WEBVTT - Sports talk with Comedian Tom Thakker 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.559 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:20.400 podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Olivia Harlan Decker. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.600 Welcome back to Unleashed from the King of Sports Books 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.400 Bet MGM. I'm Olivia Harland Decker and this week I'm 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.239 joined by my guest host, Tom Takar. We're going to 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.479 run down the latest sports headlines, worst takes, and finally 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.240 hang out with our friend Peter Andrew with our lions locks. Tom, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.120 thank you so much for joining us. I just want 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.080 to confirm because I have one of those names that's 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.040 misspelled and mispronounced a lot as well. Am I saying 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.160 to Car right, you got it, Olivia, And I just 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.040 want to say I'm so glad to be on the show. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:59.920 I've been looking forward to talk at sports with the 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.680 all weekend. I am so excited and it is to 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.920 Car and I appreciate you asking. Our names are actually 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.320 spelled kind of similarly here, but I I gotta tell you, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.000 I was waiting for the recording to tell you this 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.840 because I think you're gonna like this. But so, my 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.120 name is Tom ta Car. That is my father's last 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.120 name is ta Car, but my legal name because my 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.840 parents were never married. Is tom Brady, as you can imagine. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.160 I I had to change it because doing stand up 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.280 with the name tom Brady was not a pleasant experience. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.679 I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure, especially depending on what city 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.200 you'd be in right exactly. And I don't know if 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.720 you knew this, but I'm from Indiana, Olivia, and people 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.560 in Indiana do not like tom Brady because of the 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.880 Peyton Manning tom Brady rivalry from back in the day. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.640 It's not even really a rivalry anymore, Colts versus Patriots, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.720 but it's still held over in in a lot of 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.440 Indie in his people's minds. So I had to change 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.800 it because I would do I didn't show in Indianapolis, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.960 and I'm not kidding. I got booed like I would 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.640 get booed. It happened in Buffalo too, where I got booed. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.960 The breaking point for me was I had an intro 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.400 from a guy who was like, he saw my name 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.720 on the list and he didn't know who I was. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.239 I was I was still a kind of newer to 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.160 comedy and he was like, you guys aren't gonna believe 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.320 who's coming up next. And he was like, we all 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.200 hate the Patriots, right, and they were like yeah, and 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.400 we love the cults. Yeah, and then he goes who 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.520 is the biggest What he said was we might have 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.880 to believe this out, but he said, who is the 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.080 biggest bitch you can think of? Who plays for the Patriots? 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.040 And without any hesitation, they all just in unis and 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.440 went Tom Brady and then he just went, yeah, here 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.360 he is. And then I had to go on stage 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.400 and they all started booing and then he was like, hey, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.800 I have a good seb Like he didn't understand that 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.000 he uh, he had put me in such a bad situation, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.040 but yeah, it was yeah, pretty bad. So I had 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.280 to change it. So when you walked out on stage, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.920 people are like, oh, you would think they would do that. Yeah, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.639 you would think they would do that. But no sports fans. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.360 You know, I'm one of them. I get it. We're crazy. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.520 But it would happen in a lot of cities and 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.640 a lot of like it was just a very you know, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.640 hokey thing, and I had to separate from it. So 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.320 I changed my name to my father's name, which is 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.160 Tom Takar oh Man. But now you have the issue, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.880 which I do all the time. As well, people asking 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.720 how to pronounce it exactly exactly. But I'll trade it. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.200 I'll trade it for the I mean, it's still on 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.120 my I D so I still get when I go 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.560 to the airport, they're like, ohre and it's pretty grutt. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.800 I'm going to guess that's in the South. When someone 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.840 asked it in that that's that's a good point. That's 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.200 my impression of anybody. I'm in New York City. Where's 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:57.840 just that's good that Tom. You said you're excited to 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.240 talk sports, and we've kind of been talking about what 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.960 we want to focus on, and I know you can't 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.880 wait to talk n B A. But you're a baseball 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.680 fan as well. And something huge happened in the MLB 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.920 this week, so big, yes, So the MLB is implementing 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.240 a ten day suspension if they catch any baseballs with 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.479 a foreign sticky substance. Now, this mostly targets pictures, but 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.680 outfielders you know, also talk about this too. This really 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.840 is for control of the ball, which leads to better 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.240 spin rate. So when a ball has that like grip 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.159 to it, it's easier to increase the spin rate, which 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.920 makes it really hard to hit. So teams were getting 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.600 very creative and making these concoctions. It could be as 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.279 simple as a little sun screen, and then people were 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.839 making these really sophisticated combinations with glue of all sorts. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.599 So you know, Trevor Bauer led the charge on this. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.000 He conducted his own experiments for years of saying, these 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.599 are games I used some stick, these are games I didn't. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.839 And when the ball has a little stick, according to 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.000 Trevor Bauer, he says, it can add up to two 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.599 hundred to three hundred revolutions per minute. That's huge. And 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.919 I think what's so interesting about this is, you know, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.560 hitters have never been better, the athleticism has never been better, 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.280 recovery has never been better. So this was pictures ways 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.920 to catch up. And then we saw, you know, such 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.800 high strikeout rates and it's it's super controversial, Tom, But 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.880 the main thing that's controversial is that they're now changing 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.839 the rules mid season. Insane. It's insane that they would 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.800 change at mid season. And I think it has to 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.600 be just a panic about ratings and about I mean, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.840 the league likes hits. The league like home runs, and 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.640 when strikeouts are way up like this and batting averages 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.919 are way low, their panicking and they're going people, we 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.000 need people watching baseball because people are already. Baseball gets 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.240 the most slept on. Baseball gets the most made fun of. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.120 I think, besides maybe soccer about being too boring. I 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.880 don't like watching uh no hits, you know, and you know, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.520 true baseball fans. I love watching strikeout counts get high. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.960 I love watching what people do with the high revolution rate. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.719 But like it's it's tricky though. It's it is a 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.240 tricky thing, and I don't really know how to feel 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.839 about it because it is a player enhancing thing. The 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.679 league has known about it forever. I mean, we saw 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.880 a guy with a neck full of sticky stuff on 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.560 it and it finally to get called out, And even 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.240 when that happened, the opposing team's manager was like, I 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.359 didn't even really want to call that out because we 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.039 all know that everybody's doing it. You know, everyone's doing 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.800 it exactly. So it's like a thing that the league 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.800 has known about all this time. And I think it's 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.280 just a panic move, and I think it is dangerous 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.160 because what they're claiming is that it's it's adding to 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.360 hit by pitches, and that's I don't know how true 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.480 that is, but definitely changing everybody's pitching midway through the season. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.440 I think we are going to see some people get hurt. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.960 I think there's a good chance people are getting hit 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.159 by balls. It will be interesting to see the stat 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.360 split from this point forward. I think it's wild that 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.080 they changed it ind way through this season because it 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.080 definitely could have been handled after the season, and there's 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.320 technology that's two pre mud balls to kind of fix this, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.080 where supposedly might be rolled out as soon as next season. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.120 And I think that it's just kind of I think 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.920 it's a desperation Kiev to get ratings up. I kind 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.560 of agree. And you mentioned it's dangerous. Tyler Glass now 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.120 already said removing the use of these substances led to 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.880 his injury. And it's it just it changes the whole format. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.960 You know, I'm not a picture, but it's it doesn't 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.280 take a genius to figure out how this would change 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.280 the whole game. The pictures are very angry at the 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.960 grip of baseball's in general. It's not uniform. It's not 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.600 every time you go to a different park, you know, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.880 it's gonna feel different, like with football's. You know, the 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.920 way that they loosen them up. But Garrett Cole Yankees Picture, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.080 vented about it recently, and I think this is a 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.800 perfect way to sum up the way the players feel 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.200 about that. Let's roll that tape. It's so hard to 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.960 grip the ball. I just you know, I mean, for 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.720 Pete's sake. It's part of the reason why almost every 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.680 player on the field has has something, regardless of their 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.760 picture or not help them control the ball. I don't 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.280 have a solution, but again, we are aligned in a 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.960 lot of areas with the Commissioner's office on this, and 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.440 please just talk to us, Please just work with us. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.920 I know you have the hammer here, but we've been 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.120 living in a gray area for so long. I would 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.320 just hate to see players get hurt. Would I would 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.880 hate to see ball start flying at people's heads. I 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.840 had a really tough time grip in the baseball tonight, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.480 especially earlier when it was windy. So I don't really 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.640 care to be inflammatory here, Joel. I just I'm just 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.400 gonna leave it at that. I love so much the 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.520 part it's he's very upset. You can tell he's like 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.040 emotional about about it. I think it's because he's scared. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.200 You can hear the fear in in his voice that 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.959 about what's about to happen. But I just love when 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.679 he goes for Pete's sake. I couldn't believe I had 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:59.560 to look up where he was from. For Pete's sake. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.880 I thought for sure he was from the Midwest, and 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:08.040 he's from California. I was shocked. That sounds very Midwest. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.120 What's another like colloquial thing. That's a clean way to 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.920 show frustration that you've heard growing up in Indiana? Oh, definitely, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:22.600 just going ope is definitely yeah. Gosh, darn it, man said, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.720 darn it. Oh golly, brother, my brother just out of nowhere. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.640 Because Indiana is weird. It's not really the South, but 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.840 all of a sudden people will just have a Southern accent. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.720 My brother just all of a sudden started going golly, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.000 And I was like, what happened to you? We grew 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.520 up in the same house. Oh that is so good. Well, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.880 I was telling you that this past weekend, I was 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.480 watching the Bucks game with my husband. We're in Sheboygan, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.199 Wisconsin right now, which is an hour north of Milwaukee, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.560 so Bucks Country, and we spend the summer here. My 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.160 husband's from here. People here are amazing, but watching a 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.760 Bucks game with a bar full of Wisconsin locals is 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.240 a comedy show in and of itself. I mean, the 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.559 oh no, That's exactly what I wanted to hear from you, Olivia. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.640 I was watching that Bucks That's Game seven, and I 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.520 was thinking of you because you said that you would 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.280 be in that area, and I was just imagining the 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.720 cacophony of oh no when Durant hit that turnaround. Oh 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.760 James Harden. Also, it's such a curse for them that 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.120 Janice is their guy. Like hearing them say honest has 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:39.120 to be a delight. Honest, but it's just you're right. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.680 Cacophony is the perfect word of the old good one 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:48.240 overtime or time. I really hope some of my friends 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.240 are not listening to this, but there's such good people. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.560 In fact, when I first met my future in laws, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.360 I kind of looked at my husband wide eyed because 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.839 he's traveled so much, lived all over. I think he's 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.720 lost his Wisconsin act excent. But my in laws are 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.520 like born and raised in this town Sboria, Wisconsin. My 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.199 father in law and just the local accident, it's pretty rich. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.240 I I sometimes feel like I need subtitles. But no, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.600 it's let's talk more about the Buck series now because 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.480 now they're in the Eastern Conference Finals playing the Hawks, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.360 and look the Hawks. Their season is one to be 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.840 studied because it was thought to be over data losing record. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.559 At All Star Break, they fired their head coach in March. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.720 In room coach Nate McMillan changed the culture, he changed 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.440 the style they played with, and they still finished at 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.120 just forty one and thirty one in the regular season. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.600 Now they're in the Eastern Conference Finals for just the 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.720 second time in fifty years, facing the coach that last 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.680 got them there, my commuty Holder, and then walking, Oh 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.000 my god, it's crazy. It's crazy. And I gotta tell you, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.800 I mean, maybe this is a wild take. I think 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.360 that if we could recast, if we could give out 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.920 head Coach of the Year in retrospect, yeah, I'd give 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.719 it to Nate McMillan because it's insanein what he's done. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.959 And I love Nate McMillan. I was devastated when the 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.520 Pacers let him go because I thought I thought he 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.240 was great. And what they've done is crazy. And this 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.880 whole playoffs is so fun and so wild, and I 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.280 gotta thank the Son. I gotta not the Sun. I 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.000 gotta thank the Hawks because it's the first bet that 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.240 I won all year where I bet Hawks Game seven 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.400 because the line was so good that I was like, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.160 I gotta give it a shot. And I couldn't even 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.360 watch the game because I was doing a show. And 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.160 the second I got off stage, my buddy was like, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.800 the Hawks won, and I was I dropped to my knees. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.679 I couldn't believe it. And I watched it later, and 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.120 it's just if you had told me the Trey Young 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.839 before the game, if you told me Trey Young is 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.200 going to go five of twenty four tonight, yeah, I go, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.520 this is the way the Hawks are winning. And then 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.920 three of those in the fourth quarter as well. Insane, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.640 just pure clutch. He never looked in doubt. And I 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.000 love it. I love I love everything about it. I 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.600 wouldn't have picked any of these teams to still be 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.240 in it, to be totally honest. No offense to the 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.600 Bucks or the Clippers for that better. But I just 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.240 didn't know. I didn't see this happening, even the Suns. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.160 I didn't. I mean, if if we're talking about playing 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.480 stuff like I thought the Lakers would be here. I 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.800 thought I thought Utah would be here for sure. It's 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.600 it's oh. I thought Brooklyn would would go all the way. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.680 I thought I would have put money for Brooklyn to 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.160 win sixteen straight games. I would have put money down 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.800 on that because I'm sure it would have been good. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.680 And it's like, you know, we have we obviously saw 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.840 injuries and stuff, but nonetheless, I mean big shots coming. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.720 I think Chris Middleton has turned into such a stud 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.800 and it's very important because I think something that was 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.880 missing in the past for the Bucks is not having 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.360 guys hit shots that you can trust besides the honest 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.480 and it's just not gonna happen that Joanna scores a 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.000 hundred points a game like he he needs back up. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.120 And I know I'm a little all over the place here. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.040 I'm just so excited because it's so many it's so 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.400 many things. But sticking with the Bucks nets, I wanted 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.040 to know how you felt about this because we talked 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:11.640 about trays, stat line, Drew Holiday similar stat line and overtime. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.160 He's taking shots where you're like, what is and he 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.320 had hit some big fourth quarter shots. But I'm curious 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.960 how you guys felt in that bar watching an overtime 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.720 where the Bucks don't score until a minute and what 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.000 eight seconds left, and you're watching Drew Holiday take shots 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.480 when he's already like four of you know, twenty was 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.360 were people pissed? Well, And that's the thing. I think 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.920 in any series, when you're cold, you're cold, like know 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.960 when you're cold, and you know, sit your gas down 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.880 more or less. But it's no the bar was freaking out. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.840 Everyone's just trying to figure out who can shoot. And 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.960 then anytime your honest goes to the free throw line, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.320 it's just everyone's doing the count and he is every 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.160 he's going over ten seconds, he's averaging like twelve or 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.720 thirteen seconds at the free throw line. So that's that's 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.800 a whole other thing. So I'm excited to watch that, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.240 you know what time. I'm actually going to the Hawks 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:08.560 Bucks game one Wednesday, and I'm very excited, jealous. Well, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.160 and I'm a little torn because we're obviously big Bucks fans, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.280 but I worked for the Atlanta Hawks for three years. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.280 I'm a huge Hawks fan. But that coaching staff that 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.880 was there the last time they went to the Eastern 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.080 Conference finals, like I said, was coach Bud and his 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.200 merry men. So last time I was there, so I 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.160 don't know what to wear Wednesday night. This air's Thursday morning. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.480 I'll be happy whoever wins. I think you got to 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.840 do one of those split jerseys, like when a mom 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:37.680 has a kid on both teams. Yeah, when a mom, Yeah, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.400 that's that's the cool look I'm going for. I don't know, though. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.960 It's gonna be really fun. It's just fun to watch 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.320 like a state come to life, like this whole state 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.800 of Wisconsin. You know, we only have one NBA team, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.720 one MLB team, one NFL team, So it's a huge 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.480 group of people who's freaking out right now. So it's 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.280 really fun. But Tommy got to talk about the West 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.480 a little bit. So the Clippers advanced to face the 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.840 Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals. Phoenix took Game 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.640 one on Sunday behind a forty point triple double from 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.640 Devin Booker. Let's go book Chris Paul is still out 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.080 in COVID protocol day play again Tuesday and Thursday night 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.800 this week? What do you see in that series? I 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.280 am at a loss here, man, because it is so 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.080 tricky because you're missing I mean, we don't know what's 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.840 gonna happen with Kauai and then with Chris Paul it's 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.960 like it's it's so it's so tricky to see what's 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.920 gonna happen. But I think the Clipper is gonna come back. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.640 I think it's gonna be I think we're gonna see 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.800 one one series here personally, because it's just gonna be 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.200 hard to keep book that lit up and a forty 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.000 point triple double is a rare, rare feet and it's 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.720 I believe it was his first triple double. It was. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.960 It's gonna be tough to keep doing that. And I 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.120 hope he doesn't get too tired because I love watching 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.320 him play. And uh, either way, it's gonna be exciting 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.640 to watch. I think we're gonna see Paul George really 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.920 come to life. I think it's gonna be very interesting. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.360 Did you see what playoff p said about this team? 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.160 Though he said they're more guard heavy than other teams 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:11.160 they've played, It's like, uh, yeah, I think they look incredible. Um, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.560 but overall, I think you're right. The Clippers has been 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.760 a team of adjustments in this playoff. They started both 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.359 prior series down oh to They're the first team in 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.600 the NBA history to pull that off. So I like, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.840 you know, when their backs against the wall and a 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 team can come together, I think that's really impressive. And 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.679 kind of going back to the Hawks, That's why I 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.560 like the Hawks because when Trey Young goes, they still 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.399 figured it out. So I think, you know, sometimes with 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.320 the team, if they're best player, they go as he goes. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.000 That's not the case with Atlanta. They figured it out. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.400 They you know, we saw red Velvet gets works Red Velvet. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.560 I can't wait to talk more with Peter Andrew later 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.400 in the show about some of the lines on these 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.360 series because there's a lot of question marks, but everyone's 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.400 got an opinion these days. And up next we are 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.560 going to look at the worst takes that we think 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:08.720 and we're seeing. Okay, Tom, the best thing about this 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.400 time of year, especially when you're watching game after game 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.520 after game, is getting on Twitter and seeing the way 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.960 everyone else is reacting to the game that you're watching 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:23.040 and you see outlandish things on there. And we thought 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.200 it'd be fun to have a segment called Worst Takes 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.520 play on words with first Take. So tell me some 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.919 of your tops. So here's I'm gonna I'm throwing some 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.639 of my own in here, so I'll start with one 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.880 of my own to make it fair to to everybody. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.919 So these are takes that you would defend, but that 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.160 you know someone out there is going you're wrong for that. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.320 I imagine a sound clip coming in here that's like, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.760 you're wrong for that one. So here is my worst take. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.920 This week, we all saw Ben Simmons. Oh, I knew 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.160 it was going to be that terrible story this week. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.080 It's been tough to watch him play and also have 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.920 to watch the media about him. And here's my worst take. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.920 I think that Ben Simmons would have a slick j 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.960 I think he would have a sweet jumper if he 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.719 was not so hot. I think if he was an 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.679 ugly man he could shoot. Because here's my thoughts on it. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.200 He his life is too good. He's a handsome dude, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.240 he's Australian, He's got the world in front of him. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.800 He's got his money, he got his payment already, like 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.159 the check is there. He doesn't have any incentive to 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.040 learn to shoot, other than you know, Philly fans burning 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.760 his jerseys, which did happen this week. It's brutal for him. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.359 But like I think that if he really had to 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.520 look in the mirror at just an uggo face, that 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.160 he had a tough life with that. Because I'm from Indiana, 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.280 everybody there can shoot and people look weird out there. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.639 You know, everybody has a hot jumper out there because 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.399 we don't. We don't have a lot of male models 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.600 coming out of Indiana. So really, yeah, I mean, maybe 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.320 I should do some more research on that, But that's 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.400 that is uh, that is my worst take. I think 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.760 that I think that Ben's Emmons could shoot if he 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.920 was ugly. I think, sticking with that, the worst take 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.199 would be anyone who dates Kendall Jenner then has a 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.639 bad season, Yeah that's the problem. But look at Devin Booker. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.080 Now they're still together, So maybe there's something about you know, 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.560 once you're an ex of her struggle, I could be 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.520 a dev book. You better, you better be careful because 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.000 you don't want the type of media attention that Ben 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.880 Simmons is getting right now, where everybody is immediately watching 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.000 I mean this whole series, the whole series. It was 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.720 just tragic to watch him fall apart, and just not 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.800 even fall apart, just disappear. And then I saw a 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.520 stat the worst playoff free throw shooting percentage. I think 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.640 it was an NBA history for somebody who's shot over 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.879 seventy the worst percentage of all time, which is crazy. 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.520 I think it was something like thirty four percent. And 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.000 you're a guard. You're a guard. You've got to be 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.399 able to hit those. And it's I mean, this is 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.000 the Indiana and me, like I said, everybody in Indiana 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.639 can shoot, and we're it's a city, it's his state 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.600 full of old men who watch people shoot free throws 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.600 and miss and I could. I could do that, and 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.480 so it's that that's in my blood. So watching Ben Simmons, hey, 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.040