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Speaker 2: Brandon Lau up again looking for a s third home run.

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Speaker 2: I should do alternate version play by play one on

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Speaker 1: He put on some kind of mask in the dugout afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Wonder if he's a serial killer. Here's the pitch and

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Speaker 2: there's a week round or a second we beat it out.

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Speaker 1: No, he won't ending over. Oh no, two hours. See,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be a good play by play guy.

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Speaker 2: I really thought I was going to hit a home

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Speaker 2: run every time up this season. At the end of

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Speaker 2: the show yesterday, I was talking about that draft map

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Speaker 2: from the NFL. It was on Twitter. It's scary the

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Speaker 2: draft here in Pittsburgh. It's swayed out like the Normandy invasion.

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Speaker 2: Omaha Beach on the North Shore, Juno Beach at the Point,

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Speaker 2: Sworn Beach at Station Square. I'm so scared I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: get shot coming right out the landing craft.

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Speaker 1: Seven hundred thousand drunks are.

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Speaker 2: Invading Pittsburgh and there won't be enough parking spaces or

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Speaker 2: hotel rooms. Roads are being closed, Traffic on the rivers

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Speaker 2: will be severely limited. The NFL Draft is taking over Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: and I am scared to death. This is the Mark

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Speaker 2: Mannon show. A three three four one two w xdx

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Speaker 2: is the number to call.

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Speaker 1: A little draft talk.

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Speaker 2: Uh Or laws Scow in ESPN keeps saying that Ty Simpson,

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Speaker 2: the Alabama quarterback, that Simpson's better than Mendoza from Indiana,

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Speaker 2: who's going to be the first pickover off to Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody really believe that Simpson is better than Mendoza

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Speaker 2: or more draft ready as some say. I can't believe

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Speaker 2: But this is the business we've chosen. But Todd McShay

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Speaker 2: said it too, the draft geek, that Simpson is more

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Speaker 2: NFL ready than Mendoza. How can that possibly be? Simpson

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Speaker 2: started fifteen games at Bama. Mendoza started thirty six games

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Speaker 2: at college. That's twenty one more than Simpson. How could

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Speaker 2: Simpson possibly be more NFL ready?

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Speaker 1: That's just dumb. And I don't think either of them

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Speaker 2: I mean, Mendoza might be okay, I have no faith

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Speaker 2: in the quarterback who's only started one year in college.

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Speaker 1: I will say this.

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Speaker 2: They're both better than Kenny Picking and the Steelers picked

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know what we never got any calls on is

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Speaker 2: uh Tom was going into TV Will he be.

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Speaker 1: Good or Bad? Eight three three four one two WSDX.

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Speaker 2: We got a big hockey game tonight, Penguins at Ottawa

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Speaker 2: seven pm.

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Speaker 1: Here on the X Skinner in goal.

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Speaker 2: Ottawa's won four in a row, six out of seven,

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Speaker 2: playing Malkin is out looks like Avery Hayes, Mike wh

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Speaker 1: Tonight, Penguins.

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Speaker 2: If they lose tonight, they'll probably lose to Dallas at

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Speaker 2: home Saturday. And then you're at the Islanders Monday in

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Speaker 2: an absolutely crucial game.

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Speaker 1: Where do you turn it around?

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Speaker 2: If you don't turn it around, like say tonight, let's

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Speaker 3: What hey f y?

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Speaker 4: I that that mask that brand of Low popped on

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Speaker 2: I saw it from an angle. I thought it was

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Speaker 3: Huh might as well. Lean, Yeah, they are, they are.

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Speaker 1: Do you know do they know that almost all the

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: But they're trying to bring something old back, kind of

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Speaker 1: Well, don't don't you like?

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Speaker 2: Don't you like it when millionaires try to pay tribute

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Speaker 4: It is kind of oxymeronic in a sense.

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Speaker 1: I agree that that's a good way of putting it.

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Speaker 4: Any thoughts on Harrison Brening and lieu of Ryan Graves

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Speaker 1: That point, I think he would go to Wilkes.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the plan because the Penguins haven't made

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Speaker 2: think they're gonna be good bottom six players. But that's

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Speaker 2: all they will be is bottom six players, and the

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Speaker 2: Penguins need to find some star caliber forwards. Ben Kindle

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Speaker 2: guys even better than that. Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Vicky. Vicky, you're own with double M.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I have the answer to your two questions

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Speaker 5: shield the welder shields. The other myts are for their

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Speaker 1: Don't don't they look Don't they look stupid? Vicky?

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Speaker 3: They do look stupid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't wear oven mitst to play baseball.

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Speaker 2: I remember when athletes didn't want Well, actually, there is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that look like weird.

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Speaker 2: Mark Kelso from North Hills High School played many years

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Speaker 1: But these guys aren't smart.

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Speaker 2: They'd rather look the cover does look goofy, and that's

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Speaker 2: looking dumb. Thank you for the call. And it's one

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Speaker 2: thing to look dumb to protect a finger. Is anohing

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Speaker 2: it's very exciting. It is the premiere season premiere of

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Speaker 2: the no that was yesterday. I'm old, I forget stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's it's the episode two of this year's Bucko Round Up.

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Speaker 2: That's just around the corner. It's a little clumsy with

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Speaker 2: the Buckos playing It'll be good and U before we

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Speaker 2: go to break the IOC, the International Olympic Committee said

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Speaker 2: the trans women can't compete in the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna get the big.

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Speaker 2: Outcry from the usual suspects, but that's one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: the proper decision. Sports is based on one word, and

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Speaker 2: that one word is fair. Biological males have an unfair

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Speaker 2: and bodies tell them to and be loved and respected

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Speaker 2: like anybody else.

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Speaker 1: But let sports be fair.

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Speaker 2: And I hear it said, well, it's just a few

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Speaker 2: but when they win, those few girls, biological women who

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Speaker 2: for sure by the IOC, and I died. It'll trickle

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Speaker 2: with sports has to be the word fair.

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Speaker 1: A Mark Madden Bucco Round Up.

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Speaker 2: I'm next, Huzza one oh five to nine.

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Speaker 1: See the top cornhole players in the world.

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Speaker 2: I get a kick every time I hear that, what's

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Speaker 1: I mean cornhole, pickleball. Poker is not really a sport.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I get tangled in the web of watching poker

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Speaker 2: because I just want to see what the next card is.

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Speaker 2: But now it's time for the Buco round up with

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Speaker 2: the score in New York Reading met six buckos four

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Speaker 2: in the bottom of the fifth. Still plenty of baseball

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Speaker 2: to be played. You know, when I start to wonder

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Speaker 2: if this team's gonna be any good, if it's gonna well,

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Speaker 2: forget about living up to the potential some people saying

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Speaker 2: five hundred e When I hear words used like culture

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Speaker 2: and vibe and aura, we've been over that, because none

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Speaker 2: of those things are as important as tangibles like kidding

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Speaker 2: and fielding and pitching, and mostly besides the obvious tangibles

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Speaker 2: like skeins who got rocked today, not all his fault,

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Speaker 1: We've been over that.

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Speaker 2: How much I hate I already talked about how much

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Speaker 2: I hate vibe an aura kind of stick culture in

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Speaker 2: there too. Good teams wind up having good culture. You

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Speaker 2: These things like leadership are assigned after the fact, and

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Speaker 2: always accurately, so, which tells you something we could talk

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Speaker 2: about the catcher thing. Should Davis be the Pirates starting

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Speaker 2: catcher hitting one sixty seven last year, although he did

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Speaker 2: get a double today? But should he be the starting

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Speaker 2: catcher because that's what schemes and I guess Chandler want

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Speaker 2: when they pitch. Or would Bart's bad help more? Because

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Speaker 2: I think so. But this is a team that's already compromising.

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Speaker 2: It's defense a great deal to get more offense in

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Speaker 2: the lineup. You got a first basement in right field,

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Speaker 2: And he's always sucked and he's never helped them win.

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Speaker 1: Stand.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: The logo is bereughed to balls in Pride, has been

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Speaker 3: Hey Mark, are you doing? H question for you and

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Speaker 3: just a comment. Is there any movement on the Planes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's gonna get done.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call up.

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Speaker 1: It's the home of the Penguins one oh five to nine.

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Speaker 2: He's Dan Rose and Dan, Mets look pretty good today.

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Speaker 2: Knock schemes around a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well, O'Neil Cruise helps a little bit with that, didn't he. Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's start out with the obvious question.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I wouldn't take this to the vetting people

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Speaker 1: And where you go, well from your lips to God's ears.

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Speaker 3: But we don't have to teach him to play defense.

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Speaker 2: I think Columbus is going to make it too. The Islanders,

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Speaker 1: What has made them so good?

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Speaker 2: And how much of it had to do with the

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Speaker 3: I mean you just look at the They won their

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Speaker 3: That's who Brick Bonus is, like, that's his his level

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Speaker 2: I'm not crazy about their roster, Dan, but but the

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Speaker 2: They they seem to be gelling at just the right time.

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Speaker 1: No, no, I'm talking. I'm talking about Ottawa. Dan, Ottawa seems.

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Speaker 3: a season loan. That's a franchise loan that the Ottawa

436
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 3: Centers have ever let up. So that's great, but that

437
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 3: was a different type of game. But they have shot

438
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 3: at least forty four to fourteen. They that shot the

439
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 3: Islanders twenty seven or nineteen. They gave up twenty three

440
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 3: shots to I think it was the Capitals and the

441
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 3: Sharks in that neighborhood, right, The Canadians couldn't get much

442
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 3: going against them. They have the puck a lot, but

443
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 3: when they don't, they keep it on the outside. They

444
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 3: don't allow you to attack on the inside easily against them.

445
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 3: Second and third chance off of kennunities are non existent

446
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 3: almost But you look at the goaltending numbers. The goaltending

447
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 3: numbers are not that strong, you know, they're really not.

448
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 3: But they live it to the shots so well that

449
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 3: it gives their goaltenders a chance. And now the question

450
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 3: is can they continue to do that with all of

451
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 3: these injuries on the back end piling up. That's going

452
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 3: to be a big, big test to them.

453
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to the Penguins. I don't think they're collapsing.

454
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: I think they're playing a little below the standard. They

455
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 2: had said at the wrong time, and maybe they're tired. Dan,

456
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 2: it's an older team. What's your take on where they're

457
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 2: at right now.

458
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 3: Well, it's certainly not a young team. That's that's true.

459
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 3: We know that it's not a young team. You know, Listen,

460
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 3: they haven't had a full roster. A lot of teams

461
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 3: of injuries, but they haven't had a full roster in

462
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 3: quite a while. I don't know if it's necessarily collapsing.

463
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 3: I mean, before playing Carolina and Colorado, they were beating

464
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 3: Carolina and well, they beat Colorado, they beat Utah, like

465
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 3: they had a really good West coast road trip that

466
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 3: you would take those points. I think what they get like,

467
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 3: you know, seven out of ten something like that or

468
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 3: six out of ten on that West coast road trip,

469
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 3: like it could be off, but it was a really

470
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 3: good trip. And then they came back and you know,

471
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 3: and they played Carolina at the end of it, and

472
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 3: you know, got a one point round of that. But

473
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 3: they played Carolina and Colorado their last two games. They're

474
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 3: not as good as those teams. They're not even it's

475
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 3: just not And I think the pak wasn't that good,

476
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 3: the power play wasn't that good. They didn't have Balkin.

477
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 3: But now listen, Odawa is a team like they're saying,

478
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 3: I'm really depleted on the back end this. You know,

479
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 3: I know you're on the road. The Senators are one

480
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 3: four in a row. You got to try to kick

481
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 3: them off at some point here. And this is gonna

482
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 3: be a big one here for the Pittsburgh Tenglins, because

483
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: you can't have losing streaks at this time of the

484
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 3: year that extend beyond two games and think you're going

485
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs and solidify your spot. So and

486
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 3: especially with Dallas next, and then you got the Islanders

487
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 3: and then you got the Red Wave and you got

488
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 3: the Lightning. I mean, this is you know, see a

489
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 3: lot of teams playing for a lot of things here.

490
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 3: They got to get a win here in Ottawa.

491
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.

492
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 2: And if I hate the point fingers at one problem

493
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 2: because again they just lost to two real good teams.

494
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: Dan, like you said, Yeah, but the goaltending has not

495
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: been great.

496
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 2: It's a lot three goals are more intended in the

497
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 2: last twelve and honestly, and this is a very talk

498
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: radio thing to do, but I've been preaching about maybe

499
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: bringing up morrishoff who's dominating in the AHL.

500
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 3: So are you telling me Mark that that a goaltendem

501
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: tandem of Stuart Skinner and Archer's Sea longs is questionable

502
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 3: for you at this time of year.

503
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: Well, for a while though it wasn't.

504
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, and we should have seen this coming maybe,

505
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 2: but they didn't.

506
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: They did good for a while.

507
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 3: They did really well for a while, and I liked

508
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 3: how they were using them too, you know, every other

509
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 3: game too, and they continue to do that. I think

510
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: Danny Mus has done a terrific job.

511
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.

512
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 3: Uh you know, side note quickly, Dan Mus was the

513
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 3: guy you know, having he was with the Rangers the

514
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 3: last years. He was always the loudest guy at practice.

515
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 3: He was the guy running all the drills, and he

516
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 3: was loud and he had the most energy of anybody.

517
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 3: And I haven't seen him a lot, obviously it's a

518
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 3: different role as a head coach. But I talked to

519
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 3: Kyle Dubis at the GM meetings last week and he

520
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 3: was saying, yeah, no, Dann's energy, that's a big part

521
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 3: of it, right. So he's done a terrific job. The

522
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 3: goaltending has sag. There's no question about it. They got

523
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 3: again backed. You're not gonna win by giving up four

524
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 3: or five six fold to night. You're not going to

525
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 3: make the playoffs if that happens. But this is not

526
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 3: These aren't world beater goaltenders. I mean, like I will

527
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 3: say this though, I would rather have Stuart Skinner in

528
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 3: my net right now than Tristan Jerry in my net. Yea,

529
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: So give me that, especially at the time and now

530
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 3: where Stuart Skinner is experienced in playing games that matter

531
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 3: and the big games, and also stays healthy in those

532
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 3: games too. So let's see if they can pick it

533
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 3: back up. I think Skinner goes tonight right against Ottawa.

534
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,239
Speaker 3: Let's see if he can pick it back up, and

535
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 3: then if he does, it might be time to sort

536
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: of ride one of them. I understand you've gone alternating

537
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 3: back and forth, and this is a tough coaching decision

538
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 3: here because you take it out of the rhythm of

539
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: the season that you had. But if if Stuke Skinner

540
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 3: plays well tonight, I might want to come back against

541
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: Dallas with him too.

542
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: I think the big story with the Penguins this year

543
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: might be Eric Carlson, who had a couple bad years

544
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: the first two years not as good as you expected.

545
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: But he's been absolutely fat this year. I think you

546
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: got to get some Norris votes. What do you think

547
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 2: is enabled him to turn it around so dramatically?

548
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 3: Great question? Uh, comfort level? You know, I mean understanding

549
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 3: of the system that Dan Hues has them playing, the

550
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: fact that he's just a really good player and this

551
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 3: was an Olympic year or two a lot to prove,

552
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: you know, for himself as well to himself to want

553
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: to be a big part of team Sweden. I think

554
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 3: a lot. You know, you put it all together, you

555
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 3: get a really good Ara Tolson and he's had a

556
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 3: terrific season, no question about it. He probably does deserve

557
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 3: Narris vote. It will be hard to get this year. Yeah,

558
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 3: who deserve it? You know? But but he probably does

559
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 3: with the numbers he's put up, the impact he's had,

560
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 3: and the fact that he's putting up numbers mark that

561
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 3: he's not just putting up numbers. He's a plus player

562
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: while putting up numbers. I'm not a huge buy in

563
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 3: on plus minus, but you know, when you're a defenseman

564
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 3: putting up big numbers and you end up I think

565
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: he's in double digits now in his plus minus, and

566
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: you know, on the plus side, that's a good side

567
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 3: for where this team's got, especially when you don't have

568
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 3: world beaters in the net.

569
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: Who's the NHL MVP?

570
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 3: Nikiita Kutrov. Nikita Kucharov for me right now is the MVP.

571
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 3: I was saying for a while that it's Kucherov. Well,

572
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 3: for a while I thought it was skinning and it's

573
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 3: still very well could be McKinnon. But I was saying

574
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 3: it's Kucherov unless the San Jose Sharks make the playoffs,

575
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 3: because if they do, then it's Maclin celebrating and you can, like,

576
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 3: you can have a case for Macklin celebrine right now,

577
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 3: and I would, I would definitely hear it. But the

578
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 3: Sharks have lost five in a row, there's seven points out.

579
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: They're not going to make the playoffs most likely, and

580
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: Nikita Kucharov is deuilt. He just has been absolutely on

581
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: fire two points per game over the last fifty plus

582
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 3: games on a team that has been honestly just decimated

583
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 3: at times by injuries. And now they're without headman, they

584
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: were without pointing Sorelli, and that's a Lefski for I mean,

585
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 3: decimated by injuries at times, and Mikita Kucharov has really

586
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 3: been a He's carried him I think where without the

587
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 3: obvious second guy because of the injuries, Whereas like McKinnon's

588
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 3: had the obvious second guy and McDavid until drive Tidle

589
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 3: without has had the obvious second guy. Celebreeding has not,

590
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 3: and I don't think Kucharov has either.

591
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 2: We agree on that when my pick is also Kucherov.

592
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: How about Noris Trophy Best Defenseman.

593
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: Warns Zach Warentida season. He's the leading scorer on his

594
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: team by a lot. He plays in all situations, he

595
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: plays huge minutes. His team is on the rise, you know,

596
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 3: second place team in the league. He is the best

597
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 3: player on that team, and he's playing the best on

598
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 3: that team. He's, to me, is an arstrip heal.

599
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: Okay, we're in agreement two for two. Although I don't

600
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: think he's gonna get it, do you. I think he

601
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 2: deserves it, But you know, Columbus, I mean, guys just

602
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 2: don't win awards there.

603
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, tough voting, you know, I get it. I understand that.

604
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: But uh Warentki might transcend that because he's a very

605
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 3: well known name, and he also had a big Olympics

606
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 3: for Team USA as well. That's true. I think that

607
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 3: that will help his cause in the voting for the

608
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: Narost Trophy.

609
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 5: Uh.

610
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 3: And it's obvious just look at the numbers. I mean,

611
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 3: look at look at what he's done, and look at

612
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 3: what the Blue Jackets have done. They coincide.

613
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: How about Besna winner top goalie?

614
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure there's anybody, honestly that's truly real deserving.

615
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 3: So I it's a you're, you're. It's a great question

616
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 3: because there is no like lock for this. But I

617
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 3: look at Sorokean with the Islanders. His numbers are absolutely

618
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: terrific and he doesn't have the same runway as vac

619
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 3: Celeski does or Ottinger does in terms of gold support. Right,

620
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 3: Swayman's been ridiculously good too, But if you look straight

621
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: in numbers, Sorokan's been better than Jeremy Swayman. So I

622
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: think it's Sorokan. There are two phases of the New

623
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: York Islanders right now. One of them is Matthew Shafer,

624
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 3: he has brought the energy, and the other one of

625
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 3: Delias Sarokan, who has just been so good for them

626
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: this season. Again, on a team that is not as

627
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: dynamic offensively as the somebody's dost teams.

628
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: Wow, great minds, that's who I would pick as well.

629
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: Who's your Stanley.

630
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 3: Techwinn Oh well, I haven't gone this far yet. Who's yours?

631
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: Who's it ain't the Penguins, although I do think they

632
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: I think there. I've been saying fifty to fifty to

633
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. I think it's probably a bit better

634
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: than that. Honestly, the Stanley Cup winer, I don't know.

635
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm putting you on the spot when I

636
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: won't put myself on the spot. I mean, Colorado looked

637
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 2: really good here when they killed the Penguins, so did Carolina.

638
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: I just don't trust Carolina's style. I think it's too

639
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: simple and easy to draw a bead on in a

640
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 2: best of seven series.

641
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: So I'd probably pick Colorado.

642
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: Okay, easy choice of Colorado. Their powerplay scares me for

643
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: some reason, it hasn't been very good. Thing that scares

644
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 3: me is the road that they have to go through

645
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: to get it. And you know, listen to the first

646
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: round probably not going to be the hardest, but the

647
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: second round is going to be a gauntlet to get

648
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 3: through it, and then they're going to face the team

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Speaker 3: coming out of the Pacific side that you know hasn't

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Speaker 3: had the hardest time either. They're way better than the

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Speaker 3: team coming out of the Pacific side, whoever it is.

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Speaker 3: But also you wonder what Colorado is gonna look like

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Speaker 3: coming out of the first two rounds. So that scares me.

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Speaker 3: It scares me about Dallas, and it scares me about Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: It's why I'm not even looking in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna look in the Eastern Conference and I'm gonna

657
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Speaker 3: tell you the team. Are you ready for it? Go

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Speaker 3: buff the Buffalo Sabers.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I mean, I think they would beat

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Speaker 2: Caroline in the series. I think their biggest problem is

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Speaker 2: gonna be getting past Tampa.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you're right. And the goaltending scares you

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Speaker 3: because they don't have a true number one. The playoff

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Speaker 3: experience scares you because they have none. But what they

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Speaker 3: have is they've they've caught something, They've they've wrote it,

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Speaker 3: and they they it's now who they are they. This

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Speaker 3: isn't a team that's just put together a good streak

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Speaker 3: here that's a small sample size. This is now who

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Speaker 3: the Buffalo Sabers are this season. They're detail oriented, hard

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Speaker 3: to play against, quick up, fast skating team, and they

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Speaker 3: don't have the baggage. They don't have to wear and

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Speaker 3: tear of previous long runs. I like the Buffalo Sabers.

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Speaker 3: I like them a lot. Dan.

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Speaker 2: The Mets just kept hitting home runs while you were

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Speaker 2: on the show, so that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: They lead eleven to five. Now we go, let's go Mets.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. I hope good stuff.

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Speaker 3: Opening day. They always win, Mark, that's what happens in

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Speaker 3: Game two is where we get worried.

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Speaker 2: All right, man, that's Dan Roseen, NHL Network in NHL

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Speaker 2: dot Com. We got more hockey with Josh Showy next hour.

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Speaker 2: Just around the corner. You've got to hear the weather report,

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Speaker 2: Jamis Winston gave for the MLB opener last night at

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Speaker 2: San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark Madden. One oh five to nine.

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Speaker 2: Pirates now trail eleven to five at New York. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure what any gets the commercial break. Should I

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Speaker 2: talk about baseball while they're playing?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I always have have like a feeling that if you

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Speaker 2: want to talk about baseball, you're watching the game or

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Speaker 2: listening to the game. But it's along four hours.

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Speaker 1: You got to hear this.

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Speaker 2: Here's Jameis Winston, the quarterback, giving a weather report before

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Speaker 2: last night's MLB opener at San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: Can you give us a Bay Area weather report ahead

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Speaker 3: of Yankees Giants opening nights.

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Speaker 2: Boa.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing more desirable in my nostrils right now than

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Speaker 6: the fresh went dirt here at Orale Park, in the

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Speaker 6: smell of something nice, freshle cliff grass out there in outfield.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but that's not the weather. Thanks the weather. Good

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Speaker 1: kuts m up.

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Speaker 2: Joe said it would rather Jamis said it would, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the friggie said. That's hilarious. Partly

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Speaker 2: caught a chance of cut grass all the goofy Tye Simpson.

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Speaker 2: Draft talk continues that he is more NFL ready than Mendoza,

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Speaker 2: who's going to be the first pick overall. Here's Adam

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Speaker 2: Schefter on ESPN.

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Speaker 7: I think it's hard to project quarterbacks a month out

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Speaker 7: because if we were talking last year at this time,

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Speaker 7: we would have projected Shador Sanders as a top ten pick,

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Speaker 7: and we all know what happened last year. So I'm

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Speaker 7: hesitant to commit on any quarterbacks other than to say

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Speaker 7: right now the consensus is Ti Simpson is number two.

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Speaker 7: The real intriguing question to me is, as people have

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Speaker 7: talked about, where does he fit in the first draft.

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Speaker 7: If the Jets don't take him at sixteen, to take

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Speaker 7: him at twenty four, they weren't in attendance there yesterday

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Speaker 7: with Andrew Berry.

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Speaker 3: Do the Dolphins take him at thirty?

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Speaker 7: Is there a team that trains back in to the

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Speaker 7: first round to get him. That may be the most

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Speaker 7: likely scenario.

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Speaker 2: Simpson being the number two quarterback and a bad draft

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Speaker 2: for quarterbacks, and it was supposed to be good, remember,

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Speaker 2: but it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's a bad draft for quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me of when Kenny Pickett was the number

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Speaker 2: one quarterback in a bad draft for quarterbacks. Simpson's only

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Speaker 2: started fifteen games in college. That never works out when

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Speaker 2: that guy with that level of inexperience gets to the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Simpson's not a star type quarterback. He's far from being

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen. Simpsons should go second or third round like

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Speaker 2: Pickett should have.

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Speaker 1: But some teams just.

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Speaker 2: Got a draft a quarterback, like the Steelers, so tragically

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Speaker 2: just had a draft pickt here's the former NFL GM

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Speaker 2: Mike Tannembaum on ESPN, and he thinks Max Crosby, who

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Speaker 2: didn't go to Baltimore, could yet wind up at Dallas.

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Speaker 8: I think that's close to what IX one was. It

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Speaker 8: was a two this year and the two next year,

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Speaker 8: and the two could become a one. So it's in

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Speaker 8: the ballpark. Look, Dallas is probably saying, I don't want

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Speaker 8: to give up the twelfth pick in the draft if

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Speaker 8: I worry about where he's going to be in three years.

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Speaker 8: I push back to that is, go certainty that your

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Speaker 8: first round pick's going to be on your team in

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Speaker 8: three years.

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Speaker 7: But if it's the twentieth pick, right, because Dallas has

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Speaker 7: twelve and twenty.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely Yeah, there's definitely some ways you can and you

753
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Speaker 8: can certainly flip some picks. If I'm Dallas because I

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Speaker 8: was so bad, this is an opportunity that they need

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Speaker 8: to take a banjo.

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Speaker 1: With the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you trade Micah Parsons last season

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Speaker 2: and a Ford Max Crosby.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a Don Gray. You'd rather have Parsons.

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Speaker 2: But that's what happens when a guy with the acumen

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Speaker 2: of a fan is the general manager Jerry Joneses wrecked

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, a franchise that seemed unreckable, and he doesn't

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Speaker 2: know he's wrecked it, and very few others will say

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Speaker 2: it out loud, like he got Quinnon Williams from the

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Speaker 2: Jets last year. Okay, so why not keep Parsons? And

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Speaker 2: there was some bad blood between Parsons and Jerry, but

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Speaker 2: nothing that money could not have fixed. This segment brought

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Speaker 2: to us by the Steelers pro Sho'll get it direct

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Speaker 2: from the team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Up next,

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Speaker 2: should I talk baseball while the Pirates are playing?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'd love to get his hockey calls.

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Speaker 2: Big game tonight, Pittsburgh at Ottawa, two teams fighting for

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Speaker 2: Eastern Conference playoff spots. What do you think of that game?

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Speaker 2: Is it must win? How close are the Penguins to

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00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: must win territory? Because don't forget there's only seven games left.

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Speaker 2: You've lost too in a row. You're back home on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: but that's against Dallas, who might be one of the

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Speaker 2: best two or three teams in the league. Lose tonight,

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Speaker 2: you could see a three game winning streak go to

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Speaker 2: four very easily. And like Dan Rosen from NHL dot

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Speaker 2: com said, just a moment ago, you don't make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs having long losing streaks this time of year, But

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Speaker 2: we'll talk a little baseball up next, Pirates Trail eleven

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Speaker 2: to five.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark Madden. One oh five nine total traffic. Joe

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Speaker 1: Flynn here with