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Speaker 2: in studio about eleven o'clock. That'll take place about fifty

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Speaker 2: five minutes from now, good morning. And one of the

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Speaker 2: at Kevin seaffert story this morning at ESPN dot com,

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Speaker 2: Old School, Best School. Kevin Seaffert covers the Vikings in

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Speaker 2: and likely head coach Kevin O'Connell and acting general manager

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Speaker 2: some point next week from Arizona to talk about a

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Speaker 2: now includes this from Kevin Seafford at ESPN dot com.

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Speaker 2: The NFL Competition Committee has finalized a series of wide

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Speaker 2: ranging rule change proposals to account for the growing possibility

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Speaker 2: the growing possibility, writes old school, best school, mister Kevin Seffert,

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Speaker 2: And he is he is not of the He is

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Speaker 2: to account for the growing possibility of a workstoppage amid

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Speaker 2: tense collective bargaining negotiations with the NFL referees, siation, personal

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Speaker 2: List released by the league on Tuesday, The changes would

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Speaker 2: it began preparing for earlier this month. The changes only

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Speaker 2: develop a list of one hundred and fifty replacement candidates.

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Speaker 2: The NFL Area's current CBA NFL Referee Association's current collective

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Speaker 2: bargaining agreement is set to expire May thirty first. Much

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Speaker 2: more to the Seaffert story, at ESPN dot com, but

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Speaker 2: If a work stoppage were to continue into the regular season,

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve. What was the chaos in twenty twelve? There

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Speaker 2: While each game still would be officiated from the field staff,

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Speaker 2: And you know, you don't have to be Bernie Kuckar

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Speaker 2: a list of one hundred and fifty potential replacement candidates,

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Speaker 2: And I've explained twice why, and so like, those are

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Speaker 2: So what would the replacements be like? What would the

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not a concern of mine. I'm not

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Speaker 2: All right, Tony, how do you and Kevin Gorg know

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Speaker 4: Well? I came across Kevin when he was in his

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Speaker 4: he played with both my brothers, Donnie and Robbie. He

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Speaker 2: And we're going to hit some of them now and

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Speaker 2: then with Tony, and let's begin here. Who do you

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Speaker 4: no one expected them to becoming. Dallas has made their

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Speaker 2: Tony Grenado is our guest US Hockey Hall of Famer

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Speaker 2: You you you mentioned the wild when we talk dabs

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Speaker 3: That's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: they're drafted in one or two. That would make things

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Speaker 4: a lot quicker on potentially getting that organization back to

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Speaker 4: the winning But it's exciting for she's been traveling a lot.

437
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Speaker 4: She's certainly enjoying, you know, being part of an NHL franchise.

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Speaker 4: She's got great bosses there to work with, Jimmie Rutherford

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Speaker 4: and Patrick Alban the general manager in her staff. So

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Speaker 4: she's doing well and enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the great one and Tony Grenado was close

442
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Speaker 2: friends with Wayne Gretzky and actually roomed with him during

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Speaker 2: their La Kings days.

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Speaker 3: What was that like, Well.

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Speaker 4: It was a hot stove hockey kind of class every

446
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Speaker 4: single day in the room because you know, you know

447
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Speaker 4: how grits. When you watch him on TNT, you watch

448
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Speaker 4: him whenever he's interviewed and he talks about the game

449
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Speaker 4: of hockey, there's always something that you can hear, that

450
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Speaker 4: you can learn and you say, wow, it's something he

451
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Speaker 4: just sees the game and describes it in a totally

452
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Speaker 4: different way that man oh Man. I wish I would

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Speaker 4: have thought to have that first. So I had the

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Speaker 4: good fortune of yes, being his roommate for a couple

455
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Speaker 4: of years, being his linemate for a little bit of

456
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Speaker 4: that time, and just enjoyed him as person as far

457
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Speaker 4: as being just a regular teammate that would just want

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Speaker 4: to hang with the guy eyes and sit there and

459
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Speaker 4: talk hockey. So I was grateful for those days moments.

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Speaker 4: I wish I would have tooken a recorder and recorded

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Speaker 4: all of those conversations, because I could have wrote my

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Speaker 4: nice book or at least probably a library of books

463
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Speaker 4: with with everything I learned from him. But great human being,

464
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Speaker 4: great family man. And I love seeing him when he's

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Speaker 4: around on the panel or the board or you know,

466
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Speaker 4: on TV, just reliving those those moments and having him

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Speaker 4: explain the game of hockey to anybody who is a

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Speaker 4: positive thing.

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Speaker 2: A couple of quickis to close here for ho f

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Speaker 2: Tony Gronado, who set a New York Rangers rookie record

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Speaker 2: in eighty eight and eighty nine with thirty six calls.

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Speaker 3: H What's it?

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Speaker 2: What was it like being a Ranger in the Big

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Speaker 2: Apple and playing at Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously you know when you're when you make

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Speaker 4: it to DNA shall you're you're like a little kid, uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, live in your dream to do it in

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Speaker 4: Masson Square Garden, to do it with some friends at

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Speaker 4: Bryan Leach I'd played with the year before, and Olympic

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Speaker 4: came Mike Richter as well. We joined the Rangers together

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Speaker 4: at Pete Lobbolette that came up as well. Together. It

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Speaker 4: was an experience. We had Guillafleur and Marcel Deon, two

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Speaker 4: Hall of Famers with Chris Ninland, had a lot of personalities,

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Speaker 4: uh and and players on that team. As a young player,

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Speaker 4: you realize how lucky you were to have those guys

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Speaker 4: to kind of teach you and show you and set

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Speaker 4: the example of what being a pro hockey player was.

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Speaker 4: The other good fortune I had. I did play four

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Speaker 4: years of college and I did play an Olympic year.

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Speaker 4: Uh so I had five years after my draft year

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Speaker 4: to kind of get ready for that moment as opposed

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Speaker 4: to going in as a young player. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: I look back on that and and I, you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe had a chance to leave after my junior year

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Speaker 4: where I did talk to was about a potential contract

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Speaker 4: and signing, and I feel very fortunate that I maxed

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Speaker 4: out my collegiate eligibility and then got that bonus year

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Speaker 4: with the Olympic team. Because you can't go in over prepared.

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Speaker 4: You just can't. If you go in underprepared, you might

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Speaker 4: not ever make it. And for me to try those

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Speaker 4: pre you know, you know, year or two before, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm not so sure that my career would have lasted

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Speaker 4: as long as it did or turned out the way

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Speaker 4: it did. So I'm really lucky on that side of things.

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Speaker 4: And like I said, I had great teammates and leaders

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Speaker 4: that we were a great role models for me that

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Speaker 4: I could learn from and hopefully when I got to

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Speaker 4: be an older player, I could leave that with the

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Speaker 4: younger guys that was fortunate enough to play with.

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Speaker 2: Last one, my brother from when you coached the Wisconsin Badgers,

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Speaker 2: what was it like leading and coaching Cole Cawfield when

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Speaker 2: he was a Badger.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty from the standpoint, and this is this is

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Speaker 4: I try to explain to young coaches. That's so important

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Speaker 4: is when you get special players. And we already talked

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Speaker 4: about Gretzky, I also called Crosby. I coached Forsburg Sachkay Duke.

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Speaker 4: You know lots of Patrick Waugh, who I saw this

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Speaker 4: morning since I'm on the island. Because you get opportunities

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Speaker 4: to be around them, and then you see young talent

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00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 4: like cow Field, you can always learn as much from them,

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Speaker 4: possibly more even from the players that you coach, even

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Speaker 4: when you're there when you are their coach.

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Speaker 3: So I look at it that way.

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Speaker 4: It was a two way thing. I learned a lot

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Speaker 4: from Cole about different ideas and ways of goal scoring,

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Speaker 4: different ways of playing the game offensively and thinking the game.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And I just saw someone special there that you know

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Speaker 4: had something inside of them, the drive, the passion, the energy,

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Speaker 4: but more of the curiosity of trying to do things

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Speaker 4: outside the box instead of the standard way of training

532
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Speaker 4: and shooting box and doing things like everybody else. He

533
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Speaker 4: wanted to always create something more challenging for himself to

534
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Speaker 4: see if he could polish his skills in a different way.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I remember most about poaching.

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Speaker 1: Score your chance that top tier tickets from Wild Hockey.

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Speaker 1: Stapleton and more. Don't wait answer now at campagan dot com.

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Speaker 1: Keyword contests any luck yesterday? With it just lunch?

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on it in luck.

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Speaker 1: We got the best of the best match makers on

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Speaker 1: your case.

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Speaker 2: Though, let me rephrase that. I'm Christian, so I don't

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Speaker 2: believe in luck. But nevertheless, let me rephrase that things

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Speaker 2: going all right. It's just lunch for you and everybody

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Speaker 2: who goes to It's just lunch.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's never been better Pa, And it might be

548
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Speaker 1: called it's just lunch, but the matchmakers are so good.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be dinner and breakfast too though. You're awesome,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: News do Nord at times can be Brett's Bits and

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Speaker 2: Bets and or Max's musings. It's Sports Essentials, as some

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Speaker 2: still call it, or if we were back in the

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Speaker 2: Bloomington days, it would be your Sports Update at th

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Speaker 2: thirty eleven thirty, and I'm Paul Allen to the game

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Speaker 2: where they play on the wood that is hard and

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Speaker 2: in Amsterdam it's sixty nine and smokey. That's your fan

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Speaker 2: traveler's forecast. And here's Max Fuller with Max's musings.

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Speaker 1: It was announced earlier today that Minneapolis has submitted a

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Speaker 1: bid to host the twenty twenty eight NFL Draft at

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Speaker 1: us Bank Stadium. The final decision rest with the full

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Speaker 1: NFL ownership group. Around May fifth last year was when

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Speaker 1: they awarded the twenty twenty seven draft to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: So maybe keep our eyes peeled and eagerly await that

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Speaker 1: May early May kind of date for anything official, just

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Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing. The economic impact from recent

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Speaker 1: drafts is between one hundred to two hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 1: with more than six hundred thousand people attending last year

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay. And I mean, come on, we're way

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Speaker 1: better than green Bay. We could get that, we could

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Speaker 1: get that suckcraft to eight hundred at least.

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Speaker 2: Well, the NFL Draft is a month from tomorrow, so

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Speaker 2: therefore generally being in late April early is May, I

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Speaker 2: guess at the very latest for rounds four to seven.

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Speaker 2: The good news here is that for the corporate type

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Speaker 2: the NFL sends or the clients that are local or

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Speaker 2: the NFL sends. We're not going to have to hear

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Speaker 2: two weeks of complaining about the weather, like when they

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Speaker 2: had Super Bowl fifty two here, which I mean, we

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Speaker 2: had Super Bowl fifty two here, and you know, I

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Speaker 2: guess that was kind of a handshake payoff. You get

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Speaker 2: a new stadium developed, then you get a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: But I mean that was fifty two and we just

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Speaker 2: got done with sixty and there there are no there

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Speaker 2: are no rumblings that US Bank Stadium is going to

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Speaker 2: have a Super Bowl anytime in the near future. So

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Speaker 2: let's do it with the draft. I think that'd be

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Speaker 2: super cool. When when you get the people reporting on

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Speaker 2: it who are reporting on it now we're talking about

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Speaker 2: the heavy hitters for me being Chefty and dot com Tom.

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Speaker 2: When when people like that are starting to share information

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Speaker 2: like this, then I'm not going to say it's a

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Speaker 2: FATA complete that it's a completely done conclusion. But I'd

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Speaker 2: be surprised if the twenty twenty eight NFL Draft is

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Speaker 2: not at us Bank Stadium, and it's not necessarily a

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Speaker 2: coven to cleanup provided by But I'm just going to

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Speaker 2: respectfully disagree with something. The producer today, Maxwell Fuller said,

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Speaker 2: I think it was about an hour and sixteen minutes

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Speaker 2: ago where he was like, it'd be so cool if

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Speaker 2: we had the twenty twenty eight draft in Minneapolis. So

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Speaker 2: cool that I hope we're really bad in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: seven so we have a top three pick.

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Speaker 3: I always love that one.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I can do without the really bad part,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, it'd be cool, man. So anything you want

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Speaker 2: to say to the crowd about that statement you made, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I misspoke, Pa, I got a little ahead of

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Speaker 1: my skis there. Yeah, and I shouldn't. I shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: said that. Amen, you're one hundred percent right. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I was thinking, bro, I was tripping.

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Speaker 2: You misspoke, and subsequent it stuck me six hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty dollars. You may ask why, because I had to

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Speaker 2: buy you a round trip ticket to New Orleans to

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Speaker 2: walk around by yourself.

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Speaker 3: For two days. I always loved that one for two days.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So anyway, three two, Max's musing three two.

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Speaker 1: This one actually just came down the hopper about an

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Speaker 1: hour ago. According to it, Shamsa Sharania the NBA's Board

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Speaker 1: of Governors has approved a vote for the league to

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Speaker 1: explore bids and applicants for expansion teams exclusively in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas and Seattle. A bidding process is expected to generate

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Speaker 1: offers in the seven to ten billion dollar range. And

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Speaker 1: I believe I read also that it wouldn't be this

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Speaker 1: upcoming this next season, but the season after that is

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Speaker 1: the season that they're targeting for possibly having these NBA

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Speaker 1: expansion teams in Vegas and Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Getting going here, Okay, So when people talk about teams

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Speaker 2: that like the Washington Wizards, Okay, I'm from Washington, DC.

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Speaker 2: So when they were the Washington Bullets and single mom,

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Speaker 2: surely God rusted her soul would take me and my

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Speaker 2: friends Eric Wainwright, Dwayne Bonds, and Lucius Tisdale. Maybe Billy

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Speaker 2: Camillio would go if his mom would let him. She

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Speaker 2: would take us to Capital Center once a month for

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Speaker 2: Bullets games. It was like our once a month trip together.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I would watch Washington Bullets games with

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Speaker 2: Kevin Greevy, Alvin Hayes, West sunsealed and the first NBA

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Speaker 2: Championship game I ever attended was late seventies between the

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Speaker 2: Bullets and the Seattle SuperSonics. Seattle had a guard who

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Speaker 2: ended up becoming a star for the Boston Celtics named

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Speaker 2: Dennis Johnson. God Rest his soul. This was before the

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Speaker 2: three point line, and they had a player named Downtown

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Speaker 2: Freddie Brown who was Caitlin Clark before Caitlyn Clark was

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark and she's Caitlyn Clark, meaning Downtown Freddie Brown

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Speaker 2: pulled up from the logo no three point line and

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Speaker 2: hit them all. The point being here is I don't

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Speaker 2: like their not being basketball in Seattle. I think it's

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Speaker 2: super cool to have a team in Seattle. So that's

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Speaker 2: going to happen, and Las Vegas will move to four

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Speaker 2: sports teams where they're going to get that baseball bit

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Speaker 2: next to Mandalay Bay and of the hockey team and

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Speaker 2: Team Mobile prints money.

652
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 3: I mean, they do so well.

653
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders still very much work in progress, but

654
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: thanks to the trangent nature of Las Vegas and also

655
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: the casinos and Greece and the Wales, they sell out allegiant.

656
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 2: So four pro sports teams in a market that size

657
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: sounds like a little bit of a surprise. But nevertheless,

658
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 2: with all those hotels, wonderful destination to have a road game.

659
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: And with that said, the Minnesota Timberwolves probably would go

660
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: to the Eastern Conference, right, That.

661
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: Is that is basically this team all the reports are saying,

662
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: that's what all the NBA officials and you know, owners

663
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: are thinking. Because and I know a lot of people

664
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: will pull up the map, Memphis is technically more Eastern

665
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: than Minnesota or Minneapolis is, but in terms of the

666
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: conferences many Apple makes infinitely more sense because then you

667
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: could just group them with the Chicago Bulls, the Detroit Pistons,

668
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks, maybe even the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that's

669
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: a nice little easy route there for the NBA Toronto Raptors.

670
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors possibly as well. So it's one of those things.

671
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: This whole story is one of those things where it's

672
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: like it's it's been the the the worst kept secret

673
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: in NBA circles and then yeah, more pertinent to local interests.

674
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 3: I think the Wolves would be on their way to

675
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 3: the East.

676
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 2: What's my man's name, Shams what Trainey? Right, Sharana Sharani. Yeah, okay,

677
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: so I mean you got Windhorst, you have Shams, and

678
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 2: we have Johnny Athletic. So those are the top three

679
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 2: when it comes to NBA reporting. Many would say Shams

680
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 2: for his access and his work ethic, and.

681
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 3: You know, he just he's like schefty.

682
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: I mean, he just he's putting out stuff all the

683
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 2: time and it's always accurate.

684
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: With no woes anymore, no rival of him. Now he's

685
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: pretty much got a monopoly.

686
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: How about Shams in the WNBA. I don't know if

687
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 2: you read this story or not. I didn't read the

688
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 2: whole thing. I thought I thought it was funny because

689
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 2: I mean, people were complaining loudly about it.

690
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 3: But then again, it's the age of rage. Is the these.

691
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 2: Reporters all had been doing this hard work sourcing, talking

692
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: to GM's team owners, coaches, all that about the WNBA

693
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: collective Bargaining Agreement which just got solved. I mean, you

694
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 2: couldn't You couldn't find anything from Shams with a with

695
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: a searchlight on that thing until they got to the

696
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: finish line and Shams.

697
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: Came over the top broke the story. It was all accurate.

698
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 2: Every he was like, good googlely goo man, I want

699
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 2: you to stay in your lane.

700
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: That's like one of those bits where the guy thinks

701
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: he won the race already and he's got his arms

702
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: in the end, and then there guy sprinting to holland cheeks

703
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: behind him that ends up winning the race. Well, yeah,

704
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it's like. Yes, that is amazing right there.

705
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: Sick with the NBA. The Wolves take on the Houston

706
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: Rockets tonight at the Target Center and what very well

707
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: could be a preview of their first round matchup and

708
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: the Edwards remains out for the Timberwolves, but he does

709
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: appear trending towards a returning sooner rather than later. Currently

710
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: the fifth seed in the West, the Wolves are just

711
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: a half game above Houston with ten games to go

712
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: in the regular season. The Wolves will see the Rockets

713
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: again in the penultimate game of the regular season.

714
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: Yours truly does not fear the LA Lakers. Okay, sees

715
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 2: a different beast. We ain't talking about them right now,

716
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 2: but yours truly does not fear the Los Angeles Lakers

717
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: because I believe with the defensive playoff intensity I know

718
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 2: Finchi's team can play. That would be a heck of

719
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 2: a series. Luca and Lebron and Marcus Smart and Austin

720
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: Reeves skeletal remains of DeAndre Yayton.

721
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 3: You know.

722
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: But Parker Fox, one of the homies who hows he

723
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 2: brought up a very intriguing point an hour and change

724
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: ago when we were talking about Lakers and he's like,

725
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: look to the bench, I mean, okay, Jake Lauravia, he's helping,

726
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 2: you know. Then you get like Dalton Connect who never plays,

727
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 2: Luke Canard, who does one thing at three pointers, is

728
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 2: with nasried Iyo Desumu. Those two specifically, I do believe

729
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: that you would have an advantage there, but I like

730
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: our guys if they end up having to play theirs. However,

731
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 2: beating Houston and then getting these Nuggets to lose, the

732
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: Nuggets couldn't win for a minute. They went to Memphis

733
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 2: and got killed by the freaking Griz And that was

734
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 2: last week. Well, now all of a sudden, Joker's paying

735
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 2: attention and he's starting to care about it. He had

736
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,439
Speaker 2: a triple double last night that was monstrous. So they're

737
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: right in front of us. Houston's right with US Lakers.

738
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 2: Only two games in front of US. Lakers will beat

739
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 2: in the end of this evening. Unless Pascal Siakam is playing.

740
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 2: He hasn't played a lot of late and you know,

741
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: maybe old pass call Siakim can give him some problems.

742
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 3: And it is a road game for the Lakers.

743
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 2: Long story longer, it would be really cool to catch

744
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: the Lakers past the Lakers, get that three seed, get

745
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: the four, have home court in the first round. If

746
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 2: you hook the Nuggets, you hooked the Nuggets. If you

747
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 2: hook the Rockets, you hooked the Rockets. Lakers avoidance low

748
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: key is in the minds of a lot of people.

749
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 2: I wouldn't prefer the Lakers, but nevertheless, if we get them,

750
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 2: we get them. We'll see what we can do.

751
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more of their PA Nuggets.

752
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: Wolves seemingly have had their number over the last several

753
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: years now at this point, pretty much ever since that

754
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: game seven. Houston obviously a formidable team, but not quite

755
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: as a scary I know we're not scared, but the

756
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: Luca is playing a little scary right now. In regardless

757
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: of bench. We saw what he did with that Dallas

758
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: Mavericks team that had no bench.

759
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 2: You're a homie, allow with you with Denver, and I'm

760
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 2: sure it was something financial with Michael Porter. You know,

761
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: so Michael Porter ends up getting pedled to Brooklyn, and

762
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 2: Cameron Johnson was somebody they got in return. Now Cam Johnson,

763
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: who's a really good perimeter defender when he's healthy. He's

764
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 2: been in and out with injuries a fair amount this year.

765
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 2: He doesn't hit it with me the way Michael Porter did.

766
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 2: Now Porter, it's like either go like Finchy does a

767
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 2: good job a against the Nuggets that he and that staff,

768
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: but specifically.

769
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 3: Gordon and Porter.

770
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 2: So it's like Gordon might have fifteen to eight, but

771
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 2: then Porter just shot twenty percent, or Porter hits four

772
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 2: threes and then Gordon shooting twenty percent. It's not the

773
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 2: let Joker get his and we'll shut everybody else down.

774
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 3: But they limit up.

775
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 2: Jokic's passing as well as any team in the NBA

776
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: since Joker got into the league. So I love their

777
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 2: matchup against them. You're right, it's still it's still Jokic

778
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: and he's formidable. But then again, when you get to

779
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: the playoffs, they all are. I'm curious to see what

780
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 2: this Houston bunch offers tonight because they've been in and

781
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: out of late.

782
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,959
Speaker 3: Amen Thompson's their point guard. Chris Finch talked about him.

783
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: Earlier in the radio show about his ball handling, and

784
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: I think Chris called on Men Thompson the best off

785
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 2: the best rebounding or offensive rebounding guard in the history

786
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: of the NBA. Yeah, so for Finchy to say that,

787
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 2: that's lofty praise right there. So we got to watch that.

788
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: Chris and staff generally have done good work against Kevin Durant,

789
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 2: specifically when he played for Phoenix.

790
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 3: Old people don't like contact.

791
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 2: Okay, old people, I mean, Kevin Oll grabs seven or

792
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 2: eight rebounds occasionally, but he's not getting into the key

793
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: and banging around with the bigs to get rebounds anymore.

794
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 2: So a lot of his rebounds generally bounced to him.

795
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 2: So I'm curious to see how they handle him tonight.

796
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: Duran had thirty nine on him last time, went to

797
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: the line fourteen times. But the enclosing the rockets a

798
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 2: couple of months ago when they beat the Wolves one

799
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: oh five to one hundred, I just I'll never forget it.

800
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: They went to hacker Rudy. They started hacking Rudy and

801
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 2: putting him on the line. He went to the ten

802
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 2: times he made too, and they went bias and they

803
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: won the game.

804
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 3: So this is an intriguing one tonight. I'm looking forward to.

805
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: It absolutely, and you know, like you said, there's no

806
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: easy matchup in the Western Conference.

807
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 3: It's star study. And speaking of star study.

808
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: How about this this Yankees versus Giants Opening Night game tonight.

809
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: It's on Netflix for the first time ever, It's on Netflix,

810
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: and they're bringing out the big guns. Listen to this, Pa.

811
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: They got Barry Bonds, Albert Poohols, C C. Sabbathia even

812
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 1: randomly Jamis Winston all on the broadcast tonight for Opening

813
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: Night Yankees versus Giants.

814
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 2: All right, Well, enjoy enjoy watching all of that. I

815
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: have my Beyond the Basics class, Beyond the Basics of

816
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: the Bible class tonight, and when that's done, I'll probably

817
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 2: watch some Blacklist on Netflix for a little bit and

818
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 2: then go to Finchy Finci's game at eight thirty. So

819
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: that's my night. Go Baseball, Go MLB, go, no salary

820
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 2: cap and everybody have a good time.

821
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 3: That's all I got from No, it's not, that's all

822
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 3: I got. Oh, but I got you want me to

823
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 3: bring up.

824
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: To Minnesota Wild with an aorta smasher last night?

825
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: If you missed it. Coach John Hines was on nine

826
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: to noon earlier. We were winning three to one. The

827
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 2: Lightning just got back off a nine day road trip.

828
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 2: They traveled the day before.

829
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: They had played.

830
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: This was their fourth game in five nights. They were

831
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 2: tired and we were kicking the you know what out

832
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: of them for about the first twenty eight minutes of

833
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: the game. We're up three to one. We could have

834
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 2: beaten them five, six, seven to one. Started turning over

835
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 2: the puck. There started to uh, there were fights that

836
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 2: started to take place, and I personally speaking, I think

837
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 2: that ignited the Tampa Bay Lightning to be like, all right, boys,

838
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 2: they want to fight, you know we uh, we were

839
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: going to give them one tonight because we're tired, but

840
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: let's go out there and play. And uh then on

841
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 2: a fluky goal against Gus, they took a four to

842
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 2: three lead. A Prisoft fell. He lost his edge twice

843
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: last night. It was weird, but he fell with an

844
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: empty net. They went five to three. One at six

845
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 2: to three. One of those fights in the game last

846
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 2: night involved Nick Fillino. Joe O'Donnell, the radio play by

847
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: play voice for the Minnesota Wild, had what I'm calling

848
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 2: the greatest fight call in the history of the NHL,

849
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: And if anybody has done better, I need to hear it.

850
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 2: I hear's Joe from last night and.

851
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 5: A two nothing lead for the Wild late in the

852
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 5: first and Tim and we got another fight. It's Nick

853
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 5: Fillino and Scott Sabern. They've dropped their gear out at

854
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 5: center ice. Nick Fillino's first fight with the Wild. Sabern,

855
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 5: the Cagy minor leaguer who loves to mix it up physically.

856
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: Yes, six three, two hundred and five.

857
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 5: Pounds, staring each other down left by Salurn, big, rights

858
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 5: by Fillino, big, left by Savag. They're both chucking them,

859
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 5: et cetera. Rights by Filino, left by Sabern. Sabern some

860
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 5: left missing with an upper cut. Colino ties them up.

861
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 5: Left by Sabag, big, left by Filino, missing, left with Saburn.

862
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 5: Couple of good shots by another, swinging left by Saburn.

863
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 5: They've kind of extended each other out. Helmet is off

864
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Speaker 5: for Saburn. Filino's got a good grip on the scruff

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Speaker 5: of his jersey. Another left by Sabeurn.

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Speaker 3: Nothing there.

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00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 5: Fillino's got him stretched out waiting for another opportunity came

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00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 5: with the left in Fillino and he caught him and

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00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 5: they are hanging on here at both parties, et cetera.

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00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 5: Another left by Filino couple rights, Oh combo there by

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Speaker 5: the veteran Filino.

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Speaker 3: He's got Saba into trouble.

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Speaker 5: Saburn coming back with the left Colino trying to duck

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Speaker 5: out of that. What a scrap and they'll separate him.

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Speaker 3: Fuck.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, how about that man that was incredible coming

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Speaker 2: to class, Max Ball. Hey, a nice job, Joe, that

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Speaker 2: was fun to listen to, all right. Agent Blank Barretts

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Speaker 2: joins nine to noon around the corner. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: FM one hundred point three kfa N