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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome in episode two forty eight, Fresh back
Speaker 2: from vacation, hopefully, look like I was on vacation, uh
Speaker 2: and got some great time, spend time with Demanse, celebrated
Speaker 2: his birthday while we were there, some great family time.
Speaker 2: Demon's great to see you. That's the most time we've
Speaker 2: spent together in you know, since you lived in New
Speaker 2: York in a very long time. So that was that
Speaker 2: was truly great. We had a wonderful vacation. I know
Speaker 2: we missed a lot. There was some very very significant,
Speaker 2: obviously national non sports news with the attempted assassination of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, that which actually coincide coincided almost to the
Speaker 2: minute with some very significant personal news. So we will
Speaker 2: wage our way through that about thirty minutes from now.
Speaker 2: But before we do that, there's a lot to get
Speaker 2: to and I want to stay focused on the sports
Speaker 2: stuff that we missed, So let's get right into the show.
Speaker 2: Here's what missed the cut Patrick Beverly considering an allegedly
Speaker 2: historic deal in Europe. Let's show. The tweet is Pat
Speaker 2: Bev gonna have the podcast translated to Russian or the
Speaker 2: reporters covering him there gonna get a pass. That's from
Speaker 2: May third, and it is looking Demond's a like a
Speaker 2: classic two. I will see, we'll see. But the Bamani
Speaker 2: used to always say, listen to me now, believe me
Speaker 2: later on that this the Pat Bev thing, seems to
Speaker 2: be one of those categories. Kelsey and Mahomes go on
Speaker 2: a double date. By the way, shout out to my
Speaker 2: friend Patrick expecting child number three. It also has been
Speaker 2: brought to my attention because the kids are named Silvers
Speaker 2: or Sterling and Bronze, But I think that they're I
Speaker 2: could be wrong on this. The Dogs of the family
Speaker 2: I think are named platinum and gold or something along
Speaker 2: those lines. So I'm not sure what precious metals mahomes
Speaker 2: is gonna have left for baby number three, but I'm
Speaker 2: very excited for that. And shout out to him and
Speaker 2: his wonderful wife Brittany on the pending arrival of a
Speaker 2: new family member. And Nick Chubb out here squatting five
Speaker 2: hundred and forty pounds shortly after less than a year
Speaker 2: after suffering one of the most gruesome knee injuries you've
Speaker 2: ever seen. That guy is just an unbelievable physical freak.
Speaker 2: Shout out to him, and hopefully he's back fully healthy
Speaker 2: this year. But oh, steel and silver are the dog names,
Speaker 2: and sterling and bronze. Okay, so gold and platinum are available. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's great. Thank you for the wonderful producers, and thank
Speaker 2: you to the people in the chat who are pointing
Speaker 2: out there who were here early excited for us to
Speaker 2: get on the air. But demonse, let's get to a team.
Speaker 2: USA had some exhibition games while we were going one
Speaker 2: against Australia yesterday update.
Speaker 3: US, so those exhibition games are now underway. We did
Speaker 3: not cover against the spread. We won ninety eight ninety two.
Speaker 3: A couple of things going on all a team in
Speaker 3: the USA right now. Kauai got sent home, Katie is
Speaker 3: now hurt, and Kurr is talking about potentially benching EMBIID.
Speaker 3: So with us playing Serbia here soon, is there any
Speaker 3: doubt in your mind that will take the cake? No?
Speaker 2: So I think this is from a talent and still
Speaker 2: in their prime, or guys who have aged out of
Speaker 2: their prime but are still great perspective. This is the
Speaker 2: best collection of talent and team USA history. I understand
Speaker 2: that people say that sacrilege because of the ninety two
Speaker 2: Dream Team, but ninety two Bird was a shell of himself,
Speaker 2: Magic had just retired due to HIV, and you didn't
Speaker 2: even have Isaiah Thomas on the team. So it just
Speaker 2: wasn't the The collection of talent wasn't up to the
Speaker 2: level that this team is. And now the rest of
Speaker 2: the world has gotten so much better. You're not to
Speaker 2: beat you know, it's no beating in Gola by sixty points.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But this team I think is unbeatable.
Speaker 2: And if you people say, oh, well, that hasn't been
Speaker 2: the game man we lost since the Dream Team, there
Speaker 2: has been one year we did not win the goal.
Speaker 2: Since then, we have won I think twenty eight consecutive
Speaker 2: games that that mattered, or I'm sorry we were twenty
Speaker 2: eight to one in games that matter because we did
Speaker 2: lose an early round game in the non knockout stage
Speaker 2: last year, and we win all these games by double digits.
Speaker 2: What happened in the Australia game is they were up
Speaker 2: twenty four in an exhibition game in the second half
Speaker 2: and stop paying attention. So I so this is the
Speaker 2: there and the Serbia tomorrow is kind of a bummer
Speaker 2: because Serbia plays tonight against Australia, so there's a chance
Speaker 2: that Jokic doesn't play in the Serbia game. But if
Speaker 2: you look at the against the US. But if you
Speaker 2: look at these rosters, yes, Canada has Shay, and Greece
Speaker 2: has Giannis, and Serbia has Jokic, but none of these
Speaker 2: teams have a second player that would make the Team
Speaker 2: USA roster. And we have answers for everything the other
Speaker 2: team's going to try to do. So I am not
Speaker 2: concerned in the least.
Speaker 3: Say it again to Mase, do you like speaking of
Speaker 3: the rosters, like, do you think the Team USA roster
Speaker 3: is up to par Is It how you would have it?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, are these the twelve guys I
Speaker 2: would have picked? Obviously, it was a story recently that
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown didn't get on the initial team and then
Speaker 2: didn't get picked when the replacement. I would have had
Speaker 2: Jalen on the team over Kawhi from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: I think at this point Jalen obviously more reliable, and
Speaker 2: you could argue just Flatley a better player. I do
Speaker 2: understand them going Derek White. Now. Jalen thinks it's purely Nike,
Speaker 2: and he might be correct. There is an argument to
Speaker 2: be made that the roster construction should be eight stars
Speaker 2: and four Derek White types, guys who are gonna find
Speaker 2: if they don't play.
Speaker 3: I apologize, go ahead, I guess. With it being Kawhi
Speaker 3: that was replaced, he wasn't a glue guy. It wasn't
Speaker 3: like he was like those role player type of guys.
Speaker 2: It would one hundred percent agree, and they by the
Speaker 2: way they set put this roster together, it's very clear
Speaker 2: they're not valuing glue guys like the on the initial roster.
Speaker 2: The closest thing to a glue guy if you would,
Speaker 2: and this is insulting to him is Drew Holliday, and
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday is more than a glue guy, but a
Speaker 2: guy who doesn't need shots and can just offend. So
Speaker 2: if I were the one putting the foster together, the
Speaker 2: guys who probably would have been most the guys who
Speaker 2: were on the initial roster that I would have said,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we need them are Devin Booker, Kawhi,
Speaker 2: and that really might be it, and I might have
Speaker 2: replaced them with just more specialists, if you will. And again,
Speaker 2: Devin Booker. That is not a knock on Devin Booker,
Speaker 2: but when you have Durant and now you can argue
Speaker 2: Bookers better than Durant. At this point you really can't
Speaker 2: argue that Booker played really well against Australia. But I
Speaker 2: do think there is a if Booker's better than Durant,
Speaker 2: it's close enough that the that the legacy part of it,
Speaker 2: and you wanted to have the old guys together. I'm
Speaker 2: fine with that. And if you the point I'm making
Speaker 2: is there are your concern is are there going to
Speaker 2: be guys on the team who are upset if they're
Speaker 2: not getting shots and not getting minutes because they're stars,
Speaker 2: and would those roles be better filled with guys who
Speaker 2: are just thrilled to be there and can do one
Speaker 2: thing really well. With all that said, it absolutely will
Speaker 2: not matter and Team USA is going to roll everyone.
Speaker 2: There is not a Argentina or a Spain or a
Speaker 2: France team from ten to twenty years ago where those
Speaker 2: teams had been playing together and been crushing together for
Speaker 2: a long time on this team in this field. So
Speaker 2: I'm actually, I'm actually good with it. One more Team
Speaker 2: USA follow up, Demanse No about the starting five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you were giving the reins, who would be
Speaker 3: your starting five for a Team USA.
Speaker 2: So the reason I wanted to make sure you asked
Speaker 2: that was because on TV I gave out the starting
Speaker 2: five and then Steve Kerr said, you know what, Nick right,
Speaker 2: You're exactly right. My starting five would have been the
Speaker 2: exact starting five that Steve Kerr ultimately picked. Anton Step
Speaker 2: in your back court, Lebron and Tatum in your front
Speaker 2: court with Embiid playing center. Now, there is a chance
Speaker 2: that you mentioned Kerrs talking about benching Embiid. There's a
Speaker 2: chance that Anthony Davis could be the better option as
Speaker 2: far as switchability, playing you know what I mean, playing
Speaker 2: a perimeter defensively, Embiid actually is the better option as
Speaker 2: far as spread, you know, playing a five out style,
Speaker 2: because he is a far better perimeter shooter than a
Speaker 2: d But the starting five that Kerr went with is
Speaker 2: the exact starting five Wade Davis Embiid. Anthony Davis hasn't
Speaker 2: been a good perimeter shooter since the bubble, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't really shoot threes anymore. Embiid, on the other hands,
Speaker 2: probably the best jump shooting big man certainly of the
Speaker 2: last thirty years, and maybe ever he might just be
Speaker 2: flatly the best jump shooting big man ever. But that's
Speaker 2: the other reason. Like you have embid Ad and Bam
Speaker 2: as center options. It's just a well built team. And
Speaker 2: so the only question or concern that you're gonna have
Speaker 2: is when the games really matter, it is you know,
Speaker 2: is Haliburton or Booker or I mean those are Bam
Speaker 2: gonna be upset if they're not getting minutes. Derek White's
Speaker 2: not gonna be upset. He's not getting minutes. He's happy
Speaker 2: to be there, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, So Jalen Brunson pulled sort of a Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: He left some money on the table about one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirteen million to keep that nice core together and
Speaker 3: build on that chemistry. Do you think this makes a
Speaker 3: lot of sense or do you think that he'll just
Speaker 3: end up leaving that money on the table just to lose.
Speaker 3: Do you like, will they get anything done?
Speaker 2: So I want to talk about what he did because
Speaker 2: I this is the power of Woj and woje Wog's tweets,
Speaker 2: because I'm not saying that what Wog wrote is incorrect.
Speaker 2: What I am saying is it's set the conversation on
Speaker 2: a path that I think is a touch misleading. So Woj,
Speaker 2: when he broke the news, called it an unprecedented move
Speaker 2: in favor of team building to keep everyone together, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And I don't feel that that is exactly right. And
Speaker 2: I honestly have felt that the coverage of this has
Speaker 2: been again I've even been to be fair, I was
Speaker 2: out of the and I wasn't following it, you know,
Speaker 2: day by day. So I don't know if it's right
Speaker 2: to say the coverage of it has been lacking. But
Speaker 2: the initial coverage that I saw was a little to
Speaker 2: me unintentionally misleading because I don't look at this purely
Speaker 2: as sorry, my computer just restarted. I don't look at
Speaker 2: this purely as Jalen Brunson taking a team friendly discount.
Speaker 2: I look at it as Jalen Brunson hedging against catastrophic
Speaker 2: outcomes while maintaining ultimate long term upside. So to be clear,
Speaker 2: Brunson took five I'm sorry, four one p fifty seven
Speaker 2: in a year he would have been eligible for five
Speaker 2: to seventy, so one hundred and thirteen million dollar delta
Speaker 2: there with an additional contract year on it. It was
Speaker 2: to me presented a bit as if he had the
Speaker 2: five to seventy available now and instead took four for
Speaker 2: one point fifty seven. And that is flatly not. That
Speaker 2: is not what has happened here, So why does that matter.
Speaker 2: I don't view it purely as taking a discount if
Speaker 2: the contract we're talking about is not actually available to
Speaker 2: you until you play another year of basketball. And the
Speaker 2: reason that that is relevant is because we have seen
Speaker 2: so many times guys get get injured. Well I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say so many times. It's the one instance everyone kind
Speaker 2: of thinks of, which is what happened with Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 2: Isaiah Thomas played one you know, was getting ready to
Speaker 2: get a max, suffered a hip injury and never got
Speaker 2: any of that money, never got any of it. And
Speaker 2: by taking this deal here, Jalen locks in four for
Speaker 2: one point fifty seven, which by the way, after three
Speaker 2: years of he can opt out of if he's still
Speaker 2: a star, and then sign that massive five for four
Speaker 2: hundred people have talked about and be an eighty million
Speaker 2: dollar a year player, which is unbelievable million bucks a game,
Speaker 2: but hedges against a catastrophic outcome or an injury, which
Speaker 2: for a player of his size who hasn't yet made
Speaker 2: huge money, it's made great money. Huge money is super valuable.
Speaker 3: And when we talk about yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, I so I that kind of but it's you
Speaker 2: keep the to me. This is how I look at
Speaker 2: the Jalen Brunson thing. In one hand, was the play
Speaker 2: out this year, play well, sign the five for two
Speaker 2: seventy right, and and then hope to still be great,
Speaker 2: you know, five years from now, and sign it one
Speaker 2: more really big contract and have some ceiling be put
Speaker 2: on the nix ability to build out the rest of
Speaker 2: that team those in one hand. In the other hand
Speaker 2: was lock in right now four for one sixty while
Speaker 2: making it giving the Knicks a little more flexibility, but
Speaker 2: critically also keep being able to attain maximum money if
Speaker 2: you awesome for the next four years when you sign
Speaker 2: your next deal. So of all the ranges of outcomes, right,
Speaker 2: if we were to again, I know this is a
Speaker 2: little convoluted, but I think this is the right way
Speaker 2: to look at it. If you're looking at it almost
Speaker 2: on a line, there is worst possible outcome, right, which
Speaker 2: is he gets hurt terribly this year and none of
Speaker 2: that money's there. That's the worst outcome, and that's now
Speaker 2: removed entirely. That the next if we just go from
Speaker 2: worst to best, the next outcome is he signs this deal,
Speaker 2: but what and is excellent this year and could have
Speaker 2: signed the five for two seventy, but deprived himself of
Speaker 2: that opportunity, And the next time he's available for free agency,
Speaker 2: big money is not available to him. That is now possible.
Speaker 2: The next outcome is would have been on the range
Speaker 2: of outcomes, is awesome this year, signs the five for
Speaker 2: two seventy, doesn't get another big contract in five years,
Speaker 2: and he's locked into seventy. That's a little better than
Speaker 2: the one I just said. The very best outcome is
Speaker 2: signs this deal is awesome throughout and then signs one
Speaker 2: of the biggest deals in league history in four years.
Speaker 2: That's where you make the most money possible of any
Speaker 2: of me. Kind of what he did by doing this
Speaker 2: was remove the worst outcome possible entirely and remove the
Speaker 2: second best outcome, locking in a median outcome and still
Speaker 2: keeping the upside of the best possible outcome. So if
Speaker 2: this were if this were deal or no deal, maybe
Speaker 2: I should have done it like this. It would be
Speaker 2: as if on the on the board left is ten
Speaker 2: dollars one hundred thousand, a quarter of a million and
Speaker 2: a million, and what they are saying is, hey, we
Speaker 2: will allow you to remove the ten dollars suitcase, but
Speaker 2: you also have to give us the quarter of a
Speaker 2: millionar suitcase. Think about it like that. I just realized it.
Speaker 2: This is exactly how I should have described it. You're
Speaker 2: playing deal or no deal. There's four suitcases left, and
Speaker 2: by the way, you're never going to be allowed to
Speaker 2: take the deal. You're just gonna have to open suitcases.
Speaker 2: And what is on the board is ten dollars one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand and a million,
Speaker 2: and they are saying to you, you can get rid
Speaker 2: of the ten dollars one, but we are also taking
Speaker 2: away the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars one. So
Speaker 2: the ultimate goal will still be available to you and
Speaker 2: you remove all the significant downside, but you're trading in
Speaker 2: order to do that, you are trading out a really
Speaker 2: the second best possible outcome here quarter of a million
Speaker 2: bucks Jailen bruns And by the way, is an added bonus.
Speaker 2: It's gonna help you know your team. That's what jail
Speaker 2: Brunton did. So it is a great move for the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I think it is a smart move for him. But
Speaker 2: presenting it as if it were purely taking a lesser
Speaker 2: deal when the bigger deal would not be available for
Speaker 2: another year, I think misses some important context to the situation.
Speaker 2: That's all. I hope that made sense to people. All right, Demonse, Let's.
Speaker 3: Go on to the next with that core staying intact,
Speaker 3: with Jayalen Brunton taking the cut, where do they where
Speaker 3: do they land line up for the best futures in
Speaker 3: the finals.
Speaker 2: Well, so as far as the best futures, I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got their core locked in I still have questioned. Now.
Speaker 2: The other the other thing this allows for Demanse.
Speaker 3: Is the.
Speaker 2: If they do decide they want to trade Julius Randall,
Speaker 2: that doesn't have to be like a pure salary dump.
Speaker 2: They can get back real salaries in return because they
Speaker 2: have this added flexibility the next few years because of
Speaker 2: Jalen's deal. So that's a positive. I like the team
Speaker 2: they've built and they were really good last year.
Speaker 3: Say it again, don't they need a big right now?
Speaker 2: They yes? I mean they have Mitchell Robinson, but they
Speaker 2: lost Hartenstein. Yes, they do need a big and that's
Speaker 2: where I think maybe the Julius Randall trade could could
Speaker 2: come into play. But in the East, you really only
Speaker 2: need a true big against Philly. In the West you
Speaker 2: need a true big if you go up against Joker.
Speaker 2: But you know the but they got to make the
Speaker 2: finals and the Nuggets have gone Sorry Daniel a little
Speaker 2: backwards and feel so sick. Nuggets draft pick Tours Achilles
Speaker 2: this weekend in Summer League. That is brutal. Uh So,
Speaker 2: I sorry, I only laughed because Daniel just chimed in
Speaker 2: into my ear for the first time all show. Just
Speaker 2: so brutal, just sounding press fall, and it's not funny.
Speaker 2: It was just I just didn't expect to hear from
Speaker 2: so I. It's not perfect. But by the way, the
Speaker 2: Celtics big is out for the beginning of the season
Speaker 2: and then we'll see. So there's right now, there's no
Speaker 2: perfect rosters out there built. I do really like what
Speaker 2: Okac is built, and they got Hartenstein. But I think
Speaker 2: the knick sture in great shape. They're in the best
Speaker 2: shape they've been in in thirty years at least. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, so Bronni off the court is winning Call of
Speaker 3: duty tournaments. Bronni all in the court seems to be
Speaker 3: struggling a little bit. He had had two points against
Speaker 3: the Celtics in the Summer League game over the weekend.
Speaker 3: He admit that that he admits that he's in a
Speaker 3: slump and wouldn't mind going to the G League. But
Speaker 3: his coach JJ Reddick thinks that he'd be something like
Speaker 3: lou Dort defensively. So I want to ask you, what
Speaker 3: do you see from Bronnie so I.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I think he's zero for fifteen
Speaker 2: from three, So that is obviously not going to not
Speaker 2: gonna cut it, boys, And that's going to right now,
Speaker 2: be up here. It's why right now he looks so
Speaker 2: out of his depth, so to speak. It just it
Speaker 2: doesn't And I believe in Brownie's instincts and his feel
Speaker 2: for the game, and I do think he's a good
Speaker 2: defensive place and I think it's it's go ahead, demanse.
Speaker 3: No, exactly.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: He does have the ability to stay in front. He's
Speaker 3: very he can move his feet. He is a great defender.
Speaker 3: I see that in him at the very least right now.
Speaker 2: But the problem with that is the great defender side
Speaker 2: of it is, Man, it is almost impossible to actually
Speaker 2: be a great defender in the NBA at six to one,
Speaker 2: and so the if he were six ' four, then
Speaker 2: we're talking about something totally different. So, but the answer
Speaker 2: is was always going to be that, yes, he needed
Speaker 2: time in the G League. The answer was always going
Speaker 2: to be that he should spend most of this year
Speaker 2: in the G league. I also think that he's clearly pressing,
Speaker 2: and that's understandable. There's a lot of scrutiny on a
Speaker 2: kid who was the fifty to fifth pick. So any
Speaker 2: idea that Bronni was going to no matter what he
Speaker 2: did at summer League. Any idea that Bronni was going
Speaker 2: to be a real contributor to the Lakers this year,
Speaker 2: I thought was foolish to begin with. I think that
Speaker 2: these I think these next two years are development as
Speaker 2: is for a lot of second round picks. And you see,
Speaker 2: I think he's handling it well. And I think that Listen,
Speaker 2: basketball will be a cruel game. If you literally miss
Speaker 2: every three you take, and that's going to be a
Speaker 2: majority of the shots you take, it it's going to
Speaker 2: look awful and right now, that's how it is. And
Speaker 2: so the I also thought winning the Call of Duty
Speaker 2: thing was actually a bummer because it just leads to
Speaker 2: people on the internet. It leads to an easy meme,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean of the internet sayings focused
Speaker 2: on the wrong stuff.
Speaker 3: But I go ahead, I mean no, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I was gonna say, I bet he probably
Speaker 3: didn't want to win that, because I feel like he
Speaker 3: actually might think something about that.
Speaker 2: But but evidently, man the James family, lebron claims he's
Speaker 2: top like two hundred in the world in Madden and
Speaker 2: then Bronni just won the Call of Duty thing. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. All right, let's go to Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3: You do you want to talk at all about the
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown lip reading what he said of the game
Speaker 3: with his new girlfriend. I think sounds like you said
Speaker 3: that he wasn't ready for the pros. Talking to le Bron, he.
Speaker 2: Said he's not an NBA player, and then Jalen sent
Speaker 2: out a tweet that didn't really like take back what
Speaker 2: he said, but you know, seemed to pay a compliment
Speaker 2: to Lebron. I mean, listen, Brownie right now, is not
Speaker 2: an NBA that that's not a that's not a harsh
Speaker 2: assess now again, this is the the problem with taking
Speaker 2: a guy's short statement and you know, extrapolating it. You
Speaker 2: have no way of telling was he's saying like never
Speaker 2: will be an NBA player. That to me is premature
Speaker 2: and probably too harsh. Not an NBA player right now,
Speaker 2: that's accurate, and I think every again, this is the
Speaker 2: point that I hope people understand. If the guy was
Speaker 2: ready to be an NBA contributor this season, a team
Speaker 2: would have spent a first round pick on it. They
Speaker 2: would not have cared that about what Rich Paul and
Speaker 2: Clutch and those guys are sayings like, no, if this
Speaker 2: guy can help our team right now. But the vet
Speaker 2: the right, the that this majority of guys taken out
Speaker 2: of the lottery are not NBA players day one, and
Speaker 2: almost note second round picks are. There's the rare exception
Speaker 2: are NBA players day one. So yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: what Jalen said was unfair, and we don't have the
Speaker 2: full context of it obviously, and so the but I
Speaker 2: think that's probably about right. All right, let's do Kaitlin.
Speaker 3: Yes, Diana Tarrasi is dealing with an injury which could
Speaker 3: hold her out of the Olympics. Kaitlyn Clark recently came
Speaker 3: out and said that her goal was still one day
Speaker 3: play for the Olympic team. Back when the roster was announced,
Speaker 3: she obviously hadn't earned it the fever with three and ten,
Speaker 3: but since then she's been on an eight and four run.
Speaker 3: She's averaging seventeen, ten and seven. So we're getting Kaitlyn
Speaker 3: Clark in the Olympics. Being now everybody's best interest.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'd be in Caitlin's best interest. I
Speaker 2: think that Kate having some time out of the spotlight
Speaker 2: and not having the Caitlin Clerk kind of media machine
Speaker 2: overtake the coverage of the women's Olympic team would be
Speaker 2: better for her standing amongst her colleagues. And I think
Speaker 2: having a month off to really like rest, recuperate and
Speaker 2: truly be out of the spotlight for the first time
Speaker 2: in a year plus would be excellent for her. I
Speaker 2: also think every single one of my Caitlyn Clark takes
Speaker 2: from during this season has been is being proven out
Speaker 2: in real time, and it's glorious as a professional takes
Speaker 2: mean to see when they were losing and she was struggling,
Speaker 2: I told you it was the schedule and the back
Speaker 2: to backs and the teams they were playing. I told
Speaker 2: you that once they instead of playing three games in
Speaker 2: four days, they were playing three games in ten days,
Speaker 2: she would start rolling. I told you that by the
Speaker 2: end of the year she would be one of the
Speaker 2: ten best players in the league. I told you that
Speaker 2: once the schedule saw oftened of the fever would be
Speaker 2: firmly in the playoff race. And I told you that
Speaker 2: there would be a lot of really dishonest actors when
Speaker 2: it came to the Caitlin Angel debate, and that's happening already.
Speaker 2: The idea and I am on the record stamped as
Speaker 2: someone for more than a year that has defended and
Speaker 2: supported Angel Reese, and I'll continue to do so. But
Speaker 2: I do I must say two things, and I don't
Speaker 2: care who gets mad at me. Do not care. Thing.
Speaker 2: One is this the idea that there was that the
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year race is close right now is
Speaker 2: a historic a historical. Two, how Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: races have gone in all of sports forever. Angel Rees
Speaker 2: is having an excellent rookie season. She has been the
Speaker 2: second best rookie clearly. But the problem with winning Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year is it typically doesn't go to the
Speaker 2: person who is clearly the second best rookie. So it
Speaker 2: is and this idea that it was, oh well, it
Speaker 2: should go to Angel because her team had one more
Speaker 2: win at one point that was nonsense. But also that
Speaker 2: was a take that wasn't gonna age great just because
Speaker 2: those records were going to shift and they already had.
Speaker 2: Angel is having an excellent rookie year and is proving
Speaker 2: she is going to be a ten plus year really
Speaker 2: good player. Caitlin is having one of the best and
Speaker 2: most productive and useful rookie years of any player ever
Speaker 2: that's just what it is. That there is one right now,
Speaker 2: clear flaw in her game, which is the turnovers are
Speaker 2: still an absurdly high number, but she, despite that, she
Speaker 2: adds so much value to them offensively. So that's first point.
Speaker 2: Second point is this, if we are going to treat
Speaker 2: the WNBA like a real sport, which it deserves to
Speaker 2: be treated like because it is. And if we're gonna
Speaker 2: treat these athletes like real athletes, which they deserve to
Speaker 2: be treated like because they are, we must not be
Speaker 2: patronizing in our coverage, which means the criticism of the
Speaker 2: actual basketball must be honest. And now is where I
Speaker 2: will be honest. The last two games when that double
Speaker 2: double streak was alive for Angel Reese, the hunting for
Speaker 2: a double double in the final seconds of a blowout
Speaker 2: in either direction is unbecoming of a great athlete. It
Speaker 2: and if any male athlete were doing that, they would
Speaker 2: get roasted. And so the the or right, there's plenty
Speaker 2: of instances of it, and we're like, give me a break.
Speaker 2: And it's especially bad when it comes in a game
Speaker 2: that is lopsided again, you know, in the other direction.
Speaker 2: It's just not Maybe we should be okay with people scoring,
Speaker 2: you know, with three seconds left in a blowout. We
Speaker 2: have decided as a sports culture that that's against an
Speaker 2: unwritten rule. And I thought the double double especially, it'd
Speaker 2: be one thing if it's like a there's no good
Speaker 2: comp for it, but like a you're going after Demaggio's
Speaker 2: hitting streak. Like, but this double consecutive double double record
Speaker 2: was not exactly a pantheon record that like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: we've been talking about this for and it all also
Speaker 2: wasn't like I don't know what the number is, but
Speaker 2: at one point Steph had something like has hit a
Speaker 2: three in x hundred consecutive games. It wasn't some historic
Speaker 2: multi year thing. It was a cool thing that had
Speaker 2: happened for a moment, a bunch of new holidays. Oh
Speaker 2: it just it felt it didn't feel like a So
Speaker 2: I thought that was a bad look. And I also
Speaker 2: think other people thought it was a bad look, and
Speaker 2: we're afraid to say it because they don't want to.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's so much paternalistic patriot patronizing of
Speaker 2: the w n B. A let's treat it like a
Speaker 2: real sport, which means there's sometimes you gotta rip people
Speaker 2: like that's and then for all the court stuff like
Speaker 2: it's and so that's that's my take. I hope Caitlin's
Speaker 2: not in the Olympics. I think it's better for her
Speaker 2: if she's not. And I think that she's already a
Speaker 2: problem and was it was that was inevitable because we
Speaker 2: watched her in college and she was a historic problem.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, quick break, speaking of things I was
Speaker 2: right about, I mean, I don't know. I just gave
Speaker 2: out straight winners of the three biggest tournaments going on
Speaker 2: in the world a month ago, right before they'd even started.
Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next What's Right? All right, welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's Driving Nick Right? Episode two forty eight. So
Speaker 2: the just full disclosure were the that the show's gonna
Speaker 2: get really heavy in about five minutes. Uh, but just
Speaker 2: that's kind of what this show's for. Sometimes it's actually
Speaker 2: where it's not actually gonna get heavy in the way
Speaker 2: you guys think, but it's gonna get heavy in about
Speaker 2: five minutes. But first, before we do that, let's do
Speaker 2: maybe my favorite thing in sports media demons, which is
Speaker 2: playback video of me being correct. So go ahead and
Speaker 2: set it up for us if you would please.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So last time we were on here, you had
Speaker 3: a couple of predictions, and we're gonna take a listen
Speaker 3: here for the fans on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's take a listen. I'll go with Spain in
Speaker 2: the Euros and in Copa I'm just gonna go with
Speaker 2: Chalk and I'll just go with Argentina. You guys know,
Speaker 2: I tend to always root for Brazil, but I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be Argentina. I told you guys, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pick Alcarez to win every major for probably the
Speaker 2: next five years, and I'll be right more often than
Speaker 2: I'm wrong. So anybody watch sports on Saturday, because here's
Speaker 2: how it happened. You woke up in the morning, h
Speaker 2: rub the sleep out of your eyes and al Corez
Speaker 2: was already up two sets nothing on Joker and then
Speaker 2: finish them off in a third set tie break check one.
Speaker 2: Then maybe add your morning coffee, went on a little run.
Speaker 2: I was on my third rum punch and watched Spain
Speaker 2: play England in an epic. I say Saturday, this would
Speaker 2: have been Sunday. Pardon me, Yeah, I have the days,
Speaker 2: all the days running together in my head and watched
Speaker 2: Spain play England in an epic match. I actually watched
Speaker 2: it in a crowd. There were people from Spain there
Speaker 2: on vacation and some English people on vacation, and I
Speaker 2: told the English people ahead of time. I was like,
Speaker 2: just so you know, I'm gonna be a little annoying,
Speaker 2: but once Spain scores, I'll buy you all around a drinks.
Speaker 2: They were incredibly gracious. It was great. Spain went up
Speaker 2: won nothing. England had a great goal to tie it up.
Speaker 2: Spain then scored in electrifying fashion in the eighty eighth
Speaker 2: minute check to and then Argentina. After the disaster that
Speaker 2: was the crowd control at COPA in Miami, Argentina in
Speaker 2: the waning moments of extra time dealt with Columbia that trifecta.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it would have paid, but I
Speaker 2: hope you bet it. Uh great listener viewer Twitter follow
Speaker 2: Uh that I can't hold on what is his Twitter
Speaker 2: name exactly? Bag Van something go ahead?
Speaker 3: Adults behave that way to sports that I mean, you're
Speaker 3: sneaking in through Vince. Oh you're grown here, so you're
Speaker 3: an adult.
Speaker 2: Well yes, that's crazy, but also well, well, a couple
Speaker 2: of things by the way. The person I was trying
Speaker 2: to shout out was his name is crisis actor Bagger Vance. Uh.
Speaker 2: You can follow him on Twitter at mister Brandon twenty three.
Speaker 2: He has been a longtime viewer and listener and friend
Speaker 2: and I actually have watched a big either soccer game
Speaker 2: or football game with him in Vegas before. I can't
Speaker 2: remember if it was soccer or football, but regardless, Uh,
Speaker 2: he got down on Alcarez and on Spain, and so
Speaker 2: shout out to him. But the the thing, But what
Speaker 2: was a shame with that demant was a lot of
Speaker 2: people who had actual tickets then weren't being let in.
Speaker 2: They had spent a ton of money, people had traveled.
Speaker 2: It was a disaster. That thing was a was an
Speaker 2: absolute disaster. But now that I'm done bragging about it,
Speaker 2: what's the question here? Do we have a question here?
Speaker 3: The I think yeah, yeah, I mean, so you obviously
Speaker 3: predicted the Euros, Cope and Wimbledon. Do you want to
Speaker 3: talk about Alcarez, Spain, Argentina or do you want to
Speaker 3: gloat some more?
Speaker 2: Well, no, I think we should talk Alcarez, uh, because
Speaker 2: we put a cool graphic on social media about Alcarez's
Speaker 2: start to his career, and by this age, no one
Speaker 2: has ever done more. Uh now that isn't Borg was
Speaker 2: had the greatest start overall, but that we were talking
Speaker 2: more about twenty five, and he retired early. Joker had
Speaker 2: to deal with the fact that when he was young
Speaker 2: he's dealing with Federer and Nadal Nadala deal with when
Speaker 2: he was young he's doing with Federer. Federer didn't really
Speaker 2: you know, Federer, gott An early starting those other guys.
Speaker 2: But this guy is just as uniquely talented as any
Speaker 2: tennis player I can ever remember. And I'll just keep
Speaker 2: picking him in every major. I'll watch him in the
Speaker 2: US Open, uh here in a few weeks, maybe from
Speaker 2: center court as one of the ball boys. As we discussed,
Speaker 2: I'm auditioning for that next week, I think. So that
Speaker 2: will keep you guys posted on. Of course, I don't
Speaker 2: know if we'll see the light of day. We'll see
Speaker 2: how I do. Demand's worried I'm gonna tear my Achilles.
Speaker 2: Demanse was worried We're gonna be the torn Achilles father
Speaker 2: son duo. I'm more worried of a clone hamstring. But
Speaker 2: it'll be me, my buddy, Mark Carmon who's coming in
Speaker 2: from Chicago to also audition. I think it's happening next week.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Karen plays tennis almost every day. But Karen's
Speaker 2: also old, man, I mean the and Karen's old and
Speaker 2: he's carrying a little more weight than I am. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the that that'll be great. But
Speaker 2: alcaz is the story. Argentina winning despite you know, Messi
Speaker 2: getting hurt is great. And Spain just rolled this whole tournament.
Speaker 2: Spain I think finished the tournament total goals. I think
Speaker 2: they scored fifteen and allowed four. I mean, they were
Speaker 2: they were just so clearly the best team, and so
Speaker 2: shout out to them. Okay, consider this just bit catharsis
Speaker 2: and a bit public service. So so I know, maybe
Speaker 2: people feel an expectation or that I have an obligation
Speaker 2: or something to talk about. Uh. The shooting at the
Speaker 2: Trump rally on Saturday, and the last shooting at a
Speaker 2: major event in America I was at, this was obviously different.
Speaker 2: This was, you know, what was pretty clearly an assassination attempt.
Speaker 2: First time we've had in this country a president or
Speaker 2: former president or presidential candidate shot since Reagan in my lifetime,
Speaker 2: like I vividly remember when the guy threw the shoe
Speaker 2: at George W. Bush and I wasn't a George W.
Speaker 2: Bush guy, and I was still bothered by it. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are you doing throwing a shoe at the president?
Speaker 2: This obviously way, way, way scarier and worse. But I
Speaker 2: don't really have a take on it. And it's I mean,
Speaker 2: you guys know my take on guns. You guys know
Speaker 2: my take on the easy accessibility of guns and so,
Speaker 2: but I also don't have a take on it because
Speaker 2: I oddly have spent very little time thinking about it.
Speaker 2: And that's because, like, literally fifteen minutes before that news broke,
Speaker 2: I think I dealt with the saddest moment of my
Speaker 2: life and it wasn't even my tragedy specifically. And so
Speaker 2: there'll be a moral to this story, I promise.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: I my wife has a dear friend. If you follow
Speaker 2: my wife on social media, you've seen pictures of her.
Speaker 2: I don't want to Her name's Ashley, and Ashley is
Speaker 2: closer to Demands's age than my age, just recently turned thirty.
Speaker 2: And uh Ashley, who helped Danielle build this store, who
Speaker 2: has been a true light in our family's life passed
Speaker 2: away of natural causes unexpectedly in her sleep Friday night,
Speaker 2: and like fifteen minutes before the Trump shooting happened, I
Speaker 2: had pulled back up to our house. We were out
Speaker 2: on vacation, and my wife met me at the door
Speaker 2: and I knew someone had died. I just you just
Speaker 2: know it because of the look on her face and
Speaker 2: the tears, And at that moment, you're just you're just
Speaker 2: in that split seconds you kind of go to people
Speaker 2: in your life who are older. And when she told
Speaker 2: me who it was, it might it buckled me because
Speaker 2: it's the death is awful, and I all these things
Speaker 2: are awful, but the sudden death of a as far
Speaker 2: as you know, fully healthy young persons, nothing that prepares
Speaker 2: you for it. And when I say it was the
Speaker 2: saddest moment of my life, it was this pain on
Speaker 2: my wife's face, whatever pain I'm dealing with. But then
Speaker 2: our baby, our ten year old Deanna, this she called
Speaker 2: her t t Ashley. She she stayed at Ashley's house.
Speaker 2: She this was a on on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: It was me, Danielle, Deanna and Ashley. This is fourth July.
Speaker 2: Let I don't know how many days ago that was
Speaker 2: watching fireworks. They're spending a beautiful day together, beautiful day
Speaker 2: and uh and nothing prepares you as a parent. Tell
Speaker 2: your kid that nothing prepares you as a kid for that.
Speaker 2: And the shriek from Deanna and all these things they're
Speaker 2: just seared in my memory. So I'm saying this because
Speaker 2: it's a little cathartic, because I you know, I don't
Speaker 2: feel as sad as I am. It is a true,
Speaker 2: true life, shaking earthquake of a tragedy for my wife
Speaker 2: and my daughter, and incredibly sad for everyone, and as
Speaker 2: sad as it is for them. My wife and I
Speaker 2: were with Ashley's mother and brother last night, and it's
Speaker 2: not something you I tried to. You know, you don't
Speaker 2: know what to do. So I'm saying it here because
Speaker 2: it is part of, I guess, the grieving process. But
Speaker 2: I'm also saying it here because I really, really really
Speaker 2: hope that someone listening or watching, and I know it's cliche,
Speaker 2: but god, it's true. Here's this and reconnects with someone
Speaker 2: or reaches out to someone, or buries a hatchet with someone,
Speaker 2: because god damn man, some of these things literally take
Speaker 2: your breath away and you don't get the chances to
Speaker 2: say goodbye or tell people how much you love them.
Speaker 2: And I am feel incredibly blessed that that wasn't the
Speaker 2: case with my family and Ashley, she know, she knew,
Speaker 2: knows new. I don't know how much we love her
Speaker 2: and how special and important she was and what a
Speaker 2: bright light in this world she was. But that's not
Speaker 2: always the case, and I'm sure there are some people
Speaker 2: who didn't get that chance.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's also unique, I uh, I dealt with as
Speaker 2: a kid, oddly a lot of death, just I add,
Speaker 2: a very blessed childhood, but a lot of death was
Speaker 2: like the one thing, but almost none of its sudden.
Speaker 2: One one, the guy I called uncle John, John great Man,
Speaker 2: John Tivetten, uh was a firefighter with my father and
Speaker 2: died in a fire. And so I I remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember that. That's a seared memory. It's inside out,
Speaker 2: one of those core memories of the bad ones though,
Speaker 2: the blue ones. And I remember my mom shriek. I
Speaker 2: remember the whole thing, but the but all the other death,
Speaker 2: it was people were sick. People they were old, they
Speaker 2: were sick, or they were young and they were sick,
Speaker 2: and you got a run up, and that's hardening of
Speaker 2: itself because you're kind of like forever grieving, pre grieving
Speaker 2: all of it. But uh, but nothing, nothing I've ever
Speaker 2: experienced as was like Sunday nothing. And there's there's no
Speaker 2: there's no blueprint or instruction manual what to do and
Speaker 2: I and there's there's there's no right or wrong way.
Speaker 2: But the reason I am bringing this to this audience
Speaker 2: today is because maybe, just maybe, if somebody will reach
Speaker 2: out to someone and tell them they love them. And
Speaker 2: the reason that I even mentioned the Trump piece of
Speaker 2: it was not just because of the duality of the time.
Speaker 2: It was literally I was on the ground consoling my
Speaker 2: wife and one of my dear friends text me and said,
Speaker 2: did you see what happened? And so it was simultaneous
Speaker 2: basically when we got the news and when that happened.
Speaker 2: But because these next few months at the very least
Speaker 2: are going to be a very very tumultuous time in
Speaker 2: our nation, as all presidential election seasons are, but particularly
Speaker 2: the last few, and having one of the candidates recently
Speaker 2: be the victim of an assassination attempt only ups the
Speaker 2: ante on that massively, and there's going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of people who are just every every minute of
Speaker 2: the day refreshing Twitter and staying angry and staying online
Speaker 2: and staying in their phones, and all of it, for
Speaker 2: good or for bad, it's been. Presidential elections are important.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to act like they're not. But man,
Speaker 2: when I tell you, like, none of it could feel
Speaker 2: less relevant to me in that moment, even though I
Speaker 2: knew the gravity intellectually of what happened. So I say
Speaker 2: that in that, hold your people close, hold them close,
Speaker 2: and be there for your people, and and be in
Speaker 2: the moment when you have those moments, especially over these
Speaker 2: next few months when we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 2: media and a lot of things that are going to
Speaker 2: get us distract us from the stuff that truly matters.
Speaker 2: Because sometimes you have a true angel come into your
Speaker 2: life just a few years ago, touch every person in it,
Speaker 2: leave an impact on every person in it, have all
Speaker 2: the potential in the world to do amazing things, and
Speaker 2: something happens in her brain while she's sleeping. I really
Speaker 2: really appreciate you, guys as an audience, me feeling safe
Speaker 2: and comfortable enough to share this with you, and I
Speaker 2: really really feel blessed to have met this young woman
Speaker 2: and to have had her impact my family the way
Speaker 2: it has, And as I privately committed to her mother,
Speaker 2: I publicly commit just to myself to be there in
Speaker 2: every way possible for her family and the people in
Speaker 2: hour in her community that are really suffering right now
Speaker 2: through a true impossibility. Okay, the only thing that could
Speaker 2: possibly make me feel better right now is seeing a
Speaker 2: different one of my favorite people in the world give
Speaker 2: us a long overdue update on F one. So a
Speaker 2: three week overdue F one minute plus some listener questions. Next,
Speaker 2: what's right? All right? Welcome back in What's right with Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: So I demon say this will make you laugh, which
Speaker 2: is probably necessary.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I forgot to tell Sierra about our intermittent recording schedule
Speaker 2: because of Vegas and then because of vacation. So poor
Speaker 2: Sierra has been recording F one minutes left and right.
Speaker 3: We've got three four minutes.
Speaker 2: I think we might have four that you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, have like have not seen the light of day.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna play those four. I told her sheepishly
Speaker 2: this week that well, as it happens, we were all
Speaker 2: scheduled off the air and then off the air and whatever.
Speaker 2: So the so I asked Sierra to record a new
Speaker 2: one updating us on everything we've missed since the last
Speaker 2: F one minute actually made the air. So here is
Speaker 2: Sierra Fiddel, our F one expert, in full F one regalia,
Speaker 2: with a new microphone camera and everything set up with
Speaker 2: our latest F one minute.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to F one minute. It's been a while.
Speaker 4: I'm finding the urge to say it's been a minute,
Speaker 4: but it's been a while since you last spoken it
Speaker 4: and we have a lot to discuss, so we're just
Speaker 4: gonna get straight into it. So we're halfway into the season.
Speaker 4: It's been a very competitive one. We have six different
Speaker 4: race winners and one of them being Lewis Hamilton. If
Speaker 4: you don't understand how much weight that carries. Louis Hamilton
Speaker 4: hasn't won a race in over two years, and he's
Speaker 4: one of the most iconic, if not the most iconic
Speaker 4: driver the sport has ever had, and he's still participating
Speaker 4: in the sport today. And ever since Maxis happened joined
Speaker 4: the scene, it's been an absolute wreck for Mercedes and
Speaker 4: it's been wrecked for him, but he's won. He won
Speaker 4: at Silverstone and it's home race. And this is important
Speaker 4: because this is his last Silverstone race as Mercedes driver
Speaker 4: because he will be going to Ferrari next year. He
Speaker 4: will be replacing Carlos Signs. And this is also a
Speaker 4: big deal because he's been with Mercedes ever since twenty
Speaker 4: thirteen and he has most of his wins with Mercedes.
Speaker 4: So they're like this and he's leaving, and it was
Speaker 4: just an emotional moment. He was crying on the radio.
Speaker 4: It was a big moment for the fans. For especially
Speaker 4: if you're a Lewis Hampton fan. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 4: was like the best moment of your entire life. There
Speaker 4: are men of tears, many tears vers, but it was
Speaker 4: it was like the best moment thus far was to
Speaker 4: see Lewis Hampton win at Silverstone. And if you disagree,
Speaker 4: you are just a hater in general. Like other headlines, Wow,
Speaker 4: some really big headliness going on right now. Is this
Speaker 4: whole idea of driver swaps mid season. That's what Louis
Speaker 4: Hempson is doing is big swap. But that's next season.
Speaker 4: We have drivers at the moment who are considered being
Speaker 4: booted out of their seats as we speak. These drivers
Speaker 4: want the top one being Surgery Uprocris. He's done a
Speaker 4: terrible job. And it's funny because they've actually extended his contract,
Speaker 4: but ever since that was released, it's like it put
Speaker 4: a spell on him and it caused him to do
Speaker 4: the opposite. They've even gone to the extent of allowing
Speaker 4: somebody else to test their car with talks of replacement.
Speaker 4: But there's other there's other drivers. There's drivers like Logan
Speaker 4: Sergeant as well in Oakon, Daniel Ricardo. All these drivers
Speaker 4: are being there's talk is about them being replaced as
Speaker 4: we speak. So my last point for what's going on
Speaker 4: in the F one world right now would just be
Speaker 4: how competitive this season has been thus far. It's been
Speaker 4: a complete masters sabredominance for the last few seasons, and
Speaker 4: and that makes it not exciting, like we already know
Speaker 4: who's gonna win. It's really just like a battle per second,
Speaker 4: like who's gonna win second, because we already know who's
Speaker 4: gonna win first. But we can't really have we can't
Speaker 4: really approach these Grand Prix with that same attitude anymore
Speaker 4: because we're starting to see a red red well down downhill.
Speaker 4: Now they are still winning in the drivers and the
Speaker 4: Constructors Championships, but that doesn't mean that they're not under
Speaker 4: a threat, and that's what makes it fun. So that's
Speaker 4: been your F a minute for this Tuesday. Super excited
Speaker 4: times for the sport. It's race week, so I'll be
Speaker 4: talking about the hungering and Grand Prix happening on Sunday
Speaker 4: on Thursday. But until then, I'll see you guys later.
Speaker 2: That was great. I that was the best one by far.
Speaker 2: I really there was storytelling. There were some takes. She
Speaker 2: took a shot at at Lewis Hamilton haters. I feel
Speaker 2: terrible Forspella back from the dead and the fact that
Speaker 2: they're they're telling guy, this guy got a big contract
Speaker 2: extension and then I mean can't play. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: it sounds like Sergio Perez is Ben Simmons. I don't
Speaker 2: really know. That's probably unfair to Sergio, but regardless that is,
Speaker 2: I love it. I also loved it. What Sierra said
Speaker 2: at the end is true. Even me, someone who knew
Speaker 2: so little about F one before these F one minutes,
Speaker 2: I felt what she said at the end was totally true,
Speaker 2: which was it seemed not that exciting because the same
Speaker 2: guy wins every time Verstappen was just it, just it,
Speaker 2: And I don't know enough about car racing, but I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: he just probably is the best car. Like this seems
Speaker 2: a little unfair, like this guy just has the best car.
Speaker 2: It just wins every.
Speaker 3: Time, Like with the retirement and stuff. I mean, you
Speaker 3: could drive F one cars until you're fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that's what I would think. I would think
Speaker 2: you just keep going. But she's saying, red Bull that
Speaker 2: the gap is closing. So I that's great, love that
Speaker 2: f one minute. Great job, Sierra. I'm now invested in
Speaker 2: the Hungarian Grand Prix. Also, we're out of you know,
Speaker 2: these next few months, not a lot of sports for
Speaker 2: us to be watching. So I am going to I'm
Speaker 2: now that Sierra's out here giving takes, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: watching the F one races in full and see if
Speaker 2: I agree with her takes or not. All right, demons,
Speaker 2: let's uh uh the lot. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people in the chat are asking the first things versus
Speaker 2: back today. It is we're back, and aside from a
Speaker 2: random day here or there because we're preempted by live sports,
Speaker 2: we'll be back for the next month. Then we'll take
Speaker 2: a week off in August at some point, and then
Speaker 2: obviously it's football season and we don't take any time
Speaker 2: off until after the Super Bowl. All right, What is
Speaker 2: Cutlass saying.
Speaker 3: Uh, snick neglecting sunscreen?
Speaker 2: I see, I want you can vouch for me, man,
Speaker 2: I wasn't that sun was just appressed.
Speaker 3: Now the sun was beaming. I don't think it. I
Speaker 3: think if you live out here, you're you're gonna get burnt.
Speaker 3: Like it's yeah, you're gonna get a little burnt.
Speaker 2: And I didn't get as burnt as badly as I
Speaker 2: could have. You got burnt for the first time in forever.
Speaker 3: It's I've got like it looks my back looks crazy.
Speaker 3: I've been moisturizing. But I also didn't put sunscreen on
Speaker 3: for the first three days. Yeah, and I feel like
Speaker 3: the first three days might have been some of our
Speaker 3: most sun intensive ones. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Ruli oh have says something similar, tan Nick.
Speaker 2: That's how you know you're in the height of the
Speaker 2: yearly sports drought. That is correct. My complexion is inversely
Speaker 2: correlated with how good the current sports calendar is, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense, the better my complexion, the worse the
Speaker 2: sports time of year is. When I am at my
Speaker 2: absolute peak pasty is when the sports are at their
Speaker 2: absolute best. And when I look actually like rested and
Speaker 2: rejuvenated is when you know there's been nothing going on,
Speaker 2: all right, Go to Scott Murphy.
Speaker 3: Scott Murphy said, everyone talks about worse to first in
Speaker 3: the NFL, But which team is most likely to go
Speaker 3: first to worse this season? Uh?
Speaker 2: The which team is most likely to go I guess first?
Speaker 2: They weren't first last year, Cowboys were team most likely
Speaker 2: to go first to worst. That's a great question. Everyone's
Speaker 2: answer is gonna be Tampa because the division. But just
Speaker 2: throw that out because nobody cares about the NFC South.
Speaker 2: So I don't even want you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to include them.
Speaker 3: Wait the good They're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna be Yeah, they're not gonna be worse than Minnesota.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be Dallas. Buffalo is not gonna be
Speaker 2: worse than.
Speaker 3: New Cartie saying Franz they have too much talent.
Speaker 2: Houston. I don't think, Oh Demanzi is gonna be so mad.
Speaker 2: I've come up with my answer.
Speaker 3: Wait, hold on, are you even okay? Go ahead?
Speaker 2: Even? Oh yeah, I don't I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 2: picking it. But if I have to pick those in
Speaker 2: Tampa's ineligible just because of how strong the division is,
Speaker 2: I'll say Baltimore.
Speaker 3: And Baltimore after Derrick Henry. All Right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't well, I don't really care about the Derrick Henry edition. Sorry,
Speaker 2: but again I thought the answer is probably none of them. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I mean the answer is probably none of them. Uh No,
Speaker 2: and no, I don't want Lamar coming for me again.
Speaker 2: I don't don't post this Lamar and I I want
Speaker 2: us to be friendly again. Uh go to Noah Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Uh No. Rodriguez asked a question for Nick. If Wimby
Speaker 3: leads France to the gold medal, how would that affect
Speaker 3: if you? How would that affect how you rank him
Speaker 3: amongst NBA players going into next season?
Speaker 2: It would matter? Oh if he leads them to the
Speaker 2: gold and he's awesome, Oh, it would absolutely matter. He
Speaker 2: would he would It would impact how I affect him.
Speaker 2: But on that same note, again, I'm trying to be fair.
Speaker 2: How should the fact that the team USA players by
Speaker 2: a massive margin, voted Lebron the best player affect player rankings?
Speaker 2: I don't know, probably should affect a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 2: Team USA. The players are like, yeah, Lebron's the best guy.
Speaker 2: All right, what's the Let's go to Scott. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: let's go to uh yeah, go to Scott Fraser and
Speaker 2: then we'll do the F one thing.
Speaker 3: Scott Fraser asked Nick, what do you think of Canada
Speaker 3: going further than the USA, Mexico and Brazil.
Speaker 2: I thought that was insane. I mean, shout out to Canada.
Speaker 2: I thought that was one of the coolest stories of
Speaker 2: the tournament. Uh in not something I anticipated happening at all.
Speaker 2: And I'm told we have a photoshop of a new
Speaker 2: F one drive. Let me see this. I'm sure this
Speaker 2: won't be Oh it's been Simmons. I thought it was
Speaker 2: gonna be me. Oh, that's funny. It's been Simmons, Sergio president.
Speaker 2: That's well done. No, he's in a race car. He's
Speaker 2: in one of those F one race cars. Buddies will
Speaker 2: get your guys check huge the All right, yeah, that's sure.
Speaker 2: You have a much smaller monitor. All right, great show.
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