Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Olivia Harlan Decker.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unleashed from the King of Sports Books
Speaker 1: Bet MGM. I'm Olivia Harland Decker and this week I'm
Speaker 1: joined by my guest host, Tom Takar. We're going to
Speaker 1: run down the latest sports headlines, worst takes, and finally
Speaker 1: hang out with our friend Peter Andrew with our lions locks. Tom,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. I just want
Speaker 1: to confirm because I have one of those names that's
Speaker 1: misspelled and mispronounced a lot as well. Am I saying
Speaker 1: to Car right, you got it, Olivia, And I just
Speaker 1: want to say I'm so glad to be on the show.
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to talk at sports with the
Speaker 1: all weekend. I am so excited and it is to
Speaker 1: Car and I appreciate you asking. Our names are actually
Speaker 1: spelled kind of similarly here, but I I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I was waiting for the recording to tell you this
Speaker 1: because I think you're gonna like this. But so, my
Speaker 1: name is Tom ta Car. That is my father's last
Speaker 1: name is ta Car, but my legal name because my
Speaker 1: parents were never married. Is tom Brady, as you can imagine.
Speaker 1: I I had to change it because doing stand up
Speaker 1: with the name tom Brady was not a pleasant experience.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure, especially depending on what city
Speaker 1: you'd be in right exactly. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you knew this, but I'm from Indiana, Olivia, and people
Speaker 1: in Indiana do not like tom Brady because of the
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning tom Brady rivalry from back in the day.
Speaker 1: It's not even really a rivalry anymore, Colts versus Patriots,
Speaker 1: but it's still held over in in a lot of
Speaker 1: Indie in his people's minds. So I had to change
Speaker 1: it because I would do I didn't show in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. I got booed like I would
Speaker 1: get booed. It happened in Buffalo too, where I got booed.
Speaker 1: The breaking point for me was I had an intro
Speaker 1: from a guy who was like, he saw my name
Speaker 1: on the list and he didn't know who I was.
Speaker 1: I was I was still a kind of newer to
Speaker 1: comedy and he was like, you guys aren't gonna believe
Speaker 1: who's coming up next. And he was like, we all
Speaker 1: hate the Patriots, right, and they were like yeah, and
Speaker 1: we love the cults. Yeah, and then he goes who
Speaker 1: is the biggest What he said was we might have
Speaker 1: to believe this out, but he said, who is the
Speaker 1: biggest bitch you can think of? Who plays for the Patriots?
Speaker 1: And without any hesitation, they all just in unis and
Speaker 1: went Tom Brady and then he just went, yeah, here
Speaker 1: he is. And then I had to go on stage
Speaker 1: and they all started booing and then he was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I have a good seb Like he didn't understand that
Speaker 1: he uh, he had put me in such a bad situation,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was yeah, pretty bad. So I had
Speaker 1: to change it. So when you walked out on stage,
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, you would think they would do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would think they would do that. But no sports fans.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm one of them. I get it. We're crazy.
Speaker 1: But it would happen in a lot of cities and
Speaker 1: a lot of like it was just a very you know,
Speaker 1: hokey thing, and I had to separate from it. So
Speaker 1: I changed my name to my father's name, which is
Speaker 1: Tom Takar oh Man. But now you have the issue,
Speaker 1: which I do all the time. As well, people asking
Speaker 1: how to pronounce it exactly exactly. But I'll trade it.
Speaker 1: I'll trade it for the I mean, it's still on
Speaker 1: my I D so I still get when I go
Speaker 1: to the airport, they're like, ohre and it's pretty grutt.
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that's in the South. When someone
Speaker 1: asked it in that that's that's a good point. That's
Speaker 1: my impression of anybody. I'm in New York City. Where's
Speaker 1: just that's good that Tom. You said you're excited to
Speaker 1: talk sports, and we've kind of been talking about what
Speaker 1: we want to focus on, and I know you can't
Speaker 1: wait to talk n B A. But you're a baseball
Speaker 1: fan as well. And something huge happened in the MLB
Speaker 1: this week, so big, yes, So the MLB is implementing
Speaker 1: a ten day suspension if they catch any baseballs with
Speaker 1: a foreign sticky substance. Now, this mostly targets pictures, but
Speaker 1: outfielders you know, also talk about this too. This really
Speaker 1: is for control of the ball, which leads to better
Speaker 1: spin rate. So when a ball has that like grip
Speaker 1: to it, it's easier to increase the spin rate, which
Speaker 1: makes it really hard to hit. So teams were getting
Speaker 1: very creative and making these concoctions. It could be as
Speaker 1: simple as a little sun screen, and then people were
Speaker 1: making these really sophisticated combinations with glue of all sorts.
Speaker 1: So you know, Trevor Bauer led the charge on this.
Speaker 1: He conducted his own experiments for years of saying, these
Speaker 1: are games I used some stick, these are games I didn't.
Speaker 1: And when the ball has a little stick, according to
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer, he says, it can add up to two
Speaker 1: hundred to three hundred revolutions per minute. That's huge. And
Speaker 1: I think what's so interesting about this is, you know,
Speaker 1: hitters have never been better, the athleticism has never been better,
Speaker 1: recovery has never been better. So this was pictures ways
Speaker 1: to catch up. And then we saw, you know, such
Speaker 1: high strikeout rates and it's it's super controversial, Tom, But
Speaker 1: the main thing that's controversial is that they're now changing
Speaker 1: the rules mid season. Insane. It's insane that they would
Speaker 1: change at mid season. And I think it has to
Speaker 1: be just a panic about ratings and about I mean,
Speaker 1: the league likes hits. The league like home runs, and
Speaker 1: when strikeouts are way up like this and batting averages
Speaker 1: are way low, their panicking and they're going people, we
Speaker 1: need people watching baseball because people are already. Baseball gets
Speaker 1: the most slept on. Baseball gets the most made fun of.
Speaker 1: I think, besides maybe soccer about being too boring. I
Speaker 1: don't like watching uh no hits, you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: true baseball fans. I love watching strikeout counts get high.
Speaker 1: I love watching what people do with the high revolution rate.
Speaker 1: But like it's it's tricky though. It's it is a
Speaker 1: tricky thing, and I don't really know how to feel
Speaker 1: about it because it is a player enhancing thing. The
Speaker 1: league has known about it forever. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: a guy with a neck full of sticky stuff on
Speaker 1: it and it finally to get called out, And even
Speaker 1: when that happened, the opposing team's manager was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't even really want to call that out because we
Speaker 1: all know that everybody's doing it. You know, everyone's doing
Speaker 1: it exactly. So it's like a thing that the league
Speaker 1: has known about all this time. And I think it's
Speaker 1: just a panic move, and I think it is dangerous
Speaker 1: because what they're claiming is that it's it's adding to
Speaker 1: hit by pitches, and that's I don't know how true
Speaker 1: that is, but definitely changing everybody's pitching midway through the season.
Speaker 1: I think we are going to see some people get hurt.
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance people are getting hit
Speaker 1: by balls. It will be interesting to see the stat
Speaker 1: split from this point forward. I think it's wild that
Speaker 1: they changed it ind way through this season because it
Speaker 1: definitely could have been handled after the season, and there's
Speaker 1: technology that's two pre mud balls to kind of fix this,
Speaker 1: where supposedly might be rolled out as soon as next season.
Speaker 1: And I think that it's just kind of I think
Speaker 1: it's a desperation Kiev to get ratings up. I kind
Speaker 1: of agree. And you mentioned it's dangerous. Tyler Glass now
Speaker 1: already said removing the use of these substances led to
Speaker 1: his injury. And it's it just it changes the whole format.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a picture, but it's it doesn't
Speaker 1: take a genius to figure out how this would change
Speaker 1: the whole game. The pictures are very angry at the
Speaker 1: grip of baseball's in general. It's not uniform. It's not
Speaker 1: every time you go to a different park, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna feel different, like with football's. You know, the
Speaker 1: way that they loosen them up. But Garrett Cole Yankees Picture,
Speaker 1: vented about it recently, and I think this is a
Speaker 1: perfect way to sum up the way the players feel
Speaker 1: about that. Let's roll that tape. It's so hard to
Speaker 1: grip the ball. I just you know, I mean, for
Speaker 1: Pete's sake. It's part of the reason why almost every
Speaker 1: player on the field has has something, regardless of their
Speaker 1: picture or not help them control the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: have a solution, but again, we are aligned in a
Speaker 1: lot of areas with the Commissioner's office on this, and
Speaker 1: please just talk to us, Please just work with us.
Speaker 1: I know you have the hammer here, but we've been
Speaker 1: living in a gray area for so long. I would
Speaker 1: just hate to see players get hurt. Would I would
Speaker 1: hate to see ball start flying at people's heads. I
Speaker 1: had a really tough time grip in the baseball tonight,
Speaker 1: especially earlier when it was windy. So I don't really
Speaker 1: care to be inflammatory here, Joel. I just I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. I love so much the
Speaker 1: part it's he's very upset. You can tell he's like
Speaker 1: emotional about about it. I think it's because he's scared.
Speaker 1: You can hear the fear in in his voice that
Speaker 1: about what's about to happen. But I just love when
Speaker 1: he goes for Pete's sake. I couldn't believe I had
Speaker 1: to look up where he was from. For Pete's sake.
Speaker 1: I thought for sure he was from the Midwest, and
Speaker 1: he's from California. I was shocked. That sounds very Midwest.
Speaker 1: What's another like colloquial thing. That's a clean way to
Speaker 1: show frustration that you've heard growing up in Indiana? Oh, definitely,
Speaker 1: just going ope is definitely yeah. Gosh, darn it, man said,
Speaker 1: darn it. Oh golly, brother, my brother just out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Because Indiana is weird. It's not really the South, but
Speaker 1: all of a sudden people will just have a Southern accent.
Speaker 1: My brother just all of a sudden started going golly,
Speaker 1: And I was like, what happened to you? We grew
Speaker 1: up in the same house. Oh that is so good. Well,
Speaker 1: I was telling you that this past weekend, I was
Speaker 1: watching the Bucks game with my husband. We're in Sheboygan,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin right now, which is an hour north of Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: so Bucks Country, and we spend the summer here. My
Speaker 1: husband's from here. People here are amazing, but watching a
Speaker 1: Bucks game with a bar full of Wisconsin locals is
Speaker 1: a comedy show in and of itself. I mean, the
Speaker 1: oh no, That's exactly what I wanted to hear from you, Olivia.
Speaker 1: I was watching that Bucks That's Game seven, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking of you because you said that you would
Speaker 1: be in that area, and I was just imagining the
Speaker 1: cacophony of oh no when Durant hit that turnaround. Oh
Speaker 1: James Harden. Also, it's such a curse for them that
Speaker 1: Janice is their guy. Like hearing them say honest has
Speaker 1: to be a delight. Honest, but it's just you're right.
Speaker 1: Cacophony is the perfect word of the old good one
Speaker 1: overtime or time. I really hope some of my friends
Speaker 1: are not listening to this, but there's such good people.
Speaker 1: In fact, when I first met my future in laws,
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at my husband wide eyed because
Speaker 1: he's traveled so much, lived all over. I think he's
Speaker 1: lost his Wisconsin act excent. But my in laws are
Speaker 1: like born and raised in this town Sboria, Wisconsin. My
Speaker 1: father in law and just the local accident, it's pretty rich.
Speaker 1: I I sometimes feel like I need subtitles. But no,
Speaker 1: it's let's talk more about the Buck series now because
Speaker 1: now they're in the Eastern Conference Finals playing the Hawks,
Speaker 1: and look the Hawks. Their season is one to be
Speaker 1: studied because it was thought to be over data losing record.
Speaker 1: At All Star Break, they fired their head coach in March.
Speaker 1: In room coach Nate McMillan changed the culture, he changed
Speaker 1: the style they played with, and they still finished at
Speaker 1: just forty one and thirty one in the regular season.
Speaker 1: Now they're in the Eastern Conference Finals for just the
Speaker 1: second time in fifty years, facing the coach that last
Speaker 1: got them there, my commuty Holder, and then walking, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's crazy. It's crazy. And I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe this is a wild take. I think
Speaker 1: that if we could recast, if we could give out
Speaker 1: head Coach of the Year in retrospect, yeah, I'd give
Speaker 1: it to Nate McMillan because it's insanein what he's done.
Speaker 1: And I love Nate McMillan. I was devastated when the
Speaker 1: Pacers let him go because I thought I thought he
Speaker 1: was great. And what they've done is crazy. And this
Speaker 1: whole playoffs is so fun and so wild, and I
Speaker 1: gotta thank the Son. I gotta not the Sun. I
Speaker 1: gotta thank the Hawks because it's the first bet that
Speaker 1: I won all year where I bet Hawks Game seven
Speaker 1: because the line was so good that I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta give it a shot. And I couldn't even
Speaker 1: watch the game because I was doing a show. And
Speaker 1: the second I got off stage, my buddy was like,
Speaker 1: the Hawks won, and I was I dropped to my knees.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. And I watched it later, and
Speaker 1: it's just if you had told me the Trey Young
Speaker 1: before the game, if you told me Trey Young is
Speaker 1: going to go five of twenty four tonight, yeah, I go,
Speaker 1: this is the way the Hawks are winning. And then
Speaker 1: three of those in the fourth quarter as well. Insane,
Speaker 1: just pure clutch. He never looked in doubt. And I
Speaker 1: love it. I love I love everything about it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have picked any of these teams to still be
Speaker 1: in it, to be totally honest. No offense to the
Speaker 1: Bucks or the Clippers for that better. But I just
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't see this happening, even the Suns.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I mean, if if we're talking about playing
Speaker 1: stuff like I thought the Lakers would be here. I
Speaker 1: thought I thought Utah would be here for sure. It's
Speaker 1: it's oh. I thought Brooklyn would would go all the way.
Speaker 1: I thought I would have put money for Brooklyn to
Speaker 1: win sixteen straight games. I would have put money down
Speaker 1: on that because I'm sure it would have been good.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, we have we obviously saw
Speaker 1: injuries and stuff, but nonetheless, I mean big shots coming.
Speaker 1: I think Chris Middleton has turned into such a stud
Speaker 1: and it's very important because I think something that was
Speaker 1: missing in the past for the Bucks is not having
Speaker 1: guys hit shots that you can trust besides the honest
Speaker 1: and it's just not gonna happen that Joanna scores a
Speaker 1: hundred points a game like he he needs back up.
Speaker 1: And I know I'm a little all over the place here.
Speaker 1: I'm just so excited because it's so many it's so
Speaker 1: many things. But sticking with the Bucks nets, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know how you felt about this because we talked
Speaker 1: about trays, stat line, Drew Holiday similar stat line and overtime.
Speaker 1: He's taking shots where you're like, what is and he
Speaker 1: had hit some big fourth quarter shots. But I'm curious
Speaker 1: how you guys felt in that bar watching an overtime
Speaker 1: where the Bucks don't score until a minute and what
Speaker 1: eight seconds left, and you're watching Drew Holiday take shots
Speaker 1: when he's already like four of you know, twenty was
Speaker 1: were people pissed? Well, And that's the thing. I think
Speaker 1: in any series, when you're cold, you're cold, like know
Speaker 1: when you're cold, and you know, sit your gas down
Speaker 1: more or less. But it's no the bar was freaking out.
Speaker 1: Everyone's just trying to figure out who can shoot. And
Speaker 1: then anytime your honest goes to the free throw line,
Speaker 1: it's just everyone's doing the count and he is every
Speaker 1: he's going over ten seconds, he's averaging like twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds at the free throw line. So that's that's
Speaker 1: a whole other thing. So I'm excited to watch that,
Speaker 1: you know what time. I'm actually going to the Hawks
Speaker 1: Bucks game one Wednesday, and I'm very excited, jealous. Well,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little torn because we're obviously big Bucks fans,
Speaker 1: but I worked for the Atlanta Hawks for three years.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Hawks fan. But that coaching staff that
Speaker 1: was there the last time they went to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference finals, like I said, was coach Bud and his
Speaker 1: merry men. So last time I was there, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what to wear Wednesday night. This air's Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: I'll be happy whoever wins. I think you got to
Speaker 1: do one of those split jerseys, like when a mom
Speaker 1: has a kid on both teams. Yeah, when a mom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the cool look I'm going for. I don't know, though.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really fun. It's just fun to watch
Speaker 1: like a state come to life, like this whole state
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. You know, we only have one NBA team,
Speaker 1: one MLB team, one NFL team, So it's a huge
Speaker 1: group of people who's freaking out right now. So it's
Speaker 1: really fun. But Tommy got to talk about the West
Speaker 1: a little bit. So the Clippers advanced to face the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals. Phoenix took Game
Speaker 1: one on Sunday behind a forty point triple double from
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. Let's go book Chris Paul is still out
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol day play again Tuesday and Thursday night
Speaker 1: this week? What do you see in that series? I
Speaker 1: am at a loss here, man, because it is so
Speaker 1: tricky because you're missing I mean, we don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with Kauai and then with Chris Paul it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's so it's so tricky to see what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But I think the Clipper is gonna come back.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be I think we're gonna see
Speaker 1: one one series here personally, because it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to keep book that lit up and a forty
Speaker 1: point triple double is a rare, rare feet and it's
Speaker 1: I believe it was his first triple double. It was.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough to keep doing that. And I
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't get too tired because I love watching
Speaker 1: him play. And uh, either way, it's gonna be exciting
Speaker 1: to watch. I think we're gonna see Paul George really
Speaker 1: come to life. I think it's gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 1: Did you see what playoff p said about this team?
Speaker 1: Though he said they're more guard heavy than other teams
Speaker 1: they've played, It's like, uh, yeah, I think they look incredible. Um,
Speaker 1: but overall, I think you're right. The Clippers has been
Speaker 1: a team of adjustments in this playoff. They started both
Speaker 1: prior series down oh to They're the first team in
Speaker 1: the NBA history to pull that off. So I like,
Speaker 1: you know, when their backs against the wall and a
Speaker 1: team can come together, I think that's really impressive. And
Speaker 1: kind of going back to the Hawks, That's why I
Speaker 1: like the Hawks because when Trey Young goes, they still
Speaker 1: figured it out. So I think, you know, sometimes with
Speaker 1: the team, if they're best player, they go as he goes.
Speaker 1: That's not the case with Atlanta. They figured it out.
Speaker 1: They you know, we saw red Velvet gets works Red Velvet.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk more with Peter Andrew later
Speaker 1: in the show about some of the lines on these
Speaker 1: series because there's a lot of question marks, but everyone's
Speaker 1: got an opinion these days. And up next we are
Speaker 1: going to look at the worst takes that we think
Speaker 1: and we're seeing. Okay, Tom, the best thing about this
Speaker 1: time of year, especially when you're watching game after game
Speaker 1: after game, is getting on Twitter and seeing the way
Speaker 1: everyone else is reacting to the game that you're watching
Speaker 1: and you see outlandish things on there. And we thought
Speaker 1: it'd be fun to have a segment called Worst Takes
Speaker 1: play on words with first Take. So tell me some
Speaker 1: of your tops. So here's I'm gonna I'm throwing some
Speaker 1: of my own in here, so I'll start with one
Speaker 1: of my own to make it fair to to everybody.
Speaker 1: So these are takes that you would defend, but that
Speaker 1: you know someone out there is going you're wrong for that.
Speaker 1: I imagine a sound clip coming in here that's like,
Speaker 1: you're wrong for that one. So here is my worst take.
Speaker 1: This week, we all saw Ben Simmons. Oh, I knew
Speaker 1: it was going to be that terrible story this week.
Speaker 1: It's been tough to watch him play and also have
Speaker 1: to watch the media about him. And here's my worst take.
Speaker 1: I think that Ben Simmons would have a slick j
Speaker 1: I think he would have a sweet jumper if he
Speaker 1: was not so hot. I think if he was an
Speaker 1: ugly man he could shoot. Because here's my thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: He his life is too good. He's a handsome dude,
Speaker 1: he's Australian, He's got the world in front of him.
Speaker 1: He's got his money, he got his payment already, like
Speaker 1: the check is there. He doesn't have any incentive to
Speaker 1: learn to shoot, other than you know, Philly fans burning
Speaker 1: his jerseys, which did happen this week. It's brutal for him.
Speaker 1: But like I think that if he really had to
Speaker 1: look in the mirror at just an uggo face, that
Speaker 1: he had a tough life with that. Because I'm from Indiana,
Speaker 1: everybody there can shoot and people look weird out there.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody has a hot jumper out there because
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't have a lot of male models
Speaker 1: coming out of Indiana. So really, yeah, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: I should do some more research on that, But that's
Speaker 1: that is uh, that is my worst take. I think
Speaker 1: that I think that Ben's Emmons could shoot if he
Speaker 1: was ugly. I think, sticking with that, the worst take
Speaker 1: would be anyone who dates Kendall Jenner then has a
Speaker 1: bad season, Yeah that's the problem. But look at Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: Now they're still together, So maybe there's something about you know,
Speaker 1: once you're an ex of her struggle, I could be
Speaker 1: a dev book. You better, you better be careful because
Speaker 1: you don't want the type of media attention that Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons is getting right now, where everybody is immediately watching
Speaker 1: I mean this whole series, the whole series. It was
Speaker 1: just tragic to watch him fall apart, and just not
Speaker 1: even fall apart, just disappear. And then I saw a
Speaker 1: stat the worst playoff free throw shooting percentage. I think
Speaker 1: it was an NBA history for somebody who's shot over
Speaker 1: seventy the worst percentage of all time, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I think it was something like thirty four percent. And
Speaker 1: you're a guard. You're a guard. You've got to be
Speaker 1: able to hit those. And it's I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the Indiana and me, like I said, everybody in Indiana
Speaker 1: can shoot, and we're it's a city, it's his state
Speaker 1: full of old men who watch people shoot free throws
Speaker 1: and miss and I could. I could do that, and
Speaker 1: so it's that that's in my blood. So watching Ben Simmons, hey,
Speaker 1: that sounds kind of like that security guard. You're gonna
Speaker 1: notice a lot of my characters. And you know what
Speaker 1: else is after the game, they asked Doc Rivers, can
Speaker 1: he be a guard on a championship team? And as
Speaker 1: cold as ice stock, Rivers says, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Oh it's brutal. Yeah, watch and you want to go,
Speaker 1: you want to shake Doc Rivers and go like just
Speaker 1: say yes, just say yes, like it doesn't hurt you
Speaker 1: to just say yes. But no skin off your back.
Speaker 1: It's just going to add to Ben Simmons, nightmare when
Speaker 1: he goes home and gets on the set exactly. I
Speaker 1: wonder what his phone looked like, because I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the story of the it's the story of the playoffs
Speaker 1: right now. Besides, you know, these these Cinderella like teams
Speaker 1: getting there. But the story of the Playoffs right now
Speaker 1: is Ben Simmons passing on an open dunk and saying,
Speaker 1: oh sorry, I thought that it was gonna get blocked
Speaker 1: from behind, which all reality, that's you getting fouled probably,
Speaker 1: and he's passed it off. And it's this mentality and
Speaker 1: if here's another worst take and people are not gonna
Speaker 1: like this, this one could really upset some people. But
Speaker 1: maybe Philadelphia is a is a climate that is messes
Speaker 1: with people's heads. I mean, look at more Cot Folts, like,
Speaker 1: it's a place that if you mess up, like I said,
Speaker 1: go on Twitter. There's people burning Ben Simmons jerseys after
Speaker 1: that game, and it's like, you know, there's so much
Speaker 1: pressure and it's it's kind of like that thing where
Speaker 1: it's like if I don't shoot, I can't miss. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite of the Michael Jordan's quite Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't miss the shots. You don't drink. I feel like
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is playing with that mentality of like, well,
Speaker 1: if I don't do this, if I'm a disher, if
Speaker 1: I you know, the spotlight is not on me, and
Speaker 1: then people won't be mad at me. Where it's the opposite,
Speaker 1: where it's like, if you're making that much money, you've
Speaker 1: got to be trusted to be a factor in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And it's crazy that the smart option for
Speaker 1: doc rivers is to take you out of the game
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That's that's insane And what are
Speaker 1: you they paying you for exactly exactly if not crunch
Speaker 1: time in a playoff game. I I totally agree. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's another worst take? This one again? Maybe people will
Speaker 1: disagree that this is the worst take. I think it
Speaker 1: is just because I think that this season has been
Speaker 1: so fun to watch and for real basketball fans, I
Speaker 1: think you're having a good time watching this. But this
Speaker 1: is from at two ray A k a young daddy.
Speaker 1: He says, is this not a nightmare for the NBA?
Speaker 1: None of the big crossover stars are left in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Guys who casual basketball fans know and want to watch,
Speaker 1: No Lebron, Steph Durant Luca. Only one of the top
Speaker 1: fifteen best selling jerseys are still playing. This is not
Speaker 1: good for the league. Well, let me digest that one
Speaker 1: a little bit, because, yeah, there's layers of truth in that. Now.
Speaker 1: I always think from a TV standpoint, I always think
Speaker 1: the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, whatever, they want, big markets. Yes,
Speaker 1: so ultimately if it were you know, Lakers nets, that
Speaker 1: would have been their dream. Sure finals, But I do
Speaker 1: think that there's something about that. But now, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Janice is a star exactly. Yeah, Janice is
Speaker 1: a star. How do you not see that? As I
Speaker 1: think this is how stars are born. Trey Young is
Speaker 1: going to be a top selling jersey next Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: think that for sure he will. And I like that
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant quote tweeted this. It was like, what does
Speaker 1: this guy know about basketball? And he has a great
Speaker 1: quote from earlier this season, which is that he says
Speaker 1: NBA fans don't like anything about the NBA and it's weird,
Speaker 1: which is like, if you're an I don't understand how
Speaker 1: if you're an NBA fan you're not like gobbling this
Speaker 1: up where it's so exciting. I do think I think
Speaker 1: Trey Young is going to be high selling jersey. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I think Devin Booker could be too. If
Speaker 1: if Booker keeps putting on shows like he did the
Speaker 1: other night, I think we're going to see a lot
Speaker 1: of book or jersey sell There needs to be rude.
Speaker 1: Paul George. Yeah, Paul George. Paul George not a star.
Speaker 1: If he comes, he comes, Christ stars, their stars. The
Speaker 1: stars are out and you know they're they're just literally
Speaker 1: out there. Uh So those are those are the two
Speaker 1: the two takes from this week. I think that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of worse takes out there to read in
Speaker 1: the future, but those are two that I thought it
Speaker 1: would be fun for this week, given to everything we're
Speaker 1: seeing in the NBA. I like that now you brought
Speaker 1: up Trey Young and I know later we're talking to
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew about some of our um you know, finals,
Speaker 1: MVP favorites and stuff, and I know he's got a
Speaker 1: good line there for Trey Young. But you've been curious
Speaker 1: about like his hair and if people may be wearing
Speaker 1: his wig, so maybe they aren't gonna be buying his
Speaker 1: jersey but buying his wig. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: I think that they could be buying his wig. I
Speaker 1: think he does look like a scarecrow, so that people
Speaker 1: might be buying scarecrows of trade young and putting them
Speaker 1: to guard their corn. You think he looks like a scarecrow? Okay,
Speaker 1: and Indiana boy bringing up their corn being guarded. That's
Speaker 1: not something most out of people. I think it's out
Speaker 1: of respect. You gotta guard that car. He looks a
Speaker 1: little bit like a scarecrow. I don't care what he
Speaker 1: looks like. I just wanted to score Wednesday night. I'm
Speaker 1: cheering for him. He's so fun to watch. We called
Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks ago the heel of the NBA,
Speaker 1: like he likes being the villain. He's a fun villain too,
Speaker 1: because you can tell he's having a good time with it.
Speaker 1: And I think that most fans and I do, think
Speaker 1: it's a lot of like it's a lot of Knicks
Speaker 1: people who were calling him a villain, like really hanging
Speaker 1: on him about it. The shosh at the garden and
Speaker 1: it's like I thought, I wanted, I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: and this is sacrilegious. A Pacers fan, I was rooting
Speaker 1: for the Knicks just for the story and I live
Speaker 1: in New York. As much as everybody was expecting the
Speaker 1: Nets to win, I have not seen one Nets Jersey
Speaker 1: in this town. And uh, I think when he was
Speaker 1: really I think everybody was kind of like, oh, the
Speaker 1: Knicks are gonna be fun. And then watching him do that,
Speaker 1: he was like, no, this ain't your year, this is
Speaker 1: three year, and I thought it was really cool. He
Speaker 1: literally silenced them. That was That was when Trey Young
Speaker 1: came to life and got more on the national landscape
Speaker 1: of Trey Young at MSG will be like what we
Speaker 1: remember from his playoff series unless he does something crazy
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. I'm excited to see if he does. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. So Peter Andrews coming on next, Let's ask
Speaker 1: him what he thinks. Well over the weekend, John ram
Speaker 1: at just twenty six years old, one the US Open.
Speaker 1: It was his first major, it was his first Father's Day.
Speaker 1: He's the first Spaniard to win the US Open. It's
Speaker 1: also the same course he won his first PGA Tour
Speaker 1: event back in seventeen and where he proposed to his
Speaker 1: wife and just two weeks after coming down with COVID
Speaker 1: and having to withdraw from the memorial. I mean you
Speaker 1: can't write the story any better, but you can predict it,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what Peter Andrew did. Peter, You've got
Speaker 1: to feel pretty good about that one. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: listen last week, gave that as one of my three picks.
Speaker 1: You kind of nailed it. He's played really well in
Speaker 1: the past that Tory. Couple of those pots on Sunday
Speaker 1: were unbelievable in seventeen and eighteen. But he had a
Speaker 1: really good round as we got towards the later half
Speaker 1: of the tournament Saturday and Sunday, and well deserved Louis
Speaker 1: who's has in a fine result. But but John rom
Speaker 1: just wanted him more at the end, and a couple
Speaker 1: of those puts ended up stealing it. And depending on
Speaker 1: when you got it on bet MGM pre tournament was
Speaker 1: either plus thousand plus eleven hundreds somewhere around that. That realm,
Speaker 1: So you made yourself a nice chunk of change ten
Speaker 1: dollars made a hundred bucks. Basically. I love it. I
Speaker 1: like to think that every TV set in every living
Speaker 1: room or on America was watching that at celebrating Father's Day,
Speaker 1: grilling out whatever it was. That was such a fun
Speaker 1: way to spend that Sunday. I was at the MGM
Speaker 1: Springfield and the place just erupted. It was absolutely crazy. Guys,
Speaker 1: I guess I wasn't the only one that had John
Speaker 1: ram on Sunday. Yeah, I guess not. How about this
Speaker 1: weekend in Connecticut Travelers. Yeah, so Traveler's Tournament starts on Thursday,
Speaker 1: TPC River Highlands. I think you have to look at
Speaker 1: a couple of people that have done well in the past. There,
Speaker 1: Bubba Watson a couple of years ago, one the Travelers
Speaker 1: forty five to one odds this weekend, I think it's
Speaker 1: worth putting a couple of bucks there. Dustin Johnson defending
Speaker 1: champion twelve to one. I think that's really good value there.
Speaker 1: And one kind of under the radar that I really
Speaker 1: like this week. He's a two fifty two one, so
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if he doesn't do as well. But
Speaker 1: Doug him. He's actually an MGM Resorts sponsored golfer. He's
Speaker 1: in really good form lately. I'd like to put five
Speaker 1: bucks on him, just give it a shot. I think
Speaker 1: oftentimes you see some of these guys who fall under
Speaker 1: the radar a little bit have performed well a couple
Speaker 1: of tourments this year, like him at the Players. You
Speaker 1: see them make a nice result and he's in good shape.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put five ten bucks on him. See
Speaker 1: what happens? Hell, yeah, Peter, I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: finally gotta win by betting on the Hawks, and uh,
Speaker 1: lucky win And I want to keep hot. What what
Speaker 1: are we what are we seeing in the NBA? What? What?
Speaker 1: What's a safe bet for me? Yeah? So if we
Speaker 1: talk about that Hawks Bucks series, First of all, who
Speaker 1: thought they'd be here in the conference finals. But if
Speaker 1: you didn't, there's still really good values. So Hawks plus
Speaker 1: eleven hundred to win the NBA title. It's above and
Speaker 1: beyond different than three of the other teams, the Clippers, Sons,
Speaker 1: and Bucks. I think you still have really good odds there.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, also, I gave Trey Young
Speaker 1: as Finals m v P at plus eighteen hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still at plus twelve hundred, which is again great value. Wow,
Speaker 1: I think if you lean, I'm putting money on that. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: If you lean neither of those, you can't go wrong.
Speaker 1: And even if you have someone else, it's a good hedge. Opportunity.
Speaker 1: So even if you have something on the Bucks, maybe
Speaker 1: you put a couple of bucks on them and and
Speaker 1: hands it out a little bit. But but the way
Speaker 1: the Hawks are playing team basketball, you know, Bucks had
Speaker 1: a it round, but they were helped a little bit
Speaker 1: by injuries. I think the Hawks are the better team. Really. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a hot take and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run with it. Is there a place where I can
Speaker 1: bet on how many people are gonna wear Tray Young
Speaker 1: wigs to the game? Wherever you can find it? Just
Speaker 1: take the over? Yeah, I love it. Well. They played
Speaker 1: three times this season. The Bucks won the first two,
Speaker 1: but were, like we were talking earlier Peter about Trey
Speaker 1: Young having a bad night in the Hawks still pulling
Speaker 1: it out. So what are some player related bets in
Speaker 1: this series? Yeah, so game by game we offer things
Speaker 1: on bet mgam over unders, on points, steals, rebounds, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I think you look at guys like Bognanovish and take
Speaker 1: some of his overtotals, which I think will be right
Speaker 1: around the sixteen seventeen mark. I think if you can expect,
Speaker 1: or you want to forecast, the Tredy Young maybe not's
Speaker 1: a great day because of the pressure they're gonna put
Speaker 1: on him. I think you look at some of those
Speaker 1: shooters who are really consistent and take some of those overs.
Speaker 1: You can even take some of the combo one so
Speaker 1: to record triple double or double double. Some of those
Speaker 1: guys a John Allens would be a great example. I
Speaker 1: think they're just more of a complete team. And you
Speaker 1: get Bucks that can be a bit streaky. I mean
Speaker 1: we see honest when he's on the three throw line
Speaker 1: shooting in general, they're just not as consistent. And when
Speaker 1: you have a team like the Hawks that have three
Speaker 1: or four guys at any given moment on the court
Speaker 1: that can shoot from the perimeter, from mid range, they
Speaker 1: can make layups, they can pass the ball, that's typically
Speaker 1: going to win you a game when it matters most.
Speaker 1: So I really like it's just taken some of those
Speaker 1: point totals over and you can expect a couple of
Speaker 1: the hit over to the West Clippers sons. Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: is still out with a sprained right knee, and then
Speaker 1: also Marcus Morris got hurt in Game one, barely played
Speaker 1: in the second half. So Peter, how is that affecting
Speaker 1: the line on that series. A couple of things I like,
Speaker 1: I think the Clippers do make it as series. I
Speaker 1: think Paul George's has really kind of committed to being
Speaker 1: that guy with Kauai out, So I see that series
Speaker 1: going over five and a half games, that's minus one currently.
Speaker 1: I still do think the Suns take it, but I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a dog fight for a couple
Speaker 1: of these games. And then the other thing with Kauai
Speaker 1: out again, Reggie Jackson has shown up. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: flat out scored the basketball. He's been relied on by
Speaker 1: his teammates. You're getting really favorable odds at minus one
Speaker 1: of five for him to score twenty or more, which
Speaker 1: he's done quite a bit since Kauai's absence. So really
Speaker 1: like him kind of being that second shooter for the team. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there's going to continue to be a big focus on
Speaker 1: Paul George and what he does with the basketball, passing
Speaker 1: the basketball, shooting the basketball, but Reggie Jackson has really
Speaker 1: kind of solidified himself as the second option. Now do
Speaker 1: we have any numbers on my man? Man man, I
Speaker 1: wish I should have pulled if I would know, and
Speaker 1: I would absolutely. I shouldn't. I shouldn't have said you.
Speaker 1: That's my bad. No, No, if I knew that off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, that would have been something else.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's true. It's just that he was such
Speaker 1: a factor and was left wide open so much so.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see such a great player to watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I didn't mean this screw up there. I
Speaker 1: threw you for a loop. All right. We'll be more
Speaker 1: prepared next time, Peter, And thanks for thank you. But
Speaker 1: let's win some money. I'm I'm excited to win some
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