Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign
[00:00:03] Speaker B: welcome back to source from the sofa. We're recording Monday night around 9:30 Pacific Time. Timberwolves Nuggets just starting the fourth quarter, but that game looks about done. Nuggets are back to back wins in that one. Is that right? Back to back wins? No, I'm sorry. No, it's not.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: They're winning back to back wins. They won games three and four.
[00:00:27] Speaker B: No, Nuggets won game three, right?
[00:00:29] Speaker A: No, Nuggets won game two.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Three straight wins for the T Wolves.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So not back to back wins but really impressive. They won over the weekend.
Ant went down. They thought to be pretty extensive ligament damage, but he's still gonna be out a couple weeks.
Who's the other guy went down with Achilles?
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Was it Dante DiVincenzo, whatever his name is.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: There you go. Yeah. So we got a lot to cover up over the weekend. Hockey was a lot of fun. We had a firing in the majors, Alex Cora getting axed. A lot of people not liking John Henry's leadership there. And even players are starting to re bulk a little bit. Quite interesting.
And let's see. And Aaron, I did tweet about you today saying that someone did call a potential upset with the Magic beating up on the Pistons. And after today's game, dude, I just.
Magic just look like they're just all over the Pistons and it's not looking good.
Magic one today to be a three one going back to Detroit.
So filling that one.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: I. I am worried though. Wagner did leave with that Capstream did not return in the fourth quarter so that's something to keep an eye on.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. See what happens. Atlanta giving the Knicks plenty of fits. That's kind of weird. That's tied two. Two apiece. Wemby and the spurs bounce back pretty nicely in the fourth quarter. It was still pretty tight until the fourth quarter and they just blew. Blew the doors open. The Trailblazers just ran out of offense down the stretch, but they looked really, really good in the first half.
Still giving. I. I still think it's a great showing by the Trailblazers. Lakers got smacked in game four. No sweep. But they have a chance for a gentleman sweep on Wednesday when ar. Hopefully AR comes back. I think they need KD coming back
[00:02:29] Speaker A: game five as well.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Story, man.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Well, the rumors are Katie's done in Houston.
It was just bad vibes ever since like the burner accounts and all that stuff during the all star break. And burner accounts that's still going on. I don't know, man.
[00:02:44] Speaker C: He's just known for the bur counts at this point. Like, that's what I thought too.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: I'm a little lost, but just. KD's had quite an interesting career. He might get bounced to another team.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: But your boy, your boy Bill Simmons is out there, wants the.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Oh, the Expendables and up and up
[00:03:02] Speaker C: in your neck of the woods in Golden State, Man. LeBron, KD all get back Klay Thompson. He wants everyone over there.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Klay Thompson. That's also the big news. Over the weekend, this girl that I'm dating was showing me all this stuff. I'm like, yeah, you know, I don't really care what's happening.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: Oh, I thought you were dating. I thought you were dating Megan Thee Stallion. I thought you were taking that personally. I thought you really.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: I would, I would love to.
I'm not gonna go there, have some old stories.
No, she got upset because I could. I kind of defended Clay, you know, just what's the big deal?
[00:03:37] Speaker C: I didn't understand, I'm be honest. I didn't understand the story. I, I thought he came out saying she cheated on him and he was cheating on.
I. I don't know if there's. I think it's like an episode of Succession. There's no winners.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: I think it's an open relationship. This is what it's called.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I just saw the, the clips on IG saying that she's acting like a wife or girlfriend, prices, cooking for the family, and he's bouncing around digging into snow bunnies. You know, that's life in the NBA. Rome. That's life in the NBA. I don't know. I know nothing about Clay's personal life, so I, I really don't care.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: Anyways, you can always talk to the look alike, the Klay Thompson's brother. I think he's still up there in the Bay Area.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Rome. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, funny, you might, you might
[00:04:18] Speaker A: be able to talk to him. Should get him on the pod.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Maybe, Maybe. All right, so let's start with today's games though, because it's like still fresh. Thunder took care of business.
Sweep the sun. Suns actually showed up pretty well in game three and four. Got to give to them, but they just didn't have enough to put up much more of a fight. Thunder are just solid up and down, even without J. Will in the lineup.
We will Timberwolves with the Ant out and Divincenzo out.
I don't know, man, this might be like a slight little opening because now the starting backcourt's not alive now for the Timberwolves. That was my sleeper pick to make a run. But Anthony's not going to come back for possibly round two even if they make it.
They are a deep and lengthy team. But I'm not sure this looks like one of those opportunities where the Nuggets could come back and win the series and move on.
Let's talk about that one real, real quick and then we'll talk about the Magic Pistons and how much deep they are in whatever you guys want to jump on.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: I didn't know you said Magic Pistons. I thought we're going to talk about Aaron a little more about him calling that series, but we're going to stay on Nuggets, Timberwolves.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Do you guys have any comments? You guys think Nuggets make it a 6, 7 game series? You think this is.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: I mean they win. They win today. I mean they're making it a six game series with Ant out there. I mean it's.
I, I think it's definitely more winnable than it probably was, you know, a few days ago. So I, I'd say it's hard against to go against the Nuggets right now. I mean they're blowing them out right here as we.
Roman's citing the things. So we're on AM radio now. We're at 15 before the hour right now here on a Monday night.
But yeah, I think the Nuggets are making it a series. They're probably going to be the most, the most competitive series left because you're pretty much. I'm thinking the spurs are locking in. They're 11 and a half point favorites there. I don't see why your Lakers aren't going to take care of business there. So I mean this might be the only, this is going to be the only series going six, probably going seven here at least.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Aaron, you think of seven?
[00:06:17] Speaker A: I think if you're the Minnesota, you got to close it out in six. You don't want to go back to Denver. I mean given all the injuries they have. I mean obviously Denver still about Aaron Gordon, I know he didn't play tonight. He missed game three. He kind of briefly gave it a go in game four, but he was probably playing at what, 50, 60% to be honest, given Minnesota's injuries. I'm actually rooting for Denver because I just think it's a better matchup if they advance given what Minnesota has on the table. I mean the winner of the series goes to play San Antonio. Let's just be realistic. Without Ant Edwards Minnesota has no chance against the Spurs. At least Denver's put up some pretty good numbers against them.
But I think the West, I think we kind of touched on it. It's looking like a two team race with really OKC sweeping the Suns that you mentioned and San Antonio Wimby back. What do you have like seven blocks? Kind of just took over that game defensively in game four after the Spurs, I think they're the first team ever in playoff history to blow two games in which they had 15 plus point second half leads at home in a series.
So yeah, I mean going back, I think Minnesota has to win game six Rome. If not Denver's going to take that series. Unless you so many injuries going back and forth between game games here in these playoffs, you just.
It might be just a battle of nutrition. I mean maybe the Lakers get lucky and get the, they get the healthiest at the end here. But I want to count on that battle. I wouldn't be surprised if Houston wins games 5 and 6 and pushes it to 7 in LA. Wouldn't shock me in one bit.
[00:07:43] Speaker C: You meant battle of attrition, not nutrition, right Aaron?
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, whichever one man, I'm battling both over here.
[00:07:50] Speaker C: Just want to make sure.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: All right.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: Your closers over here choking it away.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: What? No, we don't even talk about that.
Two earn runs in a non stage. That's why you don't bring say closers.
Oh my gosh.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: All right, let's talk about the Orlando Detroit game because that just ended. I was catching the end of that at the gym and I was surprised, man, Dane or Bane had some clutch three point shots down the stretch.
I can't really remember Kate Cunningham, he had like some nasty turnovers in transition when they had like a 3 to 1, 4 to 1 advantage. Just throwing at the knees of his teammate on one play, making dumb plays on the other ones and I don't know, Magic just.
They look like the team that's not the team that, that we thought they were going to become last year. They're definitely not an 8 seed. They're playing like a 2, 3 seed.
If that did.
I know there's like a little bit of, you know, withdrawal whether like the Pistons were actually a true number one. See they have the best record but they're not looking like that at all and just getting punched in the face. I'm a little worried with, you know, for them they're getting out, coached out, hustled, outplayed and given for Bane and the, and the whole squad doing really well.
[00:09:16] Speaker C: With Magic, I mean, Aaron called this one.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: We.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: We recorded like less than a week ago. This was the upset to see Detroit not so much battle tested when it comes to the playoffs. I mean, last year, you know, I got that right, they were kind of like the surprise team a little bit, getting into the playoffs and having a little bit of a run last year. But yeah, I think, I mean, Aaron had it. He saw that. He saw the tea leaves out there for what Magic was be able to bring.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, Rome, I mean, I watched the first two games.
Obviously, I thought seven out of the eight quarters, Orlando was better. Obviously, that third quarter in game two in which what Detroit went on like a 273 run and kind of blew that game open was at halftime. I just think Orlando's, like you mentioned, Rome has been. Has bet the coaching's been better.
They've been playing better. Kade Cunningham, we didn't touch on it because we were off for like three months, but the guy had a collapsed lung and then just basically showed up about a week before the season ended. He doesn't look the same. Kind of lackadaisical. He's averaging almost seven turnovers per game, double his regular season average against Orlando.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Nine today. Nine or ten today.
[00:10:23] Speaker A: Yeah, and he had nine in game three as well.
And Detroit, you know, look it, defensively they're good, but offensively they've struggled shooting the ball.
And Kate Cunningham, like I said, he's not the same guy right now. And you mentioned it, Rome, Orlando was what, what, a game or two away from being even a five seed and playing and bumping Toronto down.
They could have easily beaten Philadelphia and gotten to the seventh spot. But I. I think Orlando matches up really well of Detroit.
And like I said, I thought they were going to upset Detroit, and I'll stick with that. I mean, obviously the Wagner injury kind of is concerning. If he's not able to go for the rest of the series, that could come back to hurt them. But yeah, Bane and those guys, Van Carroll, they've stepped up and I like Orlando to advance in the series.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I know Thompson, he's a key player for Detroit. He didn't have a great game. Duran, I thought he played pretty solid today.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: You see you get dunked on. Yeah, that was. That was a big. That. That turned the momentum, the house on fire down there a little bit.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: A little bit. But he had some pretty big blocks. And if they had to stuff himself sometime in the third quarter when they're making like a little comeback and they got it down to one they got it back to one several times. They just couldn't keep it. I think they were up at least at some point in the second quarter.
But the momentum, the magic, I know it's gonna be balls out. This is like, it was like a throwback 90s game, man. Just like a lot of defense elbows. There's a lot of fouls that they did not call down low. And I thought those kind of cold.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: I thought basketball.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Some guys were getting hacked and like basically punched and they did not call a fucking thing. Like, whoa.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: I don't know if you guys watched Toronto, Cleveland when It was like 36, 44 at the half and usually you're like, oh, that's the end of the first quarter in today's NBA. But that was like the halftime score in that game.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: Yeah, let's bring it back.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: That's good. NBA Rome. That's the NBA. I love. Me and Jason love it.
[00:12:15] Speaker C: That's the old school NBA at NBC. Man. You, you put on like a. A Knicks Pacers game out there and we're just riding to like a 75, 77 score, just waiting for a three pointer late in the game.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Allen Houston with a three in the corner, Dagger to beat Miami in a game. 5, 79, 78, 40 final. Spike Lee jumping in his arms.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: That's.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: That's the NBA on NBC that we like.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Speaking of the Raptors.
So they tied it up and I did not see that coming. I thought the Cavs would, would still do this in five games, but we're going six minimum.
Raptors played ugly, man. They couldn't make the basket for.
I wrote it down because the stat just stuck out, man. Four for 30, 13 for three. Front three point land the lowest percentage in a victory in NBA history.
13%.
That is crazy. They could not make anything but the Cavs. Mitchell disappeared down, down, down the stretch. Harden, where has he been? You know, he didn't do much in the fourth quarter as well. And the Raptors just kind of gritty that thing out, dude. They just. It was just no offense at all in that fourth quarter.
I was surprised about that game. I think that was yesterday, right? That was Sunday or Saturday.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: First game Sunday morning yesterday. Romeo's.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: I don't know.
Lakers not surprised that they not win that game. 4. LeBron looked a little tired.
It is what it is. I, I expected to come out on Wednesday. Big gap though. Three days of rest.
Most likely AR comes back by then, right?
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Well, he's been questionable the last two games. I mean.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Why has he not Played.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: I mean, maybe they're just like, if they got the series in command right now, why bring them back? Get him ready. First there's the Thunder series.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: There's like, a weird rumor going around that, you know, they want to lose game four, possibly game five, so they can have, like, some extra days to get Luca back as well, in time for the second round.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Luke is not coming back anytime soon.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: They would have to make the conference finals for him to come back. I think he's still a couple weeks away. Luca. Yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: Yeah, but Bronnie's getting some good playing time, right? That's what I. That's what I read, you know, I
[00:14:29] Speaker A: mean, Rome, last time in the pod, said, I think the biggest statement of all is starting point guard in the NBA.
I mean, that was the biggest shocker of the whole pod.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: I mean, he might be going to Golden State with. With Simmons's Expendables. You know, they probably take Bronnie with him, too.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Oh, man, he fits in there.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: No, he's actually pretty good. He got that Aliya playa from his dad. That's kind of cool.
That's kind of cool. I'm not a complete LeBron hater. That's pretty awesome.
Bronze look good in year 21 or whatever it is. I really have no other comments on the association, man.
Nicks, if they blow this, though, man, I. I think you might be right, Aaron. I think Brown is. Is axed.
I think spurs should take care of it.
We'll see what happens with Pistons. They're. They have. They have no choice but. But to show up in two days. They got two days turnaround.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: They got no choice but to win three games in a row. Rome. That's it.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: And that's tough, dude. And that's tough. I. I don't see it. I think they maybe push it to a game six.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Well, they are 1 and 11 in their last 12 home playoff games.
They just finally, that game two was the first playoff game they'd won since what, like, 2008?
[00:15:37] Speaker B: So some crazy NBA, they got to win the next one.
Rocket or late? Lakers at home, Timberwolves.
They have to close out next game or else they're done.
And Cavs are in trouble. Knicks are in trouble. Celtics are good. I think they'll close it on the next game as well.
And that's pretty much it.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: The Thunder are the only team to advance so far in the NBA, right?
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: Roma's a little distracted. The White Sox just put up eight runs in the seventh inning versus the Angels right now. So just did they.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: A lot.
[00:16:09] Speaker C: A lot going.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: It's past the Angels bedtime right now.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: You get to the Angels bullpen, and that's when runs are scored.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: So do I want to go to a game? I haven't been there since. Since college. I think it was like a Boston Red Sox game. I'm pretty sure I got kicked out.
It's been a while.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Sounds about right.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Back when I used to get kicked out of games.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: Yeah, just back when you see it kind of games.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah, just back when I used to. I'll do it.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: I think. I think you might be banned from Angel Stadium, Rome. That's probably why you haven't gone there. I think there's, like, a secret list you're on. Like, hey, if this guy shows up, show him the exit.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: I. I don't know if it was last game. I just remember, like, I just started talking to Boston Ax and I was pretty drunk, and all of a sudden these other Boston guys had my back. And then we started fighting with some angel fans. And then some angel fans were drunk and they threw beers at us, and someone started throwing fists. And so some of us just, you know, protected our ground. We didn't do anything. But then all the Boston fans got kicked out. Something like that. Was it a sixth inning or something?
Good times.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: Good times.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: That was like when we drank like a 36 pack in the parking lot.
At least one or two of those before we went to the stadium to have more. Four or five more beers. $8 back in the day.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: The big A.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: The big old.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: But was it the big old Budweiser sign they got over there?
[00:17:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: All right, switching up to hockey. Avalanche. Move on.
Sorry, Kings.
The Ducks through that game yesterday Sunday, winning in overtime. That puck.
Not a clear visual, whether across the line, but, you know, if you draw it out, if you race the escape from the goalie, it. It obviously passed it. That's a weird rule. I did not know that rule in hockey. So, like, if it doesn't pass it completely, you can still scoop it out and it's not a goal.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: Yes.
Cool puck has to be completely passed. So it's not like I wasn't aware of that either.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Rome.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: Not like it's not like a first down in football where, like, the nose,
[00:18:01] Speaker B: by the way, I hate that in football.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: When they change that, like, the problem
[00:18:05] Speaker A: is they can't even get. The problem is you can't even get the spot right where the referee spot the ball. So that's why then. And the nose or whatever card comes in and see if you got the index card, if you got the first down.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:18:18] Speaker C: Football's gonna get that ABS technology like baseball, right? That's, that's what football needs to get.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: But kind of didn't they kind of bust that out last year? Instead of the chain game coming out, they got that versatile measurement now.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: They had the virtual measurement, but they, but that, that still dispense in the spot. It's like they're still.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Which is never good.
[00:18:34] Speaker C: Yeah, but no, I mean it, I, I think you're right, Roman. I think with the, the technology we need though is like on the iPhone with your, like a photo, you want to delete somebody out. So maybe like you got a good photo and a view and you and Rome you might want to delete.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: I don't know why they didn't do that.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: I was saying, like, you want to delete one of your exes out of a photo or something like that. That way you just, you know, hey, it's a good photo, but we're gonna delete them out. I mean, that's like, how do you get the skate out of there? The puck would have been, you know, they were able to see.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Maybe they did, maybe they did.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: They didn't mention it to us.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Gonna be, it's all rigged. But you, you guys are right though. Aaron. You called it. You had Anaheim moving on.
Bye bye Edmonton. And like, dude, we've all been pretty big fans of the Oilers. I know I was rooting for them last year. For them to go out round one this year, potentially, that's a heartbreaker. Like this kind of feels like the end of the run.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know about end of the run, but I, I, I think I said this on the last pod, that this is where it worries me. On a team that's going back to back Stanley Cups like the NHL playoffs is, is, I mean, it's tough. It is, it is a full out assault on these teams. Especially when you got a core roster that makes these additional runs all the way to June. Hockey, these guys are beat up. Broken bones, you know, hockey hide the injuries. You just said I got a lower leg injury, but it turns out it's like a broken femur and they've been playing on it for like a month and a half.
We talked about the Florida Panthers not even getting to the playoffs because of how beat up their team is going through that run. So props to the Oilers getting this far. I thought they had another run, let him left in them. But the defense is just bad.
You looked at. I think it was game.
Was it game three? Man, they were just like there's goals just every which way. Barely thought the Oilers are going to keep that competitive. I don't think they got enough firepower to outmatch him. And yeah, Aaron called this one and I, I'm pretty sure Aaron said this too. And I'll give him credit. If he didn't, I'll just say it was his idea. But I, I like, I like their path because the Golden Knights in Mammoth. I think the Golden Knights have underachieved all year. Mammoth have been good, but I think they're playing solid hockey. But I think the Ducks put them themselves in an interesting position to get themselves to the Western Conference finals because I think it's a winnable matchup whether they get Vegas or Utah in the next round.
So I mean it's, it's looking. Looking pretty good for the Ducks here in their first playoff appearance. And it's been, it's been. I don't know.
Yeah, a decade or so.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Eight years, I think they said. Yeah, I mean, like Jason said, I think the key was Edmonton just looks slower and tired in this playoff series. If you watch this game, you got the Ducks young team, they're hungry, they're quicker and like Jason said, Edmonton, we've always known can score, but defensively they look. This is the worst I've seen them play all year defensively, even go back to the last two years, goaltending play. Look, they got rid of Skinner. Doesn't matter. They just brought in another new goalie for Game 4. He played pretty well, but still gave him four goals.
Edmonton likely wins Game 5.
But coming back here to Honda center, it'll be tough. Can the Ducks do something the Kings were not able to do? Pit Edmonton down in the first round of the playoffs when they had those guys. I do like this Ducks team. I think they're playing confidently. They got. They're getting good goaltending play. I mean, McDavid, I mean the saves at the end of that game in regulation, was it two big saves and then we, you know, we were off the air for a while. Dry Seidel, he just came back. He missed the final like 15, 20 games.
He doesn't look the same on the ice right now.
I do. Like I said, I like the Ducks. They're fresher team, quicker team to the puck to advance and beat the Oilers here.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: I know they play tomorrow night, so I'M trying to catch on tnt. Stars and Wild. That's an epic series. Every game has been pretty fun.
I wish I could watch the Golden Knights mammoth game right now, but looks like there are.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: It's an overtime right now. You're on espn.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: I know. I saw the Knights were down by one and then I, and then I missed the power play.
I'm assuming that's when they scored.
[00:22:23] Speaker C: Yeah, it's still in overtime. Yeah, you mentioned that Stars wild series for you. Really great series there. Yeah, I think the Stars are probably to me the biggest threat against the Avalanche in the Western Conference. But this series goes long. You know, seven games here versus the Wild. Avalanche already advanced. They're sitting, resting up. I, I think it's get tough. It's gonna be tough for anyone in the west to beat the Avalanche this season. I. If you look, you look at the comparisons, I think to the Thunder in the NBA playoffs, like the Avalanche, you're about to get a clear shot, you know, to the, to the Finals here at this point because you're going to have their biggest competitor in the Stars beat up and then the bottom of the bracket with the Golden Knights underachieving and you know, the Ducks being new, young, got fresh legs, as Aaron said, but experience, you know, they're still got. You got champ, you got Stanley cup winning, you know, pedigree on that Avalanche team. And I think that west is just kind of wide open for them to
[00:23:17] Speaker B: make a run through.
I haven't seen a lot of Amalanche games, if any, so I'm gonna go with you guys on that one.
Buffalo taking care of business. I think they move on, close it out the next round. They look pretty solid after of the Josh Allen curse in that, in that second game or whatever it was.
Have no comments on Lightning Canadiens.
Carolina moved on too. They took care of business and the, the Penguins inked out a win to not go out in four. So I want to get a night
[00:23:50] Speaker A: Rome so they've won back to back, back to back.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: So who knows, man? Maybe they can get one more in there. Make. Make this really interesting.
[00:23:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Game 4 for the Lightning Canadiens was. Was big. I mean Canadians went up 2 nothing. Earlier in that game, Lightning were able to crawl back, take the lead and tie up that series.
You got Martin St. Louis leading that team. Former player for the Lightning. Now coach.
I think it'll be competitive, but I at the same time in that series, I think it'll be this. It'd be the telling of the goaltenders. I, you know, and Those games have been close. Hurricanes moving on again. We talked about the last pod. They just choking in the playoffs when they've had teams to beat. This is. This is going to be a time that's going to set them apart. Potential tough matchup next with likely the Flyers. But it's kind of open there for the Hurricanes. For them in the East. I don't want. They're not as a lock as much as the Avalanche are. But you, you got some, you know, an inexperienced Buffalo team if they're able to move on and then, you know, so they're. They're staring for the Hurricanes. But man, until, until they actually come through on this, that'll be a lot of questions out East.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Well, yeah, their nemesis has been the Panthers. I think we touched on it in the last pod. Panthers not in these playoffs. Beating them with the last two years, I think eliminated them.
So I agree with Jason. I think Carolina is a team probably to beat in the East. We touched it on at Buffalo, was the first playoff appearance since. In 14 years. Look like they're getting by the Bruins.
But yeah, I like Carolina in the East. And yeah, Colorado looks really dominant right now in the west. So.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Dude, Lightning. Canadians have been trading shots, man.
Every other game they're winning on each other's home floor and three of them have been overtime. I did catch three of these games. I just. There's been so much basketball, hockey scandals.
It's a good time.
[00:25:42] Speaker C: It is. And you're not even talking about the biggest rating scene of the weekend yet. Rome, the NFL draft. I know you were tuned out, but I mean, that was the biggest story of the week. Weekend.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean, the Eagle stole his guy right from under their. Under their phone right there. Phone call away.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: I didn't understand what happened.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: Two phones, man. The two phones came in handy here.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Really confusing.
[00:26:01] Speaker C: Well, you got that. I mean, I mean, I don't know if we're getting into it fully. I mean, up in the Bay Area, you may do some research, man. You got. Probably get some of your Niners fans talk about John lynch, man. They're. They're going at him right now for just reaching on every single person in the draft.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: And he.
[00:26:14] Speaker C: Him coming out saying, I'm not reaching on anyone. That's your list. That's not our list.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. There's a little bit of a discourse up here.
You know, they're pretty quick to jump on. On lynch and Shanahan.
I was probably like one of the first ones jump on Shanahan a few Years ago, I backed off a little bit. But yeah, you know, they're looking for players that fit Shanahan's system, not for whatever is the best or whatnot. You know, they're looking for a specific type of player, a specific type of mindset, someone that's ready to get after work. They just remember the Niners have dealt with a lot of divas over the last few years. A lot of contract issues. Once they sign some guys, they, they just don't show up, they don't put in the work. So I'm pretty sure they're putting a little bit more on like that mental aspect that, that emotional IQ over there in here in the Bay. So, you know, I did see some of the picks.
I don't know. I got it. You know, lynch and the guys have been kind of killing it in every draft, so I gotta, you know, see what happens after this year. But yeah, a lot of people are not really enthusiastic about this past year.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Well, I would say, I would beg the difference, him killing it in the draft because if Warren Sharp, who does a lot.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Ready for this?
[00:27:31] Speaker C: Oh, I was ready for this take, man. This is where it's at.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: I knew I was gonna go there or what?
[00:27:36] Speaker C: Well, a little bit.
You always plugged into San Francisco, Rome, the Bay Area. You own that. You know, it's one sure it's at, but yeah, it was Warren Sharp.
So on Twitter, he has a sharp analytics and stuff like that.
There is a metric and there's a great article he posted right after the draft because he said it's basically shocking on how much estimate they reach in the draft. So, yeah, the most recent draft, there's a metric called draft capital over expectation and it helps identify steals.
The last four drafts for the Niners, they rank 31st, 28th, 31st, 32nd, which basically they're just reaching in every single draft versus, you know, the expectation of draft capital. So like, not only are they reaching on people, but like, I think this is basically measuring you, like, hey, you didn't get the value for these picks. So I, I think, I mean, they're the worst basically at drafting is what, is what the analytics are telling you.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: I, I will say this, the analytics say that, but this is a team that's basically had the roster decimated by injuries the last couple years and all these backups played pretty well for him last year.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: Great. Especially on defense.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: Well, it's fair. But imagine if you had a GM who drafted properly and you have better players.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: I, I, there's a point to that as well too. But I mean they're gonna look back
[00:28:57] Speaker B: and they got the playoffs first round picks for what's his face.
[00:29:00] Speaker C: Trey Lance.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's bad dude. Any other GM would have been fired already. Luckily he had Purdy in his back pocket.
[00:29:07] Speaker C: I, I got a Niners irrelevant. I got a Niners friend that's a fan and he basically said it wasn't for Purdy all these guys would be fired.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: 100 I agree with that.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: So I mean it's a great point Aaron. Like you know, but to me that's more of a testament to Shanahan versus the yeah, the coaching versus hey, the players you're actually getting from Lynch.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: But how did John lynch even get into a GM role?
[00:29:32] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: He just seems like he's a buddy buddy guy in the organization. How did the broadcast booth to a gm how did you think?
[00:29:39] Speaker B: That's what it is man. If you kill in the broadcast booth you get a GM spot.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Look at even you got Troy Aikman as a special advisory to the Miami Dolphins. I thought they killed it in their draft for them. Pretty good draft.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: I heard they had a good draft. You know speaking of reaching, I heard a lot of people did. Didn't like Salah and the Tennessee Titans reaching for Tate.
[00:30:00] Speaker C: Yeah, there was some conversation on that whether you know, but I mean you, you drafted a quarterback last year. You got to get this guy tools. They don't exactly have a number one wide receiver but you got to get Ward some help. So I, I mean there's a lot to be said. Like I think you know, going back to the conversation about lynch, you could talk about there's people reaching and these are all just evaluators and who really knows because you know the Bears. Now I'll bring this back to the Bears because that's what I was saying.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: That's still, that's still so weird.
[00:30:31] Speaker C: Well that's the Rams. But I mean the Bears drafted a seventh rounder at running back last year who got significant carries and stuff and, and I think you see that spot. Yeah, Ty Simpson's another a good one. Like no one thought he was going to go that high.
But I mean the best teams and probably your Eagles. You mentioned that a little bit Aaron, on the Eagles. Like a lot of those guys are like hey it's best value and they're not literally looking for position. Some guys are taking position in those spots and that's where you get some of the reaching because you may not know if those players are there. Farther down the board.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, going back to Tate, you guys like, Jason made a good point. I mean, they needed to get a wide receiver.
So it's either Tate or, you know, Jordan Tyson who went to the Saints. Another team that needed a wide receiver.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: I liked him. I just wasn't sure if he was like the best wide receiver to get taken at that spot.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: But I, I think they didn't need a wide receiver. He's probably going between like 10 and 12.
But I, I honestly, I think they wanted Jeremiah Love to fall to him and then take him. But Arizona then snagged him up.
[00:31:33] Speaker B: I'm not a big fan of him going to Arizona.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: Well, considering Arizona, I don't even know he's going to play quarterback for Arizona. Then they, they, well, they got that back right in the third round. Carson, Becky, they picked up in the third round.
[00:31:44] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they still got Connor on the team too. Plus the second running back at Florida
[00:31:54] Speaker B: State and relief last year. He was pretty solid. He had a couple 20 yard games.
I don't know, man. I don't like to put too much effort into the draft just because half of these are like crapshoots anyways and.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: So you're not a fan of Ty Simpson. I get, take it Rome going to the Rams.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: So like I, I hear both sides. You know, going to the college football year, he was up on like a lot of Heisman lists and people liked him. He only has 15 starts though. And I think who was it Parcel said if you don't have.
I can't remember. It was like, it's like three years of starts. He just doesn't pick you and like that has kind of stayed the norm. Like look at who the cold strapped a couple years ago, what. He had like seven starts. He's like only like 20 years old. And like, hey you.
[00:32:40] Speaker C: You were all over Anthony Richardson and Aaron and I were.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: I like him. I like them. He's athletic, he's still like exciting.
[00:32:47] Speaker A: He still likes him.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: I, I didn't like the pick itself. I was like, dude, he has no experience. But you know, it's kind of like that.
And Fernando Mendoza was giving a lot of praise. By the way. I can't wait to get some cow guys on here because we have a beat reporter from Cal that's going to come on the pod. He's, he's, he's really eating.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Remember we talked a few months back. That story has been confirmed. It is tr.
It is true. We'll get into it when that guy comes on.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: But yeah, yeah, dude, I'm just not buying the Fernando Mendoza stuff now that I know like all the backstories, I'm just not digging it.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: I looked into it, talked. Yeah, a lot of that stuff is true.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
I can't wait to get the cow guys on here. I even potentially have their lead physical trainer. That might be down to come on the pod.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: Have they checked your knee out, Rome? Have they given you good advice?
[00:33:35] Speaker B: No, no, I said I squashed the dirt. I might have accidentally hit on someone's girlfriend.
You know, if I can figure that one out, he'll come in the pod.
[00:33:45] Speaker C: Sounds like that that's a little over with at this point. And your knees not getting any extra help.
Well, you had. Well, what about your Steelers, Rome, you guys drafted your quarterback of the future, Drew Aller from Penn State.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I like that pick for them, actually.
[00:34:00] Speaker C: This is Kenny Pickett 2.0. We take another hometown guy.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: I don't know. I. I don't know what to think about it yet.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: I, I honestly, I think Drew Eller's gonna be a still under Mike McCarthy.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: You gotta think Rogers is coming back though, right?
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:34:15] Speaker C: Feels like he's told.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: He feels like I'm not throwing Drew out there, out there year one, that's for sure.
[00:34:19] Speaker C: Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, I feel, I feel like McCarthy and Rogers already talked about conflicting reports
[00:34:24] Speaker B: that like Rogers and McCarthy had an unofficial meeting before the draft.
[00:34:30] Speaker C: I'm sure they did. I. I mean, it didn't seem like Rogers was done done like he was soaking it in, but I think it was depending on what the situation was going to be and with them going. I think we talked about this in kind of the end of the year, at the end of the season pod when you named McCarthy, I was shocked by the mood given the track record of the Steelers going with a young coach, building culture, and they're kind of doing more of a stopgap guy. But I think when you do stopgap guy that has a history with Rogers, like, they're betting on like, hey, we'll get to keep Rogers. We got some stuff in place with his infrastructure and with all her now, okay, maybe that's the guy he's gonna have to coach up. And you know, for all you say about Mike McCarthy, he's making, he's made some offenses move. Like, you got the best years out of Dak. You know, you look at Aaron Rodgers like early years in the super bowl and where he was at. So, I mean, there's there's definitely a
[00:35:15] Speaker B: pretty big falling out.
Rodgers came to the Steelers to play for Tomlin, so that's one thing. But I think Rogers actually fell in love with football again playing for the Steelers. Like, it's just different playing for the black and gold. I think that that's what happened. Like, he liked all the teammates. Hayward's coming back. You got some veteran presence there. There's just a lot of big names, a lot of big contracts. They looked old as fuck, though. I'm a little worried, but we'll see.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Well, playing for the jets is a shit show, Rome. But I will say this. The jets did have a great draft.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: I thought they had a really good
[00:35:45] Speaker A: draft, so I'm hoping they could turn some things around.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: At least.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Their first round picks. I like them all.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: They nailed it pretty well. I haven't, like, dug in, dug in into all seven rounds of the draft yet.
Kind of taking my sweet time, but I caught the gist of everything.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: It's fair. We'll pan out. We got some more free agency probably here. The big news of the NFL. You know, NFL, they do it better than anyone because they just. They make. They make content out of nothing. So we had all the draft, and now in May, you'll get the schedule release, and that'll be a big thing. We're gonna be breaking down the schedules and stuff like that so the NFL knows how to stay in the headlines, even when they don't. Even when they're not in season.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Yeah, A.J. brown's gonna go to the Pats.
We got everything that's going on with the Pats. Brable.
The biggest scandals in Boston history.
[00:36:31] Speaker C: Diana Rossini broke the A.J. brown story. I felt like a while back, no one wanted to listen.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: All right, you guys want to talk about that real quickly?
Not really.
I feel bad because I like Brable.
I didn't care for Diana.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: He's getting some counseling right now, right? He's in counseling.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: Course he is. Once they said he's getting counseling. Like, counseling for what? Nothing happened. Right. But that press conference was not good. That press conference just said, like, all right, dude, it's about to come out that, like, yeah, they got caught right
[00:36:57] Speaker A: there going to a private resort with someone. Not good.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: And then.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: And then.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: And then the next day, the New York Post comes out with more pictures from, like, six years ago before she even, like, officially got married and had the kids with. With her current husband. I'm like, dude, like, this is. This is like Amari, Amari episode, but, like, NFL version.
You know, even the first kids named after has the same name as, as Mike Vrabel. It's. It's a little weird.
[00:37:28] Speaker C: Like, I don't know. She's. I think Dynasty's Italian, comes from an Italian family. Name of the kid Michael. Seems pretty much like on par for what you're doing there.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: Okay, so I don't, I don't give you guys that.
[00:37:37] Speaker C: There was a lot of stuff though, throughout that though. So, I mean, I don't know.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: You know, she's made a lot of comments though. She's on Bill Simmons podcast like a year ago, like, like, like one of the rewatchables and she made a comment about like people jumping on Mike Babel's D.
What Once it becomes like the coach of the paths. And she's always been favorable about my Mike fable. Like now, now it's making so much sense. Like she's been hyping this guy up for a lot, a lot of reasons. You know, it's fair. No, I mean, I hope he doesn't lose his job or like, he ain't losing his job. She lost Josh Daniels already been done.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: He would have already been fired.
[00:38:16] Speaker C: He was gonna lose.
[00:38:18] Speaker B: They're not firing.
[00:38:19] Speaker C: They're not. She lost her job. It is what it is. But I mean, obviously a little bit of different story with her. But I mean all of these like insiders, like different ways. I mean, Schefter had the controversy where like, basically he was getting like what the GMs like ghostwrite his emails basically on what, you know, he was gonna, you know, tweet out or whatever when it came to the story. And you know, I could, I could say like, they all got these guys like the, the Bruce Levine or something out of Major League Baseball that writes.
No, it's not him. Bob Nightingale BASEBALL WRITER he's got everything about the White Sox all the time is because the owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, everyone knows he leaks everything to him all the time. So like, like the White, you know, I'm bringing this to me in the White Sox, but the White Six are the first overall pick. The consensus number one is Rock Chalowski, the UCLA shortstop. He's like one of the best prospects in the generation. And the story came out that, ah, they don't know the White Sox aren't soldier they're going to take if they're going to take this guy or not. I'm like, yes, that's the cheap owner telling you that. I don't know if I want to take this guy because he's too paid. So I don't know. All these insiders got their information one way or the other and they're doing, you know, whatever favors. I mean, obviously this is a little more scandalous and everyone's about it, but
[00:39:30] Speaker B: it's kind of cool like having like a six year affair. Like I. I got. I got.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: It's kind of like six years might be generous.
[00:39:37] Speaker B: Rome obviously like love each other, but not love each other. Like in a way to be with each other. But like, you know, that's a serious commitment there to. To have a. A side relationship.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: They got sloppy, Rome. They got sloppy.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Well, who? Well, dude, like.
[00:39:51] Speaker C: Well, it's all because they didn't go to the. The Jay Glazer coaching beers party or whatever it is. That was the whole. Didn't I. I thought that was. The thing is like Glazer host this annual like. Yeah, yeah, like pool party and like
[00:40:04] Speaker B: 20 coaches show up.
[00:40:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, 28 of the coaches went, but Vrabel didn't go. And that's where him and Rossini allegedly were at throwing their own party. I don't know if there's no witnesses that anyone else showed up.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, there's no six other people.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: They're all ghost, these witnesses, dude.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: Vrabel up. You can't. You can't say no to beers of the guys for a cyline reporter. Come on.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: Hey, he's only got. It's the off season. It's airing the season he can't hang out over. So like you said, Rome, they're in love, but not that typical fashion of love we are used to.
[00:40:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.
All right. We talked about Klay Thompson. Good luck, Clay.
Good luck, dude. Last thing I want is a whole bunch of black angry women coming after me. So you got your work cut out for you.
We'll see you in Golden State next year for the expendables season.
We talked about variable. NHL, NBA. I think we covered everything. Oh, and now Alex Cora gang axed.
But I really don't. Don't have much. My friend Todd, he's a big Red Sox guy. He's from Boston. He never liked Cora anyways because like some like the sexual conduct stuff but back in the day.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: But seems like a common theme over there with these Boston guys, right?
I'm just saying.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: What's in the water, dude?
[00:41:32] Speaker A: It must be.
[00:41:33] Speaker C: The Red Sox are an interesting point though and overall in an organization because they.
They are starting to lose some of the goodwill in a big way that this Ownership group led by John Henry got in 2004, you know, we bought this organization, I think it was 2003. They purchased it and then win the World Series quickly.
Had sustained, sustained success. What they get four World Series, I think since he took over.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: Four.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. The fourth one was more recently with.
[00:42:04] Speaker A: Yeah, because Frank won three, right?
[00:42:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: And then Core won the one and was it 18.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: 18.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:11] Speaker C: And there's been some interesting articles. I'd have to figure out who.
I'd have to figure out who. I watch this and cite this. But you know, where John Henry, the owner of the Red Sox, you know, it's a, it's a massive, you know, conglomerate group that owns.
I think they own Liverpool and they own a NASCAR team.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: Liverpool's not having a great year either.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: No. And so it's kind of turned it into like where.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Reminding me.
[00:42:37] Speaker C: I'm sorry, I got, I got friends that are Liverpool fans as well too. So I mean, wasn't at all there.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: But it just seems like they win championships and then they kind of like gut resources. They kind of cut corners, they. They lose guys.
[00:42:49] Speaker C: Well, that's really what they're saying is like you have these assets now where you, you own the global brand and you know, it turns it into a, you know, it's an investment vehicle and you're just trying to cut costs. It doesn't matter. And so when you think back to the Red Sox and why bring them up like the Mookie bet situation really kind of that starting point where you, you trade the guy, pretty much love that one. Pretty much pennies on the dollar to your Dodgers Rome, like they got. I only got anything left from that trade for you know, what top five player in baseball at that time. And because you didn't want to extend him, you know, and then, you know, you've done the same thing, you know, letting Xander Bogarts go, although that may have been a good move. He has been the greatest. But.
And then last year you had the situation with who they send to the Giants.
[00:43:38] Speaker A: Devers.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Devers. And so they're not committing to any of these long term guys. Then they sign a terrible contract with Trevor Story, which questionable there why you're signing that. And so that doesn't seem to be the overall, you know, investment or the team on like these homegrown guys that they have. And I think going back to the goodwill aspect of the Red Sox fans, like, hey, you got this thing where like you created an entire, you know, generation, maybe two generation of winners in The Boston area. And now you got an owner that is, you know, cutting costs at every reasonable course. And, and like we're not putting a World Series contending team out on the field when, you know it's a tough division, the east the top.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: And, and they brought up some guys last year, made a run for the playoffs, an unlikely playoff run. And so people had some high expectations this year and, and the team just wasn't playing very good either. So John Henry got a hair up his ass and fired everybody. Like it's. It's pretty wild. A lot of Boston fans are not happy.
[00:44:36] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I think, I think. And I don't know the ton of it, but a lot of it's going back to Craig Breslow. Yeah. I think you ask how do these guys get this job? I think he's a former major league pitcher that's now chief of baseball operations over there.
And so he's the one to fire Cora and everybody else.
[00:44:54] Speaker B: He said it was decision, huh?
[00:44:57] Speaker C: Yes.
Yeah. And so scapegoat. Yeah. I mean, and it, and it could be. I mean, this is.
I. That's just, it's interesting for the Red Sox. You think about where this organization was. There basically was them in the Yankees as far as spending and, and all that. And you got a little more. You know, obviously the Dodgers have come on the last decade and the Mets with got. They got an owner with deep pockets and some different spending, but the Red Sox just, they've been able to put it together and like the goodwill with this team and that fan base in Boston is in a very interesting place.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: Well, they had a couple bad seasons before they won that unlikely 18 run against my Dodgers, which I hated that World Series, by the way.
And then. Yeah, it's been kind of up and down since then, so. Yeah, well, this was trying to get uneasy.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Cora's second stint because remember he was fired because of that Houston suspension.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:50] Speaker C: Yeah. One year suspension.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:53] Speaker A: So.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: So they brought him back maybe who, who's a Yankees manager that they got fired like three or four times.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Billy Martin.
[00:46:01] Speaker B: Billy Martin. Maybe he's like the modern day Billy Martin, maybe comes back again, but now it looks like he's done.
I. I really don't see him managing any other team for a while either. He's not high on like the personality list on a lot of major league baseball teams, so he, he might be done for a little bit.
[00:46:20] Speaker C: I don't know, man. These baseball guys, they kind of recycle of them any which way. He's Got a World Series. Not everyone's got a World Series. From a manager perspective, I wouldn't be surprised if someone locks be like a
[00:46:32] Speaker B: what, like a Miami Marlins team or.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Well, I think the Mets are getting ready to fire their manager.
They're gonna be in the market.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: I can't. He can't go to the Mets. By the way, while we were talking about that, we were 20 seconds away to going to a second overtime. Knights and Mammoth and Knights shot a goal to go to win it. Five, four, two.
[00:46:57] Speaker A: Two Series tied, man.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: It was like, it was like hectic in like the last like 30 second clip, man. Like pretty wild. Hockey might be better in playoffs.
[00:47:08] Speaker C: No, hockey is better in the playoffs. Hockey has the best postseason season. Like it's not close.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: It's pretty exciting, man. I even as like a casual fan like me, like, I'm trying to watch as much highlights as possible.
[00:47:21] Speaker C: Hockey's got the best postseason then baseball, probably football, basketball, to me.
[00:47:26] Speaker B: Pascal's last.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Basketball's last, man. Just terrible, terrible postseason.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: I used to love basketball.
[00:47:32] Speaker A: Basketball's first round's too long.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: It gotta go back to five games. I like well, because you have more of a chance of. Of getting upsets.
[00:47:38] Speaker A: You know, I think that's what makes baseball really interesting. That wild card round being five games. Like the lower C team can actually have a good chance to win.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, final comments.
[00:47:51] Speaker C: I don't think we have to get into it now, but I think. Interesting comment. Just throwing another sport out there. Golf.
The live tour seems to be on life support.
They're. They're postponing the new New Orleans stop, so be interesting to see as the summer unfolds. Like it seemed like they were announcing it's over with, but then they still played that tournament in Mexico right after that.
But, you know, where's that gonna like leave this, you know, league, league, whatever it is by the end of the season and work kind of all the. How do those guys kind of incorporate back into the pga assumingly?
[00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah, real quick. There was a few things like, you know, during our break that came out that they might not have the funding to finish the league or like this season. And then, and then, and then they came out and said, like, we actually do. We're fine. We're finished the season and we're good to go this year and beyond.
And then, and then, yeah, so like more, more PR stuff saying, like the Saudi Arabia, like, they're done funding it. Like it. They're just losing money. They're paying everybody all this Money they're not attracting or getting enough crossover for, like, the PGA fans, like, because it's not really different. Right. It's just golf.
Less rounds and shorts and like some hip hop music. Like, who gives a shit? I'd rather go play golf myself. And then, you know, PJ is on fire. You got Roy McElroy, you know, winning back to back Masters.
It's getting pretty. I don't know, I guess the PJ has, like, talked about in and it's gone out that they're gonna find a way to kind of reincorporate some of these players back in. They're gonna make people pay. Like, they've already made who. Who came back this past year. It was like two or three guys, and they had to pay like, what, like, five, $10 million to come back and plus do like some community service.
Kind of weird, but.
[00:49:35] Speaker C: I didn't hear about the community service part. But, yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's a barrier to entry for some of them, considering where it was at. But yeah, I mean, the PGA Tour has been great. The Masters isn't technically a PGA event, but, you know, these guys that were in live, I'm. You know, I'm sure there's some exceptions, but they also just weren't doing good in these tournaments. A lot of guys went over there, took the money, but they weren't competitive in the majors.
Yeah. Even if they were, like, relevant.
[00:50:00] Speaker B: Ram. Yeah, John Rom Ram.
[00:50:04] Speaker C: So I don't think they're getting the proper reps when they get into these tournaments. And then. Yeah, like you said, Corey, Rory and the Masters.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: You know, he almost blew that one, too.
[00:50:13] Speaker C: Almost did, but he got it.
Masters, Fun Masters. I think it's. I think it's good. I think it's good for golf for. For Rory to continue kind of on this run right now, because I think golf's better with the.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: My daughter loved it. We ended up going, playing like. Like some golf afterwards. I'm like, hell yeah.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: There you go. Rome.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: No. Yeah. Liv's done, dude. And it's kind of crazy because they were so close to dismantling the pga, but they made the PGA stronger. They finally ponied up the money advertising, all that stuff.
Tiger's still flipping SUVs in the off season, but, you know, it's okay.
That guy needs help.
[00:50:49] Speaker A: He's. Isn't he over in Germany getting some help?
[00:50:52] Speaker B: Dude, the memes after that. Oh, it's okay. I was talking to the president.
[00:50:57] Speaker C: It wasn't even the memes. Even the AI, they had like, they had like videos in the AI of like just like this car, like rolling out of the thing, like flipping over on like the, on the green, like, like the gasp.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: The back of the cop car. I'm like, ah, dude, I feel bad for Tiger, man. I just wanted to play golf again.
[00:51:16] Speaker C: I don't think that's gonna be happening. I think it's pretty much over at this point.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: He's, he's addicted to white waitresses and painkillers, man. So it's a bad, it's a bad hole to go down.
Those are not the holes that you want to be playing. Yeah, Tiger.
Yeah, that could have went pretty south. All right. Anything else?
[00:51:37] Speaker A: Say that for the comedy show Rome. Work on it, Work on it.
[00:51:41] Speaker C: He's got a new five minute.
[00:51:42] Speaker B: I didn't do any stand up today. I'm working on some new material, but there you go.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Throw Tiger in there.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: And I got heckled pretty badly. I had like a good lesbian joke and I wasn't paying attention. It was like some butchy lesbians in the front and they were too drunk to, to get the joke. And I got to get better, better.
[00:52:00] Speaker C: Gotta, gotta read the audience, I guess, a little better on this material.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: They look like guys. I, I didn't know. I just saw just right.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: You don't know. It's not your problem.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: They're wearing Carhartt. Carhartt in like some NASCAR hat. How am I supposed to fucking know? You know, one had a stubble. No, you can't tell anymore these days.
[00:52:18] Speaker C: Hey, that's, it's, that's how you become one of the greats. Rome. You got to get out, out there, work, work the material in front of different audiences, you know?
[00:52:25] Speaker B: Fucking work. Dude, I got worked. I, I only did four minutes and I, I, I had a ten minute set and I'm like, you know what? I think I'm good.
[00:52:33] Speaker A: You got, you got out of there in time, huh?
[00:52:35] Speaker B: Dude, I got out like, all right. And then the guy that was hosting is like, it happens to the best of us, dude. It's okay.
It was funny.
Just the wrong crowd.
[00:52:45] Speaker C: Well, Aaron will help you work in some of these Tiger jokes.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: So.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. I guess before we go Rome, we'll touch on college football. Big story came out this afternoon with Texas Tech's quarterback Brandon Sorsby.
Looks like he's probably gonna be ineligible to play going forward with the NCAA after checking, checking himself into gambling rehab after allegedly placing thousands of bets online, betting college football, NFL and other stuff. So 5 million dollar quarterback in the offseason for Texas Tech looks like that he will not see the field again.
[00:53:22] Speaker B: Like a few years ago that like he like joked about making a bet.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: That was, that was the Oklahoma quarterback. Remember the, the, the. Was it the Venmo with the ucla? Usc? Yeah, that's a different guy.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: Oh, I thought the same guy.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: No, this is different.
[00:53:38] Speaker B: That's tough.
[00:53:40] Speaker A: Yeah, because I think Texas Tech was going to win the Big 12 again and be a playoff team. But now their backup quarterbacks coming off a torn acl. So now they're down to the third string guy and there is no spring transfer portal like there used to be before. So yeah, they look like they could be in trouble. I'd be interested to see what their odds are right now to make the playoff. I'm sure those got shifted pretty quickly by Vegas.
[00:54:01] Speaker C: Big 12's tough, you know, the wide open there in the Big 12.
[00:54:04] Speaker A: I got surprised for the Big 12 this year, but I'll save that for August. September.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Save it man, save it. Anything else?
[00:54:12] Speaker C: Well, we got F1 this week. I don't know if we're doing an F1 special, but Miami Grand Prix we got later in the week. So.
Yeah, we can talk a little more about that. F1 is back.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: We can pop on like Thursday night, maybe do like a quick little 20, 30 minute segment.
I'll get it out.
[00:54:29] Speaker C: Look forward to it.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: That'll be good to go.
All right man, then I'll do it then we are out.
