah, there it is, but Murray State. The Racers headed to Omaha.
Well, you know you're looking at a duke team that was trying to do their first appearance in sixty one.
Yeah, no, Cooper Flagg, because that'll be a big one.
No, I mean you got that, I mean Murray State. I guess we go back to uh oh, we got John Moran.
Nah.
Yeh sure this is they have like the fourth fourth seed ever to make it to Omaha. Like this is a crazy this is like the Hey, all the mid majors are winning the nccturn.
It has been an odd run, certainly before we saw it on the softball side.
And now we have it here.
You got six different teams, six conferences represented, and an independent. No teams that were in it last year.
How does this all change now there we have these new Kakamane rules.
Well, well again this will be like this.
But if something changes, like if football realigns, maybe I won't be able to say that. But seven of the teams, six different conferences and independent, no teams repeat from last year.
It's great. That's that's awesome. It's great for the game.
This is far beyond any of the Hey, we're gonna have at least one extra winner that goes from worse to first like we do in the NFL.
No, here we changed everything out. We're racing now to the blank show. That Okay, it's good and bad news because okay, it's not your favorite team, but it's kind of everybody's favorite team, the US men's national team in soccer. Really, they have become such a blank show over the course of the last year. Right, you had that uninspiring loss in the friendly the other night. You know, Rissio Pochatino was supposed to commem in and I'm getting everybody ready. All the players backed out Christian Polistics said he wanted to back out because he just finished a long season. Landon Donovan United States Star criticized Polistic about, hey, this is for country. You should show up because look Ronaldo is playing right, Like why look look at me. He's forty years old, he could barely walk and he still knows. Hey, I'm here to play for my country. And when that happened. After the criticism of a Polistic, Polistic's dad posted a post on social media asking Ai why did Landon Donovan skip playing for the US national team in twenty thirteen, Because he skipped it began. He didn't make the team in twenty fourteen after the big run in twenty eleven, which really was the big birth of American soccer for the men's side here in the United States. And so we post this thing. I asked Ai why Landon Donovan didn't make it? And the AI post was, oh, being run down and having a lot of renevent and Christian Polistic like this on social media, right, and you know I and here's the thing is, I understand that you're trying to build something new, and you know, allegedly we've had these young players for so long that are supposed to be the next great iteration of soccer United States, but they've been around a while. And I just want to say this, when is the last time you heard a good story about the US men's national team? And the hire a Poachatino doesn't count because we don't know how that's going to go, right, So, okay, at least it's not Burhalter. But when's the last time there was good news either on the field, off the field, personnel wise anything. When's the last time there was good news for the US men's national team. I can't even remember the last time there was saying, hey, we got this, we got this. They can not competing and the Gold Cup they're not competing this. People are skipping, healthy players are skipping that. This is the US men's national team is such a blank shot, and they had such a great chance to own the moment, right because the US women's team was in a downturn. Now US women's team is back to dominating. The Trent's gonna dominate them for years. And now the men's team is back being a dumpster fire.
Oh we always have the next hope, right, we go back. You and I are doing this long enough together, you had Altador, he was gonna be the guy. Nope, polistic, he's gonna be the guy who's next. It's always the wishing and hoping, you know, hope not being a strategy and all.
As we've talked about for a long while.
Yeah, you can get into these slap fights, but yeah, it's been negative commentary, either about the coaching or just trying to figure out how you break through to where you are an upper tier squad and get the buy in behind you versus well wishing in home, because that's all it is. Generations. Hey, this goes back to when we were kids this all began. I mean, well then the last time there was good news about this. It's insane.
You know that the World Cup's gonna be here. I guess that's good now at least we're gonna be in it. Coming up next to two big stories out of what we just saw off for the Panthers on the road when you can win and double overtime after the Oilers tied it with seventeen seconds left, Like, I don't know how you come back from this. Mentally, if you're Edmonton, you got to go on the road. I'm expecting this series to be three to one going back to Edmonton, and well, that's kind of we're seeing it so far with the Panthers up five to.
One, looking a lot like the Knicks. I thought they'd respond better, but I guess.
Not nix you, but I tell you it happens when when you get broken and the oilers look like they've been broken tonight by the Panthers. You knew it wasn't gonna just be hey, we're gonna take this five to one whipping and go quietly. No, no, no, because when when you take the heart of your opponent, when you drop the puck, sometimes a fight breaks out, Sometimes two fights break out, sometimes three fights bread sometimes four fights break out at the same time when you rip their hearts out, like Boyd Christmas Fight nine and Dumb and Dumber. Frederick just cross check Bunnet. We'll get stick about Bennet's get he that's career and.
Nurse we're just gonna start seeing ten minutes past. That's getting handed out.
Daudovic had nurse to the left finger screen, throwing punches.
Smit's helping us come off. He's tackling with Connor Brown that if it's still going at it with Nurse.
Time.
These guys are just throwing haymakers at each other and it's not Nick Nurse.
By the way, it's not to say Nick Nurse is not fighting. It had a rough end of the year. Then go at it and no one is calling for a nurse. Nor if I'd just be wrap on it, they might be. They were bleeding from their ears.
Nurse was waiting for Shamus and Drew mcken hired to show up in this.
I mean, it was a full on fight night. It was making their way and trying to watch across go I'm watching this fight now, No, I'm watching. No, I'm watching this fight.
Couldn't pan back far enough to get them all in screen. That looks like it's the best fight.
No no, the one in the bottom has been oh no, no, no, the one of the top riders the bet No no no, back to the bottom screen, like all this fay is missing with somebody walking up to the bench and clocking McDavid in the face. I was kind of waiting for the slap shot where like when the Hanson Brothers, when the when the one Hanson brother comes by with this thing, he goes.
He goes throughund the whole bench.
Yeah, but this has hit a situation and Florida just tacked on another. So now it's six to one, three minutes remaining. It's the situation. I mean, you coached softball, soccer, You've watched your share of youth sports to where a game starts getting out of hands score wise, where you know the chippy play is coming.
No, it's like, can we get out of here in one piece?
Right?
A hard slide tackle that doesn't make any sense coming from behind, or you know, the big hit as as the balls going out of bounds, or a slide into second base. That's what we're getting right now from Edmonton. Like it's just all right, I got a guy near the boards. I'm just gonna see him up, yeah and see what happens. Because they they need because and I get it, because this is hot. This is how you try to flip some momentum because they have none. They have absolutely you lose that absolute heartbreaker in in in game two, which is again in sports, Ye, okay, you use a heartbreak, you come back the next day. Yeah, it does always work that way, especially in hockey. Right at home and now you're you're going to where they're they're putting up the towels with ransom.
You always know, like I always know.
You know what knowing a loss really hits home is when you see after a game is over and the team that wins is the road, like in overtime, and they're celebrating, and everybody's leaving the ice, and you know, they're doing postgame and everything, and there's pockets of fans just sitting in their seats because they're so stunned.
Thousand years I can't get up yet.
I mean, that's my favor. That's what why why I love hockey like that? You say all the handshake line is the best? No, my favorite the fans you just and and and there's no they're not look like they're getting up, like you know, the guys there with his girlfriend neither look like they want to get up, the guys there with his buddies, or they're just sitting there and they have that like you said that thousand yards stare. I'm not ready to leave yet because I don't I'm not over what I just saw, how we lost this game.
I'm not helready coming up and tapping them on the shoulder, come out and moving to the exits. Like they're still on the court or the ice. I'm not moving.
Yeah, in the post game, you know, it's like a half hour is going they still go back and do the fans just sitting there.
Hey, yeah, we want to just want to move things along here.
You know.
I want to get home to my family too. I got some.
Cold macaroni I'm gonna heat up in the microwave and then I'm gonna try to watch a little bit of fallon.
So, uh, let me, I want to go. I want to get going. I want to get going. I get it.
Let me eventually want to get this sweep for whatever give away to see how many you can get for your eBay auctions. But uh, come on, we gotta we gotta get it moving.
But that really, I mean you hear overused all the handshake at the end of the series, which, boy, I tay you a handshake. The end of this series might be interesting, but I mean that that's my favorite. When I see that, it's like, wow, like you understand.
You took the soul.
Yeah, like everybody else football, bet, everybody can't leave. I can't leave fast enough. In hockey, It's like I can't believe I need to sit here. I can't get up and leave yet. And that's awesome. That's why I love.
That that invested the hockey fan is the best alongside the glass or a couple of rows up that has put everything into this squad.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
I watched it for years from the three hundred level while I was trying to avoid getting bitten by.
Rats, you know, yeah, or one of the fame now the squirrel rats that they have in New York.
Apparently those things are fighting.
Is this?
Can we confirm this is real?
Or is this?
You know? Ai cgi? What do we got? The rat?
The squirrel putting his rat tail up over his head because it's stay out of the rain?
Oh yeah?
Uh.
Now, while we are waiting the game three of the Stanley Cup Final is going to go to Florida. It's six to one with a minute left to go. We are waiting for Game three of the NBA Finals, which will be on July seventh, And I got a fun about July. Okay, maybe July sixty. Well, I want to get to move it. Yeah, you're want to see Paul Simon on July.
Yeah, there we go. See it's a perfect song for this hockey. Sure, but so we're.
Waiting till Wednesday night for Game three, and I got I really have a fun thing on waiting between NBA games coming.
Up in a few minutes.
But uh, you think about what's going on so far. The main criticism of the Finals. Yes, you could criticize the Thunder for blowing the lead in Game one, for the Pacers and Halliburton not showing up they need to in Game two, but virtually everybody is criticizing ESPN because of the broadcast. No one is a fan of the broadcast. And again I didn't really get to see the broad you know, everything Ben until this weekend because Game one were on the air. But you see that people talking about after going it doesn't feel like the NBA Finals. It feels like it's a game in February. There's no real decoration of the court. Well they super imposed, Yeah, well, by no, that's whole thing, right, That's my point.
So it didn't feel like the five.
That was a big criticism after game We didn't feel like the Final felt like a regular season game.
The booth is still trying to figure.
Out who they are, especially when here's your booth and the rumors Oh yeah, Doris Burke might not be doing this anymore.
Wait, everybody loved Doris Burke.
No, no, So now someone who's doing this could be a lame duck and could be out right, this is this is bad, right. You don't want you don't want your broadcast criticized. So what happens for Game two? But ESPN we're gonna super impose a Larry O'Brien trophy on the court to make it look that way. And that got criticism and it's still getting criticism that the booth is not great. It doesn't feel like the NBA Finals. Now, there is part of it being it's Oklahoma City and Indiana. It's not Lakers Nicks. It's not the Lakers and the Heat. It's not the Celtics and Warriors. Right, So I get that, but I understand the criticism of it. But that's not But I'm gonna take this in a different direction here, like why is this? Why is this out there? Like why is ESPN getting criticized like this? It's happening because ESPN, more than anybody else, listens to all the outside noise when it comes to criticism of them as a network or the on air product. They listen way too much to what is said on social media, what people say on television. It's like there's people's jobs to say, Hey, they're saying this on social media. We gotta get away from this, right, Like social media hated Chris Berman every time he did, they hate what happened. Chris Berman basically does nothing for ESPN anymore. Right, everybody hated. I don't like the Monday Night Football booth. I don't like the booth. Ratings were fine. I don't like Steve Levy. I don't like Jason what happened. We gotta change the book. We got to hire other guys. Now, gotta spend a lot of money because nobody likes those guys. They spend way too much time listening to what is said on social media. And I'm not even getting in the political sense of when one person says something about one political party. I just mean as far as what their content is. They are so reactionary to whatever people say on social media. And okay, now, so they heard the response after game one, boy, it doesn't feel good. The Larry O'Brien trophy is not there. So some executive just said, let's superposed Larry Brian Trophy. So let's listen to the people. Lit's listen to the people on Twitter who are saying, oh, it seems so small time where people are not going to watch the finals because of this, Like like you know what, have a spine and do and do the best broadcast you can, right for if not every place is perfect? Right now, every place is perfect and clearly you know, hey, Fox has you know, issues just like you know other places do. But I will say this as far as when you know, I know, when we do stuff for radio and TV, stuff gets out there, stuff is said, stuff is It depends if it's sports wise. Now I'm saying it's staying in the sports world. If the sports world stuff is controversial, it's controversial and it's said, and nobody don't back away from it. This is now you get away from the sports world, that's a different story, right I'm not saying that stuff away from but you talk about sports because that's what we're sticking with.
And this is the presentation of the finals. ESPN. They have always cared way too.
Much about what what people think who have a dial in their hand when they're there trying to you know, with focus groups for radio, whether it's focus groups for television, they care so much what the ten people in a room think, or they care so much what five thousand people on Twitter are saying, like it seems like it's all look at at the biggest trending topic is ESPN's NBA final. Well no, really, only five thousand people are tweeting about that, but it seems big because it's what they More people are tweeting about SGA or something else. But let's focus on that. And that's always been ESPN's achilles hea. They listen way too much. Right, I'll tell you this story. This is my favorite story of ESPN is that they listen to focus groups all the time.
Right.
They take the shows. They would take our shows playing for folks with ten people. They have a dial in their hand and it would be like they would say, Okay, when you hear something you like, move it towards ten. And if you're hearing something you don't like, move it towards one. Okay, right, so if you have like a bad three seconds like, they would move the dial towards one, and the executives go, oh, they didn't like, they didn't like this conversation. They didn't like this, Oh, but here they are direct to ten. It's like this is what they would do.
Right.
So there was one time I remember I would meet with my program director like once a month. We go over stuff and everything, and you know, the good thing is my program director is kind of knew like okay, let's just let's only get involved when we need to. But when ESPN has a big dictum going forward, it's like, we want to talk to people. So they say, okay, hey, uh here's the thing. You know, we found out people love personal stories. Tell personal stories about stuff that you can relate to. I was like, well that's my wheelhouse because I love doing that. Okay, great, but the more personal story stories you can tell, great, make sure you relate it to what's going on, but tell personal stories. Okay, awesome.
Right.
So that's what we did, not even six months later. I want to say, this was like in like March, but like going into football. We had a meeting to yeah, hey, so we just did Hey, let's cut back on the personal stories. Wait what cut back on the personal stories? You know, that's not where we want to go. We want to I go six months ago, not even six but personal stories were great you love personal stories, Well, well I think they went back and they did some demo wing and they went through in the personal story. I'm like, oh my god, you guys are insane. You guys are absolutely insane. But this is how ESPN did it, right, I mean, hear it fucked. No, No one cares what I tweeted. Sit here and listen. Care what people tweet about the shows. If you're saying if you're say, oh I think this, I think that's like yeah, okay, whatever, But they listen so much to what's being said, and now you're seeing this knee jerk reaction and no wonder there's all kinds of blanket criticism of the finals because they can't just go and do their thing. Oh no, no, we gotta listen to what we gotta listen to what people are saying on social media. So we're gonna change so they don't program me ESPN. It's twenty So congratulations the people on Twitter that don't like the brau, you got that change, you got you now broadcast ESPN.
You should get money from them.
Well, especially because you can actually single those people out, because it's an echo chamber of a very small window of people on the larger Twitter landscape. So good for them they were able to affect change in broadcasting. I don't listen to it. I always have a second screen experience. I was finishing my siple witz rewatch during the fo.
Okay, it's on one TV, in the game on the other, ya.
I got the needle in game One's got the needle? The Pacers one Game one? The Pacers weren't here in game two. No, Game two. We watched. He had the experience, so why would they get the needle in one?
No?
Game two?
We're talking about? But you said game one he was watching. He was watching NYPD blue end Game two. You said, who got the needle? The Pacers got the needle?
Yeah? And if Thunder got the needle in game one?
Yes, yeah, I mean I know in the final point.
For the final point, three second, Frostburg said, having a tough time right now?
What is it?
What of the Dodgers, padres What is it? Nine to nine in the third inning? Is that the score?
Boy?
If you bet the over, you're feeling pretty good about now, come in there like a Florida Panther.
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