Ryan Whitney & Murls For Our Hockey Playoff Preview, NBA Playoffs Have Begun + We Need To Have A Talk

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have our good friend Ryan Whitney on to talk hockey playoffs. They're starting tonight.
We also have, from Spittin' Chicklets as well, Merles. Everyone should know him.
Great gambler. We're talking everything, all the angles, who's going to win, and we let him go off on basketball a little bit as well.
Speaking of basketball, NBA playoffs started, so we're going to talk about every game we saw this weekend. Great Monday show, great time of year.
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Today is Monday, April 17th, tax day. Get him done.
Get him done. Oh, tax day.
Get him done. File that extension.
Yeah. No.
NBA. Oh, you did him.
Yep. You did him.
NBA playoffs have begun. Uh-oh, Hank's saying no.
No, yes, I did. Yes You did them.
NBA playoffs have begun.

Uh-oh, Hank's saying.

No, yes, I did.

NBA playoffs have begun.

It's a great time of year.

We're going to get to Whitney talking hockey playoffs.

But we had playoff basketball this weekend, boys,

and we got everyone injured.

Yeah, well, John Morant has a pretty much broken hand.

That's the diagnosis of it.

He basically broke his hand.

He fell on it.

It looked bad. The official report was that he can't unball a pair of socks with his right hand so that's normally a test yeah it i don't was that a shooting hand or was it the hand that he uses to play basketball i was gonna say what was worse the the pretty much broken hand or the fact that the entire internet was like not as not as gun hand yeah uh all at the same exact time but yeah he got hurt Giannis got hurt back blew out his back uh that looks like I feel like Giannis is gonna play he's a gamer and then Tyler Hero broke his hand yep that was an officially broken hand and Anthony Davis had a stinger well Anthony Davis is the king of being out for the rest of his life oh no wait he's coming back out of the tunnel it looked bad because when he went to the locker room right before halftime he was like he was looking at his hand he was like i can't feel my entire arm yeah he had a stinger he came back in uh but the real story out of that game was austin reeves yeah austin reeves aka him he is him well hillbilly kobe we should let's go in order let's go in order of the chronological order so that we don't get mixed up.
So we should start with Saturday. We'll get to Austin Reeves, who was fantastic.
Max's Sixers started off our playoff journey. There's a question in the room of whether Max even watched the game.
No, he watched the game. He watched the game.
But you watched the entire game, right? I saw a lot more tweets about Max shopping than I... I don't even think you said one thing about the game, besides talking about the Celtics.
You watched the whole game. That's false.
I watched most of the game for sure. Okay.
So what was your big takeaway from the game? For most of the game. James Harden is fucking back.
James Harden is not injured yet. The Sixers broke a franchise record for most threes in a playoff game.
I told Max, I whispered to him before we came in here, because listen, I've been through it with the city of Philadelphia, the Eagles. We're not going back down that road.
What happened? Shut up, Hank. But without a team in the NBA playoffs, the Bulls lost on Friday night.
They almost got in. I put out a shirt for it.
I need to find something to root for. Our friend Blake.
Well, I'm rooting for one person now. No team.
One person. And his name is B-Ball Paul.
Because that was electric. I don't know if everyone in this room saw it, but Paul Reed, the backup center for Embiid.
His Twitter handle is bballpaul, which is a great Twitter handle. He went off.
He scored 11 points in 13 minutes, and the entire crowd, Philly crowd, was chanting bballpaul when he went to the free throw line, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful moment. Good sports town.
Now, I would also ask, did they put anything on the Jumbotron to make them chant b-ball paul because when imbeed was at the free throw line they had to start flashing the mbp that wasn't an organic chant that was that was sent down from above well that's a mark of good ownership actually yeah is by having something like that flash on there b-ball paul also had a quote after the game when he was asked about b-ball paul so this is uh from b-ball paul paul reed he said five for six a couple dunks a couple rebounds a couple steals that's what paul reed do that's what he said that himself that's what b-ball paul i love this guy so fucking much the fact that his twitter handle is b-ball you know he made it when he was like 14 years old and was like yeah i'm b-ball paul like basketball this is paul he likes to play basketball b-ball paul i i'm i'm loving what i'm seeing from james harden too i don't know how long it's going to last nobody does it's really like a crapshoot it's he's a bomb that's waiting to explode yep but from what we've seen so far james harden i think we can say is back yeah he's back to having expectations where he should be james harden in the playoff we should also just remind people that we've seen so far, James Harden, I think we can say is back. Yeah.
He's back to having expectations where he should be James Harden in the playoffs. We should also just remind people that we've seen one playoff game and we're going to overreact to all of it.
Yeah. Now, I also watched most of the game like Max, so I'm basically an expert.
But from what I saw from James Harden, he doesn't look fat and the shots are going in. Yeah.
He looks like he's trying right now. And if James Harden is actually trying and he's still, you know, he's probably what? 80% of what James Harden was four years ago.
80% of James Harden right now is, I think he's good enough to be the best one, two combination between him and Embiid in the East. Oh, B-Ball Paul.
In the East. And the big three.
Forgot about B-Ball Paul. The big three.
It actually, you know, what's funny too and like i'm half joking but mb does

need someone to give him at least a little bit of break because mb has had playoffs in the past where his body is broken down gotten injuries b-ball paul might be the the the missing link and and pj tucker was awesome too i feel like he was all over the place yeah um well you don't know This is disgusting.

I watched 85% of the game on on saturday sound wait hold on a second hold on a second and i don't want to skip ahead hank what were you doing on saturday that's a great question so was i you were playing golf I had to golf and then I had to be at the NYPD What was your tee time?

My tee time, 1130. Uh-huh.
Really? Yeah. That's a fucking lie.
You had to. It was at 1130.
What do you mean had to golf? I had to golf, and then I had to go to the NYPD game. What do you mean had to? Frankie.
Frankie is someone we work with for play.

That's part of my corporate duties.

I have to make sure all the people we work with are happy with their roles and coming up with new ideas and stuff.

And the golf course is a great place to do that.

Yeah, you were closing deals out there on the golf course.

Pretty much.

What new ideas did you guys come up with?

We have a great idea coming up that we're going to shoot this summer.

You'll be involved.

Oh, what is it?

It's called the Ryder Cup.

Oh, you already had that idea, though. Nice.
I'm calling Frankie right now. I think it's a great name.
Thanks, Jake. Very cool.
It's a very cool name. Frankie's not picking up.
To answer your question that you haven't asked, I didn't see the beginning of the game. Checked my phone.
They were up 30. I didn't watch a second of the game.
i should have known you were projecting on max no no hank is this just because you're laser focused on the 76ers i'm not laser focused i was focused on the hawks but then again like i looked at my phone after golf they were up 30 i was like all right game's over series done yeah wrapped it up uh all right last thing on sixers nets um dinwiddie uh we have to watch this because he has been talking a big game, and this was his first game since Kyle Kuzma called him Din Shitty, which is a great name. Absolutely fantastic nickname.
Din Shitty, and he wasn't good. He was just throwing lobs to no one.
Din Shitty is like his career might be over. Yeah.
I don't want to overstate it, but when you get called Din Shitty, it might be a wrap. No, it's almost as bad as West Brick.
You're right. Because West Brick, you can yell all the time in mixed company.
Din Shitty might actually cut to the core worse than West Brick does. like a seven-year-old thing to say that you know like the the the adult uh mature side of your brain is like who cares that's a stupid insult like it's coming something different but then everyone can revert to like seven years old like didn't shitty he like he ended you dude it's it's like it's over it's a very funny thing yeah didn't shitty yeahitty.
He said he's on Din Shitty Island.

But yeah, he was bad.

And it was, I looked back because I was like, when did Kuzma say that?

It was April 12th. So they didn't have a game that was right at the end of the regular season.

So how will Din Shitty respond to being called Din Shitty?

And not at all.

Yeah, not well right now.

Not well is the answer. Okay.
Celtics-Hawks. Hank, what did you think? I thought it was a great game.
Al Horford played 38 minutes at 6 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists. Jalen Brown played 37 minutes, had 29 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists.
That's a great game. How are his handles? Tatum.
Any turnovers? He was 2 for 6 from 3, so he could probably improve a little bit there. But overall, above 50% shooting.
That's what you want. I want to give a shout-out to the broadcast team for doing probably 7 minutes nonstop on his hand injury.
Yeah. And for talking about the different types of bandages that he's used to try to cover up the 5 stitches from picking up the vase.
Yeah, the it worked whatever they're doing there was one option where he had like three fingers taped together they've tried everything so he's got the most medically look after hand in america right now i'd say it's working yeah i also have something for you hank a little uh if we wanted to do like a signs jersey jerry signs situation i read an article uh did you know that joe missoula likes to get choked out in bed no no in like jujitsu jujitsu he's got a jujitsu instructor who has he's so the story goes he when he got the job uh whatever it was september whatever it was he immediately found a jujitsu gym in Boston,

called the guy, got the instructor,

has been learning jujitsu,

it's been helping with his breathing,

getting out of, you know,

the lead of the article is,

once you get in a chokehold,

your mind goes cuckoo.

And so, like, trying to figure out,

you know, tough situations, everything.

But the weird part of the story,

so his jujitsu instructor, oh, here's Frankieie borelli let's just see hey frankie yo uh hank hank copped to it but you guys golf yesterday what time is your tea time um like 11 okay all right but he didn't watch any of the celtics game what he didn't watch any of the celtics game we played really fast oh okay All right. You're trying to cover for him.
All right. But he didn't watch any of the Celtics game.
What? He didn't watch any of the Celtics game. We played really fast.
Oh, okay. All right.
You're trying to cover for him. All right.
Thank you, Frankie. He already copped to it.
He said he didn't see any of it. No, we played really fast.
Okay. All right.
Thank you, Frankie. All right.
Bye. So his – I can't get that word out.
Jiu-jitsu instructor started giving him lessons all the way through February.

Joe Mazzula didn't know his Jiu-Jitsu instructor was flying in,

commuting from Denver to give him the lessons.

He has a gym in Denver as well.

He just didn't tell him.

He'd be like, Joe Mazzula would be like, hey, can I come in tomorrow morning?

He'd be like, no problem.

He'd hop on a red-eye flight and get to Boston.

So I think Celtics Nuggets have to be the signs, right?

Could be.

For his jiu-jitsu instructor.

I just love the idea of a coach trying to simulate high-pressure situations

in any way possible to the point where he just –

he hires a guy to physically choke him.

Yeah, choked out.

So that he can – he should have just signed Latrell Sprewell.

Yeah.

That would have been a better use of time. Yeah, be an assistant coach.
But, yeah, so you're feeling good, Hank. This is a no-issue series.
Yeah, if this goes six, we're in trouble. Okay.
Trey Young, by the way, his last seven playoff games – So this defense is really, really good. Well, and Trey Young lost seven playoff games, eight for 49 from three.
I don't think that's good. That's like, that's less than 20%.

Yeah, but you remember that one sick game that he had in the garden?

Yeah, he needs to just play the Knicks.

Yeah, play the Knicks every single time.

Yeah, but that feels bad.

It's going to be a walk in the park for Hank Seller.

He doesn't need to watch the games, honestly.

If I were you, Hank, I wouldn't watch any of them

because if you start watching, they might start losing.

Yeah, don't use any of your energy on this series.

No, listen, this is a big two weeks for me. Every night, playoffs.
Playoff Bs, playoffs Cs. Oh, you guys are going to be out in two weeks? No, but every night, like the way the schedule works in these first two rounds.
Oh, okay. There's games every night.
Yeah, if it all goes well for you, it should be like the next two months. I guess.
Yeah. That's a lot a lot of sports do you have time for that yeah i've cleared my schedule i'm i told you guys i'm grinding so we're what we're uh now what a quarter of the way to armageddon in the part of my take studio six or celtics i don't think it's going to be that bad.
And Max knows that it's going to be where

Celtics are going to smoke them. Max is going to

get excited for a quarter when they

go up or something. Sixers will do

something really stupid as an organization.

I'm not...

My sights are

much farther than the Philadelphia 76ers.

For Max, it's like that's his Super

Bowl, which again, we know how that goes.

I'm focused on a championship. It's chip or you? Yeah.
What about B-Ball Paul? That scare you at all? I literally didn't hear that name until you started talking about him today. It should scare you.
B-Ball Paul fucking rocks. And Bede can't even play well against the playoffs.
Well, yeah, but it doesn't matter. B-Ball Paul will play well.
You should see this one highlight where he didn't know. He had the ball in the middle of the paint.
He didn't really know what to do. He just went through his legs reverse and then dunked, and it was sick.
That's B-Ball Paul. Dude, B-Ball Paul thing.
Yeah, that's what Paul Reed do. Quoting Paul Reed.
Okay, next up we have the Knicks Cavs. The Knicks, by the way, this is the first time.
It's kind of a stupid stat, but the first time the Knicks and the Kings both won a playoff game on the same day since 2001. Let's go.
So the Knicks, big playoff win. I think it was the first time they won a road game one in like 20 years plus.
And yeah, the Knicks, they looked good. I'm just pumped for the garden i i can't wait for the knicks to play meaningful basketball in the garden it's very cliche to say but it is it's more fun as as a league when the knicks are playing well because they've been such a joke for so long that they've like it's just been a non-factor but having new yorkers do the thing where they freak out only to get their dreams crushed is very funny.
And it will never not make me laugh to see the Knicks wearing the Michael Jordan logo on their uniforms. Like, it's the most cucked thing in all of professional sports.
It really is. Max, are the Knicks your second team? Because they are the Villanova Knicks.
Josh Hart was awesome. Jalen Brunson is awesome.
They're the Villanova Knicks. No, I hate Knicks fans.
Okay. But I do love Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.
Jalen Brunson, most underrated basketball player in the history of the game. Whoa.
That's a big statement. History of the game.
This game also, again, we're overreacting to stuff. It did kind of, I don't want to say, yeah, it tickled me a little bit that Donovan Mitchell went off and he's back in the exact same spot of scoring a ton of points in a loss and everyone being like, why is this big man not more aggressive? Because Mobley was soft as shit.
Like that box out at the end of the game when he just let Julius Randle run right by him with 10 seconds left after they played good defense. They were going to be down two.
Yeah. And they were going to have the ball for a game-tying or game-winning shot.
Yes. And then they just didn't rebound at all.
Mobley just sat there while Julius Randle bullied right through him. But it is funny watching.
I know the Cavs. I think most Cavs fans are like, oh, this is a year or two away because they have a lot of talent, but they also don't have like Darius Garland's second-best shooter, and I think he took like no shots in the fourth quarter.
But Donovan Mitchell, history repeating itself, he has played 40 playoff games. He's scored 30-plus in 20 of those 40, and he's exactly 10-10 in those games.
That's awesome. So it's like he will go off, he will take a ton of shots,

and then his big man won't help him.

So when I was watching this game,

and you might call me casual for picking up on this

for the very first time,

but have you ever heard of Sonny, the soft drink?

Sonny, like...

Like Sonny Delight?

Yes, Sonny Delight.

Which we know that was...

I learned the other day that Yoo-Hoo's not. It's chocolate water.
Yeah, it's chocolate drink. It's chocolate water.
Yeah, isn't that? Looks like Hank and Billy didn't know that. No, no, I knew that.
I was never a Yoohoo fan, so that doesn't surprise me. That's why it, Starry.
Starry goes bad. It's called Starry.
Yeah, I was going to say Sunny Delight. I knew it wasn't Sunny.
Starry, the lemon-lime sports drink. It's the official soft drink of the NBA.
I've never heard of it until this week. Starry.
And you can't find it anywhere. But it's all over all these NBA commercials and all over every NBA game.
I'm not sure that Starry exists. Oh, so it's a Sierra Mist rebrand.
Is it Sierra Mist legitimately? Yeah, they say goodbye to Sierra Mist. PepsiCo is replacing the lemon-lime soda with Starry.
Now, is it the same formula? Because I was a Sierra Mist stan. Interesting.
Starry. Yeah.
That's a weird name for it. Sierra Mist was a great name.
Sierra Mist was a great drink, too. Yeah, it's the mist off of a fucking mountain.
But yeah, it's everywhere. It's

everywhere in the NBA right now, and you

can't find it in a store. I don't

think it... They made a fake soft

drink. Alright, I'm just going off this.

Is Starry better than Sierra Mist? We found

Starry to be decidedly different from its

predecessor. For one thing, it's noticeably less

sweet. Oh, gross.
Which is good.

They're saying which is good.

I'm not. So it's a seltzer water.
Yeah. Sierra Mist was made with real sugar while Starry uses high fructose corn syrup because it was less cloying.
What does that word? C-L-O-Y-I-N-G. Starry's citrus flavor read cleaner and crisper than in the older formula.
It's less sweet, but it's got high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.

Now, this is one of those things,

and I don't want to get political here,

but the President of the United States

should have to do a press conference

about something like this.

This feels like a big enough change

that they should have to say,

hey, guys, you know Sierra Miss?

Yeah, of course we know Sierra Miss.

It's gone.

Starry's here.

I don't think Sierra Miss is popular.

Yeah, but it was good.

It really was. Hey, you literally drank Gatorade zero and mezcal mixed together that factor fiction fact that's delicious uh but hank what i'm saying is sierra miss is that's an alcoholic drink we're talking about soft drinks you're going hard it's still though a brand that everyone knows like all right so maybe not presidential press cover amber alert me do it on the phone where it's like it did a five-year-old girl get kidnapped or is there a tornado in manhattan this does i want that kind of like whoa holy shit and they're like no it's sierra missus this does feel like a biden special much like jill biden invited iowa to the white house to try to get those votes in the primary this is a big handout to big Big Corn.
Yeah. To the corn syrup market.
Yeah, true. Good point.
Go deeper. Billy, get in on this.
I've been in on Big Corn for a long time. Yeah, but get deeper on Starry.
Find that. Yeah.
Are they the ones blowing up the milk factories? Who's behind this? Oh, yeah. All the cows exploded? That was Yoo-Hoo.
They probably did that. Right? Anyways, looking to start.
Okay. That was Cavs next.
I'm excited for that series. By the way, we're watching Clippers' Suns as we tape, so we will recap.
We were actually joking that we were going to start in the first half when the Suns were down like 10. We would have gotten off so many Chris Paul jokes.
And this is – it is always fun to just overreact to all this and have it be just completely wrong. But it looks like it's a good game.
The Suns are still struggling. This is where Westbrook, having him on your team is a disaster.
You just don't want him to have the ball. He's standing there.
He's demanding it. It's like give it to Kawhi.
Westbrook, if he gets the ball, he's just going to shoot it. His teammates are doing it.
And if you've ever been the shittiest player on a court in pickup, you know exactly the situation where you're wide open and somebody looks at you and then immediately looks away from you. He's clapping.
He's just like, give it to me. Give me the ball.
Look at him. He's standing there.
He's like, I'm on this. They're not giving it to him.
He just said, I'm on this team too. Give Westbrook the ball.
Look at him. He's pissed.
Yeah. He's been playing well for the Clippers, but this exact situation is when there's just no way it goes well.
You either got to get him out of the game or you have to just, you have to let him take every shot. Yeah.
You have Kawhi. Kawhi should be point guard for the rest of the game.
Do you see his stat line right now? Yeah. 3 of 18 from the field? Yeah.
That is insane. He's got to shoot his way out of it.
It's West shitty. Okay.
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no no not wheat thins uh what are they called stonehenge no stone wheat crackers is that what they're called they oh yeah stone wheat thins yeah yeah you know you know the blue box not wheat thins yeah they just completely ended that what i had to buy some on ebay yeah then you got to hoard them yeah and then you got to get mad at guests that come by accidentally drink your sierra mist wait these crackers are gone forever yeah that's tough yeah see these ones you probably recognize them oh what the fuck yeah gone forever if they ever discontinue hint of lime tostitos i'm gonna need at least like four at least four weeks notice for that so I can hoard it like people were hoarding PPE equipment at the start of COVID. Just have a garage filled with it.
Sierra Miss was always second fiddle to Sprite, though. That's true.
You have a small mind. You're not saying not even close to second fiddle? Yeah, not even comparable.
They didn't get discontinued. They just got ran out of the building.
Would you put seven up number two? Seven up is better than Sierra Miss. Disagree.
You know what? You're exposing yourself as not being a real Taco Bell head. I am a real.
Trust me. I am a real Taco Bell head, and I voice my concerns to the highest levels that I could.

Sierra Mist sucks.

You suck. Ooh, you feel that strong?

Mountain Dew, great.

So we've got to see if –

Sprite, great.

Well, yeah, Mountain Dew is – I mean, come on.

Now we're on a totally different –

Right, but Pepsi and Coke are close.

Pepsi and Coke are very close.

It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, same thing.

Sprite and Sierra Mist, by far the widest margin in terms of those two companies' sodas. You're eating out of the hand of Big LeBron.
The LeBron James endorsement got you to be like, yeah, I love Sprite. I want to be like LBJ.
You have said that. Okay.
Kings, Warriors, this game was awesome. This game was awesome.
The Kings fans, they hadn't won a playoff game since 2006, game four against the Spurs. It had been a long time, and they absolutely delivered because that was an electric, electric environment.
Light the beam. Yeah.
The ultra light beam in Sacktown. It was so fun.
The environment did did look awesome yeah they they showed up i shout out to king's fans that looked like the funnest place in the world to be but i think a very underrated sound that you hear in uh nba games is like a steph curry three that silences oh yeah the one he hit from the corner yeah yeah the crazy silence that happens right after where everyone just goes oh shit not again and that again. And that clip of Steph just running everywhere, it's got to be so annoying.
So they asked De'Aaron Fox afterwards, and he actually brought up, he was like, remember when J.R. Smith said, like, Dele almost died? Because Dele almost died.
Dele almost died. He had to get IVs and be in like a...
And you know what think Deli would have died. Yeah.
I think gladly he would go down in history knowing as he's the guy that died by defending Steph Curry. Yeah.
So deer and Fox is like, yeah, that's, that's how I feel like he, it's very hard to chase him around. He just never, ever, ever stops moving.
But yeah, this game was awesome. I actually think put, put a pin in this Jake,, for us, when we do Kentucky Sports Radio this summer, does this count as a tournament win for Cal? Absolutely.
Because De'Aaron Fox and Malik Monk, both in their playoff debut, go for over 30. De'Aaron Fox had the second most points in a playoff debut.
Luka was number one a few years ago. He had 38.
He was sensational. So I think this is a win for Cal.
I think Cal should be like update the record books. The Kings beat the Warriors game one with two of my guys.
It should also count as a win over Davidson in that sweet 16. Yes, but I am like, you know,

people who listen to the show a long time,

we are true sports fans in that we love just fan bases

that have been kept out forever.

And the Kings, they've gone through so much shit

trying to move the team,

always being the forgotten team out in West,

forgotten team in California.

So it felt like a special night.

I know they still have a lot of work to do,

but we're big believers in you, you have to enjoy the ride. So if you're a Kings fan at that game last night, you should be celebrating like you won a championship.
I know there's a lot more to go, but like enjoy the ride. What percentage of people in the crowd that day did not remember being alive the last time the Kings won a playoff game probably at least like 10 15 i'd say like 20 yeah fans there so yes celebrate anyone 20 or anyone like 22 or younger well also i'm going to count if you're like in your mid-20s or i guess it would be a little bit if you're in your 40s and you were so drunk that night that you forgot yeah then And that's still a cool experience for you to remember the first win.
We also had in this game, Jake, you might want to earmuff this, probably the worst question ever asked by a journalist post-game. So a journalist asked Steve Kerr, no matter what happens, first time Kings and Warriors played in the playoffs, is it kind of a win-win northern california because both teams fans can go to the opposing teams arena yeah and steve kerr was like we don't care about northern california we care about the warriors that's bullshit that's bullshit steve kerr just imagine asking a coach after losing the game being like but like this region kind of worth we want as a region yeah humboldt County's got some weed farmers right now that are just firing their AK-47s into the air, just happy for the part of the state.
Finally put one on the map for big NorCal. Crazy, crazy.
So, yeah, congrats to the Kings. Still work to be done.
I think Jordan Poole got hurt. Another one that he rolled his ankle.
And Wiggins had a chance. Wiggins was, I mean i mean it was first time he played in a long time that three in the corner to to basically win the game like that was like a whoa the warriors like aren't well completely unstoppable i i would say that this is a win for northern california for the district because you've got yeah the kings came out they showed out in their.
That's great. And then the Warriors proved that they can just add one of their great players

back in the rotation and be at least decently good and threatening in the playoffs.

That's exactly what happened last year with Steph Curry.

Yeah, I'm excited for the rest of this series.

I feel like every game is going to be awesome.

And, yeah, I can win this.

Fuck it, man.

As a fan of points, this is maybe my favorite series. If you like points, this is the place to be.
It's so much fun. Yeah.
First time to teammates making their debut scored over 30 since I'll give you the, I'll give you the team in the, in the year. If you want to guess a little Jeff, you know, trivia.
D. Lowe trivia.
1993 Hornets.

1993 Hornets.

You might get one of them.

You won't get both.

Larry Johnson.

Nope.

Muggsy Bogues.

Nope.

Alonzo Mourning.

Yes.

And Illinois legend.

Dee Brown.

Kendall Gill.

With her head.

Kendall Gill and Alonzo Mourning.

Hornets were unstoppable in NBA Jam.

Yeah.

A little trivia for everyone.

Just go around.

Give you a little trivia to walk around. I have another one for you later.
All right, Lakers, Grizzlies. Teaser.
Yeah. I mean, Austin Reeves is him.
He literally said it. He's him.
And Rui Hachimura. Rui Hachimura.
Yeah, I threw out the question, but can LeBron and AD support Rui Hachimura and Austin Reeves enough for the Lakers to go deep? It's funny that you would go that pejorative route against LeBron James, because LeBron said after the game was over, he knew from the first practice with Austin Reeves that this kid was going to be special. Oh, he sees the future.
Yeah, and I think he gave a shout-out to – he was either Palenka – I think it was Palenka being like, you know, he's done a great job of finding players that I can play with really well. Yeah.
So credit to LeBron James for crediting himself for playing with a great player such as Austin Reeves, who's also able to play with a great player such as LeBron James. Yeah, and I mean, it was, John Morant getting hurt is obviously the big story, because if he's hurt, the Grizzlies are cooked.
But our friend Kirk Goldsberry put it perfectly.

He's like, when you go on the road,

you don't expect your role players like LeBron and AD

to step up and score 43 points, and they did.

It's huge.

So it was big for the Lakers.

Yeah, I mean, Austin Reeves is just good.

Hillbilly Colby.

I like that name.

He's from Arkansas, right?

So he probably went fucking dummy

at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid after.

He was like John Morant at the strip club

Have a good one. He's not.
Hillbilly Colby. I like that name.
He's from Arkansas, right? He's from Arkansas, yeah. So he probably went fucking dummy at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid after.
He was like John Morant at the strip club except just in the stock bass pond. Just throwing fives in at the sturgeon.
He's awesome. He's awesome to watch.
He's legitimately very good. And, yeah.
He's filling that Alex Caruso role very nicely. Yeah, it was fun to watch.
It was fun. I'm not going to totally overact and be like, oh, yeah, maybe everyone was right.

The Lakers are.

Everyone being everyone on ESPN, the Lakers are a legit title threat.

But if Austin Reed is going to be this good, then yeah, I guess they made every shot.

And if Rui Hachimura is going to be this good, which he's not.

Rui Hachimura is not as good. He was 11 for 14.

He was awesome tonight.

He was flexing on people.

29 points.

He was really, really good tonight.

I don't think... if Rui Hachimura is going to be this good, which he's not.
Rui Hachimura is not as good. He was 11 for 14.
He was awesome tonight. He was flexing on people.

29 points.

He was really, really good tonight.

I don't think that he's going to be able to continue that

because I've watched enough Rui Hachimura basketball in my days

that I know what to – I expect a significant regression from Rui.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I mean, if LeBron James and Anthony Davis

and Austin Reeves are out of the court at the same time,

that's a pretty good big three right there. Yeah.
We also had a LeBron quote that I love for multiple reasons, but he was asked how he feels about the wide open West this season. He said, I think it's 16 teams in the postseason.
There's opportunity for all 16. There's only eight in the West, but I love it doubly because LeBron is basically saying, this is the hardest playoffs of all time.
So if I win it, it should count as like three times. Because it's wide open.
Because any team can win. Any team can win it.
Yep. Any team.
The Hawks? Yeah. Yeah, sure.
Okay. Okay.
They could win it all. Yeah.
Yeah. Actually, it is wide open.
Besides the Hawks. maybe the nets yeah nets i guess now with din shitty the heat with with uh yannis maybe out heat culture yeah it could be back it's back we brought it back to life yeah it's wide open what do you say hank nothing what nothing what nothing Nothing.
This is, I'm now just at home right now. After my son comes home from school, I'm like, what'd you do at school? He's like, nothing.
Oh, nice. Balmer's freaking out.
Balmer just gave the double fist bump. I love Balmer so much.
Looked like he was going skiing. God damn it.
He's the best. I'm happy he's not grabbing anyone's crotch right now.
He is a crotch grabber. But not in a sexual assault way.
More like just exciting. And a boys will be boys way.
Yeah, like you know that if you sit next to Steve Ballmer at a Clippers game, he might just start jerking you off. Just out of nowhere.
And you just got to ride the wave with him. He's a classy groper like Jim N groper like jim nance yeah exactly exactly it's all class yeah so now the clippers are up five priscilla's probably sweating the sons are dead oh man westbrook westbrook beating chris paul because that is how we will spin it when we have mon again if if the sons had westbrook you have to imagine that they would be instant title itenders.
Did Westbrook and Kevin Durant on the same team? How could that lose? How could that lose? All right. There's a minute and a half left, so we'll update it.
Bucks, he... So, first of all, Jake, congratulations on eliminating the Bulls on Friday night.
Thank you. Yeah.
Sorry. No, I honestly like that was, it was one of those rare sports moments where whatever happened, I was just going to be like, okay, I'm in for that.
Yeah. I'll be honest.
I was in the same boat. Yeah.
Like if the, if the Bulls, but now I'm back all in. Yeah.
If the Bulls had won, I would have been like, oh shit. Like maybe they could give the Bucks a series.
And when they lost, I'm like, all right, maybe we can get lucky and get Wemvin Giannis somehow. But the Heat, Jimmy Butler, should we update the rankings? Jimmy Butler, I think he's number 15 in the NBA.
He had 35 and 11 tonight. He also controlled that game against the Bulls.
And, I mean, the only thing that this whole game is basically how injured is Giannis. Yeah, and so he's got a back injury.
As you said, he blew his back out.

He did.

Which that's usually a one-night type deal.

So I expect him to come back strong.

Also, he's just that he's got the body type and just the freak athleticism

where anytime somebody like that is injured,

I just assume that they'll be able to just recharge overnight.

They just hit themselves with a stim kit,

and they come back stronger than ever. Remember when he basically tore his ACL in the playoffs? He's like, yeah, you know what? I think I'll be fine.
That's what I'm saying. He is one of those guys that he's the opposite of Anthony Davis.
When he gets hurt, I'm like, no, he's not really hurt. Even if he's not back in the game, I'm like, oh, no, he'll be fine.
He'll play the next game. Unless I can see bone, then I'm like, Giannis is going to get back in.
He'll be okay. Yeah.
It was also, even without Giannis, I feel like the Bucs can win this series because the Heat shot 60% from three and basically just didn't miss. And the Bucs were kind of in it towards the end.
Like, they cut it to six at one point. Yeah.
So, obviously, they need Giannis for the rest of the playoffs. The wily veteran Kevin Love had a great play today.
Did you see what he did at the foul line? No, he had 18 points. He had 18 points, played well.
He can turn it on in playoff time. He got cut when I think it was Portis shoved him over on a rebound.
Okay. And he cut his elbow, and then he goes up to the foul line, and he hits his free throws before telling the refs that he's bleeding and then right afterwards he points the refs he's like hey i'm bleeding right now so they can take it they get a free time out yeah out of the situation oh that's great that's that's a veteran move right that is a veteran move shout out kevin love uh all right anything else from the first and and nuggets uh timberwolves we will talk about on Wednesday.
Yeah. So you're in a pickle.
Well, I am because it's my Nuggets against my Timberwolves. Yes.
Guaranteed a team in the second round. I was going to say Elite Eight, but it's not what they call it.
No, we can call it the Elite Eight, the Western Conference semifinals. Yeah.
I mean, when you have 16 teams, we're in the Sweet 16 right now. All 16 of these teams should be very, very happy with where they're at.
Any one of them could win the NBA Finals. So to be in the Elite Eight, have one of my big futures in the Elite Eight, I'm very happy with myself.
So the other trivia I had was about the Nuggets. So New York Times fake news, but they did write an article basically being like, I think they said that it was the Nuggets, like, 42nd or something, playoff appearance.
38th. Yeah, 38th, but that was counting ABA as well, which we don't count that.
We don't acknowledge that. It is their 28th playoff appearance without winning a finals, and they've never been to a final either.
Who are the three teams ahead of them?

That have made the playoffs consistently but never won a final.

Never won a final.

In basketball or across all sports?

Kings, there's one of them.

Suns?

Yes, Suns lead with 32.

Suns have played in the finals, though, haven't they? No, no, not win a final.

Yeah.

No. They're not on this list in terms of playoff.
Hawks. It's like total playoff appearances without winning a final.
Got it. Rockets? No.
No. Hakeem.
He's missing an obvious one. Knicks.
The Knicks have won a title. The Jazz.
The Jazz have 31 playoff appearances. So I did look it up for all sports.

You guys can probably

guess the NFL ones,

the top ones.

Browns?

Browns are two

with 29 playoff appearances,

no Super Bowls.

Dolphins?

Dolphins have a Super Bowl.

Yeah, they've won.

The first one is easy.

The first one should be easy.

Lions?

No, no,

because they haven't

made the playoffs enough. Vikings, 31 playoff appearances, no Super Bowls.
Yeah, it's Vikings, Browns, Titans, Bills, Chargers. Lions are all the way down because they've only made it 17 times.
But if you count the ABA stats, which we don't, then the Nuggets are number one all time across all sports. Yes, yes, yes.
And then in hockey, it was like Sabres, Canucks, Sharks.

And then I looked up Brewers were number one.

They own eight playoff appearances with no World Series.

That's really not that many playoff appearances.

Well, it's because every franchise has won a World Series

because baseball's been around for so fucking long

that everyone has made at least one one in 1902.

The Akron Groomsmen. Right, exactly.
But yeah, Nuggets are an underrated painful franchise. Yeah, so we'll see.
Your Nuggets versus the Timberwolves. Listen, I win either way.
Yeah, you do. This is a free roll for me.
You should make the split jersey like the lady with the LeBron jersey, all three. So ironically, maybe the worst thing for me would be if the Timberwolves won the series.
Yes. Because then they'd probably go on to lose in the next round.
Yes. And then I can't hedge out of anything, and I lose all my Nuggets money too.
And yeah, everyone's like, I thought you were a Nuggets guy. And then other people are like, I thought you were a Timberwolves guy.
But you were a Nuggets guy before you were a Timberwolves guy. That's true.
I was a Nuggets guy two years ago, two and a half years ago. I've been riding these Nugs.
Yeah. Back when the Nugs were mid.
So are the Suns dead? Is this like saving Private Ryan all over here? Oh, yeah, 109, 108. We should watch.
Let's watch the last 28 seconds. Man, the Suns lose in the first round.
Again, it's only one game. Very tough, though.
And Playoff P will not be participating in the first round. Memes has to do the meme where he sends out the bat signal for AJ Titties.
Yeah, yeah. Get that mouth ready.
And by memes, you mean you. No, no, that's memes.
That's his go-to. Memes.
Memes has got to be pumped up for Islanders. All right, 28 seconds left.
109, 108. Clippers.
Who has the ball? Clippers? Look at Stan Van. Oh, it's Van Gundy season.
Big time. Oh, we're getting Van Gundy to death.
Do you think that Jeff and Stan Van Gundy are the two brothers that look the least amount alike of any prominent brothers? Because they do not look like they're related. Good question.
Well, I don't want to say it. What? Say it.
Howie Long Jr. does not look like Chris or Kyle at all.
Okay. I feel bad about that, but it is true.
He's a great guy, and he's actually going to be in the NFL longer than them because he's a scout for the Raiders. Westbrook with three seconds left.
Westbrook! Oh, my God. He's so bad.
Oh, he's fouled. He's going to miss at least one of these free throws.
He's so bad. Give me the ball, coach.
He was like, this is my game. I'm taking over.
It's Russell Westbrook time. Russell Westbrook.
Yeah, don't give it a cry. No.
Yeah, it's me. You also should not wear the number zero if you're, objectively speaking, the worst player on your team.
Yeah. Yeah but he he also the the problem with westbrook is he doesn't triple double his body looks just as good as it was like 10 years ago bombers freaking out you know what i mean yeah like if he got a little fatter i feel like people would be a lot nicer to him being like ah you know, athletes, you know, they get over 30.

But, like, even his, like, jumping and everything.

No, he hasn't lost a step.

Right, exactly.

In fact, maybe he's just gotten worse.

Yeah.

He's gotten faster.

It's very hard to watch because you're like, wait,

he should be the same guy.

He can get more shots off so he misses more shots.

All right, here's the second free throw.

Oh, here we go.

Now, only one ball. Who takes the last shot, Devin Booker or KD? It's KD time.
You think so? Yeah. But it's Booker's team.
Look at you. Is it not? You're emotional.
They don't need a three. Depends.
Because it advances 17.7 down three. No.
Yeah, you might be right, Jake. All right, I'll do the who's back.
I love being that guy who just says they don't need a three here. But you can say it with like three seconds left.
Yeah, a lot of teams do that, in the NBA at least. What do you guys think is the actual benchmark? Like seven seconds? I would say ten.
Ten? I would say ten. Well, it's different in college and NBA because.
Here you can advance. Yeah.
NBA, I'd say six. College, I feel like you need it with like eight or nine.
But you can always sound super smart around your friends and just be like, they actually don't need a three. Yeah, they don't need a three.
You don't go right to the hoop. Yeah, it could be a four-point game with like five seconds left.
They don't need a three. Yeah, they just need two twos, two quick twos.
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Okay. Chris Paul to inbound.
You know, he's not taking a shot. No chance.
Phoenix has one timeout. What are you running here, coach? What are you running? Oh, oh.
They're going to have to use their timeout. They did use their timeout.
All right, let's do who's back, and then we'll update when we watch it. When we were at the Final Four, me and PFT were sitting in the same row as Jeff Van Gundy.
Or, yeah, Jeff Van Gundy. Fat or skinny? Skinny.
Okay. With his dad and his son, Enrico Bosco, our coworker, kept trying to get his attention in, which just kept yelling at him at the end of the game,

what are you running here, coach?

Coach.

And he couldn't even hear him, but.

He just kept on saying that to him?

He kept going, coach, coach, what are we running?

That's also.

Hey, coach, you foul here?

We fouling here?

That's also like the final four is, if you yell coach at the final four,

it's like yelling dad or mom at a playground. Like everyone is a coach there.
Even the people that aren't coaches. All the coaches go to the Final Four.
Coach, what are you running? Jeff did not respond to Rico. What do you think he would have run? The San Diego State play that won? Yeah, probably that.
Just drive to the baseline. Yeah, almost go out of bounds.
No, he hated that play. Rico hated that play.
Even after it went in, he was... He was like, oh, the process is bad.
It's too early to run winner. Ghost blob.
My who's Bach is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, here we go.
Oh, no, there's a replay. Yeah.
Why is Arnold back? Arnold Arnold was doing he did a viral video where he is like there's a pothole in his neighborhood that he said all his neighbors were complaining about so he did this video where he went out and filled the pothole and then it turned out that the pothole was there for a reason because they needed to do construction so that the town had to go back and undo the filled pothole that he did this whole PR. Booker.
Booker with the ball. Oh, Westbrook.
Westbrook. I take back everything I said.
Wow. Game-winning play.
Fuck. He blocked it and got it off of Booker, and they get the ball.
That is a tough look for me. Another timeout for the Clippers.
That was a great play by Westbrook. Damn, that's why you have him.
He's a veteran. For those type of plays.
He's been in these positions. Oh, Booker's an idiot.
That was a preview for Ryan Whitney. Ryan Whitney, if he was watching this game with us, Devin Booker just completely gave up on it to try to look for the foul.
Yeah. If he had kept his eyes on the ball, he would have been able to catch that and put it in.
That's a good look for those of us that rock balls beachwear in the summertime, too, considering what Russell Westbrook wore to the game. Yeah, that's true.
Okay, so he filled in a pothole. He filled in a pothole, but it was actually a trench that had been dug for utility work.

So they have to go and basically undo the work he tried to do.

Yeah, but he was just trying to be a good neighbor, right?

Yeah, and film it and post it on the internet.

Yeah.

He wasn't doing it for clout.

He was just letting everyone know.

Schwarzenegger doesn't need clout.

He was the governor.

Potholes should be filled.

He was the Terminator.

Yeah. The mother who's back was Matt Fitz everyone know.
Schwarzenegger doesn't need cloud. He was the governor.
He was the governor. He was the terminator.
Yeah.

The mother who's back was Matt Fitzpatrick.

Oh.

Yes.

Won.

What was it, Jake?

The RBC Heritage.

The RBC Heritage.

The plaid jacket.

Mm-hmm.

Beat Spieth in a playoff.

Spieth had a chance to win with the putt.

Barely.

Oh, yeah.

I guess we talked about it with Chicklets coming up.

Clippers win game one. Suns are dead.
Wow. Put a fork in them.
I think the over-under was 225, by the way, and they just dunked for no reason. Westbrook was just pointing at his nipple.
I don't think that was his heart. That was like his left peck.
Yeah, his peck. But it's his heart.
Chris Paul. Oh.
Yes.

That was a weird place to point at your heart.

There looks to be some confusion on the court right now.

Yeah, everyone is just kind of standing around.

And Chris Paul's like, don't worry, guys.

I've been here.

Technical?

I lose playoff games.

It's my job.

Oh, is it technical?

For hanging on the rim, maybe?

Oh, that would be great for the over over it was 225 225 if they call it technical here that would be fucking hilarious yeah sons are dead sons are dead oh westbrook's yelling at the crowd that feels like something westbrook might want to take back because well no you know what three for 19 might be sustainable and and the defensive winning play you could do that every game shooting 15 percent yeah if it dips below 10 then I'd say that you can't win with that yeah oh they're gonna call this dunk back yeah maybe for hanging on the rim they can't take the dunk away no they can't take the dunk away i was just wondering what why they were replaying west all right so arnold back that's arnold back fitzpatrick back spieth almost back playing really well i think he's gonna win a major yeah i i kind of agree spieth has been awesome recently he just has to get rid of of those shots where the camera cuts to him and he's just hitting out of a tree.

If he just eliminates all those real bad fuck-ups.

Yeah.

The true Spieth experience.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That putt was tough.

Yeah.

I felt bad.

I don't think you can get closer to going in.

And you could tell when he looked at it, he was like,

God damn it, what the hell happened here?

The only thing I would say with that, obviously you want to win the tournament, but the prize is just a jacket and you already have one. Do you really need another one? He's already got the plaid jacket.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Who cares? The plaid jacket is a sick gift, though. Yeah.
I like it a lot. All right, who's your who's back, PFT? My who's back is Netflix.
Netflix is back. So Love is Blind was supposed to be on tonight.

They're doing their reunion show.

Do you guys watch Love is Blind?

No.

I watched the first season.

I have not watched this season.

The second season was awesome.

This season I have not watched that much of.

But I do know that people were freaking out about it because Netflix was trying to broadcast it live.

They're getting into live television now on Netflix.

They invented this new thing where they can play a show and then everybody watches it at the same time. Which is kind of a...
It's a different way to think about TV. But they're not doing it live.
They're not doing it live. They were trying to broadcast it live.
Which is bullshit. Wait, so it's not live? But Netflix had this idea to record a TV show and then put it out so that people watch it all at the same time.

They should think about doing shows that are all online

that people could just watch whenever they wanted.

Yeah, and maybe I was thinking about it

because I was looking through all the apps I watched.

They should figure out a way to bundle Netflix and HBO

and I'll just pay one price.

Yeah, and even maybe get some of the live sports on there.

How about HBO and Warner Brothers? Yeah. HBO, Warner Brothers.
Just bundle it all together and I'll just pay one price. Yeah.
No, and even maybe get some of the live sports on there. How about HBO and Warner Brothers? Yeah.
HBO, Warner Brothers. Just bundle it all together and I'll just pay one monthly bill to another company.
That would work. They could have a box.
They could partner with Roku maybe so you have a box that connects with your television. Yeah, that's smart.
That you can use to just control directly. That will never work though.
That's a stupid idea. My other who's back is Blink-182 because i do played their first show and i don't i don't know how many years as a trio mark tom travis they played at coachella which i'm still not 100 sure what coachella is all the cool kids it's a vibe coachella's literally vibes and uh it fucking rocked they were really good they looked like they cared are they doing lala i don't know what they're doing but they rock and i'm so i'm definitely going to go see them when they play here in new york because blink 182 is one of those bands i think the band that most like defines people in our me and big cats age group like our childhood blink 182 was they were bigger than big so it's good to see them back and playing as a trio again i love blink 182 uh i did like everclear a little more Yes, more.
Everclear was good, yeah. Yeah, Everclear, yeah.
I was a big Simple Plan guy. Oh, yeah? And Good Charlotte.
And some 41. Yeah, I mean, without Blink-182, though, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte probably don't exist.
Blink-182s. Yeah, that's fair.
They are. I mean, if you show a picture of the nurse like you're like oh that's blink 182 one of the best albums ever janine and it's funny and their songs stand the test of time way better they're great sing-along songs it's funny watching them play because travis barker is probably the best drummer in the world at least like the best songwriting drummer in the world and he's playing with tom who is like when doesn't care, he's one of the worst guitar players in the world.
And if you're Travis, you have to hate that experience. But they were locked in.
They were locked in. It was awesome.
All right, I got two who's backs. My first who's back is Chase Elliott.
Chase Elliott is back. Geico 500 Talladega Speedway, Fox 3 p.m.
this this sunday he is back it's his second race back and i'm gonna bet on him and i'm gonna boost it for barstool sportsbook so check out all of our socials we'll have it boosted 75th anniversary of nascar also there's a new street race in chicago july 2nd 5 30 p.m uh that's gonna be sick but yeah tune in this sunday three o'clock chase elliott is back he is fully back i am going to bet on him to win chase elliott is all the way back uh my other who's back we have to have a serious talk with the awls so yes take a seat yeah so uh let's have a serious talk so everyone who's been listening to this show for a very long time, they know there was a day and age when maybe year two-ish, we thought it'd be funny to have everyone say, hey, suck my dick as the greeting for, hey, I know you. You listen to part of my take.
Suck my dick. It kind of spiraled because we realized people were just yelling it uh in the real world suck my dick just yelling it out of car windows it got weird uh we asked people to stop doing it everyone was cool about it we stopped doing it we don't say that anymore that's what we say instead we don't say that anymore so we have a new thing that has maybe kind of dipped into, hey, this is real world.

We have to, as a podcast and AWLs, and this, I'll say it right now, is it the seventh, eighth? We're in year eight. So eighth takeies are coming up, and we will take away AWL's chance for an eight-peat.
we have to stop saying to max homa on the golf course that he's a pervert because it's getting a little weird i was watching some of the rbc it's just getting a little we've gone too far so this is our serious talk and i'm going to i'm going to i'm going to go even further and say if you see someone saying it permission to shame to shame that person, take a picture and send it to us. Like, don't say it.
Do not say it. And this is actually serious.
So we want Max to do well. We don't need everyone yelling him pervert and shit like that.
We'll give you alternate things to say. Yeah.
Instead of saying pervert, say either that's a spicy meatball. Yeah.
It's after a shot. Or since he's Italian, mamma mia.
Yeah, no, or how about this? We should just do this to see if we can maybe just get him going in the right direction. How about let's go, Max.
That's a good one. Let's go, Max.
Max, listen, if you say let's go, Max, Max will know that you're talking about part of my team. LGM.
He will know it. So he'll know it.
He'll give you a little like tip of the cap let's go max that's what we got to be saying no more pervert that is officially canceled uh we've canceled ourselves we got to realize we do this to ourselves a lot so it's on us it's not your fault unless you keep doing it then it is your fault So all previous pervert comments are completely pardoned from AWL prison. So if you said it last year, you said it last week, you are clean.
You did nothing wrong. Anything that any pervert that is said from this date forward, you're in jail.
Yeah. What about just yelling homosexual? No, no, no.
Let's not do that. Oh, so you wanted to be silent.
No. Let's go, Max.
Are you listening? What yeah just what about just yelling homosexual no no no let's not do that wanted to be silent no say let's go max are you listening what about just mama mia yeah that plays after he after he spanks a drive also just yeah it should be let's go max when you see i think it's more like when people are it's it's when he's like walking up to try to hit a ball out of the fucking sand and people are like hey what's up perfect we gotta stop that people are looking it's weird his father should try not hitting in the sand okay hank you're really not helping this conversation i'm joking i'm joking i'm trying to have a serious conversation i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry so no more perverts uh actually you know what here's a perfect way to do it if you see hank in public call him a pervert great so he is the he is throwing number number at the end there too yeah i love that no but seriously we are asking everyone uh we love max we love having him come on the show we love like the relationship we built so please self-police this no more perverts to max just a simple let's go max let's get him winning when he when he starts winning you know what if max Max wins, is he playing next weekend? I'm not sure. If he wins in the next two months and he hears zero perverts, he will donate $1,000 to a random AWL.
And I'll match. I will also match.
And I'll double. So three people will get $1,000.
I believe he is playing in the Zerk Classic of New Orleansleans okay but if he gets one is there if he gets don't say if he gets one single pervert then that deal is completely off so that is a real deal if he wins any tournament the rest of this summer and he hears no perverts he will tell us i will give a thousand to a random listener pft will give a thousand or random listener max will give. That's a pretty fucking good deal.
That sounds easy. All you have to do is not say the word pervert.

Yeah.

So police each other.

And again, we do accept that this is ultimately on us. Oh, it's 100% our fault.

Because we gave him the award last year.

But not going forward.

Not going forward.

Now it's on you.

And you are the best listeners in the entire world.

It is funny that we have the ability to, like, these things happen because we know everyone's just passionate uh but no more perfect or lottery balls uh yeah we'll work on that let's let's try to hey couldn't you just get the lottery ball yeah let's i had to try and let's stuff out the perverts then we can go to the lottery ball okay is that fair all right uh figured i'd try since we were on the topic but yeah no well you weren't listening for half of it no i just tried to make a joke you it didn't we were trying to we we rarely sit down with listeners and being like hey we gotta talk we found this bong in your room hey we we gotta talk we heard you just been saying pervert all the time yeah now i feel like we have to be the cool parents right after we had this heavy conversation. Yeah.
I'll buy a pizza for an AWL. Yeah.
Sorry that we had to. I will.
Sorry we had to have this talk. Big cat, you select one person.
You know, your replies. I'll select.
We'll send you a pizza. Sorry.
Sorry, kids. You know, I hate to get real like that.
Two random AWLs. I'm not going to go to the ballgame, but I'll send you to a ball game.
You know, sport.

Grab your mitt.

The New Orleans is actually a team event.

It's Max Homa paired with Colin Murakawa,

and they're calling themselves Team Homakawa.

Okay, nice. Those are both of our guys.

Yeah.

Team Homakawa.

So we want a clean weekend from the AWLs.

No perverts.

And then we build on that.

And then we build on that.

Yeah, let's just take it one game at a time.

Yeah, it's not easy to change. Okay, Billy.
back is also Day at the Ball game Day at the Ball park Yeah this take stinks Billy How many games have you been to this year? Good question How many games have you gone to in the stadium? Okay You're talking about baseball Yes I actually agree with Billy's Billy's take What is the take? I fucking hate What's the take? I hate the pitch clock Why? Pitch clock is awesome Because I get down there You know I take the subway To Yankee Stadium I sit down there And you know Then all of a sudden I was in the bleachers I sit down there And guess what? Like I'm watching the game I'm trying tochat, socialize, like how I usually do. You're not watching the game.
No, he's just chit-chat, socializing. The whole point is that I feel like I'm rushed at a table at a restaurant that's trying to flip tables.
Get out of here. So I agree with this take for games that you attend in person.
On TV, it's a million times better. But hold on.
I totally understand it's better on TV. When I go to the ballpark and I watch a daytime baseball game, I want that time to never stop.
Factor fiction. Take me out to the ballgame.
Does it say, I don't care if I never get back? Yes. Yes, it does.
That's a fact. I want to be able to be unaccounted for for the whole day.
Yes. I want no one to know where I am.
Billy, you can... Here's the only thing that I don't understand about this take.
I get it. You're not a seam head.
You go to the game and socialize, not watch the game. I like to watch the game, but the thing is...
The game is still the exact same amount of game. Right.
But there's more time spent in between. I want there to be more fuck around time.
So if I get food, I don't miss anything. Right.
Like two minutes between. How many food stops are you going for? I like to walk around the stadium.
I like. See, this is the part that I don't understand because you could also like.
Why? You could go to the stadium an hour early. There's batting practice for two hours.
You could also go to a bar after the game and hang out. Right.
You know you could go to the ballpark for five hours still. If you wanted to.
Your argument of like, I like to not get there on time. It does not help you with this.
And also I like to just walk around the stadium. And watch the game from different places and eat different.
Like, I want to eat a hot dog and a steak sandwich. And there's like a bunch of vendors I like to hit every time in the stadium.
You should go for batting practice. Okay, that is true.
But you can steal Zach Hample's shine. What you want is literally what you could do with batting practice where you just show up, hang out, watch some dingers, catch a dinger.
I just think that a little bit of the experience has been taken away. I'll downgrade my initial reaction of it's a terrible take because you're right i have not been to a game so i have to judge it myself because i do i do agree there is a part of like a baseball game that when you're at you don't have to be locked in the same way that you're locked into like a basketball game or a hockey game but the pitch clock is awesome it's like a pass i bet it's amazing on TV.
It's incredible on TV. I know it's amazing on TV.
There should just be a rule where if you're going to a game, then they take away the pitch clock. But let's say you're with somebody else and they don't know the rules.
Why do you have to be so weird all the time? Let's say you're with... The whole point of a baseball game is a perfect date because there's so much time in between to explain what happened to someone who doesn't know the game.
I feel like you don't know all the rules to baseball. I do know all the rules.
All of them? Yeah. What's a balk? It's when he gets caught looking at the wrong time.
What? No, you're just talking about your girlfriend getting mad at you. That was an easy one.
That was an easy one. No, no, when the pitcher gets caught, he goes to throw, but he does it too much.
But he does it too much. What degree angle? Explain the infield fly rule.
What? Yeah. Infield fly rule.
You don't know Seam. All right.
Okay, I don't know Seam that much. But it robs a good amount of the game.
Okay, I think the best take to make is just that when you go to, especially a daytime baseball game, you like to feel like time stands still and you're just hanging out in the sun drinking beer for three or four hours. I think this might be just day games too.
Because a night game, there actually was nothing worse than you go to a night game and it's like 11 o'clock. You're like, fuck, I want to go home.
Like on a Tuesday night game. yeah you're you're right I'm gonna wait till I go to a game in person and I'll report back so I'm downgrading the take is not terrible anymore I think it's a solid b take which is on the on the billy curve that's an it's a past time it's like a leisurely activity like in plus I don't so everyone's gonna keep going to Yankee Stadium but like what if it's like Houston where you have to drive and you have to spend some people take an hour and a half traveling there for only two hours a game? Yeah, you could just go earlier.
I know. Okay.
But then at the same time, when you go earlier, there's not that much action. I think with this all, Billy has stumbled upon a partially very correct take, in my opinion.
Part of it's incorrect, but I think the crux of your argument is you wish that you had more time to get drunk. Which I'm saying, you could just go to batting practice or you go to a bar after.
You left the game feeling too sober. No, it was more that it just felt really quick.
Right. How long was it? I think it I think it was two hours.
That'd be so funny. It was like, it was three hours and 45 minutes.
It was two hours and like seven minutes, I think. They're going to get rid of the pitch clock or adjust it for the playoffs, right? I think that kind of rules.
Can we just make Yankee games? I'm just judging because I watch all the Cubs games and it's so awesome. Just being being like it's action all the time.
Yeah. Whereas it used to be you just, like, zone out.
You know, just one game, one game a year, like maybe a couple, like Saturday day games, just like. I mean, Yankees, Red Sox, Sunday night baseball will still go five hours.
The turn back the clock night where you just don't have a pitch clock. Yeah.
Yeah. That's what I want've got to get rid of it for the playoffs.
But it's a million times better to watch baseball on TV. Between that and those thick-ass, juicy bases, I'm all in, baby.
By the way, you know why? Also, it was going by so fast that no one realized that Jermaine, Domingo German, was having a no-hitter. Jermon? Jermon.
Jake, can we get a little fact check here? Germany? Hermann. Hermann.
Okay. Well, that G shouldn't be there.
But then halfway through, everyone was like, oh, shit, he's on the way to a no-hitter. But since it was going so fast, no one was able to, like, recognize that and, like, not say anything.
Then, like, seven people were like, oh, my God, no-hitter. And then, of course, there was a hit, three hits, like, right after everyone won.
right after everyone was zero hitter you mean i like to bring a book and keep track of all the stats uh player by player that can help with that sometimes what you oh you score a score yeah you score keep yeah thanks never done that but it is i actually do i wish i were one of those guys i always see i used to score even high, you know, whenever I wasn't. If I wasn't, obviously I was a pitcher.
So I was like, in the other games, give me the book. I've changed my opinion.
I think I have to watch a game in person to let you know. Because there is some part of day games where, like, you do want to just hang out.
But, yeah, the TV part is just so much better. I just feel that, like, you know how whenever there's a change, there's, like, one person that gets overlooked in the change? I feel a little overlooked.
Billy was overlooked. Not enough time for him to drink beer.
They didn't consult you? Why didn't you think of Billy who wants to get drunk? We actually should have sent Billy down to a spring training game to see how the rule changes would impact, like, just a, drunk fan. Yeah, it would have been funny if Rob Manford had Billy in a lab being like, wait, his BAC is only .15.
This is something's off. No, but even the bleachers weren't as rowdy.
That was another thing. That's sad.
I don't know. It's just like the atmosphere kind of changed in the ballpark.
I 100% I'm not a big seam head. I watch games.
I watch playoffs. but like I love baseball because I love going to the ballpark.
You know, I'm 100%. I'm not a big seam head.
Like, I watch games. I watch playoffs.
But, like, I love baseball because I love going to the stadium, being, like, a fan. Like, not a casual, but, like, I still like the team.
No, it's okay. We need to de-stigmatize the word casual.
It's fine to be a baseball casual. 100%.
It's fine to be a casual. I'd say, like, 90% of baseball fans casuals.
Yes. Which is okay.
Yes.

Hockey.

Hockey.

No, it could be me. No, you're a diehard, Hank.

No, but I'm saying in theory, though, in general, for other people.

Other people, yeah.

No, I agree.

Casual is just lame because it's always those same guy online who just only cares about one thing.

Like UFC fan who only watches UFC will call you a casual.

It's like, yeah, dude, I like other sports. Casuals are what make the sports world go around.
Fill the seats. But yeah, Billy, you did get overlooked.
I'm sorry. But economically, that's going to impact sales and everything.
Well, that's why the brewers extended their beer sales. But even food.
So, for example, I felt like I couldn't be up waiting. So they should legalize marijuana at the ballpark.
Get people hungrier. No, but they'll be thinking they're missing the game.
Like, I, like, didn't go up and my whole usual routine was thrown off because I didn't want to miss as much of the game. Got it.
I think there's a compromise to be found here. One, I think you're on to something that daytime baseball games should have.
You want to be there longer. And two, you can also go a little bit earlier and see batting practice, which is fun.
And go to the bar after. Also.
Or maybe have you just lost your ability to drink fast, Billy? Oh, no. No, no.
This might be a personal situation. No, this isn't a personal situation.
Because me, I know that if I go to a Yankee game in the daytime, I know because I follow sports. I know there's a pitch clock.
I'm getting my work in fast. I'm hammering.
No, we just don't lines. No, but not if you're built like me.
Like, I get two at a time, get right back in line. This is honestly more about, let's say, you go to a game with your dad.
It's about walking around. Like, you go to the game with your dad.
Oh, I think it's better. Less time, like, well, I guess for kids, like, if I'm taking my kid, that's going to be awesome.
But let's say it's the other way around where you always went, like, you're taking your dad and you don't see him that much anymore. Got it.
And then all the times, like, Rob, it's like, those fast. You could go to a bar after with your dad.
Yeah. Billy, just curious.
This has nothing to do with your take. What inning did you show up in? Oh, no, I got there in the first inning.
Oh, you did? Yeah. Okay.
That would have also been funny if Billy was like, I got there in the fourth.

No, but I used to love going to the bars around Yankee Stadium and then just waiting for the

ticket prices to drop super low and get sick tickets with your buddy and then go in.

Yeah.

With game time, you can always get those low prices.

Of course.

It's important to remember that.

Right, Ben?

Even with game time.

Yeah.

Even with game time.

Like snagging a Legends ticket.

What day was it?

Saturday?

Yeah.

That was a good game.

It was a great game. Rizzo went off.
LeMahieu, Judge. Sick.
That's my guy. All the best.
Yeah. Go ahead, Jake.
By the way, keeping score with pencil, great. Just very underrated thing to do.
Oh, you don't use a pen? Or pen, yeah. I mean, sometimes there's like a late.
The official score can change it from like – I don't know. Anyways, mine's kind of similar to Billy.
My Who's Back is rules being rules. Cody Bellinger received a standing ovation returning to the Dodgers, returning to L.A., and he got called for a pitch clock violation.
He did. 0-1.
He did. Yeah, he was like acknowledging the crowd that were all on their feet.
Not in the box. Not in the box.
Sorry. Rules are rules.
Rules are rules. Rules are rules.
Yeah, but I think that's one where it should be a little gray area. Yeah, but umpires don't have a gray area.
No, they don't. They don't.
Balls and strikes. They're the thin blue line.
Rules are rules. Yeah, rules are rules.
There's no jump balls in baseball. I can't believe that we didn't mention the biggest baseball story of the weekend the uh the possum that's living in the oh the athletics press box yeah is tv away booth yeah the mets crew was not there respect the biz that's that press box belongs to the possum there's a possum that's been dug into this press box and apparently the entire room just smells like shit and piss from the possum so they make them broadcast the game from a different room because that room that's the possums now and you can't you can't kick that

thing out i'm sure there's some qualified like uh animal control specialists in oakland that might

if you gave them a call they'd probably be able to retrieve the possum and get them out but for

whatever reason they're just kind of saying okay this possum lives here now yeah. Don't you dare touch that possum.
It is a disaster. Okay, good who's backs, everyone.
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Hank, who's your favorite instructor? Big fan of Kendall Toole Yeah, she's great. I also like Alex Toussaint.
He's me and Booger's favorite instructor. We're always taking Alex Toussaint.
Booger and I. What? Booger and I.
No, that's actually not correct. Nice try, Hank.
Booger and me, yeah. I respect the challenge, though.
Booger and me? Booger and me. You've lost me and Booger.
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So Merle's and Colby Armstrong, who played in the league as well, who was on the broadcast for the FDNYNYPD game, they're doing every day recap and set you up for bets every single night, right? Correct. On the Smitten Chicklets YouTube, it's going to be awesome.
Basically, Witt was like, how can I figure out to have someone do my job for me? No, you're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. I can keep working twice a week and just golf.
Nope. I actually, if you really want to know the truth, I said, I just want to have my friends around.
So how do I figure this out? I go, Merle's mastered the art of gambling. And by the way, you say he's the greatest gambler.
He gives out winners at an amazing rate. He still always loses.
Somehow he's giving out winners and he's like, I lost again. I'm like, why don't you just take only the picks you give out? No, he just live bets Jordan Spieth three times.
Because my friends like you give me Jordan Spieth today. That's how I lose.
He should have won. That was a good bet that was two putts to win two putts to win one touched like 300 degrees exactly lipped out but merles is the best because he uh lives half half the time uh half the year in sweden and uh so he has all kinds of weird european hockey bets that like i'll wake up at seven in the morning and he's just screaming into a microphone and be like we got the the fucking Russian second league over five and a half goals.
I'm like, all right, I'm in. Fuck it.
He texted me. He's like, Whit, I have a tip about the second league in Slovakia.
I'm like, is it on the Barstool Sportsbook? He goes, yes. I don't know how.
We have them all. He's like, no, we do.
He's like, they're plus 135. Yes, we do.
There's 14 guys out from the other team with food poisoning. I hammered it.
It was like they won like 10-0.

I was like, Merle's.

Oh, genius.

But yeah, Merle's is the best.

So let's do some playoff preview.

It is the best time of year.

I have a question for Merle's before we get into playoff preview

because I always hear people from Scandinavia talk about

the crazy different types of nicotine that they have up there

and how it's superior to American nicotine.

Can you walk me through that and tell me what we should be looking for? Well, I'm not into that thing, but I can tell you my wife was into it big time. The girls do it.
The girls do it in the north. They take the snooze and they put it in there.
And Finland isn't a Scandinavian country, a little known fact. But these guys are the craziest with that.
No, that's a little known fact. Well, Finland doesn't exist, remember? exist remember is it fake yeah there's a big conspiracy out there that it's just like a body of water owned by japanese fishing rights i believe scandinavia is denmark norway and sweden only okay okay but these finnish guys they put so much snooze up their lip these guys i played hockey with that they couldn't stuff it up there oh sorry about that stuff it up they shoot it up by the end the chew is way up here their mainline and dip, that's awesome Eric Carlson, first defenseman since Brian Leach in 92 to get 100 points this year on San Jose he just packs lips the entire game I'm like that's kind of a baller move yeah i have one sin uh zen six and i'm just like oh yeah you don't need a mouthpiece if you pack enough zen up there right just have your entire mouth filled with pillows yeah yeah all right let's do it so i don't know where let's start with the east okay let's start at the top hank did you want to ask uh the question that you've been dying ask about the Bruins? Because I know you're tuned in.
You had like a third line question, right? We'll save that for the end. Oh, okay.
Oh, okay. As he hits Google.
So the Bruins are statistically now, obviously they had ties back in the day, but most wins in a NHL season, regular season, they look incredible. the one seed they're playing the panthers tell us because it's it's dumb to just sit here and be like oh yeah they're gonna win it all tell us if they don't win it all why what's their one weakness because i feel like everything i've read heard they don't have one they really don't it's crazy and and and maybe you could have said like depth and this is a huge reach.
And then at the deadline, they went out and made these unreal moves. Like they were done making trades.
They had done exactly what they needed to. They got Orlov from Washington.
PFT knows how good he is. Hathaway from Washington, a great fourth line, like Boston style player.
And then all of a sudden, like last minute, they get Tyler Bertuzzi who when he's on and he has been been since he came to Boston, can be like a point per game guy. He's playing like third line.
It's just they really have no weaknesses. And now all of a sudden with the way playoffs are and the grind it is, there's always injuries.
They actually have like enough to just withstand like three or four guys going down. Obviously not Marshawn or Pasta, but it's a crazy team.
Biz made a good point. I think the only way that they don't make it to the cup final, no, I should say that.
He said the only way they lose the first round, but I'll say the only way they don't make it really far is if their goaltending just imploded. But at the same time, they have Allmark.
I don't know the last time a goalie led the league in goals against and save percentage. I wish I had that down.
Maybe it's never happened. He did that, but they have Jeremy Swayman, who I think was third in goals against and like fifth in save percentage.
So it is the best regular season team of all time. You did bring up back in the day, I think the other team was the 77 Canadians.
There were ties and there were also less games, I believe. So if you want to talk about maybe, the cup and i think the red wings too had a year 90 96 yeah where they had like i think there was like seven ties so you have to figure maybe like three of them four of them become overtime wins also um the lightning in 2019 who ended up getting swept in the first round one of the biggest shockers the nhl has ever seen so that's the one thing on bruins fans mind is like you could be this good and it's just a different president's uh you know cup trophy like that that that is the the curse not since 2013 and the blackhawks has a team now in the one the cup can can we say that if the bruins don't win the stanley cup this is the biggest disappointment in the postseason of all time oh with what they did yeah yeah i mean when you when you set the league record for points, it's a disappointment.
You have to do it. That is what sucks, and I think that's why Bruins fans have so much anxiety.
It's like none of this matters. Not only does it not matter if we don't win the Cup, we're kind of like a joke a little bit.
Now, if they go to Game 7 of the Cup and something happens, it is what it is. It's hockey.
It's hockey, but I think that they are, without a doubt, it's win or a complete failure. Hank's been saying this entire season, like the regular season doesn't matter in hockey.
Not because he doesn't care about the regular season. Well, his third line, the guy on the third line he knows about once he goes on Google, he had a bad game that night.
Yeah. Is there a difference in playoff speed in hockey? Because we always hear about it in NFL, NBA to a certain extent sometimes where guys just flip the switch.

Is it faster? It's my story on that and Chicklets listeners, I apologize.

I've said it a hundred times, but

we were on the Penguins

Crosby's rookie year, which was my rookie year.

Merle's was Crosby's first roommate, by the way.

That's how he's basically still in the game somewhat.

Is that good? No, everyone

in the Chicklets

organization, you just have to look up did they get drafted by the Penguins in the early 2000s? It's basically Penguins. It's the Penguins' JV players.
Yeah, yeah. When I met Colby last night, I was like, where have I heard his name? And I Googled him.
I was like, oh, yeah, he was drafted by the Penguins. Yep, yep.
But so we had a horrible team. I believe we finished second to last our rookie year, Crosby's rookie year, I should say.
And we had the greatest single-season turnaround, 47-point improvement the next year. Ironically enough, it was beaten by the Devils the last game of the year.
They broke it. They had a 49-point improvement from last year to this year.
But in terms of the speed difference, we played Ottawa. They were four, we were five in the East.
It's back when they did one through eight. Ottawa was a great team.
That year, they ended up going to the cup final. But game one up in Ottawa, we're ready.
We just had a great year. It's all of our first playoff games, besides like Mark Reckie and some vets.
First period, shots were 20 to nothing Ottawa. Jesus.
And it was something. And I remember saying like, oh, my God.
I went to a game, actually, when I was 11 years old. My dad took me to my first playoff game.
And I said to him, like, in the first period, I'm like, Dad, this is nuts. Why aren't the games always like this? He goes, because they'd be dead by December.
Yeah. Like, there is some ability for guys to just raise the game.
And 82 games, you got to pace yourself, and it all ends once, well, this is Monday, once tonight starts. All right, so off of that, similar betting question.
I obviously like betting overs. Merle, you can chime in here too.
And I know Elio's going to, I mean, we all saw Mr. Ice.
I love Mr. Ice.
I'm a nice person. But last year in the playoffs.
He was cold. Things went bad.
Is it just simply guys are now willing to block shots? That changes everything? That's half of it. The other half is the refs start putting the whistles away.
So there's less power plays, and that's a major contributor to that. Yeah.
And empty netters. Guys are less likely to shoot if it's going to result in an icing route.
No, so they've changed. This is one of the things with analytics and doing the number crunching.
Back when I played and forever before that, you never ice the puck. And even if you're up one goal, don't even risk it.
But they figured out the odds of you making the shot are good enough where ice it every time. So you've got a one goal lead and you're under pressure.
Just ice it. Try to get that empty net or goal.
And if we don't get it, we'll win a faceoff. We'll live to fight another day.
So they've changed completely. We're now up a goal even in the playoffs.
They're going to be going for it. So that can't help it over.
But the NHL got so ridiculous with the scoring. Every game was six and a half now.
A lot of games were seven. If it's a six and a half in the playoffs, that's tough to take.
That's scary. And so maybe we might see some games down to six but it's it's tough in the playoffs to be getting these eight goal games like we saw all regular season yeah so the Bruins number one clear number one you said the biggest disappointment in the history of hockey if they don't win the Stanley Cup who would be your second favorite coming out of the east so it's it's it's between the Devils and the Rangers for me um i know respect Showing respect to the Rangers.
I actually picked the Rangers in that series. Today we all picked them.
One of our video guys is one of Biz's closest friends, so he's come on the team. We just bring our friends in, Pasha.
He's a Devils diehard. And the Devils were 3-0-1 against the Rangers this year, so they're somehow the underdogs in the series.
I don't really get it, but the Rangers are set up to go on a long run. I don't worry about Toronto.
I think Tampa has done so much, it's just impossible to continue this, and even if Toronto does beat them, they then get the Bruins in the second round, which would be a great series, but Rangers-Devils winner, I think, goes on and plays the Bruins in the Easter Conference Final. Is that your same pick, Marles? Yeah, and I'll give you a little gambling hack on this.
So if you like the Rangers, you'll get them at plus 1,400 on Barstool Sportsbook right now. But the only way they're going to win the Stanley Cup is if Shusterkin stands on his head.
You take him, Conn Smythe, plus 2,300. Oh, I like that.
So I'll be going over to Jersey tomorrow and doing my Shusterkin, Conn Smythe winner. Yeah, I like that.
He's the best goaltender in the NHL, right? The Islanders, too. I've gotten a lot of arguments with Rangers fans that Shosturkin last year had a record-breaking season, Vezna winner, best goaltender award.
And Sorokin is a Russian. They played in the KHL together the same few years.
Sorokin came over, I think, a year later. They would play against each other, CSK, SK, in the finals every year when they were over there.
And he was unreal. He led the league in shutouts this year.
He pretty much got the Islanders into the playoffs. Connor McDavid, we've had the McDavid discussion.
We'll get into it. He's MVP runaway, but the award is most valuable to his team, and without Sorokin, the Islanders probably were a lottery team.

So I, speaking of long shot bets, I put in something.

I have something for the West.

You broke my heart.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll talk about that in a second.

But, and tell me this is probably the dumbest thing,

but Islanders to win the East 21-1.

Because it's just basically if you have a good goaltender,

I don't think they're going to.

The Bruins are a lot better than them. It feels like the Rangers, like you were talking, a lot better than them.
But if you have a good goaltender, you've got a fighting chance. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, a guy gets hot.
That's why Bruins fans were so scared of getting the Islanders first round. Florida lost their last game of the year to end up going to the eighth seed.
And because of that, they don't have to deal with Sorokin. And Islanders are getting a little healthier too, right? They got Barzell back who missed, I want to say, the last 25-ish games.
So he's coming back. They got one of the best goalies.
So the whole Carolina Islanders series is very, like, I would say 50-50. People are picking the Islanders a lot in that one.
I'm trying to find Sorokin, cons my thoughts, because that's the way to do it then. The only way they're getting there, the same thing, is with the Bullies.
But I'm not going to pick them to win it. I'm going to pick them just to win the East.
But then you can hedge. Plus 5,000.
Oh, okay. Okay.
It's pretty good. All right.
So you mentioned the Leafs there. Oh, man.
Are they finally going to win a series? Okay. So we went over our Stanley Cup preview today for Chicklets.
Check it out. Well, you're gonna listen to it right now i'm so bad with figuring out that no no it's not today when we're whatever so um don't you podcast you're also listening that's how pathetic i am yeah i still can't figure out that this isn't today as we're listening or you're listening sorry i digress the leafs the leafs are set up to finally do it.
I went on this rant.

I said.

To do what?

Get it.

To get out of the first round. Yeah, I don't think he's saying this.

No, to get out of the first fucking round.

Since when, 1998?

2004, I believe it was.

Okay.

And they just had a monster year.

They made some great trades.

They grabbed Noel Achari, who's kind of a grinder, fourth line type guy that you need in the playoffs.

They grabbed Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks, good defenseman.

They grabbed Ryan O'Reilly, which is a consmite winner for the St. Louis Blues.

He goes, of a grinder, fourth line type guy that you need in the playoffs. They grabbed Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks, good defenseman.
They grabbed Ryan O'Reilly, which is a consmite winner for the St. Louis Blues.
He was injured. He's back.
They've all come together, and they're playing a Tampa team who was horrendous the last 20 games, like awful. And because of that, it's Toronto's year, and then I said Tampa in seven.
I just refuse to pick the Maple Leafs. Just so we're clear for everyone listening, when you say Toronto's year, you're literally just saying to win a series.
First round. That's it.
That's how low the bar has gotten. Now, if they get out of the first round and the Bruins are, I think they get rid of the Panthers in five.
The Bruins and the Maple Leafs play unreal games. Every time they play it goes seven games.
So it would be a hell of a series, but I'm just talking about winning one round in Ontario. It just comes down to the fact that they wear the Maple Leafs uniforms, and they're the Leafs until they prove that they're no longer the Leafs.
They are a true, a true disgrace of a franchise. And Toronto fans, they hate me, but you just look at what they have.
And granted, there's a salary cap, so there's no argument in terms of spending money. But they are the epicenter of the hockey world.
It's like everything goes through Toronto. Their fans are so cocky, yet the team hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967.
So they have this amazing young core. They have a GM who's kind of a wizard, he's been really good analytically and all these things.
And they still can't get out of the first round. Cowboys.
If they don't do it this year, I said they should move the team. They should move the team and the airport.
What? Yeah. I don't want to, I don't want to start twitching.
Why did you go to that little airport right by the city? Because that I was, I was coming back from Edmonton. So if you're going to Toronto, Billy Bishop's perfect.
It's like a little island. It's unreal, easy.
Toronto Pearson International Airport is the worst airport on earth. I spent 23 hours there.
I could tell you that for a fact. I like that take to move the Maple Leafs.
Yeah, to Hamilton. To Hamilton.
Hamilton? Yep. Okay.
Full disclosure, I have the Leafs. I took a future on the Leafs.
Everyone took the Leafs on Chicklets except for myself. I took the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.

Biz says they're winning two in a row.

Two series?

Two cups in a row.

They haven't gotten the first round.

So it's me and Biz, two world-class hockey minds?

Yeah, okay.

They have a great team.

I'm not denying that fact.

It's just they are chokers. I believe in them just because it feels like they're kind of what the Capitals used to be, where the expectations were always on.
They couldn't do jack shit in the playoffs for a long time. Eventually, that dam has to break.
Also, because Chad Kelly told us that the Leafs owners, the Suns are like huge PMT listeners. Yeah, that's true.
Also, that's... They must have loved when I just called them a disgrace.
No, it's the Leafs here. We didn't.
Yeah, Leafs year. I believe in the Leafs.
Well-run organization. They are a great team.
I will say that. I'm a believer this year.
Okay. I just got a belief.
Okay. You can go up and stand in the little, what do they call that, where they all stand and watch the game and you see them heartbroken every year? Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's Jurassic Park for the Raptors. I don't know what they call them.
The Arboretum? Yeah. Yeah.
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All right, so any other team in the East that you want to mention? I mean, the Devils. Devils are real.
I hate that the Devils do score goals, right? And they also have brothers on the team. Yeah, Luke Hughes just left Michigan.
He's a stud defenseman. Scored the OT winner, I think his second game, his first NHL goal, last game of the year.
They're awesome. My argument for the Devils, and they could easily beat the Rangers.
That is a straight-up coin flip in my mind, but they're unreal. This is kind of getting a little hockey in-depth.

They're unreal off the rush.

They score a lot of goals off the rush, off like three-on-twos,

great plays coming into the zone.

The neutral zone gets way more clogged up in the playoffs.

You've got to be able to create offense from like offensive zone play

and cycling, and they're not exactly like a top-end team at that.

They just do it throughout rushes through the neutral zone.

So that's kind of my saying in terms of they're not going to get it done. But the Devils fans, I'll shout these guys out, biggest improvement in league history.
And their window isn't even really opening yet. It's slightly open.
They had the second overall pick last year, the stud defenseman from Czech, Slovakia? Czech. Czech.
Czech Republic. And he's not even in the league yet.
They have him coming. They have the Luke Hughes kid.
He shears unreal. Swiss kid, their captain.
And Jack Hughes. So the Devils in the next five to seven years will be competing for college.
That's a mark of good ownership right there, wouldn't you say? Like, good job, Josh Harris. 100%.
I don't know who that is. He's the owner of the Nets.
He also owns the 76ers and probably the Commanders. I said the Nets.
Maybe not, right? Probably the commanders soon. I thought a Duke basketball player for someone.
Oh, you guys have been paying attention to that guy? I don't know. He's a Final Four winner and he's a billionaire.
He tried to buy the Timberwolves like 10 years ago and they said, okay, we'll do it. And then he was like, oh, sorry, I'm broke.
I can't buy it. I heard he already has the cash ready to go right into Snyder's that's not true he he has one bill he says he has a billion dollars in cash and he'll get the rest of the six billion to him within a week that's an iowa that's a good hey hey that's a that's a lamborghini you might want to hold on to that right exactly he's good i was gonna say the devils uh and this is just my dumb sports brain i hate that they score goals because i'm just like they shouldn't score goals the devils from the 90 the 90s.
I know. Everyone in their mind thinks them.
When, like, Oregon, the last couple years, they haven't been playing, like, 70-point games, it pisses me off because I can't adjust. Exactly.
I don't adjust. The mid-90s, early 2000 Devils are no longer.
I'm just now getting used to the fact that Nick Saban scores a lot of points on offense. Yeah, right.
you up and you're just like i'm not i refuse to acknowledge this all right how about the west so baby i did tell you last night my big bet is going to be on the oilers and uh i did place a big bet on the oilers to win the stanley cup and i did it because i'm sick of you telling me how connor mcdavid's the athlete in all sports right now. So this is a personal one-on-one legacy match with Conor McDavid.
If he doesn't win the cup this year, he's a bum. Okay.
In my eyes. Okay.
If he does, thank you for the money. In Big Cat's eyes, the sixth player ever to get 150 points in a year is a bum.
I got you. Good one.
I don't make the rules. Okay, fair enough.
I don't make the rules. You just decide who's a bum.
No, it's fair with Big Cat saying, which is do it in the playoffs. Right.
Do it now. Yep.
And then we'll be best friends for life. All the great ones win Stanley Cups.
No, no doubt. Yeah.
And so in terms of that argument, I'm going to sit here and say, yeah, I think they'll end up getting it done. I don't know if they're going to win the Stanley Cup this year.
I think he will win a Stanley Cup. But what he did this year.
What, as a ring chaser late in his career? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Although if he went to the Leafs, I'd take it all back.
If someday he's a Toronto Maple Leaf and Austin Matthews is an L.A. King, I'd take it all back.
That's a hot take. But the Leafs, I'm sorry, the Oilers finished the year 14-0-1.
They made a trade for a guy, Matthias Ekholm. He's a Swedish defenseman.
He played in Nashville for the past, I don't know, eight years. Unreal player.
Offensively, defensively, was the one guy the Oilers needed. You know when one team needs like one piece? Yeah, yeah.
They got it. Yeah.
So it changed where all of a sudden Darnell Nurse is a defenseman there. He's a little overpaid.
He makes $9.25 million. Well, he doesn't have to be the number one demon anymore.
He slides down to number two. All of a sudden, he plays against the second and third lines.
He looks that much better. Ekholm's made this guy Evan Bouchard, who's a top 10 pick or 11th pick a few years ago.
He looks unbelievable. The power play was the best power play in league history.
34% I think they finished that. Nobody's ever done that.
And they've just been on a tear

that's been like the 1987

Oilers. It's just wild.

How about goalie?

So goalie's another question. No, Merle's is shaking

his head. Merle's, you take this question.

The goalie is so unproven.

Oh, no.

Everybody's unproven until they prove themselves, right?

Yeah, and he's a rookie.

He's up for rookie of the year.

Yeah, so this guy could be the truth.

But is he good? He's been real

Thank you. Nobody's unproven until they prove themselves, right? Yeah, and he's a rookie.
He's up for rookie of the year. Yeah, so this guy could be the truth.
But is he good? He's been real good. When's the last time a rookie goalie won the Stanley Cup? Cam Ward, maybe? I was going to say Cam Ward.
Patrick Waugh before that. Before that, it was – who's that guy who writes the books, the Canadian's legend? Ken Dryden.
Ken Dryden. Yeah, he played his college season, then went into the playoffs and won it.
That's insane. So goalie, a little bit of a question mark.
Yeah, he's a rookie. I mean, he could be unreal.
What about this? If you were to say, you say he's the best athlete in the world, right? He's the best athlete in team sports. But how many minutes does he play a game? If you guys do this again, I'm walking.
It was so funny when we put that video out last night. People got so mad.
These guys don't know shit about hockey. I was like, people really believe that? He's so good.
Why is he playing? Why are they ever taking him off the ice? Can you imagine a guy in northern Alberta? He's like, this guy thinks he should play 54 minutes. These fucking idiots.
Who's that guy with the sunglasses on? How many minutes does LeBron James play per night? I'm not talking about LeBron. Let's think about that.
What, 40 minutes? Are we doing this again? Just ask yourself a question. How many snaps does Patrick Mahomes take on offense? All of them? Yeah.
Hey, the guy in the police team played more minutes than Conor does. That's nice.
That's a good point. That's a great point.
But he's a cop. If you were to take, and this might be a really, really dumb question, if you were to clone Conor McDavid, if an entire team was made out of Conor McDavid's every role on the team, like if you're talking center, left wing, defenseman, and goaltender, was all Connor McDavid, do they win the Stanley Cup? I don't answer stupid, dumb questions for you.
All right, Merle, what do you think? You're trying to go viral. Do they? We need defensemen.
I'm curious. Don't pit me against my boss here.
Do they? We need defensemen. It's a simple fucking question, Ryan.
You can't get fired. You were part of the Penguins organization.

You got a job for life.

It's like the mafia.

If we have 20 Conor McDavid's, yes, we win the Stanley Cup. Okay.

All right.

So then he might be good.

We actually probably sweep every round.

All right.

So he might be good.

Now they're going to get mad at you being like,

Ryan Whitney doesn't know anything about hockey.

Exactly.

They already know that.

They're already aware I don't know anything about hockey.

I am yet to make my decision on Conor McDavid. I'm not saying he's bad.
He's got to win this Stanley Cup. Okay, so if he wins it next year, he's a bum.
I get it. No, no.
Well, maybe if I bet on him. But this year is a legacy year for him and me personally.
One-on-one. Okay.
Okay. I don't know what you want me to say to that.

I don't want to call him a bum.

I will say this.

This will bum you out, and it bums me out because I am an Oilers guy.

There's a big tagline in the Oilers locker room,

once an Oiler, always an Oiler.

So I'm always an Oiler.

Is that really?

I'm always an Oiler.

That's on – it's in the locker room.

So I'm an Oiler.

I can go there whenever I want.

Okay.

Any Oiler can.

And what scares me is they're playing the L.A. Kings first round.
I said today on chicklets that the winner of that series is going to go to the cup final and la right now if you want to throw in a nice little future i think on barstool they're 20 would you say 25 to 1 they're good they're very good so that's a pretty nice little little bet to throw in if you want to maybe uh hope for an upset and they're also i think like plus 190 in this series which seems a little bit a little bit of a stretch for me maybe like plus 150 would make more sense but la is a really good defensive team are they banged up though yeah fiala's injured so that's like their number one player but they have two really good andre kopitar and philip denot are shut down defensive centers that could possibly slow down McDavid and Dreisaitdle i dreitziddle i can't say a guy's name and i'm an oiler but um once an oiler once an oiler always i'm an oiler right now i i knew that fiala was hurt i've been doing my like research just on this oilers kings matchup the only thing that that is a little bit of a kick in the dick for being an oiler um and and you're now aner. Yeah, I'm a once in oil.
It's the 10-10-30 starts, but it's playoff hockey. Yeah, right.
But you get the triple overtime, and it's 3-30, and you're up with the kids. I didn't even think about that.
I know. God damn it.
That sucks. Okay, well, I'll be like a first-period oiler.
Oh, sweet. What a fan.
What a fan this guy is. They're up 3-0.
You're like, yeah, they wake up. They're down 6-3.
When my son wakes you up at 3 in the morning, I'll check and I'll fire off a tweet for the Oilers. That's always the best when you wake up in the middle of the night during the Stanley Cup playoffs and a game is still going on somehow.
You get to catch the end and then act like you watched the entire thing. Those are so great, too.
The late starts to go to overtime, you feel like you're watching it with seven people online. It's like there's only only a few of you left it's like three in the morning two in the morning yeah those are the best well not in the playoffs baby we got the whole city of edmonton watching every single minute yep big cat i got a room for you over in sweden come over there the game drops at uh 4 30 in the morning so that might be 30 in the morning yeah oh fuck we're going in the wrong direction.
Yeah, but we'll go down early and then get up with the kids,

and then we'll watch the oil.

I might need to go to Hawaii for this cup run.

Oh, that would be a great place for the cup run.

Yeah, all the games, you know, the puck drops at like 5 o'clock.

No.

5 p.m.?

What do you mean?

No, 8 p.m.?

No, there's six hours behind East, so it would be...

7.30?

Yeah.

Okay, we got it.

We figured it out.

Time zones, not our best.

7.30 in Hawaii, perfect. All right, so...
Maui Four Seasons. Best hotel I've ever stayed at.
That's not a humble brag or anything. No.
That makes no sense. I got to step in here.
How sick is that hotel? Incredible. I got to step in here.
7.30 is when it starts in Edmonton. So it can't be 7.30 in Hawaii.
4.30. Yeah.
4.30. 4.30.
I was fucking right. I said 5 o'clock.
4.30. Because right now it's about 2 p.m.
Yeah. As we're recording this.
Yeah. Thank you, Burles.
I was right. I knew I got the invite in here for a reason.
I'm going to shut my eyes and pretend I'm in that pool that has music playing underwater and not sitting next to you two idiots. Oh, man.
Maui's the one place I've ever been where it's like everyone I thought overrated it. It was like it's underrated.
Yeah, that place is a joke. Yeah, the absolute best.
All right, who else in the West? So Vegas is the one seed, and then the Stanley Cup champions, the Avalanche, who are also banged up, right? Yeah, a big kick in the dick. Gabriel Landeskog, their captain, who was unreal in the cup run last year.
He was that injured last year where he needed knee surgery in the offseason,

and he's still not back.

Oh, so he hasn't played all year.

Couldn't play one regular season game.

Everyone thought he'd be back with 20 games to go.

Wasn't able to come back, and they already announced no playoffs for him.

And they lost Kadri when he signed in Calgary.

They couldn't really afford to keep him.

So Colorado, to repeat, it would be really hard.

But they have a team that no doubt could do it again.

It's just they got too much going on in my mind to get it done.

What about the Kraken I think they're gonna get waxed I I feel bad saying that because the fans like deserve a little bit more but for an expansion team to have that big of a jump from last year to this year they had such a good year but Vegas is really good they're feeling it now and i think seattle maybe wins a game at home and probably loses in five maybe six that's all i want really i want them to win a home game just for that crowd yeah yeah for that atmosphere and i also just want to watch vegas's uh pregame where they do all the lights and shit oh yeah it's like they come out with the the there's like a warrior with like a sword it's it's like medieval times on acid it's the best and most people on in the crowd are on acid. That's very true.
It's great. All right, so who else in the West should we be looking at being like, oh, watch out.
The Jets have an awesome goalie as well, right? Jets could be dangerous, but the real – I know you guys are big value guys. Dallas Stars at plus 1,700.
They're good. Or do my little scam, and you take Otinger at plus 3,500.
Conn00 cons might. This guy is huge.
He blocks everything and they have a, they have a really nice skilled team. Yeah.
They, um, last year they, they weren't even really expected to do anything. They took Calgary to game seven, first round.
I think Otinger had 60 saves. He like without, without him, they would have lost in five games.
He was unreal. Then Dallas added a 19-year-old rookie.

This kid Wyatt Johnson had 20 goals, 23 goals this year.

Jamie Benn bounced back from having kind of a tough maybe three-year stretch.

He was sick this year. And then Jason Robertson, for people who don't know him,

maybe a future MVP if McDavid decides to retire early.

I got a dumb question.

Yeah.

Sagan?

He's back.

He's back a little.

He's back a little.

I didn't know.

I didn't know.

I was waiting for you to say something.

I was like, is he?

See you in the next video. I got a dumb question.
Yeah. Sagan? He's back.
He's back a little.

I didn't know.

I didn't know.

I was waiting for you to say something.

I was like, is he?

Is he in the league still?

It's funny you say that, though.

This Wyatt Johnson.

I've had NHL coaches tell me he's like the next Bergeron.

There you go.

That's how good this kid is.

And he's only 19 years old.

Damn.

So Dallas is very good.

They play Minnesota first round, which is probably one of the most intriguing first round matchups.

Mini has been great this year.

They have a great vibe around their team. You guys know Ryan Reeves? Toughest guy in the league.
He got traded over there. He started this tarps off thing.
So after every game, they all got their shirts off. They do their interviews with their shirts off.
It sounds stupid, but they have a close-knit team. No, little things yeah little things so that's gonna i i picked dallas in seven but if mini wins that one it wouldn't shock me like i i was i when i was looking getting ready for this interview i was like i kind of like the devils just because they have brothers because you know that if they go deep they'll be like do you hear about the hughes brothers exactly it didn't really work out for the Sedin brothers, but you get my point.
Those little stories become big things.

I love that, too.

That's the most hockey thing.

I'm shocked that nobody has done that yet.

Yeah, it's like, we're just going to do our post-game interviews with shirtless.

I think people did it, but just never named it.

So it got a name.

Chris always does this.

Hell is interviewing his shirt off.

Counterpoint Minnesota sports.

Exactly.

And Minnesota is known as a team that are not as bad as Toronto, but they struggle bad as toronto but they struggle they usually choke in the second round it feels like they choke in one of the first two rounds yeah that's yeah but they have this they have this kareel kaprizov whoo russian player that's sick and he was hurt at the end of the year but they've already announced he'll be playing game one and he's somebody that's worth the price of admission that's the term right all right so you chicklets everyone should listen to it who's listening to this thank you but you guys always talk about russian gas can you tell our fans the stories of russian gas well merle's played in merle's merle's played in every country in the world that has how many how many countries did you play in uh i played i think 26 different countries i played at least one game in and Can you list them all? I lived in like 13 different ones, I believe.

Can you list them all?

It would take me a little time.

What are your top five?

I played the weirdest places like Kazakhstan, Belarus, China, South Korea, Japan.

Whoa.

Just name a couple.

What's Japanese hockey like?

He loved it.

I loved it over there.

That is the best country in the world.

Like you said, I've been everywhere, and that's the one place I tell everyone to go visit if you have the chance. Tell them about the restaurants.
The food is amazing. These owners are chefs.
If you want to open an Italian restaurant, you have to go live in Italy for eight, nine months, learn the culture, learn how to make it, then go back and open up your restaurant. That's awesome.
Yeah, so it is the most amazing place. Clean, safe.

I've let my wife go out for runs in the middle of the night.

No problem.

Nothing's going to happen.

Not like Chicago guys.

Oh, yeah, there you go.

There you go.

Hey, by the way.

It's very nice that you let your wife go out of the house.

I know.

What a guy.

Yeah, he really believes in men and women being equal.

My brother, I want to go to Japan.

My brother went over there with his wife, and he said people were like, can I get a picture with you? He's really tall. That's hilarious.
They don't even, they're just like, oh, this guy's got to be famous. Yeah, he's a tall guy.
I want to convince everyone he was Roger Federer. That's true.
He does kind of look like this. He just hired a security guy, and he got mobbed.
It was awesome. So to answer the question, in Russia, they would have this packet up here, almost like an IV drop, and it would come into you, and all of a sudden, all your pain would go away, and you'd be skating a million miles per hour.
It was nuts. And another thing they would always do is this little Russian doctor would come over to you with a handful of different colored pills.
Matt, take this. And I'm like, no, I'm good, man.
He's like, oh, it's just the vitamins. Just vitamins, Matt.
Take this. And it was like out of a movie where you pretend to take them and then throw them away.
I would have taken them. So listen, so I played for Sochi.
It was actually a first-year team over there when I was over there. And I think maybe like – You were at the bottom of your life.
That was my last year playing, buddy. Yeah, because we started talking right then.
You're like, yeah, I was low. I was low.
I was I was actually I was actually like waiting for the rundown. Yeah, I was like, I remember you getting me up.
I was like the rundown. Like where? Why is it late? And you got you guys.
Dude, don't you play professional hockey? I was like that rundown sucked. It ruined my whole day day.
So I'm going to say 10, 11 games in. I noticed guys right after warm-ups, before puck drop, they'd go into the doctor's office, and they'd come home.
I'm like, what's going on in there? And one of the guys from Russia spoke pretty good English. He's like, oh, IV before game.
IV before game. You feel good.
I'm like, oh, okay. So we were playing Dynamo Moscow, a really good team in the KHL.
Warmups went in. I was like, Doc, I got IVs.
He's like, yes, yes. Wait until you ask.
So I went in. He gave me the IV.
I had the best game of my life. I was flying.
I don't know if it was speed. I don't know if it was rushing gas.
I was on the ice. I'm like, I'm playing in the NHL again.
I'm like, it ain't over, baby. It ain't over.
And I had a great game. We ended up losing by a goal, but I was like, this is amazing.
I'm back. I'm not even thinking of the fucking IV I just took from a Russian doctor.
And the next day at practice, I was like, I suck again. Did you keep taking it? Oh, yeah.
And I had a pretty good year. There was a guy I know.
He played on a team. It was just a hose coming out of the wall, so you couldn't even see where it was coming from.
What was in it? The place was nuts. Just plugging into the wall.
That's incredible. I need Russian gas.
Oh, my God. It's all Biz talks about.
He's like, he'll be tired before a party. He's like, I need some fucking Russian gas.
I'm like, bud, we're in America. Yeah.
So the Russian guys, they obviously can't use it in America. But do they about it? Well, do you remember the year Ovi went home in the middle of the year? Yeah.
He went home, something happened with his family, and he came back, and he scored, like, 40 goals in the next 20 games. He's a hard worker.
What happened over there? He's a hard worker. That's all there is to it.
It's a quick trip home. All right, so give us, both of you guys, rollback question.
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When, Max? I don't have a mic. Oh, he doesn't have a mic.
He said it's not coming out tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So I picked today that my final matchup is Bruins Oilers. Okay.
And I hate taking chalk, but living in Boston and seeing all these Bruins games, people think I'm a Bruins fan. I'm really not.
No, once an Oiler, always an Oiler. I don't.
I just, I don't see them losing. I think they get it done.
So Bruins over Oilers. So massive, massive disappointment for Connor McDavid.
Well, for Big Cat. A lot of people are starting to question.
No, he'd be a bum. I'd have to send out the tweet.
Basically Dan Marino. He'll be the first Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy, Rocket Richard Trophy winner to be a bum.
A bum trophy. All I heard from that was they have a lot of participation trophies in hockey.
Fair enough. Yeah, and Merle's? I'm on Oilers out of the West and the Rangers out of the East.
We're going to see a parade in Manhattan as soon as we get rid of you, Mushes, and New York Rangers this summer. So I'm still losing this matchup.
Yeah, you're fucked. God damn it.
You're fucked. What are you going to put us? I want Rangers Oilers bad.
7-1. I just want to see the city fight with each other for Rangers Islanders.
Did you say you wanted the Rangers to win the cup? No, I want the Rangers to play the Islanders second round. Rangers Devils is just as good, though.
Because they have history playing 1994, Stephon Mato, and double overtime. The Rangers Devils gets me going even more than rangers islanders would that be the second round matchup if the rangers and islanders both win yep yes wow yeah can you explain to me why this happened because i did i also i forgot i took a future on the rangers because our friend avery told us that he was going to get caned right so i took a future and then their odds went down went in the wrong direction after they got Cain.
Why'd that happen? Did it? They got worse? Yeah, they got worse from when I logged this in. I believe they have the best win percentage in the entire league since the trade.
Yeah, why would their odds go down in that case? I don't know. They might know something we don't, boys.
Well, Pasha did say that Cain's going to choke and be bad in the playoffs. Yeah, because he's known for that.

That's what I said.

I'm like, dude, this guy's the biggest big game player that the league's seen in a long time.

And he's like, no, no, he's done.

Okay, Pasha.

That's a devil's lunatic right there for you.

Yeah.

Bill, you got any questions for the guys?

How was your weekend, Ryan?

That was so – no, he's like –

How was your Saturday?

What did you have for lunch?

Yeah, how was your Saturday on a Wednesday?

How was the Saturday? It was great, yeah. I took the kids to the park, got a sandwich.
Well, no, we called NYPD, FDNY. Oh, yeah, that was Saturday shit.
Were a lot of the Russian players juicing as well? Good question, Billy. Yeah, great question.
I would say in the KHL, yes. They were like 80, 90%.
I think if you're taking gas. Some sort of thing on they're on something that would be illegal in our league I'm gonna guess if you have your body hooked up to a wall you're probably if you take if you take a gas mask that's next to your helmet and just start sucking it in and then you score four goals yeah you're juicing yeah uh but like does it help with hockey good question um the the the like when you think of steroids and just like football steroids getting jacked i would say no but for something that could help with like your wind and like being able your lactic acid getting out quicker and stuff you might know different type of steroids that could do different type things but yeah it could no doubt help like blood doping boom there you go and and russia's never been known for blood doping, have they? No.
Don't watch Icarus. Nope.
They play it clean. Did I see that Biz isn't jerking off anymore? Yeah.
So Biz is going celibate until the Leafs lose. So I said, all right, well, good.
You'll come in about 12 days. He's going to have a wet dream.
I said that. I go, I would pay a lot of money to have a wet dream.
Are we talking celibate or are talking not jacking off what is I thought celibate was just not coming is he having not coming no loads he's doing no loads no fat load management no sex no no jerk if he gets like super smart that's how much he's like George Costanza right and all of a sudden biz is making perfect sense biz is like hanging out with Elon we like, Biz. And then he just comes and he's like, what? But yeah, he's doing no loads, huh? And he's not drinking.
Yeah, he goes on. He went on a little bit of a bender at the end of the All-Star game.
He had a big night out. It's actually pretty funny.
He's talked about it on Chicklets. We finished All-Star the whole weekend.
We had a successful weekend doing weekend doing interviews and stuff and we had one left and it was rod brindamore the next morning head coach of the carolina hurricane so we want we all went out and had a good night and um i i met biz in the morning i was like hey want to just grab some food right before we go over there he's like yeah he walks in looked great i was like what's up he looked at me he's like i haven't been to sleep i'm like what he's like i haven't slept one minute i was like oh boy and we got to the brindamore interview he said hello and then at the end of the interview he said goodbye didn't ask him one question and rod brindamore at the end goes good job biz that's so perfect god damn yeah so we're ready for playoffs it's exciting time if you haven't listened to chicklets please check us out uh We'll be going. We drop for the first two rounds.
We'll be dropping Monday and Thursday. And then for the conference finals and finals, we go back to once a week.
Because you guys know we can't work too much. No, no, no.
You guys work way too much. And you got Colby and Merle's doing every day.
They got Chicklets game notes, which is once a month. And then they got their new daily show.
Well, they have their own podcast now. Oh, game notes once a month.
And that's once a month. But until that comes, every single day, Monday through Friday at noon on the Chicklets YouTube, we got a daily show, 30 to 50 minutes.
And I'm going to be a part of the first one, which is today as you listen. Do you want to take a second to just roast the NBA? Anything about basketball you'd like to discuss? I saw Russell Westbrook walking in with what I basically wore when I was in Hawaii today.
He had his shirt wide open. I do give him credit.
He had about 14 abs on his stomach, but it was a little bit of a ridiculous outfit. He's doing tarps off.
Well, it was tarps on, but just unbuttoned. Okay.
Okay. Yeah.
The NBA is just whatever. It is what it is.
It doesn't fire me up. I don't really enjoy watching.
I just hate how the end of the games take 17 minutes to finish the final 45 seconds. But the argument of load management in the NBA and then taking two to three days off between games in the series hopefully will produce some high-level basketball that maybe in the finals if the Celtics are in, I'll tune in.
Oh, you do hate that they take that much time off. It's just like, what's the grind about it? Hockey every other day, that's part of winning the cup, is just battling the war of attrition.
NBA players, they get so much rest between every game, and they don't even play all the regular season games. Imagine taking your kid to a regular season game.
Your kid wants to watch LeBron play. He just decides, I'm going to take the night off.
How fired up would that make you as a dad? I would never take my son to an NBA game.

I'll never be in that position.

By the way, Ryder, my oldest boy, he's like, Dad, I want to watch basketball.

I was like, what?

He's like, I want to watch basketball.

I was like, no.

It's like pretty simple.

I go, we can watch college basketball.

He's like, well, okay.

These guys stink.

All right.

Well, thank you, boys.

No, thank you. Appreciate it.
Go check out Spitting Chicklets do we get a chance oh yeah of course you do of course oh look how mad hank is i love seeing hank not win of course you think you'll ever get it i said the last time here never never and that's just a chance for the two of you no one else is in it what happened um what happened uh there was a thing where he won like 10 grand from you if he got it but he lost something if he didn't wasn't there a big bet yeah yeah big cat and i were each going to contribute five thousand dollars i think to hank if he got it before the end of the regular season or before the end of the nfl season end of the year and then we felt bad taking his money so we made him put in a pot and then pft ended up winning it anyway but i won the pot because i took hank's guess for the number because he guessed too early so i took his number yeah so okay so you guys both get a guess this won't count this counts official you don't fuck it let's all guess yeah come on i was like we can't do it alone i'll let's all guess 19 oh i haven't said numbers yet oh okay sorry i'll switch you're you're last now because it's all sides. Oh, no.
Yeah. Numbers.
Somebody take 19 and we're going.

I'll take 19.

Fuck you.

I'll do 99.

17.

69.

Last night, there was a guy wearing 19 on NYPD.

He's like, oh, my number.

Famous.

I was like, I think there's more famous 19s, dude.

I was joking.

All right, wait.

What was it?

69.

What was yours, Hank?

17.

Actually, can I change mine?

No.

I want to change mine to 97.

Thank you. more famous 19s, dude.
I was joking. All right, wait.
What was it? 69. What was yours, Hank?

17.

Actually, can I change mine?

No.

I want to change mine in 97.

Okay.

Oh, for Connor McDavid.

For McDavid, yeah.

All right.

Smart.

38.

38.

18, Jake.

What do you got?

20.

20.

Go ahead, Whit.

28.

28.

All right.

Hank, what'd you pick?

Hank, have you ever gotten this?

No.

It's amazing.

He's never gotten this.

What'd he take?

17.

And everyone's gotten it.

Yeah.

Yep.

I got it four times.

Oh, 82.

Ah.

Fuck.

82.

What a bummer.

Yeah.

Merle got to experience it.

Hey, but I had 28, so it kind of counts.

Why?

No, that's not how it works.

I'm dyslexic. Are you going to try to make fun of me? Yeah, I will.
All right, fair. All right, thank you, boys.
Thank you, guys. Wine, Brittany.
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Great show, everyone. Henry, you already had one chance today.
What are his chances up to? Total? Well, he's shot out Sathole Sports, right? Jeffro. He did a blog.
What was that? Did someone fart in here? I think the chances of Hank not getting a lottery ball correct at this point are like 1.57. It's just crazy.
Pretty close to the chances you have of getting it. Yeah.
Yeah. Around 1%.
I'm falling asleep. You had two chances today.
I've had one chance. Hank, you should start.
You went 0 for 2. You should keep score.
What are you talking about? You're not going to get it. I'm getting it.
Oh, you're going to get it right now?

According to Jeff Rowe and his blog, his order of confidence for Hank to pick.

What does Jeff Rowe?

He's stat whole sports.

54, 50, 49, and 48.

Is he Mike Rowe's son named Jeff?

Or is Jeff Rowe one name?

He wrote a blog to maybe help you get it.

But you won't read it.

I'm not reading it.

It's like Jeff Rowe, but Jeff Rowe. Got it.
All right. Numbers.
69. I'm going to go 99.
JJ Watt tweeted at me over the weekend. What did he tweet you? Hank, just checking in.
How are we coming along on the lottery ball? I still believe in you. Damn.
I didn't respond yet. I think you should try.
You haven't responded? I was drunk last night, and I was, like, mad, and I was like, I'm not. I'll save this until tomorrow, and this is me responding.
No. A lot of people out there have put it out of the correlation.
But I'm doing good, JJ. Thanks for checking in.
I appreciate you reaching out. I hope you're doing well.
I'm going to be honest. Hank's been on the podcast recently, corresponding directly to frustrations with not getting the lottery ball.
I'll guess 17. I'm going to guess 99.
You know what? I'm going to go... What were Jethro's numbers? Stat hole.
His name's Stat hole. This makes no sense.
You can't be a stat guy. 54, 50, 49, 48.
Those are just subjective guesses. There's no stats behind those.
I'm going to take a new one.

I'm going to take a new one.

I'm going to take a new one.

26.

Never been picked before.

Well, you never come out before.

It's never come out.

It's never been the correct answer.

Max?

20.

Honestly, Hank's the most statistically impressive out of all of us for his score.

At being bad, yeah.

No, but his record is just statistically bad.

What is it?

I'm sorry. Hank's the most statistically Impressive out of all of us For his score At being bad yeah His record is just statistically What is it Hank 99 Oh I just saw 99 Oh I just saw 17 14 So Would you like to Would like to apologize to me? Because I said you were 0-2.
No. Well, you were.
Not when you said it. Yes, you were.
No, I wasn't. Yeah, you were.
Fact or fiction. It was always going to be 0-2.
You were always going to not get it. 17 literally was like right there.
If I had won with 17, what would you have done?

That vacation.

My two months of grinding would be halted.

Hank's thread is just vacation.

All right.

See you on Wednesday.

Love you guys.

I'm talking away.

So I don't know what to say. I'm saying anyway.
Today is on my day. Thank you.
Take on me. I'm needless to say.
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Baby, baby, light

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