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Speaker 1: around the country. I heard Adam Schefter ESPN NFL Insider
Speaker 1: on his podcast where he threw this out in regards
Speaker 1: to Deshaun Watson's immediate future had caught my attention. Whatever
Speaker 1: punishment he has coming, whatever, Sparren, just once that is done.
Speaker 1: I just think that at that point in time, to me,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphi Eagles should be Wait, there's no team in
Speaker 1: the league with more draft capital than the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are more equipped to make a run at
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson than any team out there. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: my view of Adam Schefter whenever he says something, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not reported. It's just a thought that he has.
Speaker 1: It's always based in some kind of information because we
Speaker 1: can speculate, like how the Broncos would look if they
Speaker 1: got Deshaun Watson or Aaron Rodgers. Well, there's no report,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to Chefty, it always feels like
Speaker 1: this is coming from somebody in a front office. You know,
Speaker 1: when Jay Glazer makes a report, it's coming from a
Speaker 1: coach or a player. When Chefty has a report, it's
Speaker 1: usually coming from a league's source, or it's coming from
Speaker 1: ownership or GM or you know. That's the feeling I
Speaker 1: always get when I hear these reports. I'm always curious
Speaker 1: of where you're getting your information, who are you speaking to?
Speaker 1: And when he said this, I thought, Okay, that's not
Speaker 1: just one of those. You know, a great situation could
Speaker 1: be Deshaun Watson. It feels like there's something there, it's
Speaker 1: just not officially there. And it still comes back to
Speaker 1: what do you give up if you're Philadelphia to get
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson? When do you get Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: we know once out and you can't have a situation
Speaker 1: where Deshaun Watson is going to be more valuable unless
Speaker 1: you have some clarity of knowing when you can acquire him.
Speaker 1: That's it, because he's not going to play where you go,
Speaker 1: he's elevating his stock. It's when is he available? What
Speaker 1: is the punishment going to be. Let's say he settles
Speaker 1: these lawsuits, but he still has to deal with the commissioner,
Speaker 1: and the commissioner doesn't go, hey, I'm going to move
Speaker 1: you up. You know, there's no special card that you
Speaker 1: show that allows you to move in front of the line.
Speaker 1: Where we go, We're going to hear your story. Now
Speaker 1: I'm going to decide. He's got to wait, and this
Speaker 1: could be two months, six months. Maybe he doesn't play
Speaker 1: this year. I don't know. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: commissioner and do. I think they'll put him on the
Speaker 1: Commissioner's exemp list. Well, if they do, then why didn't
Speaker 1: they do that before? Like? Why not? Now, no, you're
Speaker 1: gonna put him on there, hey, and we're gonna put
Speaker 1: you on the like would what would happen have happened
Speaker 1: the last couple of months where you go and now
Speaker 1: we're going to well, you're gonna do it because you
Speaker 1: want to have him still get paid and have his
Speaker 1: day in court and not show up and be a
Speaker 1: distraction at training camp. And so I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen with Deshaun Watson, but I
Speaker 1: can't imagine at the end of the month, on July
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Deshaun Watson's going to be gone. Hello, Hey,
Speaker 1: my swipe card doesn't work. They Hello, I'm out here.
Speaker 1: Something's going to be settled by then for just the
Speaker 1: team and Deshaun Watson, and basically just take him out
Speaker 1: of take him out of play. Yeah. Point if you
Speaker 1: were Texans management, could you see almost want being okay
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson being put on the commissioner's list for
Speaker 1: the season because he doesn't get injured. He doesn't make
Speaker 1: you decent and take your end. I got to pay him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. It's forty million dollars. But
Speaker 1: you get the first pick of the draft you trade him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I could get the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing him right, and we're gonna be terrible.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay him while we're being terrible.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to pay him
Speaker 1: forty two million dollars to not play for me. But
Speaker 1: if you put him on the commissioner's exemp list, he
Speaker 1: gets paid to not play for you. Yeah, I'm a club. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the NFL may be waiting that they thought
Speaker 1: it might settle, right, because that would change the story.
Speaker 1: It's a civil case, yes, with the possibility of a
Speaker 1: financial settlement, So probably the NFL hoped it would be
Speaker 1: out of their head. I don't know, but you're right.
Speaker 1: What are they get to They have two weeks to
Speaker 1: make a decision here after spending ten days in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas prepping for the Olympics. Kevin Love is withdrawing from
Speaker 1: Team US say, and sources tell Woage Love is still
Speaker 1: returning to full form after right calf injury kept him
Speaker 1: out for a significant part of the end NBA season.
Speaker 1: First of all, he never should have been on the roster. Never.
Speaker 1: You might be surprised that he was on the roster,
Speaker 1: but Kevin should not have been on the Olympic roster.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall Zion like, give it a younger player a
Speaker 1: chance for something like this, Like nobody's going gotta have
Speaker 1: Kevin Love. I like Kevin Love, but Kevin Love is
Speaker 1: not an Olympian. He's not a good player anymore or
Speaker 1: very good player. And I would think that you're getting
Speaker 1: very good players to play for the Olympic team, if
Speaker 1: not even more elite than that. But Kevin Love is
Speaker 1: going to withdrawal from Team USA. Yeah, Love, did you
Speaker 1: see Tobias Harris? May have been asked, do we really
Speaker 1: need another eleven foot banks shooting shot? Like, what does
Speaker 1: he do for the Olympic team except being a good player?
Speaker 1: I find that as a fan, and I'm a Sixers fan. Well,
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he's healthy, but like he's a mid range player.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Julius Randall makes a lot
Speaker 1: more and now probably will be Julius Randall. But well,
Speaker 1: they don't have big guys. They don't have any big guns.
Speaker 1: But wait, we got to make up our mind. Do
Speaker 1: we need a big guy to win? Because it feels
Speaker 1: like all the metrics say you don't need big men anymore.
Speaker 1: Now you need a big guy to win in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about any you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the Greek freak. I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about Joe l Embiid I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about the joker when it comes to the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Why do I need a big guy Gobert? Maybe he's
Speaker 1: the Olympics. I don't know. I ain't worried about Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert or whether if I'm worried about Rudy Gobert, whether
Speaker 1: or not we can beat France. Then I got bigger
Speaker 1: problems they. I assume they have Frank Millikina, Nicholas Skittish Beely.
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Speaker 1: or it's and hey, it's tough for me to get
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Speaker 1: that had the problem, not your driver. And if you
Speaker 1: hit it farther than anybody, why are you using a
Speaker 1: driver on this course? How about you use a three
Speaker 1: wood three iron? How about you take a little off
Speaker 1: the swing. But you know, when you buy in to this,
Speaker 1: this is who I am, and this is what I'm supposed.
Speaker 1: Tiger famously did this when he would have his bad
Speaker 1: back and he would swing so hard, and I'm going,
Speaker 1: what are you doing like you need? How about you
Speaker 1: swing a little less and have course management there? And
Speaker 1: so I'm going to overpower this. No, this isn't the
Speaker 1: kind of course you overpower like that. It's not a
Speaker 1: long course. It's quirky, and you put it in the rough.
Speaker 1: You're putting it in knee high. Hey, it's really really tough.
Speaker 1: But you're twenty seven years of age. Come on, let's
Speaker 1: go deal with it. It's a frustrating sport, but don't
Speaker 1: be a baby and don't do that to your sponsor.
Speaker 1: At least I think they're still still his sponsor. Yankees
Speaker 1: Red Sox was the only sport that was on tap
Speaker 1: last night. The game didn't happen because of COVID issues.
Speaker 1: The Yankees leading the charge. I think there's six players
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol. Aaron Judge is one of the players.
Speaker 1: He was at the All Star Game, So now we're
Speaker 1: going to have contact tracing. I'm I'm sure Bradley Beale's
Speaker 1: not going to the Olympics because he's in COVID protocol.
Speaker 1: COVID is still a big factor in the world of sports,
Speaker 1: and it could play a key role the rest of
Speaker 1: the baseball season. Who knows what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: Tokyo at the Olympics. They just had another spike in
Speaker 1: COVID cases. I just I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But you know, sports was leading the charge to get
Speaker 1: us through the pandemic, and I hope sports has that
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue to do that. You go back to
Speaker 1: when Rudy Gobert tested positive. We've come a long way,
Speaker 1: at least you think we have, and then you have
Speaker 1: these moments in these sports and what kind of Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Does that put these teams and these sports in You
Speaker 1: can relax, but you still got to be aware. And
Speaker 1: that's one of those not so subtle reminders of it's
Speaker 1: still here, like it or not. Wherever you are with
Speaker 1: getting vaccinated, Hey, if you're going to play a sport,
Speaker 1: and I know leagues can't mandate this, but if if
Speaker 1: you're going to continue to play the sport, want to
Speaker 1: continue to play the sport, you want to be able
Speaker 1: to play in these games, then you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to have some kind of it's not legislation, but
Speaker 1: you have to have some kind of understanding of if
Speaker 1: we're going to get through this, we have to get
Speaker 1: through this together. And I understand I have friends who
Speaker 1: haven't been vaccinated. I've heard both sides of this, but
Speaker 1: this is sports. You're playing a game. We want to
Speaker 1: come and see you play. We need you to be
Speaker 1: smart about all of this. Whatever that answer is, Hopefully
Speaker 1: these leagues can come up with some kind of consensus here.
Speaker 1: But I tuned in to watch that game last night
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they said, nope, COVID protocol
Speaker 1: not happening. And now with what goes on at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna pull off these Olympics.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't know. And look, Peacock is
Speaker 1: carrying the Olympics. Now, I worked at NBC. I worked
Speaker 1: the Olympics. I mean, they're it's full speed ahead. It's
Speaker 1: almost like an NFL mentality. Hey, we're playing these football games.
Speaker 1: Now we sat out last year. We're having these games.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll watch, but I'll watch with great curiosity
Speaker 1: and hold my breath. Really, I mentioned the greatness of
Speaker 1: Janis that I wondered how many players have two mbps
Speaker 1: and have won a title by the age of twenty six,
Speaker 1: And I forgot that Tim Duncan was one of those
Speaker 1: players that he had two MVPs back in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, and he won an NBA championship. And he
Speaker 1: did that before he turned twenty seven. I believe Bill
Speaker 1: Russell did it. I think before he turned twenty seven
Speaker 1: or right around then. Kareem Bob pettit, Tim Duncan, and
Speaker 1: Jannis won't turn twenty seven until December. That's pretty impressive
Speaker 1: if he would win this championship, putting him in that
Speaker 1: category with Tim Duncan, Kareem, Bob Pettitt, Bill Russell. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the fast track right there, and you start to
Speaker 1: think of legacies. You don't think of a legacy when
Speaker 1: you're twenty six, but at thirty six, if you're Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: you do. And to me, the next seven days is
Speaker 1: about Chris Paul. He wins it, what it means to him,
Speaker 1: his place in history, if he plays well, if he
Speaker 1: doesn't win in I I think it's gonna have one.
Speaker 1: I think Jannis can can. He's on scholarship right now.
Speaker 1: Because of the way he's played coming back from the injury.
Speaker 1: He had that block against Ayton. I think he's got
Speaker 1: some good will that he can play with here. If
Speaker 1: they don't win, they're not expected to win. Phoenix was
Speaker 1: the favorite. They got home court advantage. But it feels
Speaker 1: like there's a whole lot more at stake for Chris
Speaker 1: Paul than there is Jannis. Yeah, well, you know, for
Speaker 1: both these guys. When the Lakers are healthier, when these
Speaker 1: other teams get healthy, when the Nets don't have issues,
Speaker 1: this is a window for both teams. I mean it's obvious,
Speaker 1: but like next year, they may not be close to this. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Game five coming up on Saturday night Chris, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. We just got word that Kevin Love is
Speaker 1: withdrawing from the Olympic team. So we have Bradley Beale
Speaker 1: and Kevin Love not playing. Who are going to be
Speaker 1: the replacements? Well, they have they have an ample amount
Speaker 1: of players that they can pick from from the pool.
Speaker 1: I know a player that has been campaigning behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of trying to get on his team, and that's
Speaker 1: Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks. You know, we heard
Speaker 1: talk of Duncan Robinson with the Miami Heat, the shrup
Speaker 1: shooter as well. So Collegel has some he has some
Speaker 1: subs decision to make. But there's there's still a bunch
Speaker 1: of players that I've talked to behind the scenes about
Speaker 1: up the up wars of team that would like the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have one of those two spots. U. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll have a good They'll have a good amount of options.
Speaker 1: Why was Kevin Love on the team to begin with?
Speaker 1: That is a good question. DP Um experience. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go with experience, you know, I'll go with that.
Speaker 1: That's the best I got, dp I got a lot
Speaker 1: of experience. Come on, I this is where I would
Speaker 1: have hoped Julius Randall, Zion Williamson, where you could you
Speaker 1: could have younger players get that opportunity to play in
Speaker 1: Olympic competition. I mean, I mean, that's what I was
Speaker 1: hoping for. And I don't know what's going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, but I'm just like, I was really surprised
Speaker 1: that Kevin Love was given an invitation so well. DP
Speaker 1: as far as Zion Williamson goes, it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to believe that Team USA did not ask him to
Speaker 1: play in that like that, that's just like the you know,
Speaker 1: that's just like the Golden standard having a young promising
Speaker 1: player on the roster of the cord. He didn't even
Speaker 1: get an invitation to try out. Now as Zion Zion Zion.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Zion had an opportunity as I had
Speaker 1: an opportunity, which leads me to believe he probably declined.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, the Jason Kidd hire in Dallas, what does
Speaker 1: that mean for Luca don Chick, Well, just somebody who's
Speaker 1: played the game at that position at a high level. Um,
Speaker 1: somebody who I think with the Mavericks are hoping that
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd can even accelerate. Uh, Luca's learning curve in
Speaker 1: his NBA and and that's funny to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: saying that, you know that he's an All NBA player
Speaker 1: right now. But Jason Kidd is just just his pedigree,
Speaker 1: his knowledge of the game. And they believe that Jason
Speaker 1: Kidd has become a much better coach over the last
Speaker 1: two or three years getting earned a championship with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I talked to Rob Polinka over there with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and he said the things that they were able to do,
Speaker 1: that some of the innovative sets that they were putting
Speaker 1: out there on the floor he created Jason Kidd and
Speaker 1: so he got a lot of praise over there. Lebron
Speaker 1: James also praise Kid. So I think they feel like, um,
Speaker 1: kid can take this team to the next level. Now.
Speaker 1: I want to say this DP is that it was
Speaker 1: somewhat in the plans a few years ago, but Jason
Speaker 1: Kidd to join the coaching staff of Rick Carlile. Something happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that would I don't know if
Speaker 1: Carlisle didn't want him on the staff, but something had
Speaker 1: happened and to cause that thing to fizzle out, and
Speaker 1: so that never transpired, and so Now what ultimately has
Speaker 1: happened is the Dallas Mavericks are coming back full circle
Speaker 1: and getting a guy that they want a part of
Speaker 1: organization to begin with. Yeah, but it didn't it didn't
Speaker 1: make sense that Rick Carlisle decides to leave a couple
Speaker 1: of years left on his contract. He says, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: lucas gonna win multiple championships here. And did it come
Speaker 1: down to Luca didn't want Rick Carlyle as his head
Speaker 1: coach and Mark Cuban had to make that decision to
Speaker 1: get rid of him. Well, I'll say this. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a poorly it was a poorly um announced
Speaker 1: secret that Luca didn't really get along with Rick Carlis
Speaker 1: you know so that that was that was in within
Speaker 1: league circle. We've heard about that, you know, throughout his tenure.
Speaker 1: You know, Rick carli is a coach who, uh wants
Speaker 1: a lot of control, and I think he's given control
Speaker 1: to Luca because he's just such a great phenomenal player.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's used to, you know, controlling the offense,
Speaker 1: controlling defense, calling sets, and he had to allow Luca
Speaker 1: to have more rain being at the player that he
Speaker 1: blossom into. But those two guys just never. It was
Speaker 1: never just pure bliss with those two guys, if you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I don't have any um
Speaker 1: information to say to Luca. You know, needed call out
Speaker 1: to be out to stay there. But it wasn't a
Speaker 1: secret that they you know that they made this decision.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what's going on in Portland
Speaker 1: with Damian Lillard, and I put myself in his position.
Speaker 1: You know, you're thirty years of age, You're an unbelievable talent,
Speaker 1: but you're nowhere near an NBA championship. Um and he
Speaker 1: looks around and he's got a roster that's full of injuries.
Speaker 1: You you know, are you gonna win with CJ McCollum
Speaker 1: as your running mate? Uh? What is your place in history?
Speaker 1: Like you start to think these things when you get
Speaker 1: to age thirty. You got a good relationship with Dame
Speaker 1: Um canny he canny he get his wish and and
Speaker 1: uh and stay in Portland? Or can he get his
Speaker 1: wish and leave Portland? What do you think is more
Speaker 1: likely to happen? That's a good question, DPT. I appreciate
Speaker 1: that tea up because I I have a story with
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard dropping this morning any minute, so I was
Speaker 1: able to talk with him and here in Vegas to
Speaker 1: just get just try to find out what's going on
Speaker 1: in his mind as it pertains to his tenure with
Speaker 1: the Portland's Trailblazer Because as a right now, like this
Speaker 1: is the most frustrated East Bear. You know, I've said
Speaker 1: that since the season ended, since they were it was
Speaker 1: kind of like an upset with Denver because they didn't
Speaker 1: have two of their best players and Denver still be Portland.
Speaker 1: And so Dame, and I say this, and I say
Speaker 1: this to members of the Portland trail Blazers organization as well,
Speaker 1: is that Dame has always told me he wants to
Speaker 1: compete for a championship. He wants to play for a title.
Speaker 1: And Portland has always been a team that they're going
Speaker 1: to be good, they're going to make the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: we all know how the story goes at the end,
Speaker 1: they always fizzle out. And if Dame is telling me
Speaker 1: he wants to compete for a championship, I have to
Speaker 1: hold the team to that standard as well, even if
Speaker 1: the team's objective is not to compete for a championship. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this article that's dropping today on Yahoo's Sports. Does
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard say that he wants to be traded. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. He doesn't say that we're we're We're not.
Speaker 1: We're not even to that point. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: even to that point. You know, there's some conversations that
Speaker 1: need to be had for it even for a decision
Speaker 1: like that to even be made. But as a right now,
Speaker 1: you know, he just wants to see a change and
Speaker 1: he wants to get away from the norm. So that
Speaker 1: is his focus. Yeah, I just wonder. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just apply logic to this. They're not winning anything anytime soon,
Speaker 1: right right, Well, he'll if that's the case, If if
Speaker 1: if the roster is not conduced to being able to
Speaker 1: play amongst the elites. There he has a decision to make.
Speaker 1: Is there a possibility is Ben Simmons involved in in
Speaker 1: you know, this equation of that maybe Dame could end
Speaker 1: up in Philadelphia. I mean, I don't like to do
Speaker 1: talk radio throw out crazy trade proposals, but Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: is available. The question is who wants him, what do
Speaker 1: you do with him? And what do you have to
Speaker 1: give up to get him? Could you see Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: in Portland. See Ben Simmons in Portland, Dame in Philly,
Speaker 1: or just Ben Simmons important, or Ben Simmons in Portland
Speaker 1: and CJ McCollum in Philadelphia, Like, do you see a
Speaker 1: scenario where Portland is interested in Ben Simmons. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would think, yeah, I would think there's some interests in
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons on Portland's side, but I'm not sure at
Speaker 1: the cost of CJ. And if Portland is throwing in CJ,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to take a little bit more
Speaker 1: to get Ben Simmons. So with that being said, I
Speaker 1: don't see the Philly Portland as a right now. I
Speaker 1: don't see the Philly Portland thing transpired. Where do you
Speaker 1: see Ben Simmons going. That's a good question. You look
Speaker 1: at look at the teams that are being a room
Speaker 1: where you talk about Minnesota, Sacramento. These aren't good teams,
Speaker 1: you know. If these are teams that are you know,
Speaker 1: that are young and they're still trying to develop players,
Speaker 1: you don't hear a lot of top notch teams, you know,
Speaker 1: clamoring to get Ben Simmons right now. But I think
Speaker 1: he's got to go to a place where he can
Speaker 1: sort of not hide, But he needs to go where
Speaker 1: there's a little less pressure on every game, every moment,
Speaker 1: every shot, every free throw. Like you know, I said, Orlando, like,
Speaker 1: let him go and let him run a team, because
Speaker 1: we've seen when Mbiad is not in there, he's a
Speaker 1: different player. And I just wonder if he got away
Speaker 1: and got into a situation. Minnesota is not right for him,
Speaker 1: Sacramento is not be right for him. But I would
Speaker 1: think one of these other teams where he could just
Speaker 1: sort of Houston like, he could sort of run the
Speaker 1: team a little bit. That's what I'd be curious about. Well,
Speaker 1: those teams, Like I still put Minnesota, Sacramento into those
Speaker 1: teams that you mentioned, dud DP because there won't be there,
Speaker 1: there won't be the spotlight on him in those in
Speaker 1: those areas. We're talking about Philly, Man, that's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest markets where the fan base is just so
Speaker 1: intense that if you're playing bad, poorly, they're gonna let
Speaker 1: you know, and they're gonna let you know like nobody
Speaker 1: else has ever let you know. So he needs to
Speaker 1: get into an environment where he can have mistakes and
Speaker 1: he still needs to develop as great as he is.
Speaker 1: Believe is a two time All Star, one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive players we have in this league. But he
Speaker 1: has a lot of development to go, and I think
Speaker 1: he's going to reach his full potential right now if
Speaker 1: he's on one of those lower market teams which won't
Speaker 1: have a lot of spotlight on him, where he can
Speaker 1: make mistakes and still try to prosper. What do you
Speaker 1: think the media is gonna do react to Chris Paul
Speaker 1: if the Suns don't win this NBA Championship. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's going to be It's gonna be tough, man. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen Chris Paul play at a high level, fizzle
Speaker 1: out towards the end. His best run before this point
Speaker 1: was in Houston, when he got to the conference finals,
Speaker 1: he was a hamstring away from advancing, and now they're
Speaker 1: up to old. This would just amplify all the talk
Speaker 1: of people saying that Chris Paul can't get it done
Speaker 1: in the clutch times, in the clutch moments. Now there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of time left for him to rectify that,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a bad look if the
Speaker 1: Suns aren't able to get this done. It's always great
Speaker 1: to catch up with you, Chris, safe travels, have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, and once again, thank you DP anytime, bro
Speaker 1: take care of That's Chris Haynes, senior NBA insighter for
Speaker 1: YA who's sports and has an article with Dame Lillard
Speaker 1: coming out this morning and he also has the Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes podcast host to post it up with. Chris thinks
Speaker 1: a couple of phone calls and we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: It is a meat Friday and we've got some chili
Speaker 1: dogs we've got We've got some Tater Todds, So I'll
Speaker 1: get some phone calls in there and we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Karen in Alabama, Hi, Karen, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1: Hid Hi? Karen? I enjoy your show as the best
Speaker 1: sports show on the air. Well, thank you, Karen. Do
Speaker 1: you have a question for me? Yeah? I do, Okay,
Speaker 1: which one on your show has a great personality? Including Todd?
Speaker 1: And I wondered, I wish that you are. Wouldn't he
Speaker 1: have Todd such a hard time? M Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's possible, Karen, because Todd kind of asked
Speaker 1: for getting a hard time. No, yes he does, he does.
Speaker 1: He just has a good personality. Oh well, I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that you you have his back, and
Speaker 1: thank you for calling and saying those nice things. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: that's Karen in Alabama. How sweet? That was very sweet
Speaker 1: of her. I appreciate that that was nice. Would you
Speaker 1: rather that I didn't say anything to you, just be
Speaker 1: ignored completely? Yes? No, if it, if it comes to that,
Speaker 1: I'd rather I'll take the abuse over being ignored, like
Speaker 1: I'm not in the room. But I will say that
Speaker 1: that was adorable and that's put a smile on my
Speaker 1: face heading into the weekend. I like then, thank you Todd. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: he's huge in the plus ninety Alabama outside. I don't know.
Speaker 1: She sounds great. I don't know how old Karen is.
Speaker 1: He's in the I don't know him, and it doesn't matter. Look,
Speaker 1: I love that Karen called in. Yes, you don't call
Speaker 1: Karen and tell her how to handle her business. Though
Speaker 1: she actually said, you guys all have great personalities, even Todd.
Speaker 1: Todd sounded like a backheaded compliment at first. But once
Speaker 1: you say, even while trying to say, we shouldn't be
Speaker 1: we should be more nice to you, she took a
Speaker 1: shot at you. You know what, if I had the oppotunity,
Speaker 1: I would sit on the front porch, you know, with
Speaker 1: some lemonade with her and chat and I could just
Speaker 1: picture that being a very crazy Alabama mo. She's ninety seven.
Speaker 1: You'd make her get the lemonade, bringing out probably doing nothing.
Speaker 1: I thought you had chips. You said you're gonna bring chea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying you had crew to te
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Lemonade? I always have crew to treat.
Speaker 1: She's great. Uh Berry in Long Island, Hi Berry, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Good morning fellas, Good morning. I have I have a
Speaker 1: bone to pick with Polly in relation to uh today's
Speaker 1: meat Friday men. You okay, uh no, no offense, Polly.
Speaker 1: I love you, chief, but why does Chicago have to
Speaker 1: ruin every kind of food? You got your thumpster on
Speaker 1: the bun hot dog, you got your tomato sauce, casserole
Speaker 1: and things abomination you call pizza. And I got to
Speaker 1: tell you if you start coming from our bagels, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a problem. All right, Barry, thank you, Paul
Speaker 1: your chance to respond. Yeah, I can understand the point.
Speaker 1: If people are territorial wherever you grow up you think
Speaker 1: the food is fantastic, when people tell you it stinks,
Speaker 1: you can't be objective about it. But if you look
Speaker 1: at Chicago dogs, people sometimes see him and go, what
Speaker 1: does all that mess there? I think they're fantastic, but
Speaker 1: I can understand why people wouldn't like it. You're trying
Speaker 1: too hard and the pizza is not good. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of like if you sort of
Speaker 1: follow Barry's lead there, right, it's like, yeah, our pizza
Speaker 1: is really good, yeah, but ours is even thicker, right,
Speaker 1: Or like, oh no, our hot dogs are yeah, but
Speaker 1: we put everything on our hot dogs. There is a
Speaker 1: little bit of trying hard. Yeah. Yes, I don't think
Speaker 1: Paul could really come And I actually did grow up
Speaker 1: where the food was fantastic, where Paully had to grow
Speaker 1: up in a place where he had to try. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break. Let's go out and have some hot
Speaker 1: dogs here, and if you're watching on peacunck, you can
Speaker 1: you can enjoy the menu vicariously through us. We'll take
Speaker 1: it break. Last call for phone calls back after this.
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Speaker 1: Fishing trip in Montana one of those moments, one of
Speaker 1: those weeks that you get to look back on and long,
Speaker 1: long time, great memories, and of course lost my brother
Speaker 1: over the boat. It's not often when you say, you know,
Speaker 1: we had a good vacation and uh, nobody died. Because
Speaker 1: my brother when we're fly fishing and we're on rafts
Speaker 1: and we're floating down the river and he fell out
Speaker 1: of the boat and hit his head on a rock. Now,
Speaker 1: my younger brother wants everybody to know that knows him.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the one. It's not Dave who fell out
Speaker 1: of the raft. It's Mike, my older brother fell out,
Speaker 1: and he's the one. He's getting his seven staples out today. Yes, Pa,
Speaker 1: did one of the two brothers that were in the
Speaker 1: boats helped the brother out of the boat more than
Speaker 1: the other who helped more. No, well, it's a guide
Speaker 1: and myself and my older brother, you couldn't help my other.
Speaker 1: I had a fish. I had a fish on my line.
Speaker 1: I respect yeah, And I said to my brother, who
Speaker 1: was bleeding at the time, and he's in the river.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Mike, let me get this fish in
Speaker 1: and then I'll help you out of the water. And
Speaker 1: he understood it because I had had a fish. Sean.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, priorities there. But he gets his
Speaker 1: staples out coming up. But it's my oldest brother, Mike,
Speaker 1: who is the one who fell out of the boat,
Speaker 1: not my younger brother Dave. Just want to claire that
Speaker 1: clarify them. Uh, meet Friday Tregger, you can fire it up.
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Speaker 1: DP show to learn more. I refuse to have one
Speaker 1: of those Chicago dogs. It's just Chicago trying too hard
Speaker 1: to be Chicago and just a nice little chili cheese
Speaker 1: dog and so all I need. It's a nice little
Speaker 1: way to ease into the weekend there pulling. But you
Speaker 1: got a lot of Chicago hot dogs. Fritzy's gonna make
Speaker 1: up for it. Let me tell you, did you eat
Speaker 1: to put two on the plate? And I have a
Speaker 1: third one in my future for sure and a quick
Speaker 1: rush to be for the commute home. I do have
Speaker 1: my card. Oh, your your card that allows you This
Speaker 1: was a huge revelation yesterday at the end of the show,
Speaker 1: where you have a card that will allow you to
Speaker 1: go to the head of the line for any bathroom.
Speaker 1: There are certain gastro intestinal diseases and then maybe other things,
Speaker 1: but like if you have something like Crohn's disease or
Speaker 1: or eliitis colitis, things like that you can you know,
Speaker 1: it's considered some type of disability where when you have
Speaker 1: to go, you have to go more than the average
Speaker 1: person thinks they have an urge to use the restroom
Speaker 1: and if you and they can give you a card
Speaker 1: where you can actually, you know, go to the front
Speaker 1: of the line, whether you're at a concert, sporting event,
Speaker 1: or any public restroom, or you're in a situation where
Speaker 1: you can't you can't wait. And if you get pulled
Speaker 1: over by the police, you could say, let's say you
Speaker 1: get pulled over heading home for speeding. Yeah, that hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet, but I don't know, because you're still putting
Speaker 1: other people's lives at risk. A police officer could very
Speaker 1: well say, you know, instead of killing God forbid people
Speaker 1: and racing to the bathroom, you know, maybe you just
Speaker 1: have an accident and clean yourself up later. And instead
Speaker 1: of running people over on the highways. I think we've
Speaker 1: tapped out. I'm just saying thank you. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you could really use that as an excuse, thank
Speaker 1: you for the clean win. Alrighty uh. Lewis in California,
Speaker 1: Hey Lewis, Good morning Dan and the dant Good morning Dan,
Speaker 1: A good morning. Hi. Hey, I'm five nine and a
Speaker 1: hard two thirty five A What a way to kick
Speaker 1: off the weekend. The planets have a line and Phoebe cake.
Speaker 1: Birthday is on meat Friday. Yes, yes, I'm for time
Speaker 1: for a sausage of todd. Thank you, Lewis May in Honolulu.
Speaker 1: I hope I got that right, May. Hello? Oh, no,
Speaker 1: is this Ryan's wife? Yes? I did? Hello, Hi May, Yes, Paul,
Speaker 1: we have a truck load of question for Ryan's wife.
Speaker 1: I mean a truck load the first time a long time. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then at a slender one ten alriting. So I was wondering,
Speaker 1: it's my husband's birthday, and I wanted to ask if
Speaker 1: you could please wish him a happy birthday. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: a happy birthday to Ryan in Honolulu. Oh wonderful, you're
Speaker 1: so kind. Thank you. I also have a limerick. Oh god, Okay, May,
Speaker 1: what have we created? May? May? You're not hitting on
Speaker 1: me right now? Are you? Quite? Possibly? You know? All right?
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure, but I just I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that Ryan knew that I'm not playing any part
Speaker 1: in this. Okay. The stage is yours. This is May
Speaker 1: and Honolulu and her husband Ryan, of course, who's a
Speaker 1: frequent caller and a contributor to the program. All right, mate,
Speaker 1: there once who was a man in Honolulu once a
Speaker 1: little bit cuckoo. He spreads the aloha and loves DEEPI shoha,
Speaker 1: but most of his jokes are straight. And Dudu got
Speaker 1: a delivery. Thank you, May, Happy Birthday. Ryano met for
Speaker 1: each other. Wow, Todd has met May? I have you
Speaker 1: hugged me? I was in Honolula. I was at a
Speaker 1: University of Hawaii game on vacation and I hung out
Speaker 1: with both of them, lovely people. We had a good time.
Speaker 1: We did a little scanty, you know, shot some stuff.
Speaker 1: We had fun time. Thank you Todd, Dave and Detroit. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I love Jeffrey Detroit and I love you guys. I'm
Speaker 1: a fifty four year old man five ten bucks seventy anyway,
Speaker 1: Jeffany Troit's great, But man, he didn't you guys got
Speaker 1: the Friday Hot dogs and he didn't rep the Detroit
Speaker 1: Cony Dogs. We got the best Tony dogs in the world.
Speaker 1: Chicago dogs are too heavy and too much. The Cony
Speaker 1: dogs in Detroit. I mean, Dan, if you ever been
Speaker 1: to Tiger Spam or come Erica Park, you know, man
Speaker 1: Senate Senate Cony, lap Cony. It's a big doubled up.
Speaker 1: But I grew up on Michigan and libernoise bro and
Speaker 1: we got the best conies around them. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Dave. I am not familiar with Detroit dogs
Speaker 1: yes time. And if they're called Cony, you can just
Speaker 1: tell that they're copying it from Coney Island, so it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's a copy of New York hot dogs.
Speaker 1: And it can't be that great if you're naming it
Speaker 1: up to New York. I'm too tired to argue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, Detroit has the best hot dogs, the Cony
Speaker 1: hot Dog. We're the best pizza in Chicago. New York Pizza.
Speaker 1: Come on, check out the New York pizza here in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Come on, this dame sports history. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can beat that. Let's see, Oh, one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine thousand people watched the first World Cup final
Speaker 1: in Brazil. Wow, nineteen fifty Okay, that's it, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go around the room. What we learned on the program?
Speaker 1: You're never quite sure what you're gonna get on this show.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about it. Todd, what did you
Speaker 1: learn today? From the very open to the show, which
Speaker 1: was a great way to start Friday. You said, we
Speaker 1: have three different types of hot dogs for traitor Meet
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Speaker 1: was a great way to get thick started. MCN Chicago
Speaker 1: kind of just takes other people's food to make them bigger.
Speaker 1: Seating Ocounter Junior. The third hot dogs in Detroit are
Speaker 1: called Coney's all right, and Paulie Todd is a long
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