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Speaker 1: Scinilating conversation before the show started.
Speaker 4: I just don't want any of them confetti eggs. That's
Speaker 4: all mad love for Lorena. Yeah, I just don't want
Speaker 4: any confetti eggs man. And and for what it's worth,
Speaker 4: you know, I feel like dating is overrated too, by
Speaker 4: the way, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You know all y'all dudes out there, it's sweating Lorena
Speaker 4: trying to date Lorena and all this stuff. You know,
Speaker 4: I would say it's it's worthwhile to try. She's pretty fun,
Speaker 4: she's dope, like one of the homies. But man, you
Speaker 4: you don't come correct, then you don't get caught wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the woodchip right now there.
Speaker 2: I mean, you ever hear the Black Widow Spider.
Speaker 1: So for those that are not familiar, we had a
Speaker 1: conversation post Easter because I was mentioning how my in
Speaker 1: laws are Mexican and so no they have yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: see okay believe So they have this, Uh they have
Speaker 1: this tradition the other night, like I was blown away authentic. Uh.
Speaker 1: So they have this tradition. There are confetti filled eggs
Speaker 1: that they throw at each other and they crack them
Speaker 1: on each other and they're they're a complete mess. But
Speaker 1: you basically take an egg, you cut the top of
Speaker 1: an egg off, you you dry it out, you clean it,
Speaker 1: you do whatever you do. You fill it with confetti,
Speaker 1: and then you cover it with like a wax paper
Speaker 1: and then you just light people up with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you light them ups. Strange to me, it is.
Speaker 4: It just seems like too much effort for some Like
Speaker 4: I'd rather do a water balloon.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Try having that happen and they're explaining
Speaker 1: it to you and you don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Try that on for size. So I've been going through
Speaker 1: that for years now. No bla, no, no no. And
Speaker 1: so uh there was a listener to our show, Two
Speaker 1: Pros and a Cup of Joe Out to you who
Speaker 1: works at a Walmart and you're sweating, Loraina, He sent
Speaker 1: an entire box of confetti eggs here, and she's trying
Speaker 1: to give him, give him out to people, like like
Speaker 1: she's doing what she's supposed to do, like like she's
Speaker 1: trying to share the love, share the wealth like she
Speaker 1: always does for the show.
Speaker 4: And listen. I don't think you earned any brownie points
Speaker 4: with her. I don't think you've won my guy. But
Speaker 4: thanks for putting us in a position to have to
Speaker 4: tell Lorena we don't want that s.
Speaker 2: You know, thank you mess.
Speaker 1: It's very very very nice thought, very nice gesture. But but
Speaker 1: you didn't do it for us, so we know why you.
Speaker 1: You tried to use them little crappy ass eggs to
Speaker 1: try to get in.
Speaker 4: It ain't work. We hating on you on national radio. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's all right, it didn't work. And I don't want
Speaker 4: your eggs now.
Speaker 1: Now let me now, let me ask you, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, all right? Do you believe that c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud is a real egg or a confetti film bag?
Speaker 2: He's a real leg right now? All right?
Speaker 1: Because then they play a whole lot of confetti in
Speaker 1: that egg.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: They did pick up the fifth year option on c J. Stroud.
Speaker 1: They also did the same for Will Anderson of course.
Speaker 1: Nick Cassario, their GM, spoke yesterday about the decision to
Speaker 1: pick up the fifth year option on CJ. Stroud and
Speaker 1: had this to say.
Speaker 5: I don't really think it affects the future. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's our quarterback. We've said that from the beginning. To me,
Speaker 5: Go and I both said it, so, I mean, I
Speaker 5: think that was really more of a procedural thing. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't want to say it was a no brainer.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a no brainer. So glad he's here again,
Speaker 5: It's more part of the process. I mean, so we're
Speaker 5: excited about his off season. I think he's had a
Speaker 5: good approach, had a good attitude here. I think he's
Speaker 5: put a lot of work in, you know, from let's
Speaker 5: say March and April. So excited to have him around
Speaker 5: here in the spring, and I'm excited to keep moving.
Speaker 1: Forward now, Nick Cassario. They also made the decision to
Speaker 1: pick up the fifth year option on Will Anderson, which
Speaker 1: is a no brainer because Will Anderson has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh he's a beast, and he's been getting better and better.
Speaker 1: And we've talked about it on our show that that
Speaker 1: defense sick and the way they look, Oh, my god,
Speaker 1: I never see the way they look when they come
Speaker 1: out of this. They make it a point to show
Speaker 1: the cutaway or the bumps and all that stuff, showing
Speaker 1: the Texans defense.
Speaker 4: Front when they're coming out of the locker room and
Speaker 4: ising defense to deal with. I tell my son every
Speaker 4: time I see them play, I always screen capture, I
Speaker 4: record it and send it to my son and I say,
Speaker 4: this is what you're supposed to get look for. Look
Speaker 4: like when you come walking out of the locker.
Speaker 1: Room and you watch the way that the playoffs went down,
Speaker 1: and you go, all right, So Will Anderson's going to
Speaker 1: be here long term, and it makes sense. He's gotten
Speaker 1: better and better and better every single year, and it's
Speaker 1: the complete opposite for CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 1: It feels like he had that rookie year to where
Speaker 1: everyone looked at that and it was all of a sudden, Man,
Speaker 1: the Texans landed on one, getting the number two pick
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, look what's happening there? And since then it's
Speaker 1: just been I would argue he's regressed from his rookie
Speaker 1: season to the point to where now following the playoffs,
Speaker 1: people are looking around going I don't know, man. He
Speaker 1: seemed like he was the next guy that was going
Speaker 1: to get the monster contract at quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: And now I think there's a lot of people with
Speaker 1: serious doubts about whether or not he's the guy based
Speaker 1: on what we saw in the biggest games last year.
Speaker 4: Well, it's hard to not come to that conclusion when
Speaker 4: the last game you've seen him plays the biggest game
Speaker 4: of the year and he threw four picks in a loss.
Speaker 4: The interesting thing about it is twenty five point nine
Speaker 4: guarantee to him the endorsement of your GM in Caserio.
Speaker 4: All the stars aligned for CJ. Stroud to come into
Speaker 4: this season and play himself into a bigger contract. I
Speaker 4: think that that's the setup for it. There's nothing like
Speaker 4: having the amount of confidence in you invested in you
Speaker 4: by a team, by the coach, by the GM, and
Speaker 4: those who matter most, the guys in the locker room.
Speaker 4: I've never heard anybody give any type of criticisms or
Speaker 4: any type of things that would give cause for pause
Speaker 4: in terms of drama. He's not a good team guy,
Speaker 4: not a good locker room guy. He's toxic. None of
Speaker 4: those things have ever surfaced about CJ. Stroud, So I
Speaker 4: think all things given. Every once in a while, you
Speaker 4: you have a you have a setback or two that
Speaker 4: takes place. His is a little bit more visible, is
Speaker 4: a little bit bigger than what maybe most people's would be.
Speaker 4: But with that being said, I think it's the right move. Yeah, now,
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the wrong move at all. And
Speaker 4: all it does is move the timeline, you know, in
Speaker 4: terms of what it is that you have going on
Speaker 4: with CJ Stroud year fifth year option. It's standard, so
Speaker 4: it's not like this is earth moving. The bigger news.
Speaker 4: The bigger story would have been if they did something
Speaker 4: different than what they did. I mean, honestly, if that's
Speaker 4: if we're going to have a lead for CJ Stroud
Speaker 4: in this moment, the bigger story would have been if
Speaker 4: they didn't exercise that fifth year option.
Speaker 1: And what was it that they did. Did they just
Speaker 1: redo the.
Speaker 4: Deal altogether or are they looking at it from the
Speaker 4: standpoint we're not doing anything right now, We're just going
Speaker 4: to figure out, you know, where we go with this.
Speaker 4: I think that this obviously shows that there's confidence in
Speaker 4: CJ Stroud. And again, like I said that, the bigger
Speaker 4: deal would have been if they didn't exercise the extension.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes all the sense in the world. It's
Speaker 1: not a surprise that they picked up the fifth year option.
Speaker 1: I think that what this does do, though, is illustrates
Speaker 1: how massive this next season is for him, because if
Speaker 1: it comes out and it looks like it did this
Speaker 1: year and it's a carryover from what the postseason looked like,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, we got a real conversation
Speaker 1: on our hands about what what do you do? Because
Speaker 1: you've got a defense that can win a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: right now. As we've talked about, watching that game, I
Speaker 1: felt frustrated that the game against New I felt frustrated
Speaker 1: for the defense and you could see their frustration because
Speaker 1: they were getting the ball back. They were getting after
Speaker 1: mac Jones like it was and there was you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of plays down the field you know that
Speaker 1: they may have missed on, but there were so many
Speaker 1: opportunities there. And it's just crazy to think where we
Speaker 1: were a couple of years ago and where we are now.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that this is you know,
Speaker 1: a comp because it's you know, the one and two
Speaker 1: and all that stuff to go along with it, but
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen it before to where a quarterback
Speaker 1: gets off to a hot start and then a couple
Speaker 1: of things happen and next thing, you know, we're looking
Speaker 1: back on going, oh, maybe it's not the same. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to jump the gun on this, but man,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of conversation about Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation about the early start of his
Speaker 1: career and he was a you know, MVP this and that,
Speaker 1: and things just never got on track after he started
Speaker 1: to struggle and the you know, the health issues and
Speaker 1: all that came along with it, and it would help
Speaker 1: if he had a consistent run game. That Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: saich suation it was.
Speaker 2: It didn't work out.
Speaker 1: But I just think that all of a sudden, they've
Speaker 1: gone from you've got your quarterback of the future, You've
Speaker 1: got your defense. This is a team to watch too.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, here's here's the here's the sensible conclusion to this situation.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 4: Stroud is and his development is connected to Damico Ryans
Speaker 4: and his job security. If if this season, this upcoming
Speaker 4: season is bad for c J. Stroud, depending on how
Speaker 4: bad it is, you have to have the conversation as
Speaker 4: to how this impacts the head coaching position. I believe
Speaker 4: poor play this is an indication that signifies here's here's
Speaker 4: the thing. Do you redo the now if you're confident
Speaker 4: and what CJ. Stroud brings to the table for the
Speaker 4: future of this team as the franchise quarterback?
Speaker 2: Yes or no?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: If you're confident and what CJ. Stroud brings to the table,
Speaker 4: do you extend his deal and give him a new
Speaker 4: deal beyond just doing the fifth year the fifth year option?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, yeah, if.
Speaker 4: That's your conclusion, Jonas right, which that should be anybody's conclusion.
Speaker 4: If that's your conclusion, then now you got to ask
Speaker 4: yourself the question, why just do the fifth year option?
Speaker 4: Are you waiting to do it in training camp? When
Speaker 4: are you planning on doing the full extension of or
Speaker 4: just doing a new contract?
Speaker 2: Usually you extend it out whatever it may be.
Speaker 4: It says to me, if they take this into the season,
Speaker 4: they're basically saying we're not giving you a long term
Speaker 4: contract because you may be out, and if you're out,
Speaker 4: that means the head coach is going to be out too,
Speaker 4: which signifies a rebuilt because you're basically wasting away a gifted,
Speaker 4: talented championship caliber defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it like this. Two years ago,
Speaker 1: we were talking about maybe the greatest rookie quarterback season
Speaker 1: of all time, at least in the argument of, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the great rookie quarterback seasons of all time,
Speaker 1: quarterback of the future, gonna make you know, two hundred
Speaker 1: three hundred whatever the contract is at that time when
Speaker 1: when his deal is due to be done. We've gone
Speaker 1: from that too. Yeah, maybe it's not a bad idea
Speaker 1: to benchmin a playoff game like that was a real conversation,
Speaker 1: so bad, that's a real coal sitting there couches said
Speaker 1: should they bench the day stroud they were being they
Speaker 1: were asking to Mieko Ryans about a post game and
Speaker 1: the fact and it's and it wasn't the craziest thought
Speaker 1: in the world. And this is you could tell in
Speaker 1: watching that playoff game it was a lot arming man
Speaker 1: because he looked rattled. It looked like there was other
Speaker 1: stuff going on that he wasn't. He just couldn't figure
Speaker 1: it out and get out of his own way. And
Speaker 1: the fact that that was a real discussion to be had,
Speaker 1: I think tells you a lot about where he was
Speaker 1: at in that game. And why this offseason is such
Speaker 1: a big deal. And look, I hope that that it
Speaker 1: works out because c J. Stroud, to your point, seems
Speaker 1: like a really good dude. You never hear anything bad
Speaker 1: about him. He's not getting in trouble, none of that
Speaker 1: stuff that you hear going on with him. But it
Speaker 1: is fair to wonder if maybe we jumped the gun
Speaker 1: a little bit following one season only to find out
Speaker 1: things look things look awkward. And for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: you know, Demiko Ryans made a bold move to where
Speaker 1: you went from. You had an offensive coordinator in Houston,
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud's rookie year who was being interviewed for
Speaker 1: head coaching jobs because of the work he did with
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud too out of a job the next year.
Speaker 1: Like there's been turnover there as well too. It just
Speaker 1: feels like it's a lot and it just again it
Speaker 1: illustrates why this year is so important for him.
Speaker 4: There's no jumping the gun on having a stellar season
Speaker 4: because you don't have stellar seasons by accident. You have
Speaker 4: stellar seasons because of your preparation, because everything you know
Speaker 4: went the way that it was supposed to go. Things
Speaker 4: just haven't gone the way that they're supposed to gone
Speaker 4: on the offensive side of the ball, and more specifically CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud, So there's always.
Speaker 4: The opportunity to improve and become more of what you
Speaker 4: need to become, versus just slipping into the abyss of
Speaker 4: being in the pool of serviceable, serviceable quarterbacks that actually
Speaker 4: could have been looked at and viewed as a franchise guy.
Speaker 2: It happens all the time. I was in DC when RG.
Speaker 4: Three got there, talk about a meteoric rise, a quick
Speaker 4: meteorc rise. His first season was as stellar as it
Speaker 4: gets as well, just so happens. Hellodi Nada got ahold
Speaker 4: of his leg, and his leg was never the same,
Speaker 4: and neither was his game. Sometimes that happens.
Speaker 1: Sometimes guys get off the slow starts and then they
Speaker 1: end up.
Speaker 4: Being for freaking Hall of Famers. We don't know what
Speaker 4: the book is, it's not out, it's not written yet
Speaker 4: for CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud, but it's a better decision to.
Speaker 4: Give him the confidence and the backing and support that
Speaker 4: he needs, rather than in this NFL climate, this year,
Speaker 4: this offseason, to actually think that you're going to sever
Speaker 4: the relationship, destroyed a relationship between you and CJ. Stroud
Speaker 4: over poor play during the course of last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, could be worse, be worse, could have
Speaker 1: that weirdo back. You know, there is that I mean.
Speaker 2: And he is back.
Speaker 1: They got baptized? Who did.
Speaker 2: DeShawn?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Did he really? Congratulations?
Speaker 4: He got baptized, man like, So you can't keep hitting
Speaker 4: him with it, Like I wonder if they dried him
Speaker 4: off with a tap. But anyway, all right, so that's
Speaker 4: the last time I'm gonna do it, right, I'm going
Speaker 4: last time. I'm gonna take a shot. I wonder how
Speaker 4: many tiles they used to dry him off? No, but seriously,
Speaker 4: like that's fairy. I mean, they say when you get
Speaker 4: when you get baptized, the old you dies and the
Speaker 4: new you emerges.
Speaker 2: I believe in grace.
Speaker 4: I believe in being able to redeem yourself. Redemption stories
Speaker 4: are phenomenal. Deshaun Watson has a tremendous opportunity to be
Speaker 4: a great redemption story, and I hope it plays out
Speaker 4: that way, and I hope for CJ. Stroud it plays
Speaker 4: out that way. But I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 1: The NBA playoffs, we actually you know what, I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna call him that. I won't. I'm sorry. The
Speaker 1: NBA playing games, okay, start later on tonight. We've got
Speaker 1: the Heat and the Hornets. We've got the Blazers and
Speaker 1: the Suns, and we'll get to see, uh, who's got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to the postseason. Charlotte's a fun
Speaker 1: team to watch. They're thirty thirty two and thirteen since
Speaker 1: the beginning of January. Like they they they found something
Speaker 1: there with nipple with ball nippets. That's a uh. That's
Speaker 1: who didn't like that? That's a uh. That's a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch. The other news that came out in the
Speaker 1: NBA nipples and was the Hey, nowadays you never know.
Speaker 1: Uh the other the other thing that uh that came
Speaker 1: out in the NBA and tournament. Yes, uh, the other
Speaker 1: news that came out was potentially good news for the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers sector of guy and our friends listening
Speaker 1: on the Blowtorch and five seventy LA Sports Luka doncic.
Speaker 4: Yep, I told y'all, hey, I said it. I called
Speaker 4: it earlier. He's coming back earlier than what I thought.
Speaker 1: He is returning to Los Angeles on Friday. He has
Speaker 1: spent the last week in Spain getting some injections on
Speaker 1: his hamstring issue. He uh has this Grade two hamstring
Speaker 1: strain and he's returning to Los Angeles to be with
Speaker 1: the team. He will not be playing in the game
Speaker 1: or playing in playoff games early.
Speaker 2: On, but I expect it to return.
Speaker 1: He is going to be with the team potentially.
Speaker 2: Roll out to you yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, there's a three win chance here for
Speaker 4: everybody involved. One JJ Reddick, you coach your ass all
Speaker 4: the way off. You shouldn't have no ass left with
Speaker 4: all the coaching that you do in this first these
Speaker 4: first few games until whatever when when h Luca gets back,
Speaker 4: and for what it's worth, then you coach some more.
Speaker 4: You continue to coach. If you make it into the
Speaker 4: second round with what you're dealing with with Luca, with
Speaker 4: where your team is currently not having reeves available, that's
Speaker 4: a win for JJ Reddick as a coach. If Lebron James,
Speaker 4: who is going to have to play out of his
Speaker 4: mind for them to get out of this round with Houston,
Speaker 4: if he plays the way he needs to play and
Speaker 4: has been playing. You know, I saw like the criticisms like, ah,
Speaker 4: there's not enough, Lebron James is too old, and all
Speaker 4: of those things, would you would be one hundred percent inaccurate.
Speaker 2: He is too old, they don't have enough to him.
Speaker 1: But for the sake of sportspeople, what if Lebron James
Speaker 1: finds some magic and plays out of his mind like
Speaker 1: he has been playing lately as of late, and they
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 2: Into the second round of the playoffs, and now you.
Speaker 4: Have Luca back, Thus the third victory that's in the
Speaker 4: queue if Luca comes back. Because here's the thing, everybody's like,
Speaker 4: I am stringed data. Da looka don't play defense anyway.
Speaker 4: Let's be clear, Luca is not gonna hurt himself because
Speaker 4: he's working his ass off to play some defense and.
Speaker 1: He gonna lose ball. And he's not a slasher, So
Speaker 1: the things that he does best is find a way
Speaker 1: to get the ball and let it go. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get his.
Speaker 4: Hamstring good enough for him to get up and down
Speaker 4: the court set up and he can handle the discomfort
Speaker 4: of getting up and down the court and letting that
Speaker 4: ball go. He's going to draw the defense out. He's
Speaker 4: gonna draw that defense out.
Speaker 1: And if Luca is able to have success with making
Speaker 1: some of them baskets, is going to open up things
Speaker 1: down below maybe eighten, you know, guiding.
Speaker 4: Maybe those those guys are are able to have an
Speaker 4: impact on the series. Who knows what happens. The potential
Speaker 4: of Austin Reeves potentially coming back could take place late
Speaker 4: in the second series, start of the next series after
Speaker 4: that in the championship rounds.
Speaker 1: It's a win for the Los angele Let's go four wins.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick as a coach.
Speaker 4: Lebron James and his and being is phenomenal as he's
Speaker 4: been and this being probably the final season he's going
Speaker 4: to be with the Lakers. It's a win to go
Speaker 4: out this way carrying the team. He went out on
Speaker 4: his shield, Luca not taking the easy road, the soft
Speaker 4: tissue road, soft tissue injury road, and not playing. He's
Speaker 4: trying to come back. If he makes it back and
Speaker 4: he impacts it, that's a win. And the fourth win
Speaker 4: I shall add to this list the LA Lakers. They
Speaker 4: win as a franchise if they are able to get
Speaker 4: out of the first round of this playoff run. I
Speaker 4: believe it's a tremendous It is a tremendous undertaking to
Speaker 4: beat one of the better teams out there in the
Speaker 4: NBA right now, in the Rockets. It's a young team,
Speaker 4: it's a really talented team. They got a lot going
Speaker 4: for them. They got a guy by the name of
Speaker 4: what's his name, what's the score, Kevin Durth, the Sniper.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they got a team. If they can get
Speaker 4: out of that series, there's there's there's a quadruple win
Speaker 4: that that is on that that gets registered in the
Speaker 4: record book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's over. You've seen uh, you've seen the last
Speaker 1: of them. You've seen the last of Luca. And here's
Speaker 1: why I say that one. They're not beating the Rockets.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is not coming back till at best the
Speaker 1: second round. And when Luca does come back, you really
Speaker 1: want to rush him back out there. The guy just
Speaker 1: got you know, blood spinning done or whatever he did.
Speaker 1: They put a bowl elephant gun to his hamstring to
Speaker 1: try and get him ready to go, and then you're
Speaker 1: relying on Lebron James. I look at it if I'm
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and I say this, eh, whatever, like because
Speaker 1: it was never about this year anyways, Like this was
Speaker 1: all about let's end this peacefully, let's end this quietly.
Speaker 1: The Lebron era is over, and then we move forward
Speaker 1: and we start thinking about the future with Luca Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves and you figure it out from there. This year
Speaker 1: was I don't want to call it a free roll.
Speaker 1: I just think it was a let's be nice to
Speaker 1: everybody here. It's been awkward, it's it's been a weird
Speaker 1: vibe with Lebron and everyone knowing that it's probably the
Speaker 1: end of the run here and everyone's like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: good here, We're probably better off apart. If I'm the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Why do I want to rush Luca back? In a
Speaker 1: series where your second or third best player isn't even
Speaker 1: going to be a part of it. Austin reeves, why
Speaker 1: would you want to rush Luca back to that with
Speaker 1: a bum Hams? Win to try and win, try to
Speaker 1: win when look the odds improved from yesterday's show to
Speaker 1: today's show, whether that's the Luca News or whatever. On
Speaker 1: the Rockets and Lakers series, and it's still Rockets minus
Speaker 1: six point fifty on draftking Ie No hope. So I
Speaker 1: look at it. If I'm the Lakers, Yeah, why am
Speaker 1: I gonna ITTs? What makes but sports amazing? But if
Speaker 1: he comes back, do you.
Speaker 4: Know for certain if he comes back, he's going to
Speaker 4: wreck his career by reinjury. I'm not saying for certain
Speaker 4: that the Houston Rockets are going to thrash the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Do you know for certain? Yes?
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people do. And I
Speaker 1: don't think it's just people that have a side to
Speaker 1: pick from or a team to root for. I think
Speaker 1: what is unfair when you see a line come out
Speaker 1: like that where it's Houston minus sixth fifteen. They still
Speaker 1: got to play, and that's improved from the day before.
Speaker 1: Living in the gambling odds, I know you feel like
Speaker 1: the Lions don't lie. But you have come in and
Speaker 1: you have approached me to give you my money for
Speaker 1: bets where you felt like the Lions didn't lie, and
Speaker 1: I did not get my money back.
Speaker 2: I did not get my money back.
Speaker 4: That is your fault trusting the lines, and it's my
Speaker 4: fault for trusting you trusting the line.
Speaker 1: Blame the scumbags who scored that boxing event that we
Speaker 1: were at all right, that was there was a scumbag
Speaker 1: decision by a bunch of judges who were probably on
Speaker 1: the take, right. I know that's reckless, but they took ours.
Speaker 1: We got screwed. We got scre I needed that twenty bucks,
Speaker 1: me too, sons of bitches? Can we not very two
Speaker 1: of the leads here, Yeah, one being a very quickly
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and Kawhi Leonard have to try to play
Speaker 1: their way into the playoffs. Now, we just had a
Speaker 1: conversation because March matt And has just ended, and one
Speaker 1: Jonas Knox asked the question.
Speaker 4: Does the play in teams do they even count? They
Speaker 4: don't even count them on the March Madnes's a bracket. Yeah,
Speaker 4: do they even count? So now the question becomes do
Speaker 4: the playing teams even count, And how crazy is it
Speaker 4: to think that maybe the Clippers catch fire and give
Speaker 4: somebody trouble coming out of the play in, Maybe Steph
Speaker 4: curR and the Warriors catch fire and give people problems
Speaker 4: coming into the.
Speaker 1: Regular playoffs. Maybe one of these playing teams catches fire
Speaker 1: and gives a team that was deserving of being in
Speaker 1: the playoffs or early departure ticket. I find that to
Speaker 1: be kind of it's entertaining, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Know that I like you.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem I have with the NBA playoff
Speaker 1: format is there's no real and I guess it's a
Speaker 1: good and a bad thing. The good thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of it all the best team wins
Speaker 1: because you've got to beat a team in a seven
Speaker 1: game series all the way through. I guess the part
Speaker 1: that I'm not crazy about is when there was the
Speaker 1: five game series where you had the to Kenby Mutumbo
Speaker 1: Nuggets team beat the Sonics. Back then, because it was
Speaker 1: a shorter series, there was more of a chance that
Speaker 1: you could you could catch somebody who is a higher seed.
Speaker 1: And nowadays it's just so it's so difficult to do
Speaker 1: to beat a team in a seven game series four
Speaker 1: times if you're the quote unquote worse of the two teams.
Speaker 1: And so even though one of these teams could get
Speaker 1: in and look, Miami did it a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago where they made a run and they got hot.
Speaker 1: But I just I look at some of these teams
Speaker 1: with the opportunity, and the one I'm most interested in
Speaker 1: is Charlotte because it's new and they've been on such
Speaker 1: a tear. But man, Golden States been banged up, the
Speaker 1: Clippers have been you know, Kawhi's had a really good
Speaker 1: bounce back year, but the Clippers, you never know, especially
Speaker 1: in the postseason, and it just feels and you know,
Speaker 1: the Sixers are always banged up seemingly, there's always a
Speaker 1: problem there with Joel Embiid or whoever you know is
Speaker 1: dealing with whatever they're dealing with. I just I look
Speaker 1: at it and I go, it would be nice, But
Speaker 1: the seven game format kind of kills the suspense and
Speaker 1: the opportunity for some of these lower seeds to make
Speaker 1: a run of this thing.
Speaker 4: Next one and I know we're up against it, but
Speaker 4: the next one. We just had the conversation where we
Speaker 4: brought up the antitrust laws protecting the National Football League
Speaker 4: the viewership and how viewers are getting bludgeoned in terms
Speaker 4: of viewership, how you're able to watch it. Everything is
Speaker 4: paid for, But it's an outdated law that represents what
Speaker 4: the NFL has been negotiating now that you have streaming.
Speaker 4: Streaming was not a thing when this law was made.
Speaker 4: And so to look at where the NFL is now
Speaker 4: and how many platforms out there they're using to expand
Speaker 4: their reach, to expand their their distribution, and it's streaming.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime owns the rights to the play in. If
Speaker 1: you do not have Amazon Prime, you cannot view the
Speaker 1: play in NBA playoff games? Are the NBA play in
Speaker 1: playoff games important enough for you to actually get a Prime.
Speaker 2: Subscription to see them? Now?
Speaker 4: You may cancel after I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're aware of that. So they're going to
Speaker 4: find a way where they're going to still get their
Speaker 4: pound out of you before you get out of there
Speaker 4: with your cancelation after seeing the games. But doesn't this
Speaker 4: sound interesting that you cannot find on cable, dish, any
Speaker 4: other regular television channels you cannot watch the game.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if The question is, are these playing
Speaker 1: games worth the number of boxes you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: break down from Amazon, because there's there's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: God bless. I mean, what a great strategy to funnel
Speaker 1: people more like as a bezos as if you don't
Speaker 1: have enough people. I My trash cans be full every
Speaker 1: single trash day every week with Amazon boxes that are
Speaker 1: too big for the packages that come from me. Like
Speaker 1: I order a travel sized toothpaste, it comes in a
Speaker 1: box that you would put a body in. Like it's
Speaker 1: just Enough's enough? Okay, Well you don't need to show
Speaker 1: off how much extra spending cash you have by sending
Speaker 1: that stuff in a giant box. Enough's enough. So is
Speaker 1: the time you've got to take to break down those
Speaker 1: boxes worth paying.
Speaker 4: To be able to watch these playing That's going to
Speaker 4: be a big question. And I got to say, this
Speaker 4: is money.
Speaker 2: I need it.
Speaker 1: I've heard this, I've.
Speaker 2: Heard this before.
Speaker 4: This is one of those situations Jonas where the NBA,
Speaker 4: much like other professional sports, are watching what happens with.
Speaker 1: The NFL and and and this this.
Speaker 4: Whole uh the government coming after them and saying that
Speaker 4: it's not enough free television for for viewers to see
Speaker 4: it free. This is one of those situations. If it
Speaker 4: doesn't go well for the National Football League, you gotta
Speaker 4: believe that the NBA.
Speaker 1: Is on the clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're on the clock because there's too many there's
Speaker 4: too much of this going on. You're forcing You're not
Speaker 4: You're not giving the viewer and the fan the opportunity.
Speaker 4: You're forcing them to go somewhere where they may or
Speaker 4: may not want to go.
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Speaker 1: Labar In case you missed this, Okay, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the tale of Jarvis Moore. Give me the tale of
Speaker 1: Jarvis Jarvis Moore. You're probably looking at that way. What
Speaker 1: is he like a you know, a linebacker like CC
Speaker 1: school or something like that. Well, I mean Alabama is
Speaker 1: correct or or receiver. You know he's a former Morgan
Speaker 1: County jail officer. Oh wow, he's now facing seven felony
Speaker 1: extortion charges related to that's not good taking honey buns
Speaker 1: from inmates. He worked at a type of buns. He
Speaker 1: worked at the uns. Yeah, okay, I'll just make it sure.
Speaker 1: He worked at the Morgan County Jail for twenty four years.
Speaker 1: He turned himself in.
Speaker 2: You are one greedy so ob man.
Speaker 4: Now, well, I mean, I don't understand you're extorting them
Speaker 4: for their their.
Speaker 1: Honey buy This story started making the rounds recently because
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, and you know, people are
Speaker 1: paying attention to different things. But yeah, apparently.
Speaker 2: Talk an abusive.
Speaker 1: He popped for stealing the honey buns. Now he has
Speaker 1: said the following quote, I just want the people to
Speaker 1: know that I didn't do this, and it is killing
Speaker 1: me to be plastered all over the world that I
Speaker 1: am this and I am that and I am not that.
Speaker 1: He claims he is diabetic, which shows a real will.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, that's a real will to compete.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that boosting honey buns don't mean you're
Speaker 4: eating the honey buns.
Speaker 2: You could be giving them to other people.
Speaker 1: Now, he does not deny taking the honey buns. He
Speaker 1: says he was following an established policy that when inmates
Speaker 1: started fires in the jail, it was policy to take
Speaker 1: commissery items from those inmates to give them to others.
Speaker 2: So basically he's saying making sure they share.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if if you, you know, sharing his care,
Speaker 1: if you start to start lighting stuff on fire inside
Speaker 1: the jail, you're gonna lose your honey buns. So how
Speaker 1: bad do you want that flame? I mean, or how
Speaker 1: bad do you want that show?
Speaker 4: If you light the fire, then you can toast that
Speaker 4: honey bun. They say they're better warm than they all came.
Speaker 1: He said it's been going on for years. More in
Speaker 1: his attorney, Scott Morrow, believed the chargers or retaliation connected
Speaker 1: to a leaked video of an inmate who died in
Speaker 1: jail custody in April of last year. So that's that's
Speaker 1: how many honey buns? Yeah, So that's that's the current
Speaker 1: state of affairs in the in the jail slash prison system.
Speaker 1: If you want to get some revenge, you steal somebody's
Speaker 1: honey buns. I'll say this though, they're not bad. They're
Speaker 1: not bad.
Speaker 4: Now, were they glazedney buns? Are just regular honey glazed? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a game.
Speaker 1: That's worth it.
Speaker 4: Man, when it when it got that that glaze cover
Speaker 4: on them, like know, get that I single on them.
Speaker 1: That's worth it.
Speaker 2: Pages the game