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Speaker 3: Golden Knights are down three to two series, going back
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Speaker 3: last night's game. They lead three to two in the series. Nicks,
Speaker 3: they will be five and a half point underdog in
Speaker 3: San Antonio. That'll be Game five. That'll be Saturday at
Speaker 3: eight thirty Eastern on ABC. Poll question from the previous
Speaker 3: two hours, Dylan, and what'll be going with final hour
Speaker 3: on this meet Friday?
Speaker 5: All right, Dan?
Speaker 4: So we asked the people, so the World Cup dot
Speaker 4: dot dot, my Cup runneth over or nil? I mean nah?
Speaker 4: Fifty four percent say nil, I mean nah? Okay, And
Speaker 4: you can have free tickets to one of these, the
Speaker 4: NBA finals, the Stanley Cup final or the World Cup.
Speaker 6: Forty percent say Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 7: So clickup gets a.
Speaker 6: Lot of love.
Speaker 3: It's a great event to go to. But I would
Speaker 3: I haven't been to the World Cup. I did bid
Speaker 3: on a charity item. It was a I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what round.
Speaker 3: This would have been, probably an early match at the
Speaker 3: Meadowlands Boys and Girls Club had a charity auction and
Speaker 3: I tried to bid on tickets. I don't know was
Speaker 3: Brazil Brazil playing in the metal Lands, but I think
Speaker 3: they were playing, you know, maybe an inferior country. But
Speaker 3: the tickets were six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I love the Boys and Girls Club, but that
Speaker 3: got a little steep there to go see a World
Speaker 3: Cup match.
Speaker 2: Yes to Dylan, you.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't pay that for Bosnia Verus Canada.
Speaker 2: I would not. I would not.
Speaker 6: What about Bosnia and Herzego Universe Canada.
Speaker 2: Oh both of them. That's different, yes, Paul.
Speaker 8: I think Brazil's got Morocco tomorrow night and then they've
Speaker 8: got Scotland in a couple of days whatever.
Speaker 3: This match was at the Meadowlands and I think it
Speaker 3: was six thousand dollars. Here's another thing that's lost on people.
Speaker 3: They're like James Dolan, the Knicks owner. He is making
Speaker 3: a killing during the NBA Finals. Okay, he is because
Speaker 3: his team is in the NBA Finals, but he's not
Speaker 3: the one who is making the secondary market profits here.
Speaker 3: And he did give away two seats. I think that
Speaker 3: they were somebody donated. He donated two seats courts a
Speaker 3: million dollars and the money went to a charity. So
Speaker 3: there's a viewing party. He is picking up the tab
Speaker 3: for that. I don't I don't know why we're singling
Speaker 3: out James Dolan. And look, I don't know James Dolan,
Speaker 3: But like, what other team or owner do we do
Speaker 3: this that you're not some benevolent soul in are I
Speaker 3: don't know. When the Lakers go to the finals, do
Speaker 3: we say or did the bus family give away I
Speaker 3: don't know A thousand tickets. James Dolan doesn't make the
Speaker 3: profit on the secondary market. He has ticket prices, he
Speaker 3: doesn't go, I want to jack these up to thirteen thousand.
Speaker 3: I probably wish as he could, yes, Dylan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So if you want to know who really profits,
Speaker 6: one it's the people reselling their tickets for astronomical things,
Speaker 6: and two it's these stub ups and ticket masters of
Speaker 6: the world. Like I just looked up two tickets to
Speaker 6: the game six fourteen thousand bucks a pop. It's actually
Speaker 6: twelve thousand bucks a pop and twenty three hundred dollars
Speaker 6: in fees per ticket. So Stubhubb will make about five
Speaker 6: grand and fees on that ticket.
Speaker 3: Purger This week Sunday Night Baseball Rangers and the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: You can watch it on NBC and Peacock. He is
Speaker 3: Kirk Kirk Street and ESPN college football analyst and apparently
Speaker 3: a big time celebrity. Sitting courtside there with all the
Speaker 3: famous people. How'd you come upon the tickets there?
Speaker 9: Herbie definitely not a celebrity. Mark Shapiro asked me to go,
Speaker 9: and I'm not a Rabbit NBA fan, but I'm a
Speaker 9: sports fan, and he took me to the Olympics back
Speaker 9: in February, which was a really cool experience, and he
Speaker 9: asked me to go to Game four. I couldn't make
Speaker 9: Game three because we were doing an Amazon marketing shoot
Speaker 9: on Monday night.
Speaker 7: So he said, can you make Game four? And I said, yeah,
Speaker 7: love to. So I just came over. Didn't know a
Speaker 7: whole lot. Again, I don't watch the NBA.
Speaker 9: I'm not really a Rabbid fan, but man, I just
Speaker 9: got caught. I actually went there just enjoyed the story
Speaker 9: of San Antonio seeing if they could come back from
Speaker 9: being down two and kind of like quietly saying, man,
Speaker 9: I hope they can win this game.
Speaker 7: And then they're up to twenty nine. Then you know
Speaker 7: how it is.
Speaker 9: You start as a broadcaster, you start kind of pulling
Speaker 9: for a story, and the Knicks started to make a run.
Speaker 9: You just kind of get caught up in in the
Speaker 9: Knicks coming back in.
Speaker 7: Madison Square Garden. It was just it was just epic.
Speaker 9: It was a top five, maybe top two or three
Speaker 9: sporting event that I've ever attended. And I think because
Speaker 9: they were down twenty nine and their fans never gave
Speaker 9: up and they just kept coming back, and that fourth
Speaker 9: quarter there were so many possessions where you're just like,
Speaker 9: I can't believe.
Speaker 7: First of all, I'm witnessing it, and the coach if.
Speaker 9: He could just get out of my ways, like like see,
Speaker 9: you know, it was it was a just I love sports.
Speaker 9: I just I love competition. I love the energy that
Speaker 9: sports provide. And I was just grateful to be there
Speaker 9: and and just to take it all in. I just
Speaker 9: that when it's that kind of thing, you just shoot
Speaker 9: it into my veins, you know. It's why I love it.
Speaker 3: Mark Shapiro used to be the president of ESPN, famous
Speaker 3: agent now to the Stars. I was wondering, is there
Speaker 3: a football comp to what you saw with the Knicks
Speaker 3: and the Spurs.
Speaker 7: I'm sure there's a game over the years that.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: I mean, going way back, I didn't see it, but
Speaker 9: I'm just as a fan watching. I mean, when Buffalo
Speaker 9: was up or Houston was up huge on Buffalo and
Speaker 9: Frank w Reich brought him back.
Speaker 2: You know you remember that Whene, Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, but recently maybe you're some of your your
Speaker 9: fans would remember one.
Speaker 7: I just I just cannot remember.
Speaker 9: I was even thinking about, you know, because it's gonna
Speaker 9: be a mad scene outside of the arena. By the
Speaker 9: end of the third quarter, I was just gonna thank
Speaker 9: Mark and yeah, I was like, maybe it's time to go.
Speaker 9: But then, you know, I'm just kind of It was
Speaker 9: a great group of guys.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've never met any of them.
Speaker 9: John macroe met John McEnroe, Larry David, Don Johnson, Mark myself.
Speaker 7: We're just what's cool.
Speaker 9: Is when you go to an event like that every
Speaker 9: and there's a couple of people to my right. I
Speaker 9: had no idea who they were, were high five in
Speaker 9: each other. It's just everybody just kind of checks whatever
Speaker 9: you are and who whatever you do. Just just become fans, right,
Speaker 9: you just just kind of caught up in the game
Speaker 9: and talking about the strategy and and to be right
Speaker 9: where we were, like I said, the coach is the
Speaker 9: only hindrance was like the coach getting in the way.
Speaker 7: I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 9: It was just and then and then they we kept saying, boy,
Speaker 9: if they can get it to fifteen, you never know.
Speaker 9: They get it to fifteen, and they got it to fourteen,
Speaker 9: and we're like, I'm like, dude, they get it under ten,
Speaker 9: this is gonna get serious, you know. And then they
Speaker 9: get it under ten or then you just kind of
Speaker 9: get caught up and like, holy shit, this this might happen,
Speaker 9: you know. So that's that's the essence of I think
Speaker 9: why we love these kind of story. I mean, you
Speaker 9: feel bad San Antonio. You think about this series. You
Speaker 9: could argue that they've they've could have won any of
Speaker 9: these games, and here they are down three to one
Speaker 9: going back home. So I wonder, can they get up
Speaker 9: off the matt after squandering a twenty nine point lead
Speaker 9: to tie this series up?
Speaker 7: Can they go back home.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow night and and get it the three to two
Speaker 9: to go back to the garden.
Speaker 11: Can't?
Speaker 7: I can't now, I'm now I'm locked in emotionally.
Speaker 3: But you know, when when it comes to baseball and
Speaker 3: it comes to basketball, it's the best of seven.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: With football, it's just we got to win this game.
Speaker 3: That's it. And I wonder how history would be changed.
Speaker 3: Now I can't have players play seven games, you know,
Speaker 3: seven game series, But I wonder how history would be
Speaker 3: changed if it wasn't just one game, because there are
Speaker 3: times when you go on that day they were better.
Speaker 3: But if they played nine more times, that team is
Speaker 3: going to win.
Speaker 9: Well, if you think just back to the Olympics with
Speaker 9: Team USA against Canada. I mean, you could make that
Speaker 9: argument if that's if those two teams played ten times
Speaker 9: or five times. You know, I don't know if you
Speaker 9: USA wins a whole lot of those games. But like
Speaker 9: Kurt Russell said, and of course that in the movie,
Speaker 9: it's tonight, we're the best team. And I think you
Speaker 9: can debate and argue what's better. You know that one
Speaker 9: time put it together, find a way to do it,
Speaker 9: pull off a miracle, or over a seven game series,
Speaker 9: you're truly gonna find out who the better team is, right,
Speaker 9: I mean there's some ebb and flow and ups and downs.
Speaker 9: I don't know, I can kind of see that. I
Speaker 9: can see it on both sides of it. Really, I
Speaker 9: think there's something really special about for sixty minutes, we're
Speaker 9: gonna put it together. They might on paper have a
Speaker 9: better team, but we're gonna find there's something kind of
Speaker 9: cool about that as well.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Just imagine if we go back to the seventy six
Speaker 3: ers with Alan Iverson, they open up the NBA Finals,
Speaker 3: they win Game one. If it was one and done,
Speaker 3: the Sixers would have won the title over right, one
Speaker 3: of the great teams of all time. Yeah, we're talking
Speaker 3: to Kirk kerb Street. I don't know if these fans
Speaker 3: are these celebrities there ask you college football questions like
Speaker 3: this Brendan Sooresby thing. It feels like it's crossed over,
Speaker 3: like this isn't a college football this is everybody's got
Speaker 3: an opinion on this. So your thoughts on the judge's
Speaker 3: ruling and what happens as we move forward.
Speaker 9: Well, I think what you said about gambling, and everybody's
Speaker 9: been talking about it since you know, you don't have
Speaker 9: to go to Vegas or have a bookie, you know,
Speaker 9: now you just do it on your phone. And everybody's
Speaker 9: been concerned about how this would impact the athletes themselves,
Speaker 9: and you know, the NFL and the professional sports have
Speaker 9: made a pretty strong statement. You know, we've seen NFL
Speaker 9: players that have been removed for seasons because they got
Speaker 9: caught up in doing this.
Speaker 7: And I think the biggest.
Speaker 9: Thing for me and I think all of us that
Speaker 9: follow college football is you know, who's the governing body
Speaker 9: over the sport and what power does that governing body
Speaker 9: have if any. The NCAA, when they found out about this,
Speaker 9: they ruled him ineligible, and like we've seen in many
Speaker 9: other cases, when somebody finds out that the NC DOUBLEA
Speaker 9: didn't give them the answer they want, they go, no problem,
Speaker 9: We're just going to go to our local jurisdiction, local
Speaker 9: judge and find out if we can make this happen.
Speaker 9: And I think the perception is that the judge shows
Speaker 9: up in a black suit, in this case in a
Speaker 9: red tie and ask for an autograph after the proceedings.
Speaker 9: And I think that the perception of how the sport
Speaker 9: is spinning out of control and there isn't anybody in charge,
Speaker 9: let alone the gambling part of it.
Speaker 7: You know that it's I don't know, Brandon Soresby.
Speaker 9: I feel bad about the whole situation, but you know,
Speaker 9: if this were my son and he did what was it,
Speaker 9: nine thousand bets and I don't know how much or
Speaker 9: how little he bet on. It's just a premise behind
Speaker 9: what has happened here, and the fact that the NC
Speaker 9: DOUBA ruled that he is ineligible and then once again
Speaker 9: we find a local judge. It's just it's it's sickening
Speaker 9: that if you don't hear what you like, you can
Speaker 9: just go to your local your local judge and find
Speaker 9: the answer that you want.
Speaker 7: I just don't know where this ends. If this is
Speaker 7: where we are right now.
Speaker 9: Pretty much you do whatever the hell you want to
Speaker 9: do in this sport, and if anybody says anything, just
Speaker 9: find a local judge to tell you the answer you
Speaker 9: want to get.
Speaker 3: What's like trinid dad shambliss h Just get a local
Speaker 3: judge because they want to they want to do right,
Speaker 3: they want to do right by the university. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it's kind of a home field advantage there.
Speaker 9: And I think Dan one thing I think for fans
Speaker 9: to understand, we think about where we were ten years ago.
Speaker 9: You know, players had zero say in anything, and we've
Speaker 9: gone from players having zero say to this player's empowerment,
Speaker 9: where now they have all to say.
Speaker 7: And what I worry about. I'm a father.
Speaker 9: I have four sons and all of them have played
Speaker 9: in college football. And I'm not old guy yelling at
Speaker 9: the clouds. I care about the players. I care about
Speaker 9: not just Hey, if if they're going to do nil
Speaker 9: and they're going to pay the players, I think we've
Speaker 9: all kind of accepted that's that's where are. I think
Speaker 9: the two biggest issues are the pay for play like
Speaker 9: you're bribing a kid to come to your school. Swarsby's
Speaker 9: making whatever it is, four or five million dollars just
Speaker 9: this year to play at Texas Tech. That number two
Speaker 9: years ago would have been a million dollars. Now a
Speaker 9: couple of years later, he's, you know, at five million.
Speaker 9: Two years from now, maybe it's ten million, you know,
Speaker 9: to go and play. What do we What are we teaching?
Speaker 9: A great thing about football is it teaches you so
Speaker 9: many valuable lessons about life, about team, about perseverance, about
Speaker 9: getting your ass knocked down and getting back up, and hey,
Speaker 9: I didn't score the winning touchdown, but this guy did
Speaker 9: and we won, and just embracing all of those those,
Speaker 9: uh like, I think are life skills, and I think
Speaker 9: we're taking that away from these kids. So what happens
Speaker 9: to these guys when they live this lifestyle and then
Speaker 9: they don't go to the NFL, which is ninety eight
Speaker 9: percent of them. You can imagine what they're going to
Speaker 9: be like when those checks stop coming in. I just
Speaker 9: and I don't think we're thinking we're not preparing these
Speaker 9: these guys for real life. So I think we're all
Speaker 9: okay with him making money. But I think The concern
Speaker 9: is where this is heading five years from now, ten
Speaker 9: years from now with I think there's going to be
Speaker 9: a lot of issues with these guys when they don't
Speaker 9: make that bag doesn't keep coming and they have to
Speaker 9: go get a job and what do you do now?
Speaker 9: So I think there's big concerns down the road. I'm
Speaker 9: not blocking players and letting them have money and all that.
Speaker 9: I just think we need to still be the adults
Speaker 9: in the room and still reinforce some really important heart
Speaker 9: Like I had coaches that at the time I couldn't
Speaker 9: stand and then you become a husband and an employee
Speaker 9: and a father and you're like, thank God, I had
Speaker 9: that coach that maybe I didn't agree with, but man,
Speaker 9: he taught me some really tough lessons. And I think
Speaker 9: we're taking in college right now, we're taking some of
Speaker 9: those those life lessons away.
Speaker 3: Well, you talk about grown ups in the room, The
Speaker 3: problem is the grown ups have made these decisions, Herbie
Speaker 3: that Yeah, you know, we put all this blame on
Speaker 3: the kids. The kids didn't create this. They can't create
Speaker 3: this without grown ups facilitating this.
Speaker 2: And you're right.
Speaker 3: I hope Texas Tech stays in touch with Brendan soresby
Speaker 3: the rest of his life, because you make it sound
Speaker 3: like we need to take care of him. He's one
Speaker 3: of ours. It'd be you know, irreparable harm if he
Speaker 3: can't play football.
Speaker 2: And Okay, I hope.
Speaker 3: You stay with him the rest of his life because
Speaker 3: the addiction will stay with him the rest of his life.
Speaker 7: Ask Art Sleister.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean a blot of your audience doesn't know
Speaker 9: who Art Sleister is. But he was a first round
Speaker 9: draft pick and he's been in and out of prison.
Speaker 9: He's been in prison for pretty much for the last
Speaker 9: forty or fifty years.
Speaker 2: I think he's out now, but he's been scamming people.
Speaker 7: For Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 9: If it's truly an addiction, and I have no idea
Speaker 9: again what's really happening. But it's truly an addiction. It's
Speaker 9: it's like it's like being an alcoholic, you know. It's
Speaker 9: you don't just have a press conference, say I went
Speaker 9: to a I went to a thirty day clinic. I
Speaker 9: feel a lot better. I'm in a good place now.
Speaker 9: If you truly have an addiction, it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 2: Oh what dog do we have in the background.
Speaker 7: All of them in here they're ready to eat.
Speaker 2: Peter there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's here, Come here, bit, I'm in my office.
Speaker 9: They just sprawled around everywhere.
Speaker 7: Kim, here he is, he can help.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 5: He is, Peter.
Speaker 2: A handsome.
Speaker 9: Somebody made a something on social media showing that they
Speaker 9: they put him in with me in my seats. I
Speaker 9: was like, no, he wasn't at the game. I could
Speaker 9: barely fit in there, let alone him.
Speaker 3: Now, my dog goes to work every day, so she's
Speaker 3: back where I have the guy who answers the phone calls.
Speaker 3: Whenever I put her on camera looking at herself, she
Speaker 3: goes crazy. So she's in the back now going crazy.
Speaker 3: I can hear her barking. She's so good. She's barking
Speaker 3: at Peter right now. Oh my gosh, I can't understand this.
Speaker 7: Get them together, boy, Hey.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you. Herbie to you.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you come football season. Thank you God
Speaker 3: it brother, all right care Kirk kurb Street and his dogs,
Speaker 3: including Peter. Peter was there when we were at the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl in San Francisco. He came in and also
Speaker 3: the draft he came in. He was what a gorgeous
Speaker 3: dog and he belonged. He was like all right, where's
Speaker 3: my seat? What do you got for me? Any gifts here?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulie at the draft, Fritzy book, Peter and Herbie.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get some phone calls in here. We'll
Speaker 3: talk World Cup. Former US World Cup goaltender Brad Gazon.
Speaker 3: He will join us, coming up. Let me see, let
Speaker 3: me take a break. How about we do that and
Speaker 3: then we'll come back right after this.
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Speaker 3: I got a message from a source of mind and
Speaker 3: he said, Hey. Last night, NCUBA President Charlie Baker was
Speaker 3: on ESPN Radio. He was asked if the NCAA would
Speaker 3: be able to enforce their rules if a college team
Speaker 3: decided they wanted to pick up an NFL practice player
Speaker 3: or a player cut from the NFL. The president of
Speaker 3: the NCAA said, basically, they would not be able to
Speaker 3: stop if a team finds a local judge to rule
Speaker 3: in their favor.
Speaker 2: Where are we going? What are we doing?
Speaker 3: We'll have who had the best week in sports? Will
Speaker 3: have that for you coming up. You want update the
Speaker 3: poll results, then we'll talk some soccer here, Dylan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, you can have free tickets to one of
Speaker 4: these NBA finals, Stanley Cup final or World Cup. Forty
Speaker 4: one percent say the Stanley Cup Final. And actually Marvin
Speaker 4: sent me over another poll question. Who is the best
Speaker 4: coach in the building during Game four of the finals?
Speaker 4: Mike Brown, Mitch Johnson, Jay Wright or John Calipari. Jay
Speaker 4: Wright's having a great, a great old time.
Speaker 2: Was Jimmy Johnson in there?
Speaker 6: That's true? We could add Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 3: There might have been somebody else in there, well, local
Speaker 3: high school coach. All right, he's the former US men's
Speaker 3: national team goalkeeper Brad Kazen and joining us on behalf
Speaker 3: of one of our sponsor Dude Wipes so Fox Sports
Speaker 3: World Cup analyst and he was the goaltender for a
Speaker 3: couple of US World Cup teams and joins us on
Speaker 3: the program. All right, tell me what I need to
Speaker 3: know about Team USA.
Speaker 13: They're exciting, man, It's going to be hopefully a good summer.
Speaker 13: They need to get off to a good start against Paraguay.
Speaker 13: If they can pick up three points in the first
Speaker 13: game to be able to finish top of the group,
Speaker 13: allows them. Listen, at any point, They're going to have
Speaker 13: to play a big powerhouse, if you will, But that's
Speaker 13: going to allow them the path I think of least resistance.
Speaker 13: And so Christian Blistic is playing with confidence. Chris Richards
Speaker 13: is back healthy. The goalkeeping situation is a hot topic.
Speaker 13: I think Friese will end up playing goal based off
Speaker 13: the last friendly against Germany in Chicago.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, can is there any comparison between hockey goalie
Speaker 3: soccer goalie as far as they stand on their head
Speaker 3: and make all these saves.
Speaker 2: We hear that in hockey all the time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, we're gonna need We're gonna need whoever's
Speaker 13: in goal. We're going to need our goalkeeper to make
Speaker 13: saves in these tournaments. To do something special, you're you're
Speaker 13: going to need to have your goalkeeper make one or
Speaker 13: two big saves in a game, or you may need
Speaker 13: them to stand on their head and make ten, twelve
Speaker 13: fifteen saves as Tim Ahart did in twenty fourteen in Brazil,
Speaker 13: so you know, and even then we fell short against Belgium,
Speaker 13: so you're you're going to need your goalkeeper to come
Speaker 13: up big.
Speaker 3: We keep waiting for that next surge in soccer that
Speaker 3: you know, we thought, okay twenty ten and twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: or when we host to the World Cup, And why
Speaker 3: is it we're still waiting for this, Brad.
Speaker 13: Why it's slowly growing. It's slowly growing. You know, when
Speaker 13: you go back to the ninety four Worlke Cup. The league,
Speaker 13: Major League Soccer was then built in ninety six off
Speaker 13: of the back of ninety four, and then when you
Speaker 13: look forward to where we are now in terms of
Speaker 13: the expansion of the league, the growth of the league,
Speaker 13: the notoriety of players that are coming to Major League
Speaker 13: Soccer to you know, sharpen their craft as a professional
Speaker 13: soccer player.
Speaker 11: That's exciting for the growth of the sport here in.
Speaker 13: The United States, and I think it's only going to
Speaker 13: continue to grow. You know, these leagues, whether you're talking
Speaker 13: about American you know, baseball, whether American football, talking about
Speaker 13: football over in England or in Europe, they weren't built
Speaker 13: in thirty years, you know, fifty seventy five, one hundred
Speaker 13: years to develop this passion, in this ability to pass
Speaker 13: down the love of a team from generation to generate.
Speaker 13: And so we're working our way there, and I think
Speaker 13: this summer is certainly going to help that.
Speaker 2: Explain to the audience why Messi is.
Speaker 3: Like that, he's he is whoever, whatever comparison you want
Speaker 3: to make to any other athlete you know in the
Speaker 3: United States, Like what is it about him for a
Speaker 3: guy who's not big, not necessarily fast.
Speaker 13: No, but it's it's not it's not about that, right,
Speaker 13: And I think when you look at the American athlete,
Speaker 13: we talk about those attributes that you just mentioned, big, strong, fast, powerful,
Speaker 13: But when you talk about Messi as a footballer, his
Speaker 13: creative awareness, his spatial awareness, his ability on the ball
Speaker 13: is so good to be able to bring other players
Speaker 13: into the game, right, He's able to do things, see
Speaker 13: passes that other players aren't able to see and all
Speaker 13: of a sudden, with one pass of the ball it
Speaker 13: unlocks the defense. Or maybe he pops up in a
Speaker 13: situation in and around the box and how he's he's
Speaker 13: being able to find the back of the net with
Speaker 13: a with an unbelievable shot, or or just the understanding
Speaker 13: of what the goalkeeper is doing and knowing he just
Speaker 13: gotta casually passed the ball into the bottom corner the
Speaker 13: opposite of way the goalkeepers, you know, anticipating him to go.
Speaker 3: Best player you ever faced, best goal scorer you ever faced.
Speaker 11: Well, I think we just spoke about him. I think he.
Speaker 13: Uh, he scored on me a few times. But at
Speaker 13: the same time, I must say we we did get
Speaker 13: the better of inter Miami when I was playing with
Speaker 13: Atlanta United in the playoffs series. I think we're not
Speaker 13: only upset inter Miami and in the third team, you know,
Speaker 13: we had just snuck into the playoffs, but I think
Speaker 13: we certainly upset the league office and and everybody that
Speaker 13: was potentially, uh, you know, putting putting money on the game,
Speaker 13: thinking inter Miami was going to walk all over us.
Speaker 11: But we did get the better fro him that series.
Speaker 3: Brad Gazan, he is working for Fox there World Cup
Speaker 3: studio analyst, soccer commentator, and he was a part of
Speaker 3: two US World Cup teams twenty ten twenty fourteen, joining
Speaker 3: us on behalf of Dude Wipes. You spent your whole
Speaker 3: career to get to this moment promoting dude wipes. Brad, congratulations,
Speaker 3: MESSI does it. Although you could bring in the word
Speaker 3: MESSI and with dude wipes, I think we could have
Speaker 3: a collaboration here.
Speaker 11: I like where your head's at. I like, clean up
Speaker 11: your messy, clean up your mess exactly.
Speaker 5: It's six.
Speaker 11: Nobody's using dry toilet paper anymore.
Speaker 2: Come on now, but you're handing out brown cards dude wipes.
Speaker 13: We are yeah, I mean listen to the initiative or
Speaker 13: around the World Cup in the excitement as I just mentioned,
Speaker 13: nobody's using dry toilet paper anymore. Going out to these
Speaker 13: these watch parties, these fan fest and seeing you.
Speaker 11: Know, people come in and out of porter bodies.
Speaker 13: Come on now, if you're not carrying a dudeoy body,
Speaker 13: you're getting a brown.
Speaker 3: Card dudewipes dot com slash brown Card and you can
Speaker 3: get a Brown card plus a three ten pack Dude Wipes,
Speaker 3: and you can give that out to anybody that you
Speaker 3: think needs that help. All right, give us the best
Speaker 3: case scenario, Team USA, Like, what is reality here?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean listen, first and foremost, we need to
Speaker 13: get out of the group, and then obviously the tournament
Speaker 13: this summer has expanded, and so we need to be
Speaker 13: able to win some knockout round games. And I think
Speaker 13: if we can get to the round of sixteen, we're
Speaker 13: gonna have to play a powerhouse, a soccer powerhouse from
Speaker 13: around the world somewhere, and in that moment, anything could happen.
Speaker 13: And I've said, if we can create one of these
Speaker 13: iconic moments such as the goal against Algeria in twenty ten,
Speaker 13: or one of these moments where an entire country is
Speaker 13: going to get behind the team, I think anything's possible.
Speaker 13: And so I think if we can get to the
Speaker 13: round of sixteen and have this excitement in the buzz
Speaker 13: within the United States get behind the boys, I think
Speaker 13: they can make their way to a quarter final, and
Speaker 13: you know, the sky's the limit at that point.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, Brad, have fun, appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Brad Gazan, the Fox Sports World Cup studio analyst. He'll
Speaker 3: be uh working the World Cup there. He was part
Speaker 3: of two US teams in the World Cup. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: feels like the round of sixteen that seems to be
Speaker 3: the if we get there, we've had a successful World Cup.
Speaker 3: It's weird to have that with any of you know,
Speaker 3: when you think of the United States, it's really rare
Speaker 3: when you go, well, you know, if we get to
Speaker 3: the round us you know, sixteen, we've done well, like
Speaker 3: we're so used to if we're not playing for a championship.
Speaker 3: But as people point out, you know how much soccer
Speaker 3: have we been playing when other countries have been playing
Speaker 3: for centuries here? Okay, we still have a lot of
Speaker 3: people to draw from here in the United States, far
Speaker 3: more than you know, Croatia, the Ivory Coasting, and.
Speaker 2: We're the host country.
Speaker 3: But I'm waiting for and I don't know if this
Speaker 3: is fair, but maybe when you want to get somebody's
Speaker 3: attention the casual sports fan, like Tiger got the casual
Speaker 3: sports fan, Gretzky got the casual sports fan. These are
Speaker 3: sports that normally we wouldn't go, oh, I've got to
Speaker 3: watch that, but then you did. Can you get I mean,
Speaker 3: Christian Polisic is a wonderful player, but he's kind of
Speaker 3: like Mike Trout. You know, he's low key, not a personality.
Speaker 3: I mean, go back to Landon Donovan. You know, he
Speaker 3: was a personality when we had him on. You know,
Speaker 3: Tim Howard's a really good goaltender. But like what am
Speaker 3: I seeing when you watch some of these players, When
Speaker 3: you watch MESSI you're seeing somebody a Ronaldo and Mope,
Speaker 3: you're seeing somebody. You go, I haven't seen that before,
Speaker 3: and these other countries seem to have that one player.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Pauline, you'll remember this guy. We had him on
Speaker 8: a generation ago. There's a guy named Freddy Adou. He
Speaker 8: was fourteen. He was a thing and if he had
Speaker 8: panned out became our great one. He was already on
Speaker 8: the way with that. He was dubbed at age fourteen.
Speaker 3: He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and we thought, okay,
Speaker 3: you know this, this this guy could be the future.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: He did play, I mean, had a decent career, but
Speaker 3: the total number of Americans who watched non USA soccer
Speaker 3: matches increased from thirty one million in twenty eighteen to
Speaker 3: fifty million in twenty twenty four. So that's his sixty
Speaker 3: percent growth in six years, and the MLS has done
Speaker 3: quite well. They went from thirty thousand viewers in twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen to a thirty thirty million, I should say, to
Speaker 3: forty eight million, and an increase of fifty seven percent
Speaker 3: over six years. MLS has done a great job. You know,
Speaker 3: it started as a ten team league back in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety six. Now it's thirty and the attendance record over
Speaker 3: eleven million fans attending regular season matches, so it it's
Speaker 3: gradually increasing. But it still comes down to do we
Speaker 3: have can we produce that player that you go, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I got to watch that player, and I
Speaker 3: think that will be I think that'll be the litmus test.
Speaker 3: Can you produce that athlete where we have somebody who's generational,
Speaker 3: we have somebody that matches you know, these players around
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 6: I think part of the problem too is when, when,
Speaker 6: or and if we do have that guy, he's going
Speaker 6: to go play in the premier league like polistic Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, so it's like your cream of the crops
Speaker 6: stars probably aren't going to wind up at least in
Speaker 6: their prime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he would play for Team USA, Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's what I'm talking I'm talking about World Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about on the biggest stage. Can we have
Speaker 3: somebody who can go toe to toe literally with some
Speaker 3: of the best players in the world.
Speaker 6: But then it's then you have this it's only every
Speaker 6: four years, so it's like, you know, in between it.
Speaker 2: But that's all I'm asking for.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking the best player in the United States
Speaker 3: to stay in the United States and do MLS. I mean,
Speaker 3: can you be a household name every four years or
Speaker 3: you know, we follow you in the Premier League, but
Speaker 3: we get you back for the World Cup. That's what
Speaker 3: we've lacked. We have players, you know, Kobe Jones was
Speaker 3: going to be this, you know, unbelievable player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8: And the other thing is and Seaton talked about this
Speaker 8: in the past. Sometimes you'll have a couple of European
Speaker 8: born parents who are living here now and they have
Speaker 8: a child, and they say, well, will they play for
Speaker 8: USA or will they play for you know, Croatia. Like
Speaker 8: you said, it's a decision, it's not automatic.
Speaker 2: All right, Well take a break. It's a Meet Friday.
Speaker 3: If you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network, we're
Speaker 3: going out to the grilling area. We'll come back last
Speaker 3: call for phone calls, what we learn on's in store
Speaker 3: for Monday, and who had the best week in sports
Speaker 3: right after this.
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Speaker 14: I'm holding the plate and the egg roll and the
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Speaker 5: To not take a bite is just not possible.
Speaker 3: No, I know that very sad. Who had the best
Speaker 3: week in sports?
Speaker 2: Tod How about you?
Speaker 7: I'm Bussy with the boys from Raleigh Caroline.
Speaker 14: Hurricanes's goaltender Brandon Bussy made NHL history late last night
Speaker 14: by becoming the first goaltender ever to win his first
Speaker 14: two career playoff starts in the Stanley Cup final.
Speaker 3: How about that much you are mister hockey, You're Gordie
Speaker 3: Holm U Dylan.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard not to give it to the Knicks,
Speaker 4: but I actually also had Brandon Bussey. Uh the Cane's
Speaker 4: going to and oh since him taking over the starting
Speaker 4: role and now they're one went away from his Stanley Cup.
Speaker 15: Marvin Jose Alvarado from the Knicks O. He's living every
Speaker 15: single New York kids dream. Grew up loving the Knicks,
Speaker 15: grew up in Queen's played big minutes hit two three
Speaker 15: pointers for them in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 8: Paul I took og off the board and I went
Speaker 8: James Dole and the owner of the Knicks. This guy
Speaker 8: had a rough twenty years and is on the cusp
Speaker 8: of delivering and Leonna what Leon Rose the Rose, Yeah,
Speaker 8: delivering a title this town and he'll be Amerton.
Speaker 2: Brian Myrtle beach hy Brian, what do you have for me?
Speaker 16: Thank you very First of all, thank you very much, Dan,
Speaker 16: Danette sive in a buttery sculpted statue like two hundreds.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 16: I've been listening for a long time, since I was
Speaker 16: a young dom and ugly now girl, dad of two,
Speaker 16: my beautiful wife. They'd make my life easier every day.
Speaker 16: And you know what else would make my life easier
Speaker 16: if the Knicks just win Game six. I remember back
Speaker 16: in ninety four, it was ten years old watching the
Speaker 16: Rangers just one of the win Game six in Vancouver.
Speaker 16: An unforgettable memory of the game seven win. But let's
Speaker 16: just get a win for Game six.
Speaker 2: All right? Thank you? Brian LV in Vegas. I LV, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 2: I've been listening for a long time. I wanted to
Speaker 2: do do.
Speaker 1: My best.
Speaker 11: Dan Patrick impersonation.
Speaker 2: I know your Dan.
Speaker 11: That's do very good at impersonations. I wanted to give
Speaker 11: you my Okay, that's Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2: Thank you Todd, Thank you LV. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2: Thanks Todd. It's not a thank you Todd, it's thanks Todd.
Speaker 5: Pretty much. You're welcome.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Tod. Ryan in Nashville, Hi, Ryan, DP, what up?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 10: Just a reminder, I want to check in about twenty
Speaker 10: three months to the day, you and I we made
Speaker 10: a bet. If the United States men's national team win.
Speaker 2: The World Cup. Yep, you have to stay on air
Speaker 2: for another year.
Speaker 10: So just putting it back out there email. You have
Speaker 10: to down at thirty Rock, just to tell them, Hey,
Speaker 10: I might be on the air for another year.
Speaker 2: Man, All right, team USA win's the World Cup.
Speaker 3: I'm I stay on for another year, but now I
Speaker 3: have to root against Team USA. Yes, Paul, if you're
Speaker 3: the coach motivational yeah, yeah, you're going in there to
Speaker 3: Christian Polisic, Hey, listen, you know how important this is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's World Cup. Dan Patrick will do another year on
Speaker 3: his show if we win the World Cup. Let's go
Speaker 3: like this will be the Herb Brooks moment, their motivational speeches,
Speaker 3: and in Arizona, I am.
Speaker 2: Dan morning.
Speaker 17: I was just calling away in on swordsby proud Kansas
Speaker 17: State alumni. And Phil Snyder would never have allowed that,
Speaker 17: and neither would darren Sprolls. Excuse me, I apologize and
Speaker 17: I love you Dan, have a great day.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Ann. I know that we can it's business. Okay.
Speaker 3: I can't sit here and say I know who would
Speaker 3: allow this and who wouldn't. But Texas Tech is probably saying, look,
Speaker 3: we got a judge who said two games, he'll serve
Speaker 3: the two games suspension. I mean the morality police. I
Speaker 3: would love for them to be around, but they're long gone.
Speaker 5: Yes, Marvin Michael Bishop would have never done that either.
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, of course top.
Speaker 15: Five great like you remember that guy like him? Like
Speaker 15: Brad Banks from Iowa.
Speaker 2: Colin Klein, Oh nice, Paul?
Speaker 5: How about that Graham Harrow? Speaking of Texas Tech?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, who they have, Sonny? Did they
Speaker 2: have another?
Speaker 3: Who's the other quarterback at Texas Tech? They all threw
Speaker 3: for you know, twenty thousand yards? Felt like god, what's
Speaker 3: his name? Was there a Sonny.
Speaker 5: Remember Timmy Chang from what was that?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he threw he put up numbers.
Speaker 2: I love Timmy Chang and I love Chang.
Speaker 6: Uh, what's that?
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks? It's nuts?
Speaker 7: Ugh that Sunny Dodge.
Speaker 5: What was the name?
Speaker 7: Uh mahme?
Speaker 5: Which went there?
Speaker 7: Cliff Kingsbury went there?
Speaker 8: Simon's Cody Hodges.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 2: I don't know why it is, Sonny. I know you're going, yeah, well.
Speaker 5: We'll get a text at eleven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: No, Sonny comby forty seven yards in two thousand and
Speaker 8: four giving that to.
Speaker 2: You, Thank you, bloop bloop.
Speaker 3: You would have never final results of the poll question
Speaker 3: Dylan best coach.
Speaker 5: In the building.
Speaker 4: They're in Game four of the NBA Finals. Mike Brown,
Speaker 4: Mitch Johnson, Jay Wright, John Calipari seventy percent say Jay.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I'm fine with that. This dang sports history. Paul.
Speaker 8: I was going to do Texas Tech quarterback history to pivot,
Speaker 8: but I'll go. The Baseball Hall of Fame was opened
Speaker 8: in Cooperstown, New York, on nineteen thirty nine, and uh,
Speaker 8: your Chicago Bulls DAN ninety one won their first title
Speaker 8: over the Lakers and No. One remembers at Magic Johnson Wizard.
Speaker 2: No, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 3: The Nuggets on this date, twenty twenty three beat the
Speaker 3: Heat and they win the NBA Championship. UH nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 3: Larry Holmes knocks out Leon Spinks in three rounds, retains
Speaker 3: the WBC.
Speaker 2: Heavyweight Boxing Championship.
Speaker 3: Anybody have the Spurs this weekend? Spurs?
Speaker 2: Okay? Front row has Spurs winning Game five? Right? Game five?
Speaker 6: Spurs win, Nicks cover game five.
Speaker 3: Okay, this feels like a one oh nine one oh
Speaker 3: four final, Spurs right on the nose.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh is that all five and a half? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Ok, that's what they do.
Speaker 2: Todd, what did you learn today?
Speaker 14: Although he didn't pay a cent for his, John Cowpy
Speaker 14: reminds us ND Finals tickets at MSG are very expensive, Dylan,
Speaker 14: would you learn today?
Speaker 6: Ernie Johnson travels with a printer?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I know, Marvin, Ernie's wou tang Paul Sonny comby, Todd?
Speaker 2: What did I learn?
Speaker 5: Also?
Speaker 14: Ernie doesn't enjoy packing for flights. It's more about the
Speaker 14: destination than the journey.
Speaker 2: A lot of fun.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you being along for the ride. Another great
Speaker 3: meat Friday. Have a great weekend everybody, for Todd, Dylan, Marv, Paula,
Speaker 3: yours truly and of course the back room guys.
Speaker 2: Talk to you Monday,